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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 163 - Su-Ya Kim & Quin-Rong Wu

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

June 29, 1991. New York City. Su-Ya Kim leaves her children with their grandmother to go shopping, but never returns. Ten hours later, Su-Ya’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 his vehicle’s licence number is checked, the lead goes nowhere and Su-Ya’s killer is never found. May 13, 1997. New York City. 11-year old Quin-Rong Wu is walked partway to school by her mother, but after they go their separate ways, Quin-Rong disappears. Two weeks later, Quin-Rong’s body is discovered in the East River and it turns out she has been strangled to death. While a witness reports seeing Quin-Rong on the subway with a middle-aged white male on the day she went missing, police start directing suspicion towards her parents. Was Quin-Rong abducted and murdered by a predator? Or could her own family have been involved in what happened? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we cover two separate unsolved cold cases involving female victims who emigrated from Asia to New York before they were brutally murdered. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/su-ya-kim/ https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/nyregion/on-henry-st-a-cold-trail-for-a-girl-lost.html http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/tears-chinatown-girl-cops-hunt-suspect-grim-tragedy-article-1.758198 https://www.upi.com/Archives/1997/05/29/Missing-Chinese-girl-11-found-slain/5424864878400/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

Transcript

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June 29th

0:02.0

1991

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New York City

0:05.0

Korean immigrant Sujah Kim leaves her children with her grandmother to go shopping

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but never returns.

0:11.0

Ten hours later, Sujah's nude body is discovered in a dumpster after she has been stabbed nine times.

0:18.0

A security guard reports interacting with an unidentified white male who drove away from the dumpster before the body's discovery,

0:26.0

but even though the vehicle's license number is checked, the lead goes nowhere, and

0:30.0

Suia's killer is never found. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not.

0:43.0

Oh, uh, for, uh, for, uh, uh, yeah.

0:53.0

Oh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.

1:15.0

I'm your host Robin Warder and we're going to be covering a pair of unsolved cold cases today.

1:20.0

The 1991 murder of Sujah Kim, and the 1997 murder of Quinn Rong Wu.

1:27.0

These are both horrific stories about female victims who emigrated with their families to New York City from their home country in Asia in hopes of a better life before they were brutally murdered.

1:38.0

The Sujah Kim case is somewhat famous because it was featured on Onsaw mysteries and is one of their most vivid segments.

1:46.0

Suyow was a hard-working Korean wife and mother who vanished after leaving on a shopping trip

1:52.0

before her murdered body was discovered in a dumpster several

1:54.8

hours later.

1:56.5

What's particularly chilling about this story is that a security guard spoke with Suya's

2:01.1

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.

2:10.0

I've 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.

2:19.0

So for this reason, I've decided to combine this story what the unsolved New York murder of Quinn Rong Wu, an 11-year-old Chinese immigrant who was strangled to death nearly six years later.

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