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Javier Righetti sheds a tear while making his initial appearance in district court Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, on charges of the rape and murder of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba.
By Dave Toplikar (contact) 
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011 | 8:53 a.m.
Sun archives
- Family, friends remember slain teen at candlelight vigil (9-7-2011)
- Thursday court date set for man who confessed to girl’s rape, murder (9-7-2011)
- Police: Man confessed to rape, murder of 15-year-old girl (9-6-2011)
- Man arrested in fatal attack of 15-year-old girl walking home (9-5-2011)
- Metro Police investigating body found in northwest valley (9-3-2011)
Vigil held for slaying victim Alyssa Otremba
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KSNV coverage of friends and family remembering the life of slain 15-year-old Arbor View High School student Alyssa Otremba, Sept. 7, 2011.
Sheriff Doug Gillespie reacts to teen's slaying
A preliminary hearing has been delayed until October for Javier Righetti, who Metro Police say confessed to last Friday’s stabbing death and rape of 15-year-old Alyssa Otrembra.
After shedding a few tears while talking to his public defender, Timothy O’Brien, Righetti waived his right to a preliminary hearing within 15 days and also waived the formal reading of the charges against him.
Justice of the Peace Conrad Hafen set Righetti’s preliminary hearing for 9:30 a.m. Oct. 14 in Las Vegas Justice Court. He's being held without bail.
Righetti, 19, was arrested on charges of murder with a deadly weapon, sexual assault with a deadly weapon, first-degree kidnapping with a deadly weapon and robbery with a deadly weapon.
After the brief hearing, Chief Deputy District Attorney Giancarlo Pesci said he couldn't comment on whether the district attorney’s office would bypass the preliminary hearing process and try to get an indictment through the grand jury process.
Pesci also would not say whether the district attorney’s office would be seeking the death penalty, if a preliminary hearing or a grand jury indictment results in the matter being sent to Clark County District Court, where Righetti would enter a plea.
However, Pesci said the district attorney’s office was treating the case as a high priority.
“When a young girl gets raped and stabbed, it is,” Pesci said.
According to a police report, Alyssa had sent her mother a text message at 6:38 p.m. Friday that she was walking on Grand Teton to return home and would be home in about 30 minutes.
Police said the girl had walked to a nearby junior high school to meet with her friend to get a geometry book so she could do the homework she missed when she was out of school sick.
While she was walking, her friend called her and said he couldn’t meet with her, so Alyssa decided to return home, police said.
Alyssa’s mother, Jennifer Otremba, said her daughter never came home, prompting her to call her phone and search for her, the police report said. The girl’s mother then called Metro and reported that she was missing.
On Saturday, family and friends were searching for her when a body was found in a vacant lot south of the victim’s home, police said. The body was that of a female, and was burned and unrecognizable, police said.
On Monday an autopsy was performed and the body was identified as Otremba’s, police said.
“The body had more than 40 stab wounds to the face, neck, chest, stomach and thighs,” the police report said. “The body had been burned using an accelerant.”
On Monday, Elizabeth Morales, the girlfriend of Righetti’s friend, Daniel Ortiz, told police that while she was with Ortiz on Friday night, he received numerous phone calls from Righetti, but ignored them. She said Ortiz eventually called him back, and Ortiz told her he was worried Righetti had killed someone.
Police contacted Ortiz at the Subway Sandwich Shop at Sky Pointe and Buffalo, where he worked, and he agreed to give a statement about Righetti.
Ortiz told police Righetti had called him for help about the slaying and Ortiz told police he didn't believe Righetti, but took Righetti to a 7-Eleven store on Durango to buy matches and said Righetti bought gasoline from an Albertsons Express across the street. Ortiz said Righetti then asked him to drive him to the vacant lot near Oso Blanca Road, according to the arrest report.
However, Ortiz told him he was ill and left the scene, the police report said.
Police said they arrested Righetti at his home at 7964 Willow Pines Place.
“Righetti confessed to following Otremba and attacking her to rob and rape her with a kitchen knife from his house,” the police report says. “Righetti also confessed to another robbery and rape being investigated by detectives.”
NOW he sheds tears. Too little too late. Kiss the outside world goodbye.
All I can think about is what that poor little girl went through. I bet this animal wasn't shedding any tears for her until he was caught.
The DA better go for the death penalty on this one and put in an express lane. If any case calls for the death penalty this is it.
No waiting 20 years to get it done either. Stay on this one, get the appeals out of the way and get him done.
