INDIANAPOLIS — Murder charges have been filed against a 21-year-old U.S. soldier is accused of flying to Indianapolis from Colorado to kill his estranged wife.

Peter Lian then allegedly dumped her body in a trash bin and fled to Thailand.

The body of Khuang Par was discovered in a suitcase in an Indianapolis dumpster on Dec. 23.

Police say Par was living with Lian near Fort Carson in Colorado Springs but had returned to family in Indianapolis after she accused her husband of assault.