A California teacher whose body was found in the trunk of a burning car has been identified as the 27-year-old UCLA graduate – whose one-time boyfriend is charged with murder.
Firefighters found Veronica Aguilar’s body Wednesday after they were called to a fire at the home of 37-year-old Matthew Switalski in Lancaster’s Quartz Hill neighborhood, KTLA reported.
Neighbors in suburban Los Angeles told the outlet that the two are believed to have dated at one point.
Switalski, who was named a “person of interest” after the grisly discovery was made in his garage, was located in Kern County late Thursday and was arrested on suspicion of murder, according to the outlet.
Neighbors reported hearing a woman scream and what sounded like an explosion shortly before the fire broke out on 38th Street West.
“Around 2 in the morning, I heard blood-curdling screams,” the neighbor, who did not want to be identified, told KTLA. “I just opened my window after I was done with some work and when I went to check, I didn’t hear it anymore.”
Aguilar’s family said he was a UCLA graduate and elementary school teacher.
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A man who identified himself as her uncle said he taught in Palmdale.
“Things will never be the same again. We miss him so much,” his brother Juan Aguilar told Fox LA. “He has the best spirit, he’s always smiling. My family is heartbroken.”
Neighbors told KTLA that Switalski previously worked for Northrop Grumman and reportedly rented out several rooms in his home to company employees.
The discovery was made by firefighters who extinguished a house fire in Quartz Hill, California. The burned car where the teacher’s body was found in the trunk.
He is being held on $10 million bail, according to court records cited by Fox LA, which reported that he was arrested in May for an unspecified crime.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.
Tipsters can also call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.
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