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Charged with killing a Utah woman, he fled to the Philippines. Now this fugitive breaks his silence.
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IDAHO FALLS — A man charged with murdering a Utah woman in 2024 says he had nothing to do with her death and is being set up by the victim’s husband.
Henry Cito Piano Resuera Jr. is accused of fleeing to the Philippines after police say he killed 60-year-old Kimberly Hyde. Resuera and his family lived next door to Hyde and her husband, Michael Hyde, in Roosevelt, Utah.
Kimberly was reported missing by her husband on Oct. 7, 2024. Her body was found inside her vehicle the following day in Vernal, Utah, about 40 miles from her home.
A medical examiner found blunt force trauma to Kimberly’s head and face, eight superficial stab wounds, and fatal neck wounds, according to court documents.
Resuera flew to the Philippines hours after Hyde’s body was discovered, and police interviewed his wife and teenage son in Utah. Court documents say his family told investigators that Resuera confessed to killing Hyde, and his son and wife were scared of him because of unreported domestic violence.
A warrant for Resuera’s arrest was issued on suspicion of aggravated homicide, kidnapping, robbery and burglary. Nobody else has been charged in connection to crime.
He has been living in the Philippines for over a year and has remained silent about the case until now. Resuera contacted EastIdahoNews.com after seeing an interview on “Courtroom Insider” with two of Hyde’s family members. During a 45-minute on-camera interview, he shared his version of events for the first time.
“I can’t be silent for too long. The other side of the story must be known. I don’t know what will happen next, but I just put my trust to God as I know I am telling the truth and that I am innocent,” Resuera says.
Resuera says he was in his garage when he received a phone call from an unknown number between 12:30 and 1 p.m. on Oct. 7, 2024.
“It called me four to five times, but I ignored it, thinking it was just a random call from telemarketers. I also got a message request in my Facebook Messenger from an account named Jaz Utah that read, ‘Hello Henry. This is Michael.’ I accepted the message request, (and) replied with a thumbs up,” Resuera explains.
Resuera assumed Michael was Michael Hyde, so he called his neighbor’s phone, but the call did not go through. Jaz Utah then called Resuera through Messenger, and he heard Michael’s voice.
“He asked me if I was at home and that he wanted me to do a favor. He told me to open the back door fence of their house because they sold their gas stove and someone was coming to get it,” Resuera recalls. “I asked Mike how I could get in because I knew that Kim and my wife were out, and I didn’t have the key.”
Resuera says Michael gave him the garage passcode. Resuera remembered he had a retirement gift for his neighbor so he went into his own home, grabbed the present and then walked over to the Hydes’. Resuera says surveillance cameras in his garage and outside of his home detail his movements that afternoon.
After dropping off the gift and opening the back fence, Resuera went to the gym for around 20 minutes. He then walked home and on the way, he says Jaz Utah called him again.
“It was Mike. He asked if I could pick them up at Constitution Park and said I could use Kim’s car. When he said ‘them,’ I thought I’d pick up Kim and my wife,” Resuera says.
He went back to the Hyde’s house, grabbed the car key from inside the home and got into Kimberly’s car. He recalls the windows being tinted and “a lot of things” piled in the back seat.
As he started driving to the park, Resuera says Michael called again.
“He informed me that they were already picked up and were going to Ashley Hospital (Ashley Regional Women’s Health) in Vernal. He told me to go there,” Resuera says.
After the call was over, Resuera heard a “weird” sound coming from the back seat – like a “person having difficulty breathing.”
“I immediately parked the car on the side of the road. I looked back and I was shocked because there was a person under the piled boxes and bags and I recognized it was Kim,” Resuera says. “She was blindfolded, her mouth was sealed with tape and there was a lot of blood.”
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