Murder Verdict Reached in Case That Once Focused on Rural County Landfills

LURAY, Va. — This week, a Northern Virginia man was convicted of murdering his wife, whose 2024 disappearance led investigators to consider the Battle Creek landfill as a possible location for her remains.

Naresh Bhatt was found guilty on Tuesday of first-degree murder in the death of Mamta Kafle Bhatt, a 28-year-old nurse and mother from Manassas Park.

Jurors also convicted him of concealing and defiling her body…

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