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Episode #547

Always on the Precipice

#547 Always on the Precipice
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Karen:

“Witch Doctor” murderer Mona Fandey

Episode sources:

  1. “Why Malaysians Wants to Bring Back a ‘Witchcraft Murderess’” by Heather Chen (Vice) 2020

  2. “Malaysia hangs three for witchcraft murder” (BBC) 2001

  3. “First on the scene” by Angelin Yeoh (The Star) 2026

  4. “Killing Cast Black Magic Spell Over Malaysians” by Philip Sherwell (The Daily Telegraph) 1993

  5. “Face to Face with Mona Fandey” by Esther Ng (The Star) 2018 

  6. “Women Who Murder” by Mitzi Szereto

  7. “Who is Mona Fandey And Why is She So Creepy?” by Nicholas Chow (Rojak Daily) 2018

  8. “The Gruesome Tale of Mona Fandey” by Dawn Chan (The New Straits Times) 2020 

  9. “The Mona Fandey Story” (Asia in the Shadows podcast) 2021 

  10. “Mona Fandey - A Modern Witchcraft Murder” (Capital Punishment UK)

  11. “What Happened to Mona Fandey’s House?” (Capital Punishment UK)

  12. “Mona Fandey: Fragments of a Dark Fame” (TLMUN Herald) 2024

  13. “Mona Fandey” (Wikipedia)

  14. “The chronology of events in the Mona Fandey murder case” (The New Straits Times) 2001

  15. “Mona Fandey” (Murderpedia)

  16. “The spooky dealings of politicians and bomohs” by Nur Hasliza Mohd Salleh (Malaysia Now) 2023 

  17. “Malaysia Abolished Trial By Jury In 1995. A Bomoh's Murder Trial Is Widely Blamed For It.” (AskLegal.My)

  18. “Affendy: Mazlan died as he didn’t have magical items” (The New Straits Times) 1995 

  19. “The day the axe ‘fell from the sky’ (Weekend Mail/Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 2007

  20. “Affendy tells court: I was in shock after chopping” (The New Straits Times) 1995

  21. “The chronology of events in the Mona Fandey murder case” (The New Straits Times) 2001

  22. “Mona’s fashion parade” (The New Straits Times) 1994

  23. “Mona’s greed and glamour” by Philip Golingai (The Star) 2006

  24. “The Story Of Mona Fandey: Malaysia's Most Gruesome Killer” (In Real Life MY) 2020 

  25. “Malaysia Repeals Mandatory Death Penalty” (Human Rights Watch) 2023

  26. “Assemblyman ‘unconscious or in trance’ when he was killed” (The Straits Times) 1993 

  27. “#BBCtrending: Malaysia's 'Bomoh' and the superstitious search for MH370” (BBC News) 2014 

  28. “Mona blames Juraimi's actions' for Mazlan's death” (The New Straits Times) 2001

  29. “A Life of Luxury and Vanity” (The New Straits Times) 2001

  30. “Affendy: I forged Mazkan’s signature to recover RM2mil” (New Straits Times) 1995

 
 
 

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