-警方寻找约大女生三失物
-警方求助 寻找柳乾3件失踪物品
-警方将柳乾命案作为凶案调查
-Police investigating York University death as a homicide
-Police looking for items belonging to dead York student
-Exchange student slain after frantic friend watches webcam attack
警方寻找约大女生三失物
明报/多伦多警方今午召开记者会，更新中国女留学生在约克大学校园近死亡的案件。警方表示，死者有三件物件于案发后离奇失踪，这些物件对案情可能有重要帮助。三种物件分别为死者的手提电脑、外置视频镜头及一个手提电话。
警方透露，他们较早前在现场发现的手提电话，虽是死者所有，但属于全新，仍未正式启动，相反死者的旧手提电话则不翼而飞。
另外，警方昨承认他们曾派员到死者刚抵步加拿大时所居住的镇屋搜查，该处距离死者伏尸地点不远。
到目前为止，警方仍未能确定死者死因，目前警方正有待法医进一步的验尸报告，当中包括毒物化验，估计最快要数周后才有结果。
警方求助 寻找柳乾3件失踪物品
加国无忧作者：吴楚河/多伦多警方今天下午再次召开记者会，吁请公众帮助，寻找非正常死亡的中国女留学生柳乾的3件失踪物品：包括死者的笔记本电脑、外置视频镜头以及1个她曾经使用过的手机。
警方表示，案发之后这3件物品均告失踪，但它们对破案相当重要。警方说，虽然在事发现场找到过1部手机，也属死者所有，但几乎全新，尚未正式启动，而死者经常用的旧手机则不知去向。该手机的型号为Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Phone。
警方说，目前为止仍未确定死因，警方正等待法医进一步的验尸报告，最快也需要数周才会有结果。警方同时宣布将柳乾命案作为凶案调查。
警方还强调，目前正在调查一些人，但此前流传的所谓嫌犯照片并不准确，警方并未确认流传的男子照片就是“在线证人”通过视频看到的那个人。
案发地点的房子仍然封闭，因警方仍未结束调查取证。另外，警方昨天还派人到柳乾刚到多伦多时所居住的镇屋搜查，该处住宅距离死者出事地点不远，而且为同一房东所有。
警方将柳乾命案作为凶案调查
星岛日报/据多伦多星报消息，多伦多警方今天下午召开了新闻发布会，公布约克大学北京女留学生柳乾（音译Qian Liu）命案进展。
警方表示正在调查“一些人”，同时警方警告媒体，此前流传的所谓嫌犯照片并不准确，警方反复强调，没有确认流传的男子照片就是“在线证人”通过视频看到的人。
初步的检查不能确定柳乾的死因，下一步的毒理试验需要几个星期有结果。
Police investigating York University death as a homicide
Curtis Rush Police Reporter/ TORONTO STAR
Police are investigating “a number of people” in the death of a York University student found dead in her room after an altercation partly viewed via webcam.
A stern Toronto police Det. Frank Skubic warned the media not to concentrate on the one “person of interest” whose picture has circulated and not to call that person a suspect.
“There has been misinformation that this man is in fact the intruder seen by the online witness,” said Skubic. “I do not, I repeat, I do not confirm this is a fact.
“We interviewed this person very early on and are working toward excluding him.”
“We’re looking at a number of people who fall into that category,” he said.
The death of 23-year-old Qian Liu, a “hard-working student” with “a number of friends in Canada,” is being investigated as a homicide, said Skubic, even though preliminary exams have failed to determine the cause of death.
Next-stage toxicology tests will take a few weeks for results.
Police have interviewed a boyfriend in China whom Liu was speaking to around 1 a.m. Friday when she let someone into her room at 27 Aldwinckle Heights near the university campus.
“We’re not going to speculate if she knew this person,” he said. “She did open the door but there is no peephole.”
They released photographs of Liu’s missing IBM ThinkPad laptop, her missing external webcam device used to create the live-streaming photo link between Liu and her friend in China and her missing Nokia smartphone.
Liu arrived in Toronto last September to study at York and moved to Aldwinckle Heights in January from Haynes Ave. a few blocks away. Police also examined the earlier address for evidence.
Skubic said police had no firm evidence that Liu had been stalked by someone who shared a house with her, as a friend had posted in a Chinese-language online chat room.
