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Dec 5, 2023 · Los Angeles Chef Confessed He Cooked His Wife's Body for Four Days to Dispose of It. After slow-cooking his wife Dawn's body to render it, chef David Viens dumped it out as kitchen waste, he confessed. By Joe Dziemianowicz Dec 5, 2023, 12:09 PM ET.
Sep 27, 2012 · By. Howard Breuer. Published on September 27, 2012 05:05PM EDT. Photo: Miami Herald/MCT /Landov. A Los Angeles chef who told detectives he cooked his wife’s dead body for four days –...
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Sep 19, 2012 · David Viens, 49, was a chef at the Thyme Contemporary Café in Lomita, Calif., when on Oct. 18, 2009 he came home and argued with his 39-year-old wife, Dawn Viens. At one point he duct-taped her mouth and bound her hands and feet before falling asleep and finding her corpse the next morning, he told investigators according to The Los Angeles Time s.
- First Public Description of Murder
- ‘I Erupted’
- Claimed Wife Left Him
- Tried to Commit Suicide
- ‘Worked Hard’ to Change
Viens did not testify during his 2012 trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, so Tuesday’s hearing was the first time Viens publicly answered questions about the murder. During his preliminary hearing and trial, witnesses, including his daughter, revealed Viens wrapped tape around his wife’s arms and covered her mouth to keep her quiet because he want...
“I erupted,” Viens told the commissioners. “I chased her into the other room and there was some clear packing tape on the desk and we fought. We argued and I ended up wrapping the tape around her arms. At that point, I had no intent to kill her.” After putting tape over her mouth, he took two Ambien sleeping pills and went to bed, and awakened earl...
In the days that followed, neighbors and friends questioned her disappearance. Viens claimed she had left him. Her Jeep, however, remained parked in her driveway and $640 she had stashed with a friend in case her husband left her went unclaimed. A close friend with cancer confronted Viens with her husband at the restaurant and found him sweaty in t...
“I decided I didn’t want to live,” he said. “I didn’t want to go to prison. I did not want to take responsibility for the harm I had caused. I tried to kill myself jumping off that 80-foot cliff.” Viens survived the fall but was severely injured. During his hospitalization, he confessed to detectives,calling them to the hospital and admitting he ha...
Viens told the commissioners he had worked hard to change and “I am no longer the person I was in October 2009.” “I lived after jumping off that cliff for some reason,” he said. “It was a pivotal moment. I really worked hard at becoming a better person. I see myself being in service to others. I’d really like to become a certified counselor in ange...
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Mar 22, 2013 · March 22, 2013, 3:27 PM PDT. By U.S. News and Jason Kandel, NBCLosAngeles.com. A former chef who killed his wife and cooked her body for four days to dispose of her remains was...
Dec 1, 2023 · David Viens retracted admission of killing Dawn Viens. The killer would later backtrack on his confession, claiming he was drugged up with painkillers from the fall and that he had lied about cooking his wife’s remains. In the end, a jury found David Viens guilty of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 15 years to life.
Jun 9, 2021 · Despite insisting to state parole commissioners that he was “so sorry for what I’ve done,” a former Lomita chef convicted of killing his wife and cooking her body to eliminate the evidence...
