BEIJING, June 13 -- Awoman suspected of killing her husband in the United States has been charged with murder, prosecutors said over the weekend.

The charges were brought after prosecutors finished collecting evidence in the US in February and March.

Chen Danlei, 28, from Sichuan Province, is suspected of shooting her husband in the head last August in Lafayette, Indiana, and stuffing his dismembered body into the trunk of their car.

China and the United States do not have an extradition treaty.

Chen was caught at Pudong International Airport in September for passport violations.

She wore men's clothing and used her husband's passport to fly from Chicago to Shanghai.

Her own passport had been confiscated by an American court after she failed to attend a hearing into a previous assault against her husband.

Chen married He Lei in 2001 and in the same year went together to the United States and enrolled at Purdue University.

In 2004 she was accused of stabbing her husband and supposed to attend a hearing in an American court last August.

(Source: Shanghai Daily)