"Skinned like a fish": Man admits to killing and flaying his wife, before flushing her body parts down the toilet
Justin Todd Rey appeared in court and confessed to not informing the police of his wife's suicide because of his desperation to keep his family together.
A man confessed to a court to 'skinning his wife like a fish' and chopping up her body parts after she killed herself because he was 'desperate to keep his family together.' Justin Todd Rey appeared before a judge at the Johnston County District Court in Kansas on Tuesday, testifying during the hearing.
According to the Kansas City Star, Rey's desperation meant he did not seek medical help after his wife, Jessica Monteiro, delivered a baby girl in a Kansas City hotel bathtub last fall, and did not inform the police when she killed herself shortly after. Instead, he reportedly spent eight hours hacking her body into pieces so he could take her corpse to Arizona along with his newborn and two-year-old daughter.