I heard that story and the way I heard it, it happened in Louisiana and the woman sewed him up in a “new” sheet. The point being that a new sheet wouldn’t rip as he struggled to get out, shereas an old one might.
The odd thing is that the person who told me that story cheated on his wife, and she sued him for bigamy (a crime in TX) and won. She took a lot of his money in court and tied him up for years (he owned an oil business.) Obviously, he learned nothing from relating the story, and he’s just lucky that his wife didn’t do worse to him.
I have no idea whether the story is true, or not.
Probably isn’t, its just another in the long line of publically celebrated female violence stories. When they murder, shoot, burn, beat, hit, and castrate because someone didn’t see what a -treasure- they were, its all good.
Its very similar to moslem honor killings.
Wherever it came from it sounded like poetic justice to me...lol