Chinese man sentenced to death for strangling wife and hiding body in freezer for three months
Killer husband impersonated his victim on social media while using her money to travel and date other women
A Shanghai man has been sentenced to death for murdering his wife and hiding her body in a freezer for three months, local media reported on Thursday.
Zhu Xiaodong then impersonated his wife Yang Liping on social media, chatting to members of her family every day, before turning himself in, Thepaper.cn reported.
A court in the city found him guilty of murder in November last year and ruled that he had strangled her in October 2016 after a string of quarrels over trivial matters.
Prosecutors said that even though Zhu had confessed to his crime after handing himself over to police in the company of his parents in January last year, this was no mitigation for the “vile” nature of his offence.
They said he had shown no remorse for the murder and had used his wife’s money to travel and date other women in the months after her death.
One of Zhu’s neighbours, a woman only identified by her surname Lu, told Thepaper during the trial that she struggled to believe that he had been capable of such a thing and had always found him to be friendly and willing to help those who needed it.
