An American driving instructor confessed to killing his wife at their French holiday home and trying to hide her dismembered body in the gutter.
Billy Kruger, aged in his 50s, admitted killing Laure Bardina-Kruger, 52, and then trying to hide her body at the seaside village of Peyriac-de-Mer near Narbonne.
Tributes on Facebook described Mrs Bardina-Kruger as "such a lovely fun soul" who "brightened up every room." A friend of the couple said "there really weren't any warning signs" with Kruger admitting to stabbing his wife after a heated argument.
Kruger, who is from the US and worked in Jakarta Indonesia, was arrested as he prepared to board a flight at Toulouse airport on Friday evening.
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