Episode 28: 31 Granville Road

Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. In 1999, a young woman named Fan Man-Yee was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered inside a third-floor flat at 31 Granville Road. When police finally uncovered the truth, what they found was almost beyond belief — Fan’s skull had been stuffed inside a Hello Kitty mermaid doll, and her dismembered body had been partially boiled in an attempt to conceal the crime.

The press called it The Hello Kitty Murder. But behind the shocking headlines was a story of systemic failure: a woman raised in an orphanage, abandoned by society, and ultimately erased — first by her killers, then by a culture more fascinated by the grotesque than by the victim.

This episode revisits the haunting case that shook Hong Kong. It explores the building that once held unspeakable horror, the legal loopholes that denied full justice, and the erasure of a woman whose life mattered. Though the apartment was torn down and replaced by a luxury hotel, the memory remains — quiet, heavy, and unfinished.

This is not a story about a doll.
It’s a story about Fan Man-Yee — and about what happens when we forget the people behind the headlines.

📍 Featured Address: 31 Granville Road, 3rd Floor, Block B, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
⚠️ Content Warning: Contains graphic descriptions of torture, dismemberment, and violence against women. Listener discretion strongly advised.