Case file · High strangeness
Adrian Lim and the Toa Payoh ritual murders
Adrian Lim, a self-styled medium in Singapore, used fake spirit powers to control followers and in 1981 killed two children in a ritual; he and two accomplices were hanged in 1988.
1981 CE · 1.33, 103.85 · status: hoax
The account
Lim posed as a channel of Hindu and Chinese deities, using 'electric shock' treatments and sexual abuse on clients.
The sceptical view
The case is remembered as a fraud whose 'supernatural' claims were tools of manipulation.