but neither offer induced much cooperation with the police. Technological factors also made collecting evidence difficult. No homes or businesses in the immediate vicinity of the Chens had security cameras that might have provided footage to review. Police were also frustrated when Apple refused their initial requests to release the Chens' iPhone records. The company eventually complied, but Soares said their dealings with it "set us back considerably". Forensic evidence yielded some information, but nothing that resulted in significant leads. The autopsies were able to put the victims' time of death at between 3:30 and 6:30 a.m. that day. Investigators were able to collect DNA samples that might belong to a suspect, but had not been able to determine who might have left it. Alleged criminal connections From the beginning there were allegations that the Chens had been involved in illegal business activities in addition to, or even instead of, the restaurant, such as human trafficking, money laundering, or illegal gambling. At the family's Chinatown news conference after the killings, Chen's brother denied an early report in Sing Tao that the family was murdered by someone who had returned after a late gambling party at the house to steal their considerable take from the event. He did, however, concede that Chen had indeed often had his friends over for low-stakes card games. A World Journal reporter in attendance later told the Albany Times-Union that she and her colleagues believed the family knew more about what might have led to the killings than they were ready to say publicly. Newsday reported a month after the crime that state police had been putting up bilingual fliers seeking information and tips in restaurants and stores along East Broadway, in the section of Chinatown that, due to its high concentration of Fujianese immigrants in recent years, has increasingly come to be known as Little Fuzhou. It also said that an unnamed source had told the paper that Chen had shut down his restaurant two years earlier and his wife was in the U.S. illegally. Since he continued to live comfortably without any obvious income, it was widely believed in Chinatown that he was making his money in some illegal way, the source said. Chief Lawlor said, nonetheless, that there had been no evidence her department knew of that anything illegal was going on at the Chens' house or another one next door that had