The State - News from March 8, 1985

The FBI began a formal investigation of the murder of Chinese-American journalist Henry Liu. The agency, which has been assisting Daly City police in the investigation, will focus on “whether and to what extent the assault was engineered, directed, ordered by high-ranking officials” of the government of Taiwan. Liu’s family and friends have insisted that the 52-year-old naturalized American was shot to death in the garage of his Daly City home Oct. 15 on Taiwanese government orders, in retaliation for articles he wrote criticizing the Taiwan government. Taiwan has refused to send two of its nationals suspected of the crime to the United States for trial, on grounds that there has been no extradition treaty with the United States since 1979.