Gravely ill woman kills son, is freed, kills husband

A Bulgarian woman who killed her son was released from prison because of terminal cancer. She then went home and killed her husband.

The 57-year-old was sentenced to 15 years in jail for killing her 29-year-old son with a garden hoe in April 2005 while he was sleeping.

Last month, authorities judged her to be in the final stages of cancer and let her go home, where she stabbed her husband in the throat with a knife.

The woman, from a village in eastern Bulgaria, has been taken into custody again and is awaiting a new trial.

"She threatened that, if she is released again, she will kill her second son as well," a police spokeswoman said.

"The whole case is like something from the twilight zone."