MURDERED: Mengqi Ji

The Murder Diaries

Cloud10

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 755 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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When a loving mother disappears from her Colombia, Missouri apartment, police begin to question her husband’s story. RESOURCES: On the Case with Paula Zahn, S24 E15: A Needle in the Mud Article https://www.komu.com/news/updated-timeline-of-mengqi-ji-disappearance/article_5e494265-1fea-5ee4-940a-f61424207d72.html Article https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/local/2021/10/28/parents-of-mengqi-ji-share-memories-of-daughter-ahead-of-joseph-elledge-murder-trial-boone-county/8549795002/ Article https://www.newsweek.com/joseph-elledge-convicted-killing-wife-mengqi-ji-misleading-cops-gets-28-year-sentence-1667158 Article https://thecinemaholic.com/mengqi-ji-murder-where-is-joseph-elledge-now/ Article https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/remains-suspected-to-be-mengqi-ji-found-thursday/article_cb329b16-8dc1-11eb-9e71-8f0da789b640.html https://youtu.be/ORji3mBiJVA https://youtu.be/0vW5V9rgWEA https://youtu.be/SJcTmEhOz64 Music Used: Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Our Links: Website: https://themurderdiariespodcast.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themurderdiariespod Buy Us a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mdiariespod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themurderdiariespod/ TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdgBwpV1/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know the drill by now.
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0:28.7	Hey, I'm Paige. And I'm Natalie. We're the host of the Murder Diaries podcast. We bonded over tacos and true crime after we matched on Bumble BFF. You know, like any normal millennial
0:34.0	using an app to meet new friends. Every Thursday, we upload a new episode.
0:38.6	In each episode of the murder diaries, we tell true crime one story at a time. One week, it's my turn,
0:45.2	and the next week it's mine. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence,
0:50.6	nearly half of all female homicide victims are killed by a current or former intimate partner.
0:57.3	Meng Chi-G is one of those victims.
1:00.6	This is her story.
1:03.0	You still think it's in my head, but I'm walking with the day.
1:17.2	Meng Qi Ji was born in Xiang China in 1991, a large city in central China known for its historical significance
1:24.7	and touted as one of China's most popular tourist destinations.
1:29.3	But for the G family, it was simply home. Even though Meng Qi was born under China's one child
1:34.9	policy, according to the G family lawyer Amy Saladay, her parents quote, only ever wanted one child
1:41.3	because they wanted to be able to give her all their love. So they did.
1:46.7	And it seems the three members of the G family had great admiration and respect for one another.
1:53.0	Mom, dad, and Meng Qi were close. But Meng Qi had a particularly special bond with her mother,
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