{"id":118344,"date":"2019-10-28T11:39:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=118344"},"modified":"2019-10-28T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T20:38:47","slug":"casino-security-video-leads-to-murder-charge-in-21-year-old-cold-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/casino-security-video-leads-to-murder-charge-in-21-year-old-cold-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino Security Footage Leads to Murder Charge in 21-Year-Old Seattle Cold Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reviewing casino security footage, authorities in Seattle have charged a 62-year-old man with the murder of his former girlfriend who went missing 21 years ago.<\/p>\n

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The image of Phan Kim Seng taken from the 21-year-old casino surveillance video that led police to charge him Friday with the murder of Nguyet \u201cAnna\u201d Nguyen (inset).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On November 9, 1998, mother-of-one Nguyet \u201cAnna\u201d Nguyen left her home in Burien, Washington to visit her fianc\u00e9 in West Seattle. She has never been seen since.<\/p>\n

Her white Acura sedan was found abandoned two days later at the Riverside Inn Casino in nearby Tukwila.<\/p>\n

On Friday, police arrested retired car salesman Phan Kim Seng, who had long been a suspect in the case, charging him with second-degree murder.<\/p>\n

Breakthrough<\/strong><\/h2>\n

King County Sheriff\u2019s Office cold-case team reopened the investigation earlier this year and began sifting through old evidence. This included poring over 300 hours of the casino\u2019s video-surveillance<\/a> from the days between Nguyen\u2019s disappearance and the discovery of her car.<\/p>\n

But eagle-eyed detectives spotted something their counterparts two decades ago had not. An image released to media clearly shows Seng present at the casino on the night after Nguyen went missing, despite his insistence during police interviews in 1998 he had not visited the premises.<\/p>\n

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Police always believed Seng had a motive to murder Nguyen. A spurned ex-lover, he was reportedly still smitten with the 33-year-old hairstylist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Two months prior to her disappearance, he had been accused of assaulting her, destroying her property and disabling her phone after she had broken up with him.<\/p>\n

At the time of her disappearance, she and her new fianc\u00e9 had planned to take a trip to be Reno to be married.<\/p>\n

Seng also called Nguyen\u2019s mother on November 10, the night he showed up in the casino footage. He told her he had seen Nguyen the previous night out with her fianc\u00e9 and said he was still in love with her and “felt sick” he was no longer with her.<\/p>\n

Damning Evidence<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to the charges filed Friday, Seng killed Nguyen because he was jealous of her new relationship and because he wanted to stop her testifying against him in an impending domestic abuse case.<\/p>\n

During the original investigation, Seng had offered contradictory evidence about his whereabouts on the night of November 9. He had also used bank cards belonging to Nguyen and her mother after Nguyen\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, his fingerprints had been found on a piece of paper inside Nguyen\u2019s glove compartment, while some of her belongings had been found at a gym bag at his brother\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

But all the evidence had been circumstantial. Until Friday, police lacked a smoking gun.<\/p>\n

Seng is being held in lieu of $2 million bail.<\/p>\n

Authorities hope he will lead them to the body of his former girlfriend, who cared for an elderly mother and an 11-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reviewing casino security footage, authorities in Seattle have charged a 62-year-old man with the murder of his former girlfriend who went missing 21 years ago. On November 9, 1998, mother-of-one Nguyet \u201cAnna\u201d Nguyen left her home in Burien, Washington to visit her fianc\u00e9 in West Seattle. She has never been seen since. 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