{"id":35957,"date":"2025-11-06T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35957\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:47:20","slug":"i-need-to-sacrifice-you-both-pinellas-county-woman-accused-of-stabbing-husband-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35957\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Need To Sacrifice You Both’: Pinellas County Woman Accused Of Stabbing Husband, Reports Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEMINOLE, FL \u2014 A Seminole woman was arrested for stabbing her husband Tuesday morning after telling him that she needed to \u201csacrifice and kill\u201d him and their son, according to multiple reports. <\/p>\n

The victim, Richard Dedert, woke up at 5 a.m. to his wife, 58-year-old, Karen Dedert, standing over him, WTSP reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n

As he awoke, she asked him, \u201cWhere is our son?\u201d and told him, \u201cI need to sacrifice and kill you both,\u201d reports said. <\/p>\n

Karen tried to stab him with a large knife, he blocked the attack, took the knife from her and locked himself in a bedroom, WFLA said.<\/a> <\/p>\n

When he left the room around 7:45 a.m. to shower, his wife was waiting for him, ambushing him from behind a refrigerator to try and stab him in the stomach, reports said. He defended himself and disarmed Karen again as she yelled, \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you.\u201d <\/p>\n

Though he was cut on the arm, he was able to leave the home and call 911.<\/p>\n

Deputies responded to their home in the 9500 block of Tara Cay Court around 8:15 a.m., IONTB.com<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n

Though she initially refused to speak with investigators after being informed of her Miranda rights, she later said to them, \u201cThese aren\u2019t the clothes I was wearing when I stabbed him,\u201d according to reports. <\/p>\n

Karen was charged with first-degree attempted murder and is being held at the Pinellas County Jail on a $100,000 bond, court records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEMINOLE, FL \u2014 A Seminole woman was arrested for stabbing her husband Tuesday morning after telling him that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-35957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}