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The Toy That Held the Secret:

The Hello Kitty Murder Case

Author's Corner

Childhood

Fan Man-Yee’s early life was harsh —
abandoned by her parents, raised in an

underfunded orphanage, and forced to
leave at 15 as per Hong Kong law. With
no support, she entered prostitution,

falling into drug addiction and later
marrying an abusive man. By her 20s, she

Name: Umme Kulsum. B worked at the Romance Villa brothel,
where she met Chan Man-Lok, a Triad

member who supplied her with drugs and
clients.

Introduction

In May 1999, 14-year-old Lau
Ming-Fong confessed to the Hong

Kong police about visions of a
female ghost demanding her head.

She led them to a Granville Road
apartment, where bloodstains and

a human skull hidden in a Hello
Kitty Mermaid doll revealed the Image 1: Fan Man-yee photograph

brutal torture and murder of a 23- Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty_murder
year-old Fan Man-Yee by Triad
members. The case, remembered as Kidnapping and

the “Hello Kitty murder,” shocked
the world with its cruelty. Torture

In 1997, Fan stole $4,000 (₹43,720) from
Chan. He demanded $10,000 (about