In 2005, a mother and daughter were found dead in an apparent home invasion robbery.

As the police started tracking down leads, the killer got bold, but as the authorities moved in,

they found the motive wasn't exactly what they thought.

I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Hello and welcome to crime lines.

This case was a listener suggestion sent in by Nate, and I appreciate

him sending this one in and a few others. He actually takes up several lines on my spreadsheet of

requested topics. I don't know if people are still listening by the time I get around to

covering their suggestions, because it's very often years down

the road. But hello, Nate, if you're still here. Let's go ahead and get started with a really

interesting woman named Ha Jade Smith. That is her American name that she took on after coming here,

but she was born Notinaka in Vietnam in February of

1953. In May of 1981, when Ha was 28 years old, she had her daughter, her only child named

Anita Vu Ni Hong. After coming to the U.S., she shortened it to just Anita Vaux.

When Anita was around four or five, Ha took her and fled from Vietnam.

I actually didn't know that the mass exodus from Vietnam after the 1975 fall of Saigon

continued so long into the 1980s, but it actually

went all the way up through the early 90s. Nearly two million people left Vietnam due to the

post-war conditions and their opposition to the leadership, which was the Communist Party of Vietnam.

By the time Ha and Anita left Vietnam, a lot of the chaos of mass emigration was done with,

and there was a lot more of a process to do it, rather than just getting on a boat and hoping you make it.

Not that it was much easier by land if you didn't have the resources to pay for your way out.

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