0:00 [SPEAKER_00]: This is Jessica, and you're listening to the Asian Madness podcast. 0:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to the Asian Madness podcast everyone. 0:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, hope you're taking great care of yourself and join your days and staying healthy. 0:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Life tends to get busy, so it's always good to check in on yourself from time to time. 1:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Do whatever makes you happy as long as 1:08 [SPEAKER_00]: So today's case is something I came across somewhere online. 1:13 [SPEAKER_00]: The internet can be such a terrible place, but there is also no place like the internet. 1:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I like to give a general blurb on what kind of case we will be looking into today. 1:24 [SPEAKER_00]: The circumstances, the backdrop. 1:27 [SPEAKER_00]: If I mention family, you know I'm probably going to talk about someone killing their family member. 1:33 [SPEAKER_00]: If I mention love, you probably know it's going to be some kind of crime of passion. 1:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Then there are friends. 1:41 [SPEAKER_00]: The family we find throughout life. 1:43 [SPEAKER_00]: The kind of family we get to choose ourselves. 1:47 [SPEAKER_00]: So that is today's background. 1:50 [SPEAKER_00]: You meet lots of people throughout your lifetime. 1:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Some click, some don't. 1:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Those that you do click with, they become a friend. 1:58 [SPEAKER_00]: And if it gets deeper, they become a close friend. 2:02 [SPEAKER_00]: The one thing in common about family, lovers, and friends is that you don't expect to harm them or vice versa, physically or emotionally. 2:12 [SPEAKER_00]: You also expect to help each other when something happens. 2:16 [SPEAKER_00]: So they're not there for you, you end up with questions. 2:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 2:21 [SPEAKER_00]: So what happened to this 19-year-old from Singapore? 2:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Did her so-called friends actually do something terrible to her? 2:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Or did they simply fail her when she needed help? 2:32 [SPEAKER_00]: 19 is very young. 2:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Old enough to feel independent, young enough to believe that they're still 2:41 [SPEAKER_00]: you have dreams and you have so much potential. 2:44 [SPEAKER_00]: While this case is technically solved, there are always going to be some questions lingering as it is with most cases. 2:52 [SPEAKER_00]: People can confess. 2:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Police can dig up evidence. 2:56 [SPEAKER_00]: But the only person who might know more is usually the victim. 3:00 [SPEAKER_00]: And the dead cannot speak. 3:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Her name is Felicia Diu or Diu Wei Ling in Chinese. 3:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's begin. 3:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Felicia Thiu Wei Ling was born on February 23, 1988 in Singapore. 3:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Her family is of Chinese descent, and she was the eldest of two children in a home that was close, stable, and loving. 3:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The siblings loved with their parents in Braspa Sa, in the center of a life that, from the outside, looked entirely ordinary. 3:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Felicia, who preferred to go by due, was the kind of person who made an impression without trying. 3:41 [SPEAKER_00]: She had a relaxed confidence, a social ease, and a sense of humor that made her likable in just about any situation. 3:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Her family described her as thoughtful, her friends called her outgoing. 3:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Her phone was rarely out of her hand, probably because she was always texting with friends. 4:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, it was the early 2000s, but smartphones were already around, and texting was nothing new. 4:07 [SPEAKER_00]: She had attended Monks' Hill secondary school, and from there she moved on to Lasso College of the Arts. 4:16 [SPEAKER_00]: At LaSalle, due studied fine arts, her work spoke quietly, but with purpose. 4:23 [SPEAKER_00]: It was expressive, occasionally experimental, and very personal. 4:29 [SPEAKER_00]: She was nearing the end of her diploma program, but of course she never managed to get there. 4:35 [SPEAKER_00]: The future wasn't just something she was seeing through a vision board. 4:39 [SPEAKER_00]: It was something that she could almost taste. 4:42 [SPEAKER_00]: But you know what people say. 4:44 [SPEAKER_00]: All work and no play makes Jack a dough boy. 4:47 [SPEAKER_00]: So like most 19 year olds, her world wasn't all textbooks and portfolios. 4:53 [SPEAKER_00]: She had a very full social life an endless stream of messages buzzing through her phone in a dynamic group of friends from school, work, and beyond. 