Horrific update in case of missing fitness fanatic, 25, who vanished after her gym stalker sent ominous message

The 25-year-old fittingness extreme who vanished earlier this period has been recovered dormant wrong a car parked extracurricular a steakhouse successful West Phoenix.  

Doris Aguilar, who was reported missing connected July 1, was confirmed dormant connected Thursday erstwhile authorities recovered her body alongside her alleged stalker - 51-year-old Juan Cuellar.

Authorities fishy nan deaths were nan consequence of a murder-suicide. 

Aguilar and Cuellar were some changeable to death. Investigators wished that nan 25-year-old was a unfortunate of homicide and that her gunshot wounds were not self-inflicted.

In nan lawsuit of Cuellar, however, nan Office of nan Medical Examiner ascertained that his gunshot coiled was so self-inflicted. 

When nan car containing their bodies was discovered connected July 7, witnesses said that they appeared to person been location for respective days.

Phoenix Police Public Information Officer Rob Scherer told 12news that Aguilar and Cuellar knew 1 different but declined to remark further. 

Aguilar's family and Steve Fischer, a backstage investigator, judge that Cuellar had been stalking nan 25-year-old for complete a year. 

According to Fischer, Cuellar was truthful obsessed pinch Aguilar that he kept showing up astatine nan gyms wherever she worked out.

As a consequence of his alleged stalking, nan fittingness extreme changed gyms repeatedly. 

But 3 days earlier Aguilar vanished, Cuellar, whose floor plan image was a gun, indicated connected Facebook that he knew which installation she was now using.

He wrote: 'Getting my rank back... [see you soon].'

Fischer, who serves arsenic a benignant of typical for Aguilar's family, astir of whom unrecorded successful Honduras, said astir Cuellar's cryptic Facebooks post.

'She moved to Lifetime Fitness. And I deliberation nan past Facebook station that he made is simply a station saying, "Getting my Lifetime rank back. See you soon," and that was connected June 27,' nan interrogator said to AZFamily.

He continued: 'Three days later we ne'er saw her again.'

Aguilar had antecedently expressed her fearfulness astir nan alleged stalker, friends and family claim. 

'She had made it clear to her family that she was frightened of him to nan constituent wherever she had told family that thing happened to her, that it would beryllium him that would beryllium responsible,' Fischer told 12news.

According to nan investigator, Aguilar met Cuellar while employed astatine a distribution center.

The 51-year-old was later fired aft harassing nan young woman, according to Fischer.

But that didn't extremity nan alleged stalker from contacting Aguilar, who continued to person messages from Cuellar either telling her really overmuch he loved her aliases threatening her.

'He was obsessed to nan constituent wherever he had a image of her taped to nan backmost of his compartment phone,' Fischer said.

Before she disappeared, Aguilar said that she was going to nan store. A week later, her car was recovered abandoned extracurricular nan Christown Spectrum shopping halfway successful Phoenix.

The conveyance was unlocked and astir of her individual belonging were recovered wrong isolated from for her car keys and compartment phone. Aguilar's cellphone later pinged successful Peoria, wherever nan 25-year-old had nary ties.

'They recovered her purse, her wallet, her passport, in installments cards, cash, truthful it was clear nan motive was not robbery. The car was unlocked,' Fischer told AZFamily.

The investigation into Aguilar's decease is ongoing, authorities said.

'This is conscionable truthful sad,' nan backstage interrogator told 12news.

He continued: 'This guy, conscionable what he did to her family, is conscionable heartbreaking.'

'The mediocre woman was conscionable frightened to decease of him.'