Name: Lisa Lau Tu
Case Classification: Involuntary
Missing Since: July 14, 1988
Location Last Seen: Potomac, Montgomery County, Maryland.
Date of Birth: Circa 1946
Age: 42 years old
Race: Asian
Gender: Female
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 160 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Chuan-Yu Lau
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Pierced ears, 1" vertical scar midline above sternum
Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Lisa Tu was last seen in Potomac on July 14, 1988. Her husband, Gregory Tu, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for her homicide in 1992.
The prosecution argued that Gregory Tu was troubled by an affair his wife was having and heavily in debt because of business problems and gambling debts. He withdrew $44,000 from the college fund of his wife's son without her permission, prosecutors said, and then shot his wife of 10 years as she lay on the sofa in their Potomac home.
Two days later he paid a garbage collector to dispose of the sofa. In his car police found a meat cleaver, a knife, twine and plastic. A spot of blood was found on the dashboard. Additional droplets of blood, some of which matched Lisa Tu's, were found in parts of the basement, according to prosecution witnesses.
The defense contended that Tu put his wife on a plane to San Francisco on July 14, 1988, the day after police say she was murdered. When her family did not hear from her for days, then weeks, they found she had never arrived in San Francisco. Lisa's body has never been found
Agency Name: Montgomery County Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Detective Brian Stafford
Agency Phone Number: 240-773-5070
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: R88844963
NamUs Case Number: 71437
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Washington Post
Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 12-14-2021 - By: Htmlcnvtr
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** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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