NY NY- Quin-Rong Wu, 11, went missing near her school, sex. assaulted & strangled, body found in the East River, N. of Manhattan Bridge, 13 May 1997

[dotr]

Who Killed 11-Year Old Quin-Rong Wu?

A 1997 Cold Case Still Haunts New York City

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''It was the American Dream gone horribly wrong. A Chinese couple immigrated to Manhattan in 1996 to make a better life for themselves and their children. A year later, they would bury their youngest daughter after her lifeless body was found floating in the East River.''

Chinatown in New York City; photo source.

The Murder of Quin-Rong Wu

11-year-old Quin-Rong Wu was kidnapped less than a hundred yards from her school in the Lower East Side.

thehueandcry.com

''In 1995, Quin-Rong Wu immigrated to the United States from the Guangdong Province in southern China with her parents, 17-year-old sister, and 7-year-old brother. The family settled in the Lower East Side in a second-floor apartment at 199 Henry Street. Quin’s father, Qun Shen Wu, found work at a noodle factory, and her mother, Wu Yu Qin, worked as a seamstress on Canal street. The family of five lived in an old tenement building in a small one-bedroom, two-room apartment. The five of them shared two beds, Quin-Rong and her sister in one bed, and her brother and parents in the other. Quin-Rong’s school, Public School 2, was located just down the block from their apartment.''

''On the morning of Tuesday, May 13, Quin-Rong put on her jeans, a sweatshirt, and her red sneakers, and left her apartment with her mother. The two of them walked halfway to school together before Quin-Rong walked the last hundred yards to her school alone. She never made it to school that day.''

''Two weeks after Quin-Rong went missing, the body of a young girl was found Wednesday evening just north of the Manhattan Bridge in the East River. Police also found a single red sneaker. ''

''One witness reported seeing a caucasian, bearded, man with a crying Asian girl boarding a northbound subway in the Lower East Side one hour after Quin-Rong would have left her mother. The same witness saw the pair again later that day boarding a different train going from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Other witnesses claimed to have seen a caucasian man staring at young girls near Quin-Rong’s school.''

 

[investigatefred]

Who Killed 11-Year Old Quin-Rong Wu?

A 1997 Cold Case Still Haunts New York City

lizjin.medium.com

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''It was the American Dream gone horribly wrong. A Chinese couple immigrated to Manhattan in 1996 to make a better life for themselves and their children. A year later, they would bury their youngest daughter after her lifeless body was found floating in the East River.''
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Chinatown in New York City; photo source.
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The Murder of Quin-Rong Wu

11-year-old Quin-Rong Wu was kidnapped less than a hundred yards from her school in the Lower East Side.

thehueandcry.com

''In 1995, Quin-Rong Wu immigrated to the United States from the Guangdong Province in southern China with her parents, 17-year-old sister, and 7-year-old brother. The family settled in the Lower East Side in a second-floor apartment at 199 Henry Street. Quin’s father, Qun Shen Wu, found work at a noodle factory, and her mother, Wu Yu Qin, worked as a seamstress on Canal street. The family of five lived in an old tenement building in a small one-bedroom, two-room apartment. The five of them shared two beds, Quin-Rong and her sister in one bed, and her brother and parents in the other. Quin-Rong’s school, Public School 2, was located just down the block from their apartment.''

''On the morning of Tuesday, May 13, Quin-Rong put on her jeans, a sweatshirt, and her red sneakers, and left her apartment with her mother. The two of them walked halfway to school together before Quin-Rong walked the last hundred yards to her school alone. She never made it to school that day.''

''Two weeks after Quin-Rong went missing, the body of a young girl was found Wednesday evening just north of the Manhattan Bridge in the East River. Police also found a single red sneaker. ''

''One witness reported seeing a caucasian, bearded, man with a crying Asian girl boarding a northbound subway in the Lower East Side one hour after Quin-Rong would have left her mother. The same witness saw the pair again later that day boarding a different train going from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Other witnesses claimed to have seen a caucasian man staring at young girls near Quin-Rong’s school.''

I found it so odd the same "witness" saw her on 2 different trains at 2 different times the same day. What are the odds?

 

[Ruminations]

I found it so odd the same "witness" saw her on 2 different trains at 2 different times the same day. What are the odds?

I could see how that made them memorable to the witness. You could start to forget them, then they get more cemented in your mind with that low-odds 2nd sighting. Then, of course, plastered in hard when she is reported missing so near the time and place of the first sighting. That is haunting.

MOO

 

[Keith417]

I found it so odd the same "witness" saw her on 2 different trains at 2 different times the same day. What are the odds?

Maybe the person who saw them worked at the train station.

 

[Keith417]

Who Killed 11-Year Old Quin-Rong Wu?

A 1997 Cold Case Still Haunts New York City

lizjin.medium.com

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''It was the American Dream gone horribly wrong. A Chinese couple immigrated to Manhattan in 1996 to make a better life for themselves and their children. A year later, they would bury their youngest daughter after her lifeless body was found floating in the East River.''
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Chinatown in New York City; photo source.
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The Murder of Quin-Rong Wu

11-year-old Quin-Rong Wu was kidnapped less than a hundred yards from her school in the Lower East Side.

thehueandcry.com

''In 1995, Quin-Rong Wu immigrated to the United States from the Guangdong Province in southern China with her parents, 17-year-old sister, and 7-year-old brother. The family settled in the Lower East Side in a second-floor apartment at 199 Henry Street. Quin’s father, Qun Shen Wu, found work at a noodle factory, and her mother, Wu Yu Qin, worked as a seamstress on Canal street. The family of five lived in an old tenement building in a small one-bedroom, two-room apartment. The five of them shared two beds, Quin-Rong and her sister in one bed, and her brother and parents in the other. Quin-Rong’s school, Public School 2, was located just down the block from their apartment.''

''On the morning of Tuesday, May 13, Quin-Rong put on her jeans, a sweatshirt, and her red sneakers, and left her apartment with her mother. The two of them walked halfway to school together before Quin-Rong walked the last hundred yards to her school alone. She never made it to school that day.''

''Two weeks after Quin-Rong went missing, the body of a young girl was found Wednesday evening just north of the Manhattan Bridge in the East River. Police also found a single red sneaker. ''

''One witness reported seeing a caucasian, bearded, man with a crying Asian girl boarding a northbound subway in the Lower East Side one hour after Quin-Rong would have left her mother. The same witness saw the pair again later that day boarding a different train going from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Other witnesses claimed to have seen a caucasian man staring at young girls near Quin-Rong’s school.''

So sad I never heard of this case.

 

[investigatefred]

Maybe the person who saw them worked at the train station.

Ohhhhh, I never thought of it from that angle! That makes the most sense!