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Police investigation takes it to Oklahoma

From University News Service
Purdue police detectives traveled to Oklahoma State University Monday to gather information on a possible suspect in the slayings of two women on the West Lafayette campus last week.

"The OSU Police Department contacted Purdue investigators after the suspect's wife told them her husband had disappeared from the Stillwater campus where the two of them were visiting a friend over the weekend," said Joseph Bennett, Purdue's vice president for university relations. "An investigative team is in Stillwater interviewing both the wife and the friend in connection with the case."

The suspect, who's name is being withheld, is a 27-year-old Asian male who was last seen driving a red Ford Taurus rental car with an Indiana license plate, number 95N3297. Police want to question him in connection with the deaths of Purdue doctoral student Yeunkyung Woo, 31, and her sister Huo Kwung Woo, 29, who was visiting from Chicago at the time of the murders. Both women were South Korean nationals.

According to a news release issued by Oklahoma State University, the suspect's wife told police she had tried to convince her husband to stay in Indiana and cooperate with investigators, but he wanted to first visit a friend who was an OSU student. She also said he was despondent and she believed he planned to commit suicide.

The murder victims were discovered Friday morning in the Purdue Village student apartment where Yeunkyung Woo lived. Purdue police said both women were clothed and there was no sign of forced entry into the apartment.

Tippecanoe County Coroner Martin Avolt said the sisters died of traumatic injuries inflicted sometime Thursday evening, but declined to elaborate because of the ongoing investigation. Autopsies were conducted at the Indiana University Medical Center on Saturday, but officials said the results would not be made available until toxicology screenings were

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