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  Speaker 1: In October twenty ten, a man with a tense expression
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  Speaker 1: hurried off a plane. Once he had settled into a
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  Speaker 1: taxi leaving the airport, he allowed himself a triumphant smile.
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  Speaker 1: Deep down, he believed he had just pulled off the
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  Speaker 1: perfect crime, a plan carefully crafted over months, tight enough
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  Speaker 1: that even if the bodies were eventually found, the police
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  Speaker 1: would have nothing to go on. Asterisk today were revisiting
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  Speaker 1: a case that once shocked the public. The killer was cunning,
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  Speaker 1: meticulous in every move, and managed to stay steps ahead
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  Speaker 1: of investigators. If not for a single photo taken by
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  Speaker 1: a police officer more than one thousand, five hundred kilometers
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  Speaker 1: away from the crime scene, the mystery might have remained
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  Speaker 1: unsolved forever. The crime took place in Perth, the capital
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  Speaker 1: of Western Australia. Despite being Australia's fourth largest city, Perth
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  Speaker 1: is often called the most isolated major city in the
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  Speaker 1: world due to its vast distance from other urban centers.
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  Speaker 1: In recent years, the Chinese community there had grown rapidly,
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  Speaker 1: with more Asian supermarkets, restaurants, and a solid education system
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  Speaker 1: attracting many families from China. But it was in this
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  Speaker 1: seemingly peaceful city that the story took a dark and
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  Speaker 1: tragic turn. Ki yung Yan and Yang Xiou, a married
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  Speaker 1: couple of Chinese descent, lived in the Mindery suburb of Perth.
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  Speaker 1: Their lifestyle was comfortable not because of high paying jobs,
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  Speaker 1: but because of Yang Choo's powerful family background. His mother,
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  Speaker 1: Taipei Song, was the president of a large construction company
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  Speaker 1: in China. His father held a government position, and rumours
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  Speaker 1: swirled that his uncle was a high ranking official. This
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  Speaker 1: meant Yang Choo grew up surrounded by wealth and inflame luce.
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  Speaker 1: Like many elite families in China, his parents placed great
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  Speaker 1: emphasis on education. They sent him to study abroad in
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  Speaker 1: Australia and even purchased a luxurious home for him in Minderri.
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  Speaker 1: It was through family connections that Yang Zoo met kiyom Yan,
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  Speaker 1: a woman from Leoning, China, born in nineteen eighty three.
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  Speaker 1: She was eight years younger than him. While she didn't
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  Speaker 1: come from a powerful background like Yang, kiyong Yan still
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  Speaker 1: let her relatively comfortable life. She arrived in Australia as
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  Speaker 1: an international student, carrying with her dreams and high hopes
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  Speaker 1: for a bright future. Their relationship developed naturally in a
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  Speaker 1: foreign country meeting someone from the same culture who spoke
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  Speaker 1: the same language felt rare and comforting. Yang Zoo was
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  Speaker 1: considered handsome, and Kiyo Yan was strikingly beautiful. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: take long before they fell in love and got married
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  Speaker 1: in April two thousand and eight at the Perth Convention
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  Speaker 1: and Exit Ambition Center, with a lavish wedding that left
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  Speaker 1: their friends in awe. After the wedding, their life as
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  Speaker 1: a young couple seemed picture perfect. Thanks to the immense
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  Speaker 1: wealth of Yang Choo's family, money was never a concern.
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  Speaker 1: They traveled, frequently, hosted extravagant dinner parties, and enjoyed what
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  Speaker 1: seemed like a dream life. That joy only grew in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine when they welcomed their first daughter,
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  Speaker 1: a baby girl named Kiki. Her arrival brought overwhelming happiness
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  Speaker 1: to both families. Yang Choo's mother, Taipei Song, flew to
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  Speaker 1: Australia immediately to help her son take care of his
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  Speaker 1: newborn daughter, but her presence would mark the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: a turbulent chapter, one filled with tension between mother in
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  Speaker 1: law and daughter in law. At first, their life together
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  Speaker 1: was peaceful enough, but over time cracks began to appear
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  Speaker 1: in the couples relationship. Both Yang Joo and kiyong Yan
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  Speaker 1: were only children raised with a lot of attention in
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  Speaker 1: the Little Compromise, and neither was used to backing down.
