A Brief Case

Even after they broke up, they would still meet. First as friends, then allegedly, as lovers. Even after Lim Lye Hock moved in with his girlfriend, even after he got married...

Tan Hui Ngin and Lim Lye Hock were from the same kampung, the same village. They had known each other for years. They had grown up together...

So why would Lye Hock run, and flee to Malaysia. Why would he leave Hui Ngin's battered decomposing body to be found days later in an abandoned chicken hatchery...?

Rio the hammerhead, that's what they called him. Rio Alex Bulo would use two hammers, one in each hand, to bludgeon his victims to death.

The serial killer would leave a trail of victims in his wake. From Surabaya to Semarang, and finally in Purwokerto, Rio would be caught after a vicious attack in the Rosenda Hotel. The bloodstains spattered the walls and the ceilings...

But even his arrest would not stop his murderous urges, even in prison, Rio would kill a man many considered his friend...

Valentine's day was coming up. But instead of a romantic evening, Ma Jia Jue was planning something else. From 13th to 15th February 2004, he committed quadruple murder.

Ma Jia Jue killed four of his fellow students in their shared dorm, before leaving their bodies in the dorm room's closet. They would not be found until almost ten days later. What triggered this heinous crime; an accusation of cheating, a personal insult...?

To the North Korean police, Park Myung-sik was a ghost. He stalked and killed students who worked in rural communal farms. He would capture his victim, then tear their liver out for consumption.

Park Myung Sik believed that eating a healthy liver would cure his own cirrhosis. The cannibal killer, the organ harvester - he claimed at least 12 victims...

Pradyuman Thakur was just seven years old. Barun Thakur, ever the devoted dad, had driven both kids to the gate of their private school. In less than ten minutes, Pradyuman would be dead.

He had been stabbed twice in the neck before being rushed to the hospital. Allegedly, the school did not tell his parents about Pradyuman's injuries or call the police. By noon the same day, the local police arrested Ashok Kumar - it was reported that the confession was tortured out of him and he was . A month later, the CBI arrested a sixteen-year-old student.

What happened could have happened in those ten minutes, and who would have wanted to kill an innocent young boy?