S8:Ep2: The Yishun Triple Murders

It began with a fight over something as ordinary as dinner.

On a humid night in Yishun, Singapore, a man named Wang Zhijian was humiliated by his partner after refusing to give her money to buy crabs.

That moment, seemingly small, was the final crack in something already long broken.

Hours later, Wang rose from bed, naked and seething. With a knife in hand, he unleashed a brutal fury on everyone in the shared flat.

His lover, Zhang Meng, was the first to die, stabbed repeatedly in a frenzy of violence. Her 17-year-old daughter, Feng Jianyu, followed. Then he turned to another mother and daughter were also sharing the apartment.

The 15-year-old daughter, Li Meilin, survived, barely. But her mother, Yang Jie, fell six stories to her death while trying to escape. As she clung to a ledge outside the kitchen window, Wang slashed at her hands until she let go.

This is the story of the Yishun Triple Murders, one of Singapore’s most harrowing and senseless acts of domestic violence.