A chef in the area of ??Los Angeles was found guilty of second degree murder. He told police that he tied and smothered his wife and then panic when the wife died, and then he cooks his wife's body for four days in boiling water.
David Viens, 49, was found guilty by a jury of six men and six women in the Los Angeles Superior Court after a five-hour decision. Viens threatened sentence of 15 years to life in prison when determining his sentence in November.
Dawn Marie Viens, 39, disappeared in October 2009. His body was never found. The couple has a restaurant on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Lomita.
David Viens questioned by detectives at the Los Angeles sheriff's office about the death of his wife in March 2011, while recovering from injuries from trying to jump off cliffs as high as 24.3 meters in an assassination attempt.
In two interviews were recorded, Viens told detectives that in a quarrel with his wife, he tied and smothered her with tape and sleep.
Viens did not explain the cause of the fight, in the interview he just says "seems to relate to him stealing the money," according to a recording. Viens awoke hours later and found the wife died. He panicked and decided to get rid of the bodies by boiling.
The cook describes in detail how he put his wife's body face down in a large pot and buried with ballast.
"And I just cook it slowly, eventually I cooked him for four days," he told the detectives in one of the two recordings were played in court last week.
He then let it cool body potions, "filtering" and then throw away what was left in a plastic bag waste mixed with other debris and household garbage.
When closing statements such cases, the prosecutor said that Dawn Viens likely to die of a more ruthless again, that strangled.
But defense lawyers said there was no evidence that the deaths due to intentional and Dawn Viens said the statement during interrogation can not be trusted because he was under the influence of painkillers.
Source Yahoo News