Time to watch our DA's office folks. See how they follow through on this.
If this guy confesses, he should be executed immediately. A death penalty sentence that lingers for 20 years is just a waste of time.
If you read previous posts, this animal better hope for the death penalty, cause he will be wishing for death, once fellow inmates get through with him in prison.
I am sick and tired of every public office in this town bending over backwards and going the extra mile when it comes to serving their own interests. It is high time for these elected officials to demonstrate why they have been put into public office. This little s#*t stain scoundrel must go down hard.
This despicable, pathetic, low-life little cockroach showed no mercy to an innocent young girl who was simply trying to walk home as he did this:
"The body had more than 40 stab wounds to the face, neck, chest, stomach and thighs."
Are these the acts of someone who can be rehabilitated? NO! These are the acts of a cowardly F-ing little weasel who raped and then desecrated the life of a young girl. I cannot imagine the horror, fear and pain she must have gone through in her last minutes of life after this POS raped and then brutally murdered her in cold blood.
This little POS squirrel better hope he never sees the outside of cell. The things that I would do to this F-ing little rat are too explicit to describe here. But I can tell you that he would spend the rest of his life never walking, seeing, speaking or have any use of his bodily functions. He would no longer know if he were man or woman; nor would he care. He would wish he were no more. I am not a violent man. But what this despicable little coward rat did has quenched my thirst for a vengeance that would make third world pirate thugs look like Sunday school teachers on a church picnic.
Don't F- this up Mr DA. Do not leave one stone unturned. There is but one recourse for the acts of this rotten little cockroach. MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Yes, I too shed a tear, but not for this SOB, for his victim and her family. Yes! he needs, the Death Penalty. Hopefully, the victims family, will not have to wait 20 plus years for JUSTICE, like so many other victims and their families have to do.
dacon1508, if it were my daughter that had been killed, I'd want this loser put to death ASAP and I'd try to start the grieving process, without having to think about how poor/well he's being treated in prison. I understand that he'd probably be miserable, but just the fact that he's alive while my little girl is dead would drive me crazy. Every appeal, or news update would open up those old wounds.
Put him down and let the family attempt to move on. I feel so bad for them. Absolutely horrible.
improveLV- I agree with you there. I think this POS deserves to die and not humanely, perhaps by the same means he put Alyssa through. However, I know, even if put to death, he will probably appeal, spend a significant time in prison, people will ask to spare him due to some childhood trauma. It sucks I know, but it almost always happens. I just pray that Alyssa's family somehow keeps the strength to go through what they may have to go through in court to see that this animal is put down. Regardless of all that is said and done, in the end our time here on Earth is short, and this POS will have to answer for his actions in the afterlife, and it will not be pretty.
For the sake of the family, they shouldn't have to go through 20 years to get closure on this case.
Righetti clearly knows what he did was wrong. He's not mentally insane, far from it. He was smart enough to try and cover it up. So if the pub defender tries to pull that, I would sure hope they see right through.
No plea deals. Death penalty.
Day 1 - Arrest
Day 2 - Confession
Day 3 - Trial
Day 4 - Sentencing
Day 5 - Death penalty enforced.
But sadly it won't go down that quickly, which is a shame.
@improveLV If this happened to my daughter. I'd be in jail. Sorry to say it, there's no way I'd want to sit around waiting and letting the trial drag on.
He'll die humanely, because we would be barbaric if we had harsh punishment. It's sick though.
He raped her! Not just in one location (arrest report)... The trauma of that is horrible to even imagine... then he stabbed her! 40 times...
He doesn't deserve lethal injection, with no pain... he deserves way more. The rage inside that I would have if it was my daughter... yeah... don't know how I'd even begin to deal with that.
Just so sad that this girl died so tragically, what was this Javier Righetti thinking? why would he randomly pick this young girl to do what he did? This is one sick and twisted individual, if the death penalty applies to this rape /murder I would hope the prosecutor's office would go for it.. As soon as the jury comes back with a guilty verdict just take him outside and hang him, no appeals, no waiting 20+ years NOTHING just hang him, let him feel the pain he has put this young girls family, parents are NOT suppose to bury their kids, this young lady was suppose to live her life to the fullest, this animal just took all that away from her" I hate the thought of my tax dollars going to waste on this murderer, just get rid of him! Dispose him like yesterday's trash!
Those tears he seems to be shedding, too late a$$hole, its too late!!!
My sincere condolences to her family and friends"""
Tumbled from the ugly tree, hitting every branch on the way down, to rape and pillage"a total waste of skin and oxygen.
