Episode Details

This source details the investigation and conviction of Qinxuan Pan for the 2021 murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang. Evidence revealed that Pan, an MIT researcher, targeted Jiang due to a secret obsession with the victim's fiancée, eventually tracking the couple and staging a fender bender to execute the shooting. Through ballistic matching and digital forensics, authorities linked Pan to several prior shootings intended to mislead police. Despite an elaborate nationwide manhunt aided by his parents, Pan was eventually captured in Alabama with significant cash and multiple aliases. He later pleaded guilty to the murder and received a thirty-five-year prison sentence.

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