Nai Yin Xue, 54, is accused of killing his wife in New Zealand and leaving his 3-year-old
daughter in a Melbourne railroad station on September 15 before fleeing to the United States. He
arrived at Los Angeles International Airport two weeks ago from Melbourne, Australia. Xue, a
martial arts master and publisher of New Zealand's largest Chinese-language weekly, allegedly
strangled his 27-year-old wife, An An Liu, whose body was found Sept. 19, in t he trunk of a car
outside the family's Auckland home.
Cat Chao, host of a Mandarin-language talk show on KAZN-AM (1300), said she and her fellow
anchors had been talking about the case so much that she brought a legal expert onto her show
Tuesday to discuss how Xue could be extradited.
At first, much of the attention focused on the girl, Qian Xun Xue. This week she was reunited
with her grandmother from China, who is expected to return there with Qian Xun.
Police in New Zealand told the local media that Xue was having marital and financial problems
in the months before he fled. There have been reports of romantic affairs and domestic violence.
(Source: Andrew Blankstein and David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, Sep 26, 2007).