SANTA PAULA : Husband of Slain Woman Still Missing

A Santa Paula man wanted in connection with the fatal shootings of his estranged wife and her boyfriend continued to elude police Friday as they issued a nationwide bulletin with his description.

Everardo Meza Alamillo, 24, has not been seen since the double homicide was discovered early Thursday.

Alamillo is suspected of shooting Adriana Meza Alamillo, 21, three times in the upper back and firing two rounds that struck 22-year-old Armando Antonio Cauich in the head.

Marta Gonzales, who lived with the woman, found the bodies about 4:15 a.m. when she was awakened by the cries of Adriana and Everardo Alamillo’s 2-year-old daughter, Jessica.

The couple had been shot at close range with a .22-caliber handgun as they lay next to each other on her bed.

Santa Paula Police Cmdr. Bob Gonzales said it appeared the husband had been watching his wife’s East Ventura Street residence when the boyfriend arrived. His white Mustang was found a half-block from the house, parked at the end of a dead-end street.

Hours before she was killed, Adriana Alamillo--who also used her maiden name of Castanon--had eaten pizza with her husband and Jessica at the house. Police said it was unclear when the husband left his wife’s house.

Relatives said Cauich left his family’s home about 11 p.m. to see his girlfriend.

Friends and workers at the Round Table Pizza, where both of the victims worked, said Adriana Alamillo had been trying to end her rocky, sometimes abusive, marriage for several months.

She had made an appointment for Thursday evening with a paralegal who was preparing divorce papers and a request for a restraining order against her husband.

In late 1991, Everardo Alamillo was ordered to enter a counseling program because of a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery on his wife, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Lela Henke-Dobroth. Alamillo was in the domestic violence diversion program at the time of the killings.