Chef cooked wife for four days

A chef was found guilty today of murdering his wife after he told police he cooked her body for four days in boiling water to get rid of the evidence.

David Viens, 49, pleaded not guilty to murdering his 39-year-old wife Dawn in late 2009. Her body has never been found.

In a recorded interrogation presented by prosecutors during the trial in Los Angeles, US, Viens could be heard saying he cooked her body for four days.

The chef spoke to authorities from a hospital bed in March last year after leaping off an 80-foot cliff in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Authorities say he jumped after learning he was a suspect in her disappearance.