This POS is crying??? How sick and disgusting. And as for Ortiz, why are we hearing nothing about him being held somewhat accountable? He drove this dirt bag scum to get gas, matches, and to the lot where Alyssa was on Friday....so why only did not him, but HIS girlfriend call police on Monday?? I'm sorry but he should have dialed 911 on Friday night. These disgusting excuses for humans know whats right and whats wrong.
To Alyssa's family, my deepest sympathies go out to you,as well as my heart and prayers. May you be able to find peace and strength through this most difficult time.
As much as I hate Casey Anthony for what she was accused of doing to her own daughter, this trumps that case 10 fold! I even posted this story on the I Hate Casey Anthony facebook page just so it would get national attention. Nancy Grace needs to get over Casey "Tot Mom" Anthony and focus on the obvious more heinous crimes committed by evil child molesters such as this monster! Somebody needs to put this case on Nancy Grace's show!
This POS and the woman accused of killing her goddaughter with a green metal pipe earlier this month, Mariann Harris, don't deserve a trial or a humane way to die! Both should be tortured the same way they tortured their helpless victims!
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Just 12 years ago in Jakarta, gangs of Indonesians were gang-raping, chopping up and burning Chinese women, by the hundreds.
It was called 'the riots in Jakarta' by the international press.
For decades, women in African countries beseiged by rebels are systematically raped, usually with the entire village held at gunpoint and forced to observe the repeated rapings and the children often forced to hold the flashlights on their momma while the soldiers take turns.
In Indonesia and Africa, the goals were the same - to intimidate the families and force them to flee. Justice is better here than overseas. Very few elsewhere ever even were charged with crimes.
Moderator: my comments were in relation to a matter of disputed law and national policy. Cognition, like gravity, remains an indisputable element of nature.
I think that slug is crying for himself. He is too evil to have tears for the victim. May she rest in peace.
If Sheriff Doug Gillespie wants this to be the safest community in America then he better get to work. I wish him luck but I sincerely don't think he has the grapes, the power, the plan or any idea what such a plan would entail. He's gonna need to stand up if he wants to pull a "safe community" out of his a**.
A community can only be as safe as the people that live in it and brother, has anyone looked at what we have living here? No one government agency can save us. We need to help them help us. This young man is most probably the result of fail parenting. Maybe we should prosecute his parents as well.
He is a MONSTER. His tears are for himself because he got caught. He deserves to be tortured and then set on fire to die a horrific death, but what he deserves and what he'll get as we all know are two different things. Where is this Ortiz person? Why didn't he call the police rather than wait to be called? Why was he trying to protect this dispicable being? It disgusts me.
My heart goes out to the family, loved ones, and friends of Alyssa. She was a beautiful soul that was taken too soon from this world. My prayers are with you all.
When I first read this horrific story I sat with dual emotions. I couldn't stop the tears from streaming down my face. At the same time, I was so angered at the suspect of this heinous crime, I felt like a blood vessel in my face was going to rupture. Okay scumbag, maggot! You'll get your fair trial. You'll get your media coverage. You might even be lucky enough to have a foolish liberal reporter do a background investigation of you and report his findings of why you may have been lead to commit this heinous crime against this innocent child. But, one thing, through all of this will remain true. Sooner or later you will come into what was my world for nearly thirty years. Prison. You can no longer drive into a Texaco gas station where you can trust the man who wears the star. The only star that you will see is the badge of a prison guard. Prior to retiring, my occupation for nearly three decades. No officer will ever give you more than what the law provides for you. You will come to know that does not include any form of human respect or dignity. You may believe the public perception that prison life is easy, and kicked back. Well, reality will soon enough prove to you that this perception is candy-coated for the liberals in our society. The moment you get off the bus in chains, at the state prison intake center, you will also realize that every inmate convicted of felonies other than that of crimes against children will crave the honor of putting your head on a platter. You, Mr. Righetti, being the coward that you are, will request (PC) protective custody status. But, unknowingly to you, the prison staff will have already done this for you on a mandatory basis. For, your sentence will either be the death penalty, or life without the possibility of parole. You see Mr. Righetti, your life in prison either way will be a life of solitary confinement. Inmates on death row average anywhere from fourteen to twenty years there before their execution takes place. Besides institutional security, one of the primary duties of a modern day prison guard is to keep maggots like you alive and healthy. But, from my perspective, this is good. For, the deep-seeded truth is, everyday you spend in a solitary environment, is another day closer to the time that you will succumb to the tortorous shell of, "solitary syndrome". You, are no different Mr. Righetti. The time will come when you pray that another inmate comes upon the opportunity to serve your head on a platter. But, rest assured the prison staff will protect you. Or, you shall beg through prison officials to have your execution expedited. Your requests, Mr. Righetti, shall be denied on the grounds of your human rights. Mr. Righetti, these words you can certainly trust from the man who once wore the star. "There is no greater form of retribution for a piece of trash like you than when all public officials follow the letter of the law."
i cant stand to look at this photo...
i bet Alyssa was crying too just as he was about to do what he did to her. But he showed no mercy...
