Naresh Bhatt says he dismembered wife’s body after finding her dead

Naresh Bhatt testified on Thursday that he dismembered his wife’s body after finding her dead on the bedroom floor of their home in Virginia in July 2024, but stopped because he lacked the physical strength to continue. According to Fox 5, Bhatt told the court that he found his wife on the morning of July 30, 2024, with vomit on her face and on the bedroom floor.

He testified that the vomit contained blood, food particles, pill capsules and evidence of Celphos, a highly potent agricultural fumigant used to kill insects. Bhatt said he touched his wife, tried to speak to her and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), along with other attempts to save her, before deciding to cut her body into pieces.

He said he first tried to separate her legs from her torso. He told the court that he moved her body to the bathroom but abandoned the dismemberment that day because he did not have the physical strength to continue.