{"id":2498,"date":"2022-06-04T17:46:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathanddisease.com\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2022-06-04T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:46:25","slug":"murdered-with-a-stone-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathanddisease.com\/murdered-with-a-stone-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Murdered with a Stone Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was it the lead piping in the billiard room or the candle stick in the library? No, it was the stone frog in the garden&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf3f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t1e\/1\/16\/1f33f.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc38\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t31\/1\/16\/1f438.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf3f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t1e\/1\/16\/1f33f.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leigh Ann Sabine murdered her husband by inflicting (to quote the police) \u201cblunt force head trauma\u201d with a stone frog. She then wrapped his corpse in 41 layers of plastic and put it in her garden \u2013 telling everyone it was a medical skeleton. Weirdly, she later posed amongst her plants for a magazine doing a feature on Welsh gardens&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf3c\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t9b\/1\/16\/1f33c.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd33\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tf1\/1\/16\/1f933.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf3b\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t1a\/1\/16\/1f33b.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Mrs Sabine died (18 years later), a neighbour went to borrow the skeleton to prank her new boyfriend<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc80\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t44\/1\/16\/1f480.png\">&nbsp;On finding mummified remains, the neighbour alerted the police, who promptly locked her up for 4 nights on a charge of murder. It was only after further tests on the body (still wearing M&amp;S pyjamas<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc56\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t6d\/1\/16\/1f456.png\">) that the real story came out.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/bemorefrank?__eep__=6&amp;__tn__=*NK*F\">#bemorefrank<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was it the lead piping in the billiard room or the candle stick in the library? No, it was the stone frog in the garden&nbsp; Leigh Ann Sabine murdered her husband by inflicting (to quote the police) \u201cblunt force head trauma\u201d with a stone frog. 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