Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
Ep. 34 | The Hello Kitty Murder | **SHOCKING CONTENT**
Wed, 05 Feb 2025
In today's episode, we are talking about the “Hello Kitty” case, which was a high-profile murder in Hong Kong that took place in 1999. The disturbing details, which emerged during the trial, received extensive media coverage and shocked both local residents and observers around the world. Even years later, the case remains one of the most infamous criminal incidents in Hong Kong’s modern history...
Chapter 1: What is the Hello Kitty murder case?
Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder, all things that I love to consume, and I know you do too, you sweet, twisted, beautiful, intellectually-minded freak. And today, today's a rough one, okay? A lot.
which is kind of concerning, a lot of you requested I go over the Hello Kitty case. Now, I've heard of this here and there. I hadn't heard all the details, and my lord, is it grim. So all the trigger warnings there, from torture to horror, hauntings, this case shocked all of Hong Kong and the world. And they called it one of the worst and most horrible sides of humanity ever seen.
So without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go Mach 5 down the highway, slam on the brakes, and bust through this windshield into this gruesome case together. So born in 1976 in Shenzhen, China, Fan Manyi was a troubled child. It began with her living with her parents who decided to abandon her as a child, leaving her to end up in an all girls orphanage in Matawai.
Chapter 2: Who was Fan Manyi and what was her early life like?
And in the time she was there, she would never be adopted. And with an age limit set on taking care of young girls, she was sent into the world alone at the age of 15.
I didn't know how to tie my shoes at 15.
And as expected, it was an extremely hard life living out on the streets. She experienced the worst type of things and eventually she would get herself into the wrong crowd and get addicted to drugs. And this habit would lead her to rely on them as it happens with drugs. And the only way to afford said drugs is with money.
Therefore she had to get a job and that led her into falling into desperation, which led her into Lady of the Nighting, if you know what I mean. YouTube really doesn't like me using literally any type of terminology that involves Lady of the Nighting for some reason, which I think is weird because it's a very real thing.
But anyway, eventually at 21 years old, she was able to get a job at a brothel called Romance Villa in Shamshuipo, where she would be able to pay for her addiction. So right out the gate, I mean, she started off in a terrible situation
went through another terrible situation which was being in an orphanage and then was kicked down into the street at 15 years old and not that she is the villain at any point in the story but she is the victim and I feel like so many victims we see of serial killers or regular killers or just people wanting to take advantage of women specifically often come from this lifestyle and it's just it's heartbreaking but that is exactly what would happen to Fan Manyi.
But anyway, she would go on to work at this brothel, and eventually she would cozy up to one of her clients, Ong Chi Yuen, and get married to said client in 1996. And this guy was a piece of shit, okay? He was not stable at all, and to boot, he was also a drug addict. And eventually, she would give birth to a son two years into her relationship in November of 1998.
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Chapter 3: How did Fan Manyi's life lead to her involvement with Chan Man-lok?
And their relationship was not great, as you could probably guess. Both of them were addicted to drugs. They had quite an abusive relationship as well, with neighbors constantly reporting loud shouting and arguments. And the child, of course, of them doing drugs and yelling at each other would be crying and screaming, so the neighbors would constantly send noise complaints because of them.
So it was a less than peaceful environment as you can imagine. And realizing this was no place to raise her son and her habits were getting in the way of her child, she decided she wanted to turn her life around. So she quit drugs and Lady of the Nighting. Two very dangerous things in her life that didn't benefit her son in any way and decided to work at a different place.
And she would eventually get a job as a hostess at a nightclub called Empress Karaoke Club. Love karaoke. And to ensure that her son was truly safe, she would leave her piece of shit, drug-addicted husband and fly solo to take care of her child. But although that she was living a much safer life now, she was not making as much money and was really struggling financially to help her baby.
and herself. And it wasn't until about a year later in 1997 that she became close with another one of her clients named Chanman Lok, a 34 year old man. And Chan was not the best person to be friends with if you were wanting to turn your life around. And Phan would begin to fall back into her old life and drug addiction. And after a while, Chan realized that they had a lot in common as well.
Fan was a lady of the night and drug addict, and Chan just so happened to be a pimp and a drug dealer. So just a... Match made in hell, basically. And eventually, after spending so much time with Chan, she would become very familiar with his crew as well. Particularly his two henchmen who were beneath him named Leong Shing Cho, aged 26, and Leong Wei Loon, aged 21. And Chan wasn't just any pimp.
