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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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Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Mohan Kumar had two wives, and neither of them suspected that he was still propositioning other women. It was clear they would have felt betrayed if they knew he was promising to marry these women, even without a dowry.
He would meet his unsuspecting victim, spend a few days together, and sometimes have sex. Before they parted, he would give her a pill, telling her it was birth control. It was his poison of choice - cyanide.
But he wasn't just a polygamist, he was a serial killer...
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Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
The four terrorists were armed with submachine guns. After setting off explosives in the Pulau Bukom Shell oil refinery, the group hijacked the Laju ferry.
They took five hostages - the crew of the Laju ferry. Tense negotiations over seven days, and finally, the hostages were returned safely. But in exchange, the terrorists wanted guarators, to make sure they'd leave safe.
Thirteen brave men were traded as these guarantors, including a future president of Singapore...
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Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
One by one, the members of Jolly Amma Joseph's family dropped like flies...
Jolly was described as pious, friendly, and a delightful neighbour in a small town of twelve thousand. No one ever suspected her, it was more believable that the house was cursed...
First her mother-in-law, then her father-in-law, and even her husband. Six people would be dead before she was caught...
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Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
This week's episode is a double feature - Benedict and I dive into the case of the world's most notorious bicycle thief and uncover the absolute worst move you can make if you've lost the key to your bike lock...
We talk about what the police did when it seemed that all the bicycles in Toronto were slowly going missing...
And the unfortunate mishaps of a middle-aged man trying to get his bicycle back in a shopping mall in Punggol...
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Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
She watched true crime documentaries, she borrowed true crime books. Twenty-three-year-old Jung Yoo Jung was obsessed with murder...
Then, she stabbed her victim a hundred and ten times...
The police said she did this "out of curiosity". They said that she wanted to know what murder was like...
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Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Heather Mack was a nineteen-year-old American heiress. She was a trust fund baby slated to inherit 1.56 million dollars.
Was the money the reason she killed her mother? The mother and daughter had a tenuous relationship - arguments, police visits, and abortions...
Sheila Von Wiese-Mack was bludgeoned in a St Regis hotel room, before being stuffed in a suitcase and abandoned in the trunk of a taxi...
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Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Cheng Jianan and Li Chiming were in their early twenties, taking a luxurious holiday in Bali. They were expecting five-star hotels, refreshing beers, rest, and relaxation.
Instead, tragedy found them. Jianan was found dead in the bathtub, while Chiming had crawled for 20 minutes in the hotel corridor before bleeding out...
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Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Sagarika Chakraborty was far away from home. She had moved to Norway with her husband. Her husband, Anurup Bhattacharya, worked long days.
She did not speak the language, she had few friends, and even fewer allies in the city of Stavanger.
What could she do when it was decided that she was an unfit mother, that they were unsuitable parents? What would she do to get her two young children back?
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Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
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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