Chinese man pleads guilty to killing his girlfriend in US
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A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in eastern China to killing his girlfriend in the United States where the pair were students in Iowa, a court said Thursday.
An officer in charge of trial documents at Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court said that Li Xiangnan entered the plea to murder during a daylong hearing Wednesday. The officer refused to give her name, citing court regulations.
Li, a former University of Iowa student, surrendered to police in Wenzhou last May after returning to China following the slaying of 20-year-old Chinese national Shao Tong, who was a student at Iowa State University. Her body was found stuffed into the trunk of her car in September 2014.
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The court officer said that prosecutors say Li planned the killing, but Li's lawyer argued the crime wasn't premeditated. She said the case would continue at an unspecified later date.