“If I didn’t commit to being a monster, then she would have died for no reason,” he allegedly told detectives in a confession.
A man who allegedly called himself a “monster” in his confession to detectives has been sentenced after a jury in California found him guilty of murdering his estranged wife after lying in wait for her.
Zarbab Ali, 28, will now face a mandatory life sentence in prison at his sentencing on January 12 after he was found guilty of first-degree murder on Friday, according to a press release from the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.
As soon as I saw the blood, that’s when I realized something wasn’t right,” the victim’s sister told KABC after Rachel Castillo, 25, was first reported missing on November 10, 2022. She said she first called their mom to tell her to come over and then called 911.
“I was running around the house trying to see if I could find her somewhere,” the sister told the news station. “I checked her bathroom, under her bed, her closet, my closet, the laundry room, my bathroom and my bedroom but she wasn’t anywhere in there.”
What she was able to find was her sister’s keys, phone, and vehicle. Police also detailed finding “a significant amount of blood” in the residence, as well as evidence that “a struggle occurred inside,” according to a probable cause affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime. It was three more days before her body was found in a remote desert area in the Antelope Valle