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A Wisconsin woman disappeared at O'Hare last week somewhere between customs and the waiting area. Sumei Hu, 38, had been visiting her family in China since September and was returning to the US via Tokyo on February 26. She definitely got off her flight at O'Hare and went through customs, according to surveillance footage. But her husband was waiting for her in the stand-around zone, and she never came out.
According to her husband Steven Frasch, whom she married in 2005, she didn't have any credit cards, and her family says she has only a basic understanding of English.
Police are still looking through airport security tapes, but if you have any info, you should call Area 5 police at 312-746-8365. [Trib]
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I can't help but wonder if she disappeared on purpose.
I wonder how she went missing between customs and the exit. Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I remember, there really is no way out between customs/baggage and the outside world. Unless she boarded another flight, it seems pretty difficult.
rendition?
This husband is NOT clueless about what has happened.
He knows perfectly well that these mail-order brides and imported-via-internet brides are notorious for running off. (I am still looking for mine*).
Considering that he believd the marriage was "fine" prior to this trip, the poor guy likely paid for the flights. By the way, it was Ms. Hu's last time that she'll get to see her family for a while, since she is now in illegal immigrant mode.
My guess is that Ms. Hu is relaxing with friends somewhere in the U.S. right now. Free of her middle-aged, lonely American husband, she is ready for her new life.
*Note to my girlfriend: I'm KIDDING.
I don't think he did pay for the tickets, Ward. According to the Trib, the ticket to China was paid for by a friend of hers, except her husband can't remember the woman's name. The whole story is beyond sketchy- they meet at an "internet dating site", she moves here, barely speaking english, has no credit cards, has a friend who is close enough to her that she's willing to buy her a ticket to China, but her husband doesn't even know the woman's name...the whole thing seriously squicks me out.
She probably just took off. After being home for so long she probably realized meeting and marrying guys off the internet is a horrible idea....especially some loser from the US.
I'm curious...with all the technology available these days couldn't they just type in her name to see if she left on another flight??? Seems like a pretty simple way to figure it out.
Poor thing probably got turned around and confused...and is now running around Newark, NJ in a panic.
Using the term mail-order-bride or even 'imported' bride is a pejorative designed to belittle those who meet over the internet, when one partner in the marriage is foreign born.
Still, not that I care that much about the world's small injustices...but its a rude term. Enough said.
I don't put high odds on any marriage to succeed, quite frankly, so I'm going to be a little forgiving whether it started on-line between two americans, or one american and one foreign born, or two non-americans for that matter....odds are slim in this day and age.
I few thoughts...though as a person who married a russian woman...learning russian was quite the difficult task, even 6 years later...I could get by in a chat room, but I would be scared to death to traverse an airport...which I did exactly that at Moscow's Sheremetyvo airport and had to make a cross connection using a bus and a token...I was only there for a stop over, I had no idea I needed a token and didn't have local money (I was coming out of Kiev)...
I could have been the one lost. certainly.
And then, I'm waiting for my mother-in-law just last week at atlanta's hartsfield, and it took her 3 hours to get past immigration...and she speaks no english, and she came out crying, about how she got lost and couldn't find her way...its not a simple thing, they make you take a train of some kind to get from passport control to the arrivals lobby...lucky an american woman who spoke some russian took mercy on her.
ON THE OTHER HAND.
Problem with this guy's story...his wife has no credit card? Sorry, I'm not sure if this guy really has a marriage except on paper...a marriage is sharing...
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say his wife was raised super conservative in China, but quite frankly, he should have taught her about American ways, and made her get a credit card and a cell phone and other required things for safety.
strange...I hope the woman is OK.