http://www.detnow.com/news/0102280501.html

A Jackson man will stand trial for murdering his wife and has been charged with cutting her up and cooking her.

After 12 years of marriage Kevin Artz said he looked at his wife Patricia and saw the devil staring back.

Artz allegedly struck his wife with a metal pipe, dismembered her body and cooked it for two days at their family restaurant in July of 1999.

Police arrested Artz while he was putting a box that contained the severed head of his wife on a nearby porch.

Neighbors were shocked by the news.

It's pretty creepy. We were laying sleeping in our beds, you know, 100 yards away while he was doing that," said neighbor James Weston. "I don't know. We were pretty upset about it. Even now to this day it's kind of hard to think about it. Thinking that she went through that."

Several weeks prior to the alleged murder Artz underwent brain surgery to remove a large blood clot. Even though he has been found competent to stand trial, several defense experts are now in the process of testifying that the operation caused him to go insane.

Some of Artz' neighbors said this was the only explanation they could accept.

"The cops were never called there," said Rose Hubbell. "We never heard of any domestic violence or repeated police scenes there at all."

Neighbors said they are grateful that the restaurant has now been transformed into an entirely different kind of business.

Patricia's family members will not comment until the trial is over.

-- (what's@for.dinner), March 02, 2001

Answers

"After 12 years of marriage Kevin Artz said he looked at his wife Patricia and saw the devil staring back."

I know the feeling Kev.

-- Make (that@rare.please), March 02, 2001.

rofl, good one.

But FWIW, I see that 'sometimes' when I look at my 16 yr old. But I dont cut him up and cook him.

-- sumer (shh@aol.co), March 02, 2001.