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please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website Southern Cross station is the second
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busiest to railway station in Melbourne with more than nine million passenger movements recorded between 2007 and 2008
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as well as being served by the city's suburban train services Southern Cross is the terminus for the state of
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Victoria's regional rail network a shopping complex that joins the station and underneath is a coach
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terminal providing buses to interstate and regional destinations as well as the sky bus shuttle service that travels to
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Melvin's tullamarine Airport for security purposes a number of closed-circuit television cameras a
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place to strategic locations throughout on Saturday September 15 2007 just after
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10:00 a.m. an elderly Chinese couple were walking through Southern Cross station when they noticed the female
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toddler standing alone near the escalator she was of Asian appearance and too looked to be around three years
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old she had short dark hair cut in a bob and wore a red denim hooded jacket an aqua colored vest with a red and pink
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diamond pattern and bright pink corduroy pants thinking that toddler might have been
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lost the couple approached an attempted to speak to her when she didn't respond they beckoned to Victoria rail employee
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named Moreno Mosholu over to see if he could help while trying to speak with the child Moreno patted her on the head
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and immediately noticed that her hair was very greasy as though it hadn't been washed in some time there was no sign of
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any frantic parents looking for their lost child so Moreno decided to summon police to
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the scene responding officers also attempted to communicate with the child but she was either unwilling or unable
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to tell them her name noticing that the vest she was wearing was made by a popular children's
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clothing brand called pumpkin patch they decided to nickname her pumpkin until a
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proper identification could be made the girls clothing provided no real clue to her identity as although the pumpkin
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patch brand was based in New Zealand it was sold widely throughout Australia despite her unwashed hair pumpkin
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appeared to be a healthy well cared for child who was appropriately dressed in clean clothing the police took her into
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their care hoping she was merely lost and her parents would soon come forward to claim her when no one did they
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scoured CCTV footage from Southern Cross station and quickly realized that pumpkin had been deliberately abandoned
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[Music] [Music] [Music] at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday September 15 2007 the Southern Cross security cameras
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had captured pumpkin as she walked through the stations street-level Lobby hand-in-hand with a middle-aged
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dark-haired man of Asian appearance the men was dressed in black trousers and a gray suit jacket and was pulling a small
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suitcase on wheels in his left hand when the pair reached the base of an escalator that led to the upper floor
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the man seemingly instructed pumpkin to remain where she was before stepping onto the escalator alone upon reaching
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the first floor he glanced back briefly then continued striding purposefully ahead the young child remained standing
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all by herself at the base of the escalator barely moving as though she was trying her best to stay still after
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viewing the footage multilingual staff from Victoria police attempted to converse with pumpkin and a number of
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different interpreters were summoned but none succeeded in communicating with her
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the following day of Sunday September 16 the Department of Human Services arranged for pumpkin to be placed with
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an emergency foster family that same day the police shared the CCTV footage as part of a public appeal for
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the girl's parents extended family members or anyone who recognized her to come forward they reported that although
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pumpkin had been through a considerable ordeal and wasn't speaking to anybody she had appeared happy into perky
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overnight media outlets soon started sharing pumpkins story in an effort to discover who she was and why she had
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been separated from her family members of the public immediately began contacting Victoria police to say that
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they recognized the pair with a number of calls coming from the neighboring country of New Zealand the call is
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believed the men captured on camera was nine inch weigh a 53 year old martial arts instructor and prominent member of
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the Chinese community from Auckland New Zealand the girl he had abandoned was believed to be his three-year-old
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daughter Chen shun Shui one individual reported seeing the father and daughter while on board a flight from Auckland to
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Melbourne several days earlier on Thursday September 13 police obtained the flights passenger
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manifest and examined the list of individuals who had been on board based on this information they confirmed that
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pumpkin was in fact a chen shun Shui and two the man was her father na in shui further inquiries revealed that upon
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landing in Melbourne Shui had told custom agents that he and his daughter were visiting the city for a holiday
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however later that evening when they checked in at a hotel Shui told the hotel's porter that he was
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permanently relocating to Melbourne he had even inquired about the best area to live and where to purchase a car the
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following morning of Friday September 14 sway had visited a travel agency in Melbourne central business district and
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attempted to book a flight to the u.s. city of Los Angeles that evening when the travel agent informed him there
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weren't any direct flights available Shui queried about connecting flights from other locations before settling on
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a direct flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles scheduled for the following day approximately 24 hours later he
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abandoned Chen Xiang at Southern Cross station and made his way to Melbourne Airport there after he successfully
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passed through a security checkpoint CCTV cameras caught him smiling widely and flashing two thumbs up by the end of
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Sunday September 16 police had solved the mystery of chen kun's identity but two new questions had sprung up in its
