Imprisoned South Bay restaurateur comes clean in bid for parole: He cooked his wife’s body

David Viens had already been convicted of murdering his wife when he tried to convince a judge that the most revolting aspect of his crime — revealed in a confession to police that reverberated across the country — wasn’t true.

The Lomita restaurateur, in a futile 45-minute attempt to delay his sentencing and reopen his case without a lawyer, claimed he was suffering from hallucinations caused by painkillers when he told detectives he had boiled his wife’s body, poured the liquified remains...