That's where the cop's wife is from. In 2005 , while married to first husband, Kellie Xiong was arrested for using a bad check/cheque in a grocery store for the amount of $42.24 [= 66 .. just sayin']

Voat post about Eau Claire: https://searchvoat.co/?t=%22eau+claire%22

Schools superintendent from Eau Claire suburb charged with sex trafficking, child pornography by @fogdryer

Then there's a Tommy Xiong who was arrested for child pornography. Can't find any other information on him to determine if he is part of the ex-husband's family https://www.weau.com/content/news/Eau-Claire-man-accused-of-possessing-child-pornography-502225012.html

Kellie's 2 sons are in the US army which we can see from the ex-husand's obit

On looking for information about the Xiong family I realized that a lot of information has been scrubbed from the internet and my computer kept crashing with certain searches.. so, of course that only piqued my interest.

This article led me to an interesting find: Hmong elders in Eau Claire still searching -https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/1/hmong-elders-in-eau-claire-still-searching/ (as Kellie Chauvin is from the Hmong community of Laos as was her first husband)

Yang’s young adult and adult life was permeated with war, accidents and illnesses, the Leader-Telegram reported. Her first husband, a soldier in the CIA’s “Secret War” against communist forces in Laos that lasted from the early ‘60s to mid ‘70s, died in a bomb explosion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Laos

CIA activities in Laos started in the 1950s. In 1959, U.S. Special Operations Forces (Military and CIA) began to train some Laotian soldiers in unconventional warfare techniques as early as the fall of 1959 under the code name "Erawan".[1] Under this code name, General Vang Pao, who served the royal Lao family, recruited and trained his Hmong soldiers. The Hmong were targeted as allies after President John F. Kennedy, who refused to send more American soldiers to battle in Southeast Asia, took office. Instead, he called the CIA to use its tribal forces in Laos and "make every possible effort to launch guerrilla operations in North Vietnam with its Asian recruits." General Vang Pao then recruited and trained his Hmong soldiers to ally with the CIA and fight against North Vietnam.[2] The CIA itself claims that the CIA air operations in Laos from 1955-1974 were the "largest paramilitary operations ever undertaken by the CIA."

..By the summer of 1970 the CIA owned airline Air America ..

According to William M. Leary, a historian at the University of Georgia who analyzed Laotian operations for the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA-led covert action in Laos was the largest paramilitary operation in the history of the Agency.

Allegations of CIA drug trafficking

South Vietnam's President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, and Prime Minister Trần Thiện Khiêm led a narcotics ring with ties to the Corsican mafia, the Trafficante crime family in Florida, and other high-level military officials in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand... ccording to McCoy, the CIA chartered Air America aircraft and helicopters in northern Laos to transport opium harvested by their "tribal mercenaries".[6] He also accused United States Ambassador to Laos G. McMurtrie Godley of blocking the assignment of Bureau of Narcotics officials to Laos in order to maintain the Laotian government's cooperation in military and political matters.[6] McCoy reiterated similar charges in his 1972 book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia published by Harper and Row.[7] He stated that the CIA was knowingly involved in the production of heroin in the Golden Triangle of Burma, Thailand, and Laos.[7] The CIA denied involvement, but evidence shows that they may have been involved in the drug trade.

Human trafficking in Laos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Laos

Laos is primarily a source country for women and girls trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation and labor exploitation as domestics or factory workers in Thailand.

Hmm. wonder how that happened?

The CIA, the Hmong, and the Secret War