LUBBOCK – A Lubbock man who pleaded guilty to the murder of his girlfriend has been sentenced.
Enrique Cuvillier, 36 was sentenced to 70 years in prison for the 2015 murder of his girlfriend.
In December of 2015, deputies were dispatched to 7322 County Road 6100 to investigate a death of a family member. They found Evelyn Denise Rardeen ,53, dead of what they thought was natural causes.
Investigators then learned that Rardeen did not die of natural causes but was strangled. Enrique Cuvillier was arrested and charged with murder and a parole violation. Cuvillier and Rardeen were dating at the time.
Cuvillier’s attonery said during closing statements that Cuvillier accepts responsibility for his actions and that he did not deserve a life sentence.
“People who accept responibiity don’t deserve a life sentence. He suffered paranoia while on meth. That has been consistent. When he wasn’t shooting up meth that’s not him. His brother told you that when he is in a sober state he wouldn’t do something like that.” Cuvillier’s attonery said, “That night he told the deputy to ‘just shoot me in the head’ He has made efforts to make himself better.”
Cuvillier has been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since the initial arrest on December 30, 2015.
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We need to do better as a society to address the circumstances that lead people to dead-end lives of self-destruction and self-medicating their inherent misery, which is usually generational. That said, this dude's sentence is justice served and deserved.
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