Two Men Charged With Kidnap And Murder Of Missing Utah Woman

Two men in Salt Lake County have been arrested and charged on Tuesday in the possible kidnap and murder of a missing Utah woman, Conzuelo Solorio-Romero. Orlando Siesa Tobar, 29, and Jorge Rafael Medina Reyes, 21, are believed to have forcibly taken Solorio -Romero because she had helped put an associate of theirs in prison.

Charging documents say that Solorio-Romero had sent a friend a video message on the day of the kidnapping saying two men with guns were making her leave her home, The Salt Lake Tribune wrote.

According to a report from Fox13, Solorio-Romero, 25, went missing from her home in Kearns, Utah, on Feb. 6 and has not been found since. Security video released by the Unified Police Department showed Solorio-Romero being taken by suspects who were holding a weapon, either a gun or knife, and was put into a vehicle.

Police said the victim was then taken to an apartment in West Valley City where there were several witnesses inside the home. In their statements, Tobar told Reyes to stand behind Solorio-Romero while he stood in front of her and held her. He began questioning the woman about information she told police that resulted in one of his “close associates” being arrested and taken into federal custody.

Witnesses said Solorio-Romero denied having talked to the police but had told one of the witnesses that "her husband did not commit suicide but was murdered by these two men". As Solorio-Romero was being interrogated, Tobar said she “knew too much, and she was not going to leave that apartment.”

Court documents stated that Tobar claimed Reyes shot Solorio-Romero in the back of her head. After which witnesses inside the apartment left the premises and reported hearing a second shot as they exited the home, investigators said.

A third person who has not been named told police he was forced at gunpoint by Tobar to move Solorio-Romero's body which was wrapped in plastic, from the apartment and into a landscape truck. Tobar had also forced another witness to clean up the murder scene.

A SWAT team did a search on the West City Valley apartment and found "substantial blood" and evidence that someone had attempted to clean it up.

Tobar and Reyes were charged in the 3rd District Court with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and obstructing justice, all of which are first-degree felonies.