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Virginia Man Charged With Murder And Defiling Dead Body

Flowers, candles and photos are placed near Mamta Kafle Bhatt's mailbox in Manassas Park, Va., Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Olivia Diaz, File)

A Virginia man has been charged with murder more than four months after his wife disappeared and a substantial amount of blood was found in their suburban Washington home, authorities announced Monday. Naresh Bhatt, 37, was indicted by a Prince William County grand jury and faces a charge of murder as well as a count of defiling a dead body, according to online court documents.

The body of Mamta Bhatt, 28, has not been found. However, investigators linked her DNA to the blood found in the couple's home, Manassas Park Police Chief Mario Lugo said Monday evening at a news conference. Lugo stated, “From the beginning, we believed that she was murdered.”

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