Husband beat, strangled wife to death, then hid body in vacant house

A deranged New Jersey husband beat and strangled his pretty 32-year-old wife to death nearly a month ago before stashing her body in an abandoned house some 15 miles away until authorities found her remains late Tuesday, prosecutors said. The callous killer, Abayuba Rivas, 39, even gave a TV interview during the fruitless search for the body of his wife, Karla Jose Villagra Garzon, who disappeared Feb. 23. Now facing a murder charge and held in lieu of $2 million bail, Rivas admitted the couple had marital problems, but he presented the fictitious facade of a concerned husband how he broke the news to his wife’s daughter."Mommy went out and she didn't come back yet. I don't have anything else to tell," Rivas told the news station. The woman’s body was found Tuesday night in vacant home on Southern Boulevard in Chatham Township, about 15 miles from the couple’s home on the 800 block of East Jersey St. in Elizabeth. The Union County Prosecutor’s Office said when and where the woman was killed remains under investigation.