A Minnesota man accused of stabbing his wife of more than 60 years to death with a kitchen knife said he “lost his mind” as blood was “oozing” from her abdomen.
Rodney Andersen, 85, was arrested and charged Thursday with assaulting his wife, Janet Louise Andersen, 83, at their Annandale home.
Police found the woman lying face up in her kitchen, “bleeding heavily” from multiple stab wounds to her abdomen and with blood “oozing.” court documents show.
“I felt like I was going crazy,” Andersen told Annandale police who responded to the bloody scene.
Andersen said he and his wife of 66 years had gotten into a “big argument” early Thursday morning and admitted to police that he stabbed her, but said he didn't know if she was still alive.
According to court documents, the husband called authorities at 9:54 a.m. and waited outside the front door for authorities to arrive.
Police responded to the home and found Andersen shaking and with his hands over his head on the steps of the home on Norwood Street West, and later found a bloodstained knife in the kitchen sink.
Andersen told police the couple, who had been married since 1958, had been “arguing constantly” and that he “supposed” he had grabbed a weapon from a butcher's stand in the kitchen just before stabbing her.
The man admitted to stabbing his wife at least once somewhere in the “middle” but did not know what kind of force he used, according to the criminal complaint.
The wife was still warm when emergency responders arrived, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Andersen has been charged with second-degree murder and faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted, court documents show. He is currently being held on $1 million bail in the Wright County Jail.
His next court date is Thursday.
