$750,000 bond set for Louisville man charged with fatally stabbing wife in Valley Station

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A 60-year-old man was in court Monday after he was arrested over the weekend and charted with stabbing his wife to death in Valley Station.

The judge set his bond at $750,000 cash, and ordered him to have no contact with the victim's family.

According to Louisville Metro Police, Eugenio Santoya Sanchez was arrested Sept. 27, and charged with murder, strangulation and tampering with physical evidence in connection with a stabbing report on Sept. 14. That's when officers responded to a home in the 4100 block of Autumn Way on a reported stabbing. Arriving officers found the victim with lacerations to her throat. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to an arrest warrant, Sanchez is seen on video surveillance arriving at his residence prior to the time he told investigators. He was also the only person seen stopping at the trailer from the last time the victim, identified by police as Ariannas Hernandez Rivera, was known to be alive.

Police said a social media account owned by Rivera was last active at the same time Sanchez is seen at the residence.

Sanchez was then seen walking across the road twice before placing something in the trunk of his vehicle before leaving. He was identified by comparing surveillance footage from when he left his home the second time 43 minutes later in the same vehicle and in the same clothing.

Police said Sanchez was interviewed in the same clothing he was seen wearing in the footage and had a large cut to his left hand that was consistent with a cut that could be made with a "sharp-edged object."

According to the arrest warrant, Rivera was found with a "lethal cut to the neck" and a pillow was placed over her head.

Police said Rivera and Sanchez were married.

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