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Police Mystified in Murder Witnessed on Webcam

Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:07pm by Emily Esfahani Smith
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The Daily Beast reports:

A 23-year-old York University student, a Beijing native, was killed in Toronto, while speaking to her friend in China by webcam. The Toronto Sun reports that the friend witnessed the attack and can identify the attacker. The witness says the suspect was white, 6-feet tall, between 20 and 30 years old, weighed 175 to 200 pounds, with medium-length brown hair. The intruder turned off the laptop during the struggle, so the witness did not see the entire attack; the laptop is still missing.

The Toronto Sun has more details:

Qian “Necole” Liu, 23, of Beijing, came to Canada on a student visa last September, Toronto Police say.

And now, seven months later, her family is coming here to bring her body back home.

Homicide detectives are handling the case, which may be the city’s first murder ever witnessed through the Internet.

But for now they are only calling the death “suspicious.”

Investigators are waiting for an autopsy to determine the cause of death before.

Liu was found partially naked around 11 a.m. Friday in her basement apartment at 27 Aldwinckle Hts., northwest of Keele St. and Finch Ave. W., a house just off-campus where she lived along with 10 other students.

She had been dead for hours at that point. Apparently, after her China-based friend witnessed the murder, he tried to contact others for help, but everybody was asleep.

According to The Daily Beast, the student was being stalked by a “suitor she had rejected.”

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Comments (40)

dontbotherme
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:57pm
God help & bless the family & friends of this poor girl. As an aside, this is what this report was all about. Why do some of you who post here allow yourselves to taken off the important subject of a young girl’s murder to talk to trolls who take you into wacko land?
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vtech61
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:28pm
FORGET ABOUT THE STORY.

Huff Po people have been kicked to the curb by Ariana and now AOL.
She made a boat load of money on her ‘supporters/contributors’ backs
and SOLD it to a ‘cooperation’ OMFG.

They have no place else to go to try and get their rhetoric out.

They will be here..
(OH they are already here? > LMAO @ THEM)…

They have nowhere else to go but. DOWN.

Welcome Huff Bones.
(Look I even capitalized your sorry selves)…

Lets talk.
I used to be one of you, so I understand.

So, TELL me Huff Po dems.
How do we get out of this budget hole?
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- RebelSon
  Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:08pm
  Well, let’s see…..first we take all the rich people’s money and give it to the poor people who have no jobs. Then we help them find some jobs for them by giving them all super-hero capes. Wait, what do you mean the rich people left and took their companies overseas? You mean there are no jobs now? Dammit….what do we do now ObiWantu Huduyoo?
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GAConservative
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 7:05pm
I’ve been reading this sight for months but just decided to sign up. It’s pretty easy to spot the Liberal plants or trouble makers huh? Soros cronies?
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- BetterDays
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 7:55pm
  Like Soros thumbs.
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spirited
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:37pm
Fortunately, the police caught the (alleged) murderer.

>God bless her and her family
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TheRealLoki
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:28pm
Ohh no- a murder was witnessed on the internet. This is why we need internet cencors, internet kill switch to the rescue. Guns dont kill people- the internet does.
(sarcasim)
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UpstateNYConservative
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:50pm
Notice that the trolls, so far, don’t care about the dead girl or that she may have been murdered. No, that’s nothing to them. The trolls care to simply use another awful occasion for critical comments about The Blaze.

Pffft!
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- getalong
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:00pm
  I don‘t mine the troll idiots’ comments – frankly they give me a good laugh. I grew up with street smarts (and education), and if there is one thing we can learn about the progressive/socialist/elitist bunch is that book smarts has nothing to do with common sense! What they don’t understand is that, unlike them, we will give them a helping hand when chaos comes our way – because we are people of character and moral conviction, and do not turn our backs on those less prepared. Let’s just pray that more and more people will figure out the truth, and realize what is at stake with this administration.
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- BetterDays
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 7:54pm
  @Upstater
  Well you do realize that the party bumper sticker of socialist’s is “save the whales, kill a baby” right?
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bobodu
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:27pm
Yeah….hmmm… I thought The Blaze was gonna hire all these hot shot reporters. Seems like they just re-report what others have already made known. Kinda like having someone read you yesterdays paper.
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- Dale
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:37pm
  bob;
  
  I’ve seen these complaints from time to time and want to respond: 1) fortunately, we do not have ‘breaking/important’ news every minute. 2) while this story may not be important to you, someone is interested – just the fact that there was a witness – via internet – is newsworthy, and 3) from time to time it is nice to see a ‘good/happy’ story or on occasion one that offers some comic relief.
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- getalong
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:53pm
  Dale, I agree.
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- BetterDays
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:16pm
  @Dale
  Who are you talking to? I like your post, but the thread your on is only a blank “add a comment”that speared when someone inadvertently hits post without writing anything. This usually occurs when a socialist tries to post their propaganda, Betsy has written a killer troll nuke program, hasn’t she?
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- obama-mecca-me-sick
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:23pm
  I read the Blaze more than the other sites so I’m seeing it here first. If it bothers you, GO AWAY!! Why do you not only take the time to read it again , but post a comment as well. You seem like a moron.
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- Dale
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:29pm
  @days;
  
  This is the post:
  
  “bobodu
  
  Yeah….hmmm… I thought The Blaze was gonna hire all these hot shot reporters. Seems like they just re-report what others have already made known. Kinda like having someone read you yesterdays paper.”
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- Sorelsnightmare
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:45pm
  I went to college with a bunch of Socialists in France. I lived in Russia and Ukraine and still have family there. Yet regardless of my experiences with the so-called “caring” Left, I always fail to correctly estimate their true degenerate nature! Thanks for the posts TERM and BOBODU; you help us with our perspective …. of people like you!
  
