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 principle 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 mum or dad’s residence in Victorville in connection together with her loss of life, police stated in a information launch.
“This investigation has quickly developed over the previous few days,” police stated. “This case continues to be below investigation and a few particulars can’t be launched as a result of authorized and investigative causes.”
Castillo disappeared Thursday, forsaking her keys, cellphone, automotive and “a major quantity of blood,” police stated. Anxious relations summoned authorities that night after her sister found the disturbing scene on the residence they shared on Nation Membership Drive.
Castillo had been final seen by her sister, Emily, at 9:30 a.m. Thursday on the residence 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 purported 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 night time, 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 favor to recollect the nice elements of my daughter and have fun her lovely life.”
Castillo was finding out 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.
