Housewife convicted of killing and frying husband
Pastor Dale Morgan
Friday, March 23, 2007 · Last updated 7:38 p.m. PT
*Housewife convicted of killing and frying husband*
By STAN LEHMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A Brazilian housewife was convicted and sentenced
to 19 years in prison Friday for killing her husband, chopping his body
into small pieces and frying it. Rosanita Nery dos Santos, 52, drugged
her husband in his sleep, then stabbed him to death two years ago in
Salvador, about 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo, said police spokesman
Idmar Bonfim.
She then hacked Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos' body into more than 100
pieces, which she boiled and fried before hiding in plastic bags beneath
a staircase in her house, Bonfim said. He said police discovered the
body parts after receiving an anonymous phone call.
Bonfim said the killing was either part of a black magic ritual or an
attempt by the wife to collect life insurance worth about $34,000.
Citing testimony from the woman's relatives, he said she may also have
committed the crime "to avenge many years of humiliation from her
husband." He did not provide further details.
Santos denied killing her husband but said she chopped up his body,
Bonfim said.
"She claims masked assailants entered her house, killed her husband and
then forced her to cut up the body and fry it because that would prevent
the stench of a decomposing body from alerting neighbors," he said.