Friends and family of Sheylla Gutierrez held a vigil for the mother of three outside Lancaster City Hall after authorities found her remains in the Angeles National Forest.

"She's going to be missed very much by all her friends here," friend Angelica Hernandez said.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Gutiérrez was reported missing on Aug. 12. The following day, detectives found surveillance footage showing her husband, Jossimar Cabrera, dragging a large object from the family's apartment complex. Investigators believe Cabrera fled to Peru with the couple's three children.

Peruvian authorities located all of the kids and placed them in protective custody.

"Those children are left without a mother and that is a loss that no words can truly measure," community activist M

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