An Ohio husband who claimed his spouse stabbed herself 17 occasions to loss of life after she informed him she wished to separate has been charged along with her homicide following a four-month investigation, based on police.
Kyle Lengthy, 35, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly murdering his spouse, Rachel Lengthy, contained in the couple’s half-a-million-dollar London, Ohio, dwelling simply after 4 p.m. on Oct. 23, 2025.
He informed police that his 32-year-old spouse and the mom of their two daughters had returned dwelling from work earlier than she went into the grasp rest room as he labored at his desk.
Kyle Lengthy claimed that he then witnessed Rachel stabbing herself repeatedly within the neck and face a short while later, based on an arrest warrant seen by The Put up.
Rachel Lengthy was found on the toilet flooring subsequent to the bathroom in a pool of blood with what gave the impression to be stab wounds to the neck, face, arms and arms, the court docket report said.
She was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Police ordered Kyle Lengthy to strip out of his garments so they may take a look at the articles for DNA and doc any accidents on his physique.
He was subsequently dropped at the Madison County Sheriff’s Workplace for questioning, the place he revealed his spouse had requested to separate from their marriage.
Officers didn’t reveal how lengthy it was between the separation request and Rachel Lengthy’s loss of life.
Throughout the investigation, officers recovered textual content messages between Rachel Lengthy and a good friend moments earlier than her loss of life that didn’t present any indicators of suicidal ideas as the 2 ladies mentioned the outfits they had been sporting to a live performance the subsequent night time.
A four-minute hole between the final textual content message and a 911 name from her husband’s cellphone helped slender down the order of occasions that came about inside the house, police alleged in arresting paperwork.
Kyle Lengthy claimed he by no means known as 911 twice — regardless of his cellphone log revealing he had positioned a name 4 minutes earlier than a second name linked to the emergency dispatch.
In a second spherical of questioning, Kyle Lengthy supplied “conflicting” solutions that didn’t correlate along with his preliminary statements and the proof discovered inside his dwelling that indicated a “battle between two people,” police mentioned.
A 360-degree scan of the home clued investigators into the scene on the time of the stabbing and located Kyle Lengthy couldn’t have seen his spouse stabbing herself from the place he claims to have been sitting.
Moreover, he claimed his spouse had solely used her proper hand to stab herself.
An post-mortem on Rachel Lengthy’s physique uncovered a number of “defensive” wounds together with cuts to her proper arm and hand that will’ve been unattainable for her to make if she was solely utilizing her proper hand.
At the very least 17 “sharp power accidents” had been found on Rachel Lengthy.
Rachel, who ran her personal pet grooming service, was remembered for her love of animals.
“An animal lover at coronary heart, she additionally was lively in rescuing canine. She was an avid reader and liked attending rock live shows,” her obituary learn.
Her loss of life was dominated a murder by the Montgomery County Coroner’s Workplace.
An arrest warrant was issued for Kyle Lengthy, accusing him of “purposely inflicting the loss of life of Rachel.”
He’s being held on a $1.5 million bond. No plea was entered into the case as of Saturday.
