SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. (CNN) – A manhunt is underway after police say a woman killed her wife, who was a captain with Cal Fire.
According to the arrest warrant, surveillance video captured part of the attack and shows the victim pleading for her life.
Authorities believe the suspect then fled to Mexico.
“It’s very saddening, very saddening,” a neighbor of the couple said.
The Southern California fire captain was brutally stabbed to death at her home.
Deputies say the horrific act was carried out by her wife, who then fled to Mexico.
More than a week later, shocking details from her last moments are coming to light.
According to an arrest warrant, Cal Fire Captain Rebecca Marodi’s mother called 911 around 9 p.m.
Deputies arrived at Marodi’s home within minutes and found her with multiple stab wounds.
Marodi was quickly pronounced dead.
According to the arrest warrant, Ring camera video that has not yet been released by authorities captured a portion of the alleged attack.
The video shows Marodi running across a patio with blood on her back being chased by a woman in a yellow shirt.
That woman is allegedly Marodi’s wife, Yolanda Olejniczak.
“Yolanda, please! I don’t want to die,” Marodi can be heard screaming in the Ring video.
Olejniczak allegedly responded, “You should have thought about that before.”
Police say the video also captures Olejniczak holding a knife with apparent blood visible on her arms.
She demanded her wife to get back inside the house, all while Marodi repeatedly asked her to call 911.
The two then moved out of frame.
The warrant alleges that minutes later, Olejniczak was seen loading pets and other belongings into a silver SUV.
Less than an hour later, Homeland Security records show the vehicle crossing into Mexico.
Days later, the warrant says, an associate of Olejniczak’s contacted investigators with a text message from her, sent a day after the killing.
“Becky came home and told me she was leaving me, she met someone else, all the messages were lies. We had a big fight and I hurt her. I’m sorry,” the text message allegedly says.
“The text message is a confession, plain and simple,” legal analyst Juliette Kayyem said. “It describes what happened, why it happened, and that she had knowledge that it was wrong and therefore fled.”
New details are also emerging about Olejniczak’s past.
Olejniczak was previously sentenced in 2004 after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of her then husband.
She was released from prison nine years later.
Marodi spent more than 30 years with Cal Fire, serving three counties.
The agency calls her death a tragic loss.
Neighbors say Marodi was a kind person who was always ready to help.
“It’s a person, a human being, and she was here one second and then gone the next,” the neighbor added.
A Cal Fire nonprofit has raised more than $21,000 to help support Marodi’s family.
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