He was a straight up gangster, okay? Being a part of the Wo Shing Wo triad, a very long standing gang in Hong Kong. But despite the frequent business, money was still tight and Phan was hanging out with gangsters who were throwing money like no tomorrow. And she started to become really used to that and she just wanted more and more money.
But the next thing that she would do would change her life entirely. And it would change her life for the worst. So on one of their drug binges in 1999, Vonn stole Chan's wallet with 4,000 Hong Kong dollars in it, which is about $500 USD.
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Chapter 4: What events led to the horrific crime against Fan Manyi?
And she would do this because she was struggling with money and with these guys throwing money at her constantly, she was starting to get used to having a little bit more money and she was so desperate to have more money that she thought that this was some sort of solution, but it just made things so much worse.
And Chan, of course, would find out that he was $500 or 4,000 Hong Kong dollars short, obviously. And the only person who he could blame was the girl that he was drug binging with and the only person that he was around when the money had disappeared. So he would then send his goons to contact her, stating that she needed to pay the money back.
Which, I mean, she did steal the money, and paying him back, I mean, that's fine, that's all civil, nothing necessarily wrong there, the only wrong thing is that she stole money, but it gets worse than that. Because since she went behind Chan's back and stole his money, he kind of wanted to make an example of her.
So he said, you know what, you also need to pay a fee of 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, around 1300 USD, which is more than double than what she stole. And this was considered interest for stealing his money, basically. And the intention behind that, not only making an example of her, was that now he could force her to work under him to pay off this debt.
And this amount of money to recuperate would take a very long time for Fan, especially if she was pooling it into her child and drug habits. So she would eventually pay that initial $500 or 4,000 Hong Kong dollars back to Chan, but the rest would take a long time and Chan was getting... impatient. Obviously, Chan wanted Fan to learn a lesson.
The lesson being not to steal from someone who has been so gracious to you and who also had a reputation to uphold as well. Therefore, Chan would send his two henchmen, Liang Weilun and Liang Xingqiu, to her flat, which was located in Liyu Estate on March 17th, 1999. However, it wasn't just the two goons that Chan would send to grab Fan, but also a
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Chapter 5: What were the details of the torture inflicted on Fan Manyi?
14-year-old girl named Ah Phong, who will be important later in the story. So they would take Phan from her apartment and take her to a different apartment on number 31 Granville Road, Shim Sa Sui. And this was a very large apartment complex with over five bedrooms. And it was rented by Chan, not owned. However, he had full access to it due to his rent.
And the original idea was to teach Phan a lesson forcing her to work completely under Chan until he was satisfied, pimping her out to any man who would have her. However, before she could get back to work, they would begin to torture her. And this is where all the trigger warnings apply, so just a heads up.
Chan, like I said, had changed his mind in getting her to be a lady of the night for him, believing he should make an example of any of the girls who dare cross him. Therefore, she would instead be tortured in this abandoned building, muffling her screams with a dirty rag. And her torture was absolutely brutal. Like there is a special dark place in hell for the people that did this to her.
And it ranged from physical to psychological abuse to eventual SA. So supposedly she was beaten with metal bars until her bones were all fractured. And she would also be tied up with metal wires that dug into her skin and they would continually beat her all through the day and all through the night, just taking turns. And the torture would just progressively get worse and worse.
These people were incredibly sadistic and would just experiment essentially on her in different ways. to torture her. She would be strangled with a metal wire until she couldn't breathe. They would whip her as well. And she would often dive in and out of consciousness throughout these ordeals with the pain just being so severe.
And to ensure the pain was even worse, these pieces of shit would put chili powder into her open wounds just to make it hurt more just because they're... spawns of Satan. They would use other torture methods as well, such as burning her with lighters. And even on one occasion, Chan forced Fan to eat his own feces. Are you okay? I mean, nobody's okay. None of this is okay.
But like this, just this poor, poor, poor girl, like so awful. But in short, all of the people that were involved with Chan would take part in this torture against Fang. And the young girl, the 14 year old Laming Fang, known as Ah Fang as a pseudonym, would also reportedly take part in the torture towards Fang.
Now, just a little bit about Afang, she was one of the girls that was currently being groomed by Chang. So, I mean, in this situation, I'm going to safely assume she didn't really have a choice. She sees another woman that went against this person that she's with. Also, she doesn't want to be going through that. So she was, I'm going to safely assume. forced to go through this, just awful.
And on one occasion, she would recollect seeing Chan kick Phong in the head over 50 times. And Ah Phong then also kicked her in the head, like joining in essentially. And during all of this, just all of this, horrible pain and suffering, Fawn was forced to say she enjoyed it the whole time.
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