Jessica Rae Sacco's last words were "I forgive you," says boyfriend accused of her murder

(CBS/AP) URBANA, Ohio - The man accused of stabbing, suffocating and dismembering his girlfriend told police a bizarre story about how she died, reportedly saying she asked him to stab her after he found a text saying she planned to have him killed, reports CBS affiate WBNS.

"She started crying and told me, 'I wish I didn't have to die, but I understand what I did,'" Matthew Puccio said.

"She was pleading with me to slash her throat and slash her wrist, do something," Puccio said. "And I told her, 'No, I can't do that to you,' and she told me to stab her then. So, I just held my hand above her stomach. She grabbed my wrist and pulled it into her stomach."

Puccio said that her last words were, "I still love you, and I forgive you."

Matthew Puccio, 24, is among five people charged in connection with the death of 21-year-old Jessica Rae Sacco. A couple from Fenton, Mich., and two people from Urbana are accused of failing to intervene in the killing and helping Puccio cut off or transport limbs that were dumped in southern Ohio and Kentucky.

Sacco's friend, Amanda Erb, told WBNS that Sacco and Puccio met about six months ago on Facebook and that it was Puccio, not Sacco, who was causing problems in the relationship.

"I've been telling her, 'You need to get him out of here,'" Erb said. "Maybe that's what set the whole thing off. Maybe she had enough and was going to tell him to leave. I don't know."

But according to the Springfield News-Sun Puccio told Judge Roger Wilson at an arraignment Friday that he was getting disability payments because "I am clinically insane." 

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