A To­co house­wife who went search­ing for her hus­band af­ter he didn’t re­turn home af­ter vis­it­ing friends found his body down a precipice a short dis­tance from their home ear­li­er this week.

The 34-year-old woman told po­lice her hus­band left their Sans Souci home around 3 pm and when he didn’t re­turn home, she got wor­ried and be­gan to search for him.

A short dis­tance from her home, the woman no­ticed a pool of blood, a beer bot­tle and a knife on the road­way. She fol­lowed the trail of blood down a precipice where she found her hus­band ly­ing.