While the most people only talk about the murder cases in the US, we often overlook the local murder cases that are as equally gruesome and brutal as the ones in US.
Today we will be sharing some of these ghastly murders that could have occurred in the very same town that you are from.
1. The Jalan Turi Murders
On the night of April, the 23rd, 1992, Suneeta Talwar was just returning home after a night out with her friends when her security guard, Ariffin Agas suddenly started violently attacking her.
Thankfully, she managed to escape and ran to her neighbour’s house. Little did she know the horrors that had taken place in her bungalow that very night.
When the police arrived at the scene and arrested the security guard, he led them to a septic tank behind the bungalow that contained the cut-up corpses of Suneeta’s children, Kabir, 11, and Arjun, 7, and their maid, Natalia Fernandes, 45.
Ariffin Agas, who was later sentenced to death in 1994 used stones and a chopping board to bludgeon the victims.
2. The Jean Perera Sinappa Case
This scandalous unsolved murder took place at Malaysia’s first highway in 1979. Jean Perera Sinappa, Miss Malaysia runner up, had just enjoyed dinner at Abad Century Hotel in Petaling Jaya with her brother-in-law Karthigesu Sivapakiam.
They were on their way home when Karthugesu says that he stopped the car at the side of the road to relieve himself. While he was doing that, he was suddenly knocked unconscious from behind.
When the police arrived at the scene, they found the beauty queen stabbed to death in a white Fiat 125 car. Karthigesu was also arrested as there were no injuries found from the alleged attack.
The police then launched an investigation into Jean’s life and personal relationships. From their investigation, they managed to find some love letters between Jean and a Sri Lankan man indicating an intimate relationship. These love letters were found at Karthigesu’s house.
Since Jean’s husband had passed in a car accident for over a year at that time, the court suspected that Kartigesu was the perpetrator, either because of his love for her or as an act of revenge in honour of his brother since the letters were sent while he was still alive.
Despite the long investigation and trial, Karthigesu was charged with murder but freed later on after an appeal. So, her case is still unsolved.
3. The sinister murder of Datuk Mazlan Idris
This story starts with one assemblyman’s desire to gain power in the political world. In his search for power, Datuk Mazlan met with Mona Fandey, a witch doctor, and paid her RM2.5 million in cash and land titles for her services.
He trusted her completely and obliged when he was asked to lie down facing the ceiling and to close his eyes. Little did he know that her husband would then proceed to behead him and together, the couple would cut him up into 18 pieces, partially skin his corpse and then bury him under a storeroom.
Then, using the money he gave them for their services, the went on a huge shopping spree which gained the attention of the police. Soon enough, they launched an investigation and found Datuk Mazlan’s body parts.
The couple was sentenced to death. The creepy thing about this story is that Mona kept smiling throughout her entire trial and her last words before being hung in 2001 were “I will never die”.
4. Lee Chow Meng, serial rapist, and murderer
Lee Chow Meng was a handsome young man who had a very charming personality that could make any woman he liked fall for him.
His origin story was how he was dumped by his long-time girlfriend because he was a womanizer and a huge flirt. This rejection and heartbreak led him to hate women. His deep seeded hatred then turned evil when he allegedly assaulted more than 18 women and allegedly murdered 5 of his victims.
His hunting grounds were the advertisements that young women placed in the local newspaper and magazines related to tuition services, insurance, and real estate. Lee would contact them under a fake name, arrange meetings with them and then begin charming them.
After making them fall for his sweet words and good looks, he would take them out for drinks, spike their drinks then doing the deed while they were barely conscious.
As the number of women who came forth to the police grew, the police began a manhunt for him even offering a reward of RM 50 000 for any information that would lead to his capture.
Finally, on the 28th of August 1997, Lee was arrested in Ipoh Perak with the help of a victim that was extorted for cash by Lee.
Unfortunately, Lee covered his tracks very well and the police couldn’t find much evidence to charge him with. They only managed to charge him for one murder, and he was sentenced to 15 years in jail.
In March 2001, karma had come to serve its punishment. Lee died at the Taiping Hospital after having complications with a HIV infection. Before dying he requested that his possessions, including 2 books related to sex to be placed in his coffin before cremation.
5. Sosilawati Lawiya
Sosilawati was a well-known icon in the Malaysian beauty industry with a growing cosmetic business worth millions. One day, she and three of her assosiates went to meet her lawyer at his estate in Banting to ask for 2 cheques from the selling of her land that was handled by his law firm.
She did not receive the cheques and neither she nor her associates ever returned from the negotiations. Instead, they were brutally murdered by the lawyer, N. Pathmanabhan and three of his estate workers.
After their disappearances were reported, the police launched an investigation that uncovered a bloodied cricket bat. Then, an eyewitness came forward stating that she had heard a woman scream twice at the farm on the night of the murders.
Sometime later, the story unravelled. Sosilawati and her associates were bludgeoned to death, then their bodies were set on fire and later scattered in a river near Tanjung Sepat.
One of three estate workers told the court that his boss told him that if he let them live, they would kill him (his boss). All four of them were sentenced to death.
