Toa Payoh ritual murders

1981 CE.

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The Toa Payoh ritual murders took place in Singapore in 1981. On 25 January, the body of a nine-year-old girl was found at a block of public housing flats in the town of Toa Payoh, and two weeks later, the body of a ten-year-old boy was found nearby. The murders were masterminded by Adrian Lim, a self-styled healer who pretended to have supernatural powers and scammed people for years before the murders. He had also been sexually assaulting female clients, often preying on younger women from impoverished backgrounds. He married one such woman, Catherine Tan Mui Choo, and took another woman, Hoe Kah Hong, as his "holy wife"—a term he used to manipulate women into having sex with him. Lim subjected them to extensive physical, mental and financial abuse, as well as sexual torture, for years before instigating the killings. In 1980, Lim drugged and raped a woman who filed rape charges against him. To derail police investigations, Lim decided to kill children and also sexually assaulted the girl victim. The women were forced to assist him. The three of them were arrested after the police found a trail of blood leading from the body of the boy to their flat.

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