MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Joyce Chiang
One woman’s promising career in Washington, D.C. is cut short when she mysteriously vanishes one night on her way home from work.
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Episode Source Material
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 3 – First News Stories – WUSA and WJLA – January 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 1 – First News Story – WRC – January 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 2 – Early Coverage of Disappearance – WTTG – January 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 5 – Early Coverage Possible Evidence – WUSA – January 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 9 – Discovery at Anacostia Park – Evening Newscasts WRC – January 21 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 8 – Discovery at Anacostia Park – Evening Newscasts WUSA WJLA – January 21 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 10 – Anacostia River Search Day 2 – WUSA – January 22 1999
- The Capital: Search continues for attorney, by Associated Press
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 11 – Pre-Vigil Coverage – WRC NewsChannel8 – January 22 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 12 – Vigil – All Stations – January 22 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 4 – America’s Most Wanted and News Coverage – January 23 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 14 – Second Vigil – All Stations – January 29 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 13 – DNA Clues – All Stations – February 8 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 15 – One Month Mark – All Stations – February 9 1999
- The Los Angeles Times: Chiang’s Personal Ordeal Clouds Election Victory, by Sheila Hotchkin
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 16 – Discovery of Joyce’s Body – WRC WUSA – April 1 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 17 – Morning After Body Found – WRC – April 1 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 18 – Day After Joyce Was Found – All Networks – April 1 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 19 – Final Vigil – All Stations – April 1999
- The Los Angeles Times: Body likely to be Chiang’s Sister, by Times Wire Services
- The Los Angeles Times: Body Identified as Former Aide to Berman, FBI Says, By Staff and Wire Reports
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 31 – FBI Confirms Body – WJLA – April 1999
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 37 – Alternate Theory – WTTG – April 1999
- Daily Press: Conditions of body hampers investigation, by Staff and wire service reports
- Washington City Paper: The Murder Victim Next Door, by Eddie Dean
- The Washington Post: Remembrance Planned for INS Lawyer, by Spencer S. Hsu
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 38 – One Year Anniversary – News 8 and WJLA – January 2000
- The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, TN): No crime scene to search in attorney’s vanishing
- The Los Angeles Times: Levy Case ‘Very, Very Unusual’, by Lisa Getter
- Daily News: Intern is 2nd to disappear, by Helen Kennedy
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 44 – CNN HN Coverage – CNN – June 23 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 47 – Catherine Crier Live – June 13 2001
- Vimeo: Joyce Chiang 52 – Police Discount Serial Killer – WRC – Summer 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 58 – Burden of Proof (John) – July 18 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 59 – Fox News Channel – July 19 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 60 – O’Reilly Factor – July 20 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 64 – WUSA Morning News – WUSA – August 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 63 – Serial Killer Theory – WLS Chicago – Summer 2001
- The Los Angeles Times: Chandra Levy Mystery Stirs Memories of Equally Baffling D.C. Disappearance, by Stephen Braun
- The Bradenton Herald: Serial killer theory rises in Levy case, by Lenny Savino
- The Baltimore Sun: Without End, by Ellen Gamerman
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 62 – Rivera Live – August 21 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 61 – Wolf Blitzer Reports – August 20 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 67 – Chiang Calls For New Investigation – WTTG – August 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 70 – Burden of Proof (Roger) – CNN – August 31 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 72 – City Council Hearing – October 23 2001
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com Joyce Chiang 73 – Today Show – June 10 2002
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 75 – E! THS Investigates February 2006
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 82 – Fox 5 5pm Newscast – January 25 2011
- Fox 5/My Fox DC: New Developments in Death of Prominent Federal Attorney Joyce Chiang, by Paul Wagner
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 84 – Fox 5 10pm Newscast – January 25 2011
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang 97 – Geraldo at Large – February 12 2011
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang – April 25 2011 – WTTG at 6pm
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang – May 12 2011 – WJLA at 5pm Story
- Fox 5/ My Fox DC: 2 Men Named in Mysterious Disappearance, Death of Joyce Chiang, by Paul Wagner
- Vimeo: MyPeaceiOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang – May 13 2011 – WUSA at 12noon
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Ref code 051311-25-2
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Ref code 051311-21
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Ref code 051113-20
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Ref code 051311-17
- Vimeo: MyPeaceIOfferYou.com. Joyce Chiang – May 13 2011 – WTTG at 8am
- DCist: After Over A Decade, Police Close Joyce Chiang Case, by Aaron Morrissey
- Health Talk: Bereavement due to suicide
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