Dan Durke and Katherine Chao on their wedding day at Katherine’s home in Alhambra, CA 1991. It is customary for the couple to spend their wedding night in the bride’s family home. After they were married, Dan and Katherine shared a rented home with another couple.
Dan Durke and Dan’s fiancée, Katherine Chao, exchanging rings at Katherine’s home in Alhambra, CA in 1989. From left to right: Katherine’s mother, Mouy Chao; Katherine Chao; Dan Durke; a distant relative, Hun; Katherine’s aunt. Dan thinks this may be when he first met Katherine’s family. Dan was in his second year of college and Katherine was finishing high school.
Dan Durke and fiancée, Katherine Chao, at the home of Dan’s foster parents, Robert and Edith McHugh in Manhattan Beach 1989. McHugh was Dan’s Gardena High School math teacher. He knew that Dan needed a home and took him in from 1984 to 1990. The McHughs also had a son and daughter. Dan has stayed in touch with them.
Dan Durke’s permit to reenter the U.S. issued by the Department of Justice in 1986. Note that Dan has added an American middle name and changed the spelling of his last name. He is now identified as Maysak Robert Doiuk. His country of claimed nationality is stateless.