The body of Junseok Chae was found July 17.
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Police arrested two people following the discovery of the body of a Arizona State University professor missing since March, reports NBC News.
Authorities confirmed they found the body of ASU engineering professor Junseok Chae in a landfill. They believe the killers threw his body in a dumpster and that’s how Chae ended up in a landfill.
Under arrest are 18-year old Gabrielle Austin and 19-year old Javian Ezell, according to the Daily Beast. Authorities arrested the pair in Shreveport, Louisiana after they were caught driving the professor’s car.
They are being held on $1 million bail and face first-degree murder, vehicle theft, and armed robbery charges.
According to ABC15, Chae worked as the Associate Dean for Research at ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. He has four US patents and a dozen research papers to his credit. He began working at ASU in 2005.
Authorities searched the landfill for 67 days before discovering the body.
"I continue to be impressed by the hard work of our deputies. Their perseverance in an extremely complex and demanding case will now allow the victim’s family closure to what has surely been a difficult period. Investigative efforts to recover a body from a landfill are rarely successful,” said Sheriff Penzone in a statement.
The Arizona National Guard unit and Waste Management used heavy equipment provided by a local construction company, to search the landfill from May 11 to July 17, when human remains later identified as Chae were located along with related evidence, the statement said.
Ezell and Austin were recently extradited to Arizona, where they were arrested on July 15 and charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and theft of means of transportation, according to the statement. Bail is set for $1 million each for the suspects. Arraignment is set for Sept. 3.
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