The California woman suspected of murdering her fire chief's wife was finally captured in Mexico after running for 33 days.
Yolanda Oreziniczach Malodi was detained after being located in a hotel about two miles south of the US border in Mexicali city. Approximately 175 miles southeast of her wife's stabbing and dying at her home in Ramona, California.
“We had a big fight and I hurt her.”
The Baja California Citizen Security Office statement After Mexican law enforcement agents confirmed her identity, she was detained and moved to a border that “enables US authorities to take legal action.”
The San Diego County Sheriff's Office said that Malody was handed over to the former US S-Service after being returned to the US at a US port of entry. statement“Yolanda has been disposed and will be taken into custody for murder.”
US officials reportedly asked Mexican authorities to help locate Malodi.
The search for Malodi included assets from Mexican law enforcement, the San Diego County Sheriff's Office, and the former US S-Service San Diego's escape task force.
US officials said there was video on an arrest warrant for Malodi showing suspects passing through the southern border through San Isidro's port of entry into Mexico in her vehicle just hours after 49-year-old Cal Fire Captain Rebecca “Becki” Malodi was found dead by stabbing on February 17.
As reported previously by Blaze News, Rebecca Marodi was found dead inside the house with multiple stab wounds in his neck, chest and abdomen.
Law enforcement previously said the incident was being treated as a “potential domestic violence incident.”
Police quickly deemed Yolanda the primary suspect after fleeing her residence after Rebecca's murder.
Security camera videos from the home reportedly provided researchers with the final moments of Rebecca Malody's life.
According to the arrest warrant, the home surveillance video shows a woman (surprising Yolanda) who is “chasing” a woman who looks like Rebecca.
Rebecca's voice reportedly screams in a video, “Yolanda! Please…I don't want to die!”
The voice believed to be Yolanda is said to have responded, “I should have thought about it before.”
The San Diego County Sheriff's Office pointed out that Rebecca had reappeared in the video, appearing to have blood on her back.
“Yolanda can be seen at some point in front of Rebecca and with what appears to be a knife on her right hand,” the report states.
Yolanda is said to have blood on her arm in the video.
The security cameras at the house reportedly featured Yolanda in various clothes and driving his belongings, luggage and dogs in a silver Chevrolet equinox SUV.
The affidavit cites the Homeland Security Records Office, saying that the Yolanda SUV crossed into Mexico, about 45 miles south of Ramona, on the same night as Rebecca's murder.
Quoting the affidavit, NBC News A nameless witness reported that he received a suspicious text message from Yolanda the day after Rebecca was killed.
“Becky went home and said she was leaving, she met someone else, all the messages were lies. We had a big fight, and I hurt her… I hurt her… I'm sorry,” a text message from Yolanda read the affidavit.
Yolanda and Rebecca reportedly were married for about two years.
Rebecca was a Calfire for over 30 years. She helped fight the Eton fire in January near Los Angeles. Instagram videos Shared by Temecula's Cal Fire battalion.
The CAL Fire/Riverside County Fire Department thanked authorities after Yolanda's capture.
“We would like to thank our law enforcement partners in San Diego and Mexico for their hard work,” spokesman Maggie Klein de La Rosa said in a statement. “Becky is a beloved member of our community and department and we miss her very much.”
Last month, Cal Fire San Diego launched a Merciful Fund He helps Rebecca's 77-year-old mother face financial challenges.
“she [Marodi] He was the only caregiver for his mother. The mother is falling in difficult times due to no longer having a caregiver, so we are there to help support her in the way she needs. ” I said John Clark, the battalion chief and chief operating officer of the Charity Foundation.
Yolanda is a former prisoner who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in James Orezinitzak, a stab wound by her husband, and she was in prison for the murder from February 2004 to November 2013.
In a creepy similarity, Yolanda is said to have given herself to the police in connection with her husband's murder before attempting to escape law enforcement with her two young children.
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