Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - A husband in India has admitted to killing and cooking his wife following a heated argument.
According to Mail Online, Gurumurthy, 45,
told Rachakonda police in Hyderabad that he had slaughtered his
wife Venkata Madhavi, 35, who had been reported missing since January 16.
The retired soldier told authorities he had killed his wife
of 13 years, after slamming her against a wall which resulted in an instant
death.
Gurumurthy, a father of two, then claimed to have
dismembered her corpse using a kitchen knife before boiling the body parts.
After boiling, Gurumurthy told cops he had placed her limbs
in a pressure cooker for five-to-six hours and used a pestle and mortar to
grind down her bones. He is then said to have thrown the remaining flesh and
powdered bones into Meerpet Lake.
Police seized potential evidence, including the pressure
cooker, a kettle, and knives from the apartment where the butchering is
believed to have taken place.
Forensic teams, as well as a dog squad, have searched around
the lake for the remains but have so far emerged unsuccessful in their
attempts.
'We cannot rely on mere allegations. We are collecting all
technical and scientific evidence. The case is being investigated,' a police
spokesman told The India Express newspaper.
As police continue to interrogate Gurumurthy, the
Meerpet police believe he may have killed Madhavi in a fit of rage and did
everything possible to avoid the crime being detected.
'As of now, we don't have any reasons to believe it was a premeditated crime. It seems like the result of a petty quarrel,' Ch Praveen Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police told the newspaper.
'We are questioning the suspect and we have not recovered
any body parts. We do not have enough clues,' he added.
Gurumurthy told the police Madhavi left home in a fit of
rage after a quarrel between them on the morning of January 16. But
during their investigation, the police grew suspicious of the husband after
going through footage obtained from CCTV cameras installed near Gurumurthy's
house in the colony.
While the footage showed Madhavi entering the house on
January 15, she was not seen leaving the house in the next two days, Meerpet
police inspector K Nagaraju said, adding the CCTV footage showed Gurumurthy's
movements during that period.
'We took Gurumurthy into custody on Wednesday for
questioning. Initially, he provided inconsistent responses, but later he
claimed to have killed his wife and disposed of the body,' Nagaraju said.
The report also said Gurumurthy has been freed and the case
is still considered a missing persons case due to lack of evidence.
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