- Cleaning lady Bettina Mueller goes on trial for murdering her husband this week
- She came home on February 2 to find Michael drunk in their flat in town of Ketch
- Bettina became enraged when Michael tried to get her to drink urine out of stein
- Prosectors said she finallhy ‘felt free’ after a marriage she said was a ‘living hell’
A cleaning lady accused of killing her brutal husband and frying a chunk of his cut-up corpse in a wok goes on trial in Germany this week.
The last straw for Bettina Mueller – branded the ‘stir fry murderess’ by police – came on February 2 this year when her husband Michael came home drunk to their flat in the town of Ketch.
Mueller, 43, urinated in a beer stein and tried to get Bettina, 50, to drink it.
In a 14 page indictment, prosecutors say Bettina waited until he passed out on the marital bed before stabbing him in the throat with a 25cm long kitchen knife. She then plunged the knife into him a further 17 times.
Bettina Mueller – branded the ‘stir fry murderess’ by police – is accused of murdering her husband Michael (pictured) in their flat in the town of Ketch
‘She finally felt free after a marriage she described as a ‘living hell’,’ say prosecutors.
After the murder she allegedly drank some cheap schnapps and played video games.
The following day she bought an electric saw to cut off his left arm and left foot.
She put the foot into her wok and poured spirit over it before setting it alight.
That same day she cut off his fingers and toes and dumped them in rubbish bins around town.
She tossed his mobile phone and keys in a bin at Heidelberg station and toyed with the idea of reporting him missing to police.
Later she begged her daughter Tania for help in disposing of the rest of the remains. But Tania went to the police instead and Bettina was in handcuffs before the end of the day.
Bettina was frightened to leave him, according to prosecutors, and feared she would be homeless.
A neighbour told police: ‘Theirs was a hate-filled sort of love. They often went at one another out in the street and both had suffered knife wounds from the other in the past. But they never split up.’
Her trial for murder begins on Thursday.