“The suspect was chasing after her, but she refused, then he started stalking her by texting her all the time,” the friend wrote.
“I’ve got no information that she was stalked in the criminal sense,” Skubic said. As with a lot of people, “she was asked to go out on dates. That kind of behaviour doesn’t constitute criminal stalking.”
Police said earlier they are still searching for a white male, 20 to 30 years old, 6-feet tall with a muscular build and medium length brown hair. His hair was messy at the front and well groomed at the back. He was wearing a blue crew neck T-shirt.
After Liu’s boyfriend saw the webcam shut down, he started sending out distress calls and emails. Liu’s body was found at 11 a.m. Saturday by housemates and the landlord at 27 Aldwinckle Heights.
There were no obvious signs of sexual assault or trauma to the body. Liu’s body was found naked from the waist down.
Police looking for items belonging to dead York student
Tue Apr. 19 2011 2:50:09 PM |Web Staff, cp24.com
Toronto police are looking for a number of items in connection with the death of a York University student.
Qian Liu, 23, was found dead in her basement apartment on Aldwinckle Heights late Friday morning, 10 hours after she was involved in a struggle with a man.
The struggle occurred in the apartment while Liu, an international student, was engaged in an online webcam chat with a friend in her hometown of Beijing.
Police say Liu was chatting with the person when someone knocked on her door. She answered and was met by a man, who asked to use her cellphone.
A struggle ensued and police say part of it was witnessed by the friend in Beijing. After a few minutes the man closed the laptop.
On Tuesday Det. Sgt. Frank Skubic appealed to the public for help in locating the missing IBM ThinkPad T400 along with a Nokia 5800 cellphone and external webcam belonging to Liu.
“I’m appealing to the community to be on the alert and if you see a discarded laptop, webcam or phone notify us immediately,” he said.
Skubic said authorities still haven’t determined the cause of Liu’s death, but are treating it as suspicious.
He also said that police have spoken to a person of interest in the investigation, but cautioned against identifying him as a suspect.
“We interviewed this person very early on in the investigation and are working on excluding him as a suspect in connection with Ms Liu’s death,” he said.
Liu attended York University’s English Language Institute. She arrived in Canada in September.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 416-808-7399 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477.
Exchange student slain after frantic friend watches webcam attack
By Katie Silver, CNN
April 19, 2011 1:22 a.m. EDT
(CNN) — A 23-year-old exchange student, attacked in her Toronto apartment while a friend in China watched via computer webcam, was found dead there hours later, police say.
Toronto Police on Monday identified the student as Qian (Necole) Liu of Beijing. She was talking early Friday morning to a male friend from home when a man allegedly knocked on her door, asking to use her phone, police said in a news release.
The online witness said he saw Liu and the unknown man struggle for a time before the attacker turned off her laptop, the news release said.
The friend in China then started a desperate bid to find out what happened, CNN-affiliate CTV reported.
Ten hours later, police arrived at the basement apartment to find Liu’s body, naked from the waist down. Her laptop was missing.
“It was obvious that she had been dead for some period of time,” Detective Sgt. Frank Skubic said in the news release.
The cause of the death is yet to be determined, the news release said. There were no obvious signs of sexual assault or severe physical trauma, and police are awaiting toxicology reports, it said.
Police are unsure whether Liu, an exchange student at York University, knew the man. The attacker was described as white, age 20 to 30, 6 feet tall, weighing 175 to 200 pounds, with a muscular build and medium-length brown hair, and wearing a blue crew-neck T-shirt.
With no suspects and no one in custody, police have been questioning neighbors, CTV reported. A cell phone found in the apartment is also undergoing forensic examination, police said.
York University President Mamdouh Shoukri released a statement saying, “Qian’s death is a terrible tragedy and our entire community mourns the loss of a promising young student.”
Liu’s family is currently on their way to Canada from China, CTV reported.
A call to police seeking further comment was not immediately returned.
This is not the first time a crime has been captured by webcam. In the most notorious incident, Meleanie Hain of Lebanon, Pennsylvania was shot dead in 2009 while talking to a friend via webcam. The friend was looking away when he heard a shot and a scream, police said. Upon looking back at the screen, the friend saw Hain’s husband firing a handgun at where his wife had been, they said. Police later found both Hain and her husband dead in their home.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/04/18/canada.webcam.slaying/index.html?hpt=C1
