At 5 pm on January 30, an 11-year-old girl in Malaysia asked her mother for one RM0 (about 0.33 SGD) and rode her bicycle to a nearby store to buy things. She then lost contact.
htmlOn February 9, her body was discovered by villagers in an oil palm garden in Kampung, Beta Gen.▲The picture shows the girl’s bicycle on the left, and the picture shows her ID photo on the right. Source: China Newspaper
The girl’s mother, Chaliha, cried bitterly in an interview, revealing that her daughter’s death was very tragic, her head was almost broken, her hands and feet were tied, and multiple organs in her body were removed.
Yesterday, Malaysian police arrested a suspect in his 20s who was the last person to contact the girl.
▲Village identified the location where the body was found
At present, the case is still under investigation. Such abusive killing like
is outrageous. It reminds people of a murder case that shocked the entire island in Geylang, Singapore 40 years ago. Four children were brutally tortured and killed, and the case has been unsolved.
At that time, a Chinese couple lived in a one-bedroom HDB flat in Geylang Balu 58. The husband is Chen Kuncai and his wife is Li Meiying. The two have four children: the eldest son Chen Kunpeng, 10 years old; the second son Chen Kunlin, 8 years old; the third son Chen Kunsong, 6 years old; the fourth sister Chen Qinli, 5 years old.
The couple bought a minibus to help the school pick up and drop off students, the husband drove the car, and the wife took care of the children.
▲ school bus diagram
January 6, 1979, the weather was stuffy.
That morning, everything seemed to be as usual, but the terrifying dark clouds were covering this poor family step by step.
6: Around 35, the couple left the house, and the children were still sleeping soundly. As usual, in order to let the children sleep more, Li Meiying would call home at 7 o'clock and wake the children to go to school. However, she called three calls that day but no one answered...
thought the children were sleeping too heavily, so Li Meiying called the neighbor, and the neighbor knocked on the door, but there was no response.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the couple returned home after sending the students. Behind the door, it was a scene that they would never forget.
I saw that there were splattering blood everywhere in the room. The four children fell into the pool of blood in the bathtub, all of them breathed. Everyone had countless knife wounds on their bodies. They should have been stabbed by repeatedly with sharp weapons. Everyone had multiple knifes on their heads, and the fourth sister's face was almost disfigured. Judging from the posture of the body at the scene, in order to protect the fourth sister, the eldest son's arm was almost cut off by 's arm. Four thin corpses, one stacked and one by one, were covered in blood and a fountain of blood. A pool in the kitchen was filled with blood and the air was filled with the smell of blood. After forensic examination, each child had at least 20 knife wounds in on .
The major newspapers in Singapore also published this news on the front page, and the whole island was in an uproar!
▲The picture on the left is a photo of four children, and the picture on the right is a broken parents. Image source: SPH
What's more strange is that although blood was flying everywhere at the scene, the murderer also cleaned his blood footprints and handprints after the murderer killed the person. He seemed to be prepared. The weapon was a knife taken from the kitchen, and it had been cleaned, leaving no traces.
All this happened in just 35 minutes (6:35-7:10). What kind of person, and what kind of psychological qualities, can clean up and leave the scene in an orderly manner after killing four children so cruelly?
What is angry is that the murderer has not been arrested so far.
The police found that the eldest son was holding several strands of hair in his hand, and it was very likely that he was caught when he was fighting with the murderer. Because of the long hair, the police suspected that the perpetrator might be a woman.
Seeing this, you may say that with hair, there will be DNA, and with DNA, it is a big step closer to solving the case.
It’s a pity that there was no DNA detection technology 40 years ago. The police can only use the most primitive investigation methods. They found:
1. The doors and windows were intact and there was no sign of breaking into the door.Could it be that the child took the initiative to open the door? Then the murderer is very likely an acquaintance; the police also do not rule out that the murderer opened the door with the copied key;
2. No property was lost, and the possibility of killing him for money was ruled out;
0 The police have also sent a lot of suspects.
Suspect 1: Long-haired woman
The day after the incident, the police arraigned two women who might be related to the murder case, but they were soon acquitted.
Suspicion object 2: gambler
Li Meiying's brother told the media that the murderer may be a gambler. Chen and his wife are members of a Chinese lending association. The gambler had often harassed the Chen family because of lending. Li Meiying said that his family had never been involved with such a person;
Suspicion object 3: Couple with blood in clothes
A person who claimed to be an eyewitness said that on the same day, he saw a couple appearing near the crime scene, with one of them stained with blood on his clothes, but then it was confirmed that it was just a prank, maybe playing a drag game;
Suspicion object 4: Malay man taking a taxi
A taxi driver from Toa Payoh said that at around 8 o'clock on the day of the incident, he had taken a suspicious man in his 20s to get on the bus near the 96 block of Kallang Bahru Road. From the map, he saw that the boarding point was only 18 minutes away from the crime site, and the time point of 8 o'clock was also in line with the situation.
The driver said, "There was blood on the left side of the man's body. When he got off the bus on Laomingda Street, a knife he carried with him hit the taxi door with a 'bang'. " (This knife is not a tool for crime, the murder weapon is a knife in the kitchen) This attracted the driver's attention. The man described by the driver was later confirmed to be a neighbor who often visited Chen's house, and he would go to his house to borrow phone calls every day. The children called him uncle. Under the police's arrangement, the taxi driver identified the neighbor as the person who took his car.
When everyone thought the murderer was caught, the Malay man was released after two weeks of detention due to insufficient evidence. Later he moved, and his traces were unknown.
The police visited more than 100 households, but there was still no clue. At this point, the case entered a dead end.
Half a month later, as the Spring Festival approaches, Chen Kuncai, who is still immersed in the pain of losing his son, received a greeting card. On the front of the greeting card is a group photo of four children laughing and playing, and on the back it says " Acai Aying, you are now dead, hahaha ." The signature of
is written in Chinese " Murderer ".
This almost confirmed that it was an acquaintance who committed the crime because he used "deprived son and grandson". After giving birth to four children, the couple underwent sterilization surgery. Not many people knew about this, and the other party used the nickname A Cai and Aying, which further confirmed that the murderer was the person around him.
The text on this greeting card is terrifying to think about it, and the back is chilling, and the words reveal provocation. But the police had no idea how to start with this greeting card alone.
The most uncomfortable thing about this case is that it always feels that it is infinitely close to solving the case, but something is missing, and it ends up becoming a unsolved case. Six years after the incident, the Singapore police are still investigating closely, but still failing to solve the case: the investigation of
has reached a deadlock, and this incident has gradually been forgotten by people. Five years later, Li Meiying completed the sterilization and successfully gave birth to a boy and a girl. The two also changed their careers, sold their minibus, and switched to plastic business. However, sadness has never left this family.
Today, why did these four children be so cruelly killed? Perhaps only the murderer himself knows...
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