Bodies of murdered farmers taken to Guam for cremation

Families, friends, and members of the Chinese community paid their last respects on Friday afternoon to two murdered farmers, whose bodies were sent go Guam for cremation.

From the Commonwealth Health Center’s morgue, a 25-vehicular convoy followed the two hearses that carried the bodies of Hai Ren Li and his brother-in-law Cheng You Li to the Saipan International Airport.

Before the bodies were taken into an airline’s compound, the wives and children of the victims as well as relatives and friends were allowed to offer prayers for a few minutes.

A hearse’s driver opened the left passenger side door of the two funeral cars one at a time. The crying wives of the victims and the two children of Cheng You Li and other relatives kneeled before the door and said their prayers.

Other members of the Chinese community, many of whom were also in tears, stood behind and beside the families.

The two children of Hai Ren Li were not there as they have already returned to China after seeing the bodies at CHC last week.

According to businessman James Han, who guided the victims’ families for the rites at the airport, the families prayed for justice, urged the victims to rest in peace, and promised to help them obtain justice. He said they families also prayed that the police and the FBI will solve the case.

Han said family members were also cursing the killer or killers.

The businessman said that family members requested that they be given temporary permits to be allowed to go to Guam for the cremation, but U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denied it.

The families are planning to bring the victims’ ashes to China. Members of the Chinese community chipped in to help with the cost of cremating the bodies.

The victims’ wives and children flew to Saipan on Nov. 8.

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 houses in As Lito and San Antonio to work at their farm in As Gonno between 12pm and 2:30pm.

On Nov. 1, part of a large group of Chinese community members that helped in the search found Hai Ren Li’s Toyota Tacoma that was abandoned under some tangan-tangan trees a few 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.