Eric Heisig / Houma Courier
HOUMA A 53-year-old is accused of killing his wife in Houma and driving aimlessly with her corpse for about six hours before walking into a Baton Rouge-area police station Wednesday afternoon to tell officers what he had done, authorities said.
Stanley Guidroz, 2621 Madge St., stabbed 47-year-old Pepettra Guidroz multiple times about 5 a.m. Wednesday as the two sat in her car behind Burger King, 1033 W. Tunnel Blvd., police said. He said he did so as the two, married since 2003, argued about their rocky relationship, police said.
Details about the alleged weapon and whether it has been recovered have not been released.
After Pepettra was dead, Stanley drove the 1999 Ford Mustang aimlessly for a while, arriving about noon in Zachary, a city 15 miles north of Baton Rouge and about 100 miles from Houma, police said. The trip typically takes about 2 1/2 hours.
In Zachary, he went to police headquarters and confessed to officers there that he had killed his wife and her body was on the Mustang's back seat, authorities said.
He 'said he wanted to speak to an officer and blurted out that he just killed his wife,' Zachary Police Capt. David McDavid said.
Investigating officers found the car parked behind the station and Pepettra's body inside, McDavid said.
An autopsy could be completed as soon as today in Terrebonne Parish, Terrebonne Coroner's Investigator Gary Alford said.
Stanley Guidroz is charged with second-degree murder. If convicted, he faces a mandatory life prison sentence.
He remained at the East Baton Rouge jail awaiting extradition to Terrebonne Parish. The transfer was scheduled for this afternoon.
Stanley Guidroz has been arrested several times on drug and theft charges in Lafourche and St. Mary parishes but has never been charged with domestic violence, Terrebonne sheriff's Capt. Dawn Foret said.
Efforts to reach Stanley Guidroz's family Wednesday night were unsuccessful.
Family and friends gathered at the Guidrozes' Mechanicville home Wednesday evening. Pepettra was the youngest of 10 children, and the family grew up in Raceland.
Shirley Cleveland, Pepettra's mother, said her daughter was a sweet, caring woman. Stanley, she said, was unreliable and jealous.
Family members said they were shocked at hearing of Pepettra's violent death.
The relationship had soured some time ago, they said, and Pepettra had recently taken Stanley back following a separation.
Fallon Bentley, Pepettra's daughter, shared the Madge Street home with her 2-year-old son, Ricardo, her mother and step-father,
Fallon said saw her mother, a nurse at Chateau Terrebonne Health Care, leave the house Wednesday morning. Fallon said she assumed Pepettra was headed to work.
Later that morning, Fallon said called her mother's cell phone, but it went unanswered.
She said she next called Stanley's phone only to have him answer and quickly hang up.
'She was too good to die the way that she died,' Cleveland said.
Relatives said Stanley frequently acted jealous of any attention Pepettra got, be it from family, friends or strangers.
She was particularly proud of her garden and the car that she allegedly died in. Evangeline Smith, Pepettra's friend, said the Mustang was her baby, and she treated it like one.
'She would turn the music up and wash her car every other day,' Smith said.
Pepettra is the second local woman to die in recent days at the hands of a man she had been in a relationship with, police said.
Sherry Gautreaux, 42, died of a gunshot wound to the chest, her autopsy revealed. Her body was found Monday in a water-filled ditch near the Terrebonne-Lafourche line.
Gautreaux's boyfriend, 52-year-old Darrel Ansardi, has been booked on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with her death.
Like Gautreaux's family, Pepettra's loved ones said they knew something was wrong, but they never thought the relationship would end this way.
Titus Bentley, Pepettra's son, said he knew Stanley beat Pepettra, citing a black eye he alleges Stanley once gave her.
'I asked her what's going on, and she said 'The Lord's going to handle it,' ' Bentley said.
