Updated:2007-03-23 23:31:38

Housewife Convicted of Frying Husband

By STAN LEHMAN

AP

SAO PAULO, Brazil (March 23) - 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.

WHAT THE [!@#$%^&*] is this world coming to?!!! What a crazy !@#$%^&*]!

WHAT THE [!@#$%^&*] is this world coming to?!!! What a crazy !@#$%^&*]!

I know...that was exactly my reaction to it....as I read it the first time, I kept expected them to say she ate him too....since she did everything else to him.

I know...that was exactly my reaction to it....as I read it the first time, I kept expected them to say she ate him too....since she did everything else to him.

I can see how you would think that. After all, what would be the purpose of specifically FRYING him? Oh GOD, I can't even talk about this! What a horrible fate and a horrible thing!! My day IS RUINED!!! :(

Talk about sick....