Dzung Ngoc Tu, a 25-year-old Vietnamese woman, vanished into the ordinary rhythm of a Cornell spring day on May 12, 1981. By noon she was reported to have been in Warren Hall, the kind of campus building where time is measured in pages turned and lectures missed, and then she was simply gone—no goodbye, no footsteps anyone could confidently follow, only the sudden unease that settles when someone doesn’t show up where they always do.
In the days that followed, worry hardened into a s
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