Brooklyn man had dinner with his wife in a romantic French chalet, then cut her up and buried her
A New York American with dual nationality has been arrested after his French wife was found stabbed, dismembered and buried in a drainage ditch, French police said.Billy Kruger, who lived with his wife Laure Bardina-Kruger in Indonesia, was arrested on Friday as he tried to board a flight to Toulouse, hours after his stepfather reported his daughter missing .
Bardina-Kruger was found partially buried in a storm sewer in the local village of Peyriac-de-Mer outside their vacation home in the south of France, according to Agence France-Presse.
Kruger told police he killed his wife in self-defense, prosecutor Marie-Agnès Jolie told AFP. The couple were spotted having dinner at a romantic restaurant in Peyriac-de-Mer on Thursday evening, according to reports.
The couple had planned to return to Jakarta and Bardina-Kruger’s father sounded the alarm after his daughter missed a farewell dinner before they left. Kruger apparently made a weak excuse as to why she wasn’t there.
“We don’t yet know what happened, but we never received an alarm signal from Laure regarding the acts of violence committed against her by her husband,” said Bardina-Kruger’s brother Pierre. Bardina, on Facebook. “You always think it can only happen to other people, but violence against women can happen all of a sudden.”
White flowers were placed in a makeshift memorial above the drainage ditch where her body was found.
Kruger will be brought before a French court this week.
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