Slain Cal Fire captain's wife arrested in Mexico

The spouse of slain Cal Fireplace Capt. Rebecca Marodi was arrested Saturday in Mexicali and transferred to U.S. marshals in San Diego, the place she shall be booked on suspicion of homicide, authorities mentioned.

Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi, 53, was named because the prime suspect three weeks in the past in her spouse’s killing on Feb. 17.

She was arrested Saturday at a resort within the Ferrocarril neighborhood of Mexicali, in keeping with the Baja California Citizen Safety Secretariat. Mexican state safety brokers transported Olejniczak Marodi to the U.S. border, the place she was launched to marshals, in keeping with a information launch from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Workplace.

She shall be booked into custody in San Diego for homicide, and the investigation into Marodi’s slaying stays ongoing, the discharge mentioned.

Marodi, 49, a embellished Cal Fireplace captain who helped battle the Eaton fireplace, was discovered stabbed to demise in her dwelling within the San Diego County group of Ramona. She and Olejniczak Marodi had been married for simply over two years.

Olejniczak Marodi was beforehand convicted of her killing her then-husband, James Joseph Olejniczak. She pleaded responsible to voluntary manslaughter after Olejniczak’s deadly stabbing in 2000 and served almost a decade in jail.

Olejniczak Marodi had been at massive since Marodi’s demise and had pushed into Mexico the evening of her slaying, in keeping with the Sheriff’s Workplace. She was seen on surveillance video earlier within the night “arguing with Rebecca and bodily assaulting her” earlier than leaving the home, in keeping with the Sheriff’s Workplace.

Marodi had instructed her spouse she was ending their marriage a few week earlier than her slaying, Marodi’s mom instructed authorities.

Dwelling safety footage from a Ring digital camera on the couple’s dwelling depicted a brutal scene on the night of Feb. 17, in keeping with an arrest warrant. A lady — who’s believed to be Marodi — may be heard within the video screaming “Yolanda! Please … ! I don’t need to die!” earlier than showing on video with blood on her again, in keeping with the warrant.

Obvious blood may be seen on Olejniczak Marodi’s arms within the video, in keeping with the warrant, and he or she seems to be holding a knife. The footage then exhibits each ladies coming into the house and Olejniczak Marodi is later seen “gathering pets, random. objects, and a few baggage” and packing it into her silver SUV, in keeping with the warrant.

The identical automotive crossed the Mexican border about an hour later.

Occasions workers author Summer season Lin contributed to this report.