A man suspected of fleeing to Peru after allegedly killing his wife was charged Thursday with murder.
The 36-year-old man, identified by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office as Jossimar Cabrera Cornejo, is believed to be in Peru, authorities said.
Sheylla Cabrera, 33, was the subject of a missing person report made Aug. 12 to the sheriff’s Lancaster Station.
Investigators subsequently “discovered additional video surveillance of the missing person’s husband dragging a large object in a large piece of material from the apartment complex in the 500 block of Lancaster Boulevard, where the missing person, her husband and three young sons lived,” according to a statement released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “Based on their additional information, they suspected foul play may have been involved with the missing person and notified the (Sheriff’s) Homicide Bureau. Homicide investigators responded to the scene and started conducting their investigation, which is currently ongoing.”
“On the same day, investigators were contacted shortly after 10 a.m. by the Montrose Mountain Search and Rescue Team, who reported they had spotted an object similar to the material that was seen being taken away by the person of interest over the side of an embankment in the Angeles National Forest,” according to the sheriff’s department.
It was discovered that the material contained the body of Sheylla Cabrera, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her official cause of death remains under investigation by the county medical examiner’s office.
Investigators learned that the woman’s husband had already fled the United States.
The children were also reported missing, but they were subsequently located safe in Peru, authorities said.