Bride Homicide: Estrella Carrera Found Stabbed to Death in Dry Bath Tub on Rutherford Ave, Burbank, Illinois

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Burbank police responded about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 13th, 2012 to a well-being check at an apartment in the 7800 block of Rutherford Avenue, Burbank, Illinois. Officers discovered a female wearing her wedding dress with multiple stab wounds in a dry bathtub inside the apartment. Burbank paramedics were called to the scene.

Police identified the victim as Estrella I. Carrera, 25, who relatives reported never arrived for her scheduled pickup Saturday of her children, ages 8 and 2.


Burbank Police in conjunction with the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force are involved in an ongoing death investigation that was upgraded to a homicide following an autopsy at the Cook County Medical Examiners Office Monday morning.

Burbank police so far believe the crime is a domestic incident.


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