Father, son sentenced to lifestyle in jail for murder of Nicole Montalvo

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – Two guys who have been convicted in April for the 2019 murder of Nicole Montalvo, 33, have been sentenced to lifetime in prison.

Christopher Otero-Rivera and Angel Rivera had been sentenced Wednesday morning after they have been had been found guilty of next-degree murder, abuse of a useless human body and tampering with bodily proof in the demise of Montalvo, Otero-Rivera’s estranged spouse.

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The decide sentenced the two to daily life in prison for second-degree murder and for the two other counts, the two were presented sentences of 15 several years and 5 yrs. Prior to offering the sentence, the decide stated he could not “ignore the brutality” and the discomfort the murder introduced to the relatives as they searched for Nicole Montalvo in 2019.

At the time the verdict was given in the demo, prosecutor Ryan Williams reported both gentlemen were being suitable for life in prison.

Many family members customers of Nicole Montalvo spoke in advance of the sentencing, describing the pain and reduction experienced with her loss of life. Christina Montalvo, her sister, said she feels a sense of closure “slowly coming in,” but she reported she does not know if that will ever occur.

“When folks talk to me what happened to Nicole, I always claimed she handed absent from an act of domestic violence,” Christina Montalvo mentioned. “It bodily pains me to say my sister was murdered by her estranged spouse … and his father.”

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Nicole Montalvo.

Nicole Montalvo’s twin brother shared his statement, stating “we are all victims to their ongoing domestic abuse.” 1 of Nicole Montalvo’s other brothers also spoke, reiterating how his sister need to be below and that “a little piece” of the relatives died with her.

“She’ll in no way get to convey the soreness she feels, the pain that she felt, what she went through, every little thing that she had to endure, she must be the 1 talking right now,” her brother, Steven Montalvo, mentioned.

Montalvo was described lacking in October 2019 just after she failed to choose up her 8-calendar year-aged son from college. Her dismembered continues to be were afterwards located buried on house owned by the Riveras. Otero-Rivera and Nicole Montalvo had a son together, but they were separated at the time of her death. The two were likely via a divorce when she dropped their son off at her father-in-law’s residence.

The prosecution said throughout closing arguments that the proof proved the two adult males have been responsible although the defense said that if Nicole Montalvo experienced been murdered on the Riveras’ house on Hixon Avenue in St. Cloud, additional blood would have been discovered.

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Just after the guilty verdict before this calendar year, Montalvo’s brother said justice was served but at the conclusion of the day, the heartbreaking truth of the matter is that their siblings still don’t have their sister and her son nevertheless does not have his mother.

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