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place they now had to figure out why nine Shui had left his daughter alone at a busy railway station and to the
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whereabouts of his wife and Chen Sean's mother 28 year old Annan Leo based on the evidence uncovered so far there was
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no indication she had travelled to Melbourne with her family anin leo was born on February 20 1979 in
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Changsha the capital city of china's hunan province she was the only child to prosperous parents and to grow up to
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have a range of interests including reading listening to music singing karaoke and watching films her all-time
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favorite movie was Chinese Odyssey in 1995 two-part feature based on a classic 16th century novel set during the Ming
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Dynasty as well as having an interest in pop culture Annan was an active person who played badminton and enjoyed going
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out driving having lived her entire life in a bustling populous city and in often
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dreamed of visiting Anna Dilek Island or forests and also hoped to move overseas
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one day in April 2002 at the age of 23 she achieved both goals by moving to New Zealand a small island country renowned
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for its striking natural beauty Annan had applied for a student visa to study English and she set herself up in the
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city of Auckland on the country's North Island at the time Auckland was home to a rapidly growing Chinese community but
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its insularity and disconnection from New Zealand's broader population meant that many new arrivals battled with
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feelings of isolation those like annan who had difficulty speaking English struggled even more although she was
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happy to be in New Zealand anin often felt lonely in her new home she initially moved in with another
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woman but in early 2003 she began renting a room at the home of nyan Shiu who was
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aged in his late 40s at the time schway was born in 1954 in the city of telling in northeast china during early
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adulthood he worked as a middle school physical education teacher and to lived for a time in Los Angeles he eventually
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returned to China where he married his first wife and in 1981 the two had a daughter
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they named Grace 9 years later schway emigrated to New Zealand alone leaving his family behind
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schway had a passion for martial arts and was convinced that it was his destiny to share his unique blend of
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kungfu and Taichi with others around the world after moving to wok 'land Shui began
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holding martial arts classes in a Chinese restaurant where he predominantly taught Wu style Tai Chi
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his program was a success and he soon upgraded to a larger venue in Auckland central business district before
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eventually relocating his school to a sprawling parkland in the inner-city suburb of Epsom he
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told his students he had learned his martial art skills from a man with a long white beard whom he had encountered
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when playing in the mountains as a child the fairy tale-like story was eventually
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published in local Chinese language newspapers drawing more students and increasing sways business within a few
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years of arriving in New Zealand Shui obtained citizenship and became something of a local celebrity in
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Auckland's Chinese community in 1998 he further enhanced his own mythos by self-publishing an autobiography titled
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the pearl of Wu style Taiji in the book Shui claimed to have been conceived by magic before he was born
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he's aging childless mother allegedly went to a temple to pray for her son while there she had a vision in which an
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elderly man told her she would have a baby boy who would grow up to be a great and
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successful man shortly afterwards she became pregnant in early 2003 Shui took Annan into his home as a boarder on the
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condition that she cleaned the house in exchange for her room shortly into this arrangement Annan confided that her
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student visa was due to expire she wanted to stay in New Zealand but couldn't afford the tuition fees
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required to continue studying and therefore wouldn't be able to renew her visa Shui was aware that marrying a New
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Zealand a citizen would be an alternative way for an entire mine in the country and suddenly proposed to her
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in a roundabout fashion by asking what about me even though there was a 25 year age difference between the two
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Anand felt she didn't have any other options if she wanted to stay in New Zealand she agreed to marry Shiu
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believing that his many accomplishments and high standing in the community were worthy qualities in her husband the pair
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began a romantic relationship and on July 28 2003 they were married at an Auckland registry office
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on the day of their wedding Annan was already four months pregnant with their first child in September 2003 and
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unapplied for New Zealand a residency three months later on December 22 she gave birth to Chang Shan Shui was
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reportedly disappointed that the baby wasn't a boy but Annan adored her and that the mother and daughter became
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inseparable to those who knew Annan that made no sense that she would stay in New Zealand
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while her husband took their daughter to a foreign country on Monday September 17
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2007 the day after Victoria police confirmed Chen Shawn's identity she finally spoke
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her first words to authorities by asking for her mother Victoria police had been
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in touch with their counterparts in Auckland who said about trying to contact an 'only all her mobile phone
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was switched off so they headed to the family's residence a white weatherboard house on Keystone Avenue in the
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southwestern suburb of Mount Roskill the police found no sign of an annette the property nor was her vehicle there the
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choise honda a fogger sedan was parked out the front police also checked dunnan's bank accounts and discovered
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there had been no activity since monday september 10 2007 on Tuesday September 18 investigators publicly urged us way
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to contact to law enforcement and they confirmed they were working to track him down with the International Criminal
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Police organization better known as Interpol and openly labeled his fleeing with Chan Chun as a kidnapping that same
