US man decapitates wife and pet dogs ’to get the evil out’

An Arizona man who admitted decapitating his wife and her two dogs in a bloody incident last month, in Phoenix, told authorities he was attempting “to get the evil out” of her, according to court documents.

Kenneth Dale Wakefield, 43, also told police that he had smoked marijuana and the designer drug Spice about an hour before the gruesome killings in an apartment on the morning of July 25.

Wakefield, a transient with a history of mental illness who also maimed himself, was booked into a Maricopa County jail on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of animal cruelty, after being released from a local hospital.