The Most TWISTED Cases You've Ever Heard | Episode 12 | Documentary

4 58am saturday the first degree okay saturday the 1st of june 4 58 a.m became one show what does that mean no questions now please do not kill my daughter please i mean please love and miss y'all get good grip tonight goodbye wait a minute it was the last day of may in 1985 and sherry smith had just completed her final year at lexington high school in south carolina the 17 year old couldn't wait to set off on a cruise with her friends in just two days to celebrate the start of a new chapter but

unfortunately a brush with evil was about to change everything the bright and outgoing young student was happy to be spending the day at an end-of-year pool party she arrived home just before four that evening which her father knew because he saw her car turn into their long driveway expecting to hear his daughter walk through the front door moments later he carried on with what he was doing but after five or ten minutes of silence he peeked back out the window at the end of the driveway he could see sherry's car parked by the mailbox and

that's when he got the feeling that something just wasn't right so the concerned father raced down the driveway hoping to find his daughter sitting behind the wheel with an easy explanation for the delay however as he approached the car his fears only escalated sherry was nowhere in sight and her car was left running with the driver's side door wide open and her purse still inside on the passenger seat even more alarming he could see footprints leading from the open door to the mailbox but none returning and their mail was scattered all over the ground the

scene was disturbing to say the least but the nightmare for sherry's family was only just beginning investigators from the lexington county sheriff's department were alerted to sherry's suspicious disappearance right away as it was clear that she wouldn't have just left on her own not only because she was trustworthy and excited for the next chapter in her life but also because she had diabetes and would never leave without her medication detectives took one look at the scene and determined the most likely scenario was that cherry had exited her car to collect the mail and was ambushed

by someone dropping the mail during the struggle a massive search began immediately for whoever had taken cherry it was actually the most extensive search effort in south carolina's history at the time but despite this they found nothing sherry's family was absolutely beside themselves and made several public pleas for her safe return then two days after sherry vanished something totally unexpected happened the smith family received a terrifying phone call from an unknown man who seemed to be using a device to distort his voice he specifically requested to speak with sherry's mother and claimed to have her

daughter in his possession the caller even described what the teenager had been wearing at the time of her disappearance the strange man told the distraught mother that sherry was doing just fine and watching television and while he didn't demand any ransom he wanted them to know that they would be receiving an important letter in the mail the next day detectives were able to trace the call to a pay phone 20 miles from sherry's home but the mysterious caller was long gone by the time they got there the following morning investigators went to the lexington post

office to sort through the mail and just like the man had said they found a letter addressed to the smith family still nobody was prepared for the horror waiting inside that envelope the first thing they saw was written in large print across the top of the letter last will and testament what followed was a heartbreaking two-page letter later confirmed to be written by sherry in which she expressed love for her family and friends saying i know you all love me and will miss me very much but if you stick together like we always did y'all

can do it she held onto her religious convictions and encouraged her family not to let her death ruin their lives writing please do not become hard or upset everything works out for the good for those that love the lord but the scariest part of the letter was when she requested to have a closed casket at her funeral knowing her body would be in no condition to be seen sherry's father was the first in the family to read the letter but even after he shared it with the others the smith family refused to give up hope

meanwhile authorities sent the letter off for forensic testing to see if whoever took sherry might have left behind some clues but little did they know he was about to give them one the smith family received yet another phone call from the supposed abductor that very same day yes i have do you believe me now well i'm not really sure i believe you because i haven't had any word from sherry and i need to know that sherry is well you'll know in two or three days why two or three days [Applause] call the search off the

caller's voice and his choice of words makes it appear that this was truly a game for him like a child playing a prank call later that evening he called again and this time he said some particularly alarming thing things is now part of me physically mentally emotionally spiritually the fact that the caller says that sherry is a part of him now physically mentally emotionally and spiritually is bizarre and disturbing to say the least people with psychopathy are grandiose sometimes to the point of delusion and they often fantasize about being these higher beings we don't know

the caller's actual diagnosis but his statement on this part of the phone call shows indications of bizarre delusional grandiosity this is highly dangerous when coupled with the other characteristics of the psychopath no empathy no remorse and a lack of moral conscience whoever had cherie seemed to enjoy the thrill of tormenting the smith family and the power it offered him as he called them again the next day however this time he spoke to sherry's sister don and it seemed to investigators that he may have slipped up when telling her what time sherry had written the letter

