Fulfilling a destiny of falsity
by Vy Wen
It’s not every day that New Zealand gets high profile fugitive on the run in the United States.
Since the release of a warrant for his arrest, Yin Xue had successfully made himself and his youngest daughter appear on the front page of almost every mainstream newspaper in New Zealand, and six of Los Angeles’ Chinese Language newspapers.
The whole development from the abandonment of his daughter, little “Pumpkin”, to the discovery of the body of his wife, An An Liu’s in the car booth and the search for Xue in Los Angeles has been quite a sensational story to follow.
One single man has managed to bring resentment to our police force, shame to the Chinese community and the anger of the entire Tai Chi community (a form of Chinese martial arts, often practiced with the aim of promoting health and longevity).
Xue lived an unbelievably twisted life from becoming the director of Chinese Times to a fugitive. He had married twice, abandoned two daughters and claimed to be a gifted tai chi master, although found to have no prior training.
Despite having yet to pay for the crimes he allegedly committed, Xue did live a life he always built for himself. His entire life was built on lies, deceit and braggery. He claimed to be a ‘gift from God’ to fulfill his destiny of spreading martial arts in New Zealand in his biography named The Pearl of Wu-style Tai Chi: The life of Xue Nai Yin.
Many who knew him described him otherwise. He was proud, egoistic and constantly oozing with self-pride. Xue had managed to the destiny he built on, a destiny built on lies-falsity. Xue is currently the most well known and highly searched for criminal.
It all began with Qian Xun, nicknamed “Pumpkin” by Australian police after one of her clothing labels, was dumped at a Melbourne railway station by her father Yin Xue before he fled for the United States on the September 15.
Two days after “Pumpkin’s” abandonment becomes public, her mother’s body was found in the boot of her father’s company car outside their Mt Roskill home, 16 hours after the police warrant first issued.
On September 20, after the body was identified as An An Liu, a warrant for Xue’s arrest was issued for murder and abduction.