PHOENIX — A former Arizona beauty salon owner will be deported to her native France now that she has completed her 16-year prison sentence for killing her husband, who was dismembered after death.
The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement says former Scottsdale, Arizona, resident Valerie Pape is being held at a federal detention facility pending deportation.
The case generated notoriety in part because only the torso of 60-year-old Ira Pomerantz was recovered. The torso was found in a garbage bin in January 2000 shortly after Pomerantz was fatally shot.
Pape got credit for time already served and completed her sentence in late January, a development first reported by Phoenix New Times.
Pape originally was charged with first-degree, but she pleaded guilty in 2002 to second-degree murder under a plea agreement with prosecutors.
