Kathmandu, Oct. 18 -- Mamta Kafle Bhatt, a native of Nepal, moved to Northern Virginia, US, in 2021. She was last seen at work on July 27, 2024. Her last known contact was a video call with her mother in Nepal on July 29. Within days, her phone and social media went quiet. Police visited her Manassas Park home on August 2 at her colleagues' request. Her husband, Naresh Bhatt, said the couple were separating and she might be visiting family in New York or Texas. Police later learned she had no biological family in the United States.

Three weeks later, officers searched the house and arrested Bhatt. Prosecutors say he killed his wife on or about July 30, dismembered her and discarded her remains in trash bags. Her body has never been found...