Hi, Crimes Jenkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And the story I have for you today is about a young woman who left her family's apartment

in St. Paul, Minnesota and never came home.

Despite feeling like they're on the right track, her disappearance has frustrated investigators

for decades.

And her family has been left wondering if they'll ever learn the truth of what happened to

her.

This is the story of Heng Lee.

It's about one in the morning on January 13, 1993, and a teenage boy named Kool-Ali

has just woken up from a deep sleep.

He checks the time and realizes that he hasn't heard his older sister Heng come home.

See, 17-year-old Heng told her brother the day before that she had this job interview

that evening, and since she doesn't have a key to the apartment they share with their

parents, she would need him to let her back in when she got home.

I don't know if she told him when that would be exactly, but Kool-A letting her back

into the apartment is part of their normal routine, so he didn't have any reason to worry.

He remembers her leaving at around 6 or 7, and then he fell asleep at maybe like 10

that night, thinking that Heng's knock on the front door would wake him up.

But now that it's 1 o'clock and he didn't hear her, he gets worried that she'd been

left out in the cold Minnesota winter, so he gets up and goes to look out the window.

It's snowing pretty heavily that night, and Kool-A thinks that if Heng tried to come

in, there would have been footprints leading from the parking lot to their door, but he

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