The Los Angeles Police yesterday said investigators believe a homeless man, killed his wife in an abandoned restaurant, chopped up her body, stuffed it into a suitcase and then calmly rode with it, aboard a train before he burned her remains in a parking lot.

The Los Angeles Deputy Chief Justin Eisenberg, said after the man by the name of Valentino Gutierrez killed his wife last week in a shuttered restaurant in Pasadena America, he dismembered her body, stuffed her remains into a large suitcase, and boarded a light-rail train at a nearby station.

Gutierrez, 56,  who was charged on Thursday with murder and arson, did not draw any suspicion on the train, and hopped aboard his bicycle after he exited the train.

With the suitcase in tow, he peddled from a train station to the parking lot of a Home Depot in Los Angeles, where he set the suitcase ablaze.

Detectives still haven't identified a motive in the case, and coroner's officials have been unable to identify the burned remains.

But police believe the victim was Gutierrez's wife, 31-year-old Tiana Alfred, who has been reported missing.