5:04 [SPEAKER_00]: She had different circles for different parts of herself, friends from Los Al, friends from her old schools, colleagues from her job, and a few people who had simply drifted into her life and stayed. 5:17 [SPEAKER_00]: To support herself, do work part-time at a bar in Clark Quay. 5:22 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a buzzing stretch of waterfront nightlife, where locals, and tourists, mingled. 5:30 [SPEAKER_00]: It's also where she could earn a paycheck and still feel like part of the scene. 5:34 [SPEAKER_00]: She was a bartender and was quite good at it. 5:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Her co-workers remembered her as sharp, reliable, someone you can count on to close up properly at the end of a long night. 5:46 [SPEAKER_00]: When she wasn't working or studying, she moved through the city's gathering spaces. 5:51 [SPEAKER_00]: She liked marine parade with its theater, library, rooftop sports hall, and air-conditioned 5:59 [SPEAKER_00]: She liked Clark Quay for its noise and energy. 6:03 [SPEAKER_00]: These were places where she felt alive, where everything was happening. 6:09 [SPEAKER_00]: In some ways, do it was what you get when you imagine a young art school student. 6:14 [SPEAKER_00]: She had goals, but was also very fun, creative, and up for a good time. 6:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Trying new things and meeting new people was just another day for her. 6:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of friends though, allow me to introduce to you two young men. 6:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Regul Puchro Satya Sukhamarjana and Indonesian Singaporean, and Aman Tanya Muhammad Rafa'i, a Malays Singaporean. 6:40 [SPEAKER_00]: She met Regul through Lassal, and he later introduced her to Ahmad, who was an alumni of Lassal, and a few years older. 6:50 [SPEAKER_00]: The three of them became a casual trio, often hanging out at the flat radio and a mod shared. 6:56 [SPEAKER_00]: They drank, they played music, they talked. 7:00 [SPEAKER_00]: It was easy. 7:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Tiu had been to their apartment many times before. 7:05 [SPEAKER_00]: She felt safe there. 7:06 [SPEAKER_00]: While the activities mentioned may cause some Asian parents to click their tongues and shake their heads, Tiu wasn't wasting her life away, partying and drinking. 7:15 [SPEAKER_00]: There were plans for an internship at a well-known advertising firm, something she was genuinely excited about. 7:22 [SPEAKER_00]: And to balance that out, she had already bought tickets for a concert for later that year in August. 7:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Her year was already mapped out. 7:34 [SPEAKER_00]: School, work, music, friends, maybe a job in the industry if everything lined up. 7:41 [SPEAKER_00]: And then, came during 29th, 2007. 7:46 [SPEAKER_00]: That evening, two left her family's apartment located on Bayn Street, saying she was headed to a party at LaSalle. 7:54 [SPEAKER_00]: She told her parents she would also be going to a friend's wedding the next day, someone close to her was getting married. 8:02 [SPEAKER_00]: It was the kind of event she would never skip, no matter how tired or hung over she might be that day. 8:08 [SPEAKER_00]: She left home with a cream-coloured bag slung over her shoulder. 8:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Inside, she packed her apple laptop, a digital camera, and about $30 in cash. 8:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Just enough for a night out. 8:21 [SPEAKER_00]: No one was concerned. 8:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Do often stay out late with friends, but she always checked in. 8:27 [SPEAKER_00]: If plans changed, she would send a message. 8:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, Singapore is a very safe country, so I would not expect her family to have been worried about her safety. 8:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Crime rate is very low, streets are clean, people are disciplined, and most importantly, they follow some of the toughest laws, things like vandalism, jaywalking, littering, and even chewing gum can lead to hefty fines or worse. 8:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Some things are just not tolerated in Singapore, and perhaps that's why they are able to keep their country so safe and clean. 9:03 [SPEAKER_00]: But of course, safe doesn't mean bad things never happen. 9:08 [SPEAKER_00]: The next day, June 30th, things were off. 9:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Dude did not show up for the wedding. 9:14 [SPEAKER_00]: At first, people assumed she was running late, but minutes stretched into hours, and she never arrived. 9:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Friends began calling and texting. 9:24 [SPEAKER_00]: No response. 9:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Her phone was silent. 9:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Her social media accounts, which were always active, were left untouched. 9:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone knows at least one person who was always on their social media pages, whether Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. 9:42 [SPEAKER_00]: If they don't post for a few hours, it feels a bit weird. 9:46 [SPEAKER_00]: If they don't post for an entire day, you notice. 