This is the case of Ram Puneet Tiwary, a University student who woke up to find his two housemates, Tay Chow Lyang and Tony Tan Poh Chuan brutally slain. Tiwary spent 8 years in jail of murders he was eventually acquitted of in 2012. This case remains unsolved. 

Research credit: Ms Gokelam Ponniah Achary

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He played the grieving husband at his wife's funeral. He claimed innocence and said that it was all a big joke that went fatally wrong. Anthony Ler had an answer to everything and pointed the finger at anyone he could, to get away with the planned murder of his estranged wife Annie Leong. 

This week, I talk with Mr. Melvin Singh, Copy Editor at The Straits Times for his take on the Anthony Ler case.  

TrueCrime SG is hosted by Loretta Lopez

Credits: Gokelam Ponniah Achary, SPH Library

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two 12-year old boys and schoolmates, Toh Hong Huat and Keh Chin Ann went missing on May 14, 1986. This case would turn out to be one of Singapore’s greatest unsolved mysteries. Host Loretta Lopez speaks to Ms Seto Nu Wen, sub-editor with The Straits Times, who embarked on an investigative report 15 years later, that brings her and her colleague, just a little closer to one of the boys' families.  

Image credit: Ms Nur Ashiqin Jaffar 

Research credit: Ms Gokelam Ponniah Achary

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1996, Singapore’s first serial killer, John Martin Scripps, is hanged for the violent killing of three tourists just a year earlier. His murders took place in Singapore and Thailand. The case came to be infamously known as The Body Parts Murder. 

In the pilot episode of TrueCrime SG, I speak with Mr. Tan Ooi Boon, a reporter who broke the story in the Straits Times.  

TrueCrime SG is hosted by Loretta Lopez
Credit: Gokelam Ponniah Achary, SPH Library

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.