The saga that is gripping Singaporeans and more especially Filipinos in Singapore started when I got an SMS from my husband sometime around four in the afternoon saying that he heard some news that there was a decapitated head discovered inside a bag, which was left a little outside Orchard MRT station. When I got home later that night, I learned that inside that bag were all the other appendages (arms and legs) as well of a young Asian woman. The torso was later found inside a luggage trolley that was left on a pathway in MacRichie Reservoir.
The Filipino community was even more surprised to learn the following morning that a Filipina domestic worker was apprehended for the gruesome death of the younger Filipina maid. Yes, Virginia, the chop-chop lady was another Filipina. This case had a certain tinge of Flor and Delia. Filipinos are familiar with that story, for who could forget the movie starring La Aunor? Flor was only charged of asphyxiation while Guen (the suspect) did something more grisly by mutilating the dead body.
Even before it hit the stands speculations that the crime was done all because of a boyfriend is spreading. Well, it could only either be over money or over the love of some man. What’s even more surprising was that these two women are married and have kids back at home. The question now that boggles some of us was how could she have done it? From the point of killing the other woman, to chopping off the body parts, to disposing of the bags, and what led the police to the accused. I know no forensic science, I’ve just been watching too much CSI, but what the accused di was plain stupidity. Maybe she panicked and was overwhelmed by the terror she just committed and simply borrowed what the Singaporean guy did to his Chinese girlfriend three months ago; that case however is reminiscent of the Chop-chop lady we had in the Philippines way back in 1990s; that story was made into a movie as well where Lorna Tolentino played the lead; I think Kris even made a version of that movie (thank heavens if I am wrong!).
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