Xue family murder and abandonment
murder and abandonment in New Zealand
On 11 September 2007, Anan Liu (劉安安) was murdered by her husband Nai Yin Xue (薛乃印) in Mount Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand. Nai Yin Xue left the country for Australia with their three-year-old daughter, Qian Xun Xue (薛千寻 ), later nicknamed "Pumpkin" by police and media reports, subsequently abandoning her at Southern Cross station in Melbourne on 15 September 2007. The girl was found soon after, leading to the discovery of Anan Liu's murder and the disappearance of Nai Yin Xue, who became the subject of a manhunt.
Xue fled to the United States, settling undercover across the southern states, before being captured by members of the ethnic Chinese community of Chamblee, Georgia and handed over to police. He was deported to New Zealand, and convicted of the murder of his wife in June 2009. He refused to confess to the murder until a parole hearing in 2020, when he finally expressed remorse.
The case attracted widespread media coverage in both Australia and New Zealand.
Background
Nai Yin Xue was born in approximately 1953 or 1954. He lived in Fushun, Liaoning, where he had his eldest daughter Grace with his first wife. Xue claimed that he emigrated to New Zealand in 1980.
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