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Authorities ruled it out as an accident, but the insurance company became suspicious. Now the alleged crimes of a husband are brought to justice.
Miles from the District Court.
Photography: Michael Trost / Tamedia AG.
Michael consolation
Beaten, run over, scalded with hot water and finally drowned: a 50-year-old Swiss man is accused of first spoiling his wife so that she could not walk and then drowned. On October 13 he had to answer for this in the Meilen District Court.
Only the insurance company became suspicious. After the death of his wife in 2014, the man immediately claimed the life insurance sum of CHF 500,000. The insurer commissioned an expert report and brought to light the alleged act of violence.
The experts concluded that the drowning death in the bathtub must have been caused by external influences. A previous incident was then examined again: the woman had been found seriously injured two years earlier in Mallorca, at the entrance to the estate where the couple spent their holidays.
In none of the cases did the authorities suspect a crime. They relied on the husband’s information. In the first incident in Mallorca it was assumed that the woman had thrown himself out of a window with suicidal intent. If you died in the bathtub, the experts assumed an accident.
Now the 50-year-old man has to answer for attempted murder and murder committed before the Miles District Court. According to the indictment, the trigger for the wife’s murder was that she wanted to separate from him and take her son with her.
The man of all people took care of her
On the night of December 18, 2012, according to the accusation, the man beat his wife so brutally that she suffered various fractures and other facial injuries while on vacation in Mallorca.
When the woman was standing in front of the house shortly after, he knelt in the rental car. Both kneecaps and thighs were fractured. It left the woman seriously injured.
Upstairs, she then opened a window directly above her and walked out of the house with the child they shared. So I wanted to pretend that she jumped or fell out the window. It wasn’t until two hours later that she called the ambulance, hoping the woman had already died of hypothermia.
But the woman survived but was severely disabled. About a year later, the couple divorced. In February 2014, the woman was able to leave the clinic and move into a small apartment. For her care, she chose her ex-husband, out of all the people, who is said to have caused the injuries.
Scalding and drowning
It only took two months before he is said to have burned her back and buttocks with hot water. Then he took her to the bathroom, where he drowned her in the sink or directly in the bathtub. She left the body in the bathtub. She filled it with hot water to make it look like the woman had fallen into the bathtub and drowned. The man denies all the accusations.
The prosecutor is seeking a conviction for the attempted murder in Mallorca and the murder committed in Switzerland. You only announce your criminal complaint at the hearing. The trial in the Meilen District Court will last seven days.
