It’s True: Butter Can Kill You
By Wyatt Earp | February 8, 2011
Wait,
An Italian couple tried to commit the perfect crime. Like most purveyors of criminal perfection, they failed miserably. But many of you may be impressed with their unique methods.
A Sicilian couple thought they had the perfect weapon to get rid of her ex-husband – a slab of butter which would melt after they asphyxiated him. But a post-mortem found remains of the butter in the airways of Calogero Lo Cocco and the pair were unmasked, the paper said.
Lo Cocco, 40, had gone back to the marital home, where his ex-wife lived with her new boyfriend at Campobello di Licata near Agrigente in southern Sicily. They had set upon him and suffocated him with the butter, before claiming he had arrived drunk and attacked them.
I do have to admit, the idea is pretty brilliant. It also gets an “A” for originality.
Topics: WTF? | 35 Comments »
February 8th, 2011 at 7:04 pm
That’s beautiful. Choked by butter…oddly enough how so many of our obese died.
Still, not as brilliant as using an ice pick as the evidence would just melt. I also like the idea of slicing someone open and choking them with their own intestine.
perhaps I’ve typed too much…
February 8th, 2011 at 7:04 pm
CRAP. By ice pick I meant icicle.
February 8th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Hmm. Most women use butter and fatty foods to induce a slow death in their man. This way just isn’t sporting.
February 8th, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Butter, butter, butter…Parkay!!!!!!!
February 8th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Dr. E, I thought of the same thing reading this story. The old Perry Mason stabbed with an icicle trick.
February 8th, 2011 at 8:08 pm
She had a plan to kill her husband, butter plan had a flaw!
February 8th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
creative.
February 8th, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Butter doesn’t kill people, whack jobs kill people.
February 8th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Butter as a murder weapon? Wow. That’s even crazier than the inmate that stabbed a guy with a sharpened pork chop bone in Oklahoma in 2004. Definitely an “A” for originality. Good call, Wyatt.
February 8th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Maybe they were reinacting that scene from Last Tango in Paris and forgot which end was up.
February 8th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Oh Proof, you had to go a long whey for that one.
February 8th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Churn ’nuff!
February 8th, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Oh dairy me, just don’t spread yourself too thin.
February 8th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Glad you clarified that! (I just got creamed!) I guess you’re going to milk this for all it’s worth, now! Your co-workers will be so proud!
February 8th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Nah, but I will give you a pat on the back for clarified!
February 8th, 2011 at 11:09 pm
My Curds has lost their whey…
How did the butter know it was doing well?
Oh dairy me, that made my stomach churn.
February 8th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
For an artist, I would think you would be drawn to something else?
February 8th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
They screwed up for sure
February 9th, 2011 at 9:25 am
Dr. Evil – Yeah, an ice pick would be a big clue.
Lou – It’s quicker – for those who need insurance money right now!
Dustyvet – Parkay is too smooth to kill a man.
Ingineer66 – Good for what ails ya.
Proof – Someone must have notified Scotland Lard.
Kim – Very.
JT – Whack jobs with a flair for butter.
John D – Boneless ribs. Much safer for prisoners.
Robert B. – Where’s Brando when you need him?
Proof/Mrs. C. – Here we go . . .
Rick – Would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids.
February 9th, 2011 at 10:47 am
Wyatt: Scotland Lard and not the Crisco Kid??
February 9th, 2011 at 10:51 am
Why couldn’t they have just set up the kitchen first for dinner, lots of bread…and butter…lying around and say he began to choke when he ingested some bread and butter? One could have even mixed some bread crumbs with the butter before hand, refroze it, then both butter and bread would have appeared in his airway collaborating their story. Any bruises on him etc. could be explainded by them trying to free the food from his windpipe. Sheesh..I gotta think of everything for these people:) lol
February 9th, 2011 at 11:03 am
Jon: Yeah. A few back episodes of CSI: Wisconsin and they’d have known how to stage a suffocation with a stick of butter. As it was, they were whipped!
February 9th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
It was a Feta compli.
February 9th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
All the butter jokes are re-pulse-ive. Have a heart, guys!
Wasn’t there a case many years ago where a wife bludgeoned her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb and then served it to the investigators?
Or was that an urban legend?
February 9th, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Wow. Now I have to put up with cheesy puns and baaaaaad jokes? I can’t believe it’s not humor!
February 9th, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Are you giving up? Come on Proof, there are stiltons of bad jokes out there. Don’t disappoint me.