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  Speaker 1: The arrival of Kiki added more pressure. Life became busier
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  Speaker 1: and arguments between the couple started to happen more often.
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  Speaker 1: Taipei Song's involvement in their personal life only made things worse.
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  Speaker 1: She constantly sided with her son, leaving kiyong Yan feeling
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  Speaker 1: increasingly isolated in her own home. In August twenty ten,
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  Speaker 1: the tension in the family reached a breaking point. Their
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  Speaker 1: marriage had collapsed beyond repair, and both parties began divorce proceedings.
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  Speaker 1: Kiyong Yan decided to leave the villain Minderi and moved
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  Speaker 1: into a small apartment in Balga, a suburb in northern Perth,
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  Speaker 1: taking her daughter Kiki with her for a while. She
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  Speaker 1: even returned to China with Kiki, hoping to escape the
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  Speaker 1: growing pressure. But the real nightmare began when Kiki was
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  Speaker 1: kidnapped in Shunyang, China. Ki yong Yan was devastated. She
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  Speaker 1: soon realized her daughter's passport and identification were missing. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't take long for her to figure out who was
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  Speaker 1: behind it, Yang Zhaoo. With no other options, she turned
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  Speaker 1: to the Australian embassy and Chinese authorities for help. After
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  Speaker 1: extensive efforts, officials discovered that Yang Zhao had secretly taken
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  Speaker 1: Kiki back to Perth. Ki yum Yan rushed back to
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  Speaker 1: Australia to regain custody of her daughter. Her mother run
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  Speaker 1: Mayan flew in from China to support her and helped
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  Speaker 1: care for Kiki, but Yang Choo's family didn't give up easily.
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  Speaker 1: Using the excuse of visiting their granddaughter, they frequently took
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  Speaker 1: Kiki for several days at a time before returning her.
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  Speaker 1: The custody battle dragged on. On the surface, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like a standard post divorce conflict, two parents fighting for
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  Speaker 1: their child eventually headed to court, but reality took a
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  Speaker 1: darker turn, one marked by violence and bloodshed. September thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten. That morning, Kiki had been picked up by
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  Speaker 1: her grandmother for a visit. Around seven thirty p m.
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  Speaker 1: Ki yung Yan and her mother were driving back to
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  Speaker 1: their apartment. As they pulled into the garage, a white
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  Speaker 1: Mitsubishi suddenly appeared behind them, blocking their exit. Almost simultaneously,
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  Speaker 1: a silver Mercedes pulled in front, trapping them in a
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  Speaker 1: pincer like formation. Sensing danger, rong may Yan stepped out
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  Speaker 1: of the car to confront the situation. But before she
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  Speaker 1: could react, a man suddenly charged at her with a
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  Speaker 1: sledgehammer and struck her on the head. The force of
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  Speaker 1: the blow, combined with the attacker's size and strength, left
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  Speaker 1: her helpless. Within seconds, she collapsed to the ground, lying
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  Speaker 1: motionless in a pool of blood. The man then pulled
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  Speaker 1: out a knife and turned toward ki yung Yan, who
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  Speaker 1: was still sitting in the car. Frozen in fear, She
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  Speaker 1: screamed for help, but no one came. He lunged at her,
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  Speaker 1: stabbing her repeatedly. In moments. The inside of the car
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  Speaker 1: was covered in blood. It was a brutal, horrifying scene.
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  Speaker 1: After the attack, the killer quickly jumped into a car.
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  Speaker 1: Both vehicles sped away from the scene. Not long after,
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  Speaker 1: neighbors noticed something was wrong and immediately called the police.
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  Speaker 1: First responders arrived promptly. Unfortunately, kiyong Yan had already died
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  Speaker 1: from her injuries. Wrong may Yan, her mother had suffered
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  Speaker 1: severe trauma to the face, though she was still breathing.
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  Speaker 1: Doctors warned that even if she survived, she might remain
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  Speaker 1: in a vegetative state. Police launched an investigation right away.
