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An Arizona man has been charged with murder after he stabbed his estranged wife to death 38 times after she told him that she had begun dating another man.

Last Thursday, police in Pinal County went to a rural area for a welfare check at a home.

Upon arrival at around 10pm, police said they heard two dogs barking from inside the house.

When they went inside, they discovered Christina Lopez, 43, dead on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood.

The blood and other pieces of evidence tied the killing to her 49-year-old husband, Javier. The murder weapon and Javier's shirt and cell phone were at the scene.

Detectives assigned to the investigation had learned that the married couple were separated since this past November.

Javier Lopez was still sometimes at Christina's house to do landscaping jobs and help with other tasks.

The day before Christina was murdered, she and Javier had been arguing over custody of their children.

The next day, Javier took one of his children over to Christina's house for a visit but asked him to stay in the car so he could go speak to her.  

According to investigators, Javier asked Christina if she had begun dating another man. She responded that she was, which upset him. 

He then sprung into violence, pulling out a pocket knife and stabbing Christina a shocking 38 times.

Then, bizarrely, he dumped a bag of dog food on his prone wife because he was so furious at her.

He then drove back home with his son, with the boy asking in a panic if he'd hurt his mother because he was able to hear screaming and crying.