Article: Khiem Competent for Trial in Parents' Deaths;Former South Vietnamese Diplomats Slain at Home Here in 1986

A D.C. Superior Court judge found Tran Van Khiem competent yesterday to stand trial on charges that he murdered his elderly parents, both former Vietnamese diplomats, in July 1986.

Khiem's parents, Tran Van Chuong, 88, and Nam Tran Tran Van Chuong, 75, were found suffocated at the Western Avenue NW home they shared with their son and Khiem, 60, was arrested the next day. He pleaded not guilty earlier this year.

Khiem's parents first came to the United States in the 1950s when his father was named ambassador to the United States and his mother was the country's permanent observer at the United Nations. Khiem's younger sister is Madame Nhu, who was also known as the Dragon Lady, the wife of ...

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