`Most Wanted` Suspect Has SJ Link

The murder of a South Jersey woman may be linked to one of America's most wanted killers.

After a three-year manhunt, police Tuesday night arrested Angel Rivera in Reading, Pa. Authorities believe that Rivera strangled Myra Guzman in Indiana in 1999.

Police said that they met in Vineland, N.J., before moving to the Midwest. The Guzman family had this reaction to Rivera's arrest.

"(I am) very happy they caught him so he could pay for what he did to (my) daughter and the other three people in California," said Feliz Guzman, the victim's father, interpreted by Jean Benitez, the victim's nephew.

"I don't want him to get the death penalty. I want him to sit in jail and look at those four walls every single day and realize what he did," Benitez said.

Police made the arrest after someone recognized Rivera from the TV show "America's Most Wanted."

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