The charred remains professional poker player Susie Zhao, [photo], was found in a woods in Michigan on July 13

A professional poker player, 33, whose charred remains were found in a remote parking lot in Michigan was bound with zip ties, sexually assaulted and burned alive after meeting a convicted sex offender, 60, at a motel, according to court documents.
Gruesome new details have emerged about the slaying of Susie Zhao, whose badly burned body was discovered at the secluded Pontiac Lake State Recreation Area in Oakland County back on July 13.
Jeffery Bernard Morris, 60, was arrested on July 31 and charged earlier this month with planning and executing her murder.

Pro poker player Susie Zhao, [left] whose charred remains were found last month in a remote parking lot in Michigan was bound, sexually assaulted then burned alive after meeting convicted sex offender Jeffery Bernard Morris, [right] at a motel, according to court docs 

The Gruesome new details of the slaying of the professional poker player, 33,  have emerged. WXYZ reports that Zhao who was  ‘identified by fingerprints. was bound with zip-ties, and sexually assaulted with a large object before being “lit on fire until she died.”’

Susie Zhao’s charred remains were found in a remote parking lot in Michigan after she met with a convicted sex offender, 60, at a motel, according to court documents.

Her badly burned body was discovered at the secluded Pontiac Lake State Recreation Area in Oakland County back on July 13.
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Homeless sex offender Jeffery Bernard Morris was arrested and charged earlier in August with planning and executing her murder.
Morris, who has a long rap sheet including multiple domestic violence charges and is on the sex offender’s register, was found with a bloodied baseball bat and bed sheet in his vehicle when he was pulled over and detained by officers days after Zhao’s death.
Zhao was last seen alive by her mother on July 12 around 5.30pm.
Her charred body was discovered at around 8:05 a.m. the next morning by two men in the wooded parking area of the state park.
Cell phone records confirm Morris and Zhao met up on the night of July 12, according to newly-obtained court documents.
Morris told cops after his arrest he had picked Zhao up on Watkins Lake Road and they checked into the Sherwood Motel around 9:26 p.m. on July 12.
The suspected killer said the pair then left the motel briefly to buy alcohol at a party store before returning.
Zhao then left the motel at midnight ‘and took all of her belongings including her cell phone with her,’ Morris told cops.
However, cell phone records place Zhao’s cell phone at the motel until around 5 a.m. the following morning – the same time both cell phone records and surveillance footage captured Morris leaving the motel, the court documents show.