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Missing Virginia mom’s husband held without bond – Prosecutors show evidence that passports out, Naresh Bhatt was packing up home and selling his car as cops searched for missing 28-year-old nurse, Mamta Bhatt

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;322727&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Missing Virginia mom&&num;8217&semi;s husband ordered held without bond as she remains missing&comma; but presumed dead <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;322727&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Naresh Bhatt of Manassas Park&comma; VA&comma; has charged with concealing a dead body <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;322727&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Last seen at her job on July 27&comma; police believe Mamta Kafle Bhatt&comma; 28&comma; was killed on July 30<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;322727&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>That her husband began covering his tracks July 31 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;322727&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Her body has not been found&comma; but cops entering the Bhatt&&num;8217&semi;s family home weeks after she vanished&comma; found evidence of blood <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;322727&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Cops also said Naresh Bhatt was packing up and arranging to sell his car&comma; with passports for himself and the couple&&num;8217&semi;s one-year-old daughter in full view<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Mamta-Kafle-Bhatt-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-467718" style&equals;"width&colon;833px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Mamta Kafle Bhatt&comma; a young mother from Virginia&comma; was last seen July 27&period; She missed her daughter&&num;8217&semi;s first birthday&comma; cops believe she was killed by her husband who began covering his tracks the next day  <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The husband of a Northern Virginia woman who has been missing for more than three weeks was arrested Thursday and charged with concealing a dead body&comma; authorities say&period; <br>While the search for 28-year-old Mamta Kafle Bhatt of Manassas Park&comma; Virginia&comma; is ongoing&comma; Naresh Bhatt was arrested at the family’s home in Manassas Park on Thursday morning and charged with concealment of a dead body&comma; a felony charge&comma; prosecutors and police said in a statement hours later&period;<br>Mamta Kafle Bhatt&comma; a nurse originally from Nepal&comma; was last seen July 27&comma; a month ago&period; <br>Manassas Park police initially said she was last seen on July 31 based on information from her husband&period; Since his arrest&comma; authorities now say she was last seen on July 27&comma; the last day she showed up to work&period;<br>She’s been the subject of a major search&comma; as colleagues&comma; friends and community members plead for answers and hope she’s safe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Naresh-Bhatt-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-467720" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Manta had been missing three weeks before her husband husband&comma; Naresh Bhatt &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; who was not cooperating with the investigation&comma;<&sol;strong> <strong>was named a person of interest in the case&period; He was charged with concealing a dead body and held in custody<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Prosecutors say Naresh Bhatt changed his story numerous times about when he last saw his wife&period; They now believe Mamta Kafle Bhatt was killed on July 30 and that her husband began covering his tracks July 31&comma; but her body has not been found&period; <br>The court Friday ordered that Bhatt remain in police custody amid the disappearance of his wife&comma; three days after prosecutors laid out chilling details in court involving evidence of pooling blood and missing knives&period;<br>Naresh Bhatt was ordered held without bond Monday&period; He was arraigned Friday on a charge of concealing a dead body&period;<br>His wife&comma; Mamta Kafle Bhatt&comma; has not been seen for nearly a month&comma; missed her baby girl&&num;8217&semi;s first birthday&period;<br>Naresh Bhatt was arrested at the family’s Manassas Park home Thursday&period; The charge against Naresh Bhatt following his arrested at the family’s Manassas Park home Thursday&period; means police have evidence that a dead body was concealed&period; However&comma; Mamta Bhatt&&num;8217&semi;s body has not been found&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Naresh-Bhatt-left-and-Mamta-Kafle-Bhatt-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-467723" style&equals;"width&colon;841px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Evidence that Naresh Bhatt &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; was packing up the Manassas&comma; Virginia&comma; home he shared with his missing wife Mamta&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; and selling their car&period; Investigators found evidence of pooling blood in the primary bedroom and blood splatter in the primary bathroom <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Prosecutors told the court on Friday that there was evidence of pooling blood in the primary bedroom of the home&comma; and blood splatter in the primary bathroom&period; <br>They said investigators found indications that a body was dragged&period; <br>Prince William County police forensics team members were seen carrying what appeared to be large swaths of rolled-up carpet from the home into a police van&period;<br>While laying out its case&comma; the prosecution