Man who killed, cooked wife seeks new trial

Man who killed, cooked wife seeks new trial


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JACKSON, Mich.— A Michigan man who was convicted of killing and cooking his wife says he should get a new trial because of new evidence that he was in a state of marijuana-induced psychosis at the time of the slaying. Advertisement A Jackson County jury convicted Kevin Artz of murder in 2001 and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Authorities say he killed his 46-year-old wife Patricia in 1999 with a metal bar before dismembering and cooking her body in their Summit Township restaurant.

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He killed his wife in 1999 and almost 10 years later, he decides it must have been pot induced psychosis?? I'm going to bet that even if the dude was high, his high would have wore off in the time it took to dismember his wife and cook her up.

I can't believe some of the lengths people will go to to try to weasel their way out of the truth. he should spend the rest of his life in jail.
Man, I hope this dude didn't server her up to his customers.

Thats the most ridicolous lie i ever heard...marijuana makes you chop up people and cook them....hmmmm marijuana is safer than caffeine for christs sake..

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[edit on 12-12-2008 by Solomons]

Maybe he thought George Bush would pardon him if he shared the recipe?

This sounds more like a tabloid story. Maybe Nancy Grace will mention it also?
It's been my understanding while growing up around this substance that there are those who 'spike' weed with other substances. maybe his wife used to say: "EAT ME!"

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I cant believe he has the audacity to blame Marijuana on this. Shouldn't he at least said Ice/Meth and ten years later. I would rather smoke weed than drink a beer or anything else.

What a load of rubbish, i have a wife a family and a good job, and guess what, yes i smoke marijuana, i'd rather that than have a drink ang no i'v never had the urge to kill my wife and eat her nor any of my work mates.

Well I for one hope she gave him heatburn!

pot made him do it? good gawd!

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Um.... this is ridiculous... aside from all the scientific reports that actually back up marijuana, it's well known that the plant is ALSO a downer

Logically speaking... and this is just my opinion...if the drug is a downer... then how could you possibly work up enough energy to kill and cook your wife?

He must have had some SERIOUS munchies....seriously....

I'm off that same opinion too....

Weed is something Hannibal Lecter would use as herbs in his best recipe for Gullash

ok thats absolutely absurd and this dude should get the death penalty just for saying something that stupid about marijuana


seriously these marijuana-bashing people who are putting out nothing but ignorant propaganda should be sent to gitmo and tortured just for being so dumb


and if any judge jury or executioner even considers for a millisecond this guys dumb-ass defense they too should be sent to gitmo and be stripped naked for pictures


theres absolutely no way in hell even if he smoked 5 pounds and ate nothing but marijuana flavored food for his entire life, popped 100 synthetic thc pills, and found a way to inject pure thc into his blood could he even be possibly remotely a fraction of a fraction of a 100th high after the 1st 2 seconds of going through a event like that


edited to say if he really was high then the situation never wouldve taken place, he wouldve realized how incredibly stupid he was being and never wouldve killed her in the 1st place let alone cook her because he wouldve been high and whatever made him kill her wouldnt even have bothered him and they probably wouldve kissed and made up after he forgot he was upset/mad/bothered in the 1st place

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Marijuana induced psychosis?

"The hunger I could not satisfy" should be the title of his letter to the supreme court.

Too bad you can never be tried again for the same incident. Looks like he thought that one up wayyyyy too late. Thank god. Criminal.