4 episodes
TrueCrime SG Podcast Loretta Lopez
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- True Crime
Crimes of passion, revenge or just unfortunate accidents? Some of have gone unsolved for years, while others saw swift justice.
I’m Loretta Lopez and in TrueCrime SG, I’ll be speaking with reporters from the Crime desks of The Straits Times and The New Paper. They were the ones on the ground, following the cases. Some of these were bizarre, but most times heartbreaking.
What did they see? How did they feel? Why do these cases still bother them?
Image credit: Ms Nur Ashiqin Jaffar
Research credit: Ms Gokelam Ponniah Achary
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The Sydney Double Murders
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
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The Anthony Ler case
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
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The McDonald's Boys case
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
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The Body Parts Murder
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 LopezCredit: Gokelam Ponniah Achary, SPH Library
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