NY Man Held in '79 Death of Wife Stabbed 108 Times An upstate New York man has been charged with murder in the 1979 killing of his wife, who was stabbed 108 times and left on a grave in a Buffalo-area cemetery. Michael Rodriguez entered a not guilty plea at his arraignment on a second-degree murder charge in state Supreme Court on Wednesday. The body of 21-year-old Patricia Rodriguez was found in April 1979 on a grave in a Lackawanna cemetery. She was last seen leaving a bar with Rodriguez, her estranged husband. State police reopened the case in 2009 at the request of Lackawanna police. State prosecutors say they relied in part on DNA evidence from the victim's clothing. A judge had ordered Michael Rodriguez in September to provide a DNA sample.