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Kevin
Lloyd ARTZ
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Dismembered
the body and cooked it
for two days
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder:
July 12,
1999
Date of arrest: 3 days after
Date of birth:
November 22,
1956
Victim profile:
Patricia Artz, 46 (his
wife)
Method of murder:
Beating with a metal pipe
Location: Jackson, Michigan, USA
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment on March
15, 2001
Man
Allegedly Kills and Cooks Wife
March 02, 2001
A Jackson man will stand trial for
murdering his wife and has been charged with cutting her up and cooking her.
After 12 years of marriage Kevin Artz said
he looked at his wife Patricia and saw the devil staring back.
Artz allegedly struck his wife with a
metal pipe, dismembered her body and cooked it for two days at their family
restaurant in July of 1999.
Police arrested Artz while he was putting
a box that contained the severed head of his wife on a nearby porch.
Neighbors were shocked by the news.
It's pretty creepy. We were laying
sleeping in our beds, you know, 100 yards away while he was doing that," said
neighbor James Weston. "I don't know. We were pretty upset about it. Even now to
this day it's kind of hard to think about it. Thinking that she went through
that."
Several weeks prior to the alleged murder
Artz underwent brain surgery to remove a large blood clot. Even though he has
been found competent to stand trial, several defense experts are now in the
process of testifying that the operation caused him to go insane.
Some of Artz' neighbors said this was the
only explanation they could accept.
"The cops were never called there," said
Rose Hubbell. "We never heard of any domestic violence or repeated police scenes
there at all."
Neighbors said they are grateful that the
restaurant has now been transformed into an entirely different kind of business.
Patricia's family members will
not comment until the trial is over.
detnow.com
Man Allegedly Kills and Cooks Wife
Because He Thought She was Satan
Associated Press
One day after 12 years of marriage, and maybe not so
coincidentally after a brain operation to remove a large blood clot, Kevin Artz
took one look at his wife and saw the devil staring back.
Patricia, a.k.a The Lord of the Underworld, looked nothing like
he expected.
Many men think their wives are straight out of hell, however very
few have the balls to take Satan on with a led pipe.
Artz having no fear of the devil’s otherworldly powers and
believing that he had Jesus
at his side he picked up a led pipe and busted her head open.
Not to chance Satan coming back
from the...uh...wherever he goes, Artz then dismembered her body and cooked it
for two days at their family restaurant.
Police arrested Artz while he
was putting a box that contained the severed head of his wife on a nearby porch.
Several weeks prior to the
alleged murder Artz underwent brain surgery to remove a large blood clot. Even
though he has been found competent to stand trial, several defense experts are
now in the process of testifying that the operation caused him to go insane.
That is a hell of an operating
procedure. What the kind of condition was he in before
the operation.
Kevin Artz
Jan 22,
2001
PATRICIA ARTZ, 46 -
head was found on next door porch
Kevin "Kip" Artz - open murder charge
Jackson, Michigan
Man accused of
dismembering wife ruled competent in court -- (Detroit News) A state
psychiatrist and an independent psychiatrist hired by the Artz family both
testified Thursday that Artz understands the charge and is able to assist
defense attorney Joseph Filip.
Kevin Artz
March 1, 2001
A Jackson man was been charged with murdering his wife, then cutting
her up and cooking her. After 12 years of marriage Kevin Artz said he
looked at his wife Patricia and saw the devil staring back. In July of
1999Artz allegedly struck his wife with a metal pipe, dismembered her body
and cooked it for two days at their family restaurant. Police arrested
Artz while he was putting a box that contained the severed head of his
wife on a nearby porch. Several weeks prior to the alleged murder Artz
underwent brain surgery to remove a large blood clot.
Kevin Artz
I do love a nutcase that turns for very little reason,
or at least due to a sudden mental lapse.
In Kevin Artz's case it was quite possibly that fact
that several weeks prior to his alleged murderous activity he underwent
brain surgery to remove a large blood clot. And it would seem that the
surgery either didn't work properly, or at the very least led to a large
mental disjunction.
After 12 years of marriage Kevin Artz said he looked at
his wife Patricia and saw the devil staring back. A pretty fucked up
though most would think, but for Kevin it seemed to be a pretty normal
thought.
So what do you do when you become convinced your wife is
the devil?
For Kevin, there was only one solution, he beat his wife
to death with a metal pipe, dismembered her body and cooked it for two
days at their family restaurant in July of 1999.
He then decided to put a box containing his wife's
severed head on a neighbours porch, but someone thought he was acting
suspiciously and called police. They arrested him as he was leaving the
scene.
Perhaps even more bizarre than his actions was the fact
that Artz was found competent to stand trial.
Unfortunately that's all I know, so I can't tell you
what the verdict of the trial was.
One thing I have learnt is that the restaurant has now
been transformed into an entirely different kind of business, which I'm
sure has pleased his former neighbours.
The Wacky World of Murder
Kevin Artz
A Jackson man
was been charged with murdering his wife, then cutting her up and cooking her.
After 12 years of marriage Kevin Artz said he looked at his wife Patricia and
saw the devil staring back.
In July of 1999 Artz allegedly struck his wife with a metal
pipe, dismembered her body and cooked it for two days at their family restaurant.
Police arrested Artz while he was putting a box that contained the severed head
of his wife on a nearby porch. Several weeks prior to the alleged murder Artz
underwent brain surgery to remove a large blood clot.
Even though he has been found competent to stand trial,
several defense experts are now in the process of testifying that the operation
caused him to go insane. Some of Artz' neighbors said this was the only
explanation they could accept. "The cops were never called there," said Rose
Hubbell. "We never heard of any domestic violence or repeated police scenes
there at all." Neighbors said they are grateful that the restaurant has now been
transformed into an entirely different kind of business.
