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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The remains of <keyword id="11913704" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="missing" source="Orion">missing</keyword> <keyword id="11918128" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="virginia" source="Orion">Virginia</keyword> woman <keyword id="13451312" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hannah-choi" source="Orion">Hannah Choi</keyword> were found in Maryland on March 24. </li><li>Police continue to search for her suspected killer, ex-boyfriend <keyword id="13451313" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="joel-merino" source="Orion">Joel Merino</keyword>, 27. </li></ul>The body of missing Virginia woman <a href="https://www.insider.com/man-wanted-in-connection-to-ex-girlfriends-disappearance-in-virginia-2022-3">Hannah Choi</a> has been found, officials announced Monday, but the search continues for her suspected killer. Choi, 35, was reported missing by her friends on March 6, and police quickly named her live-in ex-boyfriend Joel Merino, 27, as the primary suspect. Merino is currently wanted on charges of second-degree murder and disposal of a body. A public information officer for the Fairfax County Police Department did not immediately return Insider's call for an update on the case Tuesday afternoon. At a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fairfaxcountyPD/videos/370681148101798">Monday press conference</a>, Major Ed O'Carroll, commander of the major crimes, cyber and forensics bureaus of the Fairfax County Police Department, said that Choi's remains were found by a passerby March 24 in Piscataway Park in Fort Washington, Maryland. <div type="image" title="Piscataway Park" height="1080" width="1920" msid="90527923" hostid="261"></div>The remains were positively identified as Choi's over the weekend, but her exact cause of death awaits further examination by coroners, O'Carroll said. The park was an early focus of searches for Choi, thanks to evidence that pointed to Merino visiting the park the evening before Choi's friends noticed her missing. O'Carroll said that the evidence obtained so far indicates that Choi and Merino spent the evening of March 5 together, and that something happened between the exes to result in Choi sustaining a "significant injury." He called on Merino to turn himself in and tell his side of the story. "Joel, if you're listening to me, turn yourself in. Surrender on your terms at a time and place of your choosing or be arrested on ours. You can tell your story and you enjoy a presumption of innocence," O'Carroll said. It was also revealed at the press conference that Merino had plans to fly to California on March 8, but that he never got on the flight. They now believe he went to Georgia instead, and he hasn't been seen since. Choi's younger sister, Minna, spoke at the press conference, thanking the public for their support and investigators for bringing her family answers. "It doesn't bring her back, but we are very relieved to have at least found her finally so the family can get a little bit of semblance of closure," Minna Choi said. Choi said the family has been moved to see the many lives her sister impacted before her death. "I always knew my sister was a social butterfly. She had so many friends and connections. The past couple weeks have shown us in particular how much of an impact she had on peoples' lives around her. We will always remember her as someone who was brave, strong, independent, and someone who dedicated her life to helping others." Anyone with information on Merino's whereabouts is being asked to call the Fairfax County Police Department directly at 703-246-7800, or Fairfax County <keyword id="11893298" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="crime" source="Orion">Crime</keyword> Solvers at 1-866-411-TIPS. A $40,000 reward is being offered for information leading to Merino's arrest.

Police say the remains of missing Virginia woman Hannah Choi have been found but they continue to search for her suspected killer ex-boyfriend

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="13451313" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="joel-merino" source="Orion">Joel Merino</keyword> is wanted on suspicion of murdering his ex-girlfriend, <keyword id="13451312" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hannah-choi" source="Orion">Hannah Choi</keyword>, in <keyword id="11918128" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="virginia" source="Orion">Virginia</keyword>. </li><li>Choi's body hasn't been found, but officials say evidence makes them certain she's dead. </li></ul>Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, continue to search for a 27-year-old man wanted on suspicion of killing his 35-year-old live-in ex-girlfriend and dumping her body in a Maryland park earlier this month. While Hannah Choi's body hasn't been found, officials said that they've recovered evidence that makes them certain that she was killed by Joel Merino. At a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=5EMRK7z1tuo">March 15 press conference</a>, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis called it "unusual" and a "once in a decade circumstance" that his department would have enough evidence to issue an arrest warrant for <keyword id="13542" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="murder" source="Orion">murder</keyword> without a body. Merino is wanted on charges of second-degree murder and the disposal of a body. Officials haven't released much information on Merino, other than to say that he is "fairly transient," may be going by another name, and that there had been no prior calls for service at the home he shared with Choi. In an interview with Insider on Wednesday, Choi's sister Minna, 31, said that she had only met Merino a couple of times, in passing, after her sister started dating him last summer. Choi says she didn't know much about Merino, and first learned of her sister's break-up after she went <keyword id="11913704" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="missing" source="Orion">missing</keyword>. Choi says she has since learned that Merino was supposed to move out of her sister's home, which she co-owns, a few days after her sister went missing. Sgt. Tara Gerhard, a spokesperson for the Fairfax County Police, told Insider on Wednesday that the department had "no significant updates" to the case. She said that investigators were waiting to hear back on digital evidence warrants to plan new searches. The Fairfax County Police did not immediately respond to Insider's request for an update on the case on Wednesday.According to <a href="https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2022/03/15/detectives-search-for-missing-woman-in-maryland/?fbclid=IwAR0NMLTOxKIOcrOZryBWaF71dtTzz3b_BRUmakB3Y4hYP2UYYUr3QN3bxmU">March 15 press release</a> from the Fairfax County Police Department, Choi was reported missing on Sunday after friends showed up at her house in Alexandria and no one answered the door. They then called police, who entered the home and found nothing amiss other than bedding missing from one of the bedrooms, according to the press release. Friends and family told police that Choi spent the day prior with Merino. "Detectives believe during their time together Ms. Choi may have sustained a significant injury. Detectives believe Merino then removed Ms. Choi from the home and transported her to another location," according to the press release. <div type="image" title="Piscataway Park" height="1080" width="1920" msid="90405705" hostid="261"></div>Detectives identified a vehicle Merino was driving the night of Choi's disappearance and later found it abandoned in Washington, DC. Inside the car "detectives discovered evidence to suggest Ms. Choi was harmed prior to her disappearance," according to the press release. Officials wouldn't elaborate on what kind of evidence they found inside the car at a March 15 press conference but said it made them certain that she had died. "We know something bad happened, really bad," Major Ed O'Carroll, major crimes commander, said at the press conference. "We have evidence and details that make us believe firmly believe without any doubt that she's deceased." O'Carroll said that detectives believe Merino went to Piscataway Park in Maryland hours after killing Choi, where they believe he may have dumped her body. Law enforcement agencies have conducted multiple searches of the park, but haven't found Choi's body yet.After Choi's disappearance, Merino fled the state and was last spotted in Georgia, O'Carroll said at the March 15 press conference. O'Carroll says investigators believe he has since left Georgia, and are not sure about his whereabouts. Officials told <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/search-continues-for-hannah-choi-and-her-killer/65-414a718b-be00-4756-a7f2-158b6084b4c8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WUSA</a> that they haven't ruled out the possibility that Merino has fled the country. Minna Choi told Insider that she and her parents were in "shock and disbelief" to learn about Hannah's disappearance and likely death. "My sister, she is not a victim. She was tough. She never would have tolerated abuse of any form and so the fact that even someone as strong as my sister and as tough as my sister would become the victim of domestic violence — that is just incomprehensible to us," Choi said. She added: "It feels like we're being stuck out in limo because we don't have her body, we don't have her killer, we don't have much about what happened exactly." The family has set up a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/4qk6n3-justice-for-hannah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GoFundMe</a> to raise money for a reward on information leading to Merino's arrest.

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