A California man is accused of carrying out a despicable double murder after he allegedly killed a couple and burned his victims’ bodies in the desert.
30-year-old Huangting Gong faces special circumstances murder in connection to the deaths of Kuanlun Wang, and Jing Lin Wang, both 37.
A family member reported the couple missing on Oct. 15 after not hearing from Kuanlun for several days which was “very unusual.”
The relatives told police that Kuanlun was owed $80,000 by Gong and that the suspect denied being the person caught on surveillance footage on the couple’s patio.
Investigators believe Gong met Kuanlun in the desert on Oct. 12 and shot him to the head before driving his body in his own Tesla back to the couple’s Brea home.
There, he struck Jang Li with a hammer and forced her to give him her phone’s password before kidnapping her.
The suspect drove the woman in her Tesla to a San Bernardino desert where he “shot her and then burned her body.”
Gong allegedly burned Kuanlun’s body in a Riverside County desert.
“Depravity does not adequately describe the callousness involved to kill a human being and then drive around in the victim’s own car with his body inside in order to carry out the rest of his plan,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said.
“No one deserves the fate of being executed and then set on fire in the middle of the desert in a desperate attempt by a killer to cover up his crimes,”
“We are committed to pursuing justice for the victims and their loved ones.”
