CA CA - Dawn Viens, 37, Lomita, 18 Oct 2009 - *D. Viens Guilty*

[CatFancier]

Friends of a slain Lomita woman whose body has never been found will hold a candlelight vigil tonight outside the restaurant where she worked.

The vigil to remember Dawn Viens, 39, will begin at 6 p.m. in the 24400 block of Narbonne Avenue, said Viens' friend, Joe Cacace.

Tuesday marks the two-year anniversary of her disappearance.

Her husband, David Viens, said she left him, but 16 months later he confessed to killing her, sheriff's deputies said.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/crimeandcourts/ci_19132221

 

[CatFancier]

Friends of a slain Lomita woman whose body has never been found will hold a candlelight vigil tonight outside the restaurant where she worked.

The vigil to remember Dawn Viens, 39, will begin at 6 p.m. in the 24400 block of Narbonne Avenue, said Viens' friend, Joe Cacace.

Tuesday marks the two-year anniversary of her disappearance.

Her husband, David Viens, said she left him, but 16 months later he confessed to killing her, sheriff's deputies said.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/crimeandcourts/ci_19132221

 

[truthsleuth]

From http://www.dailybreeze.com/crimeandcourts/ci_19132221

Viens owned the Thyme Contemporary Cafe on Narbonne Avenue with his mother, Sandra Viens. At one point, detectives and coroner's officials dug up the restaurant's floor in search of his wife's body, but did not locate anything.
The restaurant was repaired and opened recently as Lulu's of Lomita, still owned by Sandra Viens. Lulu was the name of David Viens' grandmother.

KG is the restaurant's general manager. She was David's girlfriend after his wife disappeared, moved in the day after Dawn disappeared, and took over Dawn's job as hostess. On the day DV jumped from a cliff, KG was with him. I am a bit astounded she is still connected to the Viens family. IMOO

 

[JoeFromLB]

It has taken awhile, but the preliminary hearing finally started today.

David Viens is disabled and in a wheelchair from jumping off the cliff in Palos Verdes.

Dawn Viens' body has still not been found.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/crimeand...ring-begins-dawn-viens-murder-case?source=rss

 

[Leomoon80]

Such a strange story but one that is often repeated in one form or another.

 

[JoeFromLB]

Testimony: Viens admitted to daughter, girlfriend that he killed his wife

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_20376194/untitled?source=rss

A Lomita restaurateur admitted to his daughter and his girlfriend that he killed his wife by taping her mouth shut overnight because he was upset that she was keeping him awake with incessant talking, court testimony revealed Wednesday.

 

[Rhyme & Reason]

Testimony: Viens admitted to daughter, girlfriend that he killed his wife

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_20376194/untitled?source=rss

A Lomita restaurateur admitted to his daughter and his girlfriend that he killed his wife by taping her mouth shut overnight because he was upset that she was keeping him awake with incessant talking, court testimony revealed Wednesday.

BBM - Wow! I'm speechless...

 

[JoeFromLB]

Viens to stand trial for murder, arraignment scheduled for April 26.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/crimeand...id-viens-stand-trial-wifes-killing?source=rss

excerpt:
Police said Viens confessed to the killing while hospitalized last year. On Feb. 23, 2011, he jumped from a Rancho Palos Verdes cliff when a news article identified him as a "person of interest" in the case.

 

[mikkismom]

Restaurant owner's daughter testifies in father's murder trial


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-restaurateur-20120914,0,6331732.story


"Jacqueline Viens recounts a drunken talk with David Viens in which he said his wife choked to death on her own vomit after he tied her up and taped her mouth."

 

[Leomoon80]

Restaurant owner's daughter testifies in father's murder trial


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-restaurateur-20120914,0,6331732.story


"Jacqueline Viens recounts a drunken talk with David Viens in which he said his wife choked to death on her own vomit after he tied her up and taped her mouth."

ugh, how awful he did this and bragged about it? .....

 

[seattlechiquita]

omg... not familiar with this case at all but the daughter suggesting that since DV is a cook, he would joke about cooking a body gives me the eeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkk

 

[annemc2]

Just...whoa.

David Viens walked into his living room and panicked. He discovered that he had accidentally killed his wife, he said, and wanted to get rid of her body.

The chef said he thought of how easily he disposed of grease in his restaurant. So, he said, he stuffed his wife's body, face-down, into a drum of boiling water — and cooked it. For four days.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-restaurateur-20120919,0,6659417.story

 

[Kat]

This is just horrifying.

I wonder if the daughter who testified is the same daughter who sent the text message to cover for her Dad pretending she was Dawn? Also didn't a daughter help the dad dispose of Dawn's belongings? I wonder if it's the same daughter if she got a deal to testify. Just curious.

Rest in Peace Dawn.

 

[TrackerSam]

a taped interviewed played in court Tuesday, a Southern California chef on trial for allegedly killing his wife told police he slow cooked her body then dumped it out as kitchen waste.

Dawn Viens disappeared in 2009 and police identified her husband David – the chef at the former Thyme Café in Torrance – as a prime suspect.

In 2011, investigators dug up the Thyme Café, which Dawn co-owned, searching for her body. But in a taped interview played Tuesday in court, David Viens seemed to tell police why her remains may never be found.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...Prosecutors-He-Cooked-His-Wife-170290636.html

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Just read this on my homepage and was ready to post it! You're quick, TS

LA chef admits cooking wife's body
Associated Press,
1 hour ago

A chef on trial Tuesday for his wife's murder told sheriff's investigators that they couldn't find his wife's body because he had cooked it for four days in boiling water until little was left but her skull.

Los Angeles Superior Court jurors heard David Viens make the statements in a recorded interview with sheriff's investigators that was played in court during his murder trial.

"I just slowly cooked it and I ended up cooking her for four days," Viens could be heard saying on the recording, according to the Los Angeles Times... ( http://lat.ms/RsbncL ).

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20120919/AP.Calif_Chef_Murder/?cid=hero_media

 

[JenniferTx]

I just don't even know what to say!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

I just don't even know what to say!

Bon Appetit?

Dee-lish?

Yum-o?

Lip-smackin' good?

:slap:

 

[21merc7]

His last name is not helping. :giggle:

What would you ever slow cook in a 55 gal drum, and where?

What happens to the grease he put whatever was left in?

Jumped off a cliff only to end up alive, in a wheelchair, and still on trial for murder. You can't make this stuff up. This one is full of oddity.

 

[Merical2]

I just put a chicken in the crockpot for dinner....I kinda feel sick.

 

[angelwngs]

In his confession he said he had just worked 100 hours at the opening of his new restaurant and he was trying to sleep when his wife interrupted, wanting him to do cocaine with her. He stated he didn't like cocaine 'how cocaine made him feel' and didn't want to do any.

Excuse me, but... how could he have worked a 100 hour work week without a stimulant? And if he hated the way coke made him feel...how on Earth could 'that feeling' have been any worse that how he felt when he was 'triggered' to tape his wife up, kill her and slow-cook her body, draining the body fats into the grease drain of his restaurant???!!!