On June 24, 2012, Dr. Shane Truman Todd, a young American engineer, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment, just a week before his scheduled return to the United States. Although Shane had repeatedly expressed apprehension about his work with a Chinese company and fear his life was being threatened, authorities immediately ruled his death a suicide. His family initially didn t know what to believe. However, upon arriving in Singapore, they realized the evidence suggested not suicide, but murder.

Shane s family later discovered that what they thought was a computer speaker was...