Shao Tong
2014 murder in Iowa; defendant convicted in China
On September 26, 2014, police found a body later identified as 19-year-old Shao Tong (Chinese: 邵童, November 1994 – September 2014), a Chinese undergraduate at Iowa State University (ISU), in the trunk of a car registered in her name parked in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Iowa City, Iowa. She had been reported missing nine days earlier. The cause of death was found to be homicide by suffocation. Shao had last been seen on September 7 at a hotel outside Nevada, Iowa, a small town east of Ames, where ISU is located. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shao_Tong
On September 26, 2014, police found a body later identified as 19-year-old Shao Tong (Chinese: 邵童, November 1994 – September 2014), a Chinese undergraduate at Iowa State University (ISU), in the trunk of a car registered in her name parked in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Iowa City, Iowa. She had been reported missing nine days earlier. The cause of death was found to be homicide by suffocation. Shao had last been seen on September 7 at a hotel outside Nevada, Iowa, a small town east of Ames, where ISU is located.
