Muncie, IN: Muncie man doesn't remember stabbing his wife to death

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Detectives say late Saturday night Tom had gone to bed while his wife Crystal and a 14-year-old friend of the family stayed in another room. Officers say Tom grabbed a dagger hanging on the wall and stabbed his wife in the stomach.

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8:02 AM EST, December 15, 2009


A central Indiana man admits to police that he likely killed his wife with a dagger, but he doesn't remember it.

"I think I just killed my wife."

Tom and Crystal Curtis got married seven years ago. Their family and friends say they never knew of any marital problems.

"No fighting. Nothing"

That's why people in the Muncie mobile home community were stunned to find out that officers had arrested Tom, accusing him of stabbing his wife to death with a dagger.

"He talked to everybody here. I mean he said hi to everybody, tried to help a lot of people here."

"I went to bed and I just woke up and she's got....I don't know...I don't know..I'd never hurt anyone..and she's got a knife in her belly. Hurry up...please, please."

Detectives say late Saturday night Tom had gone to bed while his wife Crystal and a 14-year-old friend of the family stayed in another room. Officers say Tom grabbed a dagger hanging on the wall and stabbed his wife in the stomach.

"He went to bed and woke up dreaming and from the military he thought he was in a fight or something and killed my sister in law."

Tom told officers he doesn't remember grabbing anything or walking into the living room. He says he has voices in his head that will not leave him alone. Tom's brother says Tom had been in the military for 13 years, and suffered from Post traumatic stress disorder.

"He didn't mean to do anything. He would never hurt her. He was on medication. Multiple. Like 8 or 9 different meds."

But Tom didn't take his medications the night officers say he killed his wife.

Tom Curtis is being held without bond in the Delaware County jail.