VIDEO: The woman accused of killing her wife, Cal Fire Captain Rebecca Marodi, before fleeing to Mexico made her first in-person appearance before a San Diego County court on Monday.
Yolanda Olejniczak, also identified by law enforcement as Yolanda Marodi, had been hospitalized for an unspecified ailment since her arrest in Baja California and extradition to U.S. soil following a weeks-long search.
For her arraignment at the end of March, when she pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in connection to Marodi’s death, the 53-year-old appeared in court by video conference while still in a hospital bed. The court during the hearing Monday set dates for the next steps in the case, including a readiness conference on June 11 and preliminary hearing at the end of September.
Olejniczak has been ordered to be held in custody without bail or conditional release as the case continues by the judge at her arraignment, citing the violent nature of Marodi’s death at the Ramona home they shared in mid-February.
