Chinese man, 55, admits to ‘killing his wife during her sleep, dismembering her body and flushing her remains down the toilet,’ after cops found human tissue in his septic tank
A man in Hangzhou, eastern China has been arrested after ‘killing his wife in her sleep, dismembering her body and flushing her remains down the toilet’
After police presented Xu Guoli with evidence of human tissue in his septic tank he admitted to killing and dismembering his wife
Xu, 55, admitted he killed Lai wife, 51, in her sleep in on July 5 and disposed of the body before filing a missing person’s report a day later
Xu had told local media that his wife left with strangers in the middle of the night
Suspicion however fell on him after police found human tissue in their communal septic tank
He killed his wife because he was dissatisfied with ‘conflicts in [their] family life’, Xu allegedly told police
The investigation continues
![Xu Guoli [right] and his wife Lai 3](https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Xu-Guoli-right-and-his-wife-Lai-3.jpg?resize=620%2C385&ssl=1)
Speaking to a local TV station on July 17, Xu Guoli [right] suggested that his missing wife could have left with unknown individuals. However, Xu Guoli, 55, has been accused of murdering Lai, [left], when she was asleep in the early hours of July 5 in Hangzhou, eastern China
Xu Guoli, 55, has been accused of killing his 51-year-old wife, Lai, while she was asleep according to a city’s legal authority. The couple were having domestic disputes according to the reports.
He allegedly dumped part of her wife’s cut up remains in several locations and got rid of her body tissue partially through the toilet at their home in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province.
Xu was formally arrested yesterday in the city of Hangzhou on suspicion of intentional homicide. In a statement, the city’s legal authorities described Xu’s crime as cruel, and the nature of his act as ‘evil’.
The chilling details of the gruesome crime emerged when Xu filed a missing person report with police last month claiming his wife left home in the middle of the night and ‘mysteriously’ vanished.
Reports by state broadcaster CCTV., state that police started looking at Xu as the main suspect in his wife’s disappearance after discovering human tissue in the septic tank in the community where the couple lived.
Xu was arrested [photo] in the city of Hangzhou Thursday on suspicion of intentional homicide after he allegedly, admitted to the slaying
Xu Guoli initially claimed he discovered that his wife had vanished after waking up on the early morning of July 5. He also that the couple they had had spent whole of the previous day ‘happily and harmoniously’ with their daughter.
CCTV released the last surveillance footage of Ms Lai, which showed her getting into the elevator with her daughter at around 5pm on July 4.
Woman caught on CCTV one last time before she was murdered: The victim Lai [circled], was last seen on security footage getting into the elevator with her daughter on July 4
Two days later Xu and his daughter went to the police to file a missing person report.
A thorough search in the community yielded no leads. Investigators also reviewed around 6,000 hours worth of security camera footage, but could not see evidence of Lai leaving the building.
Speaking to a local TV station on July 17, Mr Xu said that his wife could have taken off with other individuals in the middle of the night, lamenting that he now faced the prospect of raising their daughter alone.
He said: ‘What about my daughter’s life? What about my life? When exactly will my wife return? [We] don’t even know if she is alive or dead.’
The break came July 21 after a police task force investigating the case decided to drain the septic tank at the couple’s residence.
Police in Hangzhou, China discover human tissue in septic tank. Investigators reportedly, spent 25 hours draining the septic tank in the couple’s community searching for evidence. Lab workers identified suspected human tissue in the extracted waste within 24 hours
Police summoned Xu for questioning in the early hours of July 23. He eventually broke nine hours of interrogation, admitting to slaying his wife and dismembering the body.
Xu confessed that he had felt dissatisfied with Lai due to ‘conflicts in [their] family life’, This was his motivation for killing her in her sleep in the early hours of July 5.
Last Thursday, the Hangzhou Public Bureau applied for permission to arrest Mr Xu.
The case is under further investigation.
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