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day police found an ins car parked at Auckland's International Airport though they were certain she hadn't left the
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country CCTV cameras at the airport had captured Shui and Chen Xuan checking in and proceeding through customs but there
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was no evidence to indicate that Annan had ever been there the police returned to the family's mount Rosco home and
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cordoned it off in anticipation of a forensic examination at nine o'clock and that night a search
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warrant was issued for the property and Vishwas vehicle investigators examined at the residence more closely but found
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nothing of note choir's car was towed to a secure location than to given a preliminary examination but nothing of
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interest was found a more thorough search was scheduled for the following day on Wednesday September 19 additional
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police officers in Auckland were briefed on the case and at 1:00 p.m. an extensive forensic search of sways under
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a fogger commenced once investigators gained access to the car they opened its boot and immediately
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made a shocking discovery inside was the body of a young woman of Chinese ethnicity covered with a dressing-gown
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beneath the gown the woman was naked except for a pair of gloves a yellow neck tire was wrapped around her throat
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and two red women's underwear and a jacket were found lying next to her body inside one of the jackets pockets were
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two men's rings one of which was a wedding band the body was positively identified as an 'only and an autopsy
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was carried out the following morning it was determined that annan had been strangled to death with the yellow tire
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most likely as the killer stood behind her she had been wearing a pendant around her neck which had compounded the
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strangulation at approximately 3:00 o'clock that afternoon the police publicly confirmed that Annan's body had
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been found they withheld the cause of her death but noted that had occurred following a violent incident and to that
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Annan's husband no Yin Shui was the prime suspect as the police had taken two days to discover an ins body which
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had been inside her husband's car parked outside their home some criticized the Auckland police for what they perceived
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as an unnecessarily slow response the former high-ranking officer told the media the delay was quote absolutely
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appalling and too noted it was possible that Annan may have still been alive when she was first placed in the cars
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booth [Music] while New Zealand's police commissioner Howard broad admitted that the officers
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didn't initially believe the car to be of any importance the Auckland police defended their
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actions detective Senior Sergeant Simon's got who was heading the case clarified that the delay was due to
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having to wait for the proper search warrant he explained quote we haven't had the keys for that vehicle it's just
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not a matter of breaking the windows and getting in these things don't take minutes they could take days or weeks
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many of the family's acquaintances told investigators that Annan and Shiu had appeared content and well-adjusted they
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described a known as a kind but quiet person who embraced motherhood and helped her husband by driving him to and
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from work each day however others had their doubts about the couple's relationship a friend of SH Waze told
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investigators he suspected the marriage wasn't based on love but was rather transactional in nature
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schway had been attracted to an ins youth and beauty while she had seen him as a means to stay in New Zealand
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choir's friend believed that the significant age difference between the couple ensured marital problems were
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inevitable a male neighbor told a journalist for the New Zealand Herald newspaper that Annan was friendly and
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would often say hello in contrast schway didn't speak to his neighbors and appeared quote a bit kooky
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often collecting the mail dressed only in his underwear it was also revealed that during a trip to China to visit her
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family with Chan Sean Annan had an intrauterine contraceptive device inserted to prevent any future
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pregnancies once she obtained to New Zealand a residency in December 2005 she refused to continue sharing a bed
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with shui it also came to light that in March 2006 a film student and martial arts enthusiast named Ashiya hyung had
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made a 9 minute documentary about shui titled kungfu father it was supervised by a filmmaker named
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Tony Wright and portions of the documentary were filmed in shui and an ins home Tony told journalists that
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during filming he had observed that the walls of the home were decorated with large posters of suede demonstrating
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martial arts poses rather than with family photographs a translator had been present on set who communicated to Tony
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that Shui didn't want him to speak to his wife overall Tony told journalists that he
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felt the couple's relationship was one in which quote he talked and she listened throughout filming Shui boasted
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about his career and claimed to be revered by 40,000 martial arts enthusiasts who were predominantly based
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in the United States at one point he broke down when discussing his daughter from his first marriage grace in the
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year 2000 when grace was 19 swaye had sponsored her to join him in New Zealand but in 2002 she had run away
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because he was a neglectful father addressing grace directly Shui stated to the camera I lost you I feel such guilt
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I put my career first I was selfish daughter please come back give me a chance to remedy those things that Papa
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did wrong explaining that he wanted to be a better father to Chan Sean he stated my role now is to give this
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baby more Father's love filmmaker Tony Wright told the press that he believed Shui steers were false
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and that the scene had been a hollow performance despite sways standing as one of New Zealand's premier martial
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arts experts his reputation had been unraveling for some time in the early 2000s a group from Auckland's Chinese
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community had visited a martial arts Association in Beijing where Shui claimed to have trained to become a Tai
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Chi master however the association revealed this was a lie Shui had also created discord in Los
