Body without legs found in luggage along Syed Alwi Road
PUBLISHED ONJune 11, 2014 1:27 PM
SINGAPORE - A body without legs stuffed in a luggage bag was discovered along Syed Alwi Road Wednesday evening.
The police received a call for assistance at 6:04pm. A police spokesman told AsiaOne that an upper body without both legs was found in the luggage.
According to the Straits Times, an eyewitness, Mr Goh, saw a middle-aged man attempting to carry the blood-soaked luggage. Mr Goh then stopped the man and called the police.
The police have classified this as unnatural death and investigations are ongoing.
grongloh@sph.com.sg
Other gruesome murders that took place in Singapore:
Orchard road body parts murder
Sept 7, 2005
Filipino maid Guen Garlejo Aguilar, then 30, killed a fellow maid, Mrs Jane Parangan La Puebla, then 27, over a sum of $2,000 that Mrs La Puebla owed her.
Aguilar hid the body in her room inside a luggage bag for the next two days, unbeknown to her employers.
She then bought a chopper, an axe and some black rubbish bags, among other items, and dismembered the body.
She dumped her friend's body parts near the Orchard MRT station and at MacRitchie Reservoir.
She escaped the gallows when the court reduced her charge from murder to manslaughter, after she was found to be mentally unsound at the time of the killing.
She was jailed for 10 years in May 2006.
Kallang body parts murder
June 15, 2005
Liu Hong Mei, 22, from Jilin province, China, was butchered by her married lover, Singaporean factory supervisor Leong Siew Chor, then 50.
Her body parts were split into seven bags and boxes and dumped into the Kallang and Singapore rivers. Her feet were never found.
It emerged in investigations that Leong had stolen her ATM card and withdrew more than $2,000 from her account.
Leong has been hanged for her murder.
Next >> Other gruesome murders that took place in Singapore
Chopped-up tourist
March 8, 1995
Briton John Martin, then 35, befriended South African Gerard George Lowe, 32, at Changi Airport. Both checked into River View Hotel.
There, Martin bludgeoned Mr Lowe to death with a hammer before dissecting the body in the bathtub.
Only Mr Lowe's legs, thighs and torso were found - in black plastic bags off Clifford Pier.
His head and arms were never found.
Martin was also found to be responsible for the deaths of two Canadian tourists whom he met in Phuket shortly after the murder here.
Their bodies were dismembered.
Martin was hanged on April 19, 1996.
Human curry murder
Dec 12, 1984
Mr Ayakanno Marithamuthu, then 38, was allegedly bludgeoned to death with an iron rod in the caretaker's quarters of the Orchard Road Presbyterian Church.
The body of the live-in caretaker of the Public Utilities Board holiday chalets in Changi was chopped up, cooked in curry and rice, packed in plastic bags and thrown into roadside rubbish bins.
The murder weapon and the pot used for cooking the remains were never found.
Neither were the remains.
His wife and her three brothers were charged in 1987, but released in the same year because of lack of proof.
The brothers were re-arrested, then released in June 1991 after spending four years in prison.
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