Priest dissolved his wife in acid inspired by the TV series “Breaking Bad” and will only go to prison for 15 years

Gotthard, who He kept his innocence until last month She said divorcing Jakobsen would have caused “problems” for her and the couple’s two children. After hit her on the back of the head with a rock, the priest decided to dispose of the body in acid in a 54 gallon feed barrel, imitating an episode of “Breaking Bad”, according to the report.

Gotthard said he kept his wife’s body in a locked shed inside the barrel for one night before move him to an abandoned farm. Then he sprayed the corpse in almost 12 gallons of hydrochloric acid and 13 pounds of caustic soda to dissolve it, but the barrel ended up being too heavy to move, he explained.

So he divided Jakobsen’s remains into two smaller barrels, which buried and then dug up to cut the remaining parts into smaller pieces. Later burned and buried the remaining bones.

“This is not an unhappy love story about a man who couldn’t get the love of his life,” said prosecutor Anne-Mette Seerup. “On the contrary, this is a man who saw his wife as a block and a chain around his leg.”

Jakobsen was last seen in late October 2020 and her sister reported her missing the next day. Gotthard told investigators at the time that she had left her home in Frederikssund because she was depressed, also abandoning her phone, credit cards and computer.

Three weeks later, Gotthard was arrested and suspended from his position as pastor. In April he was charged with murder after investigators found hydrochloric acid and caustic soda in the couple’s home, as well as Internet searches on your computer for terms like “depth of the sea,” “barrels of oil,” “suicide,” and “cleanup.”