‘Exceeded myself’: Man claims self-defense after stabbing wife over 40 times and bashing her head with a hammer, prosecutors say

An Illinois man is behind bars for brutally slaughtering his wife with a knife and a hammer, cops in the Land of Lincoln say.

Hector Luvianos-Barrera, 37, stands accused of two counts of murder in the first degree, according to the Batavia Police Department.

The underlying incident occurred during the early morning hours on Tuesday at an apartment on Church Street in Batavia – a small town located on the western edge of the Chicagoland metro area…

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