FIT OF MADNESS: Woman kills 80-year-old husband, cooks his body parts
An elderly woman in France has been arrested after she allegedly killed her husband and cooked some of his organs.
The unidentified 71-year-old is said to have murdered her husband, 80 with a kitchen mortar and then cooked his heart, genitals and nose after spicing them.
The mysterious crime has led to the woman being nicknamed “female Hannibal Lecter” in reference to a fictional character depicted as a cannibal.
According to reports:
A judicial source said the 71-year-old woman, who was arrested in the northeastern French town of Longwy on May 22, had killed her 80-year-old husband with a kitchen mortar used for grinding spices and then “cooked his heart, nose and genital organs in a pot, but we don’t know if she ate them”.
The source described the suspect as a “female Hannibal Lecter”, referring to the fictional cannibal in the 1991 American thriller “The Silence of the Lambs”.
Her lawyer, Caroline Depretz, said the woman suffered from delusions. “Obviously it was a fit of madness,” she said.
The woman is being held in a prison psychiatric unit and is due to undergo tests to determine if she can be held responsible for her actions.
