On September 26, 2014, police found a body later identified as 20-year-old Shao Tong (Chinese: 邵童, November 1994 – September 2014), a Chinese undergraduate at Iowa State University (ISU), in the trunk of a car registered in her name parked in an apartment complex on the outskirts of town in Iowa City, Iowa. She had been reported missing nine days earlier. The cause of death was found to be homicide by suffocation.