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Angeles where he had lived briefly before immigrating to New Zealand according to the owner of the Tai Chi
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Academy of Los Angeles Shui had been ostracized by the city's Chinese community after he launched scathing
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attacks on other Tai Chi teachers from around the world it was also revealed that he had lied about his
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qualifications it was around the same time that choir's professional reputation was being questioned that his
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relationship with anand became increasingly controlling people outside their marriage noticed signs of domestic
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violence with one of SH ways students observing that he often ordered annan out of the room when he had guests on
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two occasions the student also noticed that an ins face was bruised and grazed a longtime friend of an ins family had
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witnessed sway exhibit explosive rage towards Annan and believed that she bore quote the brunt of much of his
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disappointment in life on September 20 2006 one year before Shan Shan was abandoned at Southern
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Cross station Shui had committed a particularly violent attack against Annan the couple were arguing about
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money when shui suddenly threw a telephone at Annan who was holding Chang Shan at the time and an attempted to
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shield her daughter from the phone but it wound up striking the toddler in the head leaving a small cut and swelling
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Shui then ran towards Annan who was still holding Chang Shan and punched her several times in the head he then held a
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30 centimeter long knife to her stomach and stated quote I treat you good and you don't treat me very well I love you
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but you don't love me I am going to kill you Annan begged for her life and threw
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money at Shui in an attempt to placate him before fleeing the house with Chang Shan
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she reported the assault to the police and a government agency called Child Youth and family became involved
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on September 29 2006 a temporary protection order was issued against Shui and a permanent protection order was
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finalized three months later this order gave an enforcer D of Chang Shan and stipulated
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that Shui was only permitted to see his daughter if Annan initiated contact he was also
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required to complete a course to help him stop his violent behavior anin and Chen Xiang sought safety at a
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women's refuge where they stayed for around one month another woman who had been at the refuge recalled how Annan
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had arrived to blackened and bruised with nowhere else to go Shui frequently flirted the protection
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order by driving near the refuge and attempting to contact Annan she grew so fearful of her husband that she brought
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a scheduled trip to China forward by three weeks she even contacted the airline to request they not reveal her
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plans to Shui two days later Shui had called the airline demanding to know an ins flight details but failed to
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obtain them Hanan and Chen Xuan stayed in China for three months the two had previously visited family there on
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several occasions but Shui hadn't ever joined them he was only one year younger than an ins mother which was considered
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shameful being a private and reserved person Anand didn't confide in her relatives about the abuse she was
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suffering On February 26 2007 she and Chang Shan returned to New Zealand and resumed occasional contact with shway
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shway was eager to improve his reputation after rumours had spread about his martial arts career and in
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early 2007 he acquired ownership of a Chinese language newspaper called Chinese times Hannon was a talented
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writer and Shui offered her a role as a reporter with some acquaintances speculating that he used the publication
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to lure Annan back into his life Shui attempted to restyle himself as an important media figure in Auckland's
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Chinese community but his newspaper struggled to generate income and wasn't particularly successful
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he prioritized advertising revenue over quality journalism and continually lowered the cost of placing ads in his
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paper in order to attract more clients on June 20 2007 nine months after the attack on his family schway finally
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fronted the Family Violence Court in Auckland he pleaded guilty to charges of assault against Danone and Shan Shan and
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to using threatening words against Tannen the Probation Service recommended that Shui be jailed but Judge Phil
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record on ordered a one year suspended sentence instead thus releasing Shui back home Annan and Cheng Shawn were
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provided with no further protections or support later that month Annan and Chan Sean
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flew to New Zealand's capital city of Wellington located 642 kilometres south of Auckland while Lennon's reasons for
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doing so aren't entirely known it has been speculated that she was attempting to escape her husband once in Wellington
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the mother and daughter bordered at the home of a truck driver named Wei Hong song feeling miserable and isolated
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Annan began keeping a blog as a way to express her feelings the first entry was dated July 12 2007
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and was written in Mandarin an excerpt read can't find someone to love and can't find someone to love me what
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meaning is there to go on living to live is to continue suffering eager to find love Annan signed up to several dating
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websites in her profiles she stated she was seeking friendship and true love in what she called a hard
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uncontrollable and a lonely life she soon commenced the two-month fling with a 39 year old married artist whose
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wife was away on August 18 2007 the relationship ended when the man's wife returned and in later wrote about her
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heartbreak on her blog saying I have to escape from this love because if I can't
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get the whole thing I'd rather have nothing it's really painful for me I cried but there is a kind of love called
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letting go letting go forever I don't want to hurt another innocent that's why I'd rather hurt myself
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at one point Shui arrived in Wellington unannounced having pursued his wife and daughter
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hauled away from Auckland armed with a torch and a small axe he broke into the house they were staying at Annan and
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Chen Xuan weren't home at the time but the owner Wei Hong Hong was Lee Hong grabbed a gun and managed to chase Shui
