Man stabs wife at the base of her skull with a kitchen knife, wraps her body and dumps it in trash can outside home
On Friday, Joseph Trager, 50, was charged with murder without premeditation, tampering with evidence, and lying to law enforcement in the death of his wife Jeneen Catanzaro.
According to the police, a woman who had earlier been reported missing was later found stabbed to death, wrapped in trash bags, and left outside to be picked up by a garbage truck. Court records show that Joseph Edward Traeger, 50, allegedly murdered Jeneen Ann Catanzaro, 50, before giving false information to police and then tampering with evidence, leading to his arrest on Thursday, the Sun-Sentinel reports.
During Traeger's first court appearance Saturday, he was ordered to be held in the Broward County Jail without bond. Traeger had allegedly given several contradictory statements to detectives during their missing person investigation, according to the arrest report.