A Denver man will face life in prison after killing his 24-year-old wife in 2021.

Denver District Court Judge Ericka Englert sentenced 27-year-old Jonathan Nuno-Mijangos to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday in connection to the murder of 24-year-old Jasmin Cigarroa, according to a press release from the Denver District Attorney’s Office.

A jury convicted Nuno-Mijangos of first-degree murder, assault in the first degree, tampering with a deceased body and abuse of a corpse on Wednesday.

Nuno-Mijangos initally reported Cigarroa missing on March 10, 2021. He told police that he last saw Cigarroa around 9 a.m. on March 9 at their apartment on East 28th Avenue in Denver, according to the arrest affidavit. He said she messaged him that she was going out with her friends that evening.

He then told investigators that he no longer had the messages because he deleted them off of his phone.

Law enforcement learned about Cigarroa’s possible location on March 12 and discovered her body later that day in a rural part of Adams County. The cause of death was later determined to be strangulation.

“Jasmin Cigarroa was a hard-working, intelligent and loving woman whose death at such a young age, and at the hands of her husband, was a terrible tragedy,” District Attorney Beth McCann said in the press release. “I hope the result of this case provides some measure of comfort to Jasmin’s friends and family. It is also my hope that this case reminds everyone in Denver that there is still much more work to be done to address the scourge of domestic violence.”