Real Crime Stories/Paranormal Hauntings/Conspiracy Theories Book II

The Disappearance of Cindy Song

Cindy Song (Hyun Jong Song) was born and raised in South Korea. She moved to Springfield, Virginia when she was 15 years of age to live with her aunt and uncle, where she graduated from high school and planned to attend Pennsylvania State University.

At 21 years of age in 2001, Cindy was a senior at Penn State majoring in art and just shy of graduating in a few months. She lived in an off-campus apartment in State College where she also worked two part-time restaurant jobs.

Disappearance

It was Halloween night in 2001 when Cindy attended a costume party at Player's Nite Club with two of her friends, Stacy Paik and Lisa Kim. Cindy was wearing a bunny costume with bunny ears, a pink t-shirt with bunny logo, a white tennis skirt with tail, sheer stockings, brown suede knee-high boots and a red hooded parka.

A friend of Cindy's remarked, "She had bunny ears and a tail that she had bought. It was a very cute outfit. It wasn't a sexy outfit. It was a very cute outfit. That was her thing, she was very cute. She liked to look cute."

Cindy disappeared still wearing her bunny costume.

Cindy and her two friends partied until the early morning hours of November 1, and after the club closed at 2 a.m., they took their party at a friend's apartment where they played video games for a few hours. Cindy's friend Stacy dropped her off at her apartment about 4 a.m. Just long enough to make sure Cindy arrived at her apartment safely. It was the last time Cindy was seen alive.

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When Cindy's roommate arrived back from visiting family in Philadelphia later that day, the apartment was locked and nothing was amiss, except that Cindy wasn't there.

When Cindy's friends began to worry that they haven't heard from her, she was reported missing on November 4, 2001, three days after the last contact with Cindy.

Investigators searched Cindy's apartment two days later.

Speculation leads that Cindy did enter her apartment, but left shortly after, it is assumed that she left voluntarily since the door was locked after Cindy left. Fake eyelashes that Cindy was wearing that night were still on the bathroom counter as were her backpack and phone and two Britney Spears concert tickets. But Cindy's purse containing her driver's license, keys and credit cards were missing.

Investigators speculate that Cindy may have walked to a 24-hour convenience store not far from her apartment and was more than likely coming right back home.

According to investigators, there were no calls made from her phone after being dropped off and there were no alarming emails as well as no activity on her credit cards.

Cindy's diary leads investigators to believe drugs may have been involved as Cindy writes about experimenting with ecstasy and marijuana, but friends claim they were just normal college experiences.

Possible speculation is Cindy's mental state due to a rough break up with her boyfriend she was living with, with family thinking she may have taken her own life because of the ordeal. Friends disagree claiming she was in therapy and taking medication.

Friends say Cindy was not the type to take off without letting anyone know where she was.

Sightings

There was a sighting of Cindy over 200 miles away in Chinatown a few days after she was reported missing. A woman called in a tip that matched Cindy's description in a vehicle she was passing by. The woman seemed to be crying and yelling for help, then a man suddenly appeared and said to "get lost."

While a sketch of the man with the woman crying for help in Chinatown is wanted for questioning, investigators were skeptical as the witness has changed her story several time. But it is the only lead.

In June 2003, a man facing a felony burglary charge, Paul Weakley, decided to tell the shocking story to investigators.

Paul Weakly: Murderer and Informant

Paul, a career criminal, claimed to police that Hugo Selenski and Michael Kerkowski abducted a woman they believed to be a prostitute from State College while walking and took her to Hugo's house in Hunlock Creek and kept her in a walk-in safe, assaulting her and "having their way" with her, before leaving her to die when they were done.

The woman is described as matching Cindy's description.

Hugo Selenski: Suspected Serial Killer

Michael Kerkowski, a wanted fugitive since May 2002, after convicted of several felonies for running an illegal drug ring out of his pharmacy. He went missing with his girlfriend, Tammy Fasset, while waiting sentencing. Paul claims Hugo killed Michael, when Michael kept Cindy's bunny ears as a trophy, an act Hugo didn't like.

Paul continues to tell investigators Hugo was responsible for the death of at least 16 people, leading them to Selenski's property and finding five bodies. Two of the bodies found buried belonged to Michael and Tammy. Bone fragments belonged to drug dealers Frank James and Adeiye Keiler were found in burn pit, with a third person not yet identified.

A total of 12 bodies were discovered after digging on the property.

No remains on Hugo's property matched Cindy, but it may be because he moved to this property only a few months after Cindy went missing. While investigators haven't connected Hugo to Cindy's disappearance, he hasn't been ruled out as a suspect. Since Michael is dead, Paul's story can't be confirmed.

Paul's computer reveals multiple articles of Cindy's disappearance leads investigators to believe Paul may have been studying the case to give them false evidence for a lesser sentence, to which he was serving a life sentence and looking at the death penalty. He could actually be the killer, framing Hugo using the dead bodies found on Hugo's property as evidence.

Paul and Hugo are serving life sentences for unrelated murders and the sighting in Philadelphia is difficult to solve, but those close to Cindy at the time of her disappearance was ruled out as suspects. None of Cindy's friends believe she took her life or ran away.

Since there is no body, no physical evidence, no witnesses, and no active suspects—Cindy seems to have vanished into thin air! What happened to Cindy Song?!

Source:  https://truecrimesociety.com/2019/10/29-the-halloween-disappearnce-of-cindy-song/