Cold blooded murder

The day has come. I mentioned one of my entries here about my friend's daughter being missing in Korea. Today, I have found out from my friend that her daughter in Korea has been murdered by her military husband.

As all of us know, married couples have misunderstanding sometimes. We fight sometimes. Things can happen in a very bad situation and can lead to something dreadful.

Let us just name my friend's daughter LA and her husband C. LA and C has been having fights for awhile. For some reason, I don't know what they are fighting about. All the facts that I have comes from my friend - LA's mom.

April 24, 2008. This is the day when LA was reported missing. The husband C, claimed that LA left on her own will. My friend here in Morgan Hill (LA'a mom) thought that she was just leaving to air out LA's frustration about her relationship and maybe LA went to Hawaii to process her citizenship. But there are records from all the airport and other transit in Korea that LA did not board any airlines and no records of her leaving the country leaving the husband as the suspect.

I just spoke to my friend today and she had told me that her daughter has been murdered. She was murdered by her husband and after her death at their apartment where the crime was committed, LA was shoved in a large suitcase (luggage) for disposal of her dead body. My friend also told me that in an investigation that the apartment's surveillance camera shown the husband C, carrying out a big luggage out of the apartment. The husband was trying to show that he was carrying a luggage full of his stuff because he was going to stay at the Barracks. It wasn't his stuff but his wife inside the luggage. The husband then dumped LA in a mountain valley in near Camp Caroll in Korea.

Listening to my friend crying in pain really shook me. I was there when LA's husband called my friend here in Morgan Hill letting my friend know that her daughter has been missing for a week and has not been found. I even talked to LA's husband on the phone trying to collect information because my friend is not able to think straight. She was so worried about her daughter's well being.

LA was declared missing since April 20, 2008. And then the husband called my friend April 24 letting her know that LA has been missing.

LA has a daughter who lives in Korea with her husband. The child was not around when the crime happened. My friend told me that LA would never leave her child. There is no way she would leave her child to a person that her child is not related to.

In my opinion, the husband doesn't have the right to kill LA. She is a vibrant person. Full of life and ambition. LA has a daughter to support. LA is very loved by her family. Too young to die..

I want to ask everyone to help and pray for LA and her family. I ask for everyone's help in this matter. My friend whose LA's mother is devastated about the whole situation. She can't believe that her daughter is gone.

Let us help them give justice to LA's death

Here's an article from www.stripes.com

Investigators mull charges after Carroll wife’s death

SEOUL — A U.S. military spokesman said Sunday that investigators could file charges by the end of the week in the case of an officer’s wife who was found dead in a mountain valley Friday afternoon, though no suspects have been named.

Maj. Jerome Pionk, 19th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) spokesman, said he couldn’t release the cause of Lea Gray’s death because of the ongoing investigation.

The 27-year-old was the wife of Capt. Christopher Gray, a member of the 25th Transportation Battalion in Daegu.

South Korean police and U.S. Criminal Investigation Division agents found Gray’s body around 4 p.m. Friday afternoon in a mountain valley near Camp Carroll. The Filipina woman was reported missing from her on-post apartment on April 20.

A Daegu police spokesman said Saturday that U.S. agents asked the South Koreans for help searching the mountains because they believed the woman was dead.

South Korean police have no plans to investigate the death, the spokesman said, because the woman falls under the U.S. military’s Status of Forces Agreement.