Cold cases, warm leads? In Singapore, the unsolved murders of Lim Shiow Rong and Felicia Teo have gripped the nation
- Interest has been rekindled in the killings of seven-year-old Shiow Rong in 1995 and Teo, 19, in 2007, after a suspect was recently charged for the latter crime
- The development in Teo’s case motivated Shiow Rong’s sister Jia Hui to make a public appeal for information, and police are looking into the new tip-offs
Shiow Rong’s body was found the next morning, in a drain in the island nation’s northeastern region, roughly 7km from where she was last seen.
Earlier this month, Jia Hui – now 27, and working in customer service – gave a media interview to appeal to the public for leads in the case. She said she wanted to seek closure for her 65-year-old mother.
Jia Hui had first consulted Crime Library Singapore, where a small team of volunteers use social media to help reunite family members who have lost contact with each other, and seek witnesses in murder or missing-persons cases.
The group helped her set up media interviews in Singapore, and also passed questions from This Week in Asia to her. In Jia Hui’s replies, sent through Crime Library founder Joseph Tan, she said her family had grappled with guilt for the past two decades.