LA Chef tells police he cooked his wife's body

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Pardon me if this was already posted. I haven't been around too, too much recently. But...um, eww.

This has to be one of the most bizarre stories I've read in a while.

Is it bad that when I saw the headline my first thought was, "Please, please, please, don't let this be in Florida"? (It's not).

latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/09/la-chef-told-police-he-slow-cooked-his-wife-for-days.html


A Los Angeles-area chef on trial in his wife's slaying told authorities the reason they couldn't find her body was because he slow-cooked it for days, then disposed of the remains.

David Viens' wife, Dawn Viens, disappeared in October 2009. In March 2011, David Viens told sheriff's investigators why they hadn't been able to find the body of his wife, who'd been missing for nearly a year and half.

"I just slowly cooked it and I ended up cooking her for four days," said Viens, a chef who ran a restaurant in Lomita, according to an interview played for jurors Tuesday.

Viens had already told investigators that, one October night in 2009, he taped his wife's mouth and bound her hands and feet with duct tape. The next morning, Dawn Viens was dead. That account is strikingly similar to what David Viens later told his daughter and ex-girlfriend, who testified for the prosecution last week.

Sgt. Richard Garcia asked Viens what happened the night of Oct. 18, the last time his wife was seen.

"For some reason I just got violent," Viens said, according to an interview played for a Los Angeles jury Tuesday.

In the second of two interviews Viens gave to investigators in March 2011, he said he stuffed his wife's lifeless body into a 55-gallon drum of boiling water and kept it submerged with weights. After four days, he mixed much of what remained with other waste and then disposed of it.

The only thing left, Viens said in the interview, was his wife's skull. He said he stashed it at his mother's house. Authorities scoured his mother's attic but found nothing.

In March 2011, while hospitalized after leaping off an 80-foot cliff, Viens spoke to Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators. They wanted to know whether he'd killed his wife, who had vanished nearly five months before.

Viens has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife, whose body was never found. After Viens learned investigators suspected he had killed her, he jumped off the cliff -- feet first, hands extended over his head -- in Rancho Palos Verdes. That's how he ended up in the hospital, so severely injured that he is attending his murder trial in a wheelchair.

[Melissa W.]

I just dry heaved at my desk and couldn't finish the article.

[copzgirl1171]

Like stew?

[meshaliuknits]

WintheMF?

[copzgirl1171]

What does that smell like? I mean did he toss in basil and a bay leaf.

It's ok. I know I am going to hell anyway

[IIOY]

This story isn't weird at all!

[meshaliuknits]

Sept 19, 2012 11:23:37 GMT -5 @copzgirl1171 said:

What does that smell like? I mean did he toss in basil and a bay leaf.

It's ok. I know I am going to hell anyway

When I saw he owned a restaurant I was thinking he served it to his customers.

[EloiseWeenie]

oh my barf

[copzgirl1171]

FOUR days!! I hate adding liquid to a pork roast all the damn time.

[IIOY]

Someone is going to need to boil my body for four days because copz is killing me in this thread.

[copzgirl1171]

I just keep thinking of him humming away in the kitchen, lifting the lid and adding more water and then poking the fixings back down into the liquid.

[Deleted]

I thought he went all Fried Green Tomatoes on her. Yuck.

[Deleted]

Sept 19, 2012 11:35:12 GMT -5 @copzgirl1171 said:

I just keep thinking of him humming away in the kitchen, lifting the lid and adding more water and then poking the fixings back down into the liquid.

booshkie-boo!

[copzgirl1171]

You and IIOY get me Miss, you guys get me.

*group fondle*

[pixy0stix]

I bet it smelled tasty.

::barfs::

[NitaX]

Sept 19, 2012 11:41:29 GMT -5 @missusbee said:

Sept 19, 2012 11:35:12 GMT -5 @copzgirl1171 said:

I just keep thinking of him humming away in the kitchen, lifting the lid and adding more water and then poking the fixings back down into the liquid.

booshkie-boo!

[pixy0stix]

The matrix is designed so that everything that is outside the norm tastes like chicken.

[copzgirl1171]

See major, I think so too.

[bigt1]

Sept 19, 2012 11:46:24 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

wouldnt it just smell like meat? now the question is if it smelled like chicken, pork or beef. i am betting chicken.

People are red meat ;-), probably smelled like lamb

He just didn't have a rooster so made Wife au vin instead

[copzgirl1171]

Sept 19, 2012 11:50:48 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

i want to add that i was glad he didnt admit to eating any of her :/

That's why I can make fun of the story. Eating her would have been over the line

[IIOY]

Sept 19, 2012 11:51:37 GMT -5 @copzgirl1171 said:

Sept 19, 2012 11:50:48 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

i want to add that i was glad he didnt admit to eating any of her :/

That's why I can make fun of the story. Eating her would have been over the line

LOL! Yes, eating her would have crossed the line of good taste. Unless she was indeed tasty.

[copzgirl1171]

Sept 19, 2012 11:55:08 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Sept 19, 2012 11:51:37 GMT -5 @copzgirl1171 said:

That's why I can make fun of the story. Eating her would have been over the line

LOL! Yes, eating her would have crossed the line of good taste. Unless she was indeed tasty.

In that case, serve a crusty bread and a salad. It goes with everything.

[bigt1]

Sept 19, 2012 11:56:56 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

if he was a good husband he would have already been eating her.




was that over the line? i feel i crossed the line. lol

What line? But you're talking more of a tartare than a stew

[Deleted]

And this is why I can't ever quit you people.

I was horrified...and now I'm laughing.

Swedish chef. Ha. Just ha.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Best CEP thread in weeks!

[copzgirl1171]

Sept 19, 2012 11:56:56 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

if he was a good husband he would have already been eating her.




was that over the line? i feel i crossed the line. lol

I bet she wouldn't. Thus the stew.

[IIOY]

Sept 19, 2012 11:56:56 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

if he was a good husband he would have already been eating her.

He's a chef and can cook at home so there probably was no desire to eat out.

[copzgirl1171]

Sept 19, 2012 12:02:34 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Sept 19, 2012 11:56:56 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

if he was a good husband he would have already been eating her.

He's a chef and can cook at home so there probably was no desire to eat out.

Wonder if he had a take out menu?

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Too bad there's no pastor around to provide an alibi.

[msmerymac]

Sept 19, 2012 11:56:18 GMT -5 @copzgirl1171 said:

Sept 19, 2012 11:55:08 GMT -5 IIOY said:

LOL! Yes, eating her would have crossed the line of good taste. Unless she was indeed tasty.

In that case, serve a crusty bread and a salad. It goes with everything.

I was thinking more like fava beans and nice chianti.