Two teenagers were indicted on suspicion of murdering an Asian professor at Arizona State University

Junseok Chae was reported missing on March 25, and his remains were found in an Arizona landfill on July 17. Quoted from Ma...

Junseok Chae was reported missing on March 25, and his remains were found in an Arizona landfill on July 17

Citing news from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, two teenagers have been charged with the murder of Arizona State University professor Junseok Chae, who disappeared in March.

Vice dean and engineering professor Junseok Chae was reported missing after he did not return home after get off work on March 25, the county Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

>Gabrielle Austin, left, and Javian Ezell, right, will face murder charges

Shreveport County, Louisiana, police responded after receiving a report about a suspicious vehicle and encountered the suspects in the case, 18-year-old Javian Ezell and Gabrielle Austin, and the case was solved. The identity of a third person with the suspect has not yet been revealed.

The police have confirmed that the vehicle belongs to the victim, Professor Chae, and based on the testimony they have received, they infer that Professor Chae has been killed.

> Shreveport Police contacted our County Sheriff’s Office on March 30.

According to the statement, after further investigation, police determined that Chae was killed at an intersection in north Phoenix, and police found several pieces of evidence while searching the area. The professor's body was dumped in a dumpster and accidentally taken to the Northwest Arizona Regional Landfill in Surprise.

With the help of heavy equipment provided by the State National Guard, Waste Management, and construction companies, the County Sheriff’s Office searched the landfill from May 11 to July 17 and located human remains later identified as belonging to Chae and other related evidence.

Recently, Ezell and Austin have been extradited to Arizona and were arrested on July 15. The two suspects will be charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and theft of transportation.

It is said that the bail for each of the two suspects is US$1 million. CNN is trying to identify attorneys for both suspects. Ezell and Austin will be arraigned on Sept. 3, according to jail records.

According to Arizona State University, Chae obtained his bachelor's degree from Korea University in Seoul, and then obtained his master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and then began teaching at Arizona State University in 2005.