Rancho Palos - Chef Said Of His Dead Wife - I Ended Up Cooking Her - San Jose Mercury News

Sep 19:

David Viens, 49, reported they hid the brain in addition to jawbone in his / her mother's attic, but a private investigator explained he / she could possibly not find it. Viens defined the grisly disposal involving their wife, Dawn Viens, right after labelling detectives to help his Los Angeles infirmary room about per week after he jumped through a Rancho Palos Verdes cliff.

The saving seemed to be gamed throughout Superior Court within in town Los Angeles.

"I manipulated her so the experience was - the particular encounter can be down, as well as I went on some - many points - similar to weights that individuals use, as well as I put them for the top rated involving the woman's body, as well as I simply just slowly but surely cooked this as well as I concluded up baking the girl with regard to four days," Viens explained within his / her March 1, 2011, confession.

"You prepared Dawn's human body for three days?" sheriff's homicide Sgt. Richard Garcia asked.

"I cooked properly the girl four days," your dog said. "I make it possible for your girlfriend cool. I sprained them out."

Viens will be billed having eliminating his wife, who seem to was previous seen Oct. 18, 2011. He carried on working in his restaurant until Feb. 23, 2011, when your dog tried suicide seeing that sheriff's detectives built their own scenario next to him.

In the documented confession, cost-free connected with not one but two Viens presented to help detectives, Viens said your dog taped his / her wife's mouth area close together with duct

tape since your woman was "raising hell" inside their Lomita apartment in addition to he wished to sleep.

"I snap up her suitable by your give - together hands, in addition to I bring the woman's out and about in to the residing room, and I just do it I pressure the woman onto the floor, plus I place the woman poker hands upward actual quick," Viens said. "I place the woman's feet in place actual quick, in addition to I take a sheet of distinct duct tape, gift wrapping tape, as well as I put which around the woman mouth. And that will seemed to be it. I said, `Good night."'

Viens said your dog awakened three a long time later, "I'm like, 'Dawn.' I only freaked. I go, `Oh this God. And I choose hurrying on the market and she is gone," he said.

"I of course can't provide your girlfriend returning to life," he or she told detectives. "What can certainly I do? What can easily I do? What can I do? And that may be when I emerged in place with all the prospect of washing the actual grease traps and commingling inside excessive protein inside individuals units. If an individual ever really viewed at that, believe observe where all of us combine up true good."

Viens wasn't inquired the location where the boiling took place, however it was suggested it has been in the Thyme Cafe restaurant in Lomita, in between Torrance along with San Pedro in Los Angeles County. Restaurants make use of the equipment to gather used cooking grease and oil, which can be later taken out by a disposal company.

Viens reported he poured seven or perhaps eight excess fat of grease in the drum directly into his or her grease treadmill utilizing a waste bag. Viens informed detectives he required his / her wife's head in addition to jaw a single piece and also hid it inside might have associated with their mother's Torrance home.

The remaining portion of the continues to be were inserted throughout trash bags in addition to buried these individuals with clutter in the garbage trash at the rear of his restaurant.

"That's the God's truthful truth," he / she said.