9:50 [SPEAKER_00]: And if they don't post for days or a week, you might get worried. 9:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Her parents started making calls. 9:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Friends were questioned. 9:59 [SPEAKER_00]: People retraced her last known steps. 10:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Had she gone somewhere after the party at her college? 10:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Could she have fallen ill? 10:08 [SPEAKER_00]: or gotten hurt while on her own, and had trouble getting home? 10:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Was she perhaps out of town? 10:15 [SPEAKER_00]: But it just didn't add up. 10:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Her friends and family knew her well. 10:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Dude didn't vanish, and if something had come up, she would have set something. 10:24 [SPEAKER_00]: The hours turned in two days, three days to be exact. 10:28 [SPEAKER_00]: On July 3rd, dude's mother walked into a police station and filed a missing person's report. 10:34 [SPEAKER_00]: It was no longer a misunderstanding. 10:39 [SPEAKER_00]: From the very beginning, her family knew something wasn't right. 10:43 [SPEAKER_00]: It's common in such cases for most parents to think something happened to their child rather than thinking their child ran away or disappeared voluntarily. 10:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, in some cases, parents can be so out of touch with their kids and have no idea who their child even is, or if they were planning something. 11:02 [SPEAKER_00]: But this was not the case for two and her family. 11:04 [SPEAKER_00]: They knew their daughter. 11:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Two wasn't impulsive or irresponsible. 11:09 [SPEAKER_00]: She did not go silent. 11:11 [SPEAKER_00]: And she would never disappear without telling anyone. 11:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Still, police treated the situation initially as a standard missing person's case. 11:20 [SPEAKER_00]: No evidence, no foul play. 11:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Just a girl who hadn't come home. 11:25 [SPEAKER_00]: but those who knew her refused to accept that. 11:28 [SPEAKER_00]: As part of the investigation, officers' reviews surveillance footage from locations tied to her last known plans. 11:36 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's when something showed up. 11:38 [SPEAKER_00]: On June 30th, 2007, just hours after leaving home and presumably the party at LaSalle, due was seen entering the elevator at Marine Terrace with two young men. 11:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Her friends, Regul and Amadanyal. 11:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Two friends she had hung out with a bunch of times before. 11:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Seeing as this was the last confirmed camera sighting of Duh, police went and checked it out. 12:04 [SPEAKER_00]: When questioned, both men told police the same story, that Duh had come over for casual hangout after the party. 12:12 [SPEAKER_00]: They spent the night talking, playing music, having a few drinks. 12:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Normal, regular college kid stuff. 12:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Then around 2 a.m., they claimed she left on her own, saying she had to go to East Coast Park for whatever reason, which is about a 20 minute walk away. 12:31 [SPEAKER_00]: In a few articles, Rageel and Amon also claimed that after they made a comment to do about, quote, having so many boyfriends, unquote, she grabbed her stuff and left. 12:42 [SPEAKER_00]: They did not question her, and in their statement, she simply just walked out, just like 12:50 [SPEAKER_00]: but something about their story didn't sit right. 12:53 [SPEAKER_00]: CCTV camera footage confirmed that due had gone up to the apartment with them, but no footage ever showed her leaving. 13:02 [SPEAKER_00]: There was no sign of her and the elevator, no camera captured her walking out of the lobby or through the stairwell exits. 13:10 [SPEAKER_00]: If she had gone home, she'd done so completely unnoticed. 13:20 [SPEAKER_00]: police looked harder, a missing person bulletin was released to the public. 13:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Investigators also issued a property alert for accused belongings, items she was known to have had with her that night. 13:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Things like the cream-colored shoulder bag, her silver apple laptop, and a digital camera. 13:39 [SPEAKER_00]: all of them were missing. 13:41 [SPEAKER_00]: None turned up. 13:42 [SPEAKER_00]: The two friends claimed that she had left with all her things, so nothing was left behind with them. 13:48 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, they had no idea where she went. 13:52 [SPEAKER_00]: As days turned into weeks, the case gained urgency. 13:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Two's friends and family could no longer sit around and wait. 14:01 [SPEAKER_00]: More than a hundred of them began their own search, checking Clark Quay, Marine Parade, East Coast Park. 14:08 [SPEAKER_00]: They come through the places she loved. 14:10 [SPEAKER_00]: They posted flyers, spoke to pastors by, and put up photos. 