MO MO - Yinzhou Zheng, 46, Boone County, 17 Sep 2000

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Yinzhou Zheng – The Charley Project

Yinzhou Zheng

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Zheng, circa 2000

• Missing Since09/17/2000
• Missing FromColumbia, Missouri
• ClassificationMissing
• Date of Birth10/16/1953 (65)
• Age46 years old
• Height and Weight5'8 - 5'10, 170 - 180 pounds
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsAsian male. Black hair, brown eyes. Zheng was born in China.

Details of Disappearance
Zheng was last seen in Columbia, Missouri on September 17, 2000. His wife, Xiang Sun, disappeared on September 23, six days later. Zheng was supposed to go visit his daughter, Xiang's stepdaughter, in Iowa City, Iowa, but he never arrived there and his vehicle was later found still at his residence in Missouri. Xiang disappeared on the day he was supposed to return from Iowa.

Zheng was a graduate student at the University of Missouri and his son was also attending the university at the time of his father and stepmother's disappearances. Both Xiang and Zheng are originally from China, and both of them left their passports behind. Few details are available in their cases.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

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Cross-posting:

Interesting --where are the adult children today?

Graduate school in your 40's?

 

[Gardener1850]

Unidentified Skeletal remains found in Columbia: MO - MO - Skeletal Remains near I-70 Southwest & Stadium Blvd, Columbia, 25 July 2019

 

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Remains identified -- not this gentleman:

Human remains identified as Columbia man

 

[caringo]

Looking into this disappearance. I've been searching through the University of Missouri yearbooks from 2000 & 2001 and have not found Yinzhou or anyone who appears to be his son as of yet. Odd. Here is a link to the yearbook archives - in the 2001 yearbook (which, I assume Yinzhou would be in since it would cover the fall of 2000 through the spring of 2001, correct? And he went missing in September which means he was attending MU that fall), the portraits of the graduate students are on the electronic page 118 (actual pages in the book 114-115). No Mr. Zheng.

Savitar - The MU Yearbook | MU Digital Library, University of Missouri

 

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Looking into this disappearance. I've been searching through the University of Missouri yearbooks from 2000 & 2001 and have not found Yinzhou or anyone who appears to be his son as of yet. Odd. Here is a link to the yearbook archives - in the 2001 yearbook (which, I assume Yinzhou would be in since it would cover the fall of 2000 through the spring of 2001, correct? And he went missing in September which means he was attending MU that fall), the portraits of the graduate students are on the electronic page 118 (actual pages in the book 114-115). No Mr. Zheng.

Savitar - The MU Yearbook | MU Digital Library, University of Missouri

Remember, this isn't high school. Neither my university ID card as an undergraduate or as a grad student had my picture. No recollection of anyone lining up for yearbook pictures.

Might be in pictures for an activity?

Okay, who had a different experience & has a piccie in their college yearbook?

This story is still weird!

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[caringo]

Remember, this isn't high school. Neither my university ID card as an undergraduate or as a grad student had my picture. No recollection of anyone lining up for yearbook pictures.

Might be in pictures for an activity?

Okay, who had a different experience & has a piccie in their college yearbook?

This story is still weird!

jmho ymmv lrr

TBH I didn’t even realize colleges did yearbooks until searching! It seems like their yearbook did a whole spread like a high school yearbook. But I realized - he went missing in mid September. They may not have even done pictures yet. (I’m assuming they did them at the beginning of the year like elementary and high schools - but I could be wrong).

I may try to look through other photos in the yearbook, but the website is pretty laggy.

I’m also wondering if Yinzhou’s son had a different last name than Zheng. Maybe the mother’s last name (not Xiang Sun).

 

[caringo]

Sun Xiang and Zheng Yinzhou - Newspapers.com

I hope this link works - found this clip from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, Dec 2003.

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Anniversary of disappearance.

 

[DS2021]

Bumping

 

[Danaya]

Very strange case, I wonder if the son in law was ever looked at...