A Connecticut man walked into a police station and confessed to killing his girlfriend, whom he accused of being unfaithful. He presented the officers with photographs of her lifeless body in his car.

On Sunday afternoon, 52-year-old Pedro Grajalez entered the Hartford Police Department and displayed the horrifying images at the reception desk. He informed the officers that he had just stabbed his 57-year-old girlfriend, Nilda Rivera, and her body was in his car parked outside the station.

Lt. Aaron Boisvert reported that officers hurried to the parking lot, finding Rivera unresponsive and suffering from multiple stab wounds. Despite their efforts to save her, she was pronounced dead at Saint Francis Hospital. Investigators revealed that Rivera had been stabbed over 25 times throughout her body, including her chest, head, face, and arms, inside the vehicle while parked on Murphy Road. The police discovered Rivera in the front seat and a knife, assumed to be the murder weapon, in the center console.

Grajalez and Rivera had been in a relationship since July 2022, and Grajalez had recently learned of her alleged affair. A local news source claimed that the man had reportedly planned her murder for several days.

Grajalez admitted to concealing the knife in his pocket, taking the victim to a McDonald’s for a meal, and then driving her to the isolated parking lot where he stabbed her. He told investigators that he waited to confirm her death before driving to the police department. Grajalez also sent a photo of Rivera’s body to the man he believed to be her “new boyfriend.”

The authorities charged Grajalez with first-degree murder, and a judge set his bail at $3 million. Rivera’s daughters expressed that they had an uneasy feeling about the 52-year-old man since he began dating their mother. They also noted that Grajalez displayed extreme jealousy, often inspecting her phone, deleting content, accessing her social media accounts, and removing contacts.