Toronto police have now charged a woman with murder following the bizarre discovery of a body in a Scarborough home last week.
Officers were called to a home on Ridgecrest Drive, in the Warden Avenue and Huntingwood Drive area, on Wednesday after a man's body was found partially wrapped in a blanket.
The 40-year-old man's wife was originally charged with indignity to a dead body, but those charges were upgraded to murder on Monday.
Police later identified the man as Dong Huang. However, investigators have not yet released the cause of death.
Neighbours told CTV Toronto that the landlord who lived upstairs heard the man yelling from the basement about a week before his body was found.
But when they did not see him or hear from him after that, the landlord asked the man's wife where he was. She allegedly told them he returned to Hong Kong.
On Wednesday, however, the landlord noticed the wife moving belongings out of the basement apartment.
Neighbour William Zhang and his wife entered the apartment while she was out, and found two feet sticking out from beneath a yellow blanket.
Around that time, the wife returned to the apartment, and allegedly told a neighbour that the man suffered a heart attack.
Xiu Jin Teng, 36, of Toronto, is currently in custody and has been charged with first degree murder.
She appeared in a Toronto court earlier on Monday.
Meanwhile, police said the investigation is ongoing and are requesting that anyone who spoke to the accused during February to contact them.
With files from CTV Toronto's Tamara Cherry
