A 53-year-old German sex tourist recently confessed in court to killing his wife of ten years in order to go on a sex holiday in Pattaya with her “out of the way.”
On Nov. 28, 2015, Horst Koenig reportedly murdered his Filipina wife, only identified as 37-year-old Grace, by smashing her head with a hammer in her sleep and suffocating her with with a plastic bag before dismembering her body, he told the Augsburg State Court in Bavaria.
Koenig, a chemical lab assistant, then put the corpse in garbage bags and left them in a warehouse. He went on to clear her bank account — this is all because he wanted to go meet a Pattaya girl he had been chatting with online, the Daily Mail reported.
“I had checklists made, I worked it all out,” Koenig told the judges.
Before committing the murder, Koenig researched “how to kill a person with a single blow to the head” on his computer, according to the police.
Koenig said he met up with the Thai woman in December. He said in the court: “What she promised, seemed exciting, and many of my secret desires seemed to come true. I wanted to be with this woman.”
He stayed in Thailand for three weeks. During that time, he considered committing suicide and chickened out. He said: “My money was gone, the visa expired.”
Koenig was arrested on his return to Germany after Grace’s family contacted the police. In his possession were photos of a young Asian woman.
“This was a person with whom I got distracted on the internet from my gloomy daily life,” Koenig said. “My wife increasingly lived on her mobile phone to the extent that she once burned a pot on the stove.”
He is facing life imprisonment for premeditated murder if convicted. The trial is expected to end next week.
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