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July 12, 2011 |  3:19 pm
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A woman used a 10-inch kitchen knife to cut off her husband's penis, Garden Grove police alleged Tuesday as detectives searched for a motive in the case.

The couple had been married for a year and half. Court records show they began divorce proceedings in May. The record suggests that the husband initiated the divorce.

Lt. Jeff Nightengale of the Garden Grove Police Department said police are aware of the divorce case but are don't have a clear motive for the crime.

"On the surface, we have nothing more than the divorce proceeding," Nightengale said. "We don't have any strong motive leading to this level of violence."

He noted that detectives examined the knife and described it as "really sharp."

Officers arrived at a home on the 14000 block of Flower Street after the woman called 911 about 9 p.m. Monday and found a man tied to a bed and bleeding from his crotch, according to a Garden Grove police news release.

Catherine Kieu Becker, 48, who identified herself as the victim’s wife, told police she had drugged her husband’s dinner to make him sleepy, then tied him to the bed.

As he awoke, she cut off his penis with a knife, tossed it in the garbage disposal and turned the disposal on.

Police untied the victim, who was taken UCI Medical Center, where he underwent emergency surgery.

Becker was arrested on charges of aggravated mayhem, false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, administering a drug with intent to commit a felony, poisoning and spousal abuse.

Police said Becker and her husband, 51, were going through a divorce and that she told officers he “deserved it.”

The severe nature of the crime led detectives to classify it as “aggravated mayhem,” an offense punishable by up to life in prison, Nightengale said.

“You're not just depriving a person of a member or portion of their body or disfiguring them,” he said, “you're doing something that's so egregious we're not sure what's going to happen: if they're going to be able to reattach this or repair this person after such a violent attack.

“The intention by this person was to permanently deprive this victim of his genitalia,” Nightengale added.

The victim, who was not identified, told detectives Becker made him dinner, but he believed something was wrong with his food. He went to lie down and woke up to find himself tied to the bed, with his wife tugging his clothes off, he said, and then cut off his penis.

The victim went into surgery before detectives could get further details.

Investigators searched the home and recovered a rope and a knife.



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Woman accused in penis attack may have tainted victim's tofu soup
July 22, 2011 |  7:54 am
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Catherine Kieu Becker, center, speakes to Vietnamese language interpreter Bao Luu, left,
and public defender Frank Bittar in court Friday. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times


A Garden Grove woman charged with cutting off her husband's penis served him a strange-tasting tofu soup that police believe was poisoned, according to a law enforcement source.

Detectives have sent evidence to a laboratory to try to determine what kind of poison was used, the source said.

The suspect, Catherine Kieu Becker, is scheduled to appear in court Friday for arraignment, but the hearing may be postponed.

Becker, 48, faces one felony count each of torture and aggravated mayhem with sentencing enhancements for great bodily injury and personal use of a knife. Orange County prosecutors charge that she cut off her husband's penis and threw it in a garbage disposal after drugging him and tying him to a bed.

If convicted on all counts, she faces a maximum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole.

The law enforcement source told The Times that a dispute over an "inappropriate relationship" may have been the motive in the case.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing, said the couple had argued earlier in the day and that Becker was angry at the husband over a relationship. Police said that when they confronted the woman, she said her husband "deserved it."

Becker, a real estate broker, lived with her husband, identified by prosecutors only as John Doe, in a Garden Grove apartment.

Officials said the husband told police that his wife served him dinner and that he went to bed about 9 p.m. on July 11. Officials believe he might have been suffering the effects of the tainted soup, the law enforcement source said. While he was sleeping, she "tied the victim's legs and arms to the four corners of the bed with nylon ropes," prosecutors said in court papers.

The victim told authorities that when he woke up, his wife pulled down his pants, "grabbing the victim’s penis and severing it with a knife." She then took the penis to the kitchen and threw it in the garbage disposal, "turning it on and mutilating the organ."

She then called 911, officials said.

The husband underwent surgery but the severed organ could not be reattached.

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