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SINGAPORE – Ahmad Danial Mohamed Rafa’ee, 35, was charged in court on Thursday (December 17) with the murder of Ms. Felicia Teo Wei Ling on June 30, 2007.
Ms. Teo was last seen by her parents on June 29, 2007, after leaving their home in Bras Basah. The 19-year-old was seen later that night entering an elevator in Block 19 Marine Terrace with two men.
Her mother filed a police report on missing persons on July 3, and Ms. Teo’s disappearance sparked a search involving more than 200 people.
After the Criminal Investigation Department uncovered new leads in July this year, Ahmad Danial was indicted in court for the murder of Ms Teo. The police are looking for another man, Ragil Putra Setia Sukmarahjana, for helping Ahmad Danial.
The Straits Times looks at four other unsolved missing persons cases over the years.
1. Tina Lim Xinying
Missing since: June 22, 2002
Tina Lim Xinying was 14 years old when she disappeared. The then High School 2 student left her Choa Chu Kang flat on June 22, 2002 to visit her cancer-stricken grandfather at his home in Jurong West.
Tina had called her aunt, who lives with her grandparents, to tell her about her visit. Tina never made it to her grandfather’s house. He also did not return home that same day.
Her father, Mr. Lim Boon Kee, looked for her in his favorite places, Lot One Shoppers’ Mall and Jurong Point.
He spent more than $ 1,000 on ads in The New Paper, Straits Times, Shin Min Daily News, and Lianhe Wanbao asking for clues as to his daughter’s whereabouts.
Lim also distributed more than 7,000 brochures and extended his search to Malaysia and Thailand.
On November 1, 2003, Mr. Lim and six family members received 10 calls that they believed were from Tina. Subsequently, the police investigated the calls and determined that they were not from the girl.
2. Kouk Leong Jin
Missing since: September 27, 2011
Mr. Kouk Leong Jin, a fourth-year medical student at Duke-NUS School of Medicine, arrived in Athens on September 25, 2011 for the 9th International Scientific Meeting of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
The 28-year-old sent his wife, Ms. Seow Shu Ping, an email a day later, on September 26. The next night, just after 10 pm, he called his friend Neo Ghim Hoe, who was also in Greece for the conference. However, Mr. Neo lost the call. When he returned the call the next morning, Mr. Kuok did not answer his phone. No one ever heard from Mr. Kouk again.
According to hotel records, Kouk’s last access to his room was on September 27 and he did not show up for the conference. Ms. Seow filed a police report in Singapore three days later.
Ms. Seow, who had just married Mr. Kouk three weeks earlier, flew to Greece with her parents and brother to look for him.
She also appeared in a 10-minute broadcast on Greek television on October 3, 2011, requesting information about her husband.
3. Thomas Yeo See Ming
Missing since: March 15, 1994
Thomas Yeo See Ming was last seen on Pulau Sibu Besar, an island off the east coast of Malaysia.
He left Singapore on February 28, 1994 to meditate on the island for a month, and was due to return at the end of March.
On March 3, he checked into an island resort and was last seen 12 days later.
A week later, his family submitted a report to the Mersing police, who discovered that Mr. Yeo’s belongings, including money, passport and clothes, had been left in his hotel room.
Mr. Yeo’s mother, Madam Lee See Moi, went to the island in March 1994 to await the results of her son’s search.
In 2005, Yeo’s family appeared on a television show about missing persons and revealed that every Chinese New Year, someone called on his home phone but hung up after a while without speaking.
4. Pham Thi Hai Yen
Missing since: November 13, 2012
Ms. Pham Thi Hai Yen was supposed to return to Australia from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to continue her studies. Instead, the college student changed course and boarded a flight to Singapore with an unknown woman.
On November 12, 2012, Ms. Pham traveled to the Ho Chi Minh City airport with her family and fired her. That night, the airport informed her family that Ms. Pham had left her luggage before boarding a plane to Singapore.
Her family tried to reach her but her phone was off. The Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore told her father that she arrived in Singapore on November 13. There were no records of his departure from the country.
According to Ms Pham’s father, she had recently spoken of becoming friends with an unknown woman whom she met online. The woman had promised to fulfill her dreams of becoming a supermodel.
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