A woman whose husband died by auto-erotic electrocution in 2008 may benefit from her husband's life insurance policy, after the US Second Court of Appeals in Manhattan ordered the insurance company to reconsider their denial of the $81,000 payment. According to the Post, Amanda Martin found her husband Paul naked from the waist down and prostrate, with "wires attached to him." "I tried to move Paul, but got an electrical shock," Martin said in an affidavit. The insurance company claimed her husband's death arose from a "deliberate act on his part."
Martin says her 35-year-old husband suffered from diabetes and hypertension, and that she thought those ailments gave him erectile dysfunction. The couple had a daughter in 2006 and lived in Spencerport. "What happened to Paul was a surprise to me," she said.