14:15 [SPEAKER_00]: One friend created a blog dedicated to the search. 14:18 [SPEAKER_00]: It chronicled updates, leads, and messages of support. 14:23 [SPEAKER_00]: At its core was a single question, where it was due. 14:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Do had no reason to disappear. 14:29 [SPEAKER_00]: She had no history of depression or any signs of distress. 14:33 [SPEAKER_00]: She had not packed a bag or withdrawn any money. 14:36 [SPEAKER_00]: She had only $30 on her. 14:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Barely enough to get by for a day, let alone vanish completely. 14:43 [SPEAKER_00]: She had made plans, solid future plans, a wedding to attend, an internship, a concert. 14:51 [SPEAKER_00]: She had commitments that she took seriously. 14:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And her phone, which she carried everywhere, and used all the time, had gone silent. 15:01 [SPEAKER_00]: The last activity on her mobile was a single text sent a 237 AM on the night she disappeared. 15:08 [SPEAKER_00]: It went to a male friend. 15:10 [SPEAKER_00]: His identity has never been confirmed, but we know that after that, there was nothing. 15:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Thu's mother clung to hope, but her instincts never rested. 15:21 [SPEAKER_00]: She believed her daughter had been taken, maybe even smuggled across the border. 15:27 [SPEAKER_00]: She even traveled to Johor Baru in Malaysia to put up missing persons posters. 15:32 [SPEAKER_00]: She chased down tips. 15:34 [SPEAKER_00]: She tried to track her daughter's digital footprint. 15:37 [SPEAKER_00]: The family contacted Dews, Telecom provider, and retrieved her call logs and message history. 15:43 [SPEAKER_00]: They reviewed everything, but no breakthrough came. 15:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Police meanwhile conducted regular reviews. 15:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Dews case stayed open, cataloged them on Singapore's biggest insult disappearances. 15:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Over the years, investigators were revisited, cross-checking her bank accounts, airline records, and social media logins. 16:05 [SPEAKER_00]: They re-interviewed witnesses, family members, and friends, but nothing changed. 16:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Year after year, her file remained active and inactive at the same time. 16:18 [SPEAKER_00]: There were no suspects, no body, no crime scene. 16:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe do had moved somewhere new, left her old life behind for some reason and started fresh. 16:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe she was already married. 16:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe she even had a child of her own. 16:38 [SPEAKER_00]: and then in July of 2020, 13 years after she vanished, something happened that brought Felicia Dudes' case once again to the top of the page. 16:49 [SPEAKER_00]: The criminal investigation department or CID took over the case. 16:54 [SPEAKER_00]: In this time, they actually found something. 16:59 [SPEAKER_00]: It began with a detail that seemed minor at the time. 17:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Dudes' personal belongings 17:05 [SPEAKER_00]: back in 2007, she was known to have left home carrying a bag, her laptop, and a digital camera. 17:13 [SPEAKER_00]: None of those items had ever been found. 17:15 [SPEAKER_00]: 13 years later, investigators tried again by tracing these possessions, hoping that even a digital footprint, a serial number, or a transfer could lead to something concrete. 17:27 [SPEAKER_00]: that trail led them directly to someone they are ready to talk to. 17:31 [SPEAKER_00]: A madhanyaal bin Muhammad Rafa'i. 17:35 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the two men who had visited that night she vanished was actually in possession of one of the items on that list. 17:43 [SPEAKER_00]: That single discovery re-ignited the entire case and used this appearance was no longer a mystery. 17:50 [SPEAKER_00]: It was immediately reclassified as murder. 17:54 [SPEAKER_00]: On December 15, 2020, police arrested a Mod Daniel. 17:59 [SPEAKER_00]: He was 35 years old at the time. 18:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And until that moment, he had been walking free for 13 years. 18:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Just two days later, he was formally charged with Felicia at the Uzmurder. 18:12 [SPEAKER_00]: According to the charge, between 139 a.m. and 720 a.m. on the morning of June 30th, 2007, a mod and his friend, Reggie, had killed Felicia inside their marine terrorist apartment. 18:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The exact method of killing was still not clear, the details, at least publicly, were not known. 18:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have never left that flat? 18:38 [SPEAKER_00]: She had died there. 18:40 [SPEAKER_00]: The men were also accused of disposing of her body, though the exact method was also not disclosed yet. 18:47 [SPEAKER_00]: These remains were never completely recovered. 18:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Rageo, who had been 32 in 2020, was no longer living in Singapore, so the police listed him as a fugitive, possibly living overseas by this point. 