The Book of Spooks

The Hello Kitty Murder Case

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THIS CASE DEALS WITH MULTIPLE ISSUES LIKE T0RTUR3, R@PE, AND MURD3R, AND TALKS ABOUT PR0$TITUTI0N/PR0$TITUT3S. PLEASE SKIP IF UNCOMFORTABLE. 

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The case of the Hello Kitty Murders is so horrifying that it is spoken of after 23 years of its happening. The case took place in 1999 when a nightclub hostess was abducted in an apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, after stealing a wallet owned by one of her frequent customers. On 17 March, Fan Man-yee was captured, kidnapped, and tortured. She was kidnapped by three men and one girl: 34-year-old Chan Man-lok, 27-year-old Leung Shing-cho, 21-year-old Leung Wai-lun, and Chan Man-lok's 14-year-old grooming victim, Ah Fong. 

During her imprisonment, Fan-yee was subjected to torture. According to Chan Man-lok's grooming victim, they beat her with metal bars, kitchen utensils, and furniture pieces, sometimes while hanging her and using her as a punching bag. On one occasion, they had kicked her head around 50 times, in which Ah Fong had joined in. They rubbed spices into her wounds, burned her with candle wax and hot plastic (specifically on her legs and feet so she couldn't walk), raped her, forced her to consume human feces and urine, and forced her to smile and say she enjoyed the beatings; if she refused, they subjected her to even harsher torture. This all lead to traumatic shock and ultimately her death. After a month of imprisonment and torture, Fan-yee succumbed to her wounds and died while her captors were out. Other references say she died overnight. After her death, she was decapitated and her skull was placed inside of a Hello Kitty doll, which symbolized and gave the name of the murder case.

Fan Man-yee suffered throughout her early childhood and teenage years. As a child, she was raised in an all-girl home as her family abandoned her. When she turned 15, she had to leave the orphanage because they had an age restriction. Fan Man-yee became homeless and developed a drug addiction. She was a s-x worker on the streets until the age of 21 when she began working at a br0thel. 

The apartment building, in which the crime took place, was demolished in September 2012 and has been rebuilt as a hotel in 2016. The publicity around the case resulted in the production and release of films that told the story. Both Human Pork Chop and There is a Secret in my Soup were released in 2001.

Author Note: May her soul rest in peace. Sorry for traumatizing you all. 

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