The Trail Went Cold - Episode 353 - The Chen Family Murders

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

October 8, 2014. Guilderland, New York. The bodies of a Chinese immigrant family – 39-year old Jin Feng Chen, his 38-year old wife Hai Yan Li, and their two sons, 10-year old Anthony and 7-year old Eddy – are found inside their bungalow and they have been stabbed and bludgeoned to death. While Jin Feng worked at a local Chinese restaurant, rumours circulate that he may have been involved in illegal activity, such as the trafficking of undocumented workers, and this led to his family being killed. However, these rumours are never substantiated, so the motive for the crime and the identity of the perpetrator is never determined. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the Chen family murders, a brutal crime involving four victims in which there has been a surprisingly low number of strong leads. If you have any information about this case, please contact the New York State Police, Troop G, Major Crimes at (518) 783-3212 Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_family_killings https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/chen-family-murder https://web.archive.org/web/20181001142359/https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/chinatown-community-eyed-as-cops-work-to-solve-quadruple-slaying-upstate-1.9601236 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/nyregion/2-children-among-4-found-dead-in-an-upstate-home.html https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Year-after-slaughter-of-Guilderland-family-6551378.php https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Evidence-technicians-return-to-seen-of-4-killings-5813957.php https://altamontenterprise.com/10092015/year-after-chinese-family-murdered-no-suspects-here-or-elsewhere-0 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/cookas-tale https://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/03/mississippi_gulf_coast_triple.html https://abc13.com/sun-family-killings-feng-lu-arrest-murder-of-4-members-massacre/12228938/ “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.

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0:00.0	October 8, 2014.
0:03.5	Guilderland, New York.
0:05.7	The bodies of a Chinese immigrant family, 39-year-old Jin-Fang-chen, his 38-year-old
0:11.0	wife High Jan Lee, and their two sons, 10 year old Anthony and 7 year old Eddie,
0:16.0	are found inside their bungalow and they have been stabbed and bludgeoned to death.
0:20.0	While Jinfeng worked at a local Chinese restaurant, rumors circulated that he may have been involved in illegal activity such as the trafficking of undocumented workers, and this led to his family being killed.
0:32.0	However, these rumors are never substantiated, so the motive for the Chen family murders,
0:37.6	as well as the identity of the perpetrator, remains unknown.
0:41.6	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh, uh, uh, yeah.
1:03.0	Oh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh,
1:05.0	and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:24.1	I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be exploring an horrific massacre
1:29.1	in which there were four victims, the 2014 murders of the Chen family.
1:34.4	I was recently looking through my huge backlog of case requests, and this one was originally
1:39.1	suggested to me over four years ago by a listener named Renee, so thank you for bringing this one to my attention.
1:46.0	This story involves a married couple named Jin Feng Chen and Hyun Li who had emigrated from China
1:51.4	to the United States during the early 2000s
1:54.2	and went on to have a pair of sons named Anthony and Eddie. On the surface
1:58.8	the Chen seemed to be a quiet ordinary family who lived unremarkable lives until they were all found murdered inside
2:05.2	their residence, and whoever was responsible went to the trouble of using a knife and a hammer
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