The woman who was killed, Gao Liqin, a 38-year-old illegal immigrant who worked in a Queens garment factory, was snatched off the street near her Corona factory on Aug. 22, 1995, dragged into a van and taken to a basement apartment in Brooklyn, where she was held with other kidnapping victims. She was found 11 days later, when firefighters responded to a blaze in the apartment, which, it turned out, had been set by another kidnapping victim as a way to get help.