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  Speaker 1: At the scene, they found a hammer covered in blood,
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  Speaker 1: but the killer had clearly planned everything carefully. He wore
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  Speaker 1: gloves and left no fingerprints or other physical evidence. Given
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  Speaker 1: the ongoing conflict between kiyong Yan and Yang Choo, who
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  Speaker 1: were in the middle of a divorce, police immediately considered
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  Speaker 1: Yang Xiao a prime suspect. The next morning, they visited
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  Speaker 1: his home for questioning. However, Yang Zhoo wasn't in Australia
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  Speaker 1: when the crime occurred. Only his mother and daughter Piki
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  Speaker 1: were staying at the house. When questioned, his mother calmly
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  Speaker 1: told the police, my son left for China on September
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  Speaker 1: eleventh to visit family and hasn't returned. Police checked immigration
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  Speaker 1: records and confirmed that Yang Zhaoo had indeed left Australia
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  Speaker 1: on September eleventh and had not come back. This gave
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  Speaker 1: him a solid alibi, but then came the question, if
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  Speaker 1: not Yang Zhoo, who else would want ki Yung Yan dead.
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  Speaker 1: Police dug deeper into ki Yung Yan's personal life, hoping
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  Speaker 1: to find another lead, but the results showed little. She
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  Speaker 1: ran a small nail salon and lived a modest life.
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  Speaker 1: Aside from raising her daughter and attending English classes, she
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  Speaker 1: had few close friends and no known enemies. The only
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  Speaker 1: person she had ongoing disputes with was Yang Choo. Despite
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  Speaker 1: having an alibi, the police still suspected that Yang Zoo
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  Speaker 1: might have hired someone to commit the crime. Upon further investigation,
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  Speaker 1: they discovered that Yang Choo was not what he seemed.
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  Speaker 1: He was just a low paid security guard who patrolled
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood with a dog, but in reality, he owned
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  Speaker 1: two companies, three houses, and a silver Mercedes which matched
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  Speaker 1: the description of one of the cars seen at the
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  Speaker 1: crime scene. These details confirmed that he was living a
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  Speaker 1: wealthy lifestyle supported by his family's fortune. Ki Yong Yan
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  Speaker 1: knew about her husband's considerable assets. During the divorce, she
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  Speaker 1: had demanded custody of their daughter, financial support, and a
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  Speaker 1: share of the property. That made the motive clearer. To
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  Speaker 1: avoid losing money in the settlement, Yang Zoo may have
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  Speaker 1: decided to eliminate her. Investigators also uncovered a suspicious connection
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  Speaker 1: between Yang Joo and a massage parlor on Beaufort Street
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  Speaker 1: known for adult services. He was a frequent visitor and
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  Speaker 1: reportedly close to the woman who ran the place. This
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  Speaker 1: raised further questions about his involvement in illegal activity. However,
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  Speaker 1: the woman insisted they were only friends and had no
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  Speaker 1: business ties. Regardless of whether Yang Xiao was involved in
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  Speaker 1: any illegal activity, police couldn't rule out the possibility that
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  Speaker 1: he orchestrated the attack. The biggest challenge now was either
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  Speaker 1: to break his alibi or to identify the actual killer.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators thoroughly reviewed CCTV footage from around the crime scene.
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  Speaker 1: They managed to capture images of two suspicious vehicles, but
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  Speaker 1: because of poor night time lighting, the cameras only recorded
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  Speaker 1: vague outlines of the cars. The driver's faces remained unidentifiable.
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  Speaker 1: Footage revealed that the white Mitsubishi had been circling the
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  Speaker 1: area before the murder and had parked nearby for over
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  Speaker 1: two hours, as if waiting for Kiyong Yan to arrive
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  Speaker 1: before launching the attack. It was clear this was a
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  Speaker 1: meticulously premeditated killing. However, beyond identifying the two vehicles, the
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  Speaker 1: surveillance footage offered no breakthrough. Meanwhile, ki Yung Yan's mother
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  Speaker 1: remained in a coma, leaving the investigation at a standstill.
