“When somebody's taking your sister away from you, you don't heal. It's it's, you never heal. I mean, it's like living in hell,” said Loanne Phung, whose sister Wiki Phung went missing in 1991
“We're still thinking about her, and that we're hoping someone out there know what's happened,” said Loanne Phung.
Patrol Commander Patrick Fagan filed the initial missing persons case.
On May 9, 1991, Wiki Phung was supposed to travel from her home in Lynnwood to Shoreline Community College, where she attended, before heading to the Federal Building in downtown Seattle for work, Fagan said.
Phung was allegedly dropped off at the college by her then-boyfriend, but she never showed up at work.
After her disappearance, Phung’s family learned details about her secret life, including about her boyfriend.
“After she went missing, we realize that they’ve been dating for two years,” her sister said. “He was married. She was 17 when they met and he was 27.”
Loanne Phung said her sister wanted her boyfriend to leave his wife and he kept promising he would.
KING 5 is not naming the boyfriend, who was never charged in the case.
“He had an alibi that he was at work. It's not proven or disproven whether he was or wasn't there,” said Fagan.
Wiki Phung’s boyfriend did give a statement. In it, he said she claimed to have been raped by several men and he provided police with names. However, investigators were unable to find any records or evidence to support his statement.
A short time later, police said, her boyfriend failed a polygraph test.
“It was a convoluted story of victimization and that was a storyline that we receive from the boyfriend,” said Fagan. “Our detectives made a number of efforts to corroborate any of those storylines in those people, and they found nothing. So I think those storylines were disproven”
Wiki Phung, 19, went missing on May 9, 1991. After her disappearance, her family learned details about her secret life.
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