‘We are going up to the Grand Canyon’: Husband once seen as murder-for-hire plot victim now prime murder suspect after missing second wife found dead on New Year’s Day

Art Guty, Nicole Zambrano

Art Guty, Nicole Zambrano (left in a photo from mutual friend Carlos Ramirez via WTAE), Guty (right) with a cigarette in his mouth following his Las Vegas arrest (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

A 55-year-old Pennsylvania husband who was once seen as the target of a murder-for-hire plot pursued by his ex-wife was arrested Tuesday in Las Vegas, Nevada, after his missing current wife was found dead at home on New Year’s Day.

Investigators at this time view Arthur “Art” Eugene Guty, Jr., as the prime suspect in the death of 26-year-old Nicole Zambrano, a Venezuelan woman he married under a year ago after one of her friends, Carlos Ramirez, introduced the two.

Zambrano, who last spoke with her family members on Christmas Eve and had not been spotted by neighbors since then, was reported missing by co-workers — not her husband — who worried when the housekeeper uncharacteristically did not show up for work for days, according to WTAE.

That missing person report led to a welfare check last Friday, but the search that led investigators to Zambrano’s body did not take place until Monday.

Uniontown Police Lt. Thomas Kolencik reportedly said investigators focused in on Art Guty after he allegedly failed to provide answers that made sense about where Nicole Zambrano was located, even falsely telling a neighbor on the phone that the couple was headed to the Grand Canyon.

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