Hong Wei Yin | Murdered (July 12, 2009)

[Chris]

http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/music/Vancouver%2Bcops%2Bmake%2Bgrisly%2Bfind%2Bmassage%2Bparlour%2Bworker/1841886/story.html
 
Massage parlour worker Hong Wei Yin’s car sat abandoned in a Vancouver industrial area for several days before it was noticed.

On Wendesday, inside the trunk of the car, police officers made a ghastly discovery — a woman’s body.

Police are not confirming if Yin, 33, is the victim.

“We’re not making a link to any one person,” Vancouver police spokeswoman Const. Jana McGuinness said.

“We’re waiting on a confirmation of id before making any definite link to the subject of the Burnaby missing [case].”

Yin, a massage parlour employee, left her Metrotown apartment at about 9:30 a.m. July 12. She hasn’t been heard from since.

Police deemed the disappearance “unusual” after learning Yin had booked a July 16 flight to China to visit family before she went missing.

She is believed to have left her apartment in a white 2009 Toyota Corolla, B.C. licence plate 686 NHE, with Hello Kitty car interior accessories.

McGuinness said Yin’s car is believed to have been parked in the 8300-block of Chester Street “for many days.”

Officers made the gruesome find at about 9:20 a.m. Wednesday, after a man who works in the area called 911 to report the vehicle.

It has since been taken for forensic examination, while a search and canvas team will comb over the industrial area today. An autopsy has been tentatively scheduled for Friday.

Yin had worked at several massage parlours in the Lower Mainland since moving from Toronto three years ago. She had been working at a Burnaby massage parlour for the past month.

McGuinness said there are no indications the murder investigation is linked to that of Lisa Arlene Francis, aka Lisa Arlene Kireche.

The 41-year-old sex-trade worker’s body was found floating in the Fraser River on July 23 near the 9100-block of Bentley Street.

She had last been seen on July 10 and reported missing by staff at the Downtown Eastside apartment where she lived on July 17.

“We don’t have any indications that it was linked to the case last week in the same area,” McGuinness said. “We’ll let the forensic and the investigative avenues dictate whether there are any links to that.”

[Desespere]

Umm... no indication two murders of sex workers two days apart are related.
Ok, I think I will chose to believe they are related. The timing alone indicates something serious is happening.

[capeheart]

It does certainly sound like these cases are related, I mean come on, like you say a couple of days apart. I also wonder if Hong Wei was afraid of something happening to her and this is why she had planned a trip to China. She may have been planning on not coming back, she may have been afraid of someone. Maybe when they investigate a little further they will find that she may have confided in someone that she was afraid for her life. Hope that they do get justice in these two cases.