The murder of Amber Belken is investigated in the Dateline episode “Everything She Knew.” Amber Belken, a 25-year-old woman from San Antonio, Texas, ran an EB Games store. On January 29, 2007, the little young lady’s body was discovered in the storeroom.
During a heist at the shop, she was choked with a bag.
Geovany Rivera, an ex-EB Games employee who now works for Belken,
committed the murder and fled to Mexico to avoid capture.
Rivera was apprehended by Mexican authorities and turned himself up to US Marshals in Texas a year later.
Rivera, 25, agreed to a plea bargain in 2010 in order to avoid the death penalty and accept a life sentence in prison.
Dateline What Happened to Amber Belkin After Her Murder?
Amber Belken, the 25-year-old manager of an EB Games video game store,
was killed, and her case is featured in the Dateline episode “Everything She Knew.”
‘Everything She Knew’ Amber DATELINE Amber Belkin’s homicide.
After the original manager’s delay in opening the gaming shop,
another manager was called in to check on her and the store.
She was discovered in the back of the institution.
He came across her suffocated in a sack. Amber’s murderer was not apprehended for over a year.
Geovany Rivera attempted to recruit a friend to help him loot Amber’s store on the morning of her death,
but there was insufficient evidence to link Geovany to the crime.
Finally, investigators matched Geovany’s DNA to a hair collected near Amber’s body.
Geovany Rivera, the murderer, was sentenced to life in prison.
Rivera, a former San Antonio video game industry employee
who killed the manager during a theft, was sentenced to life in prison.
Geovany Rivera fled to Mexico after the murder in January 2007, only to be caught the following year.
Rivera acknowledged to the murder as part of a plea bargain.
He was sentenced to death for the murder of Amber Belken, 25, on Tuesday.
Rivera will be eligible for parole after 30 years.
The defense attorney, Terry McDonald, claims that Rivera never planned to murder anyone and that he needed the money to pay his family’s rent and buy food.
Because Geovany Rivera needed to be extradited from Mexico, prosecutors were forced to drop the death penalty.
Rivera continued to negotiate a guilty plea, lowering his charges from capital murder to murder.
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What Were the Motives for the Murder?
Geovany’s attorney stated after his arrest that his client had just intended to rob on the morning
of Amber’s death to meet his family’s living needs. The problem was that Amber recognized him.
Geovany Rivera was sentenced to life in prison for killing Amber in 2010,
and Amber’s father allegedly told him that Amber was their soul.
Leticia Rodriguez, an Amber acquaintance, expressed her joy at his averting the death penalty.
She expressed her happiness that he is serving every day.
According to the gaming website Kotaku, Rivera’s arrest in 2008 resulted in one
of the largest awards in San Antonio history, $100,000, of which $95,000 was provided by EB Games.
