- In 2014, an Iowa college town panics after police find Tong Shao, a missing student from China, murdered; when security camera footage points to a planned execution, hunting down the young woman's killer becomes an international mystery.
- On September 26, 2014, an Iowa college town panics after police find the body of 19-year-old Tong Shao (in the American name format of first name, surname) (or Shao Tong in the Chinese name format of surname, first name). Her body had been put in a suitcase which had been placed 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 a Chinese undergraduate student at Iowa State University. Tong Shao had been reported by her friends nine days earlier as missing. When security camera footage points to a planned execution, hunting down the young woman's killer becomes an international mystery. In the end, the video evidence points to her boyfriend, Xiangnan Li (in the American name format of first name, surname) (or Li Xiangnan in the Chinese name format of surname, first name). Li had already fled to his home of China. The American detectives and prosecutors worked with the U.S. Chinese consulate. After Chinese detectives traveled to Iowa to visit the crime scene and review evidence, they too charged Li with intentional murder under Chinese law, which allows the prosecution of any Chinese citizen for a crime even if it occurred abroad. Li surrendered to police in his native Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China in May 2015. The homicide case was prosecuted in China, since there no extradition treaty between China and the United States, and China does not extradite its own citizens. In March 2016, Li pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to life in prison, which could be reduced to a prison term of at least 13 years.
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