Three Nations Hunt For A Suspected Killer

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Surveillance still from the Melbourne train station where authorities say Nai Xue left his 3-year-old daughter.

Authorities say it all began with some harrowing surveillance footage of a father abandoning his 3-year-old daughter in a Melbourne, Australia train station.  When police discovered that Qian Xun Xue was left by her dad, Nai Xue, they reached out to family members for someone to collect the little girl. 

When the girl's mother didn't respond to law enforcement's attempt to contact her, police in New Zealand went to the family home.  That's where they made a chilling discovery...the body of Qian's mother, 27-year-old Anan Liu, was stuffed in the trunk of a car outside the Xue residence.  Immediately, New Zealand and Australian authorities sprang into action trying to locate Nai Xue.  Unfortunately, Xue had already fled the country to Los Angeles.

On The Lam In The U.S.

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This photo of Xue was taken on Jan. 12, 2008 in Mobile, Ala. Authorities believe that Xue is currently in the Gulf Coast area.

Cops say Xue landed at Los Angeles International Airport on September 15, 2007.  Since then, a multi-agency task force including law enforcement officials from the FBI, ICE, LAPD, New Zealand, and US Marshals Service, has been working together to find the suspected murderer. 

Authorities say that Xue has contacts in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego from the martial arts world and may be using those contacts to stay underground.  Xue is a self-proclaimed master of the martial art Tai Chi Chuan.   

The USMS tells AMW that Xue was last seen in Biloxi, Miss. on Jan. 23, 2008 and that he's been frequenting southern cities like Houston, Tex. and Mobile, Ala. in the last 12 days.  They currently believe that Xue is homeless and may be frequenting Chinese restaurants and martial arts studios.  Xue may also be driving a 1996 blue Ford Thunderbird with Tex. license plate W56KCK.

End Of The Line For Xue

Nai Yin Xue was captured in Chamblee, Georgia on Feb. 28, 2008.
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Authorities say that the international manhunt for Nai Yin Xue ended after six Chinese-American locals in Chamblee, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb, recognized the accused killer from a photo of Xue in a local Chinese newspaper.  Now dubbed the "Chamblee Six", the five-man, one-woman team pinned and hogtied Xue until authorities arrived on Feb. 29, 2008. 

Xue's captors are eligible to split a $10,000 reward offered by New Zealand police.  However, they say that most of the money is going to go back to Xue's daughter, Qian Xan Xue, who was left by her father in a Melbourne, Australia train station.  The young girl, nicknamed "Pumpkin" for the Pumpkin Patch brand sweater she wore, stands to receive $8,000 from the group of heroes.