Tag: Mengqi Ji

Jury Recommends 28 Years for Missouri Man in Wife’s Murder

COLUMBIA, Mo.—A woman who moved to Missouri from China to further her education before she was killed by her husband should be remembered as a kind woman whose death was a “huge waste,” a prosecutor said Friday after her husband was convicted. A jury recommended early Friday that Joseph Elledge be sentenced to up to…


Defense Attorney: Chinese Woman’s Death a ‘Tragic Accident’

COLUMBIA, Mo.—The attorney for a Missouri man accused of killing his Chinese wife in 2019 said Tuesday that the woman’s death was a “tragic accident” that was caused when she fell and hit her head during an argument with her husband. During opening statements in Joseph Elledge’s first-degree murder trial, defense attorney Scott Rosenblum said…