199 - The Disappearance of Jie Zhao Li

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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February 11th, 1988 - twelve year old Jie Zhao Li walks out of her family's Honolulu home to sell tickets for a school fundraiser. She never makes it back home. Within hours she's reported missing and investigators begin massive searches trying to track down the little girl or anyone who may have seen her.

Soon witnesses come forward but their stories lead detectives in different directions. Some people saw Jie speaking to a man outside of the local 7-11 moments before her disappearance. Others claim to have seen her in the back of an old, yellow Chevy miles away and days after she went missing.

While detectives quickly determine that the twelve year old was likely the victim of an abduction, their race against time hits dead end after dead end leading many to wonder if Jie is still alive out there somewhere, or if perhaps, her abductor took her life within hours of her vanishing.

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0:19.9	It was a beautifully warm sunny and gorgeous afternoon in downtown Honolulu. Thousands of
0:35.2	residents walked and drove the streets heading off to work or school or out for an adventure on
0:40.4	the beach. Somewhere mixed into the hustle and bustle of city life, a little girl wandered back
0:46.8	and forth between two convenience stores. Twelve-year-old Gizou Li was excited.
0:53.7	Her school was conducting a fundraiser selling tickets for a chilly dinner for a trip to the Big
0:58.7	Island. She was hopeful about the event and wanted to earn herself a seat on the flight,
1:04.1	begging her mother to allow her to go out and sell some tickets.
1:08.0	After a lot of begging and maybe a little whining, Gizou got her way as long as she promised
1:13.7	to be back by 5 pm, beaming her irresistible smile Gizou bounced out of the family home,
1:20.4	but she never made it back. Initially investigators assumed they were working on a case of a runaway
1:26.5	or a lost child. However, it quickly became clear that something more sinister may have been
1:31.7	involved. Multiple witnesses reported seeing Gizou talking to an older man in the moments before
1:37.9	she vanished. While others claimed to have seen her being held hostage by an unknown man,
1:43.3	days later, soon the outlook turned grim with detectives assuming the child had likely been killed.
1:50.9	What happened to Gizou Li? Has she been abducted at random by someone she attempted to sell a
1:56.8	raffle ticket to or had someone specifically targeted the child with plans of taking her far away
2:03.3	from the island of Oahu? This is Trace Evidence Episode 199, The Disappearance of Gizou Li.
2:20.8	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pichecco. Today we'll examine the mysterious
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