What's the most dangerous weapon - a gun? A knife? Poison?

How about a Yoga Ball? 

On 22nd May 2015, Malaysian Professor Khaw Kim Sun murdered his wife and 15-year-old daughter with none other than a deadly yoga ball. 

An avant-garde anesthesiologist, an extramarital affair. The backdrop to a tragedy that shook Hong Kong and the rest of Asia.

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In a twisted ritual, Ahmed Suradju would bring his victims into a sugar cane field. Under the guise of performing magic, they would allow themselves to be tied up and buried in a hole. He would then manually strangle them - a brutal task that took anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes. He did this to 42 women over 11 years in the rural outskirts of Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, Indonesia.

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All they wanted to do was make some money as criminals, but they skipped straight from robbery... to MURDER!

On 25th April 1978, Ong Chin Hock, Yeo Ching Boon and Ong Hwee Kuan planned an elaborate scheme to steal a gun from a policeman that ended in the murder of two innocents. 

A policeman, stabbed to death. A taxi driver, bleeding out in an open drain...

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Just 8 years ago Gabriel Lee killed Elsie Lie because he thought she was the devil.

He was diagnosed with psychosis.

Days after proposing on a romantic trip to Genting Highlands, Gabriel gouged out her eyeballs. He threw them out of the window from their rented room where they landed in a grass patch at the foot of Block 663, Jurong West Street 65...

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Gerald Lowe, Sheila Damude, Darin Damude - these are three or John's confirmed murders.

John Martin Scripps was an Englishman and spree killer who was sentenced to death on 19 April 1996. He was also the first Briton to be given the death penalty since Singapore's independence. 

He'd pose as a tourist and befriend his victims, before butchering them up... 

The Garden City Butcher. 

Note: It's room 1511 not 1151, my bad!  

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小三 (xiǎo sān) - mistress, side-chick, the other woman.   

27th July 1973, Mimi Wong was hanged for the murder of her Japanese boyfriend's wife, Ayako Watanabe.  She had been Hiroshi Watanabe's 小三 for three years while he worked on a land reclamation project. Worried that the arrival of his wife would mean the end of their relationship, she killed Ayako at the Watanabe's semi-detached family home on Jalan Seaview... 

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At 8 PM on 18th September 2008,  a pair of lovers quarreled over having crab for dinner. In less than 4 hours, Wang Zhi Jian's girlfriend, Zhang Meng,  her daughter, and their flatmate would be dead. The three-room flat at Yishun Avenue 11 made a horrific crime scene splattered with blood both within and on the walls outside. Was this an act of madness or cold calculation? 

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