Girlfriend Says Li Didn’t Mention Victims

If accused double killer Wenkai Li confessed to two Moscow slayings to his girlfriend, she did not tell those attending his preliminary hearing.

Xiaohua Pan on Wednesday acknowledged she spoke on the phone with Wenkai Li the day Ning Li and his wife, Xiahiou Ge, were slain and several times afterward.

At least two of the long-distance calls lasted more than two hours, but neither Li nor Ge were never mentioned, Pan said.

“He only told me he missed me very much and he loved me very much,” Pan said through a Chinese interpreter.

Li, 25, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the University of Idaho student and his wife.

An affidavit says Pan told police in Montgomery County, Md., that Wenkai Li notified her he killed Ning Li because of disparaging remarks being spread about her.