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from his home later schway told a friend that he had intended to force Anand back to Auckland
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and to that she was lucky he hadn't found her as he might have killed her if he did
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fearing Shui would be able to find her in Chen Xuan wherever they went Annan thought it might be safer if they
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simply all lived under the same roof in August 2007 one month before her body was recovered she decided to return to
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wok hland to resume living with Shui investigators discovered an ins final blog entry which was written at around a
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midnight on Monday September 10 2007 it read living in this world a lot of the time we live in difficulty and
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loneliness if the conclusion of happiness must always be pain I would rather I am lonely and helpless if the
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happy start has to end with pain I rather I never had happiness therefore I won't need to remember those happy
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moments and to those painful experiences investigators pieced together Hannon's last-known movements and discovered that
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her neighbors record lasting between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday September 11 at 6:45 that same evening she was
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witnessed buying groceries at a nearby supermarket marking the final time anyone outside of her family saw her
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alive the following day of Wednesday September 12 sways newspaper Chinese times were
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scheduled to run an addition the Shui made excuses to his employees as to why they couldn't publish in that same day
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he ate lunch at a restaurant called a lover dark where owner raymond tang noted that shui appeared calm throughout
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his meal Annan's mother shopping leo had been calling her daughter's mobile phone
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since the day prior but with no response at some point during Wednesday Shui finally answered he explained that annan
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and Shan Shan had gone to Wellington and would be back on Sunday September 16 just before 9:00 a.m. on Thursday
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September 13 sway left his house with Chan Sean and drove an ins car approximately 10 kilometres northwest to
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the Henderson police station there his passport and a ceremonial Taichi sword were being held pending the outcome of
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his assault charges as Shui had since been given a suspended sentence he was able to reclaim these possessions at
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11:00 a.m. schway visited a travel agency and purchased the return flight to Melbourne
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for himself he then withdrew six thousand four hundred and forty five u.s. dollars in cash and emptied his
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safety deposit box once again he ate lunch at Lava dock before returning to the travel agency and purchasing a
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return flight to Melbourne fetch and Shawn that afternoon schway drove himself and Chan Chun to
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Auckland's International Airport in an ins car investigators obtained CCTV footage which had captured the father
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and daughter as they checked in and went through customs they had arrived in Melbourne at 7:40
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p.m. on Thursday September 13 more than 48 hours after Annan was the last seen alive at the time the protection order
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issued against Shiu was still in place meaning he wasn't permitted to have custody of Chen Xuan according to the
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officer in charge of Auckland Airport inspector Richard Middleton a stringent system was in place to prevent an
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individual involved in a court custody order from leaving the country with the child however no such allert appeared
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when schway left New Zealand with Chan Sean staff from the police customs and the Ministry of Justice were unable to
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his first marriage was still living in Auckland less than two kilometers from her father's home she maintained no
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contact with him as ways claimed that grace had run away after he sponsored her to move to New Zealand was false the
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truth was the two months after her arrival Shui had traveled to Los Angeles leaving the then 19-year old alone to
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fend for herself in a foreign country where she couldn't speak the language grace had begged her father for
00:46:07
financial support but he had refused to get by she managed to find work in fast food restaurants before eventually
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meeting a New Zealand I named Shane and completing a financial degree at the University of Auckland she and Shane
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then married and had a baby boy in July of 2007 grace and Shane had seen Shui at
00:46:32
a local restaurant but promptly left without speaking to him it wasn't until she saw the news reports that her father
00:46:40
was wanted on suspicion of murdering his wife and abandoning his young child the
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grace even knew she had a half-sister feeling heartbroken by this news she issued a public plea asking for her
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father to return to New Zealand she told reporters that Shui could be kind when things were going well but
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that quote difficult times revealed the character of the person and shreya is somebody that you don't want to upset to
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help provide financial assistance for her half-sister grace established a trust for chan Shawn called the little
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pumpkin trust she told reporters that she and her husband were considering adopting chan
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Shawn but they also understood that Annan's parents may want to take their granddaughter home to China
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in Melbourne the Victorian Department of Human Services made a joint decision with its New Zealand counterpart Child
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Youth and Family to repatriate Chen Shan to walk hland as soon as her grandmother Xiao ping leo
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had been informed of an ins death she immediately made plans to travel to New Zealand to collect her granddaughter on
00:47:58
September 25 10 days after Chang Shan was abandoned the two were reunited in Auckland where photographers captured
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the moment the pair wrapped in a tight embrace speaking via an interpreter Xiao ping told ABC radio that she wanted to
00:48:17
take her granddaughter back to China stating she has got nobody apart from me Annan was my only child and she is my
00:48:27
only granddaughter I will do my utmost to bring her up she has called me grandma since she was very young she has
00:48:36
lived in my home in Hunan everyone in my family loves her a New Zealand - judge ordered that Xiao ping be given leave to
00:48:46
apply for a parenting order he also ruled that grace be permitted to have contact with her half-sister by
00:48:54
telephone email and visits when possible the government paid approximately 10,000
00:49:02
to New Zealand dollars in legal fees for scharping to gain custody of Chang Shan
00:49:06
and also covered the costs of an ins funeral while shopping in Shan Shan waited for the legal process to clear
00:49:15
