A 35-year-old woman traveling from Morocco back home to Graz, Austria was hailed down in a random security check. This was the only way airport security discovered that she was carrying a piece of her dead husband’s intestines home with her.
The woman had packed away a four-inch sample of her dead husband’s intestines in her checked bag, and apparently, she wasn’t breaking any Austrian laws by carrying this with her.
When security had first discovered the unusual object, they turned to police for guidance. The police, however, had no legal reason to charge this woman and even noted that she had packed the sample of her husband’s intestines very well.
The sample had been kept in formaldehyde and then packaged in “thick plastic containers.” Dr. Gerald Höfler noted that this packaging had been done with professional care, “I would imagine that it was done by a pathologist. It was absolutely secure, triple wrapped, according to European Union norms.”
The woman’s lawyer, Anton Karner, explained that the woman was taking home a sample of her husband’s intestines to test for poison.
She and her husband had been in Morocco, visiting some of the latter’s family. At a family dinner together, the wife was now suspecting her husband’s family poisoning him because they disapproved of his marriage with her.
The sample has since been taken to Dr. Höfler’s office for testing, to determine whether this woman’s husband had actually been poisoned.
These results will be released next week.