19:01 [SPEAKER_00]: He was placed on a wanted list, and an international search was initiated. 19:08 [SPEAKER_00]: On the day Ahmad Daniels' name hit the news, Regul's social media accounts, including his LinkedIn profile, were deactivated. 19:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Clearly this man is aware of what's happening. 19:20 [SPEAKER_00]: And I would even venture to say he was keeping an eye out, or maybe even set an alert on his Google news for anything involving Felicia and Ahmad Daniels' names. 19:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Probably sleeping with when I open, looking over his shoulder constantly. 19:39 [SPEAKER_00]: As you would imagine, the news hit hard with this new development. 19:43 [SPEAKER_00]: A mod was not a stranger. 19:44 [SPEAKER_00]: He was someone, do you knew? 19:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Someone that she trusted. 19:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Part of a circle she willingly entered that night. 19:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody, the police already questioned. 19:56 [SPEAKER_00]: and now after all these years, the people she had considered friends at night were major suspects, who can you really trust? 20:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Both men had met her through a law. 20:07 [SPEAKER_00]: A mod has studied and graduated from a law. 20:09 [SPEAKER_00]: And for years, he had worked as a creative manager at Razor, a global gaming hardware company. 20:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Regul stayed longer at the college and eventually earned an honors degree in video art. 20:22 [SPEAKER_00]: He had since worked on various film projects in Jakarta, 20:26 [SPEAKER_00]: and was last known to be employed as a director's assistant when a mod was arrested. 20:31 [SPEAKER_00]: On paper, their lives had moved on, careers, creative projects, marriages, and a steady social media presence. 20:39 [SPEAKER_00]: But behind that surface was the ghost of a girl whose disappearance they never explained. 20:47 [SPEAKER_00]: These family declined to speak to the media following the rest, because some part of them still held on to the idea, fragile and hopeful, that she might still be out there living another life in another place. 21:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps the police got it wrong. 21:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe she'd gotten into an accident and lost her memory. 21:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe she had chosen to disappear. 21:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Anything, as long as she was still alive. 21:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Now that Hope was gone, the family had never moved from their home in Braspa saw. 21:19 [SPEAKER_00]: For years, they had stayed put for one reason. 21:23 [SPEAKER_00]: If due ever came back, they wanted her to find them exactly where she left them. 21:28 [SPEAKER_00]: But of course, that never happened. 21:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, at least, the Hope is at the family will get some answers with the mods arrest. 21:38 [SPEAKER_00]: but nothing is ever that simple. 21:40 [SPEAKER_00]: After he was arrested in December 2020, a model was placed into police custody, and he appeared in court shortly after a through video call, probably because of COVID. 21:51 [SPEAKER_00]: When the charge was read, which was murder, he apparently showed no visible reaction. 21:57 [SPEAKER_00]: On the Singapore law, a conviction from murder carries a deaf penalty. 22:02 [SPEAKER_00]: A mod was not granted bail and was remanded at the Tangling and Central Police Division. 22:08 [SPEAKER_00]: A court date was scheduled for the summer 24th, and his case was adjourned again to the end of the month. 22:15 [SPEAKER_00]: During that appearance, it was revealed that a mod was suffering from a health issue, so as remand was extended. 22:25 [SPEAKER_00]: On January 7, 2021, the court ordered our mod to undergo a three-week psychiatric evaluation while in custody. 22:34 [SPEAKER_00]: The results of that assessment, which would be done by the end of January, would later be used to help determine his mental state during the alleged crime. 22:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Access to that report was tightly controlled because of the ongoing investigation. 22:54 [SPEAKER_00]: amid 2022, more than a year and a half after the arrest. 22:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Regul was yet to be located in the murder case remain unresolved. 23:04 [SPEAKER_00]: In May of that year, Amad's remand was formally extended again as the search for Regul continued, beyond Singapore's borders. 23:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Then came the twist. 23:15 [SPEAKER_00]: On June 27, 2022, prosecutors requested that the murder charge against a mod be suspended, not dropped, or dismissed, but just. 23:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Put aside for now. 23:27 [SPEAKER_00]: The court granted what's known as a discharge, not amounting to an acquittal. 23:32 [SPEAKER_00]: This usually means that the charge can be reinstated, or the case can reopen again at any time if new evidence comes to light. 