Warning: The following article contains graphic details involving murder and sexual assault.
As family, friends and members of the poker community wait for answers in the Susie Zhao murder case, delays and pushbacks brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, changes to legal counsel and a filing error mean it will take longer to get those answers.
Zhao, a 33-year-old professional poker player who made deep runs in the World Series of Poker Main Event and who was a regular in the Los Angeles poker scene, was brutally murdered in July 2020 shortly after relocating to Michigan.