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CASE SUMMARY:
Jenny Chen, 26, went on a backpacking trip through Mexico in March 2016. This trip also included riding a bus or hitchhiking to different cities: Mexico City, Puebla and Oaxaca. Jenny was also a member of the traveling website couchsurfing.com, and used it to find places to stay during her trip. She said that a purpose of her trip was to conquer her fears.
Jenny is a Chinese citizen, married to an American, Jonathan Reinhard, living in Seattle, WA. She has a Chinese passport under the name Qundan Chen or Chen Qun Dan. Jenny has a permanent residency green card and was working toward U.S. citizenship. Jonathan Reinhard (referred to as JR on the threads), 48, her husband, was supposed to meet Jenny in Cancun for a few days on April 15, 2016, but she never showed up. From Cancun she planned to travel to Cuba and New York City, returning home to Seattle July 5. The last time friends and family heard from her was around April 9-11th before she left Oaxaca City. Although Jenny purchased a phone in Mexico and talked to her mother almost daily, she did not give her number to her husband. She communicated through Facebook on public wifi connections. She told him she would not be in communication with him during her trip from Oaxaca to Cancun.
In May 2016, Jenny’s parents visited Mexico and received help from the Chinese Embassy and law enforcement. Her parents were told that Jenny had been seen still backpacking in May. They went back to China, apparently satisfied, according to the Embassy press release, and have not been heard from since. Jenny’s husband dismissed this report because his private investigator had been told by witnesses that Jenny spent the night of April 11 with shopkeepers and had been offered a ride on April 12 by a driver of a Corona delivery truck near Juchitan de Zaragoza on highway 185 at Lagunas Crossing. Because of teacher strikes blocking the road to Cancun, he allegedly told her he would take her in a different direction. She disappeared and has made no contact with friends or family or accessed social media or bank accounts.
Threads #1-3 have covered her husband’s efforts to have the driver interrogated and to have Corona and the trucking company Kugar held accountable. Eventually the driver was given a polygraph, the results of which are unknown. His whereabouts are unknown as of August 2017. JR is convinced he either trafficked or murdered Jenny and has conducted a Twitter and phone call campaign to enlist cooperation from Corona and Kugar.
In September 2017, JR revealed that was told by a member of the HFJ Group that she had seen and spoken to Jenny as recently as February 2017. Currently, JR is evaluating this info, which he thinks is credible, and preparing to put up posters in the area where she was seen. The earthquake devastation in Mexico City delayed this effort.
Jenny Chen, 26, went on a backpacking trip through Mexico in March 2016. This trip also included riding a bus or hitchhiking to different cities: Mexico City, Puebla and Oaxaca. Jenny was also a member of the traveling website couchsurfing.com, and used it to find places to stay during her trip. She said that a purpose of her trip was to conquer her fears.
Jenny is a Chinese citizen, married to an American, Jonathan Reinhard, living in Seattle, WA. She has a Chinese passport under the name Qundan Chen or Chen Qun Dan. Jenny has a permanent residency green card and was working toward U.S. citizenship. Jonathan Reinhard (referred to as JR on the threads), 48, her husband, was supposed to meet Jenny in Cancun for a few days on April 15, 2016, but she never showed up. From Cancun she planned to travel to Cuba and New York City, returning home to Seattle July 5. The last time friends and family heard from her was around April 9-11th before she left Oaxaca City. Although Jenny purchased a phone in Mexico and talked to her mother almost daily, she did not give her number to her husband. She communicated through Facebook on public wifi connections. She told him she would not be in communication with him during her trip from Oaxaca to Cancun.
In May 2016, Jenny’s parents visited Mexico and received help from the Chinese Embassy and law enforcement. Her parents were told that Jenny had been seen still backpacking in May. They went back to China, apparently satisfied, according to the Embassy press release, and have not been heard from since. Jenny’s husband dismissed this report because his private investigator had been told by witnesses that Jenny spent the night of April 11 with shopkeepers and had been offered a ride on April 12 by a driver of a Corona delivery truck near Juchitan de Zaragoza on highway 185 at Lagunas Crossing. Because of teacher strikes blocking the road to Cancun, he allegedly told her he would take her in a different direction. She disappeared and has made no contact with friends or family or accessed social media or bank accounts.
Threads #1-3 have covered her husband’s efforts to have the driver interrogated and to have Corona and the trucking company Kugar held accountable. Eventually the driver was given a polygraph, the results of which are unknown. His whereabouts are unknown as of August 2017. JR is convinced he either trafficked or murdered Jenny and has conducted a Twitter and phone call campaign to enlist cooperation from Corona and Kugar.
In September 2017, JR revealed that was told by a member of the HFJ Group that she had seen and spoken to Jenny as recently as February 2017. Currently, JR is evaluating this info, which he thinks is credible, and preparing to put up posters in the area where she was seen. The earthquake devastation in Mexico City delayed this effort.
