GUILTY CO - Tina Tournai-Sandoval, 23, Greeley, 19 Oct 1995 *J. Sandoval guilty*

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Kristina Marie Tournai Sandoval
Missing since October 19, 1995 from Greeley, Colorado
Classification: Endangered Missing



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Vital Statistics

Date Of Birth: March 17, 1972
Age at Time of Disappearance: 23 years old
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Blonde hair.
AKA: Tina


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Circumstances of Disappearance
Kristina Tournai Sandoval finished her night shift as a registered nurse in the oncology department at North Colorado Medical Center in the early hours of October 19, 1995.
Before leaving, she told friends that she was going to see her estranged husband across town who had not returned the divorce papers. It's not certain whether Kristina made it to her husband's house.
The only strong evidence that something went wrong was her car which was found abandoned a few blocks from the house where her husband lived.
The husband was questioned and eventually served time in prison on an unrelated charge. But he was never tried for Kristina's disappearance.
On June 18, 2009, Las Vegas police arrested John Sandoval at his home in the 1995 slaying of his wife, Tina Tournai Sandoval

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Greeley Police Department
Detective Schrimpf
970-350-9683
Tips Email

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1780dfco.html
 
This is snipped from recent article

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Tina Tournai-Sandoval

Unlike the Jonelle Matthews case, police say they know who is responsible for the apparent death of Tina Tournai-Sandoval. Her ex-husband, John Sandoval, is the lead suspect in the case, although they haven't got the evidence to arrest him. Finding the woman's body would be a big step in that direction, said Greeley Police spokesman Sgt. John Gates.

Tournai-Sandoval told family members she was afraid of her ex-husband. When she learned he'd lied to her about his background - that he'd been arrested three times for stalking women - she got a divorce.

Then, on Oct. 19, 1995, she told her sister she was going to John's house to collect $200 he owed her. Her sister said Tournai-Sandoval was worried about the visit, but she went to the house shortly after she got off work as a nurse at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley.

Although Tournai-Sandoval said she would call her sister after she left Sandoval's house, she never called. Her family never saw her again. Tournai Sandoval's mother, Mary Ellen Tournai, became concerned and went to the Greeley police.

Officers knew of Sandoval from his criminal record, and they acted immediately. They sealed Tournai-Sandoval's apartment as a possible crime scene; they talked to the woman's friends, then searched for her car. They found it in a parking lot two blocks from Sandoval's house.

Officers staked out the house that night, and at 5:30 a.m. the next day, they saw Sandoval drive home. He went inside, and officers looked inside the car. They saw a shovel, a white bucket and a pair of gloves covered with mud.

When they went to the house, Sandoval's aunt told them he was in the shower. The officers waited a few minutes, then told the aunt they had to talk to him. She told them she was mistaken before, and he wasn't home. That's when they heard Sandoval climbing out of the back window to run away

More at the link:

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20030126/NEWS/301260002
 
Details emerge from original Sandoval investigation

Friday, June 19, 2009

Several pieces of the investigation into the disappearance and possible killing of Tina Tournai Sandoval were never revealed as the investigation was ongoing. The arrest affidavit that was released Thursday revealed facts of the investigation that had never been made public before:

» John Sandoval had been planning to leave Greeley for good on Oct. 21, 1995, two days after Tournai Sandoval disappeared.

» After Sandoval was arrested for questioning, he was videotaped feverishly cleaning beneath his fingernails after refusing to allow police to collect fingernail scrapings from him. When police restrained him to keep him from destroying evidence, he was observed moving his chair so he could continue biting and inspecting his fingernails.

» Sandoval did not cooperate with police when they photographed apparent fingernail scratches on his neck and torso. He often moved erratically to prevent the pictures from being taken.

» While at the hospital receiving treatment for his scratch wounds, Sandoval asked an X-ray technician, &#8220;Have you ever done something that you wished you hadn't?&#8221;

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20090619/NEWS/906199995
 
Judge: Evidence warrants trial in Sandoval case
By Sharon Dunn Greeley Tribune, Colo.
Publication: Greeley Tribune (Colorado)
Date: Thursday, December 17 2009

Dec. 17--The former Greeley man accused of killing his wife 14 years ago kept her memory close to him before his arrest last June in Las Vegas.

Police noted John Sandoval, 44, kept two pictures of his estranged wife, Tina Tournai-Sandoval, hanging above each post of his bed in his Las Vegas
home. He told friends and a cell mate that he continued to harbor feelings for her, even though she had divorced him, got into tattoos and joined a biker gang.

The idea, however, that Tournai-Sandoval would quit the Greeley nursing job she loved and walk out on a new life she was living in a new apartment was not remotely logical, prosecutors said during a preliminary hearing.

http://www.allbusiness.com/crime-la...ions/criminal-offenses-crimes/13609817-1.html
 
Posted March 2, 2008, 5:54 pm MT Husband mum about wife&#8217;s disappearance

Names: Tina Sandoval, 23
Hometown: Greeley
Agency: Greeley Police Department
Date missing: Oct. 19, 1995
Status: Missing and presumed dead
Suspect: John Sandoval, Tina&#8217;s husband
Hours after 23-year-old Tina Sandoval disappeared on a visit to the home of her estranged husband, John Sandoval, two Greeley police officers staked out the house.
Shortly before dawn on Oct. 20, 1995, John Sandoval, who had a lengthy history of assault, stalking women and voyeurism, pulled up in his car and walked into his house carrying two grocery bags.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2008/03/02/new-profile-husband-mum-about-wifes-disappearance/
 
