A Texas man is accused of killing his wife days after signing a life insurance policy for $250,000.
Prosecutors claim 41-year-old Christopher Collins is facing charges that he killed his 46-year-old wife Yuanhua Liang and then went “to great lengths” in an elaborate scheme to make it look like she was shot and killed by a home invader.
Officials say Collins called the police on Nov. 18 while at a local area gym and told them his wife had texted him about an intruder in their Harris County home. Collins then drove to his home to meet law enforcement officers, who discovered his wife fatally shot in the living room.
Investigators were immediately suspicious when they arrived and found the house was strangely not ransacked.
Surveillance video from Collin’s trip to the gym showed him pacing around for 45 minutes and only working out for five minutes before he went and called the police.
Police later searched a locker at the gym and found Liang’s wallet — which Collins had reported missing — and a cosmetic bag.
A search of the couple’s residence uncovered a life insurance policy worth $250,000 signed by Liang just two days earlier.
“Officers who searched the home found a sheet of paper on the desk inside the residence. The paper was for life insurance for $250,000. The officer stated that the defendant and the complainant had signed the paper for life insurance on Nov. 16, 2021.”