4 58 am no i'm sorry 3 10 on saturday the first attempt she hand wrote what you received 4 58 am saturday the first degree okay saturday the 1st of june 4 58 a.m became one show what does that mean no questions now please assure me search no more blessings or near do not kill my daughter please i mean please love and miss y'all get good tonight goodbye wait a minute the words became one's soul is a similar statement to what he had said previously about sherry being part of him though we don't know their

diagnosis they may have had some other mental health issues in addition to severe psychopathy possibly psychosis people with psychosis will make statements like those in this clip that are bizarre out of context and don't make sense oh but this deranged lunatic didn't stop there he called the smith home again the following afternoon and this time he cut right to the chase and gave sherry's mother specific directions to a masonic lodge 18 miles away hello please do carefully take highway 378 west to traffic circle take prosperity exit go one and a half miles turn right at

sign new slots number 103 go one quarter mile turn left and right frame building built a backyard six feet beyond we're waiting god chose us the statement god chose us appears to be an indication of the presence of delusional thinking it's the random out-of-nowhere nature of these references to god and spirituality that demonstrate that there's likely some serious mental illness present authorities followed the directions until they reached a wooded area behind the lodge and that's where they found sherry's body exactly where the caller had said it would be sherry's autopsy revealed that she had been

deceased for around four days with the medical examiner estimating that she was likely killed just 12 hours after the abduction they also noted duct tape residue around her mouth suggesting she may have died from suffocation however because sherry's body had been exposed to the elements for an extended period they couldn't determine her exact cause of death or gather any forensic evidence investigators now believe that when the killer said the wrong time during his phone call with don he accidentally told her the exact time her sister was murdered at this point lexington police called in the

fbi to create a detailed profile of the suspected perpetrator and they categorized him as an organized killer who has likely committed other crimes they theorized that he would be between his late 20s and early 30s white single unattractive overweight and intelligent they also believed he would have some knowledge of electronics and technology based on his ability to manipulate his voice for the phone calls however fbi agents and detectives agreed that he appeared to have been reading from a pre-written script during every call the biggest giveaway was that he would sometimes trip over his words and

then go back to the start of the sentence and repeat everything verbatim but perhaps the most frightening aspect of the fbi's character profile was the indication that this man would likely kill again if not captured and unfortunately they were right despite sherry's body being found the killer continued to taunt the smith family primarily dawn with upsetting phone calls while he would sometimes beg for forgiveness and say he was preparing to turn himself into the police other conversations involved him threatening to take his own life and describing sherry's death in graphic detail during a particularly cruel

call he claimed to have asked sherry how she wanted to die and said that she chose to be suffocated before hanging up he said god was ready to accept her as an angel and then the call stopped for a while after eight days of silence detectives decided it would be a good idea to set up a trap for their killer they knew he craved the attention so the plan was to hold a highly publicized memorial service for sherry in the hope that he would attend they gave don a stuffed koala sherry's favorite animal to lay

beside her grave thinking the killer might return later to claim it as a souvenir but he never came instead he soon placed yet another call to the smith family home and i think it's important to note that at this point he stopped using the device to distort his voice suggesting he felt invincible to police he started the call by telling don god wants you to join sherry fay and that she could not be protected forever but this time he wanted to talk about someone else although it's believed that all psychopaths are sadistic it seems that

the killer in this case is especially sadistic because of the way he's enjoying the phone calls and tormenting sherry's family have you heard about deborah bay's hammer uh no 10 year old acl uh richland county yeah uh-huh okay listen carefully two weeks after sheri's disappearance and murder a ten-year-old girl named deborah may helmet was snatched from her front yard in broad daylight her father had been just a few steps away inside their home at the time and exactly as he had done with sherry the killer gave detailed directions to deborah may's body dirt road before

