It was once a moving lake, a geographical phenomenon. Then, a nuclear test site, a camel reserve, and an archeological research site. But more than anything, the Lop Nur is an area in China known for it's mysterious disappearances. It's sometimes called 'Asia's Devil Triangle' or 'The Sea of Death'. On 17th June 1980, experienced Chinese scientist and explorer, Peng Jia Mu went on an expedition into the Lop Nur. He was never seen again... Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abrie...
Oct 04, 2021•13 min•Ep. 47
Imagine you're a Hong Kong policeman in 1999, you're in a shabby apartment. It's decorated in Hello Kitty. There's Hello Kitty everywhere, from the utensils to the walls, there's plushies scattered all over the apartment. You tear open an extra-large mermaid hello kitty, the one the 13-year-old girl wouldn't stop looking at. What're you expecting to find? Definitely not the skull of 23-year-old Fan Man-Yee, who died after a month of brutal, inhumane, disgusting torture... Website: https://abrief...
Sep 27, 2021•28 min•Ep. 46
Boonpeng Heep Lek was a monk. But he was not humble, he was not religious, he was not kind. Boonpeng was a gambler, a womanizer, and possibly Thailand's first serial killer (though it was never proven). Though they did find - one body, in an iron chest, then another... Were there more...? Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 20, 2021•19 min•Ep. 45
The body floated in Whampoa River, near McNair road. It was missing a head and hands. It was 12th December 2013, the decapitated body of Jasvinder Kaur had been found floating in the river. The 33-year-old Indian national had only been in Singapore for a few months. The prime suspect? Who could be capable of such a cruel act? None other than her husband, 35-year-old Hasvinder Singh... Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
Sep 13, 2021•14 min•Ep. 44
They said that one by one, the spirits emerged. A soldier, a snake, and the scariest one of all, the devil himself - Lucifer. They said that she slithered on the ground, that she was violent, that she hurled her fists and obscenities in the church... But according to her, they told her she was possessed.She said they wouldn't let her out of the room. She said that they were insistent on exorcising her, that they wouldn't even let her go to the bathroom alone... Who was telling the truth? Website...
Sep 06, 2021•49 min•Ep. 43
During Hungry Ghost Month, the gates of hell open, releasing all. Not just ancestors and lost friends but the vengeful and disturbed as well. Prepare yourself for the supernatural and scary. Michelle and I can't wait to share our ghost stories with you. So listen, and enjoy yourself. Can you feel the hair on your arms and the back of your neck stand? But don't forget. If you're listening, they're listening too... Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Aca...
Aug 30, 2021•32 min•Ep. 42
Adrian Lim was known as a spiritual medium, he spent years learning and practicing black magic. Adrian manipulated women with his reputation has a holy man, as a spiritual guru. He would scam them for sex and money. He would marry them as his "Holy Wives" in a caricature of a wedding ceremony. After he was accused of rape by one of his victims, Adrian was angry. He would have his revenge. On 24th January 1981, with the assistance of his two main "Holy Wives", he raped and murdered nine-year-old ...
Aug 16, 2021•28 min•Ep. 41
Adrian Lim cemented his position in Singapore's dark history with his horrific crimes. On 24th January 1981, with the assistance of his two "Holy Wives", he raped and murdered nine-year-old Agnes Ng. Not satisfied, he also brutally killed ten-year-old Ghazali bin Marzuki almost two weeks later. Why did he do this? It was all part of a murderous ritual. You see, Adrian was also a spiritual medium - a bomoh of sort that worshipped many different deities. He was also a scam artist and conman who ex...
Aug 09, 2021•29 min•Ep. 40
It was a triple homicide in the gated community of BF Homes, Paranaque, Philippines. On 30th June 1991, 49-year-old Estralita Vizcone, 19-year-old Maria Carmela Vizconde, and 6-year-old Jennifer Vizconde were brutally murdered in their own home. In total, the family suffered about 49 stab wounds, their house was drenched in blood. Carmela had also been raped. The prime suspect? Hubert Webb, the privileged son of former Philipino senator Freddie Webb. But the thing is, that he was supposedly a co...
Aug 02, 2021•35 min•Ep. 39
It was 9th October 1947, Mat Taram bin Sa'al had suddenly snapped. On a train to Kuala Lumpur, he stood up, leaving his family. Then he strode to the dining carriage and started attacking passengers with a four-inch pocket knife. When the train stopped, he continued leaving a trail of bodies through Malaysia. He killed 9 people and injured even more... Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 26, 2021•17 min•Ep. 38
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: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 12, 2021•12 min•Ep. 37
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 murder..? Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Jun 28, 2021•34 min•Ep. 36
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 house. On 21st April 1999, Maniam was brutally attacked and murdered by two men outside his Phoenix Ga...
Jun 21, 2021•32 min•Ep. 35
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 on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 14, 2021•17 min•Ep. 34
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. They thought he was furious - angry that she dared to end their relationship. They found her tooth in ...
Jun 07, 2021•12 min•Ep. 33
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 he killed her... Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acas...
May 24, 2021•27 min•Ep. 32
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 for the drop... Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast...
May 17, 2021•16 min•Ep. 31
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 that the boy's father had killed Delia, that Flor was a scapegoat that had been beaten into confessing ...
May 11, 2021•15 min•Ep. 30
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 July 1963, among the whispers of discontent over living conditions, unhappiness with rival gangs, and...
Apr 26, 2021•25 min•Ep. 29
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/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 19, 2021•11 min•Ep. 28
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://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
Apr 12, 2021•27 min•Ep. 27
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/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 05, 2021•10 min•Ep. 26
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 29, 2021•30 min•Ep. 25
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 Nonis, represented by founding father David Marshall. And the Chief Inspector of police, Rayney, acc...
Mar 22, 2021•15 min•Ep. 24
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: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Mar 16, 2021•14 min•Ep. 23
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....
Mar 01, 2021•7 min•Ep. 22
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/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 22, 2021•34 min•Ep. 21
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: @abriefcasepodcast *edit/correction: Chen Ruiqin was initially given 5 death sentences and 1 life sentence, not just 5 de...
Feb 17, 2021•42 min•Ep. 20
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 Valentine's Day, 2004... Website: https://abriefcasepodcast.com/ Instagram: @abriefcasepodcast Hosted on Aca...
Feb 08, 2021•23 min•Ep. 19
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 dumps. The rest? Still missing. And the killer? Running the very restaurant the family was butchered in.....
Feb 01, 2021•13 min•Ep. 18
