Maybe I listen to too many Dateline podcasts on my commute to work. They’re kind of addictive. But I don’t listen to stuff about serial killers or other kinds of horror. I find these spousal murders most interesting and really perplexing. Many of them are committed by the wives. There are a lot of things that can get by you in life, but the fact that your spouse wants to murder you and is capable of doing it?!? That’s a pretty big matzo ball sitting in your bowl not to notice. On the other hand, maybe they did the same thing I’m doing: betting my life she wouldn’t. And if she would and could? Well, stick a fork in me then. Take the case of Miriam Helmick: she’s in the car in the parking lot of his business and she makes some excuse to check something in the trunk. Then she says she forgot something and goes inside. A minute later he notices his car is on fire and it’s obvious she stuck a makeshift wick in the gas tank. Police know it but he’s not convinced it was her and on they go with their lives. A few months later she tries to get away with shooting him dead and making it look like a burglary. And this guy was no dummy according to his profession, friends and family. He was successful. How did it get by him? And just once out of all the dozens and hundreds of convicted murderers, I’d like one to say later, after they’re convicted, “ok. You got me. I did it.” They all, every single one, go on screaming innocence to the end. It’s really is hard to find an honest murderer these days.
Those who Murder their Spouses
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Not sure why they do it. There are other options, more miserable options to take. It has to be that they are mentally unstable. You know what they say "don't argue with drunks and women".
If you ever hear a husband say, "My wife won't let me.......", it's often a red flag.
one of the honest ones is from Japan.Well a serial type killer. The twitter killer. He admitted it once caught and that he'd keep doing it. I guess it is hard to see something that is so abhorant. Though woman doing it more is a case of man bites dog (a dog biting a man happens everyday so not news worthy, a man rarely bites a dog so when it happens it makes the rounds) heck I live in a place with almost no murder and yet every couple of years so guy murders his wife.
@Grangerous starts many of his sentences with that exact phrase...
Except when it comes to cooking, grocery shopping, sewing, and cleaning the house. No wonder the poor boy's hands shake and tremble when he loads his pipe when sitting on that up-turned Home Depot 'Homer' Bucket out in the garage!
"... and you forgot to pick-up my Dry Cleaning... AGAIN!!"
- Sherm Natman
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Men are kind of dangerous animals from time to time. It’s still shocking of course, but somehow it’s more bizarre when the wife does it. There’s a dateline where a woman drugs her husband on a boat trip and pushes him off the boat. Even her children from another marriage ended up believing she was guilty and hating her (well, she’d been embezzling from her NGO employer and she’d involved her unknowing daughter in an effort to cover it up). She made a bizarre courtroom speech professing innocence before sentencing. It was so disgusting. What’s so curious to me is how these killers can appear normal. Wanting to kill someone is one thing. Doing it is another. I heard a couple of cases of women slowly poisoning their husbands with, I think it was, antifreeze. Heavens to Betsy! The agony! And their reasons were so petty. Of course, even if you had a good reason for wanting someone dead, it’s another thing altogether to go and do it. ETA I was saying a few times recently to friends how lucky I am to have found my wife. I’m 54 and she’s 35. We have two beautiful boys now. We have a loving marriage. And she doesn’t want to kill me! At least, not that I know of!
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It’s more likely that you will kill your wife. US-Department of justice in 2010: “Females were most likely to be victims of domestic homicides (63.7%) and sex-related homicides (81.7%)”
That's what they want you to think...how ya feeling lately? Is she digging any large holes in the garden? Or perhaps thinking of laying a new patio...
Just kidding...(or am I?) sounds like you've found a good non-murdering one... cheers!
That’s why the wife murderers are so curious. I get that men can be dangerous animals. I heard one about this military guy who pushed his wife out a window and try to claim it was suicide. He almost got away with it too. Awful.
She does like gardening!That's what they want you to think...how ya feeling lately? Is she digging any large holes in the garden? Or perhaps thinking of laying a new patio...
Just kidding...(or am I?) sounds like you've found a good non-murdering one... cheers!
If you love an American girl, store your gun in a high kitchen cabinet. She might still get you, but at least you’ll hear her dragging the chair across the floor.@Grangerous starts many of his sentences with that exact phrase...
Except when it comes to cooking, grocery shopping, sewing, and cleaning the house. No wonder the poor boy's hands shake and tremble when he loads his pipe when sitting on that up-turned Home Depot 'Homer' Bucket out in the garage!
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"... and you forgot to pick-up my Dry Cleaning... AGAIN!!"
If you live across-the-pond and she comes at you with a knife in hand, pull out a jar of mayonnaise or vegimite — her female instincts will take over and she’ll make you a sammich.
As for you, Shermie. I’ll have you know that I own the last two words of every argument - “Yes, Dear.”
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Just breakdown and openly let her know that you have a severe case of Pad and Tad and it takes a long time to find a cure, but never tell what you payed for a pipe. This may ward off any evil that may come your way.
My wife watches Dateline sometimes and I'll admit I occasionally get sucked in. The spousal murders are always the hardest to fathom. I mean, why not just leave?
Right? I get bored by the serial killers and really don’t want to hear about any crime involving kids. But people who kill their spouses? Sometimes there are serial spouse murderers: “we did some checking, and it turns out the first wife/husband died under mysterious circumstances as well…” whaaaat?? It really does still get my interest. I just can’t understand it.
When I first got back into pipe smoking, my wife was somehow under the illusion that one only needed one pipe. Needless to say she was a bit surprised to notice one day that I had already acquired ten. I was like, Lucy, lemmi splain this to you…knock on wood I’m still here.
Japan is a truly odd place. Ever hear about the Japanese cannibal killer who did his awful deed in France to a French woman, was deported back to Japan, released after two years, wrote restaurant reviews and became a celebrity? You can’t make this stuff up! I won’t link to the Wikipedia. It’s awful but easy to find the entry.
"JUST LEAVE" ?!?!?!
Where's the sport in THAT ?
Employ a little imagination and ingenuity, my friend... and use those big old Samsonite suitcases to store something in other than your clothes!
- Sherm 'The Burly Breath Butcher' Natman
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I don't need a Crystal Ball to see your Domestic Situation oh so clearly
"You're bucking for another Time-Out in the garage sitting on that Home Depot bucket,... and NO pipe, Mr "Grangerous" !!!"
- Sherm '20/20' Natman