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Fan Man-yee, a young nightclub hostess and mother, was kidnapped over a debt to a triad member and held in a Kowloon apartment decorated with Hello Kitty merchandise

Over several weeks, the men — often high on methamphetamine — tortured Fan in front of a 13-year-old girl, who later testified about the daily beatings and burnings she witnessed

Police uncovered Fan’s dismembered remains after the girl came forward, finding her skull sewn inside a Hello Kitty mermaid doll in a discovery that horrified Hong Kong

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Fan Man-yee, a 23-year-old nightclub hostess in Hong Kong, was abducted, tortured and killed by three men in 1999 in a meth-fueled crime that became internationally infamous as the “Hello Kitty M

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