June 29, 1991. New York City

Korean immigrant Su-Yah Kim leaves her children with her grandmother to go shopping,

but never returns. Ten hours later, Su-Yah's nude body is discovered in a dumpster after she

has been stabbed nine times. A security guard reports interacting with an unidentified white male

who drove away from the dumpster before the body's discovery, but even though the vehicle's license

number is checked, the leak goes nowhere, and Su-Yah's killer is never found. After that,

the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host Robin

Warriter and we're going to be covering a pair of unsolved cold cases today, the 1991 murder of

Su-Yah Kim and the 1997 murder of Quinn-Rong Wu. These are both horrific stories about female

victims who immigrated with their families to New York City from their home country in Asia

in hopes of a better life before they were brutally murdered. The Su-Yah Kim case is somewhat

famous because it was featured on saw mysteries and is one of their most vivid segments. Su-Yah was

a hard-working Korean wife and mother who vanished after leaving on a shopping trip before her

murdered body was discovered in a dumpster several hours later. What's particularly chilling

about this story is that a security guard spoke with Su-Yah's killer while he was in the midst of

disposing of her body, but we still don't know who this man was or what his motive for the crime

could have been. I received numerous requests to cover this case, but the problem is that other

than the unsolved mystery segment, there's virtually no information out there about it.

So for this reason, I've decided to combine this story, what the unsolved New York murder of

Quinn-Rong Wu and 11-year-old Chinese immigrant who was strangled to death nearly six years later.

This case is particularly unique because while there wasn't eye-witness sighting of Quinn-Rong

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