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Vacaville Police Department
(NEW YORK) On Aug. 16, 2020, Priscilla Castro, a 32-year-old from Vallejo, California, headed to nearby Vacaville for a first date with a man she met on a dating app, according to police.
She was never seen again, Vacaville police said.
Now her date, who was charged with murder, is also accused of setting a wildfire to cover up the crime which ignited a massive blaze that claimed two more lives, officials said.
Here’s how the alleged crimes unfolded
Castro’s family reported her missing after they were unable to reach her for two days, police said. Castro’s car was found abandoned in Vacaville on Aug. 18, police said.
He used her and then he disposed of her | Family wants justice after man allegedly kills woman, starts wildfire to cover it up
32-year-old Priscilla Castro s body was found burned near Lake Berryessa nearly a month after the Markley Fire started. Author: Lena Howland (ABC10) Updated: 9:36 PM PDT April 30, 2021
SOLANO COUNTY, Calif The Markley Fire, which later became part of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire last August, is now being investigated as arson.
The Solano County Sheriff s Office believes 29-year-old Victor Serriteno out of Vacaville started the fire while trying to cover up the death of 32-year-old Priscilla Castro of Vallejo.
It was a first date out of a horror movie.
Priscilla Castro, a 32-year-old from Vallejo, was headed to Vacaville on a Wednesday evening in August to meet Victor Serriteno, a 28-year-old she’d met through an online dating app.
But instead of romance, the interlude ended in multiple deaths and hundreds of thousands of fire-scorched acres, prosecutors say.
The person behind all the crimes, authorities say, is Serriteno, whom Solano County sheriff’s deputies arrested again Wednesday on suspicion of arson and murder in connection with the Markley fire, which killed two people and merged into last year’s devastating LNU Lightning Complex fire. Serriteno was already in the county jail after authorities alleged he killed Castro.
In a press briefing, police said the fire was started in Northern California's Solano County on August 18, 2020 near where cops found the burned body of 32-year-old missing person.