Mamta Kafle Bhatt, 28, a Nepalese-American nurse working in Manassas, Virginia, disappeared from her home in late July 2024. Her husband Naresh Bhatt, 39, first said he didn’t know where she was and only later filed a missing-person report.
During the trial, Bhatt claimed he found her unresponsive on the morning of 30 July 2024, surrounded by vomit containing pills and an open packet of toxic insecticide. He said she took her own l*fe, panicked, never called 911, then used a power saw and kn*ves to d*smember her body and disposed of the remains. Her body has never been found.
Prosecutors showed DNA and hair on the saw, Home Depot footage of Bhatt buying it, phone and vehicle records, and a text he sent her 162 days earlier: “the days are coming that you will regret a lot.”
On 10 November 2026, a Virginia jury convicted him of first-degree m*rder, concealing a d*ad body and defiling a d*ad body. His bond was cancelled and he’ll be sentenced on 12 March 2027. He could face life in prison.
