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Lee Kok Cheong (1939 – December 14, 1993) was the Head of the English Proficiency Unit at the National University of Singapore. He was murdered on December 14, 1993; the identities of his killers remained ...
1991 case of an elderly woman killed by two robbers in Singapore
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On 12 February 1991, a 78-year-old housewife Sukarti binti Amari was found murdered inside her Telok Blangah flat by her nephew and husband. Her eight rings, gold chains and other jewellery worth S$5,000 ...
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On 1 November 1970, 31-year-old gardener Osman bin Ali murdered a 68-year-old cook Tan Tai Hin (Chinese: 陈在贤; pinyin: Chén Zàixián) and 58-year-old amah Wu Tee (Chinese: 伍娣; pinyin: Wú ...
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Between April 1992 and December 1992, there were two cases of taxi drivers being killed in Singapore, specifically in secluded areas of Yishun. The first was Seing Koo Wan (Chinese: 邢谷环; pinyin: ...
1990 robbery-murder of an Italian housewife in Singapore
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On 10 October 1990, just three days after her whole family migrated from Italy to Singapore, 38-year-old Italian housewife Clementina Curci Di Girolamo, also known as Clementina Curci, was brutally murdered ...
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The Woodlands double murders were the murders of pregnant housewife Choong Pei Shan (Chinese: 钟佩珊; pinyin: Zhōng Peìshān) and her daughter Teo Zi Ning (Chinese: 张梓宁; pinyin: Zhāng Zǐníng) ...
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The Kallang River body parts murder was a murder and dismemberment case that occurred in Singapore in June 2005. The case earned its name due to the body parts of the victim, 22-year-old Liu Hong Mei ...
2003 case of a maid killing her Singaporean employer's mother-in-law
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On 4 August 2003, 17-year-old Purwanti Parji, an Indonesian citizen and former maid, murdered her Singaporean employer's mother-in-law at Paya Lebar. Purwanti was said to have strangled 57-year-old Har ...
2005 case of an abusive wife who was killed by her husband
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On 25 October 2005, 37-year-old Lim Ah Seng (林亚成 Lín Yǎchéng), a provision shop deliveryman, strangled his 26-year-old Indonesian Chinese common-law wife Riana Agustina to death in his flat in Bukit Merah ...
1989 kidnapping and murder of a goldsmith in Singapore
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On 11 April 1989, 56-year-old goldsmith Phang Tee Wah (Chinese: 庞世华; pinyin: Páng Shìhuá) was kidnapped by two men before he was murdered. Despite his death, the kidnappers demanded ransom from Phang's ...
1971 high-profile robbery-murder case in Singapore
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Known as the Gold Bars triple murders, on 29 December 1971, 55-year-old businessman and gold bar smuggler Ngo Cheng Poh (吴崇波 Wú Chóngbō), together with his two employees 57-year-old Ang Boon Chai (洪文彩 ...
2011 disappearance and murder of a property agent in Singapore
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On 26 May 2011, the date of her 36th birthday, Singaporean property agent Celine Ng Swee Peng (黄瑞萍 Huáng Ruìpíng) disappeared after she was last seen by her flatmate, who reported her missing two days ...
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On 25 June 1995, a six-year-old schoolgirl named Lim Shiow Rong (林秀蓉 Lín Xiùróng) was found dead in a forested area near Jalan Woodbridge, Singapore. Found in a semi-sitting position, Lim was later found ...
Bangladeshi painter put to death in Singapore for murder (1989–2024)
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Ahmed Salim (1 January 1989 – 28 February 2024) was a Bangladeshi painter who was charged with killing his Indonesian girlfriend Nurhidayati Wartono Surata on the evening of 30 December 2018 at a hotel ...