{"id":81201,"date":"2026-11-11T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/virginia-man-convicted-of-murder-says-he-did-not-kill-wife-before-dismembering-her-body\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:55:04","slug":"virginia-man-convicted-of-murder-says-he-did-not-kill-wife-before-dismembering-her-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/virginia-man-convicted-of-murder-says-he-did-not-kill-wife-before-dismembering-her-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia man convicted of murder says he did not kill wife before dismembering her body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naresh Bhatt, 28, said he dismembered wife\u2019s body after she took her own life, a claim prosecutors called \u2018ridiculous\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Virginia man who claimed he dismembered his wife\u2019s body after she took her own life is facing a life sentence after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in Manassas called it \u201cridiculous\u201d that Naresh Bhatt insisted that he woke to find Mamta Kafle Bhatt, 28, dead from suicide in their bedroom in July 2024, then panicked because he thought he would be held responsible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/11\/virginia-murder-dismembering\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naresh Bhatt, 28, said he dismembered wife\u2019s body after she took her own life, a claim prosecutors called \u2018ridiculous\u2019 A Virginia man who claimed he dismembered his wife\u2019s body after she took her own life is facing a life sentence after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder. Prosecutors in Manassas called it \u201cridiculous\u201d that &#8230; <a title=\"Virginia man convicted of murder says he did not kill wife before dismembering her body\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/virginia-man-convicted-of-murder-says-he-did-not-kill-wife-before-dismembering-her-body\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Virginia man convicted of murder says he did not kill wife before dismembering her body\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}