How Much Peanut Butter to Cover a Dead Body

CATEGORY: Murder, Peanut Butter, Condiments

DIVISION: Modern Evil

NOTE: Corporeal condiments vary depending on whether a body is living or not. Popular live body spices include chocolate, cinnamon or cloves, while dead bodies do better with a lye-based rub [to quicken degradation]. Slathering your murder victim with peanut butter is a new one for us though - but duly noted, we will put it to the test in our labs.












MURDERER'S GOOEY PEANUT BUTTER PLOY

By REUVEN BLAU and ERIN CALABRESE

Slain Long Island teacher Leah Walsh's allegedly homicidal husband slathered peanut butter on her body before dumping her in a ditch in the hope that wild animals would get rid of the evidence, sources told The Post.

The heinous revelation comes as waitress Donna Lepore, 24, admitted she had an affair with Walsh's husband, William Walsh.

When Leah's naked body was discovered Oct. 29, say Nassau County law-enforcement and medical-examiner sources, she was slathered in peanut butter.

The grisly method of disposal was only partially effective, said sources. The corpse was found by a worker from the North Hills Country Club in a wooded area about 50 feet from the westbound Long Island Expressway.

Detectives are looking into whether accused killer William had help in preparing the body for disposal and dumping it, a source said.

Cops say William, 29, confessed to strangling his wife during a 3 a.m. fight Oct. 26 over his infidelities. He dumped her body, set things up to appear like she had been abducted, and made emotional pleas for her return, investigators said.

Lepore, a steakhouse waitress, says she had an affair with William but broke things off a year ago.

"Just because I had a past with him doesn't mean I know anything," she told The Post.