送交者: 炎阳 于 2005-9-01, 09:06:28:
graduate student murdered, wife held in china (转载)
Were body parts missing student's?
Wife held in China, police want to talk to her
By Carolyn Rusin
Special to the Tribune
Published August 31, 2005, 6:01 PM CDT
Authorities this afternoon were seeking to determine if the dismembered
remains of a man, found in the trunk of a car in a Rosemont parking garage,
were those of a Purdue University graduate student reported missing last week.
Meanwhile, authorities in Shanghai, China, are holding the student's wife on a
passport violation, and police here are seeking to have her returned to the U
.S. so they can question her about her husband's disappearance.
The investigation began Tuesday when Rosemont police discovered human remains
in five black plastic garbage bags and a dark-colored canvas bag, similar to a
duffel, in a maroon 1997 Buick Century.
The vehicle had been left in a municipal parking garage at 9441 W. Devon Ave.,
next to City Hall and the Police Department. Officers went to the garage
after a man reported a foul odor coming from the car.
An autopsy today determined the man had died of a gunshot wound to the head,
an apparent homicide victim, according to the Cook County medical examiner's
office.
"The (body) parts are so badly decomposed, it's like a skeleton," said a
spokesman for the medical examiner's office.
To aid in identification efforts, authorities are seeking dental records of
the missing student, Lei He, 28, of the 700 block of North 5th Street,
Lafayette, Ind. He and his wife are the registered owners of the Buick, police
said.
Lafayette police Lt. John Withers said friends of He reported him missing last
Friday. They told officers they were concerned because they had not heard
from him for about a week.
The missing man is a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Purdue
University in West Lafayette, according to the university news service.
He's wife, Danlei Chen, also 28, is wanted on an arrest warrant, charged by
Purdue University police with having tried to kill her husband last December,
Withers said. The warrant was issued after Chen missed a court date last
Friday.
Tippecanoe County, Ind., prosecutors filed the attempted murder charge against
Chen after she allegedly stabbed her husband at their home on Christmas Day,
the Purdue news service reported.
Police have since learned Chen, who had been forced to surrender her own
passport when she was arrested, was detained by Shanghai authorities when she
tried to use her husband's passport to enter China, Withers said.
Officials today were working with the U.S. Marshal's office to have the woman
returned to the U.S.
The woman, a Chinese national from Shanghai, was enrolled at Purdue as a
graduate student in chemical engineering, according to the university news
service. The couple was married in May 2001.
Rosemont police detectives, working the Cook County Sheriff's police, the
Major Case Task Force and Lafayette police, obtained a search warrant of the
couple's apartment and entered it about 11 p.m. Tuesday, Rosemont police Lt.
Kieran Mackey said. No one was home at the time.
Investigators found evidence in the apartment that "was related to our
discovery in the parking garage," Mackey said. He said other, undisclosed
evidence collected by Rosemont police from the car's trunk would be turned
over to Lafayette police for a criminal investigation being conducted by that
department.
"We believe (the wife) left the country on a flight out of O'Hare," Mackey
said.
The Rosemont parking garage is within walking distance of a CTA O'Hare Blue
Line station.