23:42 [SPEAKER_00]: So in a way, Amad was no longer on trial for murder, but he wasn't in the clear either. 23:49 [SPEAKER_00]: His lawyer, Shashi Nathan, argued that this left his client in limbo, without a full acquittal, Amad would live indefinitely under the weight of the capital charge that could return without warning. 24:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Nathan also spoke not only of Amad's suffering, but also of the toll it had taken on his family. 24:09 [SPEAKER_00]: His wife had moved out of their home due to harassment, and his relatives had endured public backlash. 24:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Despite these arguments, the court refused to grant a full acquittal. 24:20 [SPEAKER_00]: The presiding judge, Eugene Thieu, acknowledged all these issues, but said that it was too early to make that call. 24:28 [SPEAKER_00]: The investigation was still active, so the story was still incomplete. 24:33 [SPEAKER_00]: And you can't make a judgment based on half the story. 24:37 [SPEAKER_00]: A mod was still facing multiple other charges. 24:39 [SPEAKER_00]: For disposing of Philly Shetty's body, stealing her belongings, misleading investigators, and creating false evidence to suggest she was still alive. 24:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, innocent until proven guilty, 24:57 [SPEAKER_00]: So keeping him probably helped people feel safer. 25:01 [SPEAKER_00]: And what if this guy tried to make a run for it? 25:04 [SPEAKER_00]: The court offered bail at $20,000 Singaporean dollars, which is around $15,000 US dollars. 25:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Amado indicated his intention to plead guilty to these lesser charges. 25:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Authorities continued to coordinate with Indonesian officials to locate Regul. 25:22 [SPEAKER_00]: The prosecution said that while Amad's murder charge was paused, Regul's was still very much active. 25:29 [SPEAKER_00]: And as long as his alleged accomplice was missing, the case could not be closed. 25:35 [SPEAKER_00]: During this time, Search Efforts at Pungo Track 24, the place where a modern review, allegedly left dues remains, led to the discovery of a school fragment. 25:46 [SPEAKER_00]: The fragment was sent to the United States from mitochondrial DNA testing, and, yes, her parents worse fears, came true. 25:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Authorities believe that the school most likely belonged to do. 25:59 [SPEAKER_00]: a moderate turn to court on October 14, 2022. 26:02 [SPEAKER_00]: He officially entered a guilty plea, not for murder, but for the related charges of obstruction, theft, and disposal of a courts. 26:13 [SPEAKER_00]: The judge's sentence in to 26 months in prison. 26:17 [SPEAKER_00]: One month less than what the prosecution had recommended. 26:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Given that a mod had already spent significant time in remand, most of his sentence had effectively been served. 26:28 [SPEAKER_00]: He was released soon after for good behavior. 26:33 [SPEAKER_00]: While Amod sentence turned out to be unsatisfactory and anticlimactic, one massive question remains, what on earth actually happened? 26:45 [SPEAKER_00]: If he didn't kill her, then how did she die? 26:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Amod story goes like this. 26:55 [SPEAKER_00]: him, Regue, and Duh had taken ecstasy together. 27:00 [SPEAKER_00]: After that, they all fell asleep. 27:03 [SPEAKER_00]: When a modern Regue woke up six hours later, they found Duh dead. 27:08 [SPEAKER_00]: They weren't doctors, but they very likely saw obvious signs of someone no longer alive, like the person not breathing. 27:17 [SPEAKER_00]: As they began to panic, they landed on the most logical cause of death, the drugs. 27:24 [SPEAKER_00]: But instead of calling for help, the two men decided to keep it between themselves. 27:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Using drugs in Singapore is a major offense, and it is rarely ever met with leniency. 27:35 [SPEAKER_00]: They could go to prison for 10 years, and if it resulted in a death or injury of someone else, that sentence could go up to 20 years. 27:44 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that is terrifying to think about, especially when you're young and you feel like you have so much to look forward to, but it's also extremely selfish, irresponsible. 27:55 [SPEAKER_00]: So they did what they thought was best for them. 27:58 [SPEAKER_00]: They went out, they bought tools, they put her in a carton box. 28:03 [SPEAKER_00]: They avoided taking the elevator, fearing that the footage would be incriminating, so they took the stairs instead. 28:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Once outside, the criminal duo took a taxi and headed off to Pungle, Track 24, where they then dug a hole, put the box in there, lit it on fire, and then covered it back up with dirt. 28:23 [SPEAKER_00]: The court did not accept this as a defense. 28:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Why lie to the police and give her family false hope? 28:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Why let people search for 13 years when he knew the truth all along? 28:35 [SPEAKER_00]: What made it worse for the court was the fact that the so-called friends tried so hard to mislead the family and the police. 