Police say 56-year-old Yuk-Ying Anita Mui from Markham went missing on Friday after she left her home in the area of Baycliffe Road and Warden Avenue around 9:30 a.m.
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York police homicide unit investigating ‘suspicious’ disappearance of Markham woman
A Toronto-area realtor and mother of two has gone missing under what homicide investigators are calling suspicious circumstances.
Yuk-Ying (Anita) Mui, 56, was last seen leaving her home near
Baycliffe Road and Warden Avenue around 9:30 a.m. last Friday, according to her colleague, Stephen Chow, president of Century 21 Atria Realty Inc.
He said that Mui, a broker at the firm’s realty office in Richmond Hill, typically leaves for work around that time.
One of her two adult sons last spoke to her at 11 a.m. that morning. She has not been heard from or seen since.
“I’m devastated,” said Chow, who’s called her a co-worker and friend for the last decade.
He said his heart hurts even more for Mui’s twin boys — one is pursuing a law degree, and the other is studying to become an accountant while working part-time with his mom as a real estate agent.
“It’s completely out of character,” Chow said. “She’ll always be the one communicating with her kids. She’s a single mom raising two young gentlemen.”
On Monday, York Regional Police announced its homicide unit was looking into Mui’s disappearance, saying they’re treating it as suspicious.
Little is known about the investigation so far, but police said they recovered Mui’s vehicle — a white 2024 Mercedes-Benz — in a Scarborough parking lot near
Finch Avenue East and Warden Avenue on Friday afternoon, hours after she last spoke to her family.
York police spokesperson Const. Lisa Moskaluk said it’s not clear why she was there, including whether the visit was work-related.
“We don’t know her schedule,” she said. “That’s something the investigators are trying to figure out. They know the nature of a real estate agent; that they can be out at all hours of the day.”
Chow said Mui’s sons are speaking with investigators to help determine her whereabouts.
Meanwhile, Chow and others close to Mui continue to share her image and vehicle information on social media, hoping that someone will recognize her.
“Help us find our very own Anita. Her sons are waiting for their mom to go home,” Chow wrote on Instagram.
Mui’s disappearance comes a few weeks after another Markham woman, Ying Zhang, 57, vanished under suspicious circumstances. Moskaluk said there is no reason to suggest the two cases are connected.
Police had located Zhang’s remains inside a large green bin off a rural road in the City of Kawartha Lakes, about 90 minutes northeast of Toronto. The bin looked similar to the one a suspect was allegedly seen removing from the Markham office building, where investigators said Zhang was
attacked, brutally assaulted and abducted.
The alleged suspect,
Changlin Yang, 26, from East Gwillimbury, was charged with second-degree murder and indignity to a dead body.
In the latest case, there is no information to indicate that Mui has suffered any injuries, Moskaluk said, “but the fact that she has been missing for four days now is concerning.”
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