Slain Woman Was Part of Running Feud

VILLA PARK — As law-enforcement officials continued investigating the shooting death of Villa Park housewife Janie Louise Pang, court records detailed a complicated history of bad feeling between the Pangs and a spurned suitor that dates back to Pang’s days working in an exotic nightclub.

Pang and her husband sought a restraining order in June 1993 against Anas Koudsi of Rowland Heights, accusing him of trying to sabotage their marriage by “making threats, leaving phony messages from girls on [Danny Pang’s] answering machine” and, at one point, breaking into the couple’s home.

But two weeks later, Koudsi sought a restraining order against the Pangs, accusing Danny Pang of reneging on a debt and threatening him with violence, all tied to Pang’s jealousy of Koudsi, according to Orange County Superior Court records.

Danny Pang could not be reached for comment Monday. Attempts to locate Koudsi were unsuccessful.

Pang brought up the subject of an alleged stalker last week in media interviews, saying he had filed for a restraining order against the man and provided information to the Sheriff’s Department about him.

The details about the restraining orders emerged as sheriff’s investigators continued their efforts to find the man who went to the Pangs’ upscale Villa Park home Friday and, after the maid opened the door, went to the second floor and shot and killed Janie Pang.

Sheriff’s Lt. Ron Wilkerson declined to discuss the investigation in detail, saying that police were pursuing several avenues of inquiry.

“I can’t get into any of that,” Wilkerson said, adding that public revelations about the stalking incident came from Pang. “We didn’t release any information on that. We’ve got the composite. We’ve not been able to name anyone [as a suspect] yet. We’re still looking for the man who came to the door.”

Janie Pang, whose maiden name was Farrell, grew up in the Fountain Valley area and left school early to marry her first husband, John Beuschlein III. The couple had two children before divorcing. Attempts to reach Beuschlein were unsuccessful.

His father, though, said Pang’s mother died a number of years ago, and her father is in nursing care at an unknown location. Pang also had a brother who died in car crash a number of years ago, the family said. They declined further comment.

According to Koudsi’s court affidavit, Pang worked after her divorce as a stripper at the Tropical Lei in Upland, where she met Koudsi in June 1992.

“I purchased a photograph from the bar depicting her kissing me,” Koudsi said in the affidavit. “Shortly thereafter, we began a dating relationship.”

The relationship continued until she married Pang, Koudsi said in the affidavit.

Before the marriage, Koudsi said, he loaned Janie Pang $2,000, and another $400 to Danny Pang. In his affidavit, Koudsi said Danny Pang had told him he was “a heavy gambler, both in Las Vegas and in the City of Commerce, and that through which he was connected with the Chinese mafia.”

When he sought to have the loans repaid, Koudsi said, Danny Pang began threatening him.

That affidavit was filed two weeks after the Pangs sought court protection from Koudsi, saying that Koudsi repeatedly called Janie Pang, family members, friends and the couple’s business associates.

Danny Pang said in the affidavit that Koudsi’s actions, which included an attempt to blackmail the couple out of $3,000, had so unsettled him that at one point he tried to commit suicide. He said that Koudsi’s obsessive behavior had destabilized their entire family and that Koudsi had threatened to direct his efforts internationally by sending a photograph of Janie Pang in a small bathing suit to Danny Pang’s grandfather in Taiwan.

“My family is always scared not knowing what is going on,” Pang’s affidavit said. “I have been under doctor’s help and my wife and I are trying to live a normal life. We don’t need anybody harassing us or making our lives miserable.”

Also contributing to this report was Times correspondent Jeff Kass.