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Seemingly safe on the surface, sunny Singapore has seen its fair share of murders that run the gamut from pre-mediated cases to crimes of passion. Here are some cases from the archives. Read about the curry murders where the victim's body was dismembered and cooked in curry and then disposed of. Then there was the maid who stabbed her employer and yet another who killed her employer's child. But maids have also fallen prey and one domestic worker was herself murdered and dumped into a rooftop water tank.

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Publié par	Marshall Cavendish International
Date de parution	01 mai 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789814484589
Langue	English

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MURDER MOST FOUL

2013 Yeo Suan Futt and Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd
Published by Marshall Cavendish Editions
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Yeo, Suan Futt.
Murder most foul : strangled, poisoned and dismembered in Singapore / Yeo, Suan Futt. - Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2013.
pages cm
eISBN : 978 981 4484 58 9
1. Murder - Singapore. 2. Murderers - Singapore. 3. Murder victims - Singapore.
I. Title.
HV6515
364.1523095957 -- dc23 OCN837425277
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Cover photograph by Flavio Takemoto ( www.sxc.hu )
Printed in Singapore
Contents
Introduction
Case 1 Yishun Triple Murder
Case 2 Big Eyes
Case 3 A Pot of Curry
Case 4 Flor Contemplacion Double Murder
Case 5 Kallang Body Parts Murder
Case 6 Maid for Murder 3+1
Case 7 Mommy s Dearest
Case 8 Adrian Lim Murders
Case 9 Orchard Towers Double Murder
Case 10 One-Eyed Dragon
Case 11 Will You Kill My Wife?
Case 12 The Trolley Bag
STABBED, drowned, strangled, bludgeoned - variously killed, but not by chance. In this volume, we have compiled true accounts of the most heinous crimes committed in our nation s short history, crimes of a most personal sort: murder.
Unlike most other crimes, there is no possibility of turning back - here, an individual s life has been terminated with the finality of a full-stop, there is no recourse, no recompense. And distinct from cases where deaths have resulted from negligence, accident or circumstance, murder is written in malice, and often stewed in coldblooded calculation before it boils over in one terrifying, savage act.
Why do people commit murder? It s a question as old as the crime itself, and even if we had the answer under our very noses, it s likely one we cannot universally accept.
Still, Singapore is among the safest places on earth to live as far as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is concerned: along with Japan, Singapore has around 0.5 cases of intentional homicide per 100,000 population. Malaysia and Thailand stand at 2.3 and 5.3 respectively; UK and Australia each have 1.2; while the most murderous state, Honduras, tops the list with 82.
Our condolences, then, to the living as we share the stories of the dead. It s one way to remember them, like buildings and scenery that are no more.
IN THE FACE OF declining population growth, which has lagged behind replacement levels since the 1980s, one of Singapore s strategies for sustained economic growth and national rejuvenation has been to lower the barriers to immigration. This policy, which has been pursued with ever greater zeal in recent years, opened the floodgates to foreigners from varied lands of myriad monikers: Foreign Talent , who bring with them prized skills and contacts needed to elevate local businesses to world-class standard; Foreign Labour , who take on jobs shunned by locals, from laying bricks to cleaning tables; and PDMMs, or Pei Du Ma Ma, the thousands of largely middle-aged women from China on special passes, accompanying their young children studying in Singapore.
PDMMs have long attracted curiosity, not least because the media paints them as lonely women - a fair number of them are divorced, and purportedly open to new liaisons - who must do everything they can to fend for themselves and provide for their children in Singapore s harsh economic climate, thousands of miles from husband and family support. But this curiosity exploded overnight in one of Singapore s bloodiest murders, which occurred right in the heartlands, when a PDMM and her daughter were hacked to death by the former s lover. Their flatmate, another PDMM, was also killed, and her daughter only just survived after spending months in hospital for horrific wounds.
JUST TALKING
Tall and fair-complexioned with pronounced facial features, Wang Zhijian, age 45, looked very much like what s derisively called the Chinaman , found in great numbers on Singapore s streets. Smiling for the cameras in many shots of the very public trial proceedings, Wang dramatically hardened the stereotype of the blue-collar PRC male, an image built on rough manner of speech and demeanour, and sensationalist reports of callous lawlessness and violent peasant riots in China itself. Yet as the trial unfolded, a more vivid picture emerged of the harsh realities of Wang s life, and in particular his all-consuming relationship with Madam Zhang Meng, 42.
Wang and Zhang first met in 1996 in their native Tianjin, the largest coastal city in northern China. They were introduced by a colleague of Wang s. Nothing much happened and they did not keep in contact. Three years later, they bumped into each other and struck up a conversation. Then in 2004, Wang was surprised when Zhang called him at home though he hadn t given her his number. They talked about his job as a storekeeper at the port, and she told him she worked as a forwarding agent. A year later, she called him again and asked him out to a coffeehouse for a chat. There, he found he could tell Zhang anything. He told her about his divorce a year before, how his marriage had broken down because he and his wife were no longer compatible. Zhang was a good listener, and at the same time said relatively little about herself.
From then on, they would meet every week, usually on Thursdays. Zhang would pick Wang up in her car and they would either go to a coffeehouse or a park, where they would talk. He grew to enjoy her company. Indeed, he liked her, but at this time it was all talk, there was no physical intimacy - according to Wang, he was conservative .
This went on for months, but going out with a lady costs money, worse if one is too traditional to go Dutch. Soon, Wang could no longer afford to pay for their outings, but he kept this to himself and gave excuses that he had personal matters to attend to.
Yet he couldn t completely stay away. The festive season is especially bad for singles, one s loneliness accentuated by the festive cheer all round. Wang sent Zhang a text message wishing her Merry Christmas. She called back. It was good to hear her voice again, they chatted, it was easy. And soon they were going out again, seeing each other more often than before.
AN AFFAIR
At this time, Wang s relationship with Zhang remained platonic. They talked readily, and the easy company was enough. This went on for a few months, until in March 2006, Zhang asked Wang if he had fallen for her.
I admitted it, said Wang, and she asked why I did not hug her. I then hugged her and we had intimate bodily contact. She blamed me for not holding her hand during the last movie outing.
Their relationship had passed a turning point. A week later, they had sex at his place. This was what they would do every week for the next two months until she asked him to move to a swankier flat.
He found the ideal spot and spent about RMB100 (S 21) every week on lilies and roses - which she liked - to decorate the flat.
She rejected his requests to move in with him. Three months into their affair, in June 2006, Zhang confessed to Wang that she was actually married. Wang said it saddened him. He tried to break up with her but she refused.
A few months later, in September, Wang again asked to break up with Zhang, as he suspected she was seeing other men behind his back - on one of their dates, two men had called her to ask her out. But again Zhang pleaded with him, claiming that the two men were just her colleagues playing a prank on her.
She told me that since her first glance at me, she had fallen in love with me. She wanted to be with me for the rest of her life, he said.
As a pledge of her love for Wang, Zhang pricked her finger with a needle and used her blood to write on a piece of paper: I love Wang Zhijian. I want to marry him. But she stopped at I love Wang Zhi- because it was too painful, and asked Wang to complete the sentence for her. Which he did, using his own blood to complete -jian, I want to marry him. He added I love her until I die after she asked him to prove his love for her.
In November, Zhang told her husband about her affair with Wang. Mr Feng was calm when he met up with the two of them and let Zhang choose between him and Wang. She chose to be with Wang because she no longer had any feelings for her husband. He respected her decision. Feng later called Wang on the phone to tell him that his wife had had a few affairs before. Though Wang believed him - he was never really ce