Melanie McGuire, 33, from New Jersey is on trial for murdering her husband in April 2004 by allegedly shooting him to death. Ten days before she committed the killing, she apparently googled on the phrase "how to commit murder".

According to ComputerWorld, a networking and internet e-newsletter, she also did searches on "undetectable poisons," "fatal digoxin levels," instant poisons," "toxic insulin levels," "how to purchase guns illegally," how to find chloroform," "fatal insulin doses," "poisoning deaths," and "where to purchase guns illegally," according to a court testimony.

All this info was obtained from the hard drives of computers seized by police from McGuire's attorney's office, her home, and her parents' home.

She is being charged with first degree murder for allegedly shooting her husband William McGuire, 39, with a .38 caliber gun on April 28, 2004.

That wasn't all. According to prosecutors, the victim's severed remains were found in three suitcases off the Virginia coast in May 200.

According to the post mortem, William McGuire was shot at least twice, once in the head and once in the chest. The prosecution alleges that his wife committed the murder in their Woodbridge, NJ home, dismembered the body, placed the remains in black plastic trash bags inside three suitcases and dumped the remains in the Chesapeake Bay.

A spokesman for the New Jersey attorney general said the judge has barred the participants from commenting on the case to the news media while the trial is going on.

Melanie McGuire faces 30 years to life in prison, if convicted.