A Brief Case

3rd March 1991 was the last day Chan Mui Mui was seen alive. She had a tenuous relationship with her husband but loved her two sons. Every day, Mui Mui would drive around selling vegetables bought from Chong Pang wet market to workers at construction sites.  Her truck was later found in Ulu Sembawang, but Mui Mui was never seen again...   Website:  https://abriefcasepodcast.com/   Instagram:  @abr...

It was after a playdate on 2nd November 2003. Robert's six-year-old daughter passed him a strawberry milkshake - the ingredients? Just the usual, strawberries, bananas, ice cream, rohypnol, and all sorts of roofies...  Nancy Kissel waited for her husband to pass out, then she bashed his head in with a metal sculpture. How did the seemingly perfect American marriage become a Hong Kong milkshake mur...

Julaiha Begum was beautiful. Beautiful and dangerous.  After her divorce in 1981, she married police inspector T. Maniam. They lived in marital bliss and eventually moved to 86 Phoenix Garden in 1993 - this is where the 51-year-old would meet her 25-year-old lover v Loganatha Venkatesan, he lived just two houses away. Their affair tore the family apart, but that wasn't enough. Julaiha wanted the h...

Yoo Young Chul hated the rich, so he killed them. His wife left him for trying to rape a 15-year old. His girlfriend also broke up with him after finding out that he was a criminal.  So he started killing women too.  After being caught in 2004, he admitted to killing over 20 people and eating some of their livers...   Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/   Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted o...

On 17th April, 39-year-old Ramipiram was found on a concrete patch in Sembawang. According to forensic evidence, she had been brutally stabbed, then run over multiple times. This was a crime that seemed to be committed by someone who had strong feelings against her.   The prosecution thought it could have been Nadasan Chandra - her boyfriend, affair partner, and husband's sister's brother-in-law....

You're in an argument. You're angry. A blind rage.  What's the first weapon you reach for? Is it a knife, a pair of scissors or perhaps an innocent-looking nail clipper? It was 4th October 1996. 29-year-old Zulkarnain bin Kemat was smoking at the house of his friend, drinking and smoking buddy, 51-year-old Jetkor Miang Singh. With a 22-year age gap, the two made an unlikely pair of friends.  Until...

On 12th December 2016, ten men were arrested in Australia - there were nine Chinese nationals and one Singaporean found on a 'Mothership' sea vessel.  Their crime? Trying to traffick 186kg of South American cocaine on the Kaiyo Maru No. 8, a Japanese whaling vessel. The drugs were worth S$64.6 million,one of the largest cocaine busts in Australia. But their Australia contacts just never showed up...

On 4th May 1991, Nicholas Huang's parents returned home to their flat to find their 3-year-old son and 36-year-old Filipino domestic worker, Delia Maga, murdered. Nicholas had been drowned, and Delia, strangled by an elastic cord.  The main culprit - Flor Contemplacion, a friend of the worker who allegedly killed them both in a fit of rage.   This was a case that escalated. There were allegations...

Rumors were that Pulau Senang was cursed by an old man - all who tried to live there would find illness and death.  In the 1960s, it was set up as an experimental offshore penal colony to ease overcrowding in Changi Prison. It was run by Superintendent Daniel Sutton who believed in hard work and rehabilitation. For the first couple of years, this settlement was considered a success... But on 12th...

Rape, murder, and suicide - in this episode, we explore the history of Bukit Batok Nature Park.  In 1988, the park was built around an abandoned quarry. A scenic stretch bellies a dark past including dead soldiers' ashes and a Japanese War Memorial. Are these all just unfortunate coincidences or could there be a more sinister reason for these events...   Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/   I...

Si Ouey was Thailand's Boogeyman - he would abduct children, stab them in the throat then eat their hearts and livers.  They say he got his taste for human flesh eating the livers of enemy soldiers in World War Two. We don't know how many children he actually killed, only that he was caught burning the body of an eight-year-old boy, by none other than the boy's father...   Website:  https://abrief...

The 60s were a time of deadly kidnappings. It was a time of gangs and goons, crime was common.   On 24th May 1968, nineteen-year-old Ong Beang Lek was lured into a car at the Rex theatre by twenty-two-year-old Richard Lai and his associates.  Richard thought this was your typical kidnap and ransom. Until they brought out their weapons and started stabbing... Website:  https://abriefcasepodcast.com...

