Wife Stabs Husband After Seeing Pictures of Her Younger Self, Thought He Was Cheating

By Mary Anne R. First Posted: Jan 25, 2021 05:31 AM EST

A woman stabbed her husband repeatedly after she thought that her husband was cheating on her with a younger woman.

This was after she found photos of him with a younger woman, according to a Yucatan Magazine report.

However, it turns out the other woman in the photos was she herself. The photo of the couple was taken years ago, when they were dating, according to police in Sonora, Mexico.

Officials from the municipality of Cajeme reported that a suspect identified only as Leonora N was arrested for wounding her husband Juan N with a knife.

This occurred after finding several photos on his cellphone.

The husband managed to take the knife away from her and explained that the photos were them back when they were more youthful and slimmer.

Juan apparently explained that he had digitized the old photos to store on his cellphone.

Police arrived at the scene after neighbors heard screaming and sounds of a fight, according to a Daily Star report.

Local media reported that the woman was being detained by authorities and is awaiting charges against her.

Crimes in Mexico

Meanwhile, murders in Mexico has inched up to a new record for the first half of 2020, despite the slight decrease in last few month, according to a Reuters report.

Mexico has been plagued by gang violence for years, with officials failing to tackle the problem.

More than 34,600 murders were registered last year, according to the latest data available.

Meanwhile, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised to reduce the violence with a new strategy after seating in the office in December 2018.

However, homicide rates continue to increase.

There were 17, 439 murders in the first six months of 2020, which is a 1.7 percent increase on the same period the previous year.

This was according to figures presented by Security Minister Alfonso Duranzo at a regular news conference with the president.

In June, murder rates fell by 2.2 percent.

Duranzo said that a lasting reduction in Mexico's murder rate would take time as the government works to tackle poverty and other root causes of the crime.

"If (the) increase (in murders) was the product of a long social process, its decrease will also be the product of a long social process," Duranzo was quoted on a report.

Other crimes such as kidnappings and robbery have plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, criminal gangs have targeted low-level cartel foot soldier and high-profile political figures with both mass killings and carefully planned assassinations being reported.

Falko Ernst, a senior analysts at Crisis Group, said that this is a cost that they are now paying for years and years of continued, almost perfect impunity in Mexico, according to a BBC report.

Ernst commented on the events that took place on June 7, with 117 murders that were recorded in 24 hours.

This makes the country's most violent day of the year so far, surpassing the events on Apr. 20, with 114 homicides that were reported.