28:42 [SPEAKER_00]: They had allegedly took dues phone and dropped it somewhere in East Coast Park, hoping that would corroborate their story. 28:50 [SPEAKER_00]: A mod also gave the laptop to his dad, to dispose of, and kept two of the camera lenses belonging to do for himself. 28:58 [SPEAKER_00]: The audacity The prosecution argued that his actions were calculated and deliberate, that the cover-up had been extensive and carefully maintained. 29:09 [SPEAKER_00]: For 13 years, a mod let dues loved one's suffer. 29:13 [SPEAKER_00]: That pain could not be undone. 29:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Shashi Nathan, a mod's lawyer, arguing that a mod had acted out of fear, not malice, that he had finally come forward and regretted what he had done. 29:26 [SPEAKER_00]: But did he come forward? 29:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't really seem like it. 29:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Sounds more like, oh shit, I got caught. 29:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Might as well confess. 29:36 [SPEAKER_00]: A mod, there is legal team, expressed his wish to apologize to Dew's family and friends 29:47 [SPEAKER_00]: But the legal questions were not over. 29:50 [SPEAKER_00]: In March 2023, Amod's team returned to court and asked again for the murder charge to be permanently dismissed. 29:57 [SPEAKER_00]: This time, the case reached the highest level. 30:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Singapore's chief justice, Sundarush Menon. 30:05 [SPEAKER_00]: The defense argued that it was unfair for Amod to live indefinitely under the weight of a charge that might never be resolved. 30:12 [SPEAKER_00]: He had served the sentence they said, he wanted to move on, maybe even leave the country, but he couldn't. 30:19 [SPEAKER_00]: His passport had been withheld, and he was basically held indefinitely in this country. 30:25 [SPEAKER_00]: His life was on hold. 30:27 [SPEAKER_00]: The chief justice was not slayed. 30:30 [SPEAKER_00]: He ruled that the murder charge would remain suspended, and not withdrawn until they had heard regular side of the story. 30:38 [SPEAKER_00]: At this point, I have zero hope this guy will ever show up willingly. 30:42 [SPEAKER_00]: We already know he's a coward and selfish, so why would he risk his life to try and help a friend? 30:48 [SPEAKER_00]: He already let one down in 2007, so what's another one? 30:54 [SPEAKER_00]: The Chief Justice also pointed out that it was a mod's own deception in 2007 that had contributed to the case as long delay. 31:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Would it have been better or different if they had just called a police in 2007? 31:13 [SPEAKER_00]: In many ways, absolutely yes. 31:17 [SPEAKER_00]: It might not have brought you back, but at least they would have done the right thing. 31:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Believe it or not, those cases still in limbo, even now. 31:27 [SPEAKER_00]: And her family, though finally given some answers, they are still left to the same painful 31:37 [SPEAKER_00]: do you think the story holds? 31:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Why didn't they call for help? 31:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Why the lies? 31:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Because they were afraid of exposing themselves? 31:47 [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's Regille, the one who vanished. 31:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Did he intentionally leave Singapore because he knew he was guilty? 31:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And he probably knew that one day, all this would catch up to him? 32:00 [SPEAKER_00]: We may never have an answer for this. 32:03 [SPEAKER_00]: So, there you have it, the somewhat mysterious stuff of a 19-year-old girl, the work two-men did to cover it up, and the trauma it inflicted on the due family and friends. 32:15 [SPEAKER_00]: For a country like Singapore, I would have expected a harsh or sentence, at least more than 26 months, for a mod. 32:23 [SPEAKER_00]: True, we still don't have the full picture, and maybe that's what's holding the court back from making any drastic sentencing decisions. 32:31 [SPEAKER_00]: What we do know is that Felicia Duce was 19. 32:35 [SPEAKER_00]: She had dreams, plans, and people who loved her. 32:39 [SPEAKER_00]: She was more than a headline or a cold case. 32:42 [SPEAKER_00]: And the people who took that from her, whether by mistake or by choice or by fear, let her family and friends suffer in silence for far too long. 32:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for taking the time to tune into this episode. 32:56 [SPEAKER_00]: I rarely report on happy cases, but such is the nature of the world of crime. 33:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully this case was presented with respect and love. 33:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And please let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions. 33:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember to be a good person, be kind, do the right thing, even if it feels hard sometimes. 33:19 [SPEAKER_00]: and always be safe. 33:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Till next time.
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