This is the second episode in a two-part series.

Please listen to part one before continuing with this episode.

It discusses crime scenes, homicide and violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

This is the Fall line.

Last episode we began the story of Grace Chin.

Mother, teacher and well-loved friend who was murdered in 2014.

At the Austin Mall where her business, Grace Language and Cultural Institute had opened just a year before.

She was killed in the early afternoon on February 19th.

Her body was discovered in a private area of the strip mall accessible only to tenants and on a busy weekday.

The other business owners and the city of Austin were in shock.

According to the Austin American statesman, there was no clear mode of apparent in Grace's murder.

Local leaders in the Asian American community wondered if a hate crime was possible.

Less than a month earlier, a Chinese American family, the sons, had been murdered in their Houston area home.

Their case was still open in February of 2014, with no motives or leads announced.

Within a week of Grace's death, there would be a meeting between Austin PD and community leaders and concerned citizens to discuss the case and the possibility of a hate crime.

But first, there would be a vigil for Grace and later a memorial service.

Her 21-year-old son, Jackie, rushed home from California where he'd been attending college.

Grace, a native of China, moved to the Austin area in 2009 with Jackie, who was then in high school and with her second husband, Robert.

She and Jackie had immigrated to the US in 2007 to join Robert in New York State.

According to what Jackie had told us, he and his mother had struggled in New York, but Grace had found a community in Austin and had become a fixture in it.

She participated in Chinese dance performances and celebrations, sat on a number of boards and connected with community leaders like Amy Wong-Mock,

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