Seventeen months after the murder of Vanessa Pham, the Fairfax County teen’s mother is speaking out about what she wishes she could have done differently before her daughter’s death.
In a new interview with police, Julie Pham said 19-year-old Vanessa preferred the company of her friends to her mother.
“But, I don’t blame her,” Pham told police. “I worked too much and when I was done with my shifts, I just slept.”
Choking back tears she admitted regrets. “And now I feel sorry that didn’t spent time with her too much.”
Vanessa Pham was stabbed to death in June of 2010. She was seen on video leaving a Falls Church shopping center. Less than thirty minutes later she was dead.
Pham’s mother recalls the night she got the news.
“I work the nightshift---My sister called me (and told me),” said Pham. “I couldn’t believe it. I drove home, I ran to her room, but she wasn’t there.”
Vanessa Pham was an aspiring fashion designer. There is a $20,000 reward leading to an arrest in her murder, which remains unsolved.
