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Husband Killed His Wife And Hid Her Body in a Freezer for Three Months — Murder of Yang Liping
He wrapped her body and stored it in the fridge on the balcony for 105 days while maintaining his online persona as her husband.
On October 17, 2016, 31-year-old Zhu Xiaodong strangled his wife, Yang Liping, to death during an argument. He wrapped his wife’s corpse in a bedsheet and hid it in a freezer on the balcony of their home in Hongkou District, Shanghai.
On the issue of Zhu’s purpose, the courts found that Zhu had several affairs following his marriage to Yang in 2015. Two months prior to the killing in August 2016, Zhu told his mistress that he and Yang had separated and were no longer together.
In the same month, he purchased some “true crime” books and had them delivered to his father’s residence. The way in which he murdered Yang was remarkably identical to a case described in one of the books.
On September 22, he acquired a massive freezer online that did not fit in their home or suited their normal way of life, but it was necessary since it would be used to preserve his wife’s body once he killed her. He claimed he purchased it to store meat for his pet snakes, lizards, and frogs. However, Yang’s family believes…
