A 52-year-old housewife from Brazil first stabbed her husband, then chopped off his dead body into small pieces to boil and fry it before hiding it into plastic bags in her house. A 15-member jury found Rosanita Nery dos Santos guilty of killing retired police officer Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos.

The accident took place on June 23, 2005 in Vila Sao Cosme, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the Bahia state capital of Salvador, 930 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. The matter came into picture when police received an anonymous phone call saying that the woman has hid body parts in her house.

According to AP reports, police suspect black magic to be the motive behind the horrendous killing. There is also a possibility that she wanted to receive her husband's life insurance money worth US$34,000.

However, the woman's relatives have indicated that she suffered "humiliation" from her husband for many years and wanted to end the torture by ending his life. Santos, who has denied killing her husband, claims that some "masked assailants" broke into her house to kill husband.

She also adds that the "assailants" forced her to chop off the body and fry it to prevent the bad odors from the decomposing body that would have alerted neighbors.