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  Speaker 1: In hopes of finding more leads, police returned to question
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  Speaker 1: Yang Joo's mother, Tai Pei Song, but in a surprising
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  Speaker 1: move on October eleventh, twenty ten, she secretly left Australia
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  Speaker 1: and returned to China with Kiki, completely cutting off contact
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  Speaker 1: with investigators. With no better option, police released the CCTV
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  Speaker 1: footage to the public, hoping for new tips. The strategy
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  Speaker 1: paid off a member of the public recognized the silver
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  Speaker 1: car in the footage as a two thousand three Mercedes
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  Speaker 1: CLK five hundred. Only twenty of those vehicles were registered
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  Speaker 1: in Western Australia. After tracking ownership records, police confirmed that
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle belonged to Yang Joao. It was immediately seized. However,
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  Speaker 1: the search of the car yielded no significant progress in
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  Speaker 1: the case. At this point, the Perth Police were trapped
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  Speaker 1: in a frustrating dilemma. Yang Choo remained their prime suspect,
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  Speaker 1: but he was now in China out of reach. His
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  Speaker 1: air tight alibi prevented any arrest warrant, and without one,
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese authorities couldn't assist with his apprehension. Eventually, police
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  Speaker 1: managed to contact Yang Zoo directly, but he flatly denied
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  Speaker 1: all allegations and stated bluntly, I planned to settle in
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  Speaker 1: China permanently. I have no intention of returning to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: That declaration brought the investigation against Yang Choo to a halt.
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  Speaker 1: With no jurisdiction over him and no grounds for extradition.
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  Speaker 1: The case shifted focus to the white Mitsubishi, the mysterious
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  Speaker 1: car spotted at the scene, and the unidentified killer behind
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  Speaker 1: the attack. After conducting a wide search, police found that
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  Speaker 1: no l local white Natsubishi matched the one caught on camera.
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  Speaker 1: This led to a chilling theory the killer may have
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  Speaker 1: come from far outside the area and the vehicle wasn't
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  Speaker 1: registered in Perth. As previously mentioned, Perth is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most geographically isolated major cities in the world, with
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  Speaker 1: the nearest urban centers thousands of kilometers away. If Yang
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  Speaker 1: Zhoo had hired someone from outside the region to drive
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  Speaker 1: all the way to Perth, carry out the murder, and
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  Speaker 1: then immediately leave the area, it would point to a
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  Speaker 1: horrifyingly well executed plan. Following this lead, investigators uncovered a
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  Speaker 1: crucial clue. On September twenty fourth, Yang Zhoo had placed
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  Speaker 1: an ad in a Chinese language newspaper in Sydney looking
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  Speaker 1: to hire a long distance driver to travel from Sydney
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  Speaker 1: to Perth. This detail raised immediate suspicion. Wasn't Yang Zoo
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  Speaker 1: supposed to have left Australia for China on September eleventh.
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  Speaker 1: If so, why was he hiring the driver nearly two
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  Speaker 1: weeks later. Even more troubling, the murder occurred just six
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  Speaker 1: days after the ad was published. On September thirtieth. Police
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  Speaker 1: decided to investigate the route from Sydney to Perth, a
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  Speaker 1: journey of more than three thousand, nine hundred kilometers. The
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  Speaker 1: highway cuts through vast stretches of desert and empty plains,
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  Speaker 1: including the Nullarbor Plane, a famously remote area often called
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  Speaker 1: the Treeless Land, and it was in this desolate region
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  Speaker 1: that the case took a dramatic turn. A highway patrol
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  Speaker 1: officer named Robert recalled stopping a white vehicle on the
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  Speaker 1: Nullarbor Highway on the night of September thirtieth. What stood
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  Speaker 1: out to him was that he'd seen the same car
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  Speaker 1: just days earlier, heading west toward Perth, but now it
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  Speaker 1: was coming back the other way. Robert found this odd,
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  Speaker 1: that stretch of road is grueling and drivers don't usually
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  Speaker 1: make such quick round trips. He took a photo of
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  Speaker 1: the two men in the car and in pluted it
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  Speaker 1: in his monthly patrol report, and then forgot about it,
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  Speaker 1: that is until detective from Perth reached out for assistance.
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  Speaker 1: When he forwarded the image. The mystery unraveled instantly because
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  Speaker 1: the man in the passenger seat was unmistakably Yang Joo.
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  Speaker 1: This confirmed what investigators had long suspected. Yang Zhou had
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  Speaker 1: faked his alibi by flying to China on September eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: but later he secretly returned to Sydney, hired a driver
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  Speaker 1: on September twenty fourth, and traveled across the country to Perth.
