一位现年63岁，曾经在犹他大学担任研究工作，来自中国哈尔滨的女士本周二在盐湖城犹他大学内因为从一辆在行驶中的shuttle bus中翻出车外死亡。
据犹他大学校警史考特佛森叙述，他担任警察超过30年，从来没遇过死者留下的线索这么稀少，几乎在这世界没有留下任何走过的痕迹。
警方发现竟然没有任何人认识这位死者，在死者留下的信息中只知道死者今年63岁，1988年来自中国哈尔滨，2003年入籍美国，搬到犹他州之前曾经在宾州和佛吉尼亚州的大学担任研究工作。记录显示她在1999年到2000年间曾经短暂的在大学化学系担任研究助理教授的工作。
警方在调查中惊讶的发现，死者没有留下任何亲人，朋友，同事，邻居，在她的手机里唯一有的来电记录是一通电话营销的广告电话。
就连管辖当地的中国领事馆也无法查得任何有关死者谢女士的个人信息，所以当地警方希望求助于公众，是否有人认识这位只知道叫"Zhilong Diane Xie"的女士，能出面提供警方一些信息，以便警方找到她的家人。
In more than 30 years of police work, Scott Folsom has seen few people leave as faint a personal footprint on the world as Zhilong Xie.
After the 63-year-old former University of Utah research professor fell out of a moving shuttle bus Thursday and died, it fell to campus Police Chief Folsom's department to notify her next of kin.
Salt Lake City police are sharing Zhilong Diane Xie's driver license photo to find anyone who may have known her. Xie died after falling out of a University of Utah shuttle bus.
Except they couldn't find anyone who really knew the woman.
Not family. Not friends. Not co-workers. Not neighbors. In fact, the only calls to Xie's cell phone came from telemarketers.
"Usually people leave a trail of their lives that is much more substantial than this woman did," Folsom said.
Even the Chinese Embassy has come up empty. So Tuesday, the police turned to the public, hoping with a little information they can find someone close to the woman who went by the name "Diane."
Xie is originally from Harban, China, and entered the United States around 1988. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2003 and did scholastic work at universities in Pennsylvania and Virginia before coming to work at the U., Folsom said.
She worked there part time in 1999 with the chemistry department and in 2000 in the engineering and geoscience department. She was an associate research professor in that department but never taught classes.
Folsom said police initially followed the usual trails to track down people who knew Xie: names in her cell phone, her employment history, information in
"This woman had precious little of that," he said.
Xie lived on the 1200 East block of Alameda Avenue (42 South) before moving to an apartment on the 100 South block of 1300 East in Salt Lake City, Folsom said. Her landlord didn't know her well, and nobody in the building knew her well, either. Police can't even find out if she was employed.
They combed through her home for photos, letters, mail, mailing lists. They went through all of her personal information at the university. No one is listed as next of kin.
"We got a hold of medical records -- they don't list anybody," Folsom said.
Police do not know why Xie was on campus Thursday night. She boarded the shuttle, which had more than 20 people, at the student union stop. As it turned left from North Campus Drive onto Mario Capecchi Drive about 8:20 p.m., she fell out.
"She was standing at the time of the turn, apparently lost her grip and fell against the doors," campus police Sgt. Arbon Nordgran said last week.
Xie may have hit her head on the ground. She was alive but unconscious when Salt Lake City Fire Department paramedics arrived. She died later at University Hospital.
Folsom said police will continue to search for someone who may have known her, even if it means turning over her cell phone for forensic work.
The work will go on, he said, because, "I think we have a duty to the family, to anybody who knows this woman to figure out what was going on in her life."
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