A 45-year-old woman who killed her wife with a sword during an argument has been sentenced to 37 years to life in prison.
The Los Angeles Times reports that on Oct. 28, Weichien Huang was convicted of the murder of her 47-year-old wife Chen Chen Fei, and the attempted murder of Fei’s mother during a vicious attack on July 18, 2024.
In addition to first-degree murder and attempted murder, Weichien was also convicted of corporal injury on a spouse and destroying or damaging a cellphone to prevent notifying police to seek help.
Those counts came from an incident that happened a little over a year prior to the killing when Weichien threw a cellphone at Fei’s face during an argument. Then, Weichien allegedly broke it by throwing it on the ground when her wife declared that she’d call 911.
On the day of the murder, prosecutors alleged that the couple were arguing about getting divorced when Weichien picked up the katana that they kept in their house and stabbed her wife with it 13 times, killing her.
When Fei’s mother, Hsi Wei Huang, entered the room and discovered her daughter, Weichen swung the katana at her multiple times — leading to Huang grabbing it by the blade and fleeing the home with it.
When legal authorities arrived at the couple’s home, they discovered Fei, who was already dead, and Weichien, who had attempted to end her own life.
During Weichien’s sentencing, Huang called into the courtroom from Taiwan and provided a statement through a Mandarin interpreter, saying that her daughter-in-law “was using the sword trying to suck as much blood from people like a vampire.”
“She was enjoying [seeing] the blood coming out,” said Huang. “There was no regret at all, acting like a vampire. Trying to kill us all. She doesn’t show any regret at all.”
