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Bloodhounds may help find
murder evidence
From University News Service
Purdue
University police are using a pair of bloodhounds to gather evidence
in the investigation of a double homicide on the West Lafayette campus.
Purdue Police Chief Linda
Stump said Deputy Charlie Douthette and his purebred bloodhounds are
members of the Porter County Sheriff's Department. They were initially
called in to help investigators track the movements of the killer from
the crime scene.
Now that a suspect is in
custody, the bloodhounds are assisting in the recovery of evidence,
including clothing, that authorities believe the killer may have discarded
in the Wabash River, Stump said.
"The dogs have been very
accurate in corroborating information from a variety of sources about
the suspect's movements following the murders," she said. "We're hopeful
that they will also be able to track down some items that could have
been tossed into the river sometime after the crime."
The bodies of Purdue doctoral
student Yeunkyung Woo, 31, and her sister, Hyo Kyung Woo, 29, were discovered
Aug. 3 in the Purdue Village student apartment where Yeunkyung Woo lived.
The women, both South Korean nationals, died of blunt force trauma and
incised wounds.
Another Purdue graduate student,
Zhan Yin, 27, of the People's Republic of China, has been arrested and
charged with the murders. Yin and Yeunkyung Woo were both working on
advanced degrees in the Department of Biological Sciences.
Yin made an initial appearance
in Tippecanoe Superior Court 2 Thursday where he was assigned a public
defender who entered a preliminary plea of not guilty to two charges
of murder. He is being held in the Tippecanoe County Jail without bond.
Police in Amherst, N.Y.,
arrested Yin Tuesday shortly after he was refused entry into Canada
via the Rainbow Bridge near Niagara Falls.
A campuswide memorial service
for Yeunkyung Woo and Hyo Kyung Woo will be at 4 p.m. Friday in the
Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center, on the Purdue West Lafayette campus.
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