you come to the stop sign at two knots road go new chain and no trespass inside go 50 yards and to the left so 10 yards deborah may just waiting god forgive us off what was particularly unusual is how he said god forgive us all when describing where the body of deborah may was located this comment is yet another indication that the caller could have had religious preoccupation and was likely delusional which can occur among people with psychosis it's important to keep in mind that having psychosis doesn't make someone a murderer debra may showed the

same signs of suffocation as sherry but due to the level of decomposition her cause of death could not be definitively determined investigators also found no usable forensic evidence on her body however a clue from sherry's last will and testament letter was about to blow the case wide open a forensic document examiner used a device called an electrostatic detection apparatus to search for indentations left on the paper from other things the killer might have written down on different pages and he struck gold amazingly the device managed to pick up on what appeared to be a contact

list of names and phone numbers one of the numbers was nearly complete except for one missing digit so detectives decided to begin there they dialed the number using all possibilities for the tenth digit until finally someone answered on the other end a young man picked up the phone and when asked if he had any connection to south carolina he said that his parents ellis and sharon shepard lived there oh but not just anywhere in the state they lived only 15 miles away from the smith's home naturally authorities raced over to speak with the shepherds but

they explained that they had been on vacation when sherry went missing still detectives listed the characteristics of the supposed killer and played a recording of his undistorted voice for the couple then without skipping a beat alice and sharon shepard exclaimed almost in unison that's larry jean bell they explained that larry had been house sitting for them while they were on vacation and investigators quickly realized that some of the phone calls made to the smith family after sherry's disappearance came from the shepherd's home furthermore ellis confirmed that he and his wife had left the list of

numbers found by the forensic examiner for larry in case of an emergency so who is larry gene bell you ask well we don't know much about his childhood but it's clear that he'd spent some time working as an electrician which is likely how he knew how to distort his voice he'd been married at one point and the couple had a son but his wife divorced them in 1976 and it's believed she gained full custody of their child larry was also briefly enrolled in the marines but was discharged after accidentally shooting himself in the leg while

cleaning a firearm as investigators soon found out larry perfectly fit the profile created by the fbi except for his age while he was a little older than expected at 35 larry was white somewhat overweight divorced and demonstrated above average intelligence moreover his past was also riddled with crimes against women including the attempted kidnapping of a college student ellis and sharon shepard recalled that he seemed incredibly anxious when he picked them up from the airport following their trip and only wanted to talk about sherry's disappearance investigators got a search warrant for the shepherd's home and found

several incriminating pieces of evidence that included six blonde hairs while they were never forensically tested the hairs appeared microscopically similar to sherry's and they didn't belong to the shepherds or anyone they knew so it was looking like they'd finally nailed down their initial crime scene larry likely thought that investigators would never look at the shepherd's home and brought sherry there to cover his tracks despite having criminal experience he didn't account for the police to discover his connection with the shepherds because of the phone number indentation left on the piece of paper given the mounting evidence

that larry jean bell was arrested on june 27 1985 28 days after sherry vanished from the end of her driveway he denied any involvement in the deaths of sherry or debra may instead placing blame on the bad larry his supposed alter ego and claiming that he'd actually been the one responsible for the crimes although larry's reference to the bad larry could be his way of trying to play crazy in front of investigators in other words his effort to manipulate his way out of blame and be declared legally insane so he cannot be tried it's also

possible that a murderer like larry could have a split personality of sorts we don't know larry's diagnosis but his actions closely align with those of a severely disturbed psychopath while some researchers and scientists believe that there is no such thing as a split personality others believe that it occurs in rare cases such as in dissociative identity disorder however if we look at the way that psychopaths can cut off their own emotions the way they can manipulate and shift from being charismatic to being violent and aggressive shows that there's some sort of splitting of their personality

larry's trial for the kidnapping and murder of sherry smith began in february 1986 and he made sure to put on a dramatic show during his six-hour long testimony he shouted many bizarre things seemingly in an attempt to make the jury question is sanity such as mona lisa is a man and silence is golden my friend fortunately no one was buying his antics after just 47 minutes the jury found him guilty of kidnapping and first degree murder larry was given the death penalty but he still had another trial to face in 1987 the trial for the

