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Dead man blown with an axe by his wife
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Redaccion on 08 April, 2008 10:39:00
 
Last Saturday, around 20:00 p.m., the grandson of the couple had come to his
grandparents’ place because he had not heard from them for some time when he
found the dead body of his grandfather with an axe in his head and his
grandmother unconscious. He immediately called then the emergency service.
The investigations suggest that the woman, who suffers from schizophrenia, 
could have been the murderer for her fingerprints have been found on the axe
which caused the death of the man.
The couple of Russian origin, who had around 70 year-old, were sharing the home
at “Los Altos” urbanization despite having separated seven years before.
The investigations reveal that the woman, after having killed her husband, took
a great deal of barbiturates aiming to murder herself.
The emergency service agents took her to hospital in order to have her stomach
pumped. She is already out of danger and under police protection.