Kevin Artz
VICTIMS : 1
 

I do love a nutcase that turns for very little reason, or at least due to a sudden mental lapse.

In Kevin Artz's case it was quite possibly that fact that several weeks prior to his alleged murderous activity he underwent brain surgery to remove a large blood clot. And it would seem that the surgery either didn't work properly, or at the very least led to a large mental disjunction.

After 12 years of marriage Kevin Artz said he looked at his wife Patricia and saw the devil staring back. A pretty fucked up though most would think, but for Kevin it seemed to be a pretty normal thought.

So what do you do when you become convinced your wife is the devil?

For Kevin, there was only one solution, he beat his wife to death with a metal pipe, dismembered her body and cooked it for two days at their family restaurant in July of 1999.

He then decided to put a box containing his wife's severed head on a neighbours porch, but someone thought he was acting suspiciously and called police. They arrested him as he was leaving the scene.

Perhaps even more bizarre than his actions was the fact that Artz was found competent to stand trial.

Unfortunately that's all I know, so I can't tell you what the verdict of the trial was.

One thing I have learnt is that the restaurant has now been transformed into an entirely different kind of business, which I'm sure has pleased his former neighbours.
 

MY OPINION

I love this case. I love all cases like this. I don’t know why, but I just do. Anytime a husband eats his wife (or vice-versa) because he think she’s the devil it just has to go down as a great crime. There should be more of it.
Hopefully someone could send me more updates so I can fill in the blanks.