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Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007
                 
Voodoo fear fueled gal-pal ma slay: cops
                                             
By John Doyle, New York Post Staff Writer

A Brooklyn restaurant worker beat his girlfriend's mother to death with a pipe because he feared she was going to put a deadly voodoo hex on him, police sources said. Joseph Cazeau, 48, battered Marie Tertel, 61, inside his home at 1203 St. Johns Place in Crown Heights at about 11 p.m. Tuesday, police said, leaving her lifeless body lying in a bedroom.

Pals said that the native of Haiti took his belief in voodoo mysticism very seriously.

"He confessed and said that he was afraid that she was going to put a voodoo curse on him that would kill him on the spot," a source told The Post.

The alleged killer has three children - boys 10 and 9, and a 2-year-old girl - with Tertel's daughter, Mary Luzicot.

Luzicot said their relationship had gone sour and that he had recently gotten violent. She had even gone to court hours before the attack because she wanted out. "I was in court to get an order of protection against him," the distraught woman said yesterday. "We have family trouble."

Additional reporting by Tom Liddy john.doyle@nypost.com

Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. Reprinted from The New York Post of Thursday, September 13, 2007.

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