A HUNCHBACK’S CRIME
MURDERED HIS WIFE
DISCOVERY IN RUBBISH HEAP (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 A husband confessed to-day that he had killed his wire, dismembered her body and kept the remains in the kitchen refrigerator until he had an opportunity to burn them. He wag a hunch-backed Italian named Spinelli. The man was “grilled” when, on investigating reports of Mrs SpinelU’s disappearance, the police identified as human charred bone * fragments in a rubbish pile in the hack yard. Spinelli’s son was among the questioners.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 5
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