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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-man-beheading-wife-police-visit/Bellmead police Sgt. Kory Martin says officers visited 23-year-old Davie Dauzat and his 21-year-old wife, Natasha, on Thursday at their mobile home in Bellmead after a relative called police. Officers found no trouble and left.
Martin says a relative called police again two hours later to say Dauzat had killed his wife. Police returned and found Natasha Dauzat had been decapitated. The couples two toddlers were home, but not hurt.
Didn't hear much about this. I wonder why?
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)OMG.
http://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Blood-covered-man-reported-to-be-barricaded-a-local-mobile-home-park-391303511.html
....BELLMEAD, Texas (KWTX) A blood-covered man who told his brother he had killed his wife briefly barricaded himself with his two young children Thursday inside a trailer at a mobile home park in the 4300 block of Concord Road in Bellmead.
Davie Dauzat. (Jail photo)
Davie Dauzat, 23, remains in the McLennan County Jail where he was ordered held on a $500,000 bond, charged with murder in the death, authorities said.
His wife, Natasha Dauzat, 21, was beheaded and her head was placed in the refrigerator, a source close to the investigation confirmed Thursday afternoon.
Police confirmed late Friday afternoon that officers were sent to the couples home a little more than two hours before Natasha Dauzat was killed after receiving a call from Davie Dauzats brother at around 8:20 a.m. Thursday.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Not sure I follow the "I wonder why?" part of your post.
matt819
(10,749 posts)marble falls
(57,106 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)sarisataka
(18,663 posts)Got it in one.
DV is a real issue with real victims and costs real lives. I refuse to brush it off, as so many do, as a deflection, distraction or talking point. IMO victims matter more than means.
Runningdawg
(4,520 posts)and another in OK where a man killed his next door neighbor happened a very short time after police found "no trouble" and left. Protect and serve or cover your ass?
LisaL
(44,973 posts)They showed up and both husband and wife appeared fine.How exactly would police predict he was going to kill her?
linuxman
(2,337 posts)What should they have done? Stayed around until there was a problem?
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)For better or worse (usually the latter) the police are the first, last, and only agency we have to solve societal problems. Expect sloppy surgery.