A Brazilian man turned himself in to the police after he said he murdered his wife because she bit his finger while having sex. 

Marcos Paulino confessed to the São Paulo Civil Police that he stabbed his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia, while she was sleeping at their home in the municipality of Caconde. 

Paulino said he was upset after his 38-year-old wife bit one of his fingers on his left hand. 

He waited until she fell asleep and attacked her with a kitchen knife. 




Marcos Paulino (right) turned himself in to the police in the Brazilian southeastern city of Caconde on Monday and confessed to murdering his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia (left), because she had bitten his finger while they were having sex





The São Paulo Secretariat of Public Security said in  statement that Tatiéle de Cássia (pictured) had 'holes in the chest and neck' as a result of being stabbed by her husband Marcos Paulino





The knife used by Marcos Paulino to allegedly murder his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia, was recovered at their home in Caconde, a city in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo

'After she changed (her clothes) and went back to bed and slept, he stabbed her in the neck and chest, killing her,' Civil Police chief João Delfino told Brazilian news outlet G1. 

Paulino fled the home and was in hiding in the countryside region near Caconde before he returned Monday and turned himself in a local Military Police station.

Authorities went to the couple's home and found de Cássia's body 'with holes in the chest and neck, caused by a knife,' said São Paulo Secretariat of Public Security said in a statement.

Paulino killer told investigators that he had 'used cocaine' before killing de Cássia, Delfino said in an interview with EPTV. 




Marcos Paulino fled the home after killing his wife Sunday night and turned himself in to the São Paulo Military Police 





Marcos Paulino (right) is facing 12 to 30 years in prison if he is convicted of murdering his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia





The couple started dating in October 2023 and moved in together in January 

The couple started dating in October 2023 and moved in together in January.

Paulino is facing a femicide charge and faces up to 12 to 30 years in prison if convicted. 

According to figures released in March by Brazil's Forum for Public Security, a total of 1,463 women were victims of femicide in 2023, an estimate of 1.4 deaths for every 100,000 women. 

Brazil has registered 10,655 femicides since 2015 when the government passed a law that described it as murder 'caused by domestic or family violence due to the condition of the female sex.'

'We cannot normalize the deaths of more than 10,000 women murdered in less than a decade just because they are women,' said Samira Bueno, Huusk Erfahrungsbericht the director of Brazil's Forum for Public Security, in a statement.

'This topic has been the object of numerous debates by civil society, but this is not enough to reduce the number of these crimes committed each day in Brazil.'