Mother charged as Highgate couple remain on the run

Carmen Guttilla. Photo courtesy Vermont State Police
A 60-year-old woman was charged with first-degree murder in Burlington Monday afternoon and is being held without bail as police search for her daughter and another man who are on the run following the discovery of human remains in Highgate.
According to a police affidavit in the case, Carmen Guttilla admitted to police that her daughter, Erika Guttilla, 31, shot her allegedly abusive ex-boyfriend in the head after he had passed out drunk at t