China News Service, January 8. According to the US "World Journal" report, Judge J. Hasbrouck Jacobs of the Boone County Circuit Court in Missouri announced on the 7th local time that he was convicted of murdering his wife Ji Mengqi and second-degree murder. Joseph Elledge, of 28, was sentenced to 28 years in prison. The judge ruled the same sentence as the jury recommended last November. In addition, Jacobs also denied Elledge's defense attorney's motion to retrial the case. .

  Wearing a prison uniform and shackles, Alligi sat between defense attorneys Scott Rosenblum and Matei Stroescu during his appearance in court, listening intently the entire time, while he heard the judge sentenced him to 28. At the time of his 10-year prison sentence, Eligi, who was wearing a mask, looked down at the table.

  Dan Knight, the prosecutor in the case, said in court that Alliji was a control freak who always wanted others to bow and bow in front of him. Knight also called Alliji a racist and a bully. , Knight said that Eligi made Ji Mengqi's life a hell on earth, and then killed her, and Knight's voice trembled with excitement afterward.

  Knight spent two weeks in court last November trying to persuade the jury to uphold Alliji's "first-degree murder" conviction and sentence him to life in prison, though he later expressed satisfaction with the second-degree murder verdict. The murder verdict will require Alligi to serve at least 85 percent of his sentence before being eligible for parole.

  Ai Liji and Ji Mengqi got married in 2017. The couple had a daughter in October 2018. On October 8, 2019, Ji Mengqi "disappeared" for no reason. Soon after, Ai Liji was arrested by the police on suspicion of murdering his wife. After more than two years of investigation and trial, the remains of Ji Mengqi, who had never been found, were finally found by a citizen in Rock Bridge State Park on March 25 last year, which became an important part of the case. evidence.

  Alliji's wife murder case opened in early November last year. During the trial, Alliji admitted to burying his dead wife in Rock Bridge State Park, but he insisted that his wife's death was an accident, and the jury reached two on November 12, 2021. He was convicted of first-degree murder and recommended a 28-year prison sentence.

(Huang Huiling)