February 9th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
I don’t know…You “Feta compli” pun was *swiss*, nothing but net!
February 9th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
lergnom Says:
All the butter jokes are re-pulse-ive. Have a heart, guys!
Wasn’t there a case many years ago where a wife bludgeoned her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb and then served it to the investigators?
Or was that an urban legend?
That was an episode of Alfred Hitchcok’s old Television show.
February 9th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
We Gouda get outta this place…
February 9th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Think about it, what would cheeses do?
February 9th, 2011 at 9:46 pm
There’s always a butter way to kill people…
February 9th, 2011 at 10:36 pm
If there’s one thing I like about Wyatt’s blog, it’s the culture!
February 9th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
Mrs. C: I have annatto pick with you!
February 10th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Dusty – That was from a short story by O. Henry.
February 10th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
JT:
Lamb to the Slaughter
Synopsis
A woman’s police officer husband comes home and announces that he is leaving her and their unborn child for another woman.
Full Recap
A pregnant Mary Malone does chores as she awaits the return of her policeman husband from work. When he arrives home, he is clearly in a bad mood and heads directly for the liquor bottle.
Mary tells her husband of their plans to meet with one of her friends for dinner, but noting her husband’s mood she offers to cancel the plans and make dinner herself. As Mary heads to the garage to get meat out of the freezer, her husband Patrick stops her to have a serious discussion.
He tells her that he wants to leave her. Mary is shocked. Patrick tells her that he has fallen in love with another woman and wants a divorce. Mary is heartbroken, but insists that he stay for supper.
Mary slowly heads to the garage where she takes a frozen leg of lamb out of the freezer. She brings it into the kitchen and unwraps it. When she returns, Patrick is getting ready to leave. Before he can go she sneaks up behind him and hits him with the frozen leg of lamb and kills him. She takes the leg of lamb back into the kitchen and places it in the oven where she begins to cook it. When she is done, she nervously contemplates what she should do next. Suddenly an idea hits her. She increases the temperature in the oven and calls her friend Molly and cancels her dinner date. Mary grabs her coat and heads out the door. She goes to the supermarket and buys a bag of groceries. When she comes home, she throws the bag onto the ground. She throws some papers onto the floor and makes it look like there was a struggle in the house.
She then phones the police. A detective arrives and interviews Mary. She tells him that she arrived in the house and found Patrick dead. Photographers arrive and they begin to take pictures of the crime scene and dust for prints. The detective continues to interview Mary while a doctor arrives and begins to examine her husband’s body.
The detective heads to the kitchen and notices the roast in the oven. Mary tells him that the roast was for dinner and that she headed to the grocery store for vegetables.
After examining the body, the doctor tells the detective that Patrick has a fractured skull. He was killed by a blow to the back of the head. The doctor, however, cannot only say that he was hit with a heavy blunt object, maybe a club.
After the doctor leaves, the detectives notices a number of clues in the crime scene: Patrick was wearing his coat when he was killed and he had a drink of straight whiskey with soda and ice.
The detective believes that Patrick was worried when he came through the door. Mary, however, sticks to her story and tells him that her husband was not acting unusually when he first came home.
The detective tells Mary that he does not believe that the murder was pre-meditated and that he does not think the murder was done by a professional. He tells her that the murder was probably a crime of passion that occurred after a quarrel. Believing this, the detective thinks that the murder weapon
is somewhere in the house. The detective asks Mary if there is anything missing in the house like a vase or a baseball bat.
The detective asks Mary to show him around the house so that he can find the murder weapon.
After, the search is over the detective tells his partner Mike that he believes that the crime scene was arranged after the murder took place. The detective notes that Patrick must have been hit on the back of the head since there was no marks of struggle on his body. Since Patrick was carrying a gun and did not draw it, the detective concludes that he must have been surprised.
Knowing that Patrick fooled around on his wife, the detective begins to believe that a woman probably killed him.
The detective notices that the oven is still on. He heads to the kitchen and takes the now-cooked leg of lamb out of the oven. Believing that whatever it is would be ruined, the detective is surprised to see that it is perfectly fine. It doesn’t dawn on him that it took so long to cook because it was frozen.
Mary comes into the kitchen and offers the policemen coffee. Noting that she will have to throw the roast away if it is uneaten, she offers the detectives a lamb dinner.
Later, as the detectives and policemen are finishing the leg of lamb the they start to talk about the case and the missing murder weapon. Mike says that it is probably on the premises, and Jake notes that for all they know, it could be right under their noses. Hearing this, Mary lets out a little chuckle.