A truck driver has been convicted in the kidnapping and death of a sex worker from Dallas after killing her and dumping her body in the woods. The charge carries an automatic life sentence.

A young woman’s life was cut tragically short, her last moments likely spent in terror,” Acting U.S. Attorney Chad Meacham said.

An Austin man faces life in prison after being found guilty of dumping the body of a kidnapped woman in East Texas.

Family members have identified the victim as 25-year-old Caleigha Zangari, a U.S. Army veteran from California. They say at some point she became a victim of human trafficking and ended up in Dallas as a sex worker.