ELMHURST — A man who killed his wife and wrote a suicide note in her name — before going to work as a dishwasher where he washed the blood from his shoes — was sentenced to 18 years in prison this week, the Queens District Attorney said.
Luis Paguay, 43, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in June after admitting he stabbed his wife, Maria Paguay, 39, in the neck and chest between Dec. 3 and Dec. 4, 2014.
He then left behind a fake suicide note on behalf of his wife, who police said was estranged from him.
Paguay then went to his job as a dishwasher at Ducale Restaurant in Whitestone, where surveillance video captured him washing the blood from his shoes, police said.
Maria Paguay was found by her 19-year-old son on Dec. 4 after he came home from school.
“Although the defendant ultimately took responsibility for his violent crime by pleading guilty to manslaughter, he first tried to make it appear that his wife took her own life by writing a suicide note in her name and letting her 19-year-old son discover his mother’s bloody remains upon returning home from school," said DA Richard Brown, who called the sentence a "just resolution."
