Fan Man-Yee was born in 1976, in Shenzhen, China. She was becoming a part of a very dangerous lifestyle that would eventually turn on her. She was doing anything that she could to make money.
Two years later, in 1998, Fan ended up giving birth to a son. Fan decided to turn her life around so she could be the best mother she could possibly be to her son. She quit all the substances she was using and became a hostess at a nightclub called Empress Karaoke Club.
One night, she ended up deciding that she was going to steal a wallet of one of her former clients from the club, Chan Man-Lok. Chan was 34 years old, and he was known to be a pimp and a substance dealer who always was at the club socializing. He was a member of the triads, which was organized crime, a gang in Hong Kong.
The two of them had similar issues, so they became close, and this led Fan back into substance use at this point. Fan was desperate for money, so she decided to steal Chan’s wallet, which had $4,000 inside it, but it didn’t take long for Chan to notice that his money and his wallet were missing, and he knew immediately who had taken it. He knew it was Fan.
Chan had two of his friends, “buddies,” go look for Fan. He told them that when they found her to not only get the cash back from her but also to tell her that she needed to start working, “night type of working,” for him in order to make up for stealing this money from him. He wanted at least $10,000 in interest from Fan.
However, this little plan of Chan got escalated very quickly and got totally out of hand. When Chan and his two friends ended up finding Fan, they decided that getting this money back and forcing Fan to work for Chan wasn’t enough, and they really wanted to hurt her. So they forced Fan to leave her apartment with them, and they took her to one of Chan’s apartments. He actually had multiple apartments, one of which his wife and newborn baby lived in, but that’s not the one that they ended up taking Fan to. They took Fan to a very run-down apartment that was only used for work purposes. Strangely though, the entire apartment was completely covered in Hello Kitty memorabilia. They ended up tying her up, and they completely had their way with her for over a month.
They tied her, and they ended up burning her and used her as a punching bag. They forced her to eat human s***. They dripped hot wax on her and rubbed spices on her wounds. All they did was torture this woman while she was hanging in this apartment.
It is believed that Fan ended up passing away overnight on April 14th, 1999. After Chan and his friends discovered that Fan had passed away, they moved her body to the bathtub, and this is when they decided on a new plan. They decided to cut her into pieces and cook certain parts that they cut because they believed that if they cooked her, it would stop the smell of decomposition that was seeping out of the apartment at that time.
Allegedly, they used a pot of boiling water on the same stove they cooked food on, and after they were cooking these parts, they would throw pieces into the trash. However, they saved her head. After boiling that head on the stove, they ended up sewing her skull into a large Hello Kitty mermaid doll. They also kept one of Fan’s teeth and several of her organs in a plastic bag.
Fan passed away in 1999, and it went completely unnoticed until a 14-year-old known as Ah Fong went in and told the police that she was being haunted. She had been haunted by the ghost of a woman whose life had ended in her apartment. Initially, the cops just completely brushed Ah Fong off. They thought that she was a teenager, might be having a bad dream, and also might be trying to stir a little trouble with these silly ghost stories. However, when Ah Fong went on to tell the cops that she herself actually had a hand in this woman’s passing, this is when the cops started to wonder if what Ah Fong was saying might actually be true. So the officers decided that they were going to follow Ah Fong back to the apartment where Fan had actually passed away. Ah Fong was actually one of Chan’s little girlfriends, a grooming victim. She hurt Fan, allegedly just as much as the other three men did, and she would hysterically laugh about it.
According to Ah Fong, she says that one time when she was at Chan’s apartment, when Fan was still alive, she saw Chan kick Fan at least 50 times in the head, over and over again.
Ah Fong took officers to the apartment where Fan was, and what was left of Fan’s body was recovered and sent to the medical examiner. Chan and his two men argued about what actually caused Fan’s death. They thought that she actually OD’d on Methamphetamine, but the police weren’t convinced.
The medical examiner could never say for sure, but they believed that Fan passed away from her extensive injuries.
Chan and his two friends were arrested, and they ended up being charged with Fan’s murder. Chan and his two friends ended up going to trial, and it started on October 20th of 2000, which lasted for several months. During the trial, Ah Fong got up and testified.
According to her, because she didn’t want to be haunted anymore by Fan, she told the jury everything. But because it couldn’t be proven whether Fan actually passed from an OD or injuries, the jury decided to convict all three of them for manslaughter instead of actual murder. The jury also said that they could not determine whether the three actually intended to end Fan’s life, so they didn’t have the intent aspect in order to convict them of the higher charge. However, all three of them were sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 20 years. Ah Fong was released, and she was placed into foster care.
After this, Fan’s skull was kept by the state until all three men exhausted all of their appeal options. It was then given to Fan’s birth family in March of 2004. They had it cremated.
The apartment building of the incident was demolished in 2012 and rebuilt into a hotel in 2016. Two Buddha portraits sit in the hotel as a memorial.
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