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Pasco woman charged in stabbing death of husband

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By LISA A. DAVIS | The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 28, 2009

Updated: 10/28/2009 04:38 pm

Lillian Farher

NEW PORT RICHEY - Pasco County sheriff's detectives have arrested a 59-year-old woman in connection to her husband's stabbing death Tuesday night.

Lillian "Lilly" Dolores Fahrer, 5030 Trouble Creek Road, is accused of stabbing her 42-year-old husband, Robert "Rob" William Fahrer, once in the chest with a steak knife around 8:30 p.m.

The couple lived in the Shamrock Heights apartment complex. Lillian Fahrer was detained by deputies shortly after the stabbing.

She is being held at the Land O' Lakes Jail on a manslaughter charge with bail set at $50,000.

During Lilly Fahrer's first-appearance hearing this afternoon, her mother-in-law spoke about her late son's marriage.

"They've always had a rough relationship. Twenty years," she said. "She would constantly egg him on."

A prosecutor asked that a judge that Fahrer be held without bail because of the seriousness of the charges.

A public defender pointed out that Fahrer didn't have a criminal record. Fahrer told the judge by video conference she had a DUI charge 20 years ago.

Pasco Circuit Judge Walter Schafer Jr. denied the bail request.

Detectives say the couple had been drinking when they began arguing over their front door being broken the day before. Lillian Fahrer told detectives her husband pushed her against the wall while they were arguing and she grabbed the knife from the sink, a report states.

"Go ahead (expletive), and stab me, kill me go ahead," she told detectives Rob Fahrer told her.

That's when she "snapped," she reportedly told detectives, and stabbed him in the chest.

When deputies and paramedics arrived at the apartment, her husband was already dead, said sheriff's office spokesman Kevin Doll.

"She was very cooperative," Doll said of Lilly Fahrer.

Back at the apartments early this afternoon, a screen door to the couple's apartment swayed with the breeze. Yellow crime-scene tape was thrown away atop empty beer cans in a trash can on the shared porch. Out front, employees from the beauty shop below and neighbors stood outside talking about the night before, though they declined to comment.

Frank Losurdo, the owner or the apartments and the small business complex, said he was surprised when he heard the news last night.

He said he didn't socialize with the Fahrers, but he spoke with Rob from time to time.

"I'm telling you the guy is the nicest in the world," he said. "He looks like a maniac, but he's a really nice guy."

He said he know Fahrer - whom he called "Bear" because of his Teddy bear-like temperament - changed when he'd been drinking beer.

"I know when he drinks he gets a little uptight," he said.

But for the most part, the Fahrers have been good tenants who have lived there for at least five years.

"They were pretty quiet. They kept to themselves," Losurdo said. "They shut their door and they drank in their apartment."

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