Authorities say the wife of the killed Cal Fire Captain Rebecca Marodi was arrested in Mexico on Saturday and transferred to the U.S. Marshal in San Diego, where she will be booked for alleged murder.
Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi, 53, has been appointed as the main suspect Three weeks ago His wife was killed on February 17.
She was arrested Saturday at a hotel near Mexica Lifirol Caril, according to reports. Baja California Citizen Safety Secretariat. Mexican national security agents transported Olejniczak Marodi to the U.S. border, where they were released to the Marshal. Go to the press release from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office.
Yolanda Marodi, also known as Yolanda Olejniczak, is the suspect in the death of her wife, Cal Fire Captain.
(San Diego Sheriff’s Office)
The release said she will be booked in San Diego for the murder and an investigation into the killing of horse Odi is still underway.
Marodi, 49, a California-decorated fire chief who helped fight the Eaton Fire and was found stabbed to death at his home in the Ramona community in San Diego County. She has been married to Olejniczak Marodi for more than two years.
Olejniczak Marodi is Previous conviction She killed her then-husband, James Joseph Olejniczak. She pleaded guilty to voluntary homicide after nearly a decade in 2000 Olejniczak’s fatal stabbing and serving a prison sentence.
According to the sheriff’s office, Olejniczak Marodi has been big since Marodi’s death and drove into Mexico on the night of her murder. According to the sheriff’s office, she saw her in a surveillance video earlier in the evening and then “argued with Rebecca and physically attacked her” before leaving the house.
Marodi Marodi’s mother told the authorities.
According to the arrest warrant, home security footage of the couple’s ring camera at home portrays the brutal scenes of the evening of February 17. A woman can be heard in the video – believed to be Marodi’s woman, screaming “Yolanda! Please…! I don’t want to die!” The arrest warrant said, before the tape was covered in blood.
The warrant says that there is obvious blood visible on Olejniczak Marodi’s arm in the video, and she seems to be holding a knife. The video tape then shows two women entering the home and later see Olejniczak Marodi “collect pets, random, items and some luggage” and pack them into her silver SUV.
About an hour later, the same car crossed the Mexican border.
Times worker Summer Lin contributed to the report.
