Joseph Martinez, aka “Jupiter Joe,” was sentenced Thursday for the 1999 killing of a 13-year-old girl from the Bronx.
Martinez will serve 25 years to life for strangling Minerliz Soriano and discarding her body in a dumpster in Co-op City.
Martinez was found guilty on multiple counts of murder in November.
Soriano went missing after leaving her school, I.S. 15, and authorities discovered her body in the Co-op City dumpster days later.
The case set a precedent in New York City courts as the first to use familial DNA technology to bring a case to trial, a technicality approved by the state in 2017.