Just before one a.m. on the morning of February 8th, 2004, an unknown assailant or assailants entered the Mirage Spa, a massage parlor located on Warden Avenue in Markham, Ontario, Canada.
Inside the establishment were forty-one-year-old Zhu Xia Lin, who managed the spa; thirty-five-year-old employee Yan Jun Liu; and forty-year-old Walter Xian Chen Zhang, a friend of the two women.
All three victims were bound and shot dead, execution style. The perpetrator then wrapped the bodies in sheets from the spa and stowed them in Walter’s red 1999 Ford Explorer. The vehicle was driven to a parking lot behind Victoria Square United Church on Woodbine Avenue, where it was found by police the following morning. The investigation soon tied the three bodies in the car to the bloody crime scene at the spa.
Initially believed to be a robbery gone wrong, authorities soon began to suspect that spa manager Zhu Xia Lin was the likely target, and the other two victims were collateral damage.
No motive or suspect has come to light in the more than two decades since the shocking triple homicide. At this writing, there is a $200,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the killer or killers.
Crime Immemorial 