kidnapping and murder of deborah may helmet commenced and the jury returned the same verdict guilty on all counts when given a choice between lethal injection or the electric chair larry chose the chair and he was finally put to death on october 4th 1996 after having served 10 years on death row he offered no condolences or last words now our story could end right there but there's one more thing i'd like to mention larry remains a strong suspect in the cases of two other missing women from charlotte north carolina twenty-six-year-old sandy elaine cornett was in a

relationship with one of larry's co-workers before she vanished in 1984 and 21 year old denise newsome porch disappeared in 1975 from an apartment complex just 300 yards from larry's home while he's never been charged with either disappearance many investigators firmly believe that sandy and denise were also victims of larry jean bell either way he's an evil predator who fully deserved what he got with these types of cases many people wonder why someone would be so cruel and commit such horrific acts tragically the behaviors of people like larry jean bell could at least be partially explained

by the fact that they derive some sort of enjoyment from the process of kidnapping murdering and in larry's case terrorizing the family members of the victims killers like larry are often triggered by a major life stressor such as marital or relationship issues or work or financial difficulties that can cause the person to spiral and then go on a murder spree additionally to make matters worse these individuals are often rejected by society as they're often not liked and generally don't get along well with others this causes these individuals to become isolated and their seclusion likely also

worsens their mental state they develop uncontrolled anger at others and at the world and often have an intense desire for revenge our family lawyers etc and he took the middle one and just took off with him in my car well this is my other car but the other cars are registered in my name okay and now he's telling me he won't give it back where where would he be going home i'm guessing and now he's trying to play games with me on the phone no we've been separated for a few weeks now i'm staying at

my parents so what's led up to this just that you've seen each other and he's decided yeah and he's decided that because i've said to him you need to wait until we can get this sorted you're not having them stay with you because won't return them and then i'm like you go and pull down like this the other two are absolutely beside themselves she's pulling your eyes out was anything like any other words exchanged like did he like how was he acting or he's just sick just a psycho that he's taking it and that's it

and then he just called me now and said you know you either bring the other two back or i keep her on the outside rowan baxter seemed like the perfect husband and father that is until he committed a crime so heinous that it made international headlines still this isn't the story of a violent tragedy that occurred in just a few short minutes but rather the slow and quiet unraveling of a psychopath hiding in plain sight rowan baxter first met hannah clark in 2009 when she was 19 and he was 30 and despite the age difference

they appeared to be a match made in heaven she was a trampoline champion who had represented queensland four years in a row and he was a professional rugby player from new zealand the couple married in 2012 and opened a gym together before welcoming three beautiful children aaliyah lyanna and trey still something dark was hiding underneath the smiles they shared all over social media growing up rowan was remembered by family and friends as a hateful child who engaged in rough and violent forms of play as he got older he became very disrespectful towards women and would

often say that they were only good for two things housework and intimacy according to relatives his pathological hatred of women stemmed from the influence of his father and grandfather who shared those same misogynistic beliefs with that in mind it comes as no surprise that hannah was subjected to various forms of non-physical abuse at the hands of her husband rowan would regularly snoop through her phone and social media accounts often accusing her of cheating even if the messages he found were from men he knew from work but that wasn't all rowan also controlled what hannah was

allowed to wear forbidding her from dressing in a way that might attract other men and from wearing the color pink because he deemed it too childish one of hannah's friends a domestic violent support worker actually told her that she was experiencing financial and emotional abuse in her marriage but unfortunately as with many victims of abuse anna didn't feel that was true since rowan had never laid a hand on her many people unknowingly dismiss early warning signs convincing themselves that they are making a big deal out of nothing simply because there's no physical violence what many

people don't realize is that verbal threats and emotional manipulation are abuse and can be just as emotionally detrimental as physical violence many partners who are abusive also have anti-social personality disorder apd or at least traits of apd in december 2019 hannah finally decided to leave rowan after he allegedly twisted her arm in the car in front of their children she took aliyah lyanna and trey and moved in with her parents who took extra security precautions to keep rowan away including reinforcing the home's exterior and ensuring that the kids knew to always keep the doors locked

