Justice has long arm.
A Chinese woman surnamed Ni from Anhui Province was strangled by her husband Cheng with a towel and buried in a farmland four years ago after a dispute.
Since then, the husband had been using her wife's mobile phone to communicate with her family, pretending she was still alive. However, the victim's mother noticed that each time when she requested for a video chat, the other side immediately went offline so she had some doubts about it.
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Therefore she called the police last year. After searching for a while, they found the corpse of Ni and the husband was arrested for suspecting murdering.
In the afternoon of 10 July, under a hillside in Xiaoxihe Town, the police excavated the bones of the victim in a farmland. There are no people living around the area which is very remote.
The hillside links to a mountain grave. Four years ago, the night after the victim being killed, she was transported here by a tricycle and buried.
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Four years later, the suspect can still clearly remember the location where he buried her body. After digging deep for a metre, the police discovered pieces of bones. The DNA identification work is currently underway. According to the confession of the suspect Cheng, the person he buried is his wife Ni.
After a preliminary investigation, Ni was murdered in the afternoon of 4 August 2014. Ni’s mother clearly remembered that she called her daughter that night, but no one answered. Later, she only received text messages from "her". Now she knows that the murderer did it.
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After the murder, Cheng told Ni’s mother that Ni had gone out for work and did not know where she went. She has been calling her daughter's phone. Although the number got through, no one picked up. One time, a woman pretended to be Ni to answer the phone call but was found lying quickly.
Although no one answers the phone, her social media accounts, like QQ and WeChat was still online. Her relatives could contact her through QQ and could receive replies, while only when they asked for video chat, Ni's QQ would turned offline.
In order to meet Ni, Ni’ s mother even said she was ill. However, her daughter did not call to express her condolences. This made her suspect that her daughter might have been killed and finally decided to call the police.
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According to the preliminary investigation, because of emotional disputes, the suspect Cheng strangled Ni with a towel and other items in a store.
They had been divorced before the incident, but the two still lived together and had two children. On the day of the incident, Cheng killed Ni after their argument. Later, Cheng used a series of layouts to create the illusion that Ni went out to work. The case is now undergoing investigation.
