“In Ghana, wife sexual refusal is a key factor in uxoricides or husband-to-wife murders. Despite this, there is a dearth of systematic research that examines sexual strife as a precipitant of domestic violence and spousal murder,” wrote Mensah Adinkrah in an article When a Wife Says “No”: Wife Sexual Refusal as a Factor in Husband–Wife Homicides in Ghana published in volume 36, Issue 3-4 of Sage Journals.
And the matter of intimate partner killings over sex during the weekend took a trip to Alabama where a man who was frustrated by his girlfriend’s refusal to have sex with him stabbed her over 100 times before chopping off her head.
38 years old Justin Fields has been charged with murder and the abuse of a corpse in the gruesome October 21 attack on his lover, Tammy Bailey, 52.
Fields stabbed his live-in girlfriend with an eight-inch survival knife, which he then used to dismember and behead her.
The victim’s head was found near her feet and one of her limbs had been severed, according to Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon.
The crime scene was so grisly that officers – rookie and veterans on the force – said it was one of the worst things they’ve ever ‘seen or experienced’ in their careers.
Bodycam footage reveals the suspect confessing to the gruesome murder at the crime scene. In the video, he tells deputies he had done something really bad and that the evidence was inside the house.
He also told officers he knew he would be arrested, Moon told WBRC News.
Deputies arrived at the scene around 5:30 p.m. Oct. 22 when a neighbor called 911. The suspect confessed to cops that he’d ‘done something bad’ and the evidence was inside the home
According to officials, Fields and his girlfriend had gone out to celebrate his birthday. They left the home they shared on Bailey Drive to head to the Springville area, approximately a half-hour away, Alabama.com reported.
When they returned, Fields wanted to have sex with his girlfriend and when she declined his advances, he stabbed her in the chest.
‘He had a drink of brandy and then went into his bedroom and was playing guitar,’ Moon said. ‘He decided he wanted to have sex, so he went into her room and propositioned her. When she refused him, it frustrated him, and he stabbed her in the chest.’
Fields told investigators he blacked out, went back to his room and went to sleep. The next day, Fields told police he thought he was having a bad dream and stabbed Bailey more than 100 times.
Moon believed that the victim was dead on ‘the first blow,’ and when they returned the next day, she had ‘not moved.’
The suspect then called his father to share that he’d done ‘something horrible’ and wanted to kill himself. Field’s father called Bailey’s family member, who happened to be a neighbor as well.
When the neighbor went to the home, Moon told her ‘what’s inside is terrible and she doesn’t want to see it,’ and would not let her inside.
She then called 911. Deputies arrived on the scene around 5:30 p.m. The suspect had been sitting outside and confessed to cops that he’d ‘done something bad.’ He also told cops ‘the evidence is inside the home.’
Fields allowed the deputy to handcuff him as he surveyed the area.
When two other officers arrived for backup, they entered the home and inside the bedroom found the horrifying scene: Bailey’s mutilated corpse.
Fields had no criminal history, according to the court records, and no history of mental health problems, according to interviews with the suspects after the vicious crime.
On Monday, Moon said investigators went back to the house to collect final pieces of evidence. He was interviewed again on October 25.
‘He admitted to my investigator everything he’d done so he was stable enough to know what he was doing. He was frustrated because he didn’t get what he wanted, Moon said.
Fields is currently being held at the Blount County jail until his bond hearing, a report said.
Late last year an n 80-year-old Italian man allegedly killed his 61-year-old wife in a jealous rage when she refused to have sex with him – after he already gulped down a Viagra pill.
Vito Cangini told police he fatally stabbed his Ukrainian wife, Natalia Kyrychok, between Christmas Day and Sunday in the town of Fanano di Gradara, New York Post reported.
He said he took the erectile dysfunction drug when she promised to go to bed with him, but then she changed her mind. Kyrychok’s refusal led to a major fight during which Cangini accused her of being more interested in her boss and then allegedly stabbed her, according to the news outlet.
He was accused of leaving her bloodied body on the floor and then going to sleep. The following morning, he reportedly acted as if nothing had happened — ate breakfast and walked his dog twice. In the afternoon, he finally told a neighbour what he had done and asked the man to call the cops.
Vito Cangini told police he fatally stabbed his Ukrainian wife, Natalia Kyrychok, after she refused to have sex with him.
According to police, Vito Cangini admitted to a neighbor what he had done but the neighbour thought he was joking. The neighbour who didn’t want to be involved told Cangini to call the Police by himself, Newsflash reported.
The elderly man later told a woman who called for his wife about the crime and also asked her to make the call to authorities, but she too balked, possibly because she didn’t believe him.
Police say that Vito Cangini flew into a rage after taking Viagra and stabbed his wife several times. Cangini finally called the restaurant where his wife had worked as a chef for two years and told the owner, “I know there was something going on between you two.”
When told he’d never see Kyrychok again, the owner called the police, who found the woman’s body. She had been stabbed at least four times, including once to the heart. Police found the murder weapon at the scene and arrested her husband of 17 years.
Not long ago the Police in Jigawa State arrested a 30-year-old man, Alasan Audu, for allegedly killing his wife days after their wedding at Kankarelu village in Ringim Local Government Area.
17-year-old Hansa’u Audu, was found dead in her matrimonial room twenty days after their wedding. Police said the suspect confessed to having committed the crime. after interrogation.
“At about 0400hrs, I went to her (the deceased) as a husband, but she turned my request down. I then used force on her to satisfy my sexual desire,” the suspect said.
A 2020 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) disclosed that 47,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members in 2020. What this means is that, on average, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes.
