A wealthy Shanghai businessman couple mysteriously disappeared from their New York mansion! The luxury car is still there and the two children are left behind. The progress of the case is heartbreaking…

Source: Uncle England

At 10:15 pm on March 31, 2025, the police in Nassau County, New York, USA received a call.

The person who called the police was not the missing person himself or a relative, but a security guard in a high-end community.

They found a mansion worth $3.9 million in Old Brookville, Long Island, with the door open, the lights inside the house turned off, but no one there.

The owners are a Chinese couple: Peishuan Fan and Juanjuan Zwang.

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The couple seemed to have evaporated from the earth: no departure records, no flight information, no hotel check-in, no credit card purchases, no call records, and no witnesses.

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A family of four’s new life in the United States: immigration, luxury homes and “wealth freedom”

Fanand Zhang immigrated to the United States in 2022 with their two children. The eldest son was later admitted to New York University, and the younger son was in fifth grade at Glenhead Public Elementary School on Long Island.

When they first arrived in the United States, the family lived in a high-rise apartment in New Jersey. In November 2023, they bought a single-family mansion in Old Brookville, Long Island, for US$3.9 million. This is one of the most expensive and gated communities on Long Island and the real-life setting for “The Great Gatsby.”

The houses here all look like this:

Neighbor memories,ZhangHe has a gentle personality and often picks up and drops off children, but he doesn’t speak English and can only smile and nod.

Lawyer Kalman said that before the couple disappeared, there was no sign that they had financial, business or interpersonal crises, and they lived a typical life of “post-immigration wealth and freedom”.

On the evening of Sunday, March 30, 2025, the family had an ordinary dinner with their youngest son’s friends. The brothers saw their parents for the last time around 10:30 p.m.

Early the next morning, the eldest son took his younger brother and his girlfriend to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York for a vacation, planning to stay one night and then return. That day happened to be the day when the younger son’s school was on holiday for Eid al-Fitr. When the brothers left home, they did not say goodbye to their parents in person – the house was too big, which was common in their family.

Before the vacation was over, the eldest son was hit by an indescribable strangeness. My parents suddenly sent me a few text messages, but they seemed like “fragments” that had been abruptly cut off: the sentences were incomplete, the meaning was intermittent, and the cause and effect could not be seen. Later, the lawyer said that these messages were probably sent in a state of extreme nervousness or even panic, but the specific content has never been made public.

Not long after, the community security officer called him again and said something that sent chills down his spine: “Someone went to your house.” The eldest son immediately asked his friends to rush over to check. When the friend arrived, he found that there was no one in the house, but the door was open, as if someone had left in a hurry, or as if he had been forced to interrupt his original life.

At 10:15 that night, the police officially received the call. The Nassau County Police Department immediately intervened and requested FBI assistance in the investigation. From that moment on, the Chinese couple was officially listed as a missing person.

The following investigation used almost all the tracking methods of “modern society”:The police checked call records, bank statements, credit card purchases, surveillance videos, mobile phone location, and entry and exit information. They also visited neighbors door to door and repeatedly searched the residence. But the result was extremely clean – no consumption records, no travel tracks, no hotel check-in information, nothing.

Former New York City Police Department Deputy Inspector Stuart Lu later bluntly stated that as a rule, the police will continue to dig deeper into network activities, bank authorization changes, vehicle driving routes, and communication records with relatives and friends. But in this case, almost all of the places that were supposed to leave traces failed.

The police stated that they did not rule out any possibility: kidnapping, voluntary disappearance, financial disputes, or even cross-border factors. But the problem is, time passes day by day, and months pass by, but the clues always stay at the same place, without any substantial breakthrough.

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Meanwhile, only two minor sons remain in the mansion. Child Protective Services visits every three days to make sure they are safe.

The eldest son was allowed to use part of his parents’ account to support himself, and neighbors often saw food being delivered.

During the summer vacation of 2025, the two brothers returned to China to stay with relatives temporarily. Their lawyer said that due to visa issues, the time of their return to the United States was “uncertain.”

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The money in the missing person’s account began to disappear

The real turning point occurred at the end of June 2025, and it came very suddenly.

That day, the eldest son accidentally discovered that there was an abnormal flow of funds in his parents’ bank account-the money was moving, and it was moving wrongly. He barely hesitated and called the police immediately. Because before that, the police had repeatedly confirmed that the couple had “no financial activities.” But now, the book suddenly came to life.

The police followed this clue and soon discovered that the matter was far more serious than imagined. Someone showed up directly at two bank branches in Flushing, New York, with documents, successfully bypassed the review and illegally obtainedFanand Zhang’s account access rights. Subsequently, many transfers of huge amounts were completed quickly, as if they were deliberately rushing for time.

inThe most bizarre step occurred on June 29.On the same day, one of the accounts was quietly changed to a joint account – “jointly owned with survivorship rights.” Another account holder is a woman named Qiuju Wu.

This change seems to be just an option in the banking system, but the meaning behind it is chilling: once one of the parties dies, all the assets in the account will automatically belong to the other party, without the need for a will and almost no need to go through any legal procedures.

In other words, while the children are still looking for their parents’ whereabouts, someone has already begun to arrange “posthumous matters” in advance.

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In just a few days, two accounts seemed to have been cleared: US$890,000, US$500,000, US$860,000, and US$630,000. The money was successively transferred into Wu Qiuju’s account, accompanied by a large number of cash withdrawals. By the time everything stops, almost US$2.88 million Gone.

The most dazzling thing is that before all this happened, Wu Qiuju’s account only had $1919.26。

The investigation soon turned to Wu Qiuju herself.

