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Cape Girardeau man accused of wrapping self in plastic, threatening to kill wife

By Heartland News

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - A Cape Girardeau man faces charges after threatening to kill his wife.

Officers say 23-year-old Joshua David Wright wrapped himself in trash bags, grocery sacks and pink plastic wrap.

He allegedly told his wife he didn't want to get any blood on himself after he killed her.

His wife told police when she got home Tuesday, she found her husband wrapped in plastic bags from his neck to his feet.

The victim says Joshua Wright displayed a knife with her name written on the blade and a second knife with her ex-boyfriend's name on it.

The victim says Wright saw her eating lunch at a cafe with her ex-boyfriend on Tuesday and became upset.

She says he started yelling, spitting and punching her in the car when she asked him to get out and go to his parents' house. She says then she ran some errands with her mother and came back home to find the door locked and all the window shades in the house up, both of which she found odd. That's when she says she and her mother saw Wright sitting on the couch wrapped in plastic, according to the probable cause statement.

She says Wright had a black trash bag from the neck to the waist, a smaller white trash bag from the waist to the mid knees, each leg wrapped in pink Saran wrap and shoes wrapped in Wal-Mart bags.

Investigators say Wright denies wrapping himself in plastic or threatening his wife. He did admit to writing on the knives, according to the probable cause statement.

Joshua Wright is charged with domestic assault and unlawful use of a weapon.

A preliminary hearing is April 1st.