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How One Man Shocked Hong Kong Part 2

Jars Murderer

By Sarah LeePublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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Lam Kor Wan Apprehended

APPREHENSION

Lam liked to take risks, people even thought that he wanted to get caught and always challenged his luck. This could be backed up by his way of taking the photos he took of his victims to the Kodak store in Tsim Sha Tsui to get them developed.

There was a time when he had a narrow escape when he was questioned by the technician, but then he convinced the person that he was a lab technician and these photos were for professional purposes.

But then on August 17th, 1982, when he gave the photographs to a technician, the technician saw the photos that were shocking and disturbing, because the photographs were intimate, pornographic, and disturbing.

It wasn't until he saw a picture of a woman with a burn mark on her thigh — which was the one of Laung Wai Sum — and another picture of a woman with severed breasts, the technician then called the police.

When Lam came to pick the photographs up, he lied that they were for a friend. The police followed him to this home, surprising his mother and brother.

They found strong evidence, such as the metal box that he had locked. They found a scene of horror and cruelty, including a woman's severed breast in one of the Tupperware jar.

The police thought this was a family killing, so they had arrested the brother, father, and Lam Kor Wan. They were kept in separate cells, Lam confessed that the murders were done solely by him.

Women were not allowed on the scene because people thought it was too gruesome and they couldn't handle it while on trial. The jury was only composed of males.

He went on trial and on April 13, 1983, he was sentenced to death by hanging, but then the death penalty was abolished in 1993. Thus, he is now sixty-two years old and serving a life sentence at the maximum security Shek Pik Prison.

Later on with the psychiatrist Dr. William Green, he admitted to performing cannibalism on one of the victims and that his motive wasn't sexual.

"God told me to commit the crimes."

THOUGHTS

I grew up in Hong Kong, but wasn't born when Lam Kor Wan committed his horrendous crime. I only came across this recently, around early 2017, and was shocked to hear that the place I thought was one of the safest in the world was home to such horror.

It shocked me none of my family members wanted to talk about it until I was old enough. I asked my cousins and uncle who knew about the tragedy, they said:

"He was a mad-man, he was either influenced by hard drugs, like the Hello Kitty murder, or he had mental issues."

More horrifying was the fact that when I asked them about it, we were walking past the Shing Mun River, the same river where Lam dumped the body parts of his first victim.

More horrifying and bizarre was the fact that the room where he committed the crime was the same room he shared with his younger brother.

How could it be that the younger brother didn't notice anything bizarre or any strange or foul smell? Or did he simply not pay any attention to it. Could it be that he knew the actions of his brother but never confronted him.

The mother and brother of Lam Kor Wan still lives in the same apartment because no one was willing to buy it and they hung the image of Chung Kwei, who in Chinese mythology is a vanquisher of ghost and bad spirit.

Lam Kor Wan is one of the only two known serial killers of Hong Kong and their murders shook Hong Kong authorities to their core and would forever be a dark spot in the city's history.

JARS MURDERER

How Lam Kor Wan, one of the only two serial killers of Hong Kong, shocked Hong Kong even after being incarcerated.

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