Episode 513: Google Engineer Allegedly Punches Wife to Death…Then Never Speaks Again
A cat feeder in California, meant to monitor Ivy and Tony’s two pet cats unintentionally captures the following events on camera.
12:21 am, Ivy walks into the kitchen and starts cleaning up. By 1:04 am, Ivy turns off the lights and heads to bed.
4:43 am and suddenly movement is detected. Tony, her husband, comes into frame with his shirt splattered in a deep red substance. He wanders out of frame only to return wielding a circular hand saw - the electric ones with a rotating blade and serrated edges made to cut two by fours.
He’s tense. Rigid. The electric saw isn’t on but he has it pressed against his throat. The serrated blade is frozen. His finger hovers over the power button. All he needs to do is just. press. down.
He pulls the saw away from his neck and walks out of frame again.
The next time he’s caught on the pet feeder, one of his arms is completely swollen, drenched in blood.
But Tony isn’t injured. So where is all this blood coming from? What has he been doing all night?
And what is he going to do when he realizes the pet feeder is recording his every move?
Sources
FOIA Documents
https://www.ktvu.com/video/1508841
https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/19/google-engineer-murder-liren-chen-xuanyi-yu/
https://www.ktvu.com/news/google-engineer-murder-house-sells-2-1m
https://www.balkanweb.com/en/shba-inxhinieri-i-google-ne-kaliforni-rreh-per-vdekje-gruan-e-tij/
https://nypost.com/2024/01/21/news/google-engineer-spattered-beat-wife-to-death-in-cali-home-cops/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/liren-chen/
https://da.santaclaracounty.gov/newsroom/cases-media-interest
http://www.newschinamag.com/newschina/articleDetail.do?article_id=7780§ion_id=12&magazine_id=100
https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Liren%20Chen/1499670
https://x.com/shanghaidaily/status/1799451454815834258
https://www.balkanweb.com/en/shba-inxhinieri-i-google-ne-kaliforni-rreh-per-vdekje-gruan-e-tij/
https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/01/Redacted-CHEN-SOF_Complaint.pdf
https://x.com/shanghaidaily/status/1799451454815834258
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