Castle Rock – Jose Luis Rubi-Nava, accused of dragging his girlfriend to death behind his truck, will hear the evidence against him on Dec. 21 in Douglas County District Court, a judge ruled today during a preliminary hearing.
Rubi-Nava, 36, has been in jail since shortly after the naked body of Maria Franco Fierros, 49, was found at the end of a two-mile trail of blood on Surrey Ridge Road in Douglas County on Sept. 18.
A picture of the couple was found nearby.
Rubi-Nava’s brother and half-brother were in the courtroom Wednesday, as they have been for each of the preliminary hearings.
“It has been very, very hard for the family,” Rubi-Nava’s half-brother, Jorge Ayala, told reporters after the brief hearing before Judge Paul King.
Rubi-Nava is charged with premeditated murder, second-degree kidnapping, two counts of forgery and possessing a forged instrument.
He is a Mexican citizen who was sharing an apartment with with Franco Fierros in Glendale. She worked in fast-food restaurants while he worked construction jobs. He is suspected of being an undocumented worker.
