Posted on 04/12/2005 1:42:56 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man was beaten to death after catching his wife's lover living in a closet in their home, police said Tuesday.
Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez, 35, was charged with homicide in the slaying of 44-year-old Jeffrey A. Freeman over the weekend.
"From time to time, you come across a case with very unique - even bizarre - circumstances," police spokesman Don Aaron said. "This one probably rates right up there with them."
Freeman's wife had allowed Rocha-Perez to live in a closet of the Freemans' four-bedroom home for about a month without her husband's knowledge, police said. On Sunday, her husband heard Rocha-Perez snoring and discovered him, authorities said.
Freeman ordered his wife to get the man out of the house while he went for a walk, authorities said. Martha Freeman told authorities that when her husband returned, Rocha-Perez confronted him with a shotgun, forced him into a bathroom and bludgeoned him.
The Freemans were co-owners of a company that does background checks for apartment rental and job applicants.
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I'm not one to blame the victim or anything, but you can see right here where the man went wrong. This tells us that he's a passive man, who obviously isn't too curious, and also lets his wife run the whole show. Let's go over this slowly. Man hears snoring and discovers a man in the closet. Man orders wife to kick him out of the house while he goes for a walk. How would other, less passive, men have handled the situation, hmmm? If YOU find a man in your closet, do you wait to find out what he's doing in your closet, giving your wife time enough to explain before you, a) call the cops, b) kick his ass down the hallway/stairway, out the door and then call the cops, or c) blow his head off with the shotgun (assuming it wasn't kept in the closet) and then call the cops?
Like I said, I'm not blaming the victim for getting himself killed, but the situation could have been handled differently. Having said that, I think the wife needs to go to jail just like the "lover".
And you know what, I'm not even sure if the "lover lives for a month in closet" story is true. This could have been a pre-planned hit, concocted by the wife, that went awry.
He as living in the closets that Americans won't live in.
If you see anyone jogging naked through your neighborhood, it may be because you came home early. < /Rodney Daingerfield>
Dang, you're good!!! ;)
I guess she checked all she needed.
CBS radio news at the top of the hour said that both she and the closet man are in jail.
What does an illegal look like?
The wife was doing the "undocumented migrant".
Nuts.
This is about 3 miles from my digs.
They should charge her too.
His wife had more than skeletons in her closet.
My first thought as well...
My first thought as well...
I lived in a walk-in closet for a while once...
Yes, and he will still find he has lovers.
The first report I heard was that the husband killed the interloper.
I agree with your husband.
The whole story is absurd. It has "conspiracy to commit murder" written all over it. I doubt that the murderer had ever "lived" in the closet. He was in the closet on that particular night for the simple purpose of killing the husband.
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Like I said, too much material.
I have a walk-in closet in my townhome. Someone could live there if it weren't already crammed with crap.
a seriously Desperate Housewife.
Husband ought to buy some Viagra--or check his pill bottle more often to see how many are left.
LOL. Home now. Hit a naked jogger with the truck!
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