NY NY - Queens, AsianMale 30-50, UP7847, held hostage & physically abused, tattoo, scars, Feb'94.

[Janmandan]

Found this weird Doe and couldn't find it here

WARNING POSTMORTEM PHOTO


Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP7847 Male, Asian
Date Body Found February 3, 1994
Location Found Queens, New York
Estimated Age Range30-50 Years

Case Information

Case Numbers
NCMEC Number --
ME/C Case Number Q94-00621

Demographics
Sex: Male
Race / Ethnicity Asian
Possible First Name --
Possible Middle Name--
Possible Last Name--
Possible Nickname--
Estimated Age Group Adult - Pre 50
Estimated Age Range (Years)30-50
Estimated Year of Death1994
Estimated PMI: Minutes
Height 5' 4"(64 inches) , Measured
Weight 96 lbs, Measured

Circumstances
Type Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found February 3, 1994
NamUs Case Created September 15, 2010
ME/C QA Reviewed September 16, 2010
Location Found Map
Location Queens, New York
County Queens County
GPS Coordinates (Not Mapped)40.669848, -73.801977
Found On Tribal Land--
Circumstances of Recovery Unknown asian male was kept hostage in above location for months, with little food or drink, and physically abused.

Details of Recovery

Inventory of Remains All parts recovered
Condition of Remains Recognizable face

Physical Description
Hair Color Black
Head Hair Description straight, 6"
Body Hair Description --
Facial Hair Description mustache and goatee stubble
Left Eye Color Brown
Right Eye Color Brown

Distinctive Physical Features
Item
Description
Scar/mark
multiple circular scars on face, chest, and back

Tattoo
tattoo of asian letters on right forearm

Clothing and Accessories

Clothing
blue "Jordache" jeans, blue "French Toast" jean jacket, white socks, white t-shirt with the logo "The Hardest job in America is being a Black Woman", dark blue briefs



PMI is minutes, so was he sent to a hospital before he died? And how do they know he was taken hostage? Couldn't find anything.

 

[KaylaraOwl]

That is an extremely bizarre description. I, too, would like more information on this.

 

[azure]

Perhaps someone with a newspapers.com subscription could check the NYT and any local Queens papers around that date?

His t-shirt almost certainly didn't belong to him. Could it have belonged to his kidnappers?

 

[Beekarina]

The t-shirt on a man.....I wonder if it is meant to be perverse somehow?

 

[Janmandan]

www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/7847/details?nav



Guess i forgot to link it in the OP, sorry about that.

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Etsy:: Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
I found what I think is the shirt on Etsy. It says it's from 1990.

 

[Beekarina]

Has anyone determined what that location is/was? I'm wondering if we have an idea if he was likely someone here to work illegally, and was abused as a result of those circumstances? Fell into the "wrong hands"... Poor man.

I'm assuming the know he was held due to starvation and what appear to be cigarette burns on his face and body.....both would be really odd to be self-inflicted....

Edited: I see the location has a link. When I zoom in, it looks residential? A buding on one side of street almost looks like a school, maybe? Wonder if it was same the year he was found.

 

[UnlicensedPI]

I wonder if it has anything to do with this
Asian Gang Members Arrested in Kidnapping

Text:
Asian Gang Members Arrested in Kidnapping
After secretly observing a $20,000 ransom payment on a Lower East Side street corner, Federal agents arrested 10 Asian gang members who they said had kidnapped and tortured four illegal immigrants from China over the weekend.

One of the victims told law-enforcement officials that on each of the three days he was in captivity, the kidnappers pistol-whipped him, gagged him with his own shirt, kicked him and punched him. At one point, the victim was also burned with a hot metal rod on his back and chest.

Ten suspects were charged with kidnapping, robbery and gun offenses. An 11th man was charged with a gun offense only. Smuggling of Immigrants

The kidnapping appears to have been the work of the Ching, the Chinatown gang most deeply involved in smuggling illegal immigrants from China, although the authorities declined to say so publicly. The trade reached a tragic climax last June when a ship called the Golden Venture ran aground off Queens and 10 passengers died trying to swim ashore.

Following the arrests of 18 members of the Ching in New York and Hong Kong last August, including the reputed gang leader Guo Liang Chi, a leadership vacuum spawned a series of violent kidnappings in the subsequent months. Federal authorities have said they began investigating the Ching in 1991.

Asked about the significance of this weekend's arrests, an Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting the case, James E. Johnson, said, "The arrests are awfully important to the four victims who were being tortured." He declined to say whether the arrests were expected to lead investigators to higher-ranking smugglers in the Asian organized-crime network.