Auckland police attempted to entertain them by taking them to visit a vineyard and see a butterfly show on October 7
00:49:25
2007 after spending 12 days in New Zealand shopping and Chan soon returned to China with Annan's ashes in an open
00:49:35
letter Xiao ping expressed her gratitude to New Zealand's police government and the public for their support and
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kindness meanwhile nah in shui had been labeled a fugitive and authorities in both New
00:49:51
Zealand and the United States were on a loan customs records revealed he had entered Los Angeles on September 15
00:49:59
under the visa waiver program which permitted citizens of New Zealand to visit the United States for 90 days
00:50:06
without a visa after the discovery of an ins body a warrant for choir's arrest had been forwarded to Interpol's united
00:50:16
states office and a red notice was issued a task force was formed that included the US Marshal Service the
00:50:25
Federal Bureau of Investigation immigration officers the Los Angeles Police Department and New Zealand police
00:50:33
investigators soon discovered that upon sways arrival to the United States he had briefly stayed at a cheap motel in
00:50:41
Los Angeles Chinatown district but after that the trail went cold [Music] on September 25 the US Marshal Service
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published a wanted poster with sways details that appealed to the American public to report any information
00:50:59
regarding his whereabouts the poster indicated that Shiu was 53 years old with black hair and brown eyes
00:51:07
standing at 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds it was warned that he should be considered armed and
00:51:16
dangerous and could be hiding anywhere in the country a reward of 10,000 u.s. dollars was also offered by the new
00:51:24
zealand police for information leading to an arrest a press conference was held at the u.s. marshals command center in
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Los Angeles with the journalists from New Zealand Australia and Chinese American newspapers in attendance as
00:51:40
well as news crews from la television stations by this time schway had been on the run for 10 days u.s. marshal and
00:51:51
commander of the regional task force Tom Hessian told those assembled that there
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was nothing to indicate that Shiu had left Los Angeles he stated quote he's in our country we want to get him and we're
00:52:06
going to send him back to New Zealand one journalist asked why the Interpol red notice had been issued only after an
00:52:15
ins body was identified which was four days after Shui had fled to Los Angeles New Zealand's police liaison officer
00:52:24
superintendent Neville Matthews responded what I can say to you is it was expedited extremely quickly much
00:52:33
more quickly than we have done in the past when the journalist continued to probe chief Hessian asked frankly sir
00:52:43
are you just trying to bash the officers chief Hessian said he was confident that
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the US authorities would capture shui he cautioned civilians against taking matters into their own hands if they
00:52:57
spotted the fugitive stating quote we do not know his state of mind we do not know whether he is extremely violent
00:53:06
or whether he has armed himself in some way I don't want to see anybody get hurt
00:53:18
over the following months several confirmed sightings of Shiu came through in October 2007 he was spotted in the
00:53:28
Texas city of Houston driving a 1996 blue Ford Thunderbird with Texas license plates investigators were unable to
00:53:37
locate him but they told reporters they believed he may have been living in Texas for approximately one month the
00:53:45
following month a segment about the case was broadcast on the television program
00:53:50
America's Most Wanted which prompted more tip-offs two months later on January 23 2008 Shiu was sighted driving
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the same Ford Thunderbird this time in the mississippi city of Biloxi approximately 414 miles east of Houston
00:54:09
despite these sightings schway continued to evade authorities in February 2008 400 miles northeast of
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Biloxi in the Georgia city of Chamblee a group of six Chinese Americans befriended a newcomer who was looking to
00:54:29
settle down locally the man had introduced himself as mr. Tang a masseur who was eager to set up a massage
00:54:37
business nearby he was sharing a room with one of the individuals a man named to Garson Wu
00:54:45
Garson liked mr. Tang as he appeared to be friendly although he often talked and
00:54:50
cried throughout the night on Saturday February 23 mr. Tang offered to show his new group of friends some kungfu poses
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and one that he demonstrated caught their attention a photograph of a man performing the
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same pose had recently been published in the American Chinese newspaper world a journal alongside an article about
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fugitive annoying shui the group suddenly realized that mr. Tang bore a striking resemblance to the
00:55:23
wanted man the only difference being that he appeared to have recently had a haircut adding to their suspicions was
00:55:32
the fact that mr. Tang had recently changed the license plates on his car from taxes tags to new york ones despite
00:55:41
not ever leaving the state of Georgia realizing that mr. Tang was in fact annoying shui the group called the local
00:55:50
police station and attempted to explain the matter however as they spoke a little English
00:55:57
the officers were unable to understand them after multiple failed efforts to report shui
00:56:04
the Group concocted a plan to capture the fugitive themselves they initially considered alluring him to a restaurant
00:56:13
under the pretense of sharing a meal but concluded that inviting him to a private
00:56:18
residence would be better the group told Shui they were having a party on Thursday February 28th and then started
00:56:27
planning how to take down the martial arts expert when the day arrived Shui entered the apartment unaware of what
00:56:37
was about to take place one of the men was a schooled footballer and he swiftly kicked sway while the
00:56:45
remaining five friends tackled him to the ground schway struggled violently and attempted
00:56:51
to strike his attackers with his elbow but they managed to remove sways pants and used them to hog-tie his legs and
00:56:59
arms together the five men of the group sat on shui while the one woman miss Chan called the police when officers
00:57:10
arrived at the scene the group showed them the newspaper article about nine shui and relinquished their hold on him
00:57:18
although Shui was having some trouble breathing he was otherwise unharmed the attending officers searched the
00:57:26
restrained suspect and discovered his New Zealand driver's license as well as six and a half thousand US dollars in
00:57:33
cash he was promptly placed under arrest and taken into custody at the Chamblee police station in a subsequent press
00:57:44
conference chief of Chamblee police mark johnson told the media that although shui was somewhat dirty and smelly he
00:57:52
appeared to be in good health chief Johnson added quote it's not a pretty picture for the martial arts
00:58:01
expert he ended up with these pants around his ankles and tied up the police praised the group for their successful
00:58:10
citizen's arrest and denoted that they would be nominated for an award for their bravery
00:58:15
one of the individuals involved with the arrest told the press quote I am NOT a hero as
00:58:23
a Chinese person living overseas I feel I have the responsibility to help catch him the arrest of an international
00:58:35
fugitive was a significant moment for the small city of Chamblee which had just twenty two police officers
00:58:40
overseeing its population of 10,000 a spokesperson for the police department called it a once-in-a-lifetime event and
00:58:50
said his officers were quote pumped about it the relevant agencies were informed of the arrest and Shiu was the
00:59:00
later transferred to the nearby DeKalb County Jail to await deportation as he had already overstayed the 90-day visit
00:59:09
permitted under the visa waiver program he could be deported back to New Zealand
00:59:13
without the need for a lengthy intro and our extradition process a little over a
00:59:20
week after his capture US authorities escorted Shiu who was manacled by the wrists and ankles on a flight back to
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walk 'land he arrived on Monday March 10 2008 and appeared before a judge the same day
