'My husband is mine even after death'

MANILA, Philippines - A woman who killed her husband in a mall where he worked Wednesday night had written a letter to her husband’s alleged mistress, police said yesterday.

“My husband is mine even after death, ” Shella Macapugay wrote in Filipino.

The letter was among the items found inside Shella’s bag after she was arrested when she failed to kill herself, said Inspector Elmer Monsalve, head of the homicide investigation section of the Quezon City Police District.

Shella shot her husband, Abel, in the head and also killed a security guard who stopped her from shooting herself. Abel worked as a salesclerk at the mall.

In her letter to the alleged other woman, Shella called the latter a “whore.”

“What did you think, my husband is yours for life? You are mistaken! I will not let you steal my husband from me,” she said.

Shella also asked the mistress, “What does it feel like to lose a loved one? Painful? I want you to experience how painful it is to lose a loved one. How does it feel to live without Abel?”

Shella also purportedly wrote to the management of the mall and complained about the alleged other woman, who also works there.

“If she had not stolen my husband from me, this would not happen. Our family would not be broken up and our child would not lose her mother and father,” she said.

The letter even talked about “evidence” of the supposed extra-marital affair that Shella said could be found in the other woman’s house: a child she said resembled her husband.

Shella underwent inquest proceedings Friday night for parricide and murder.