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MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Joyce Chiang in Fairfax

This episode was originally released in September 2021, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archives we’ll be bringing you every Thursday, now through top of next year... for good reason! ;) We highly recommend you listen to each episode and follow us on Instagram @crimejunkiepodcast so you're the first to know what's coming next! <3
Duration
44m
Broadcast on
05 Dec 2024
Audio Format
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This episode was originally released in Septemebr 2021, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archives we’ll be bringing you every Thursday, now through top of next year... for good reason! ;) We highly recommend you listen to each episode and follow us on Instagram @crimejunkiepodcast so you're the first to know what's coming next!  <3


One woman’s promising career in Washington, D.C. is cut short when she mysteriously vanishes one night on her way home from work.

 

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Hey, crime junkies, it's Britt and have you heard, the wait is over and tickets are now officially on sale for our 2025 crime junkie tour. So make sure you head to our show notes and grab tickets to a show near you. Maybe one of the shows is Fairfax, Virginia? That's our next stop today. Now, technically, a majority of the story took place in Washington, D.C., but, as you may remember, investigators found their biggest lead along the river in Fairfax. So, let's go back specifically to 2021, when we first told you this story. Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today takes us right to the heart of the nation's capital. People come to Washington, D.C., from all over the country to look for opportunity to advance their careers and to get a taste of shaping the future. One woman came to D.C. to take her place in the grand scheme of American politics. And while she found success, she also learned that the city has a dark side, and the darkness may have cost her her life. This is the story of Joyce Chang. On the night of January 9, 1999, a man named Roger Chang is at home in Washington, D.C. In the apartment, he shares with his older sister, Joyce. They're both politically active and working government. Rogers done work for like Bill Clinton's campaign, and Joyce interned with a congressman from their home state of California before she took her current job with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. So, D.C. is really like the perfect place for them to call home. Since it's Saturday night, Joyce is out with one of her friends from work. And she told Roger they're going to have dinner, they're going to go see a movie, and as the night wears on, and Joyce doesn't come home, Roger doesn't think too much of it. He knows that she's been battling a cold since New Year's, so in his mind it's totally possible that she decided to just like crash over at her friend's house instead of trekking all the way home in that cold, crappy weather that night. Honestly, besides, she's 28 years old, she doesn't need her baby brother's permission to switch up her plans if that's what she decided to do. Joyce isn't back by the next morning, but it's not until Monday that Roger really starts to worry because that's when he learns that Joyce was a no-call, no-show to work that day. According to an article in the Capitol newspaper, Joyce is a staff attorney at the INS, and no one knows better than Roger how hard she's worked to get where she is. He knows there is no way she jeopardized her career by just ghosting on her workplace like this. She's not answering her calls, she's not answering her emails, and there's nothing around their apartment to suggest that she's even been there at all since Saturday. Nothing's been moved, none of the food in the fridge has been eaten like everything is as Roger left it. But Roger doesn't report his sister missing. Why not? Well, as Roger himself says during an interview he gave to Bill O'Reilly, he really wants to wait and give her one last chance to reach out. Finally, on Tuesday, January 12, Roger starts calling around to her co-workers and learns that none of them have heard from her in the past three days either, so it's not just

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This episode was originally released in September 2021, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archives we’ll be bringing you every Thursday, now through top of next year... for good reason! ;) We highly recommend you listen to each episode and follow us on Instagram @crimejunkiepodcast so you're the first to know what's coming next! <3