VPD expands search for missing mother following ‘suspicious’ disappearance
Posted February 21, 2018 1:40 pm.
Last Updated February 22, 2018 6:44 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Police in Vancouver are widening their search for a 37-year-old woman who vanished in early January.
They’re narrowing their focus on New Brighton Park in hopes of finding evidence that may lead them to Su Yi Liang. They’re searching the grounds and divers are in the water. Investigators are hoping to hear from anyone who may have visited the park on January 8th, when Liang was last spotted, and who may have seen her 2014 BMW i3.
Liang was reported missing on Jan. 10, after she didn’t pick up her kids from school. The VPD’s Major Crime Section took over the case and figured out she had gone missing two days before.
“Evidence collected by police shows Ms. Liang’s grey, electric, BMW i3 in the parking lot of New Brighton Park in East Vancouver on Jan. 8, just after noon. Officers located her car at the Rupert Park Pitch & Putt three days later, on Jan. 11,” explains VPD Constable Jason Doucette.
Liang was reported missing Jan 10th. It’s believed she was last seen on the 8th @NEWS1130 pic.twitter.com/fFvLXLEVIg
— Hana Mae N. Nassar (@HanaMaeNassar) February 21, 2018
Police issued their first appeal for information on Jan. 24 when they said, due to information they already had, it was unlikely they were going to find Liang alive.
“Based on that information, and other information that I’m not disclosing to you at this point, our officers believe she’s disappeared under suspicious circumstances,” explained Doucette.
A man was previously taken into custody during the search and questioned, but was released.
— Hana Mae N. Nassar (@HanaMaeNassar) February 21, 2018
Anyone with information about where Liang may be or her activities leading up to Jan. 8, as well as anyone who may have seen someone driving her car on Jan. 11, is asked to call the VPD’s Major Crime Section at 604.717.2500 or Crime Stoppers at 1.800.222.8477.