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  Speaker 1: He then hid out at his mother's house for several days,
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  Speaker 1: prepared weapons, and carried out the murder of Ki Yung
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  Speaker 1: Yan on September thirtieth. That same night, he fled Perth,
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  Speaker 1: returned to Sydney, and then flew back to China. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, police no longer cared how he had re
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  Speaker 1: entered Australia, whether it was with a fake passport or
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  Speaker 1: through illegal means. What mattered was that they now had
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  Speaker 1: indisputable photographic evidence placing him at the scene. Armed with
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  Speaker 1: this breakthrough, police obtained a warrant to search Yang Choo's home.
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  Speaker 1: On his laptop, they discovered that his gaming account had
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  Speaker 1: been active on September twenty ninth and thirtieth. Even more telling,
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning on September twenty ninth, the laptop's
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  Speaker 1: webcam had captured an image of Yang Xiao sitting directly
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  Speaker 1: in front of the screen. This proved that at the
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  Speaker 1: time of the murder, Yang Zhoo had been hiding at
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  Speaker 1: his mother's house, which meant her earlier statement claiming she
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  Speaker 1: hadn't seen her son since he left for China was
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  Speaker 1: an outright lie. Investigators then turned to immigration records at
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  Speaker 1: Sydney Airport to determine how Yang Xiao had re entered
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  Speaker 1: the country undetected. After careful review, they discovered he had
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  Speaker 1: used the passport of a friend with the surname Yuk,
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  Speaker 1: the same man who had been a groomsman at his wedding.
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  Speaker 1: Because the two shared similar facial feat t and Yang
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  Speaker 1: Zoo had altered his appearance, he was able to bypass
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  Speaker 1: emigration checks without raising suspicion. With this final piece of evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Police in Perth co ordinated with Chinese authorities to move
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  Speaker 1: forward with his arrest. Previously, without strong proof, Yang Xioo
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  Speaker 1: had been living freely in China. Since Chinese authorities had
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  Speaker 1: no criminal records on him, they had no grounds to
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  Speaker 1: detain him, But once they learned of his illegal re
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  Speaker 1: entry into Australia using a forged identity, they were able
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  Speaker 1: to temporarily hold him and begin their own investigation. By
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  Speaker 1: May twenty fourteen, after receiving the full body of evidence
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  Speaker 1: from Australian police, Yang Xiao was formally charged with the
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  Speaker 1: murder of his wife and the attempted murder of his
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  Speaker 1: mother in law, but the road to trial was far
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  Speaker 1: from simple. Yang Xiao was an Australian citizen ki yung Yan,
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  Speaker 1: the victim remained a Chinese national. This created a rare
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  Speaker 1: legal dilemma. An Australian citizen had murdered a Chinese citizen
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  Speaker 1: on Australian soil. Although China and Australia had signed an
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  Speaker 1: extradition treaty in two thousand seven, the treaty had never
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  Speaker 1: been ratified by the Australian government. That meant there was
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  Speaker 1: no legal foundation to extradite Yang Xiou back to Australia
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  Speaker 1: for trial. Australia hoped that China would agree to extradite him,
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  Speaker 1: but Chinese law stated otherwise. If a foreign national committed
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  Speaker 1: a serious crime outside of China and the victim was
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  Speaker 1: a Chinese citizen, then China had the right to prosecute
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  Speaker 1: the case itself. Australia initially opposed this approach. The country
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  Speaker 1: had abolished the death penalty years ago and had long
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  Speaker 1: pressured other nations to do the same. They feared that
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  Speaker 1: if Yang Xiou were tried in China, he could face
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  Speaker 1: capital punishment. After several rounds of tense diplomatic negotiations, the
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  Speaker 1: two countries finally reached a land mark agreement. No matter
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  Speaker 1: how serious Yang Choo's crimes were, he would not face
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  Speaker 1: the death penalty. In May twenty fourteen, the Shanghai No.
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  Speaker 1: One Intermediate People's Court began the trial of Yang Xan.
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  Speaker 1: Backed by irrefutable evidence from Australian authorities and thorough findings
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  Speaker 1: from Chinese investigators, the court found Yang Zhoo guilty of murder.
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  Speaker 1: He was sentenced to life in prison under Chinese law. Oddly, however,
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  Speaker 1: the verdict wasn't made public until twenty sixteen, two years
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  Speaker 1: after the trial. As for motive, the judge concluded that
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  Speaker 1: Yang Jian had been unwilling to go through with the divorce,
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  Speaker 1: fearing the loss of his vast wealth and custody of
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  Speaker 1: his daughter, He carefully planned and executed the murder of
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  Speaker 1: his wife. The case unfolded during a time when China
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  Speaker 1: and Australia had not yet officially ratified their extradition treaty.
