Wilfrid Buteau fatally stabbed and beat his wife, Aliette Buteau, deputies say. (Mug shot: Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office)
A man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to fatally stabbing his wife with a knife and beating her with a claw hammer so badly he embedded the latter tool in her right eye socket. Wilfrid Buteau, 58, was sentenced to spend 28 years in a Florida prison, with 1,429 days of time-served credit, for killing Aliette Buteau, 49. The defendant pleaded to a charge of second-degree murder with a weapon.
Deputies arrived at a bloody scene on Dec. 10, 2019, in Palm Beach County.
“I think I need the police,” defendant Buteau told 911, according to documents.
Investigators found Aliette Buteau with a claw hammer impaling her eye and a blanket wrapped around her neck. They took it off, revealing a large cut across her throat. They also found a bloody, black-handled knife on the ground.
First responders pronounced her dead on the scene.
