RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Just released court documents claim a former Wake County teacher has confessed to killing her husband.
In a search warrant made public Thursday, a Wake County Sheriff's investigator wrote Joanna Madonna " ...admitted to killing Jose Perez and claimed to have had to use a pistol and knife to kill him in defense of herself."
The 48-year-old was charged on Father's Day weekend in 2013 with the murder of the 64-year-old Perez.
She has been in jail since then and is scheduled for trial in September.
Although Madonna is said to have claimed she killed Perez in self-defense, investigators point out in the search warrant that she didn't call police when she felt threatened or to report killing her husband.
They said she left his body lying beside a ditch in northern Wake County, and when confronted initially, told investigators she didn't know where her husband was.
In fact, they said she told them the 64-year old left on foot with a suitcase to have an affair with another woman and had been hanging out with drug users.
It was her children who provided police with early information that made her the prime suspect in the case.
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