Police on Sunday discovered the stays of a younger mom who vanished from her residence in Simi Valley final week, and her ex-husband was arrested as the primary suspect.
Detectives discovered the physique of Rachel Castillo, 25, in a distant location in Antelope Valley, the Simi Valley Police Division stated.
Castillo’s ex-husband, 25-year-old Hawthorne resident Zarbab Ali, was arrested at his guardian’s residence in Victorville in connection along with her dying, police stated in a information launch.
“This investigation has quickly advanced over the previous few days,” police stated. “This case remains to be underneath investigation and a few particulars can’t be launched as a consequence of authorized and investigative causes.”
Castillo disappeared Thursday, abandoning her keys, telephone, automotive and “a major quantity of blood,” police stated. Nervous relations summoned authorities that night after her sister found the disturbing scene on the condominium they shared on Nation Membership Drive.
Castillo had been final seen by her sister, Emily, at 9:30 a.m. Thursday on the condominium the place they lived with Castillo’s two sons, ages 2 and 5.
Her mom, Robyn Castillo, stated the boys’ father got here to select them up within the morning and that her daughter was speculated to spend the day working from residence at her job as a healthcare navigator for a social providers company. When Emily Castillo returned residence round 8:30 p.m Thursday, her sister was gone and there was a considerable amount of blood inside the house.
On Sunday evening, Robyn Castillo posted on her Fb that her daughter’s physique had been discovered and {that a} suspect was in custody.
“Please don’t put up something about that within the feedback,” she wrote. “I want to recollect the nice components of my daughter and have fun her stunning life.”
Castillo was learning for a grasp’s diploma in medical psychology at Pepperdine College’s on-line program with plans to turn out to be a wedding and household therapist.