For killing his 24-year-old live-in girlfriend in 2021 and stabbing her in the leg with a butcher knife, a 29-year-old man will serve seven decades in prison.
Robert Berlin, the state attorney for DuPage County, reported that Marco-Antonio Rubio was sentenced to 70 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections on September 11 by a judge for the first-degree murder of their three children’s mother, Esmeralda DeLuna. Before he is eligible for parole, he must serve out the entirety of his sentence.
Since his original charges in May 2021, Rubio has been detained. March, he entered a guilty plea.
Prosecutors claim that when Villa Park Police knocked on the door of a house on North Princeton Drive late on May 19, 2021, they heard sobbing coming from inside.
When officers went inside, they discovered a male kid who was about a year old and two small girls who were between the ages of three and six.
DeLuna was found laying in the kitchen with stab wounds to her torso and a large butcher knife embedded in her leg, according to reports of police following a trail of blood. After being taken to a nearby hospital, DeLuna was declared dead the next morning.
According to the prosecution, Rubio broke into the house on May 19, 2021, in violation of this safeguard. Before leaving the scene, he allegedly repeatedly stabbed DeLuna in the body and once in the leg. While strolling around Villa Park the following morning, he was apprehended by the authorities.
Berlin said in a statement, “While what essentially amounts to a life sentence behind bars cannot erase the vicious murder of a loving mother, perhaps Esmeralda’s surviving family and friends can find some measure of solace knowing justice was delivered in Esmeralda’s name.”
