The couple disposed of their neighbor's body in a sewer.
After failing to rape her, a man in Dak Lak murdered a woman from the same neighborhood and then, together with his wife, dumped her body in a drainage ditch.
On September 4th, the People's Procuracy of Dak Lak province completed the indictment against Nguyen Van Thu (46 years old, residing in Ea Pil commune, M'drăk district) for the crime of...Murder, RobberyandRape;Vu Thi May (46 years old, Thu's wife) charged with the crimeConcealing a crime.
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| Thu and his wife at the time of their arrest. Photo: Quang Hung. |
According to the indictment, on the afternoon of November 11, 2017, Thu was working in her field in the village when she saw Ms. Pham Thi Phuc (41 years old, a neighbor) entering the sugarcane field with a man. Ms. Phuc asked Thu to detain them.He kept secret the fact that he had "confided" in a stranger and promised him 2 million dong.
The following afternoon, Thu called to inquire about the money and arranged to meet Mrs. Phuc at her house to receive it. When the two met, he demanded sexual intercourse, but she refused. Seeing his neighbor run away, Thu chased after her, grabbed her hair, pulled her to the floor, and beat her to death.
He took the earrings, gold necklace, and 200,000 dong, then wrapped the body in a tarp and hid it in the pigsty. In the afternoon, when his wife came home from work, Thu...Recount the entire incident.
That evening, the wife helped her husband carry the victim's body onto the motorbike, so Thu could take it to dump it in a drainage ditch to dispose of the evidence.
When Mrs. Phuc did not return home, her family split up to search for her and also reported it to the police. She was summoned for questioning due to unusual behavior.Thu confessed to the entire crime and revealed the location where the victim's body was hidden.
