Wife headed to trial on murder charge in slaying of Cal Fire captain at Ramona home

A woman accused of fatally stabbing her wife, a veteran state firefighter, at their Ramona home last year and then fleeing to Mexico, was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for murder.

Yolanda Marodi, 54, is accused of killing her spouse of two years, Cal Fire Capt. Rebecca “Becky” Marodi, at the couple’s Rancho Villa Road home on the night of Feb. 17.

According to testimony from a preliminary hearing held Tuesday in El Cajon Superior Court, the 49-year-old victim sustained 23 stab wounds to her neck, chest and abdomen.

Rebecca Marodi, who had worked for the state firefighting agency for more than 30 years, died at the scene.

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