00:59:37
nine Shiu was charged with the murder of his wife Annan Leo and a bail was denied
00:59:45
detective Senior Sergeant Simon Scott told reporters quote we're just happy to have him back in New Zealand over the
00:59:54
next few weeks and months we'll look at the evidence and to consider further charges in due course a preliminary
01:00:04
hearing to determine whether there was enough evidence the Sante Shwetha trial was scheduled for September in the lead
01:00:12
up sways barrister Chris Comiskey revealed that his client intended to argue that he was being framed
01:00:20
according to shui a min Annan had met several weeks prior to her death was responsible for the murder and had then
01:00:28
hid her body in choir's car to pass the blame upon learning of the man's plot Shiu had panicked and fled the country
01:00:37
with Chen Xuan mr. Comiskey stated that he would be hiring a private investigator to track down the
01:00:44
individual for questioning on September 3 2008 choir's preliminary hearing began in Auckland's district
01:00:54
court the prosecution presented evidence that after a series of steadily escalating violent incidents Annan had
01:01:02
died of ligature strangulation at the hands of her husband schway openly wept has the pathologist
01:01:09
to detailed how an ins body had been found in the boot of choir's car with a yellow tie wrapped around her neck six
01:01:19
other witnesses also gave evidence but due to strict restrictions regarding media coverage of the hearing their
01:01:26
testimonies were not made public after two days the two justices of the peace presiding over the hearing determined
01:01:36
there was enough evidence to send no inche way to trial for the death of his wife he was ordered to remain in custody
01:01:44
until his trial in Auckland's High Court the trial began nine months later on June 1 2009 in front of an all-female
01:02:00
jury with the Justice Hugh Williams presiding prosecutor Aaron Perkins informed the court the sways marriage to
01:02:10
Annan had not only been loveless and cold but was also marred by abuse and violence
01:02:16
he called 95 witnesses to the stand as part of his case including an ins mother Xiao Peng who gave evidence from China
01:02:26
via videolink and a translator clearly grief-stricken scharping explained that she had never met her son-in-law in
01:02:34
person and had only spoken to him twice over the phone around September 11 2007 the last day Annan was seen alive
01:02:45
Xiao Peng had tried calling her daughter's mobile phone repeatedly because she hadn't heard from her and
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had a quote bad feeling schway had eventually answered the phone the following day and told shopping that
01:03:01
Annan had gone to Wellington with Chan Sean although shopping had been suspicious of
01:03:08
Shui his answer placated her and she felt somewhat reassured at the conclusion of her testimony judge
01:03:16
Williams inquired after the well-being of Chang Shan shopping gave a heated and tearful responds in Mandarin which was
01:03:25
not translated for the court as it was deemed too controversial the court was presented with the CCTV footage recorded
01:03:35
at Southern Cross station which showed Shui abandoning Chan soon before making his way to Melbourne Airport evidence
01:03:43
was also presented about the discovery of an ins body as well as her injuries and cause of death with mr. Perkins
01:03:50
contending that shui had strangled his wife with his own tire before dumping her body in the boot of his vehicle
01:03:59
however as no blood or sign of a struggle had been found anywhere in the couple's home mr. Perkins acknowledged
01:04:07
that investigators had been unable to find evidence as to where Annan had been murdered forensic scientists
01:04:16
sally-ann Harbison told the court that Annan's underwear which was also recovered from the boot contained the
01:04:23
DNA of three males she noted quote the major components correspond to choir's DNA with the minor trace components
01:04:34
present from at least two further male individuals choir's DNA was also found on the tire along with DNA from one of
01:04:45
the mystery men ms Harbison confirmed that DNA could survive a washing machine cycle that clarified that quote it is
01:04:56
unusual and it would be surprising to find so many contributors once again the defense presented sways claims that
01:05:06
another man was responsible for Anand death which they argued was the result of quote rough sex gone wrong sways
01:05:16
barista Chris Comiskey told the court that Annan had developed feelings for Wei Hong song
01:05:22
the truck driver she had bordered with in Wellington after escaping the violence in her home to support his case
01:05:29
mr. Comiskey read aloud from an online conversation Annan had with a friend in it Annan said she'd had never been
01:05:38
interested in sex prior to meeting Wei Hong song but she had developed a crush on him that made her feel quote sexually
01:05:47
ferocious like a wolf Wei Hong testified that he and Annan never had a sexual relationship regardless mr. Comiskey
01:05:58
used the ambiguity of an ins message to support schweiz defense that Annan had died as a result of erotic asphyxiation
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a type of sexual activity that involves cutting off an individual's air supply mr. Comiskey asked pathologist Timothy
01:06:16
Cole Maya whether it was possible that Hannan's death had been an accident mr. Cole Mayer initially stated he
01:06:25
couldn't answer that question but then remarked if an answer is required I can only say it's possible knowing
01:06:36
shui listened intently to the entirety of the trial via translator but did not take the stand to testify in his own
01:06:45
defense on Friday June 29 more than four weeks after the trial had commenced the jury
01:06:54
retired to consider their verdict they deliberated for a day before returning to court around midday on Saturday June
01:07:03
30 findingnine schway guilty of murdering and in live when the verdict was read aloud
01:07:11
schway raised a fist in the air and cried out unfair I'm innocent I'm innocent he was restrained by guards but
01:07:21
continued his outburst by repeatedly shouting unfair unfair really unfair he struggled as two security guards
01:07:32
escorted him from the courtroom sentencing took place a month later on July 31 2009 with Shiu remaining subdued
01:07:44
throughout the proceedings judge Williams noted that Shiu was only able to concoct his defense that another man
01:07:53
was responsible for an ins murder because the prosecution was required to disclose the information about the DNA
01:08:00
fragments from two unknown males being recovered from an ins underwear and the tie around her neck however judge
01:08:09
Williams clarified that the amount of choir's DNA found on those items far outweighed the smaller traces belonging
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to the two unknown persons judge Williams continued quote the jury must have regarded as literally incredible
01:08:28
the suggestion that it was a mere coincidence that your wife died at about the time you made very considerable
01:08:35
efforts to leave first New Zealand and then Australia with as much money as possible as quickly as possible
01:08:43
the pointers to your having murdered your wife though circumstantial were very significant indeed the pointers
01:08:51
towards another man or men having murdered her were slight judge Williams said he had taken into
01:09:00
account a number of aggravating factors including choir's previous history of violence and death threats against
01:09:07
Tannen his efforts to evade detection by fleeing overseas and the cruelty of the
01:09:13
murder itself quote Annan was killed by strangulation everyone has choked on occasions and who
01:09:22
knows how frightening it is to be unable to breathe even for only a few seconds here you subjected your wife to about 45
01:09:31
seconds of what must have been excruciating terror lost you were corroding her until she lost
01:09:37
consciousness and your determination to kill her was such you continued to apply
01:09:43
pressure to the tire for about another two to three minutes to ensure she died judge Williams also noted choir's
01:09:54
cruelty in abandoning his young daughter in a foreign country but acknowledged this wouldn't impact sentencing as it
01:10:01
wasn't included in the charges against him he sentenced sway to life in prison the mandatory sentence for murder in New
01:10:10
Zealand but with a minimum of just 12 years before he would be eligible for parole
01:10:19
schway was removed to serve his sentence at REE Mitaka prison in Upper heart 650
01:10:26
kilometers south of Auckland outside court choir's barrister Chris Comiskey told the media that his client
