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Authorities this afternoon were seeking to determine if the dismembered remains of a man, found in the trunk of a car in a Rosemont parking garage, were those of a Purdue University graduate student reported missing last week.
Meanwhile, authorities in Shanghai, China, are holding the student's wife on a passport violation, and police here are seeking to have her returned to the U.S. so they can question her about her husband's disappearance.
The investigation began Tuesday when Rosemont police discovered human remains in five black plastic garbage bags and a dark-colored canvas bag, similar to a duffel, in a maroon 1997 Buick Century.
The vehicle had been left in a municipal parking garage at 9441 W. Devon Ave., next to City Hall and the Police Department. Officers went to the garage after a man reported a foul odor coming from the car.
An autopsy today determined the man had died of a gunshot wound to the head, an apparent homicide victim, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
"The (body) parts are so badly decomposed, it's like a skeleton," said a spokesman for the medical examiner's office.
He's wife, Danlei Chen, also 28, is wanted on an arrest warrant, charged by Purdue University police with having tried to kill her husband last December, Withers said. The warrant was issued after Chen missed a court date last Friday.
Tippecanoe County, Ind., prosecutors filed the attempted murder charge against Chen after she allegedly stabbed her husband at their home on Christmas Day, the Purdue news service reported.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050831trunkbody,1,6102954.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Meanwhile, authorities in Shanghai, China, are holding the student's wife on a passport violation, and police here are seeking to have her returned to the U.S. so they can question her about her husband's disappearance.
The investigation began Tuesday when Rosemont police discovered human remains in five black plastic garbage bags and a dark-colored canvas bag, similar to a duffel, in a maroon 1997 Buick Century.
The vehicle had been left in a municipal parking garage at 9441 W. Devon Ave., next to City Hall and the Police Department. Officers went to the garage after a man reported a foul odor coming from the car.
An autopsy today determined the man had died of a gunshot wound to the head, an apparent homicide victim, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
"The (body) parts are so badly decomposed, it's like a skeleton," said a spokesman for the medical examiner's office.
He's wife, Danlei Chen, also 28, is wanted on an arrest warrant, charged by Purdue University police with having tried to kill her husband last December, Withers said. The warrant was issued after Chen missed a court date last Friday.
Tippecanoe County, Ind., prosecutors filed the attempted murder charge against Chen after she allegedly stabbed her husband at their home on Christmas Day, the Purdue news service reported.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050831trunkbody,1,6102954.story?coll=chi-news-hed