LOS ANGELES — Investigators believe a homeless man killed his wife in an abandoned restaurant, chopped up her body, stuffed it into a suitcase and then calmly rode with it aboard a train before he burned her remains in a parking lot, Los Angeles police said Tuesday. After Valentino Gutierrez killed his wife last week in a shuttered restaurant in Pasadena, he dismembered her body, stuffed her remains into a large suitcase and boarded a light-rail train at a nearby station, Deputy Chief Justin Eisenberg said. With the suitcase in tow, he peddled from a train station to the parking lot of a Home Depot in Los Angeles, where he set the suitcase ablaze. Detectives still haven’t identified a motive in the case and coroner’s officials have been unable to identify the burned remains. But police believe the victim was Gutierrez’s wife, 31-year-old Tiana Alfred, who has been reported missing.

Source: National Post February 07, 2018 07:18 UTC