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Wife drugged, stabbed husband to death
A 39-year-old housewife was taken into police custody Thursday for drugging and stabbing her violence-prone husband to death.
Incheon Seobu Police Station said the housewife, identified by her surname Kwon, ground about 100 sleeping pills and put the powder into grapefruit juice.
She then gave the beverage to her 42-year-old husband, identified by his last name Ahn, at 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning at their house in Seoknam-dong, a western district in Incheon.
After he fell asleep, she stabbed his chest and abdominal area up to 50 times with a sharp object and left him to bleed to death, the police said.
Kwon told the police that ever since she married Ahn 11 years ago, he had constantly beat her for no apparent reason. She asked the husband many times to get a divorce but he refused.
“The housewife told us that she couldn’t take the violence from her husband anymore and did not want to live with him any longer. With no way out, she decided to take his life,” a police officer said.
The officer also said Kwon and Ahn appeared to have nothing in common, with the wife interested in the arts and the husband into tattoos. Whenever a fight broke out, the husband threw a range of household items at her. The police are seeking an arrest warrant for Kwon on charges of murder and looking into the case for more details.