At their arraignment in Federal court yesterday, the suspects appeared to be in their 20's and 30's. One of them, Kiong Fiu Lee, has a serpent tattooed on each forearm. A second, Xiao Fei Fang, wore a sweatshirt with the words "American Tradition" emblazoned on the front. Threat Over the Phone

According to the criminal complaint filed in Federal court, agents were alerted to the kidnapping by a relative of two of the victims. He received a telephone call from a kidnapper at 4 A.M. Friday and was informed that his relatives had been abducted from their apartment on Rivington Street a short time before. The kidnapper warned that if he were not paid $30,800 agents were alerted to the kidnapping by a relative of two of the victims. He received a telephone call at 4 A.M. Friday and was informed that his relatives had been abducted from their apartment on Rivington Street. The kidnapper warned that if he were not paid $30,800 for each victim, they would be killed.

The kidnapper then held the telephone so that a female victim could speak into it, and she said it was likely that she would be raped if the payment was not made. The relative "then overheard screaming and the sound of a person being beaten in the background," the complaint said. The kidnapper left his beeper number.

The relative went to the Rivington Street apartment and spoke with an elderly couple who live there.

"They were in the apartment when six masked men broke into the apartment, held the couple at gunpoint, tied them up, and took the four victims," the complaint said. "At least one of the gunmen informed the couple that the kidnappers would be in contact with them."

The relative arranged to drop off a ransom on Sunday afternoon. Cooperating with the authorities, a second relative carried $20,000 in bills -- chemically treated to leave a residue on the hands of anyone who touched them -- to the corner of Allen and Broome Streets in lower Manhattan. Victims Found in Brooklyn

After watching the cash reach the hands of one suspect, and following him as he went to join three others in a parked car a block away, Federal agents arrested four suspects at Delancey and Orchard Streets. Three had chemical residue on their hands, the complaint said.

At about the same time, agents burst into a house on 53d Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where the four victims were found in a rear bedroom on the floor, backs to the wall. The victims were identified only as two men and two women, and Mr. Johnson declined to comment on the extent of their injuries.

Four suspects were arrested in the apartment. Two other suspects were arrested in an apartment on Broome Street. At least three of the suspects, according to the complaint, are illegal immigrants.

 

[Goecke]

Please merge if there's already a thread on this man. He was just added to the unidentified wikia today and I'm shocked on the lack of information about him!

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) (PM WARNING)
Queens John Doe (February 1994)

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A few things:
- If the coordinates on NamUs are accurate, he was found (and apparently held captive in) a house in the South Ozone Park neighborhood. His body was found minutes after his death, too, so who found the body/reported his death? Who owned/lived in the house? Was his killer(s) ever caught?
- I really wish we could see a picture of the "Asian letters" tattoo on his arm. Knowing what it said, or at least what language it was in, could help a lot with trying to identify him.

 

[madamx]

I wonder if he was a survivor from that Golden Venture smuggling ship that crashed in Queens in June of 1993… this is about 6 months before this guy was found. there are some Unidentified Asian men on namus from that ship.. some also had tattoos.

 

[madamx]

Ozone Park is not far from the ship crash

The Golden Venture Tragedy: From hell at sea to the American Dream

 

[Bit of hope]

Terrible...was he burned with cigarettes?

 

[Springrain]

Reminds me of Gordie Sanderson FKA Septic Tank Sam.

 

[Susikatze]

He looks Vietnamese to me. Could also be Hispanic, the picture is not good (though i guess a Hispanic man would not necessarily have Asian language tattoos? But which language? Cant be so difficult to find out.)

 

[Goecke]

I agree that he looks Vietnamese, but who knows.

And as for the tattoo, I know a LOT of non-Asian people who have tattoos in Asian languages, usually Japanese or Chinese. Either it's a word/phrase with special symbolism to them or they just thought it looked cool and didn't care about the meaning- Just looking up 'bad Japanese tattoos' produces a TON of results.
Despite this, though, he looks Asian to me for sure, and I think the tattoo could be helpful for determining his heritage.

 

[Springrain]

He looks Vietnamese to me. Could also be Hispanic, the picture is not good (though i guess a Hispanic man would not necessarily have Asian language tattoos? But which language? Cant be so difficult to find out.)

I didn't even realize there were post-mortem photos (facepalm). I agree that he looks Vietnamese. I also think he's definitely at the young end of the age range.

I wish they would upload photos of his tattoo so possible speakers of the language could determine what language it could be and translate it. Just saying "Asian letters" is not helpful and isn't much to go off of.

 

[Goecke]

Bump

 

[Aurora90]

Here's an image of the tattoo. Does this look similar to Chinese or Vietnamese writing?

 

[Sweetluv]

Here's an image of the tattoo. Does this look similar to Chinese or Vietnamese writing?

It almost looks like an "R" and an "S"

 

[Aurora90]

It almost looks like an "R" and an "S"

If we assume that this is in English. But we don't really know. Tbh It is hard to distinguish exactly what language it is in. It could be Mandarin, Vietnamese or even Kanji.

It looks like there might be a comma-like signature above the "S" and another strike in between the legs of the "R".