Bodies Of Missing VA Grandmother, Girl Found In National Park

HARRISONBURG, VA — A man infatuated with a Virginia woman who is accused of abducting her and her 12-year-old granddaughter has reportedly led authorities to their bodies in Shenandoah National Park. Angie Carolina Rodriguez Rubio and her grandmother, Elizabeth Rodriguez Rubio, 48, had been missing since Aug. 5 when they were seen at a strip mall with their accused killer.

Hareton Jaime Rodriguez Sariol, 48, allegedly was with the Rubios at a strip mall in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Angie was the subject of an Amber Alert and Elizabeth was entered into a nationwide system as a missing person, police said. The two were believed to be in "extreme danger," a police statement said.

Harrisonburg Police said Hareton Jaime Rodriguez-Sariol, 48, was arrested in Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 7; the Rubios were not located at that time.

On Wednesday he took authorities to the missing grandmother and girl's bodies, WTOP reports. Rodriguez-Sariol entered into a plea agreement on two counts of first-degree murder on the condition that he take investigators to where he hid the bodies. The move would help bring “closure for the Rodriguez Rubio Family,” said Rockingham County Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha Garst.

He faces a minimum sentence of 40 years in prison.

Rodriguez-Sariol "has a known history of infatuation with Elizabeth Rodriguez Rubio," police said.

The girl and her grandmother were last seen in the 2800 block of South Main Street in Harrisonburg, Virginia. They were with Rodriguez-Sariol, police said.

All three people were believed to be traveling in Rodriguez-Sariol's car, which was involved in a vehicle fire on I-66 in Warren County. Police say Rodriguez-Sariol was headed north toward New York in a tractor trailer, owned by AMG Express L.L.C., when he was stopped by authorities in Lackawanna.

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(Photos of Angie Rodriguez Rubio, 12, and Elizabeth Rodriguez Rubio, 48, along with Hareton Jaime Rodriguez Sariol, via Virginia State Police)