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An extraordinary murder case has been heard before the Munich II district court since Monday.
A nurse has been charged with murder out of greed and malice - as well as disturbing the peace of the dead.
According to the prosecutor, 49-year-old Ekatarina S. killed her husband and then put some of the ashes of the 60-year-old doctor in her pillow.
The couple had been married since 2013 and lived together at Tegernsee.
In the course of the marriage, the woman is said to have transferred all of her husband's assets, including the shared apartment, to herself.
Since there was nothing to be gained from her husband economically and he stood in the way of the desired new relationship with an equally wealthy, gullible man, she planned the murder, according to the prosecutor.
Victims killed with sleeping pills, insulin, and morphine
The nurse is said to have given her husband a sleeping pill instead of a prescribed antidepressant in August 2018.
While he was in twilight sleep, she is said to have injected him with insulin several times, even though he was not a diabetic.
When the man still did not die, she is said to have given him additional morphine, from which he finally died.
At a time not yet verified by the investigators after the funeral, the woman is said to have opened the grave slab in the cemetery with a drill and emptied her husband's urn.
She kept part of the ashes in a glass in her apartment, the other part in the cover of her pillow.
At the start of the trial, the defendant announced a statement: "I would like to say everything from A to Z."
The files read by the presiding judge indicated that the accused would presumably portray her husband's death as a suicide.
The dead man's three children are admitted as joint plaintiffs in the proceedings.
According to the court, a total of 14 trial days are scheduled.
The verdict could therefore fall in early November.
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