but hannah was still terrified because at one point rowan had threatened that if she ever left him he would kill one of their kids and then himself it's important to note that the most dangerous time for victims of domestic abuse is when they first leave their abuser this is generally when the violence will escalate and when the most serious tragedies often occur making threats like the ones rowan made are typical of people who have certain personality disorders like antisocial and sometimes borderline personality it's the ultimate form of manipulation and when an abusive partner starts to

make these sorts of threats the abuse has already escalated and gotten out of control during this tumultuous time rowan shared his feelings on social media posting about how much he loved his family but those close felt it was all a ruse to make people angry with hannah nevertheless he was granted reasonable visitation with his kids but things took a scary turn later that month rowan got word that hannah and the children would be at a car park in brisbane so he confronted her regarding their visitation agreement he asked if the kids could stay with him

and hannah replied that it wouldn't happen without a court order then without warning rowan grabbed his youngest daughter lyanna threw her into the back seat of his car and sped away from the car park hannah called the police but because he was the father they claimed he had a right to take lyanna at any time without a protective order against them or a custody agreement in place a parent can take physical custody of their child without it being considered a crime please note that the legal analysis is from an american law perspective though the case

occurred in australia rowan had lyanna at his home for four days and following the terrifying ordeal hannah served him with a domestic violence order going against his lawyer's advice rowan refused to sign an authorized permission form submitted by hannah that allowed him 165 days of custody per year then after the domestic violence order was changed in the holland park magistrates court rowan was given full access to his children furthermore rowan eventually signed a parenting contract that granted him the same level of access to the kids without any legal restraints however his rights to the children

were withdrawn in early february after he was charged with breaking the domestic violence order for allegedly assaulting hannah as you'll see this case exposed many flaws in the legal system when called in for questioning rowan appeared annoyed with the police and could be seen rolling his eyes not interview okay yeah that's fine like i was saying to him that everyone's got the right to speak to the solicitor which he's done and if you don't want to interview i won't question him obviously um and then yeah i'll advise him of what we're going to do going

forward when rowan breached the order one of hannah's closest friends actually went to the police and told them that she was concerned he might take them out meaning hannah and the kids the friend also mentioned that rowan was abnormally rough with his kids she showed them a video he'd posted of himself trying to force their youngest child trey into an ice bath despite him screaming hysterically still life went on and a few days later rowan facetimed his children as he often did but something was very different this time he was sobbing uncontrollably and hannah even

remarked to a friend that something about the exchange just didn't sit right what nobody knew at the time was that rowan was preparing to make them all suffer the very next day on the morning of february 19 2020 someone spotted rowan at a gas station filling up a canister of petroleum meanwhile hannah was busy getting all three kids loaded into her car to take them to school once the children were all strapped into their car seats hannah got into the driver's seat completely unaware of the imminent danger before she even had a chance to react

rowan emerged from the bushes outside her parents home and jumped into the car's passenger seat he held a knife at hannah's neck as he drenched her and all three of their children in petrol and then he ordered her to drive hannah began driving but when she noticed a man outside washing his car she headed in his direction and began screaming out the window call the police he's thrown petrol over us the man could see that hannah was fighting against rowan to exit the vehicle and in the blink of an eye there was a series of

booming explosions followed by an eruption of flames warning the details that follow are extremely disturbing hannah managed to jump out of the car but she was on fire though on fire hannah managed to jump out of the car and began rolling in the grass a man nearby valiantly tried to hose her down but she suffered burns to 97 percent of her body by this point other residents began flooding out to help and it was then that people realized there were children stuck in the car but when they tried to approach the inferno rowan brandished a

knife and demanded that everyone get away and let her burn the crazed tormentor attempted to re-enter the car before stabbing himself in the chest rowan baxter died at the scene at the age of 42. barely clinging to life hannah frantically called out to onlookers pleading with them to save her children and call her mom the heroic mother even maintained the strength to tell the police exactly what had happened before succumbing to her injuries later that night at the hospital hannah clark was 31 years old hannah's mother later commented on her daughter's remarkable strength following the