01:10:34
maintained his innocence and would soon be lodging an appeal he added that Shiu was sorry for abandoning Chan Shawn
01:10:43
stating he regrets that and he will regret that all of his life on September 7 2009 schwas legal team
01:10:59
filed for appeal on the grounds that the jury should have been sequestered throughout the trial due to the
01:11:05
high-profile nature of their case a provisional appeal date was scheduled for May 4 2011 but on April 29 just 5
01:11:15
days before the hearing was set to commence schwas legal team filed papers abandoning the appeal for unreported
01:11:23
reasons despite this Shiu continued to insist upon his innocence New Zealand's Corrections Department received multiple
01:11:35
requests from Chinese language newspaper the New Zealand Chinese Herald to interview Shui but these requests were
01:11:42
consistently denied on the grounds that any interview would likely have a negative impact on an ins family
01:11:50
regardless in 2010 a reporter informed the corrections department that the publication had received the 10 page
01:11:58
document authored by schway two years later in 2012 a book based on this document was published by the New
01:12:08
Zealand Chinese Herald titled I was not the murderer in the book Shui argued for his innocence with one
01:12:17
excerpt to reading the whole world has accused me of being a murderer but I dare not even kill a chicken
01:12:25
not to mention kill my wife given that the document wasn't the result of an unauthorized interview the corrections
01:12:35
department was unable to prohibit its publication and the book was sold in a number of Chinese supermarkets
01:12:42
throughout Auckland the only action that the corrections department could take was to urge the New Zealand Chinese
01:12:50
Herald to consider the effect the publication might have on the victims family on March 9 2020 almost twelve and a half
01:13:01
years after an ins murder Nanyan choise parole hearing was held at the Spring Hill Corrections Facility using a
01:13:10
translator schway finally admitted to being guilty of killing his wife he shared that
01:13:18
during his time in prison he had become an avid painter and a devout Christian his prison record revealed he was well
01:13:26
behaved and appeared to adhere to rules and regulations when the parole board asked Shui how he had addressed his
01:13:34
propensity for violence he responded firstly I'm very remorseful I would like to apologize to everyone who has been
01:13:43
hurt schway claimed that in 2010 he realized that just how serious his crime was and that he needed to take
01:13:54
responsibility for the offense he told the parole board he had killed Anand because of his extremely bad temper
01:14:02
which was triggered by their differences in opinion schway stated at the time divorce would have served the problem I
01:14:12
should not have committed this kind of extremely serious mistake however choir's claimed that he had taken
01:14:21
responsibility as early as 2010 seemed unlikely given that he was still appealing his innocence up until 2011
01:14:31
when asked whether abducting his daughter and abandoning her in Melbourne was also a mistake
01:14:38
schway replied yes at the time I brought my child to Australia in order to escape
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from this it was very inconvenient to bring her along he explained that when he saw police
01:14:53
were present at Southern Cross station he had concluded it would be safe to leave chanchan there as she would be
01:14:59
looked after by law enforcement the parole board ultimately rejected Shui supplication although his parole
01:15:10
assessment report stated that he was at low risk of reoffending a psychological report concluded the opposite moreover
01:15:19
if released schway would be required to undertake a group rehabilitation program that was
01:15:25
conducted entirely in English and it was determined that his English was not fluent enough for him to participate
01:15:33
sway is scheduled to reappear in front of the parole board in March 2021 for his next hearing following sways arrest
01:15:46
and conviction New Zealand's Family Violence court came under scrutiny as politicians and the public questioned
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why he had ever been in a position where he could harm his wife given his history
01:15:58
of domestic violence in 2009 then mayor of white Akari Bob Harvey spoke out against a judge fill record Dawn's
01:16:08
decision to give Shui a suspended sentence for his brutal assault against Danone stating I'm absolutely bloody
01:16:17
appalled I feel sometimes the court system fails families and fails women and too this is a real example of that
01:16:26
there's something seriously wrong here too many people for reasons I can not understand are let off with the warnings
01:16:34
and a slap on the wrist and it's got to stop judge record on refused to comment on
01:16:41
the grounds that quote constitutional convention required that judges don't discuss specific cases in the media
01:16:51
chief district court judge Russell Johnson came to judge record ons defense telling reporters that prison sentences
01:17:00
weren't suitable for a large number of cases brought before the family violent court and may actually deter victims
01:17:07
from reporting their abuses Ashe way had no previous convictions at the time judge record Donn had been attempting to
01:17:16
give the family their best chance at reconciling and had no way of knowing that tragedy would resolve despite this
01:17:26
assertion sways abusive and controlling behavior towards Annan met a number of key risk factors that were outlined in a
01:17:34
2007 New Zealand report on domestic violence risk assessments titled living at the cutting edge the report found
01:17:44
that a recent or planned separation often precedes a domestic violence homicide as does escalating levels of
01:17:52
violence and controlling behavior additionally have victims perception that their life is in danger was noted
01:18:00
as one of the most reliable indicators of them being at genuine risk and in circumstances prior to her murder met
01:18:09
all three of these risk factors after a 2014 report found that about half of the
01:18:18
country's homicides were committed by an offender who belongs to the victim's family there have been some changes to
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New Zealand's Family Violence laws in 2018 New Zealand Parliament passed the Family Violence Act to replace the 1995
01:18:35
domestic violence Act among other updates this revised the legislation prioritizes the safety and well-being of
01:18:44
victims during sentencing decisions and to requires victim informed assessment centre program
01:18:51
on march 18 2007 the group of Chinese Americans who successfully conspired to capture nyan Shui were formally
01:19:01
recognized for their bravery they received certificates of appreciation from the town of chamblee and were told
01:19:09
they would also receive the $10,000 reward that was on offer for information leading to choir's arrest the group
01:19:18
hadn't been aware of the reward but quickly agreed on how to spend the money they decided to donate two thousand
01:19:26
dollars to an elderly friend who was unable to care for himself and to give the remaining eight thousand dollars to
01:19:33
Chen Xuan Shui the little pumpkin trust fund established by Chan Sean's half-sister grace attracted a total of
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40,000 New Zealand Dollars that money remains untouched in a secure new zealand bank account where it continues
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to accumulate interest after returning to China in 2007 Chen Xiang settled into her new life and has thrived ever since
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friend of the family pansy Wang stated she's a very mature and sensible girl she's been to her mum's grave to pay her
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respects chan Sean's family have expressed their desire to give her as much privacy as possible but have also
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shared their gratitude to New Zealanders for their support in an ins final blog entry which was published at around
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midnight the day before her murder she wrote about the grief and sorrow she was experiencing in her life however she
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also reflected on the importance of remembering happier times writing at the end of bad luck brightness will
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come I will keep the good memories in mind it's what you have already had and cherish that won't end
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