Red Bluff, CA:Red Bluff Woman Dies The Day After Domestic Dispute

One day she is talking to police after allegedly being beaten up by her husband.

The next day she is found dead in her home.

So what happened? Her husband was in jail at the time of her death.

Now police are sorting out what right now is being called a suspicious death.

Puzzling is the best way to describe this case... Red Bluff Police are not sure what caused the death of Barbara Acevedo but because of the domestic violence incident the day before...They are calling this a suspicious death.

Red Bluff Police first responded to this house on Aloha street on Sunday just before 9 pm.

"On Sunday we had a report of a domestic violence regarding a male and a female at that residence," said Sgt. Daniel Flowerdew of the Red Bluff Police Department.

39 year old Carmelo Acevedo-Gutierrez is accused of false imprisonment and causing corporal injury to his wife, 41 year old Barbara Acevedo.

"Officers responded, they investigated the domestic violence and they determined at that time there was probable cause to make an arrest against the male subject," said Flowerdew.

This would have been a normal domestic violence call hat the victim not died the next day.

Officers say Barbara Acevedo had visible injuries during a domestic violence call on Sunday evening. Her husband was taken into custody at the Tehama County Jail where he was still in custody at the time of her death on Monday.

"That would be just clear speculation at this point because of her body found within a very short time afterwards within just the next afternoon, that, and being involved in a domestic violence just the day prior we are ruling this as a suspicious death until an autopsy is performed," said Flowerdew.

Carmelo Acevedo-Guitierrez is being held on $65,000 bail but has not been charged for his wife’s death, officers just don't know if he caused it at this point.

"There was no obvious cause of death so the next step is to have an autopsy performed and at that time hopefully we will get some answers," said Flowerdew.

Action News spoke with the Tehama County Coroner's Office today.

They say they hope to conduct an autopsy on Acevedo tomorrow.