CANADA Canada- Ying ZHANG, 57, last seen @ a wellness centre, Markham, ON 25 July 2024. *Suspicious circumstances'*

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MARKHAM WOMAN MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

MARKHAM WOMAN MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

www.yrp.ca

July 27, 2024
''Investigators with the York Regional Police Homicide Unit are seeking public assistance after a Markham woman has gone missing under suspicious circumstances.
On Thursday, July 25, 2024, at approximately 5:30 p.m., officers responded to a missing person call at a wellness centre in the area of Woodbine Avenue and Steel Case Road in the City of Markham.
Ying ZHANG was last seen at the wellness centre at approximately 10:40 a.m. Her family contacted police after she failed to return home from her work.
Police and Ying’s family are concerned for her well being. This is out of character for her and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance are being treated as suspicious.
Missing:
· Ying ZHANG, 57, of Markham
· Female
· Chinese
· 5’7”
· Medium build
· Straight, shoulder-length, black and grey hair

· Last seen wearing blue scrubs and a jade bracelet on her left hand
Investigators would like to hear from anyone in the area at the time and from anyone with information about this incident.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Homicide Unit at 1-866-876-5423 ext. 7865, or email at homicide@yrp.ca, or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS, or leave an anonymous tip online at www.1800222tips.com.''

 

[imstilla.grandma]

York region investigators say Ying Zhang was last seen at a wellness centre in the area of Woodbine Avenue and Steel Case Road around 10:40 a.m. on July 25. Her family contacted police after she failed to return home from work that day.

Police search for Markham woman missing under 'suspicious circumstances'

Ying Zhang was last seen at a wellness centre in the area of Woodbine Avenue and Steel Case Road around 10:40 a.m. on July 25.

toronto.citynews.ca

 

[caradana]

Hope she is found soon, and curious to see how this case unfolds. Interesting factors.

 

[starlightstarbright]

It looks like the date in the title is wrong. It should be 2024 instead of 2023.

I also wonder what they mean by wellness centre. Looking on Google maps, I don’t see anything called a wellness centre in that area. There is a chiropractor and a physiotherapist, lots of restaurants. It would be helpful if they were more specific exactly where she was last seen.

 

[slowpoke]

So many unanswered questions.

Does she work at the “wellness centre”?

She was wearing scrubs, so is she somehow involved in patient care? What is her profession?

She was seen at the centre at 10:40 am. If she does work there, where did she go after that? Early lunch break, and never returned?

Is her car missing?

What happens when they ping her phone?

Security cameras at the wellness centre capture anything?

Wish we had more to go on. I hope she turns up ok!

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Steelcase Rd W & Woodbine Ave · Markham, ON L3R 1A4, Canada

Intersection

www.google.com

MARKHAM WOMAN MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

MARKHAM WOMAN MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

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[Inthedetails]

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What is her profession? All I've seen is that she was last seen wearing scrubs.

jmo

 

[Sillybilly]

ADMIN NOTE:

Really, really disturbing and disappointing at Websleuths to read posts based on nothing but wild speculation. They have been removed, along with responses to them.

Basic sleuthing brings up the following information:

Ying Zhang is a GP and is known or has been known to be affiliated with the Holibalance Wellness Centre in Markham.

LinkedIn

Ontario College of Physicians & Surgeons listing

Dr. Ying Zhang, Markham, ON

Holibalance Wellness Centre

The centre appears to focus on vocational rehabilitation.

 

[Inthedetails]

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What is her profession? All I've seen is that she was last seen wearing scrubs.

jmo

Following up my own comment, from the profiles posted upthread, Dr. Zhang graduated from the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2004. The school is located in London, Ontario.

From wikipedia about the school:
"The school emphasizes a patient-centered approach to medicine." This fits in with "wellness center" model, imo.

Admission to the school is highly competitive, which indicates to me that Ying Zhang is a well-educated professional and, after 20 years in practice, well-established as well.

What happened??

jmo

Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Twick]

One hates to keep hitting that note, but I’m pretty sure if a male GP went missing we’d see headlines about “missing doctor,” not “missing woman.” The fact she’s a doctor may be quite relevant.

