A 21-year-old Florida man, Xichen Yang has told cops that he killed his wife, Nhu Quynh Pham, on Monday in the apartment they shared.
Gatekeepers News reports that Yang slit his wife’s throat, dragged her into the bathtub and then held her hand as she died while he played her favorite music.
He told cops that he killed his wife because she burned his passport.
Police were called to the couple’s home around 8:50am on Monday after Yang failed to turn up to work, and told his boss during a phone call that he had murdered his wife.
Yang reportedly worked as a technician at Marco Polo Pools in Orlando Florida.
Michael Rathal, who was Yang’s boss, was the person who called 911 and told the dispatcher that Yang claimed he had just killed his wife, according to the complaint, the news outlet reproted.
‘Yang called Rathel’s son, Michael Cole Rathel, and informed him he had stabbed his wife, killing her, and was attempting to clean up the evidence,’ the elder Rathel allegedly told the dispatcher.
Yang who had fled the scene was arrested and charged with first-degree premeditated murder and tampering with physical evidence, according to officials.
During his arrest, Yang allegedly confessed to his wife’s gruesome murder providing details of the knife he used in the stabbing, how she crawled down the hallway, and then how he dragged her into the bathtub.
He admitted in the complaint that he held her down in the bathwater for at least 10 minutes, as he ‘played her favorite music,’ and ‘held her hand’ until she died.
After she died, he started to clean the pools of blood splattered all over the walls and floor before fleeing the area.
Police said the victim sustained a ‘deep laceration to the left side of her neck’ and her stomach had ‘pooled with blood,’ Law&Crime reported.
A GoFundMe account was to help raise money to assist the victim’s family for funeral expenses, and to help transport her back to her Vietnam.
