Wife now charged with murder

Woman was being held for indignity to body after a man found rolled up in blanket in apartment

A woman who was charged last week with indignity to a body now faces a charge of first-degree murder.

Last Wednesday, police were called to a home on Ridgecrest Dr. in Scarborough and found a man’s body rolled up in a blanket inside the basement apartment.

The death was considered suspicious and Toronto woman Xiu Jin Teng, 36, was arrested.

The charge was upgraded to murder on Monday and the victim was identified as Dong Huang, 40.

An autopsy has been conducted but police have not released the cause of death. Huang and Teng were a married couple from China, said Toronto homicide Det.-sgt. Brian Borg. They were employed in the financial services sector. Borg said they have a child, who is now under the care of the Children’s Aid Society. One neighbour described Huang as a man who kept to himself and lived alone. The neighbour was surprised to see an unfamiliar woman and a young child leaving the apartment days before the murder. The victim lived on the quiet residential street near Warden Ave. and Huntingwood Dr. A forensic vehicle was parked in the driveway of the home for part of the afternoon Monday. Uniformed officers wer keeping watch over the property into the evening.

One neighbour, who previously told a reporter that his wife had been inside the basement apartment last week and saw two feet sticking out from under a blanket, said on Monday that he could not speak about the incident.

Investigators are asking anyone who interacted with the accused during the month of February to contact police. With files from Niamh Scallan and Amy Dempsey