Gorgeous world-class poker star burnt body found, scene staged. WHY?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The body of Suzie Zhao, a young female professional poker player is found burned in a Detroit park. The White Lake Township Police Department is treating her death as a homicide and are asking for help from the public. TIPLINE: White Lake Township Police Detective Lt Christopher Hild (248) 698-4404 Joining Nancy Grace today:Yuval Bronshtein - Friend of the victim since 2008, poker playerNeama Rahmani - Los Angeles Ca, Former Federal Prosecutor, President of West Coast Trial LawyersDr. Daniel Bober - Forensic Psychiatrist; follow on Instagram at drdanielboberInvestigator James Shelnutt - 27-year Atlanta Metro Major Case detective, SWAT OfficerDr. Elayne Pope - Forensic Anthropologist, Autopsy Supervisor at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Norfolk, VirginiaLevi Page - Investigative Reporter, CrimeOnline

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0:00.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:01.7	I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:04.8	The first time I've ever made a death notification on you after that moment
0:08.6	that I was going to try to be as compassionate as I possibly could.
0:12.0	Because when families are rocked by death,
0:14.9	the only thing they really want are answers.
0:18.1	They ask how, where, it was my job as a death investigator to bring those answers.
0:26.7	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.4	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:37.8	Have you ever been to Vegas because I have?
0:43.7	And it's awesome and beautiful and crazy.
0:50.6	And when you see it on TV, you know, even here, Elvis singing Viva Las Vegas,
0:56.3	it's just so fantastical like a dreamland.
1:00.1	But for one high stakes poker player,
1:04.5	a well-known female star on the poker circuit that dream turns to a nightmare.
1:12.7	I'm Nancy Grace.
1:20.0	This is Crime Stories.
1:21.9	First of all, take a listen to our friends at WDIV.
1:26.0	A couple were driving down Mesa Day Road here as it approaches crossroad in White Lake Township.
1:31.4	When they made the awful discovery yesterday morning on the right here in this parking area,
1:37.2	they saw the lifeless body burnt beyond a recognition.
1:41.7	Cars parked there as a trailhead for people to go hiking into the Pine Lake Lake area.
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