Headless, topless corpse found in Whampoa River stuns estate

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#1
one small good deed I have done today - just helping our dear police, any eye witness? pls step forward..

Friday, December 13, 2013 - 08:49
Ethan Lou
MyPaper

*Update*: Police have confirmed the unnatural death at Mcnair Road which occurred on yesterday, and the case has been re-classified as 'murder'. Investigations are ongoing.

SINGAPORE - Disbelief and shock gripped the McNair Spring housing estate yesterday after an apparently decapitated, dismembered and topless corpse was fished out of the nearby Whampoa River just after sunrise.

Residents who saw the female body expressed shock, and were reluctant to describe it beyond confirming that it was headless. MyPaper understands the body was clad only in black trousers.

Chinese evening newspaper Lianhe Wanbao reported that the body was cut at the torso and the joints of the arms, in a total of seven pieces. The head and hands are still missing.

The body parts found were wrapped in garbage bags.

A posting on citizen-journalism website Stomp said that the body was discovered by two joggers.

It said: "I spoke to a jogger who told me she and another jogger had spotted a garbage bag in the drain that looked like a body shape and with what looked like a leg exposed. The jogger called the police."

The case has been classified as an unnatural death. The body carried no identification documents, the police said.

It is not immediately clear how old the victim was or how long she had been in the water.

It is also unclear where exactly the body was dumped in the river.

The area had heavy rainfall the previous night and the roughly 5m-deep canal was still half full when MyPaper visited the scene.

The police said dispatchers received a call about the body at 7.30am yesterday.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force said the body was "manually retrieved" by firefighters from about 2m from the river bank. Paramedics officially pronounced the woman dead at 8.30am.

About 50 plainclothes and uniformed police officers were at the scene yesterday morning, and more than 50m of the canal and its surroundings were cordoned off, including playgrounds and common areas.

Mr Steven Low, a resident, said he left his flat at about 7.15am, only to return three hours later to find nearly his entire neighbourhood cordoned off with police tape.

Investigations are ongoing, and the police are appealing for witnesses.
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#2
pianist discovered the body? waos.. that's scary man! :O

i came across a drown body before in lim chu kang, during NS, it was floating in the river... gosh... :O
police, CID, etc, everyone came to ask me questions!!! suddenly i was famous!... Tongue
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#3
To murder and decapitate somebody I give odds it's crime of passion involving somebody with mental case.

Singapore very hard to get away from murder, if there is finger print they can trace. Once they identify the person I'm guessing they will start investigating from immediate family and work down to co-workers, friends, lovers/ex-lovers, debtors .... usually among these few people.
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#4
brattz, i didn't discovered it..the news said some female joggers saw it. I dun stay there that area so close to cte not so healthy.

any finger print would have been erased by the torrential rain and canal water.
the Chinese paper put that she was covered by a sarong inside the black trashbag
With so many foreigners, big mix of races, nationalities here in recent years, it may not be easy to identify the victim let alone the murderer
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#5
Well they could also check for any reported missing person's around the area and try to match, many circuit tv around the area to review and if there are any natural fibers, hairs but you are right it's going to be very challenging case ... very busy week for the home team Big Grin

But forensics are very advance today I saw C I channel recently. In the states there was a murder case that was nearly impossible to solve a woman body was found under a tree in a remote area they caught a very clever murder suspect but no fingerprint no hair strands or natural fibers that could be link to the suspect.

The only clue was a few pea pods found on the back of the suspects pickup truck that could have come from hundreds of similar trees located in that area. But they manage to determined that plants, trees all have unique DNA and peapods on his truck came from the same tree where the woman body was found.
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