Chinese-American female poker player raped and burned the body Of the suspect charged with first-degree murder

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Overseas network on August 13, the United States Michigan Chinese professional poker female player Susie Zhao (Susie Zhao) was brutally raped and burned, the suspect was charged with first-degree murder.

According to the New York Post reported on the 12th, the US police found the charred body of Susie Zhao in a secluded area of the Pontiac Lake Recreation Area on July 13. Zhao's cellphone records show that Zhao met with suspect Jeffrey Bernard Morris on July 12. Police arrested Morris on July 31 after determining that the address where morris last appeared was Pontiac.

Morris told police after his arrest that he picked up Zhao on the evening of July 12, and the two stayed at the Sherwood Motel in Watford Town, where they also went out to buy some alcohol. Mr. Morris said Zhao later left at midnight and "took all her stuff, including her phone." But cell phone records show that Zhao's phone didn't leave the motel until 5 a.m. Surveillance footage near the motel, as well as phone records, also show Morris leaving early July 13 to drive to a 3,745-acre Pontiac Lake recreation area in Oakland County, where Zhao's body was found. Other evidence suggests morris was in the park for about 7 minutes.

In addition, Morris was found to have visible blood stains on the sheets at the time of his arrest, a blood-stained wooden baseball bat, and investigators found several shoe prints, hair and other blood-stained items in his car. Morris, 60, was convicted of third-degree sexual assault in 1989. Police said investigators were still searching for Morris's motive for the killing. Morris is currently charged with first-degree murder. Court documents released on the 11th show that Zhao was tied up with a rope belt, sexually assaulted, and finally burned alive. Her identity was confirmed by fingerprint.

Qian Zhao, 33, has played poker since her 10s and is known as one of the best poker players in Los Angeles. According to an online poker database, Zhao, known as "Susie Q" in poker circles, has won nearly $250,000 in prize money since 2009. According to her player profile, she has won $187441 in the World Series of Poker since 2009. Zhao graduated from the private Cronbrook High School in Michigan and attended northwestern university psychology. Police said there was currently no evidence that poker or gambling was linked to Zhao's death. She has been living in Los Angeles and moved to Michigan in June to live with her parents, friends said because she faced "challenges in her personal life." (Overseas Network Li Fang)

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