The police found that this 56 years old The woman has been staying in the United States illegally for a long time, and her registered address is College Point in Queens, New York—a community with a very high proportion of Chinese, complex interactions, and high mobility. But the strange thing is that the police could not find any stable work record in recent years, and there was no source of income matching this huge amount of money.

In public information, the police also found that a person with the same name had been in 2017 to 2019 Attended Long Island Business College. Although there are differences between the photos and the images currently available, based on age, experience and activity trajectories, the police judged:Most likely the same person。

What really sent chills down the spine was her reaction speed after getting the first money.

that sum $890,000 As soon as the account arrived, she almost immediately wrote out the check and withdrew it directly $700,000 cashthe rest $190,000was transferred to a company called QJW Trading Inc. company.

This company was established when——June 5, 2025. The company’s only legal person and only contact person is Wu Qiuju herself.

From the police’s perspective, this no longer requires much reasoning: this company hardly has any conditions for normal operations and is more like a temporary “transit station” whose only purpose is to allow money to continue to disappear.

The police’s judgment is clear——This is a shell company set up to transfer stolen money。

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The bank’s surveillance video quickly revealed new clues.

In the picture, every time Wu Qiuju walks into a bank branch in Flushing and withdraws a large amount of cash, the same person will almost appear next to her – a young man who doesn’t speak much, but is always by her side, as if “watching the scene.”

The police followed the surveillance and quickly locked his identity:Wang Yinye(Yinye Wang, English name Roy),36 years old. His registered address, like Wu Qiuju’s, is in University Point, Queens; in addition, he has also registered an address – Roslyn on the north shore of Long Island, and that place,Disturbingly close to missing couple’s home。

As Wang Yinye entered the investigative field of view, the nature of the case moved forward a step further. Because this is not the first time he has appeared on the police radar.

time back December 20, 2023. At Los Angeles International Airport, Wang Yinye was stopped by Transportation Security Administration personnel when he was passing through the security check. The staff found an unusual number of mobile phones, identity documents, bank documents, and multiple credit cards with different signatures in his luggage.

More importantly, when law enforcement officers tried to inspect further, he also wanted to throw away a “garbage bag”.

But the bag was not thrown away.

The police found out surprising contents:
—— 12 bank account opening documents in the names of 6 people
—— 17 credit cards, each under 12 different names
——Multiple driver’s licenses, bank statements, checks
——and several pages of handwritten notes, densely written on themSocial Security numbers, account passwords and PINs

None of these things belong to Wang Yinye himself.

At that time, because the evidence chain was not complete, the case failed to enter the prosecution stage and he was let go. But from that moment on, the police had put a clear label on him in the system——highly suspicious object。

And now, he appears again.

At this point, the police have become very clear: this is no longer a coincidence of several people working independently, but a structure that cooperates with each other and has a clear division of labor.

There is only one question left——Where did this web start to be woven?

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September 4, 2025this case finally had a decent breakthrough.

Wu Qiuju was preparing to board a plane in Texas, destined for Hong Kong, China. Just before she was about to leave the country, she was stopped by the police and arrested on the spot. At almost the same time, Wang Yinye was also arrested in California.

The prosecutor subsequently announced charges: Wu Qiuju, Wang Yinye, and other gang members whose identities have not been disclosed were accused of conspiring to steal funds from the missing couple’s account, amounting toOver $3 million。

But what happened next took everyone by surprise.

Although Wang Yinye was suspected of major financial crimes and had identity theft-related records in his early years, and the prosecutors listed many risks – he was ultimately only required to pay $50,000 bailand was released. The court did not have an electronic anklet and did not restrict his movement. It only asked him to “go to New York to appear in court on his own.”

Wang Yinye later gave the following statement: He did not apply for a REAL ID and could not fly.Drive to New York。

Then, people disappeared.

On the day of the trial, he did not show up; later, he lost contact completely. The court finally issued a wanted order, but as of now, Wang Yinye is still on the run, as if he has disappeared from the system again – this time, in full view of the public.

In contrast, Wu Qiuju’s fate was completely different. because of herno legal statusand was preparing to leave the country when she was arrested. The court found that she existedHigh flight riskdirectly refused bail.

So, she became the person in this case,The only person who actually sat in the dock。

Faced with the theft charges, Wu Qiuju pleaded not guilty in court. Halfway through the trial, when the judge asked her if she understood the entire judicial process, she suddenly spoke and said something that briefly silenced the court:

“I’m a victim too. I’ve been lied to, too.”

But when the judge asked – who deceived you? How? Where is the evidence? But she chose silence.

At the same time, the problem that the police are really worried about is actually not just money.

Who are Wu Qiuju and Wang Yinye?How to get the victimidentity information? they are againby what meansgain bank authority step by step, and finally fully control the account?

Does this mean that before the disappearance, the couple had been contacted and observed for a long time, and even guided and manipulated without knowing it?

The crueler question remains unanswered: Are they still alive?

As of early 2026, the police had not released any new clues about the whereabouts of the missing couple, and the case had reached an uncomfortable stagnation.

It is difficult to advance mainly due to several reasons:

First, there is no body, no clear crime scene, and no witnesses, so the police cannot file a homicide case;

Second, although the flow of funds is clear, the core suspect Wang Yinye has absconded and the key evidence chain is broken;

Third, the victim’s background and immigration path are not transparent, making the case likely to involve cross-border factors;

Fourth, there is no direct evidence connection between account theft and personal disappearance. Even if the theft is established, it cannot prove that the suspect participated in or knew about the disappearance itself.

As of today, Fan and Zhang are still missing…

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