In January 1979, Singapore was rocked by an especially horrifying case of murder that saw four children — aged between five and 10 years — slashed to death in the bathroom of their one-room flat in a HDB block in Geylang Bahru.
The perpetrator(s) were never caught and brought to justice, and the murders remain unsolved to this day. Alongside the Adrian Lim Murders and the Curry Murder, the Geylang Bahru Family Murders hold a grim place in Singapore’s history as one of the most inhuman and brutal cases on record.
The savage nature of the killings attracted the attention of YouTuber Cayleigh Elise, whose channel is dedicated to matters of morbid curiosity. In the latest of her unsolved mysteries series, ‘Dark Matters’, Elise examines the details of the Tan sibling case and offers possible theories in the tragedy:
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