So, I have nothing but HATE for this guy...even if he cries buckets and buckets of tears.
Despicable!
I'd post something but the lynch mob here would just shout it down. Such poseurs with their empty threats and emptier prayers.
Except for airweare, the lone voice of reason.
"For moral duty entails, in substance, hostility towards those outside one's own group, not just hidden rancor and bitterness but open aggressiveness." -- Edward A. Shills, Introduction to Georges Sorel's "Reflections on Violence," 1969 edition
"This guy is pure 100% evil, the devil at work here."
TeamSG1 -- no, Righetti is apparently just another predator among us. Human society has always had them. And calling him "evil," etc., labels him with undeserved dignity and a supernatural force that doesn't exist.
As for your bravado on what you would have done, think about it -- seems to have happened at dusk, recently, out in the open. Apparently the neighborhood and passersby weren't paying attention. Were you one of those? Nothing in your post suggests you were.
All that matters is justice, and unfortunately it will never happen -- true justice for a child as horribly murdered as this little girl would come only from her family, replaced by a machine we all sanction.
"Although the most clear-sighted judges of witches and even the witches themselves were convinced the witches were guilty of witchcraft, no guilt in fact existed. So it is with all guilt." -- Friedrich Nietzsche 1882 "Gay Science"
NO MERCY and do not waste taxpayers money on this scum by sending him to prison.
Bchap,
I enjoyed reading your post. I feel like he should be put to death, but reality is God say to not kill. However, I do believe that life in solitary confinement would be worse than death. I'm not talking about the general pop, but the SHU for life. I would rather have death than the SHU for life.
"...reality is God say to not kill."
anthonyjoevegas -- it's no reality at all except for the herd. In this context your god is irrelevant.
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." -- Arthur C. Clarke, 1999, from "God, Science, and Delusion: A Chat With Arthur C. Clarke" in Free Inquiry magazine
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LV Sun editors,
Please, please, stop putting these pictures up. I don't want to see this vile, dangerous, sociopath garnering sympathy by his crocodile tears. We have a jury pool to think about.
Let's have more pictures of the lovely young girl he raped, brutalized, murdered, and burned.
I never met her, but I know she was a good kid by two sentences mentioned in the articles. She was walking home from borrowing a textbook, and she texted her mom to let her know where she was.
These people: Her PARENTS, loved, worked, sacrificed over the years to raise their beautiful daughter. This sociopath took away all that and hurt her, and them, in ways that sicken me. He took everything away from them. He needs to be put away for life or be put to death. Please, LV Sun, don't help his case with sympathetic stories or photos.
KillerB- Dude, you have issues. Seek help before you end up like that IHOP guy in Carson. You are always on about people's rights against govt. How about people's rights not to be raped and killed?
For all of you that want him fried what makes you so different from him? I thought God only decided on who lives and dies? So this guy played God and now the rest of you want to join in? You do not want justice. You want the state to take your revenge for you since none of you could ever pull the switch. AnthonyJoe was the only voice of reason so far here.
I love all the racists here. Anytime a Hispanic person has negative media coverage the racists sure do love to come out lol. Look, I hate this guy as much as the next for what he did, but what does him being Mexican have to do with anything? Get over your narrow mindedness. This guy will hopefully more than likely not last long in prison. Skinny little punks who have to rape and kill children usually get dealt with the prison vigilante system (see Jeffrey Dahmer, he wasn't Mexican, SHOCKER!).
I Seen this fool being led thru the county in the fishtanks for the courtroom. He had earmuffs over his ears and something over his eyes and they tried to disguise his identity. We all took a long look at him and every one in there was wondering why he was surrounded by "SERT" he's lucky because if anyone could have gotten their hands on him he would have been done sandwich right there. some people who go to prison for years and years have families and some of them never come back to see them so he's done already he just doesn't know it..