A woman identified as Florencia Amado Cattaneo has allegedly stabbed her husband, Pedro Federico Zarate to death and cut off his penis.
Pedro who was before his death a trumpet player was found dead in their apartment in the Altos de San Lorenzo area of Argentina.
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The 41-year-old suspect has been arrested by police for the horrific murder and sent for psychiatric assessment.
It was further reported that aside from cutting off the man’s penis, she also left a knife buried in his eyeball.
The deceased was found with the knife embedded in his eye and his genitals mutilated.
The suspect – a psychologist – was arrested on 11th January after fleeing to her mother’s house in a taxi ‘with bloodstains on her hands’, her sister Patricia told local media.
Her husband’s body was found by his sister-in-law on the bed at the apartment he shared with his wife and five-year-old son.
He had stab wounds all over his body, including his chest, and his genitals were mutilated.
Amado Cattaneo has been admitted to the psychiatric ward of a medical centre in La Plata, where she will undergo tests.
The victim, native of Cordoba was a trumpet player and a music producer.
He had worked at the Estacion Provincial cultural centre in La Plata since 2006.
He married Amado Cattaneo in 2017.
