LANCASTER, Calif. (KABC) -- The man accused of killing his wife and then fleeing to Peru with the couple's young children is in police custody Wednesday, authorities announced.

Police in Peru said 36-year-old Jossimar Cabrera turned himself in at Interpol headquarters in Lima.

Sheylla Gutierrez, 33, was found dead in the Angeles National Forest after being reported missing and her husband, Jossimar Cabrera, seen on surveillance video dragging a large, wrapped object out of their apartment complex in Lancaster, according to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department.

Prosecutors say the murder happened on August 10 at the family's Lancaster apartment.

Searchers later discovered Sheylla Cabrera's body wrapped in similar material at the bottom of an embankment, the Sheriff's Department said. T

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