Explainer | Unsolved murder case of ‘window-box tomb’ was one of Hong Kong’s most grisly
The discovery of the bodies of two Singaporean brothers, heirs to a goldsmith’s chain, encased in cement at a Causeway Bay flat followed their kidnapping and the tabling of a ransom demand with a photo of a severed arm – not theirs
“High-rise house of horrors: Blood trail to window-box tomb,” ran the headline in the South China Morning Post on April 1, 1984.
“Blood trickling into a neighbour’s flower bed led to the discovery yesterday of two badly decomposed bodies cemented into the window-box of a Causeway Bay flat […] The bodies […] both of men and believed to be Chinese, had their hands tied behind their backs with chains, and cloth tied round their heads and bare feet. They were found wrapped in a bloodstained sheet, one on top of the other, head to toe,” the story continued.
The bodies had been uncovered at the flat on a high floor of Elizabeth House, in Gloucester Road, at about 2.15pm the previous day, three hours after police started the “slow and grisly process” of breaking open the 2.5 metre-long flower box.
