On May 27, 2011, Michelle Hoang Thi Le (October 12, 1984 – May 27, 2011) a 26-year-old American nursing student from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, was murdered in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Hayward, California, by 27-year-old Giselle Diwag Esteban.
[1] Le, of Vietnamese descent, grew up in the Rancho Peñasquitos neighborhood of San Diego with her younger brother, Michael.
[2] On May 27, 2011 Le's white Honda SUV was found the morning after her disappearance around 9am parked on Ponderosa Court, about half a mile from the medical center.
[4] On September 19, 2011, the Alameda County coroner's office positively identified the remains to be those of Michelle Le.
[2] Giselle Diwag Esteban (born February 4, 1984) of Union City, California, a former friend of Le, was arrested on September 7 and charged with her murder, although a body had not yet been found at that time.