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Lisy Teo was a humble piano teacher from Seremban. Recently married to a former pastor and 2 months pregnant, Lisy had her whole life ahead of her.
But all it took was one phone call to change it all forever.
It was February, 1992 when Lisy received a phone call in her home in Seremban. The woman identified herself as ‘Mrs Wong’ and she was looking for a piano teacher for her daughter.
It was a pretty standard conversation that Lisy always had with potential clients, until ‘Mrs Wong’ started to ask about her date of birth. ‘Mrs Wong’ brushed it off quickly as a joke and ended the call. Lisy felt it was quite odd, but didn’t think much of it.
Little did she know that this was just the beginning of a nightmare that would tear her family apart.
Each day, the calls kept escalating. There were days when she was getting up to 10 calls a day.
‘Mrs Wong’ would tell Lisy that her husband, Michael, was having an affair with a prostitute. When she refused to believe her, ‘Mrs Wong’ changed her story.
She pretended to be Michael’s friend and tried to get Lisy to divulge her address in KL, under the pretext of wanting to send gifts.
Lisy confronted her husband about this and he told her that ‘Mrs Wong’ had threatened him multiple times. She had even hired a private investigator to follow him.
He told Lisy to be careful and instructed her that should anything happen to him, she was to contact the police and hand over recordings of conversations he had with ‘Mrs Wong’ to them. Lisy trusted her husband and put it behind her.
Lisy trusted her husband and ignored the calls from the strange woman
Things did go back to normal for a while. In May of 1992, ‘Mrs Wong’ had stopped harassing Lisy.
Her husband even threw her a special dinner to celebrate their marriage. It was their 2-year anniversary.
Then in July, the calls resumed, worse than before. ‘Mrs Wong’ was acting increasingly strange, and when confronted by Lisy’s family members she even threatened them, saying, “You won’t die peacefully…”
And then suddenly, the calls stopped again. But this momentary peace was just the calm before the storm.
On 22 July, 1992 police showed up at Lisy’s home in Seremban at 1am and took her in for questioning. They were looking for a ‘Lily Chua’ and they asked Lisy what her relationship was to Lisy and her husband.
Lisy of course had no idea who ‘Lily Chua’ was. Scared and confused, she just wanted to see her husband. But they continued to detain her.
It was only much later that Lisy would find out the truth – along with the rest of the country.
Who was the mysterious caller?
Over the next few days, nationwide news broke that a woman named Lily Chua had been found cut up into 11 parts.
In the course of their investigation, the police detained Michael and Lisy. After much interrogation, it was only a few hours before he had confessed to everything.
The truth was, Lily Chua was the real name of ‘Mrs Wong.’
She was a singer and karaoke lounge owner and singer, and she had been having an affair with Lisy’s husband.
They met in 1991 through a mutual friend and had a casual fling. Michael had wanted to end the relationship after that, but Lily refused to accept that it was over.
That’s when the calls to Lisy started. Lily had been blackmailing Michael and threatening to expose him if he did not give in to her demands for sex and companionship.
She was obsessed over him, while according to him, he was a reluctant accomplice to her delusion.
The toxic relationship carried on for almost a year. Then on 6 July, 1993 after having sex at his condo in KL, Michael told her it was over and he didn’t want to see her anymore.
Lily did not take this well. She attacked him with a knife and in the ensuing struggle Michael accidentally stabbed Lily in the chest.
She died a slow and agonizing death on his apartment floor.
Michael murdered Lily and cut her body into 11 pieces
What happened next would shock the nation and cause a media frenzy that is still remembered till today.
Using a meat cleaver from the kitchen, Michael hacked up Lily’s body into 11 pieces. He rounded her remains into plastic bags and disposed of them near some bushes at Jalan Tunku.
He then went back to clean his apartment and get rid of any trace of evidence.
2 days later, Lily’s remains were found by a grasscutter. It took the police 2 weeks to identify and trace her phone records. That’s how they linked it back to him.
On 19 July, Michael was called in to assist with the investigation. He lied and said he did not recognise Lily.
The police were on to him of course and threatened to bring in his wife. They were banking on it being enough to pressure him into confessing.
To spare his wife from the ordeal of being interrogated by police, it worked. Michael confessed to the murder of Lily Chua the very same day.
But it was already too late.
After being detained for more than 16 hours, the stress had gotten to Lisy. She started vomiting and bleeding. She was finally released and rushed to a hospital.
Fortunately she survived. Her baby, however, did not.
Michael Gan Wei Seng was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to prison. He was released in 2000 and reportedly changed his name and returned to his family. It is not known if Lisy and Michael are still together.
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