Psychologist suspected of decapitating husband in Mexico City had earlier stabbed boyfriend
Police are doubting Maria Alejandra Lafuente Caso’s story that her husband, Allan Carrera Cuellar, had repeated beaten her, now that they’ve learned she once avoided assault charges for stabbing an old boyfriend by claiming she was trying to defend herself. She’s accused of decapitating Cuellar, cutting his body with a chainsaw, and hiding the remains around Mexico City.
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Monday, December 22, 2014, 5:57 PM
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EUROPICSMaria Alejandra Lafuente Caso. a psychologist in Mexico City, dodged assault charges for stabbing a boyfriend by claiming self-defense. Now she's going to face murder charges for the death of her husband.
A psychologist who murdered and decapitated her husband before scattering his remains across Mexico City had earlier escaped assault charges after stabbing a boyfriend and claiming self-defense.
Details of the previous case only came to light after media reports about Maria Alejandra Lafuente Caso, 40, where she claimed she had been repeatedly beaten by her hubby Allan Carrera Cuellar, 41, and had feared for her life when she finally killed him.
Police say she drugged him by slipping sleeping pills into his drink at their home in the Mexican capital. She then stabbed him in the stomach, before taking his chainsaw and chopping his body up, stuffing his remains inside black bin liners and depositing them around the city.
But now police are doubting whether he ever was abusive after realizing that she had earlier been charged with GBH, and acquitted, after driving a knife into the stomach of a previous lover and then claiming he was a violent thug and she had been defending herself.
Police launched an investigation into the murder after children discovered his head whilst playing in a local park.
His hands and feet were later found in another part of the city.
But so that friends and family would not ask where he was, she told them he had gone on a business trip and sent them text messages from his phone.
A police spokesman said: "Before the body parts were found she convinced everyone that he was alive and well by sending text messages.
"After we found the remains and managed to identify him from DNA, she pretended to be a grieving widow.
"But a forensic examination of her home found traces of his blood and bone gristle in the carpets and bits of flesh in the bathroom.
"She then tried to have herself sectioned using her knowledge of mental illness as a psychologist so she wouldn't have to stand trial for his murder.
"But we had a doctor carry out tests and she is of perfectly sane mind."
The previous incident in which she had attacked a man happen in 2011, after which she was given counseling and support and eventually returned to her job as a psychiatrist.
This time round again she was admitted to a women's support refuge but was later removed from there and remanded in custody where she is awaiting murder charges.
