Tuesday night after the Wah family learned of their daughter's fate, they prayed, read from the Bible and sang Christian hymns in their apartment all night, said Paul Van Dyke, an LDS service missionary who has been acting as family spokesman. Other refugees living in the complex joined them, and soon their small apartment was so full of people singing that there wasn't room for anyone else, he said.

Van Dyke described the Wah family as Christians but said they did not belong to any specific religion.

Wednesday, Cartoon Wah and his sons wiped tears from their eyes as Wah reiterated how much they all loved his daughter.

"I cannot replace her," he said. "I loved her most."

Refugees from many countries live at the apartment complex, including several from Myanmar. Cartoon Wah lived in a refugee camp for 20 years before a Christian group helped him and his family move to Utah in August, Van Dyke said. Nearly all the refugees living at the complex speak very limited English.

Wah was run out of Myanmar under "severe circumstances," he said. Van Dyke said Cartoon Wah and his family were acclimating to their new lifestyle. Wah and his oldest sons, Kerker Po, 20, and KyiKyi Po, 18, had jobs at Deseret Industries working for less than $6 an hour, he said. Some of his family were learning how to speak English. Moo, herself, knew limited English.

The move to Utah was a change in almost every aspect, Van Dyke said. Even the climate took getting used to as the family had never seen snow before.

Because those who came from Thailand shared a common experience of living in refugee camps, they felt a bond with each other and had a communal way of living in America, Van Dyke said. It wasn't uncommon for one family to share their apartment with another or for someone to walk in and out of someone else's apartment freely, he said.

In the past, Moo and her friends had gone into the same apartment where she died, according to one neighbor, a refugee who knew both Met and the Wah family. She apparently liked to play with friends there. However, that was before Met moved in, he said.

But because of the comfort level among members of their own community, Van Dyke said it was probably correct to assume Moo did not feel any stranger danger around Met.

The apartment where Met lived was occupied by single men from Thailand. Stephen Naylor, bishop of the LDS Haven Ward, said Met had only lived there a short time, but neither he nor the others had ever raised any red flags.

Wednesday, the management of the apartment complex posted notes on the door of every residence notifying them that the four men who lived in the apartment who were questioned, but not arrested, had been evicted effective immediately. The management wanted to assure tenants of their safety and called what happened to Moo an "isolated incident."