A homeless California man killed his wife, dismembered her body and carried it aboard a train in a suitcase before lighting her remains on fire in a parking lot, police have said.
Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Justin Eisenberg said Tuesday that investigators believe Valentino Gutierrez, 56, killed his wife last week in an abandoned restaurant in Pasadena and stuffed her remains into a large suitcase.
He says Gutierrez then boarded a light-rail train and after exiting the train, rode his bicycle with the suitcase in tow to the parking lot of a Home Depot store in the Cypress Park neighborhood, where he set it ablaze.
Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Justin Eisenberg said Tuesday that investigators believe Valentino Gutierrez killed his wife last week in an abandoned restaurant in Pasadena and stuffed her remains into a large suitcase
Coroner’s officials have been unable to identify the burned remains, or confirm whether the person is a man or a woman.
But police believe the victim is Gutierrez’s 31-year-old wife, Tiana Alfred.
Los Angeles County prosecutors have now charged Valentino Gutierrez with murder and arson.
Prosecutors believe the killing occurred on January 31 inside the restaurant.
The person’s body was found early the next morning after firefighters were called to a trash fire outside the home improvement store in Los Angeles.
After firefighters extinguished the blaze, they found the remains.
Gutierrez was awaiting arraignment yesterday afternoon and prosecutors are seeking $2.1 million bail.
Police say investigators used security video to retrace the alleged killer’s steps from where the body was found burning to a crime scene several miles away in Pasadena.
Officials say the footage shows the man with a large rolling suitcase on a commuter train.
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