  God bless the soul of this innocent girl, and comfort her family. This just isn’t fair!
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- GAConservative
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 7:08pm
  You’ve got your stories confused. That was Soros who hired Platoon to attack Beck and other conservatives. You’re like rice paper.
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- BetterDays
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 7:51pm
  Oh, there it is….lolfudge it was a troll what a waste of breath!
  But now I can see that you made a very good response to it’s feltergarb.
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- Lucy Larue
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 8:01pm
  BOBODU,
  As I thanked TERM, I thank you too.
  The empathy, compassion, and civility of the left jumps out from every word you posted about the murder of a young Chinese exchange student.
  Karma does exist BOBODUDU.
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- 338lapua
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:09pm
  @dale, @bobodu is a troll….simply trying to push a button. Don’t let him get to you.
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Swordsmansmith
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:21pm
@ Term : You equal stupid troll….
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chirodoc007
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:20pm
Horrible story. I wonder if the authorities can retrieve the photos of the killer from the friends Temp Files on the hard-drive.
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- Mr. Nice Guy
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:27pm
  Her friend in China was likely at an Internet cafe. If so that greatly reduces the chances.
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TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:13pm
Blaze=Drudge retarded echo…
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- cheezwhiz
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 5:32pm
  @ TERMLIMITSNOW
  So who is forcing you to be here ?
- BetterDays
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:12pm
  Once again, a tragic affair, prayers to the family and for the apprehension of the perp.
  
  And, once again we see first hand the highly cultured scud, post from the socialist’s, who having been properly inbread by Ariana Huffington and George Soros come here to open their sanctimonious claptraps and spew forth slimy green snakes from the flaming remains of their defeated egos.
  Thank you Jesus for not having me be such as these socialist’s, but instead giving me salavtion and a future in Christ Jesus, I am most grateful!
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- mrsmileyface
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:32pm
  I just got finished watching 8mm with Nick Cage no lie. And I was just thinking about this. Wouldnt it be cool if there was a “snuf video” and POOF GOD made it happen. Thank you GOD.
- Sorelsnightmare
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:38pm
  So you would take this event, the murder of an innocent young lady from China to promote your leftist rhetoric? How noble and humane of you! But not surprising none-the-less!
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- RugDog
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 6:54pm
  TERMLIMITSNOW, your moms a what?
  
  Now wheres the VIDEO!? Lets see it.
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- wingedwolf
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 7:04pm
  I have been refraining from commenting for months, but I have to wonder the same thing. What are you doing here if you don’t like it? Maybe just waiting to see f you get noticed? Probably the kind who sits in mommy’s basement waiting for the SSI check spewing stupidity and hoping to get noticed with lotion all over one hand and the other…….well, we all know what you’re doing with the other.
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- bullcrapbuster
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 7:17pm
  Hey grt used to it dude……….the BLAZE is growing and it is here to stay. Fox News,now the blaze the heartless loonies are already scraping the bottom of the barrel for trolls. Hey Glenn, make em squeal.
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- Lucy Larue
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 7:55pm
  TERMLIMITSNOW,
  Many thanks Term. You’ve really put yourself out there to show the empathy, compassion, AND civility of the left.
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- txsrowdy10
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:30pm
  It takes a wimp like you to say something childish like that. Grow up, learn to dress yourself, feed your self, AND MOVE OUT OF YOUR MOMMIES BASEMENT!
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- longun45
  Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:32pm
  How original – Yawn
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- bigpatrick87
  Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:50am
  termlimitsnow
  
  well i resent the basement remarks bc in these economically rough times its alright to stay with your parents its like communial living but term you are a doushe buddy way to expose your idiotness
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- steve page
  Posted on April 21, 2011 at 8:16am
  Don’t need your kind here.Unless your willing to join us in the strange word“TRUTH”
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- TERMLIMITSNOW
  Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:00am
  Gesh you guys are a sensitive bunch, I was just sayin that this story was on Drudge first thing this morning. For the record, I’m not a lefty….AND, if you’re going to call someone a “doushe”, at least spell it correctly….it’s douche, lol. Don‘t get you’re panties in a bunch girls, GESH.
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- sherival08
  Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:19pm
  Don’t like leave! No one says you need to read it???
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- Butter-Pants
  Posted on April 21, 2011 at 4:57pm
  The Subject is White…….Now they are sure to mention the race when the subject is White!
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