Brazilian man admits to stabbing his wife to death after she bit his finger during sex
- Marcos Paulino turned himself in to the police in Caconde, Brazil, on Monday and confessed to murdering his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia
- Paulino told investigators he was upset with de Cássia after she bit a finger on his left hand while they had sex and stabbed her while she slept.
- A total of 1,463 women were victims of femicide in Brazil in 2023, according to Brazil’s Forum for Public Security
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A Brazilian man turned himself in to police after he said he murdered his wife because she bit his finger during sex.
Marcos Paulino confessed to the São Paulo Civil Police that he stabbed his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia, while she slept in their home in the municipality of Caconde.
Paulino said he was upset after his 38-year-old wife bit one of his fingers on his left hand.
He waited until she fell asleep and attacked her with a kitchen knife.
Marcos Paulino (right) turned himself in to police in the southeastern Brazilian city of Caconde on Monday and confessed to murdering his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia (left), because she had bitten his finger while they were having sex
São Paulo’s Public Security Secretariat said in a statement that Tatiéle de Cássia (pictured) had ‘holes in her chest and neck’ as a result of being stabbed by her husband Marcos Paulino
The knife that Marcos Paulino used to murder his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia, was found in their home in Caconde, a city in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo
“After she changed (her clothes) and went back to bed and slept, he stabbed her in the neck and chest and killed her,” civil police chief João Delfino told Brazilian news outlet G1.
Paulino fled home and was hiding in rural areas near Caconde before returning on Monday and turning himself in to a local military police station.
Authorities went to the couple’s home and found de Cássia’s body “with holes in the chest and throat, caused by a knife,” São Paulo’s Secretariat of Public Security said in a statement.
The Paulino killer told investigators he had ‘used cocaine’ before killing de Cássia, Delfino said in an interview with EPTV.
Marcos Paulino fled home after killing his wife on Sunday night and turned himself in to São Paulo’s military police
Marcos Paulino (right) faces 12 to 30 years in prison if convicted of murdering his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia
The couple started dating in October 2023 and moved in together in January
The couple started dating in October 2023 and moved in together in January.
Paulino faces a charge of femicide and faces up to 12 to 30 years in prison if convicted.
According to figures released in March by Brazil’s Public Security Forum, a total of 1,463 women were victims of femicide in 2023, an estimate of 1.4 deaths for every 100,000 women.
Brazil has recorded 10,655 femicides since 2015, when the government passed a law describing it as murder ’caused by domestic or family violence due to the condition of the female sex’.
“We cannot normalize the deaths of more than 10,000 women murdered in less than a decade just because they are women,” Samira Bueno, the director of Brazil’s Forum for Public Security, said in a statement.
“This topic has been the subject of several debates in civil society, but it is not enough to reduce the number of these crimes committed every day in Brazil.”