www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-sheboygan-missingmar03,0,4395872.story

chicagotribune.com
Cops, family search for woman who disappeared at O'Hare
By Robert Mitchum

Tribune reporter

March 3, 2008

Sumei Hu flew into O'Hare International Airport on Feb. 26, returning to her American husband from a long visit with her family in China.

But somewhere between customs and the terminal waiting area, Hu disappeared, and now her family and Chicago police are trying to determine what happened to the 38-year-old Chinese woman.

"It's just incredible. How can somebody disappear out of the airport?" Hu's husband, Steven Frasch of Sheboygan, Wis., said Sunday.

Video footage shows Hu arriving at O'Hare Tuesday afternoon on an American Airlines flight from Tokyo -- the last leg of travel from her hometown of Guangzhou, China -- and checking in at customs, police Sgt. Jeffrey Peraino said. Investigators are sifting through more airport footage, he said.

Frasch waited for his wife in the international terminal for more than an hour after her plane landed, only leaving to ask an airline employee whether she had missed her flight.

"But I never did meet up with her. She got through, and she's gone," Frasch said. "None of her family has heard from her. She's just a beautiful person inside and out. Our last conversations were just so happy."

Frasch and Hu were married in November 2005, he said, after meeting on an Internet dating service. She had traveled back to China in September to visit her 15-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, as well as other family in Guangzhou.

Though Hu did not have a credit card, Frasch said, police could not rule out whether she may have left on another flight.

"Could she have turned around and walked up to the counter and purchased another ticket?" Peraino said. "It's possible."

Police were also trying to determine who paid for Hu's ticket to China. Frasch said a female friend in Sheboygan had paid for the ticket with her credit card, but he could not recall the friend's name.

Hu's family said she was wearing a brown hat, black jacket with fur trim, pink sweater, green gloves and jeans. They said that she also answers to the name Chung, and that she has only a basic understanding of English.

Anyone with information is encouraged to call detectives at 312-746-8365.

-----------

rmitchum@tribune.com

Copyright © 2008, Chicago Tribune

Saw this posted on CFL, thought maybe in some way could help posting here.
Something don't sound right but still would like to help if can.

Thanks for sharing, Scary!

Just posted it to Candle.

More on Candle from Mar 1, that community seems to know it before Chicago Trib posted it.

SEE: http://candleforlove.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29913

Hey Dan........
Looks like no more news for now, wife on chinese sites and friends and me
on US news channels and stuff..Don't know why but something don't feel
right about this you know?..Wife and girls on 001 plus a couple of US chinese
sites say the same thing..Did you see the phone interview on FOX news?
This is really sad, she has a lot of people out here hopping she didn't meet up
with well, how to say, foul play?..Makes one want to help in some way but
how to do don't know..

Has been found, and is reported to be OK.

Latest update:

http://www.wbbm780.com/Wife-Missing-from-O...es-Home/1772609

good to know that the woman is fine!