California woman who admitted to stabbing wife had also killed husband
Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi, who served a decade for killing her husband, pleaded guilty to murder of Rebecca Marodi, a fire captain who fought the Eaton blaze A California woman this week admitted to killing her wife, a decorated fire captain who fought the deadly 2025 Los Angeles wildfires , by stabbing her – the same fate she previously delivered to her husband and had served a decade in prison for. Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi, 54, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to second-degree murder after killing her wife, Rebecca “Becky” Marodi, 49, a California fire captain, at their home in February 2025, just a month after Becky, as she was known, battled the Eaton blaze that killed 19. Rebecca Marodi, who was assigned to the French Valley Cal Fire station in Riverside county was found with multiple stab wounds to her neck, chest and back at the couple’s home in Ramona, near San Diego. She had said she wanted to end the marriage. A warrant for Olejniczak Marodi’s arrest was issued days later.
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I don’t want to die!” According to investigators, Olejniczak Marodi, who was seen holding a knife and with blood on her arms in the surveillance film, replied: “You should have thought of that before.” Olejniczak Marodi was captured on video loading “pets, random items and some luggage” and loading them into an SUV, according to the warrant seen at the time by ABC News. After she fled this time, Mexican law enforcement officers arrested her at a hotel in Mexicali in March 2025 and she was later handed over to US marshals in San Diego and booked on suspicion of murder. Winter said Rebecca had not disclosed that her wife had been convicted of stabbing her previous husband to death. “Yolanda was very insecure,” Winter told the outlet. “Becky has this magnetic personality and everybody liked her.
