Steven Arthur Rios (born 1977), a Columbia police officer regarded well by his division and with a wife and newborn baby at the time of the murder, was convicted of Valencia's murder in September 2004. [3]

2020年4月24日 · Rios was charged and arrested for first-degree murder. A Boone County jury found him guilty in 2005. However, the first conviction was overturned by the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District because of the admission of hearsay evidence.

2020年4月24日 · Steven Rios was convicted of first-degree homicide in 2005 for the brutal murder of Jesse Valencia, a 23 year old University of Missouri student who was found dead on June 5, 2004. Rios was the primary suspect in the murder, having had an alleged affair with Valencia, according to the Columbia Missourian.

2023年2月25日 · Steven Rios, a former Columbian police officer, was found guilty of murder by a jury of 24 people, while his ex-wife and former in-laws took his side, maintaining his innocence in...

2023年2月24日 · Where is Steven Arthur Rios now? Details on the whereabouts of the man who was convicted of killing University of Missouri junior Jesse Valencia.

2023年1月13日 · However, as profiled in both ID’s ‘A Time to Kill: Admit the Affair, Deny the Murder’ and Hulu’s ‘How I Caught My Killer: Everybody Was Always Looking at Him,’ the perpetrator was, in fact, a deputy named Steven Rios.

2024年7月24日 · Jesse was discovered dead, partially clothed, lying in the grass between two houses just off the Columbia, Missouri campus of the University of Missouri on June 5, 2004. The 23-year-old, who was a student at the university, had been fatally stabbed, leaving a gaping wound to his neck.

2023年1月9日 · Steven Rios is Still in Jail. In May 2005, Steven was convicted of first-degree murder and armed criminal action. He received a life sentence without parole plus an additional ten years at the time. Steven claimed his innocence and said that he was at a party far off from the crime scene around the time of the murder.

2023年2月24日 · Steven Rios is a former police officer-turned-prison inmate from Missouri. Prior to his incarceration, he worked for the Columbia Police Department. At the time of the late Jesse Valencia's homicide investigation, Rios was a married man with one son.

Investigators believe Jesse Valencia threatened to expose married father and patrolman Steven Rios’ involvement with him shortly before he was murdered. The murder of a student in Missouri stunned a college campus, but the discovery of who committed the brutal crime sent shockwaves through the entire community.