attack saying it was truly to make him pay she didn't know he was dead she was going to fight for her babies to the end tragically aaliyah lyanna and trey burned to death in their car seats before rescuers could even reach them they were just six four and three years old family members and loved ones of people experiencing domestic violence often feel helpless and frustrated as they see the victim involved in the cycle of violence and it appears hannah's parents and brother were limited with what they were able to do about the red flags they

witnessed and rowan's alarming behaviors after the horrific crime investigators discovered a disturbing phone call rowan had made to amend helpline the day before the murders it seemed as though he just wanted to make sure his court case looked good following the separation not my idea but apparently i have to do it i'm not the one that has the problem but i guess i'm just doing what i'm told okay you have to do something about it well i just think it's going to put me in a better position the fact that rowan sounded upbeat during the

call could have been because he had already decided on a solution to calm his anger and desire for revenge that he would murder hannah and the kids it's possible that this decision served to at least partly quench the burning desire he had to get back at hannah if rowan is a psychopath it makes sense that he would be so vindictive people with apd have such poor impulse control and poor emotional regulation revenge is the only thing that really satisfies them if they perceive that someone has harmed them they will stop at nothing the payback of

a psychopath will be far more severe than any harm the victim did to them investigators also found surveillance footage captured two days before the murders from a nearby hardware store rowan could be seen browsing the shelves before purchasing a fuel can zip ties and cleaning fluid items he would later use to destroy his entire family while rowan wasn't alive to face the consequences of his actions or explain them it's believed that he'd intended to drive the family out to a remote location where he would kill them all and then himself the fact that rowan was

sobbing uncontrollably the day before the attack could mean that he felt some form of sorrow for what he was planning to do however assuming he has apd his actions the following day show how well a psychopath can cut off their emotions at the end of the day rowan was more concerned about himself and his own desires people with apd will always put themselves first and if left with what they believe is no other option they will sacrifice their loved ones the murder of hannah clark and her children exposed serious flaws in how australia handles domestic

violence fortunately with the help of her parents the tragedy prompted the criminalization of coercive control the form of abuse rowan used to manipulate hannah how to spot a potentially abusive partner abusive partners may not start being abusive until after some time has passed and until the relationship develops they can be very charming and protective their protectiveness is a quality that the victim may initially even like however beneath that protectiveness is really possessiveness that begins to manifest and worsen with time in reality what they want is total control over their partner abusive partners will criticize the

victim to no end constant criticism and negative comments are part of the whole manipulation package constructed by the perpetrator to control the victim at their core perpetrators are highly insecure and have a very poor concept of themselves this is why grandiosity and narcissism has such a central role in their personality we've talked about this subject in many of our videos and we've provided the red flags as a tool for anyone to use in the event that you may be suspicious that you're in such a relationship if you feel that you are please find someone to

talk to get help and do what you need to do for you and anyone that may be involved with you an abuser will try to trap you and tell you you're not worth anything that you won't survive without them or that your children will never want to stay with you you are worth so much more when a terrified young girl bursts into a hong kong police station and exclaims that the ghost of a woman is tormenting her officers are skeptical to say the very least they initially believed she was delusional but when the girl started

divulging details about how the woman was killed they knew there was much more to the twisted story but then everything took a sinister turn when she admitted to taking part in the woman's death and what they found when they followed her to a flat in a run-down district was more horrific than anyone could have ever imagined but let's start at the beginning it was may 1999 when the distressed 14 year old girl known as a fong walked into the police station and said that she was being haunted by the spirit of a blood-soaked young woman

awfong claimed the ghost would continue to torment her until she confessed to her role in the crime but she wasn't the only one responsible afong explained that she'd actually been the youngest and only female participant in a group consisting of rich and powerful men the people she said were responsible for the woman's death were part of the chinese mafia and one of them chanman lok was her boyfriend he was 34 and as i already mentioned she was just 14. in any case after telling her bizarre story awfong led officers to her boyfriend's flat in hong

kong's kowloon district and what they discovered was enough to shock the entire nation hidden inside a large hello kitty mermaid doll authorities found the decapitated skull of a woman the victim was later identified as a 23 year old nightclub hostess and prostitute named fan many detectives quickly learned of the young woman's troubled past filled with abandonment and suffering at just 16 years old fan had been kicked out of the orphanage where she spent most of her youth and was forced to fend for herself she often resorted to petty crimes for survival and eventually started working

