A Texas man told cops he blasted his fiancee in the head with a shotgun and then lived with her rotting corpse for over a week, allegedly laying with it “for approximately three days” at one point, before fleeing due to the smell, according to police.

“He wanted to lay with [the victim],” Denton Police allege in William Oddo III’s arrest affidavit, according to local Fox affiliate KDFW . Oddo allegedly told detectives this when asked why he cleaned the crime scene after shooting LaVera Wardell, 39, last month, the Denton Police Department reports.

Oddo, 52, claims Wardell ran at him with a knife while the two were arguing and he gunned her down in self-defense, according to the affidavit. He allegedly told detectives he chose not to call police because he “did not want to talk about the

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