Man Convicted of Stalking and K#lling His Ex-Girlfriend’s Boyfriend Who Went Missing in 2020
A Wisconsin father has been convicted of the brutal 2020 murder of his former partner’s new lover Rosalio Gutierrez Jr, who he allegedly stalked and be@t to d£ath with an object before disposing of his remains.
Zachariah Anderson, 42, was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, hiding a corpse and stalking in Kenosha County Circuit Court, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, following a month-long trial and 10 hours of jury deliberations.
He showed no emotion as the verdict was read out in court. He now faces life in prison at his sentencing on 16 May – almost exactly three years to the day that his victim was last seen alive.
After 10 hours of deliberating, a jury in a Kenosha County court convicted Zachariah Anderson of intentional murder, hiding a corpse, stalking his ex Sadie Beacham, and her boyfriend Rosalio Gutierrez Jr., according to Law and Crime.
The verdict marked the end of a dramatic trial in which Anderson was accused of trying to influence his teenage daughter as she testified against him – as well as the end of a chilling case where the victim’s body has never been found three years on from his disappearance.
Gutierrez, 40, had been dating Anderson’s former girlfriend Sadie Beacham – with whom the killer shares three children.
Anderson was jealous of the new relationship and was stalking his love rival prior to his death.
Beacham called it quits with Anderson in February 2020 before she started communicating with Gutierrez on social media, Fox 6 reported.
During the trial, prosecutors presented DNA evidence and proof that Anderson had been following Gutierrez and going to his apartment before he vanished. He later lied to police about it when they questioned him, per the news station.
Anderson is accused of placing a burner phone in Beacham’s car to see where she was going and using a GPS tracker and recording device to stalk her and the victim, according to CourtTV.
The outlet reported that Gutierrez was officially reported missing on May 19, 2020, after police did a welfare check at his apartment. There, they found “large amounts of bl00d” in his home and Beacham told police that Anderson had been stalking them.
The day Gutierrez went missing, authorities found a burn pit in Anderson’s home along with torn clothes and a burned bleach bottle. Anderson’s Dodge minivan had Gutierrez’s bl00d in it, along with a piece of carpet that smelled like bleach. Another burn pit was discovered at a tree farm that Anderson’s family owns, as well as additional clothes.
