In the dark: Elizabeth Rudavsky had no idea husband Angelo Heddington was a woman (Picture: ID TV)

A battered wife stabbed her husband to death only to learn he was really a woman wearing a false penis.

Elizabeth Rudavsky plunged a 30cm (12in) butcher’s knife into Angelo Heddington’s chest after enduring beatings for seven months.

But on the way to hospital paramedics discovered a prosthetic penis under Heddington’s clothes.

Ms Rudavsky, 27, married Heddington, 30, after a four-month whirlwind romance and was unaware of his secret. Heddington, who was born Angela, claimed a previous girlfriend had burned his genitals and insisted on sexual intercourse with the lights out.

Ms Rudavsky told Investigation Discovery’s Fatal Vows: Secrets Of A Dying Man: ‘I never saw nothin’. Things were dark.’



She maintained she loved her husband, who threatened her with guns and beat her with a metal pipe during their relationship.

One attack left Ms Rudavsky with a collapsed lung.

‘It bothered me trying to explain to everyone how I was so happy when I had a big black eye,’ she said. ‘I knew how to pull the wool over people’s eyes. It was one thing that Ang taught me how to do.’

A murder charge was dropped after police concluded Elizabeth acted in self-defence when she killed her husband in 2003. It was later revealed that Angela, from Chatham in Ontario, Canada, had pretended to be male since the age of 14 and had a history of abusive relationships in a male persona.

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