[/floatr]Salt Lake Tribune: A Japanese student, a Chinese businessman and murder/suicide on Muley Point
She was an aspiring Japanese musician. He was her mysterious benefactor - an older Chinese businessman who offered a salacious deal. Their story climaxed 11 months ago outside Utah's Monument Valley. There, authorities say, businessman Yu-Shung Lin pointed his sports-utility vehicle toward the edge of a cliff, pushed the accelerator and steered over the ledge to kill them both. A National Park Service report released this month ruled the case a murder-suicide - and described the sordid relationship which eventually took the couple over the cliff. It began in a Tokyo nightclub in 2006, when Lin met a 25-year-old trumpet player and modern jazz fan named Yuki Yoshida. One acquaintance told investigators Lin worked in Tokyo real estate. A Lin sister said he was the "Black Sheep" of the family and "may have been involved in criminal enterprise," according to the report. Shortly after they met, the report said, Lin and Yoshida "began a romantic relationship with the understanding Lin would pay her expenses to attend music school in the U.S.A. in exchange for sexual favors"...more...
