“Gun Death” Chef

This one is too gross just to go into the normal rotation.

A Lomita chef accused of killing his wife whose body has never been found told detectives that he slowly cooked his her for four days in a 55-gallon drum, boiling her body in water and discarding her remains in his restaurant’s grease pit, according to a taped confession played in court.

David Viens, 49, said he hid his wife Dawn Viens’ skull and jawbone in his mother’s attic, but a detective said he could not find it….His wife, he said, had been using cocaine and drinking and he did not want anything to do with it. He went to bed.

When he awakened Oct. 18, 2009, he found her watching football, eating pizza and drinking beer.

Viens said he checked the restaurant’s cash receipts and found “a lot of money” was missing. He double-checked his math at his mother’s house and returned home. That night, he and Dawn ate at California Pizza Kitchen, and he went out drinking with a friend. Dawn called him, upset.

When he got home, he took an Ambien and moved a bureau in front of a door so his wife could not enter the room. But she was able to get in anyway, and raised hell with him, he said.

“So, I’m laying there and the next thing I know, she’s all over me and she’s got the light in my face, calling me all kinds of mean names and stuff,” he said. “And I keep telling her the same thing, `Just leave me alone. I just need to sleep.

I just need to sleep. Just let me sleep.”‘

Viens told detectives he got up, grabbed his wife by both hands and forced her onto the living room floor.

“I wrap her hands up real quick,” Viens said. “I wrap her feet up real quick, and I take a piece of clear duct tape – wrapping tape – and I put that over her mouth. And that was it. I said, `Good night.”‘

Viens said he awakened four hours later. Dawn was dead.

Its a crazy story, and cops can’t get the evidence to line up…still man! Also no guns used, so no “Gun Death”. Don’t you feel better?