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48 Hours

Post Mortem | The Ivy League Murder

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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48 Hours Correspondent Anne-Marie Green and Producer Murray Weiss discuss the murder of Kevin Jiang, a newly engaged Yale grad student who was gunned down by an unknown attacker in February 2021. They discuss how investigators discovered the unusual connection between Kevin and the killer, Qinxuan Pan, and the interstate manhunt to find Pan when he fled authorities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Postmortem. I'm your host Anne Marie Green, and today we're actually discussing a case that I've reported on with 48 hours producer Murray Weiss. It's about the murder of Kevin Jong and the incredible investigative work done by multiple law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Marshals, to find his killer.

0:31.6

Marie, it's always good to see you.

0:32.9

Thanks for joining me to break down this case.

0:34.7

My pleasure seeing you again.

0:37.0

So as usual, a reminder to

0:39.1

everyone. If you haven't listened to this 48 hours episode yet, you can find the full audio

0:44.1

version just below this episode in your podcast feed. So go take a listen and then come on back

0:51.5

so we can talk about this. All right, Murray. So this case has so many layers

0:57.6

to it. But there were different narratives, I think, that jumped out to both of us. You know,

1:03.6

you're a longtime New York City crime reporter. You've, you know, gone after mobsters and you name it.

1:10.5

And I was really fascinated by the characters, if you will.

1:14.1

Here you have two young men.

1:16.0

They're the only sons in their family, only children.

1:19.8

They are incredibly talented and bright.

1:21.9

They get into these prestigious universities.

1:24.1

I mean, the world is kind of like their oyster.

1:26.6

They can go any way that they want,

1:28.3

and then they take these divergent paths in life. They're almost like two sides of the same coin.

1:35.0

But your crime reporter mind was drawn to this case in sort of a different way. How did you

1:41.1

approach it? Well, I agree with everything you said.

1:45.0

You know, this is like an American dream story, but it's an American dream story, obviously,

1:49.8

that turns into a nightmare. Our challenge is how do we take this complicated story

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