Wife pleads guilty in stabbing death of Cal Fire captain after hiding out in Mexico for over a month

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Set us as preferred For the second time, Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi has been found guilty of killing a spouse — both times with a knife.On Tuesday in San Diego County Superior Court, Olejniczak Marodi, 54, confessed to killing her wife, 49-year-old Cal Fire Captain Rebecca Marodi, at their Ramona home on Feb.17, 2025, according to Tanya Sierra, spokesperson for the San Diego County district attorney‘s office.

Olejniczak Marodi pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and said she used a knife in the killing, Sierra said.She is scheduled to be sentenced Sept.

2 and faces up to 36 years to life in prison.Olejniczak Marodi has a prior conviction for a violent crime.

She was sentenced in 2004 to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of her then-husband, James Joseph Olejniczak, according to court records.She served time in prison from 2004 until 2013.Rebecca Marodi was a decorated captain with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and helped battle the Eaton fire.

She was found stabbed to death in her home.She and Olejniczak Marodi had been married for just over two years.

California Betty Broderick, the La Jolla socialite who infamously killed her ex-husband and his new 28-year-old wife, has died in prison at age 78, authorities said.On Feb.17, Rebecca Marodi’s mother, Lorena, called 911, saying that her daughter had been stabbed at their home on Rancho Villa Road, according to an arrest warrant obtained by KABC-TV News.

Detectives arrived to find Rebecca Marodi suffering stab wounds to her neck, chest and abdomen; they attempted life-saving measures but she was pronounced dead at the scene.Lorena, who lived with her daughter, told detectives that Rebecca Marodi had told Olejniczak Marodi a week prior that she was ending their marriage, the warrant sta...