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Long Nguyen and Huong Ly were an immigrant Vietnamese couple, who were found dead in the closet of their apartment on June 10, 2012. The investigators from Arlington, Texas, found their apartment covered with bloody fingerprints, and the two bodies stuck inside a small closet, with their mouths and face taped.
The initial investigation of the crime scene, referenced the case to be a gang burglary. However, upon closely investigating the case, authorities found some far darker truths that terrified the suburban city and the entire state of Texas.
The entire case behind the gruesome murder of Long Nguyen and Huong Ly is documented in Snapped season 30 episode 22.
The episode, titled Dephne Wright, first made its release on March 13, 2022. The episode is set to re-air on December 31, 2024, at 9 PM EST on Oxygen. Its official synopsis reads:
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"Authorities are left stunned when stories of mysticism and conspiracy come to the front while they investigate the disturbing murders of an elderly Vietnamese couple in Texas."
5 key details about the murder of Long Nguyen and Huong Ly
1) Long Nguyen and Huong Ly were suffering from a declining commercial sewing business
Long Nguyen and Huong Ly were Vietnamese immigrants who moved to the United States during the early 2000s. The couple eventually got settled in the Vietnamese community in Arlington Texas and started a commercial sewing business.
This business was headed by their son-in-law Chau Tran, which began to grow over the next decade. However, in 2011, their business started to see a massive decline. This is the point when the couple decided to take the help of Voodo, to grow their business back again.
2) Long Nguyen and Huong Ly believed their business had been cursed
Voodo and witchcraft have been a common practice in Vietnamese folklore, since centuries, when people believed that it could directly affect financial growth and downfall. Long Nguyen and Huong Ly believed the reason for their dwindling business was due to evil eyes, and this is when the couple decided to consult a mystic.
The elderly couple saw an advertisement in the newspaper for a spiritual reader named Dephne Wright, who lived in Houston. The couple soon began to make frequent visits to Wright; however, their business kept on deteriorating. Soon, they were in debt.
3) The murder of Long Nguyen and Huong Ly was planned by their spiritual reader Dephne Wright
With every visit, Long Nguyen and Huong Ly started trusting the methods directed by Dephne Wright, however, the couple was quickly running out of money to pay her.
As per NBC DFW News, the prosecutors said that Miss Wright eventually came to an agreement with the couple, to charge them money on a credit-based system.
Though this looked like an opportunity for the elderly couple to feed more into their superstitions, Wright kept on benefitting from their beliefs. A time came when the couple went into debt of approximately $ 300,000, which they had to pay to their spiritual consultant.
According to CBS, this is when Dephne Wright hired two assassins, Bobby Guillory and his nephew Willie Guillory.
4) Dephne Wright hired contract assassins for the murder of Long Nguyen and Huong Ly
As per Investigator Diana Brown from Arlinton Police, when they entered the scene, there was an initial presumption, that the murder may have been caused by a gang attack. However, upon close scrutiny, it was found that the murder scene had been staged to distract the investigators.
There was a half-smoked joint, with a beer bottle wrapped in a bandana. The autopsy reports of Long Nguyen and Huong Ly, medical examiners found that the couple was forcefully hit with a blunt object.
However, the reason for their death was revealed to be suffocation, which mostly would have been caused due to duct tape, wrapped around the face.
Due to a lack of concrete evidence, the case had to be put on a hiatus, until October 12, 2015, when medical examiners retrieved a sample of DNA from the saliva on the marijuana joint.
As per Toronto Sun, when the DNA sample was run through records, it was found to belong to a teen named Willie Guillory, who was revealed to have committed the murders with his uncle Bobby Guillory.
5) Willie Guillory, Bobby Guillory, and Dephne Wright were found guilty of murder
Willie revealed that it was his uncle Bobby, who had introduced him to Dephne Wright, who wanted them to retrieve her money from the elderly couple, or kill them otherwise. Bobby told the investigators that he was paid $ 10,000 by Wright, to retrieve her money.
Dephne Wright had already provided the assassins with a duplicate key to the elderly couple's residence.
They took a drive all the way to Arlington and were waiting inside the couple's residence. Right when Long Nguyen and Huong Ly made their entrance through the front door, they were hit on the head and made unconscious.
The couple was then bonded with duct tape around their head and faces, which suffocated them, and caused their death.
As per Star-Telegram, it was in September 2018, when Bobby Guillory was found guilty of the dual murders of Long Nguyen and Huong Ly.
He was sent to lifetime imprisonment without any parole, while his nephew Willie Guillory received 20 years behind bars. As per NBC DFW News, the prime culprit behind the crime Dephne Wright was sentenced to her life in prison, without any chance of parole.
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