MURDERED: Fiona Yu

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

An ASU student comes home one afternoon in 1997 to find her roommate, Fiona Yu, clinging to life in their shared apartment. She had been sexually assaulted, beaten, and left for dead. Though DNA evidence was left at the scene, the case goes cold. When other attacks of young women in the area are reported and their cases closed, there is hope that a connection will shed light on Fiona’s.

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0:00.0	Hi crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Britt and the story I have for you
0:06.4	guys today is one that I feel so hopeful about because with your help and the
0:11.8	right amount of pressure and attention I think that this case
0:15.8	which has been largely forgotten can be brought back to the forefront and we can help
0:21.6	get this case solved. This is the story of Fiona You. the Oh, As an ASU Sun Devil myself, I can attest that August in Tempe, Arizona is hot. Like really freaking hot.
1:09.9	And granted when I was there in the late aunts, it might have been a smidge hotter than it was on August 4th 1997.
1:16.4	I know global warming has exacerbated this a bit, but make no mistake.
1:20.9	Everything above 100 degrees is hot.
1:23.4	Especially in the late afternoon hours when the asphalt has been just baking in the sun.
1:28.5	The heat comes at you from above and below.
1:31.6	So I can imagine that when Kazu Ito left her campus job at the
1:35.8	library at around 5.10 to bike home, she was pedaling as fast as she could to
1:41.2	reach her apartment's air conditioning.
1:43.8	When she walked in at around 520, she knew that her roommate, Fyona U, was back from work as well because
1:49.0	her bike and backpack were there.
1:51.4	She didn't spot Fyona right right away but the apartment was two levels so
1:54.5	maybe she was upstairs or even out getting the mail at the community mailboxes that
1:58.6	were a two-minute walk away. Either way it wasn't anything Kazu gave a second thought to. Instead she dropped her things and made
2:06.3	her way to their little kitchen to start making dinner. It was close to six o'clock when
2:11.6	the phone rang.
2:13.2	And it was Kazu's boyfriend Tony.
2:15.4	The two chatted for a few minutes as Kazu moved around their place,
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