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Naresh Bhatt is accused of first-degree murder, defiling a body and an earlier charge of concealment of body after his wife disappeared.
Naresh Bhatt is accused of killing his wife Mamta Kafle Bhatt, although police are yet to locate her remains. (Image: X)
A man from Virginia, United States, was booked for his wife’s murder after he allegedly looked up “how long does it take to get married after spouse die” on Google before his wife disappeared. Naresh Bhatt, was charged on Monday with first-degree murder, physically defiling a dead boy and concealing a body, as per reports.
Naresh, a former Fairfax County police recruit and former US Army Reserve automated logistics specialist faced the defiling charge which police say is connected to evidence showing that the body of his wife Mamta Kafle Bhatt was dismembered, CNN reported. Both are of Nepalese origin. He is expected in a state court on Wednesday morning (local time).
The body of Mamta Kafle Bhatt, 28, is yet to be recovered, as per authorities, after she went missing on July 27. She was last seen at UVA Health Prince William Medical Center in Manassas, where she worked as a registered nurse in the medical-surgical unit. DNA tests showed the blood found in her bedroom belonged to Mamta, Manassas Park Police Chief Mario Lugo said.
Investigators discovered disturbing details of the alleged murder, such as what appeared to be blood pooling and blood splatter in the Bhatt home’s main bedroom, light pink stains on bedroom carpeting and pools of blood in the bathroom “as if something was dragged across the floor”.
How Bhatt’s Google Search Landed Him In Trouble?
Three months before Mamta disappeared, Naresh Bhatt allegedly used his work laptop to search, “How long does it take to get married after spouse die” and “What happen to debt died spouse”, the New York Post reported citing prosecutors.
The wife was not seen since July 29, although Naresh reported her missing on August 5. Prosecutors also accused Naresh Bhatt of going to Walmart on July 30 to buy three knives, two of which are missing. He was spotted at a different Walmart the next day buying cleaning supplies, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors also told the court that Naresh was recorded on camera driving, sometimes at night, and disposing of trash bags in dumpsters and trash compactors in the days after his wife was reported missing. The matter came to light when Mamta did not show up to work on August 1 and 2, causing concern among her colleagues.
Police said Naresh “provided additional information” during his first interrogation on August 2 and told investigators he did not want to report her as missing at the time. He reported her missing three days later and told investigators he last saw his wife at the dinner table on July 31.
The couple had been together for more than 3 years and shared a 1-year-old daughter, who has since been in the care of Mamta’s family. “She was a person who was very hardworking, very beautiful [and] very honest. She aspired to be somebody great and she worked really hard and she could be,” her mother Gita Kafle told CBS-affiliated WUSA9.
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Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