Goldschmidt is retiring and his role in convicting the killer in this case is one of his career highlights. An enjoyable read and encouraging for those of us that are fairly still new here.

http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/6712546-113/goldschmidt-greeley-police-case

Whitney Phillips
wphillips@greeleytribune.com
June 5, 2013
Retired Greeley detective went above and beyond to solve cases

Sandoval was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, although Tina&#8217;s body was never found, there were no witnesses to her death and there was no crime scene &#8212; all of which are aspects that made the case a first. Goldschmidt said when the jury delivered the guilty verdict, he was sitting next to Keith Olson, who worked that and many other cases at the department with him. Goldschmidt said Olson gave him an elbow jab as he pumped his fist.

&#8220;It was a great moment because justice was finally served after 14 long years,&#8221; Goldschmidt said.
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Authorities say it's unlikely human skeletal remains found in Greeley belong to either a woman or a girl who disappeared in the area years ago.

The remains were found Tuesday as a worker was using a backhoe to remove a tree along railroad tracks in the northwestern part of the city. Police Sgt. Joe Tymkowych tells The Greeley Tribune (http://bitly.com/1xP4OHPX ) that investigators have determined they don't belong to 23-year-old Tina Tournai-Sandoval or 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews.
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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...ities-work-to-identify-human-skeletal-remains
 
Kristina has two NamUs entries.
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/22163/162/
Status Missing
First name Kristina
Middle name Marie
Last name Tournai-Sandoval
Nickname/Alias Tina
Date last seen October 19, 1995 00:00
Date entered 10/05/2013
Age last seen 23 to 23 years old
Age now 42 years old
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Height (inches) 10.0
Weight (pounds) 0.0
Dental Status: Dental information / charting is currently not available
DNA Status: Sample available - Not yet submitted
Fingerprint Information Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/25972/76
Status Missing
First name Kristina
Middle name Marie
Last name Sandoval
Nickname/Alias Tina Sandoval
Date last seen October 19, 1995 00:00
Date entered 08/29/2014
Age last seen 23 to years old
Age now 42 years old
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Height (inches) 67.0
Weight (pounds) 125.0
Dental Status: Dental information / charting is currently not available
DNA Status: Sample is currently not available
Fingerprint Information Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available
 
Authorities say skeletal remains found by a worker in north Greeley belong to a 17-year-old boy who went missing in 2011.

The Greeley Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1xpFifw ) Trevor Craven disappeared Nov. 26, 2011. Two days later, his mother reported him to Greeley police as a runaway and told investigators that when she last saw him, he was distraught and possibly suicidal.
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http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/e804e52b13374120b767e1c0995c2b85/CO--Human-Remains-Greeley/
 
Major development expected Friday in 1995 Greeley murder case

http://www.mywindsornow.com/news/officials-to-discuss-major-development-in-1995-murder-case-on-friday/

There has been a major development in the 21-year-old murder case of Tina Tournai Sandoval in 1995.

Her former estranged husband, John Sandoval, 52, was convicted of her murder in 2010, but the Colorado Court of Appeals overturned that conviction last year, based on some errors committed at trial. The case was sent back to Weld District Court, and has been awaiting a date for a second trial.

All of that changes now. Sandoval will appear in court at 1:30 p.m. Friday for a disposition hearing, at which time attorneys will announced a resolution to the case, and forgo a planned jury trial, according to court documents. Prosecutors will not discuss the nature of the hearing, but they have planned a news conference afterward in the Plaza West building of the Weld County Court complex.
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There is a new episode of Dateline NBC tonight. Dan Mays is being interviewed, and it is covering this case. It is a two-hour show.

ETA about 20 minutes into the show the original investigators talked about finding the shovel and a 48-inch level in his car the day she went missing. They could never figure out why there was a level in the car, until he admitted to where the body was found and then it was understood that it was to level the piece that he had removed from the gravesite he buried her body in of the World War II veteran.
 
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dixiegirl1035 said:
There is a new episode of Dateline NBC tonight. Dan Mays is being interviewed, and it is covering this case. It is a two-hour show.

ETA about 20 minutes into the show the original investigators talked about finding the shovel and a 48-inch level in his car the day she went missing. They could never figure out why there was a level in the car, until he admitted to where the body was found and then it was understood that it was to level the piece that he had removed from the gravesite he buried her body in of the World War II veteran.
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Oops, Old Timers memory as correction that the DA in this show was Michael Rourke and he was on the Christopher Watts case. I knew I recognized him for from a recent case but I mixed up Watts case with Frazee case.
 
A man convicted of killing his ex-wife is eligible for parole next year. Her family is fighting to keep him in jail

7:56 PM MST December 13, 2019

. In 2017, he entered into that plea agreement and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.With credit for time-served, he will have been incarcerated for 12 years by the time he is eligible for parole, which is 2020.

"We weren’t even expecting parole until 2028. Two years later after this plea bargain, we’re already dealing with this," Fryan said. "He is eligible to reapply for a halfway house every six months, which means that every six months we will submitting victim statements about why believe John Sandoval should not be released."

Police are also against Sandoval being released.
 
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