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HUBBIES FROM HELL!

Stabbed his Mrs. & put body in trash -cops

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THE most despicable husband in America is accused of fatally stabbing his wife in the head — and then putting her body out with the trash!

Cops say Joseph Traeger confessed to killing 50-yearold Jeneen Catanzaro after she’d been reported missing by her mother. He’s been charged with second-degree murder.

Before his arrest, Traeger, 50, claimed to be “devastated” when Jeneen vanished.

“She meant the world to me, my wife. We have known each other 40 years,” the evil creep whined to cops.

Traeger told investigat­ors the couple had been married over ten years and were having marital and financial problems due to his heroin addiction.

He moved out of their Sunrise, Fla., home in October, but returned Nov. 28 asking if he could move back in.

According to the arrest report, the couple started arguing and Traeger said he snapped, threw his wife to the kitchen floor and covered her mouth with his hand so the neighbors wouldn’t hear her scream.

Then he grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed her once from behind at the base of her skull. Traeger told lawmen the knife went into her neck and she died instantly in a river of blood, the arrest report reveals.

Traeger claims he panicked, cleaned up the crime scene with paper towels and put his wife’s body in three large trash bags.

He dumped the bags in a garbage can at the curb and then went to a casino, authoritie­s say. Her body was later found in a landfill.

Her mother reported Jeneen missing Dec. 2. When asked why he didn’t report his wife missing sooner, Traeger told detectives he “wasn’t the copcalling type.”

 ??  ?? Traeger killed his wife in their Florida home, then left her on curb for pickup, police say
Traeger killed his wife in their Florida home, then left her on curb for pickup, police say
 ??  ?? Traeger said he was “devastated” when Jeneenvani­shed
Traeger said he was “devastated” when Jeneenvani­shed

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