TYCOON FLUSHED HIS WIFE DOWN THE LOO
A MAN has been charged with murdering his wife after her chopped-up body was found in a drain near their holiday home.
Billy Kruger was arrested as he was about to fly out of France from Toulouse – hours after police found the remains of Laure BardinaKruger in the village of Peyriac-de-Mer.
The French-American citizen is charged with aggravated murder after confessing to cops that he stabbed his 52-year-old wife twice, telling an investigating magistrate that it was in self-defence.
The couple – who had spent a few weeks each year in Peyriac-de-Mer, on the Mediterranean, south of Narbonne – had planned to leave on Friday for their home in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Bardina-Kruger worked as a teacher.
Dumped
“The victim’s father sounded the alert after his daughter did not turn up for a family reunion in Carcassonne,” an investigator said.
“She was due to say goodbye to everybody before the couple returned to Jakarta.
“Instead, police were instructed to search for the victim and they found her body in a drain in a road near the house.”
It’s not clear if Laure’s remains were dumped straight in the drain or flushed down the toilet.
After her body was found, police launched a search for her husband, who was arrested in the departure area of Toulouse airport.
“We don’t know yet what happened, but we never got any alarm signal from Laure regarding violent acts against her by her husband,” BardinaKruger’s brother Pierre Bardina posted on Facebook.
“You always think this can only happen to other people, but violence against women can happen all of a sudden.”
The couple were last seen at a restaurant in Peyriac-de-Mer on Thursday night, hours before she was slain.
Bardina-Kruger, who taught at the Jakarta Intercultural School, previously had teaching posts in Shanghai, Cairo and Hawaii.
Kruger, in his 50s and from Brooklyn, New York, is believed to have worked as a diving instructor in Indonesia.