The incredible story of Leigh Ann Sabine: The woman with the perfect murder who told everyone the truth and was never convicted

Leigh Ann Sabine.
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Leigh Ann was a nurse when she married John Sabine, a man ten years her senior, who she’d been nursing in a hospital. Throughout their marriage, he was utterly obsessed with her, while she wasn’t really fazed. Fast-forward a number of years, and the couple, living in New Zealand, abandon their five children and set off for the UK.


One day, Leigh Ann decides that she’s tired of her loving husband and so she sets off on an affair with a far younger man recently released from prison. John, the ever-loving and forgiving husband, wins Leigh Ann back and convinces her to move to Wales with him. And this is where the trouble started.

Leigh Ann decided she couldn’t take any more of this man who adored her so. One night in 1997, as he was climbing into bed, she battered him with a stone frog she kept nearby. At first, Leigh Ann would simply tell people who asked about John that he’d run off with another woman. But as the months went on and no one suspected anything, she just started telling the truth. She would tell anyone she met how famous she would be once she died because she had killed her husband and gotten away with it. No one believed it until she passed away in October 2015.


A few days after she died, John’s body was discovered, next to a shed outside a block of flats where they had once lived. John was wrapped in plastic and was still in the pajamas from that fateful night 18 years before.

There was even a time when Leigh Ann asked a neighbor to help move his body outside to the shed, claiming it was a medical skeleton from her nursing days.

And so Leigh Ann goes down as the perfect murderess: one who told everyone the truth and was never convicted.