Emily Autenrieth sees images in her mind, flashes of the smiles she remembers on her friend Lindsey Peralta Vallerga and her two children.
Those visions of happy times are what Autenrieth has used to get her through the past few days as she struggles with the anguish after Peralta Vallerga, 49, and her 13-year-old son, Colton Drake Peralta Vallerga, and her 11-year-old daughter, Sydney Anne Peralta Vallerga, were found dead in their Rancho Cordova home.
“There’s no way to understand the evil that led to that,” Autenrieth said about part of the grief process she’s been going through…