How an American dream ended with bullets in the head for beloved Chinese herbalist, his wife and daughter, 5
A 26-year-old man has been charged with killing Henry Weidong Han and his young family, leaving their bodies wrapped in plastic in their garage
Henry Weidong Han’s success was expressed in his home, a two-story ranchette nestled amid the bright foliage of Santa Barbara County. There he lived with his wife and five-year-old daughter in a multimillion-dollar model of the American ideal, a sunlit house upon a hill.
After arriving in the US from China in the late ‘80s, Han founded a successful Chinese herbal medicine practice, and was admired in the community for his work. But just days before his daughter’s sixth birthday, his family’s fortunes violently turned.
The first sign that something was amiss emerged last week, the Los Angeles Times reported, when Han didn’t show up to a business appointment. This was uncharacteristic of the disciplined doctor, and his co-workers grew concerned.
The bucolic setting, now rendered a crime scene, made the authorities’ discovery that night all the more chilling: three bodies, wrapped in plastic and duct tape, with bullet wounds in the heads.