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  Speaker 1: Despite that both governments worked closely together to bring the
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  Speaker 1: case to justice. The successful resolution marked a breakthrough in
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  Speaker 1: international legal cooperation and became a valuable case study in
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  Speaker 1: cross border criminal investigation and prosecution. On September twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, nearly six years after the murder of kioon Yan,
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  Speaker 1: an unexpected twist unfolded at Perth Airport, Taipei. Song Yang
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  Speaker 1: Choo's mother was arrested by Australian police the moment she
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  Speaker 1: stepped off the plane. Although the perpetrator had already been
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  Speaker 1: brought to justice, authorities suspected t Pay Song of making
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  Speaker 1: false statements during the original investigation. She had confidently told
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  Speaker 1: police that her son had returned to China, and never
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  Speaker 1: came back to Australia. En reality, Yang Xiao had secretly
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  Speaker 1: re entered the country using a fake passport and had
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  Speaker 1: hidden in her Perth home for several days before carrying
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  Speaker 1: out the murder. It was clear she had knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: his movements beyond lying to authorities, as Australian police also
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  Speaker 1: accused her of being an accomplice in the murder of
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  Speaker 1: Ki Yung Yan. Faced with these serious charges, Tai pey
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  Speaker 1: Song denied all involvement. Her defense attorney argued that if
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  Speaker 1: Yang Zhal had gone to such lengths to conceal his
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  Speaker 1: identity and secretly enter Australia, it made no sense that
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  Speaker 1: he would have informed his mother of his plan to
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  Speaker 1: kill his wife. Despite the initial headlines, legal proceedings against
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  Speaker 1: Tee pay Song eventually faded from public view. Her final
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  Speaker 1: verdict remains unknown to this day. One lingering question remains
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  Speaker 1: why did she risk returning to Australia at all. Years later,
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  Speaker 1: a theory emerged she may have planned to secretly take
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  Speaker 1: her granddaughter Kiki out of the country. After the case
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  Speaker 1: was closed. Kiki, an Australian citizen, was placed in the
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  Speaker 1: care of the Department of Social welfare. If Thai Pay
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  Speaker 1: Song's return was an attempt to retrieve the child, then
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  Speaker 1: at it was a miscalculated decision. Perhaps she believed the
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  Speaker 1: case had been forgotten and that police were no longer
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  Speaker 1: watching her, but the moment she stepped off that plane,
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  Speaker 1: she was arrested. After some time under the care of
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  Speaker 1: social services, Kiki eventually found a new home with a
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  Speaker 1: kind and loving couple. Reports say the couple occasionally takes
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  Speaker 1: her back to China to visit her maternal grandparents. As
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  Speaker 1: for Yang Choo's fortune in Australia, once he was sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to life in prison, what became of all that wealth?
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  Speaker 1: The answer was fairly straightforward. Since Kiki is his legal heir,
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  Speaker 1: all of his assets legally passed to her. The Australian
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  Speaker 1: government auctioned off part of his estate and placed the
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  Speaker 1: funds in a trust to secure her future. Tragically, Kiyong
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  Speaker 1: Yan's mother, Rung Ma Yan, never recovered from her injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Despite undergoing multiple treatments, she remains permanently disabled and unable
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  Speaker 1: to care for herself. Looking back, Yan Shall believed he
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  Speaker 1: had orchestrated the perfect crime, a plan so meticulously designed
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  Speaker 1: it would leave no trace but he overlooked one thing.
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  Speaker 1: Even the most carefully calculated plans have cracks. Justice has
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  Speaker 1: a long memory and the law has ways of catching
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  Speaker 1: up no matter how far someone runs. This case exposed
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  Speaker 1: clear gaps in international legal cooperation. It raises the question
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  Speaker 1: will Australia reconsider its stance on extraditing criminals to China
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  Speaker 1: in the future? And what about Kiki now a child
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  Speaker 1: with dual cultural roots, a trust fund and a new family.
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  Speaker 1: Will she be able to move beyond the trauma and
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  Speaker 1: live a normal life. What are your thoughts on this case?
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