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Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing

S1 Ep15: Mei Leung

Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing

Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4685 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mei Leung's murder was solved after 25-years. Sadly, had her murder been solved in the days after her murder, so many lives would have been saved because, as it turned out, she was killed by an infamous serial killer.

Producer and Sound Designer - Danelle Cloutier https://www.instagram.com/danellecloutier
Check out us out on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/criminallylisted
Intro and Outro Music: Scary Theme by Eitan Epstein Music
Main Song: Abandoned Hospital SPMusicGroup
Sources: https://pastebin.com/8HHfrvQj

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and thank you for joining us for another episode of Into the Killing.

0:05.0

In this week's episode, we're going to take a look at the murder of a 9-year-old girl that happened in the mid-1980s.

0:12.0

When the case was finally solved decades later, the identity of the killer was shocking to everyone because he was an incredibly infamous criminal.

0:20.0

The specific whole case we're

0:21.7

discussing today happened on April 10th, 1984. The top song in the United States was

0:28.0

footloose by Kenny Loggins. The number one movie at the box office was the comedy

0:33.3

Police Academy. The Major League baseball season started eight days earlier,

0:38.6

and the Detroit Tigers were enjoying a win streak that would last nine games.

0:43.2

The Tigers would eventually go on to win the World Series.

1:02.9

The Tigers would eventually go on to win the World Series. The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, California.

1:11.7

In the 1950s and early 60s, it was the hub for notable jazz musicians at the legendary Black Hawk nightclub.

1:18.8

With his speakeasy's brothels and gambling dens, it was also a place to go indulge in vices.

1:25.4

The tenderloin has a history of being a rougher neighborhood with a high crime rate.

1:35.3

9-year-old May Long lived in an apartment in the tenderloin neighborhood with a high crime rate. 9-year-old Mae Long lived in an apartment in the tenderloin neighborhood with her mother, two sisters, and brother. Mae was the eldest.

1:38.3

Four years earlier, the family had moved there from Hong Kong.

1:43.3

The year before, May's father left the family had moved there from Hong Kong. The year before, May's father left the family.

1:48.0

May's mother supported her four children by working in a restaurant.

1:54.0

May also went by the name Linda.

1:58.0

Her Chinese name, May, means beautiful. May was in the fourth grade and she was a bright girl who loved reading.

2:09.6

On April 10th, 1984, May and her eight-year-old brother returned home from school.

2:15.6

In the apartment building, May's brother took the elevator and May was planning on taking the stairs.

2:23.5

Her brother made it to the apartment, but 9-year-old May did not.

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