Monday, February 7, 2011

Sicily couple murdered man with butter

Fat chance: A Sicilian couple hoped to get ...A Sicilian couple thought they had the perfect weapon to get rid of her ex-husband -- a slab of butter which would melt after they asphyxiated him, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported Saturday.

But a post-mortem found remains of the butter in the airways of Calogero Lo Cocco and the pair were unmasked, the paper said.

On Wednesday Lo Cocco, 40, had gone back to the marital home he had not visited since his divorce, where his ex-wife lived with her new boyfriend at Campobello di Licata near Agrigente in southern Sicily.

They had set upon him and suffocated him with the butter, before claiming he had arrived drunk and attacked them, forcing them to tie him up, when he had suddenly collapsed and died.

via Sicily couple murdered man with butter - Yahoo! News UK.

What is that quote from the Princess Bride? "Never match wits with a Sicilian when death is on the line!"

1 comment:

Mirlen101 said...

Butter seems inappropriate in this particular situation ! Shouldn't they have used Olive oil !