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$10K for info on farmers’ killers
A businesswoman has put up a $10,000 cash reward to anyone who can provide information that will solve the murder of two Chinese farmers.
The businesswoman, who owns several stores on Saipan, told Saipan Tribune that she and other members of the Chinese community will offer the reward money to anyone who can give information to authorities that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the killer or killers of Hai Ren Li and Cheng You Li.
“We want justice for the victims,” said the businesswoman, who asked not to be identified for security reasons.
The businesswoman, who claims a close relationship with Hai Ren Li’s family, said she could feel the pain of the wife, who has been crying all day and night since she came to Saipan last Nov. 8, a week after the killing.
She said the ashes of the victims are expected to be taken back on Monday to Saipan from Guam, where the bodies were cremated. The wives and children of Hai Ren Li and Cheng You Li will then bring the ashes to Fujian Province in China.
According to the autopsy, Cheng You Li’s cause of death was due to multiple lacerations and wounds inflicted primarily on his neck.
Hai Ren Li’s cause of death was from a skull fracture due to blunt force trauma.
The victims were last seen in the afternoon of Oct. 31 when they left their respective homes in As Lito and San Antonio to work at their farm in As Gonno between 12pm and 2:30pm.
On Nov. 1, a group that helped in the search found Hai Ren Li’s Toyota Tacoma abandoned under some tangan-tangan trees a few steps feet from the side of Magisa Drive in As Gonno.
The following day, Nov. 2, searchers found the victims’ bodies at the old airport runway in Koblerville.
