On Tuesday, authorities in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou executed a man. the man who killed his wife in July 2020 and crushed her corpse in a meat grinder to get rid of it.

Xu Guoli, 58, was sentenced to death in July 2021 for murder. The Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court recalled on its official Wechat social media account today, adding that the evidence against Xu was “multiple and incontrovertible.”

Xu first reported the disappearance of his wife, Lai Huili, who was 51 years old at the time. He even went so far as to offer a reward of 100,000 yuan ($14,530). for clues that could clarify what happened, according to local media.

Police reviewed 6,000 hours of video footage taken by CCTV cameras near the couple’s Hangzhou home and 379 families interviewed who lived in six buildings of the residential complex without finding any trace of Lai.

The case attracted the attention of the social networks of the Asian country, in which Netizens speculated about what happened to the woman.

The authorities then resorted to Drainage from home septic tanksin which human remains were found, after which Xu was arrested.

Xu confessed to the authorities that killed Lai on the morning of July 5, 2020 pouring sleeping pills into the drink and grinding the corpse with a meat grinder and several knives that were in the kitchen.

The defendant disposed of the parts by flushing them down the toilet. and throwing them in landfills.

During the trial, Xu said that he and his wife often argued together over their daughter’s financial problems and education, and that he felt hurt because she accused him of being “useless”, although He blamed the murder on “an impulsive act”. in contrast to the prosecutor’s office, which saw premeditation in his actions.