Suspect In Grisly San Carlos Slaying ID’d: Report

SAN CARLOS, CA — The suspect in Thursday’s grisly killing of a Peninsula woman has been identified as 33-year-old Jose Rafael Solano Landaeta according to jail records, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Landaeta, who was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder and booked into the Maguire Correctional Facility, could make his first court appearance Friday afternoon, according to the report.

The victim has not yet been identified.

Multiple outlets have reported that the victim was beheaded, but the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office hasn't confirmed such accounts.

Sheriff’s Office Lt. Eamonn Allen told reporters Thursday that a “stabbing instrument was used” and that responding deputies found the victim “obviously deceased.”

The crime occurred outside the victim’s home in broad daylight late Thursday morning.

Landaeta and his victim had been involved in a relationship, but the victim had a restraining order against him, ABC 7 reports.

Child Protective Services took custody of the victim's two children, both girls, 7 and 1 years of age, along with a dog and two cats that were in the house, ABC 7 reports.

Allen said the crime did not occur in front of the victim's children, as was previously reported by ABC 7, and picked up by Patch.

Deputies were notified at about 11:50 a.m. about the attack in the area of Magnolia Avenue and Laurel Street near downtown San Carlos and found the woman dead.

The suspect, who deputies said was known to the victim, returned to the scene shortly afterward and was arrested on suspicion of the killing, according to the Sheriff's Office.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Det. Brandt at (650) 333-8195 or dbrandt@smcgov.org.

Read more in The San Francisco Chronicle

— Bay City News contributed to this report