said Naresh Bhatt changed his story numerous times about when he last saw his wife&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Naresh-Bhatt-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-467721" style&equals;"width&colon;818px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Bhatt&&num;8217&semi;s shock arrest on August 22&comma; happened days after he made an emotional TV appeal for his wife&&num;8217&semi;s safe return&period; Evidence presented in court Friday&comma; showed that he was packing up home and selling car&comma; with his passport out &&num;8211&semi; apparently preparing to flee prosecution<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Her cellphone was still active on Aug&period; 1&comma; the day after Naresh Bhatt told police he last saw his wife&period; The phone last pinged in Loudoun County&comma; where police say they have video showing Naresh Bhatt at a Walmart purchasing cleaning supplies&period;<br>He also went to a Walmart in Prince William County and purchased a set of knives&period; Two of those knives are now missing&comma; prosecutors said&period;<br>Prosecutors said there’s evidence that Naresh Bhatt was in the process of packing up his home and selling his car&period; <br>Passports for him and his daughter were in full view when police entered the home for a search&period; <br>During his court appearance on Friday wearing an orange jumpsuit&comma; the suspect who did not address the judge&comma; instead used an interpreter to help him understand the proceedings&period;<br>The defense attorney argued who argued that his client be released&comma; said Bhatt hadn’t fled and that anyone could buy cleaning supplies&period; Furthermore&comma; that there’s no evidence the blood found in the home is Mamta&&num;8217&semi;s or that she had been killed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Mamta-Kafle-Bhatts-post-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-467726"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Mamta-Kafle-Bhatts-post-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-467727"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nbcwashington&period;com&sol;news&sol;local&sol;northern-virginia&sol;chilling-details-in-case-of-missing-manassas-park-mom-revealed-in-court&sol;3701120&sol;"><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>In several posts on social media the mom-of-one reached out&comma; indicating the atmosphere at home was tumultuous&period; In one poignant appeal she states that she doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have financial resources to file for separation because her spouse withdrew it all from a joint account<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;08&sol;Justice-for-Mamta-Kafle-Bhatt-2-1024x573&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-467729"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nbcwashington&period;com&sol;news&sol;local&sol;manassas-park-community-gathers-in-prayer-for-missing-mother&sol;3701962&sol;"><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Friends and family of the missing woman a Mamta Kafle Bhatt&comma; a nurse UVA Prince William Medical Center&comma; filled the small courtroom and listened Friday as prosecutors laid out the evidence supporting the charge<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Mamta Kafle Bhatt&comma; a nurse&comma; was reported missing after failing to show up for her shifts at work&period; Friends said that was highly unusual since she was caring for her baby and often active on social media&period;<br>Her friends filled the small courtroom and listened Friday as prosecutors laid out the evidence supporting the charge&period; Outside the courthouse&comma; Holly Wirth&comma; a spokesperson for the friends and family&comma; told reporters that they weren&&num;8217&semi;t prepared to hear the horrific details&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What we heard was worse than we could have ever imagined&period; I have to give credit to the commonwealth attorneys&period; She spoke as frankly as she could&period; But the details are absolutely shocking&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Wirth said&period;<br>Not long after the arrest&comma; a police officer carried the couple’s daughter from the home&period; As of Thursday&comma; the little girl was in the care of the Department of Social Services&comma; but Mamta Kafle Bhatt&&num;8217&semi;s mother was granted an emergency visa to come to the U&period;S&period; to take care of her&period; Friends and family were raising funds for a plane ticket&period; <br>Her husband has changed his story several time&comma; police said&period;Mamta was last seen at her job as a pediatric nurse at the UVA Prince William Medical Center on July 27&comma; <br>She spoke to a friend on July 28&comma; but no one except her husband has reported seeing her since then&period; police previously said&period; <br>Mamta Bhatt&&num;8217&semi;s co-workers requested a welfare check on Aug&period; 2&comma; after she failed to show up for work&period; Officers went to the home and spoke to her husband&comma; who at that time gave them additional information and said he didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to report her as missing&period;<br>Three days later&comma; he contacted police and reported her missing&period; Her disappearance was not declared involuntary until August 8&period;<br>Manassas Park police say Mamta Bhatt&&num;8217&semi;s credit cards&comma; bank statements and phone have showed no activity since her disappearance&period;<br>While Naresh Bhatt told police that he last saw his wife on July 31&comma; prosecutors now believe she was killed by her husband on July 30 and that he began covering his tracks July 31&period;<br><br><br><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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