Husband accused of cooking wife wore dresses, neighbors say
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A strange portrait was emerging of a 68-year-old Oceanside man accused of killing his 73-year-old wife, then cooking her body parts on their kitchen stove.
Frederick Joseph Hengl was seen by neighbors dressed in women’s clothes and wearing makeup, according to neighbors.
They said they saw Hengl outside wearing a purple dress, pink makeup and various articles of jewelry, including a pearl necklace. The neighbors told Fox 5 News that his wife was once seen roaming outside with a knife making religious comments like “God will smite you.”
Hengl pleaded not guilty this week in court.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Katherine Flaherty told Vista Superior Court Judge J. Marshall Hockett that police found pieces of meat cooking on the stove at the family home and a severed head in the freezer.
Hockett ordered Frederick Joseph Hengl kept in jail on $5-million bail.
Police are unclear when Hengl’s wife, Anna Faris, was killed. They went to the couple’s home after neighbors reported a strange smell and hearing the sound of a power saw.
Several people who live in the neighborhood said Anna-Maria Hengl had been behaving bizarrely since last spring, exposing herself, wandering around carrying a butcher knife and making religious pronouncements, telling people such things as, “God will smite you.”
Her husband, meanwhile, had been going out dressed in women’s clothing, makeup and jewelry, area residents told news crews.
One neighbor said the one-time Home Depot employee, who had sold her a ceiling fan, would sometimes wear blouses and makeup, including “hot pink” lipstick. Another said he saw Frederick Hengl last summer clad in a floor- length purple dress, pearl necklace and pearl earrings, carrying an ornate purse.
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Several people who live in the neighborhood said Anna-Maria Hengl had been behaving bizarrely since last spring, exposing herself, wandering around carrying a butcher knife and making religious pronouncements, telling people such things as, “God will smite you.”
Her husband, meanwhile, had been going out dressed in women’s clothing, makeup and jewelry, area residents told news crews.
One neighbor said the one-time Home Depot employee, who had sold her a ceiling fan, would sometimes wear blouses and makeup, including “hot pink” lipstick. Another said he saw Frederick Hengl last summer clad in a floor- length purple dress, pearl necklace and pearl earrings, carrying an ornate purse.
Read more: http://fox5sandiego.com/2012/11/19/dismembered-womans-husband-to-face-judge/#ixzz2DLRAPQk6
Flaherty told reporters that, ‘“There is no evidence of cannibalism at this time.’
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