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Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Who Has Been Cheated On!

By David Lohr

The original quotation that the title of this article was taken from, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned or, sometimes, hell hath no fury like a woman spurned, is actually from a 1697 play called The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve. Given the nature of this article, it seemed appropriate to use a variation of that line from the play here. Rajini Narayan, 44, of Adelaide, South Australia, seems to fit in there somewhere because on Monday, December 7, 2008, she allegedly set fire to her husband's genitalia while he was sleeping after she purportedly saw him hugging another woman and presumed that he was having an affair. Her husband, Satish Narayan, 47, an engineer by profession, lived for 20 days after the fire attack, but succumbed to his injuries on Saturday, December 27, 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).