 Eleven days before the body was found, Li reported to police that Zhao was missing after she went to buy groceries at the local Safeway store.However, three days after Zhao's body was found, Li returned to China.Li was initially questioned by the RCMP on the case, but it was not until seven months after the murder that the RCMP issue a warrant for his arrest, and is being charged with second-degree murder "in absentia" by the Canadian government.