Huong Helene Nguyen, 42, was reported missing in New Orleans after she failed to show up for work at an insurance office on March 11, 2020. She was last seen leaving her workplace on Crowder Boulevard at about 5:26 p.m. that day, and family members were unable to reach her.

On the evening of March 13, a silver Toyota Camry matching Huong’s car was found parked on Robin Hood Drive, roughly seven blocks from the home she shared with her mother and brother. Her body was located in the trunk; investigators determined she had sustained at least one gunshot wound and classified the death as a homicide.

Police focused on Huong’s younger brother, 37-year-old Hoa Phong Nguyen. He initially told investigators he heard the door open and close twice the night his sister disappeared. Surveillance and home security footage showed Huong’s vehicle being moved from her driveway to where it was found, and captured a man walking away from the car in the early morning of March 13. A family member identified that man as Hoa Nguyen. An arrest warrant for second-degree murder was obtained and Hoa was arrested as a fugitive in Houston, Texas; he was not present at his sister’s wake or funeral.

Did anyone in the area see Huong or her car in the days before March 13?