Jose Rodriguez Cruz sentenced to 40 years in Virginia prison for cold-case murder By FOX 5 Digital Team Published STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. - Jose Rodriguez Cruz was sentenced on Friday to 40 years in prison for the murder of his first wife, Marta Haydee Rodriguez. Rodriguez Cruz pleaded guilty in November 2020 to his first wife’s murder, decades after her body was found along Interstate 95 in Virginia. He must return to West Virginia first to complete his sentence for the murder of his second wife, Pamela Butler. At the conclusion of that sentence, he will be transferred to the Virginia Department of Corrections to complete the sentence for murdering Marta Rodriguez.