Psychology professor cut off husband's penis, buried knife into his eyeball: Police



A psychology professor in Argentina has been charged with the stabbing death of her trumpet-playing husband. The woman cut off her husband's penis and plunged the knife into his eyeball, according to police.

Florencia Amado Cattaneo, 41, chopped off her husband's penis, according to the Rio Negro news outlet based in Argentina. The body of Pedro Federico Zarate was reportedly discovered by his sister-in-law at the apartment in Altos de San Lorenzo, where the couple lives with their 5-year-old son. The suspect's sister became worried when Zarate didn't respond to phone calls for days.

When police arrived at the couple's apartment, they allegedly discovered Zarate dead with a knife embedded in his eyeball.

The suspect's sister said Cattaneo had "bloodstains on her hands."

Police reportedly tracked down Cattaneo at her mother's house on Jan. 11. She was arrested and charged with the stabbing murder of Zarate.

Local media reports say Zarate had stab wounds "all over his body."

The Daily Star reported, "Amado Cattaneo has been admitted to the psychiatric ward of a medical center in La Plata, where she will undergo tests. If she is ruled mentally incompetent, it’s unlikely that she will face a trial, according to sources at the prosecutor's office."

Rio Negro quoted an Argentine judicial expert who said, "It cannot be said if she is not criminally responsible or not , but what is certain is that at the moment she is not in a condition to submit to criminal proceedings."

The couple had reportedly been together for about 10 years and got married in 2017, according to neighbors.

Zarate was employed at the Estación Provincial Cultural Center in La Plata and was a trumpet player in a reggae band, according to the Daily Beast. He was also reportedly an actor, music producer, and human rights activist.

Cattaneo was allegedly a psychology professor at the General Directorate of Culture and Education of the Province of Buenos Aires since 2012.

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'We were planning her baby shower': Man decapitated 8-months pregnant ex-girlfriend, police say



An 8-months pregnant woman was reportedly decapitated at her home in Illinois, and her head was discarded in a dumpster. Police believe that the ex-boyfriend is behind the grisly murder of the young woman and her unborn child.

Deundrea Holloway, 22, was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child, and one count of dismembering a human body in the death of 22-year-old Liese Dodd and her unborn baby girl.

Heidi Noel, Dodd’s mother, hadn't heard from her daughter in days, so she reportedly went to her home in Alton – where she had recently moved to. Shortly before 1 p.m. on June 9, Noel allegedly entered the home and found her daughter's headless corpse.

Police later found Dodd's head in a dumpster near her home, according to court documents.

"Two hours after Dodd was found dead, Gillespie police were investigating a bicycle theft about 30 miles away from Alton, in their small town of 3,000 residents. The bike’s owner gave police a description of the man pedaling away on the stolen bike, and police arrested Holloway based on that description," according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The outlet reported that the suspect was "combative and uncooperative when officers brought him to their police station," according to Gillespie Police Department Chief Jared DePoppe – who added that Holloway attempted to hit his head against a wall and refused to provide his name. Holloway was booked into the Macoupin County Jail as a "John Doe."

Holloway did not have any blood on his clothing or any signs of recently being involved in a horrific crime.

The Alton Police Department informed other local law enforcement agencies in the area that they were in search of a murderer.

Holloway was connected to the horrific murder after it was revealed that he had an on-and-off dating relationship with Dodd for about two years. It was also revealed that Holloway was not the father of Dodd's unborn baby.

“What was observed, what was learned, what was found, was absolutely terrible," said Alton Police Department Chief Marcos Pulido – who was visibly shaken. "Every murder is absolutely terrible. I will never take that away. But what happened to 22-year-old Liese Dodd, who had just moved to Alton, is beyond reprehensible. It’s abominable. It is completely terrible what happened to her."

"She was savagely, savagely killed," Pulido angrily said as he held up a photo of Dodd. "She was decapitated. Decapitated by a freaking savage monster. Her unborn child was also killed as a result of this. So she was brutally murdered as well as her unborn child."

Dodd was expecting her first child on July 27. Before she was murdered, Dodd and her family were in the process of planning a baby shower.

"We were planning her baby shower for the end of this month," Noel told KMOV. "I had just sent out invitations the prior Saturday for the baby shower."

"We were just excited and gathering the items you need to have a baby,” Noel explained. “She wasn’t set on a name yet. [She] said 'my little bean.' So, we essentially were calling the baby, ‘baby bean.'"

The distraught mother said her daughter had "a beautiful smile."

"She was just a bright light that cared for everyone," Noel said. "She had a big heart. She'd do anything for anyone. She'd go out of her way to help people."

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to provide assistance to the grieving family.

Holloway is being held on $2 million bail, and is scheduled to appear in Madison County Circuit court on June 24.

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