 

[Tealgrove]

MOO

A disgruntled patient or former patient may be in volved in her disappearance perhaps?

 

[Angelcat13]

Hope she is found soon, and curious to see how this case unfolds. Interesting factors.

What are the “interesting factors”? I just did a really quick search to see if there were any additional news articles about her disappearance and they all seem to have the same “very sparse” comments.

 

[Inthedetails]

MOO

A disgruntled patient or former patient may be in volved in her disappearance perhaps?

I don't have a grasp on any direction, tbh. Unhinged employee, colleague, patient? Ongoing personal dispute we don't know about? Random crime? Accident? Voluntary disappearance? I have no idea!

jmo

 

[slowpoke]

I don't have a grasp on any direction, tbh. Unhinged employee, colleague, patient? Ongoing personal dispute we don't know about? Random crime? Accident? Voluntary disappearance? I have no idea!

jmo

It’s the complete lack of details that leaves us clueless. I mean, as @Twick pointed out the report didn’t even mention that she’s a doctor or use her title in front of her name.

So, reading what little we have to go on:

She was last seen at the wellness centre at 10:40 am.
But she wasn’t reported missing until 5:30pm by her family when she didn’t return home from work.
(What time was she expected home after work?)

The report mentions she has a jade bracelet on her left hand.
(Was the bracelet important to mention, for a specific reason?)

“Investigators would like to hear from anyone in the area at the time and from anyone with information about this incident.”
(They say “this incident”. So, was it maybe a carjacking/kidnapping at the wellness centre? But if so, you’d think the police would have been called right away, and not “after she failed to return home from her work.”)

Continuing the idea of a carjacking/kidnapping thought, maybe no one seemed to witness it, but after family reported her missing later that day they viewed surveillance and saw an “incident”. Problems with this theory: why wouldn’t they say to look out for her car, or whatever vehicle if not her own car.

Just ponderings…

 

[tarabull]

Woodbine & Steelcase area is heavily traveled. There is 1 Google review for Holibalance from 5 years ago, stating one word "careless"....FWIW.

 

[Twick]

MOO

A disgruntled patient or former patient may be in volved in her disappearance perhaps?

A friend of mine was a doctor in that general area. She was harassed for YEARS by an unstable woman she’d treated once. Used to show up whenever my friend had people over to visit, and we’d have to call to police who would take her back to her family. She never became violent but was completely delusional.

 

[Inthedetails]

I'm curious who was the last person to see her. Someone in her office, a patient, employee, vendor, neighboring business?

jmo

 

[tarabull]

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A white Ford van was seen in the area and a suspect was seen with a large green wheeled bin near the van at the time of ZHANG’s disappearance. There is information that the suspect vehicle travelled to the Village of Kirkfield, in the City of Kawartha Lakes, on the afternoon of July 25.

Accused:

• Changlin YANG, 26, of East Gwillimbury

Charges:

• Kidnapping
• Forcible Confinement
• Aggravated Assault

Suspect Vehicle:

• White Ford van
• Ontario licence plate BZ43851

UPDATE - MARKHAM WOMAN MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

UPDATE - MARKHAM WOMAN MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

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[vls12345]

UPDATE - MARKHAM WOMAN MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

UPDATE - MARKHAM WOMAN MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

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From your link:
"Investigators with the York Regional Police Homicide and Missing Persons Unit have laid charges in connection with a missing woman from the City of Markham."

and

"Accused:

• Changlin YANG, 26, of East Gwillimbury

Charges:

• Kidnapping
• Forcible Confinement
• Aggravated Assault"
  

LE are still searching for witnesses.

UPDATE - MARKHAM WOMAN MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

UPDATE - MARKHAM WOMAN MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

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[dotr]

Suspect charged with kidnapping as police search for missing woman from York Region

Police north of Toronto have charged a suspect with kidnapping as the search continues for a woman who investigators say went missing under 'suspicious circumstances.'

toronto.ctvnews.ca