Killer Wife Kills Husband, Watched Movies, Drove Round The City, Then Claims Insanity When Caught

On Saturday afternoon, a woman shot her husband David multiple times in their home, then spent the rest of the weekend watching television, sleeping, and running errands—including returning a cement mixer to her father's house. She did not call 911. She did not call a hospital. She did not tell anyone what had happened. On Monday, she walked into a police station and said she had killed her husband. When detectives sat her down for an interview, she explained that she had obsessive-compulsive disorder, that her husband had been provoking her by messing up the dishes, and that she "just wanted him to stop." The detectives were trying to understand how a domestic argument escalated into a killing, and why she had waited two days to report it.

The Argument That Turned Deadly

The woman told detectives that she and David had been fighting for months. She said he would threaten to call the police or her father during arguments, and that he knew exactly which buttons to push. On Saturday, the fight started after they returned from getting subs. She had used the errand to call her father from David's phone and discovered that David had been lying about what her father had said about her. When she confronted him in the car, calling him a liar, he became angry. Back at the house, the fight escalated.