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Every Tuesday, A Brief Case takes a closer look into the deadly and distressing, murder, madness and minds of true crime in this little part of the world. We‘ll set up the scene and walk through the nitty-gritty bringing you the facts, details and theories surrounding each case. Based in Singapore, do say hi - follow and drop us a message on instagram @abriefcasepodcast
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17 hours ago
17 hours ago
Jennifer Laude was just 26 years old. It was 11th October 2014, a Saturday night.
She started her evening at the Ambyanz disco bar in Olongapo, Philippines. Then, she left for the Celzone lodge with 19-year-old American Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton.
She would never go home.
Jennifer would be killed in the motel room, drowned face-first in the toilet...
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Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Le Thanh Van left behind a trail of death. There were former employers, friends, and even her husband's family...
She was Vietnam's first modern serial killer, taking more than a dozen lives...
How did she elude capture for so long, leaving authorities baffled? And what motivated her to commit such chilling crimes; or did she just fall into the habit of killing?
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Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Piang Ngaih Don had been beaten daily, burned with a hot iron, starved, and deprived of sleep. When she died, she weighed 24kg. She had lost 38 percent of her body weight.
Her abuser wasn't a gangster or a thug, but still certainly a cold-blooded killer. Her abuser was a middle-aged murderer, married to a policeman.
Her murderer, Gaiyathiri Murugayan, was documented on CCTV abusing her in front of her young children...
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Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
I can't believe we're a hundred episodes in! Michelle and I have a great time recapping three of the most listened cases of the podcast:
We also have a quick Q&A answering questions from Instagram. Who is Teddy? Which cases intrigue me? Why did I start this podcast...?
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Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Jessica Wongso and Wayan Mirna Salihin were as thick as thieves. Both wealthy, beautiful Indonesians studying in the Billy Blue College of design in Sydney.
But life after college couldn't have been more different for each of them. Jessica had a tumultuous relationship with her Australian boyfriend; drunk driving, car crashes, and suicide attempts. Mirna married her boyfriend of eight years, Arief Soemarko, in the tropical paradise of Bali.
When Jessica visits Jakarta, the friends meet. But how did the happy reunion end in tragedy...?
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Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Javed Iqbal was a middle-aged monster. And one by one, the boys in the market square slowly disappeared. Why didn't anyone notice? Why didn't anyone care?
The vats of acid were cheap, he bragged. Each vat of hydrochloric acid cost him 120 rupees, only about $2 dollars or so.
He could have killed so many more if he wanted to. And the thing is, I don't doubt it...
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Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Javed Iqbal was a pervert with a penchant for young boys. Everything that he did was driven by his vile desires, his ugly urges.
His existence was a reign of terror in his village in Pakistan. He opened an arcade, a gym, and even a school. Parents took care to keep their children away from him.
Javed had a reputation; so why did still skulk the streets...?
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Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Abby Choi had a net worth of 100 million hong kong dollars. She appeared in magazines like Elle, Vogue, and was on the cover of L'Officiel. She was a socialite with four children and the co-founder of an animal rescue charity...
Who would want Abby dead?
Surely not her ex-husband, Alex Kwong; the father of her first two children. Abby still took care of his family, she paid for his expenses, she hired his brother as her chauffeur, even the home that they lived in - but what if it wasn't enough? Was the whole family involved in this brutal murder plot?
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Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Be careful who you meet online; Aftab Amin Poonwala and Shraddha Walkar met on Bumble. It didn't take long for them to realize how much they had in common. They worked for the same company, grew up in the same area, they studied the same subjects...
In less than a year, they would move in together. And just three years after the start of their relationship, Shraddha would be dead. She would be murdered, butchered, and her body discarded in Delhi's forests.
Her boyfriend, the food blogger, would be back on Bumble within the month...
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Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Caning is a form of corporal punishment in Singapore that involves administering blows with a cane, typically on the bare buttocks. It has been described as unimaginably painful.
Do you think that caning is an effective deterrent or a form of cruel and inhumane punishment?
Michael Fay was an eighteen year old American teenager, sentenced to six strokes of the cane, four months in prison, and a $3500 fine. Why was the teenager so harshly punished?
For possessing stolen road signs, stolen Singapore flags, and allegedly vandalizing over sixty cars...
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