Some people won't face the truth if it slaps them in the face, kicks them in the arse, and punches

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them in the stomach.

Case in point (This was on 48 HOURS MYSTERY last Saturday):


When Jean Zapata vanished from her home in Madison, Wis., in 1976, she left behind her daughter Linda, two other children, a lot of friends, and a mystery that would take more than 30 years to solve…

.After three decades, two investigations and one trial, Eugene is about to break his silence and tell a chilling story.

…Eugene (Zapata, husband of Jean), who had lied to all his children, broke his silence, and told his story to (Detective) Statz.

Eugene told Statz that he had gone over to the house, and that shortly thereafter, an argument broke out. It turned violent in the kitchen, he said, when he grabbed a paperweight and hit Jean in the back of the head.

Statz says Jean lay on the ground still alive; the detective says Eugene then strangled her. "He told me that he didn't have an actual memory of his hands on her throat. But he had a memory of his hands and his forearms hurting a lot. He got a cord, like a tent cord, and wrapped that around her neck to make sure that she was dead."

According to Eugene’s statement, he cleaned up the kitchen and began a grisly 30 year odyssey with Jean’s body, burying it, exhuming it, and re-burying it. He claims his wife was never in the crawlspace. He says for 25 years, she was buried in a vacant lot he bought right after the murder. Then he says he moved her to the storage locker, where she stayed until April 2005, when Eugene heard the case had been reopened. Then he says he came back here, cut her body into pieces and took her to the landfill. ..

In that written statement he sent to 48 Hours, Eugene says the real reason he took the plea was to avoid the expense and embarrassment of a second trial. In fact, in spite of his plea his wife and two other children continue to believe he's innocent. But Linda however believes the truth is finally out.

Linda has been cut off from her immediate family. Her father, brother and sister no longer speak to her.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/16/48hours/main4526029.shtml