Doeur Seoung

At his murder trial, which took place in February 2002, Seoung pleaded guilty to the crime. As a result, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 20 years. According to his lawyer, if he had not accepted the plea bargain, Seoung would have likely been given another life term without parole, effectively confining him behind bars for the rest of his life. Since then, no further information has been published on his status, where he is incarcerated, or whether he is still alive.

Approximately three years after this conviction, a retired schoolteacher who used to teach in one of Seoung's classes saw an episode of CrimeStoppers covering the still-unsolved murder of Volith Long. Upon seeing it, he submitted a tip to them, suggesting that Seoung might have been responsible. After further inspection, his DNA was matched with evidence left at the crime scene, positively tying him to the crime. An arrest warrant was issued for him and extradition proceedings were commenced not long after. In late June 2001, he was extradited to stand trial in Texas, with his bail set at $500,000.

After serving out his sentence, Seoung was released from prison. A large portion of his life in the following years remains a mystery, but in 1998, he was convicted of a double murder in the state of California, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. As a convicted felon, he was ordered to give a DNA sample to law enforcement, in case he could be linked to any additional crimes.

On March 13, 1985, the naked body of 6-year-old Volith Long was found in a dumpster behind an apartment building in North Austin, stuffed inside a plastic trash bag and wrapped up in a curtain. She was wearing only a shirt, had been sexually assaulted, and then strangled to death. She was last seen only hours prior by a neighbor, and due to the fact that she was withdrawn and lived in an area populated mostly by refugees who spoke little English, authorities believed that Long was killed by somebody known to her.

The murder came as a shock to the community and especially her mother, Rady, who had spent the last few years in various refugee camps around Southeast Asia fleeing persecution from the Khmer Rouge, who had killed Long's father in 1978. As investigators struggled to gather useful clues or identify any viable suspects, they requested that the public submit anonymous tips via the local Crime Stoppers. As this failed to generate any leads, investigators focused on examining some of the items found at the crime scene in an attempt to gather fingerprint evidence, but this provided no results.

Doeur Seoung (born 1970) is a Cambodian-American serial killer and rapist who committed four murders in Texas and California from 1985 to 1998, two of which were done while he was still a teenager. He was given life terms for his respective crimes in both states, but his current status is unknown.

Doeur Seoung was born in a rural region of Cambodia in 1970, the son of Hok Seoung and an unknown mother. He and his father moved to the United States as refugees sometime in the early 1980s, settling in Austin, Texas, where Seoung attended the Lamar Junior High School. He was reportedly an unruly and ill-disciplined child who was repeatedly arrested for burglary and theft, and by the time he committed his first known crimes, he rarely went the McCallum High School.