Eugene Zapata
by Finally after a long gap of more than 30 years Eugene Zapata has come ahead to confess his heinous crime, the murder of his wife Jannet Zapata. But has the confession healed the wound created by his killing?
Finally, after a long gap of thirty years Eugene Zapata, former resident of Madison got punished for the cold blooded murder he had committed. It was his wife Janette whom Eugene had murdered in a moment of fury.
The murder was cleverly concealed all these days. His criminal mind had played all possible tricks to avert punishment. He chopped the corpse into small pieces and buried in a great number of pits . The only witness to the murder, his youngest daughter was silenced by deadly threat.
But, finally, he had to confess. Most of the mysterious murder cases had such a final twist.
Some psychologists argue that the feeling of guilt cannot be suppressed for ever. Someone make confession in the court but most of them prefer to reveal the truth in the final days or hours of his life.
In Eugene’s case it took thirty long years to make a confession. The prosecutors narrated his confession as follows:
Eugene Zapata went to his wife Janette’s house sometime in 1976. There was an argument between the couples which finally made him wild with anger. He hit his wife on her head with a metallic object ( a draftsman’s tool) repeatedly. He then pushed her down and strangled her until his hands hurt. He then wrapped a cord around her neck. By that time she was apparently dead.
Eugene wrapped her body in a tent and drove it into a plot of land near Highway 151 and hid it there. After some time he took the body to a piece of land he owned in Juneau county. The body remained there for 24years. He removed the body from there when he decided to sell the plot of land. He took it to Sun prairy storage locker. There he cut the body into pieces and later disposed of at Mauston landfill. The body was dumped into numerous dumpsters in the landfill. There was no way to recover the remains of the body saidBrian Blanchard , the Dane county District Attorney.
Linda Zapata, the youngest daughter of Eugene and Janette Zapata told his father: ‘ By confessing Mom’s murder you have given me and others a precious gift ,a chance to grieve, mourn and heal. Mom deserved the truth about what really happened that morning and I thank you for finally giving her that’. She added that she still loved her father and forgiven him although she didn’t condone what he had done.
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