Some men would find a pair of handcuffs in the bedroom a turn-on but not this guy.
A crazed shrew itching to reconcile with her estranged husband cuffed herself to him as he slept because, she told cops, it was “the only way I could get him to talk to me.”
Then, when her shackled spouse tried to call 911 late Monday on his cellphone, she began viciously biting his arms and torso, cops said yesterday.
Helen Sun, 37, also put a lock on the bedroom door of their Fairfield, Conn., home so her husband, Robert Drawbaugh, 32, could not get away.
“Owwwwwwwww! She’s biting me!” Drawbaugh can be heard screaming on a recording of the 911 call as he gasps for breath and struggles with Sun. “She is biting my arms! I need help!”
When officers arrived at the house, they could hear his shrieks from the street and thought he was being killed, said Fairfield police Sgt. James Perez.
“The officers really thought when they heard his screams that she was slicing him up with a knife,” he said.
Once they busted down the door, they found Drawbaugh had “bite marks all over his torso and arms and had a 4-inch gash on his head from the struggle.”
Sun was charged with third-degree assault and released yesterday on $15,000 bail. Drawbaugh was treated at a local hospital.
When she returned home, she refused to comment. Later, a state marshal knocked on her door and served her with divorce papers.
“She’s pretty upset in there,” he said.
It was not the first time police had been called to the house. In December 2007, cops were summoned when the couple got into a screaming fight over a Christmas tree.
They returned on Valentine’s Day in 2008 and found the pair, both with bloody hands and bruises.
“This was a marriage that was just not working,” Perez said.
Drawbaugh had recently separated from Sun and had moved to Los Angeles. He returned last week after Sun had pleaded with him to reconsider.
“He flew back here and was staying with her and when things weren’t going the way she had hoped, she put a lock on the bedroom door and went and bought handcuffs,” Perez said. “When he awoke, he found he was cuffed to her and couldn’t get out.”
Drawbaugh told investigators that his wife “had a history of violence,” and that she is obsessed with him and is a danger to him and his family. He said Sun had hired a private investigator to follow him around in California.
Sun’s mother said the couple have been married for about eight years.
Neighbors were shocked at the news.
“I think it’s a little sick when you want somebody that bad that you handcuff them while they’re asleep. It’s bizarre,” said Cliff Jones. “It’s like, let him go, is he worth it?”