Husband, 68, arrested for murder (2)

(ANSA) - Cuneo, August 29 - Police on Monday arrested a man shortly after he murdered his wife in a converted farmhouse in the Piedmont village of Caramagna Piemonte.
    The victim, aged 71, was found lying in a pool of blood after a neighbor alerted Carabinieri police.
    The couple's son reportedly witnessed the crime and has been hospitalized in a state of shock. The alleged perpetrator, 68, was tracked down in the village square shortly after.
    He was taken to jail where he refused to confess but did make what police called "partial admissions".
    Police said the woman died of five stab wounds.