LANCASTER, Calif. (KABC) — The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office on Thursday filed a murder charge against a man suspected of fleeing to Peru after allegedly killing his wife.
Sheylla Gutierrez was found dead in the Angeles National Forest after her husband, Jossimar Cabrera, was seen on surveillance video dragging a large, wrapped object out of their apartment complex in Lancaster, according to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department.
Sheylla Gutierrez, 33, was reported missing last Tuesday. The next day, sheriff’s officials say detectives found surveillance video of Jossimar Cabrera, 36, dragging a “large object in a large piece of material” from the apartment complex where the couple lived with their three young sons.
On Saturday, searchers discovered Sheylla Cabrera’s body wrapped in similar material at the bottom of an embankment in Angeles National Forest, the Sheriff’s Department said. The coroner’s office will determine the cause of death.
Investigators believe Jossimar Cabrera fled to Peru and is still hiding there. The DA’s office is working to have him extradited back to the U.S.
According to Univision in Los Angeles, the Peruvian consulate in L.A. said Jossimar Cabrera arrived in Peru with the couple’s three children. The consulate said Peruvian authorities could not detain him because there was no warrant for his arrest.
The three children were found safe Saturday and taken into protective custody in Peru, sheriff’s officials said. Peru’s foreign ministry said on social media that it had repatriated the children back to Los Angeles via Mexico City to be reunited with their mother’s family.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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