Filipino maid Guen Garlejo Aguilar strangled best friend over $2,000
The Straits Times | Monday, May 23, 2016
Body parts were found in a bag near the Orchard MRT station on Sept 9, 2005.
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This story was first published in July 2015 in an e-book titled Guilty As Charged: 25 Crimes That Have Shaken Singapore Since 1965. A collaboration between The Straits Times and the Singapore Police Force, the e-book appeared in The Straits Times Star E-books app.
They were the best of friends, until a dispute over money led to one maid killing another, then gruesomely disposing the body in separate bags
It was on 1.45pm on Friday, Sept 9, 2005, that 41-year-cleaner Maria Yee Marutham found a blue and red oblong sports bag lying at a corner of the mosaic wall near the Orchard MRT station exit. When she unzipped it, she saw a woman's face.
It was part of a severed head which had been put into a red plastic bag. There were also two other black trash bags.
They contained arms, which had been severed above the elbow, and legs.
The trolley bag found near MacRitchie Reservoir. It contained the victim's torso, which was dressed only in undergarments. Photo: The New Paper
At 6.10pm, it was civil servant Alvin Lim Seng Leong's turn to make a grisly find. He was walking to a bus stop on Lornie Road, when he cut in front of the MacRitchie Reservoir canteen and found a black trolley bag. The police were called.
In the bag was the rest of the dead woman's body.
In the space of 12 hours, police had a suspect in custody - 29-year-old Filipino maid Guen Garlejo Aguilar. Married with two young sons, she was arrested at her employer's eighth-floor apartment at the SunGlade condominium at Serangoon Avenue 2. An 18cm cleaver in a red plastic bag was also taken from the flat, where the murder was believed to have taken place.
Filipino maid Guen Garlejo Aguilar killed her best friend. Photo: Shin Min
The victim was her best friend, who also worked as a maid. Her name was Mrs Jane Parangan La Puebla. She was 26, and also married and a mother of a nine-year-old boy. Police had identified her from the fingerprints lifted from the hands found in the sports bag.
By the next day, Aguilar was charged with murder. The big question was why did she kill a woman who was described as being a "sister" to her. Speculation centred around the possibility of a love triangle.
The pair had often been seen at the popular maid hangout next to Orchard MRT station with a local Indian man. The "tall and handsome" man was seeing Aguilar, but the rumours were that the victim was also vying for his affections.
But the truth was far more simple. The reason for the killing was a dispute over money.
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The Straits Times | Monday, May 23, 2016
Body parts were found in a bag near the Orchard MRT station on Sept 9, 2005.
Photo: The New Paper
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This story was first published in July 2015 in an e-book titled Guilty As Charged: 25 Crimes That Have Shaken Singapore Since 1965. A collaboration between The Straits Times and the Singapore Police Force, the e-book appeared in The Straits Times Star E-books app.
They were the best of friends, until a dispute over money led to one maid killing another, then gruesomely disposing the body in separate bags
It was on 1.45pm on Friday, Sept 9, 2005, that 41-year-cleaner Maria Yee Marutham found a blue and red oblong sports bag lying at a corner of the mosaic wall near the Orchard MRT station exit. When she unzipped it, she saw a woman's face.
It was part of a severed head which had been put into a red plastic bag. There were also two other black trash bags.
They contained arms, which had been severed above the elbow, and legs.
The trolley bag found near MacRitchie Reservoir. It contained the victim's torso, which was dressed only in undergarments. Photo: The New Paper
At 6.10pm, it was civil servant Alvin Lim Seng Leong's turn to make a grisly find. He was walking to a bus stop on Lornie Road, when he cut in front of the MacRitchie Reservoir canteen and found a black trolley bag. The police were called.
In the bag was the rest of the dead woman's body.
In the space of 12 hours, police had a suspect in custody - 29-year-old Filipino maid Guen Garlejo Aguilar. Married with two young sons, she was arrested at her employer's eighth-floor apartment at the SunGlade condominium at Serangoon Avenue 2. An 18cm cleaver in a red plastic bag was also taken from the flat, where the murder was believed to have taken place.
Filipino maid Guen Garlejo Aguilar killed her best friend. Photo: Shin Min
The victim was her best friend, who also worked as a maid. Her name was Mrs Jane Parangan La Puebla. She was 26, and also married and a mother of a nine-year-old boy. Police had identified her from the fingerprints lifted from the hands found in the sports bag.
By the next day, Aguilar was charged with murder. The big question was why did she kill a woman who was described as being a "sister" to her. Speculation centred around the possibility of a love triangle.
The pair had often been seen at the popular maid hangout next to Orchard MRT station with a local Indian man. The "tall and handsome" man was seeing Aguilar, but the rumours were that the victim was also vying for his affections.
But the truth was far more simple. The reason for the killing was a dispute over money.
- See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/crime/...ed-best-friend-over-2000#sthash.W8KwS797.dpuf
