After less than a day of deliberating, a California jury convicted Catherine Kieu of torture and aggravated mayhem for cutting off her estranged husband’s penis and mangling it in a garbage disposal.
On March 7, 1985, while free on bond awaiting trial for the rape of a teenage girl, Wayne DuMond claimed he was savagely attacked by two men who castrated him with a razor blade and fishing wire. No arrests were made in the attack, and some believed DuMond castrated himself.
Officers in Freemont, California, responded to a 2 a.m. call Wednesday about a man, 20, who had cut off his penis with an X-Acto knife. The victim, whose name is being withheld, was reportedly not, that’s right, not under the influence of drugs or alcohol,
