Denmark: 75-year-old woman kills husband – was found dead in the couple’s apartment ten days after the murder
On 23 February 2017, Danish police knocked on the door of an apartment on Amager in Denmark. At the address it was registered a couple, a man of 66 and his wife of 70 years.
When the woman opened the door, the Danish police officers made a macabre discovery.
On Thursday, the now 75-year-old woman was found guilty of murder in the appeal case in the Eastern High Court in Denmark, writes Danish BT.
Did not show up for funeral
The background for the macabre discovery was that the couple’s adult daughter died after a course of illness. During the funeral that followed, it was noticed that the father of the deceased daughter was not present. For that reason, the police chose to take a trip to the couple’s apartment.
The police knocked and the then 70-year-old woman opened the door. The two police officers noticed that it was cold in the apartment and that the porch door had been open for a long time.
It was when the police officers went further into the apartment that they made the discovery of the 66-year-old husband. He lay dead in a staircase down to the lower floor where the apartment’s only toilet was located.
The decay of the corpse indicated that the older man had been lying dead for some time. He was last put alive ten days before the police found the man dead in the apartment on Amager.
Stung and poisoned
After the discovery, the woman tried to explain herself away from the case by claiming she had not discovered that her husband was lying dead in her lap because she was staying and sleeping in another apartment in Valby in Denmark.
The Eastern High Court on Thursday rejected the woman’s explanation.
– We disregard the explanation that you have stayed in Valby. We can also state that the Valby apartment did not look habitable, the judge said during the court hearing.
According to the Danish police and the Eastern High Court, the woman stabbed her husband with a sharp object 14 times and poisoned him with what is referred to as «Eastern European medicine». The man died as a result of one of his lungs collapsing.
Forged daughter’s will
– We are all the only ones that only defendants can have done this, the judge said during the court hearing.
The court points out that no findings have been made that indicate that the man committed suicide or died as a result of an accident.
In addition to the murder, the woman also falsified her daughter’s will in an attempt to seize the entire inheritance after her.
The woman was first sentenced to 12 years in prison in Copenhagen City Court last year. She is now found guilty of murder in the appeal case in the Eastern High Court.