The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office will this morning (Wednesday) file an indictment in the city district court against Guy Shapira, who is accused of murdering his wife Rachel, even though he tried to direct and present it as suicide.
The indictment will be filed after Shapira confessed to the heinous act he committed about a month ago and explained that he did so due to her desire to divorce him.
Shapira was seriously injured after shooting himself, after being arrested at a police checkpoint at the end of a manhunt for him.
The murder scene in Ma'ale Adumim, Photo: Photo: Yoni Rickner
The tragic event took place about a month ago, a day before the eve of Sukkot.
The couple lived in the city of Ma'ale Adumim with their 14-year-old son.
Rachel, a 50-year-old former ultra-Orthodox woman who worked for 17 years in the research department at the Yad Vashem Museum, had a second marriage.
From her first marriage she has six grown children.
That morning Shapira took their son to school and when he returned home they strangled, according to his confession, Rachel until she died.
He then directed a suicide scene.
He took a knife, cut the vein in her wrist and placed it in a bath full of water along with the knife.
After finding out that she died about two or three hours later, he called MDA and said that he found his wife in the bathroom, after she tried to commit suicide. MDA instructed him how to perform CPR on her, but as stated at this point Rachel was already lifeless.
The detention of a former IDF officer from Ma'ale Adumim suspected of murdering his wife has been extended // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon
After the police received the report of the alleged "suicide", police officers arrived at the scene and opened an investigation in accordance with the procedure.
Rachel's body was sent for autopsy in Abu Kabir to confirm that it was indeed a suicide.
A day later, the results of the initial autopsy came, and it emerged that her neck was broken as a result of suffocation.
At this point the husband became a suspect in the murder, and the police called him and asked him to come to the police, but he evaded and started a manhunt after him when a letter he left indicated his intention to commit suicide.
