Breaking Update #2: Chong Moua Yang

Last Seen Alive

Studio 222

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On September 26, 2023, prosecutors dropped the charges against Robert Rodway, one of two Michigan men accused of murdering avid hunter and beloved family man Chong Moua Yang in the fall of 2018. This development occurred less than 24 hours before the trial was scheduled to begin, following the presentation of exculpatory evidence that suggests the possible involvement of an entirely different suspect. In this breaking update episode of Last Seen Alive, we cover the most recent—and unexpected—developments in this ongoing case.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to this special breaking update episode of Last Seen Live. And today, I'm your
0:06.3	host, Scott. And today, I'm your co-host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime
0:13.2	storyteller by night. Apologies for my scratchy voice. I'm a little under the weather, and this is as good
0:18.9	as it's going to get. Yeah, and you're not quite the storyteller tonight.
0:23.7	Thankfully, no, this is your show today.
0:46.9	Thank you. Welcome to our second breaking update episode for the murder of Chong Mouyang.
0:51.4	I've got to say, I'm really surprised that we're doing another update episode right now on this case.
0:54.8	I didn't think we'd have any big updates until the trials were over, but something really unusual has happened. Yeah, on the surface, it sounds like it should be
0:59.8	less weird than it actually is. It should be pretty straightforward. Like you said, I wouldn't
1:05.4	expect us to have a second update episode unless it was to say, hey, the trial is over and this is the results.
1:12.8	But that's not what it is.
1:15.1	Yeah, it's turned out to not be a matter of waiting for the trial to conclude and finding out whether the defendants are guilty or not.
1:20.5	It's more complicated than that.
1:22.2	Yeah, I think Kim Palmer and his article for the Lansing State Journal really sums it up well because his article
1:28.5	from September 26, he starts by saying, prosecutors quietly drop the charges on one of the men
1:35.2	accused of killing Yang. And he's not wrong. Information for this update has been very difficult
1:41.0	to find and only a few new sources have anything on it at all. I've been
1:44.9	watching this case for a few days now looking for new information as it emerges, while researching
1:49.6	and writing it, and unless you have the right keywords, the articles are almost completely lost.
1:54.8	And honestly, of the ones out there, many are rather short. Yeah, I feel like this case is a lot more newsworthy than the attention it's been given reflects.
2:04.5	If you're not a local living in that area and already viewing these news channels that are reporting on it,
2:09.7	you've got to do a little digging to find the latest updates.
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