Inside Crime Scene (2022)

In the 1983 Andrew Road murders, Sek Kim Wah broke into the home of a businessman. Sek killed 3 of the victims. He has also killed two others prior to the robbery. Can modern criminal profiling give us an insight into the mind of Singapore’s only serial killer.

6 January 1979, four children between the ages of 5 and 10 were found brutally slashed to death in their flat in Geylang Bahru. The case remains unsolved. Would modern day DNA and forensic testing be the key to solving this heinous crime.

In 2005, Liu Hong Mei was killed by her lover, who chopped up her body up into seven parts. In 1989, The body of a teenager was found in some bushes with her head found a metre away from the rest of the body. Can modern CSI and forensics techniques piece together to tell a crime process?

53 years apart, two innocent young women were wooed by two men. But not for love, because both women would end up dead, leaving no trace of their bodies. Were these two diabolical crimes motivated by the same thing? Is circumstantial evidence enough to find someone guilty of murder?

In the 1920s, Singapore was likened to notorious Chicago, it topped the crime list in the Straits Settlements and Malaya. In 1972, a woman was shot on the streets, she never regained consciousness. Was this the catalyst of change and the end of gun crimes?

Two crimes – 24 years apart, two 8-year-old girls, each brutally murdered. Both cases have very different outcomes, one remains a cold case, with her murderer has yet to be caught and is among us. Huang Na was smoldered by a man she called “uncle”, was Goh Beng Choo also killed by someone she knew well?

What happens when the equation is reversed – when our promising youth wield a knife and become mindless killers – stabbing a parent to death, or slashing random women on the street? Is it an innate psychological issue, or is it a condition compounded negatively by inappropriate environmental exposure?

This episode revisits the infamous Toa Payoh child-killer, Adrian Lim, who claimed to have great “healing powers”, together while another man whom he claimed to have flung his wife from 13 floors because he was under the influence of “black magic”.

All around the world, filicide – the killing of a child by the parent – account for 10-15% of homicide rates. In Singapore, thankfully, our numbers are much lower, though we’re also not an exception. What drives parents to kill their precious children? Is altruism an acceptable defense?

It has been said that money is the root of all evil. Swindlers thrive on, and take advantage of, the inflated egos of their victims. Scammers are quick to prey on man’s greed for more money, which is why sleights of hand and ponzi schemes succeed. What if the conman is in a profession our society holds in high esteem – a lawyer, for example?

Investigators on the ground rely on forensic evidence and interrogations to construct a case – but what if the perpetuators outsmart the law by lying or resorting to fabricating the evidence when this can make a difference between life and death sentence, or a 13-year escape from prosecution. Will the truth of what really happened ever come to light?