Mystery Grows Over Missing Women
After a weeklong investigation into the sudden disappearance of a West Covina woman, police said each clue they find lends the case a new mystery.
Janice Chia Hsi Lo, 39, was reported missing after she failed to turn up at her San Gabriel office Nov. 13. A punctual, devoted worker, Lo was not one to miss appointments or run off unexpectedly, said West Covina Sgt. Mark Dettor.
Police said they found Lo’s briefcase in the City of Commerce last week.
“It contained the regular stuff you’d expect to find in a briefcase,” Dettor said. But what the briefcase was doing in Commerce, Dettor said, “nobody knows.”
Lo’s apartment showed no sign of forced entry and her 1995 Lexus LS400 was found just around the corner from her home on Azusa Avenue by a passing motorist Sunday.
Police have questioned her boyfriend, friends and co-workers, as well as several people in the Taiwanese city in which Lo’s parents live, but the interviews provided investigators with little information, Dettor said.
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