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An Australian ax murderer Googled “killing someone with axe what part of the body to go for,” before repeatedly hacking her boyfriend in the head in a jealous rage, prosecutors said in court Friday.

The 34-year-old, identified only by the pseudonym Gina Smith, searched online for where to aim her weapon before butchering her longtime partner in September 2020, the New South Wales Supreme Court heard at her sentencing hearing.

Smith called a taxi after the gruesome research and had the driver wait outside of a shop as she bought a Trojan brand hatchet — which she then used to repeatedly chop her boyfriend as he lay reading his iPad in a Sydney townhouse, according to The Guardian.

Smith — who allegedly stabbed her 35-year-old partner with a meat cleaver the month before — sent him furious him text messages accusing him of cheating on her the day before his slaughter, according to court documents.


  34-year-old Gina Smith was arrested for allegedly stabbing her partner with an ax after accusing him of cheating the day before. ABC News 34-year-old Gina Smith was arrested for allegedly stabbing her partner with an ax after accusing him of cheating the day before. ABC News

In the weeks before the butchering she searched “how to poison someone,” “can you kill someone with hot boiling water” and “killing someone in the neck fast,” Australia’s ABC news.

Shortly before the attack, she also Googled, “killing someone with an axe what part of body to go for,” the court heard.

Smith, who wasn’t named for legal reasons, has since pleaded guilty to murder.

Prosecutor Gabrielle Steedman presented her online search history as evidence of premeditation in the sentencing submission presented in court Friday.


  The 34-year-old woman googled “killing someone with an axe what part of the body to go for” before repeatedly striking her boyfriend with an axe.
 The 34-year-old woman googled “killing someone with an axe what part of the body to go for” before repeatedly striking her boyfriend with an axe.

Defense attorney Bernadette O’Reilly described the couple’s relationship as volatile and said Smith’s boyfriend had been convicted of violent offenses against her as well in 2010, 2011, and in March 2019.

At the time of the killing, she had been placed on an apprehended violence order due to the previous meat cleaver attack.

Smith’s boyfriend’s victim died of multiple chop wounds to his head.

She still awaits sentencing.

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