It was 4:05 pm on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, 27th February 2008.  Jemaah Islamiah terrorist leader Mas Selamat climbed out of a bathroom window, shimmied down a ventilation pipe, and broke out of Singapore's Internal Security Department's Whitney Road Detention Centre.  This triggered a manhunt that lasted for over a year... Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/   Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast...

On 29th June 1950, she had left CHIJ Katong Convent Primary (previously known as the 'Little Convent by the Sea' in the 1930s) with a mysterious, dark man. One day later, her body was found at a beach in Labrador Park. Winnie Annie Spencer was 10 years old.  This was a case that would shake the nation. There were two different accounts of events and a signed confession. The accused, Joseph Michael...

In 1987, the police received a tip that Ayakanno Marimuthu had been killed and cooked into curry with rice.  The suspects? His wife and her three brothers.   It was reported that Ayakanno had a temper, that he was drunk and violent.  Was that motive ? Nothing was ever found - not his body, not a murder weapon, not the alleged cooking pot...  Edit: It's Detective Constable V. Alagamalai!!  Website:...

20th August 1978, 4 Malaysians and a Singaporean hop on a boat to party with some sailors.  They were offered $100/hr and a diamond ring each.  They were never seen again...   Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/   Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's the safest way to get home in dark and stormy weather? Lam Kor Wan would pick up young women going home on rainy nights, then kill them. He would take photos and videos of their bodies - intact and dismembered. He wasn't just a taxi driver, voyeur, and experimental necrophile. He was also Hong Kong's first and most twisted serial killer...   Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/   Instagr...

He killed his first wife, second wife, adoptive son, biological son, step-son, and girlfriend.  The last one, he tossed her body off a cliff after strangling, sexually assaulting, then murdering her by smashing her head in with a rock. Chen Ruiqin killed to fund his gambling addiction - these were just his confirmed victims...   Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/   Instagram: @abriefcasepodca...

Yang Xin Hai's sickening body count was 67 murders and 23 rapes over four years - more than Indonesia's Ahmed Suradji (42 confirmed). Between 2000 and 2003, he murdered farmers, married couples, and even entire families. He was China's and possibly the whole of Asia's worst-ever serial killers. He was eventually caught on 3rd November 2003 during a routine venue inspection and executed on Valentin...

Char Siew Baos are the sexiest warm buns - steaming, filled with succulent barbeque flavored pork. Chefs will slow-roast the meat until it's tender, falling off the bone. Did I say pork? Close enough.  On 4th August 1985, a family of ten are slaughtered in the Eight Immortals Restaurant in the Portuguese colony of Macau. Some body parts were washed ashore on the beach, others found in garbage dump...

Imagine - you have the worst case of the shits. Doing it in a public bathroom is so gross, but you gotta do what you gotta do. You run into the toilet, it's grimy and it's dark. You're about to yank your pants down, you REALLY, REALLY have to go. But then you see – a bloody pair of dismembered legs. Do you still do it?   11th May 1974, the police find the dismembered legs of 53-year-old Quek Lee E...

Orchard Towers in Singapore is an interesting place. It’s well-known as the four floors of whores, It is pretty international, and we’re not just talking about the girls. It just so happens, that Orchard Towers is where Englishman Michael Mcrea dumped two bodies, a Singaporean and a Chinese national.  The bodies belonged to Kho Nai Guan and his girlfriend Lan Ya Ming - Nai Guan was Michael's perso...

Sunny Ang was a man of many many talents, failed teacher, failed pilot, failed Grand Prix driver (even killing a pedestrian). He was a declared bankrupt and had been caught for burglary.  But Sunny was also smooth and suave, he was so slick that he managed to catch himself a pretty young thing - 22-year-old Jenny Cheok.  Sunny then decided he wanted to be a lawyer. He wanted to study in England bu...

On 30th June 2007, Felicia Teo disappeared without a trace. She was last seen on CCTV footage entering a lift in Marine Terrace with two male friends after a party at LASALLE College of Arts. She was never seen again. More than thirteen years later, both men, Ahmad Danial Mohamed Rafa’ee and Ragil Putra Setia Sukmarahjana, have been accused of allegedly murdering Felicia on that very same night......

Where's the worst place to get rid of a body in Singapore? On 9th September 2005, Jane Paragan La Puebla's dismembered head, arms, and legs were found next to the mural wall at Orchard MRT. The rest of her body was found in a luggage case along Lornie Road near Macritchie Reservoir.   The killer?  Her best friend and fellow domestic worker, Guen Garlejo Aguilar...   abriefcasepodcast.com   Hosted...