Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Two persons of interest in a “targeted double murder” over financial debts fled overseas after dumping the bodies of a husband and wife in dense Sydney scrubland metres from each other, police say.NSW Police homicide squad detectives are working with Taiwanese and Chinese authorities after the bodies of couple Zhuojun “Sally” Li and Jai-Bao “Rex” Chen were discovered in a severe state of decomposition in Botany just over a week apart.Police are treating the deaths of Zhuojun “Sally” Li (left) and her husband, Jai-Bao “Rex” Chen (right) as a “targeted double murder”.Credit: NSW PolicePolice on Tuesday found what is believed to be Chen’s body while searching an area near Sir Joseph Banks Park, where the body of his wife was found wrapped in plastic on December 9 by a passerby.Chen’s body, which is yet to be formally identified, was submerged in a creek and covered in reeds and other foliage less than 10 metres from that of his wife.Li and Chen’s bodies are believed to have been dumped at the same time, around the end of November, after the couple were murdered in their Greenacre unit, homicide squad commander Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said.Doherty said Li and Chen’s “financial debts” were being treated as possible motives for the couple’s murder.Police discovered what is believed to be Bao “Rex” Chen’s body while searching an area near Sir Joseph Banks Park in Botany.Credit: Nine News“There was no other criminality that we’re aware of, and certainly Sally has unfortunately become a victim because of that,” Doherty said.Doherty said two persons of interest, who have since fled overseas, had been identified after Chen’s phone was tracked to Queensland, where it was recovered.
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