Body Likely to Be Chiang’s Sister
Forensic tests will determine whether the decomposed body found along the Potomac River in southern Fairfax County last week is that of Joyce Chiang, the Immigration and Naturalization Service lawyer who disappeared from Dupont Circle on Jan. 9, the FBI said Tuesday.
Chiang is the sister of John Chiang, a Chatsworth resident who was elected last fall to the California state Board of Equalization.
The FBI has said there is a strong possibility that the body is that of Chiang, because the clothing matched her attire when she disappeared, and the height and weight of the body are consistent with those of the missing woman.
Chiang, 28, vanished on her way to a coffee shop at Connecticut Avenue and R street NW.
The FBI and the Fairfax County medical examiner’s office tried to use dental records to identify the body found Thursday, but comparisons were inconclusive, spokeswoman Elisa Foster Martin said. DNA samples obtained from the body were sent to a lab for testing Tuesday, Martin said. The FBI expects to have the results in several days, Martin said.
A bank card found inside a stocking on the body belonged to Chiang, sources close to the investigation said.
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