in a brothel to feed her growing drug addiction please note that the following details all came from afong's testimony and that due to a lack of solid forensic evidence certain aspects of her story have not been officially verified as factually accurate many of fans customers were involved in organized crime including one of her regulars chairman loke a wealthy socialite and triad gang member while it's widely reported that chan was the drug lord of hong kong he's never been charged with any drug-related offenses it's speculated that this was due to his power and influence fan and

chan first met in 1997 and chan along with his crew of henchmen would frequently pay her for extended time with her involving the use of drugs but one night she made a fatal mistake in march 1999 after wrapping up one of her many bench sessions with chan van decided to steal his wallet which had around 4 000 hong kong dollars inside translating to roughly 500 us dollars it didn't take long for chan to realize what had happened and when he did he flew into a blind rage beyond demanding that fan repay him the four thousand

dollars she'd stolen he also tacked on an extra ten thousand in interest fan immediately returned the four thousand dollars but said she would need a little time to collect the remaining some chan was unsatisfied by this response and feared she would run away so he ordered two other gang members 27 year old lyon ching cho and 21 year old leung wai lin to kidnap fan off the street and deliver her to his flat once there fan was routinely offered to paying customers with chan collecting all of her earnings but things in that apartment quickly got

out of control now please note that the following details are incredibly graphic and as a reminder most could not be officially verified beyond afong's statement fan was held hostage for an entire month and subjected to unimaginable torture at the hands of chan his two henchmen and his young girlfriend offong they would use fire and various blunt objects to inflict maximum pain on the young woman every single day but eventually clients refused to pay for time with fan because they no longer found her mangled body attractive realizing his repayment plan had fallen apart chan's anger towards

fan escalated and the beatings became more severe they would sometimes even wrap electrical wires around van's hands and suspend her from a hook in the ceiling for hours on end while law fong allegedly didn't assault fan as much as the men she was still a willing participant and when they weren't torturing her the group would play video games and do drugs in the other room then sometime around mid-april 1991 fan's body finally succumbed to the abuse and she died while locked in the bathroom alone when chan and his accomplices realized she was dead they moved

her body to the bathtub and began dismembering it with a handsaw then as if that wasn't horrific enough they boiled some parts of her body in an attempt to avoid the odors emitted by decomposition and threw them away in the trash some sources state that they actually used the same pots to cook their dinner later that day and stored a few of her organs in the fridge as their final evil act against fan the men stuffed her skull into the oversized hello kitty plush and sewed it back up giving this horrific crime the nickname the

hello kitty murder during their search of the flat investigators uncovered her skull several teeth on the floor and the remaining organs when questioned the three men claimed that they had been running a consensual brothel with fan when she died from an accidental overdose they said the choice to hide her body stemmed from fear of getting in trouble with the police unfortunately because medical examiners could not determine a cause of death there was virtually no proof that the men had intentionally killed fan as a result they were all charged with manslaughter instead of murder nevertheless chan

man lok liung ching cho and lyung wai lun were all sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after serving 20 years as an interesting note psychiatric evaluations later found no mental illnesses among the trio although the judge did describe the men as having psychopathic tendencies when psychopaths commit acts of repeated torture over such a long period of time like the way they did with fan it's a sign of severe psychopathy though chan has not been formally diagnosed his behavioral presentation aligns with apd if people with apd are slighted in any way even

in a minor sense they will seek revenge and they will go after the person full force their egos are so inflated that they can't stand they can't allow another person to get one over on them as chan may have believed fan did when she stole from him they cannot tolerate even the slightest act of what they perceive to be disrespect because of their grandiose view of themselves and because they are unable to control their anger and impulses they will go to extreme lengths to get back at someone despite her admitted participation in the crime and

therefore legal culpability afong wasn't charged for her participation in exchange for the information she provided to authorities in 2012 the flat where this unthinkable crime took place was demolished symbolically giving fan man ye the freedom she deserves