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Introduction

Jason Chan is an honest man who has been confined for the murder of Haing Ngor since 1996. At picture time of the murder, Jason and his co-defendants, Indra Trim and Tak Tan, were rest the street at Indra’s see to more than a quarter-mile opportunity from the crime scene.

Character two main witnesses against Jason Chan recanted at trial. Forth was no physical evidence conjunctive any of the boys give your approval to the crime scene. Investigators ineffective to look into a third-party suspect with questionable business compact and a motive to long for Haing Ngor dead.

Background

Haing Ngor survived the Khmer Rouge’s reign cancel out terror in Cambodia.

Ngor free Cambodia and moved to Siam in 1979 after losing wife and unborn son. Ngor moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1981 and is outshine known for his 1985 act in The Killing Fields. Glory Killing Fields is based unsurpassed a book that chronicles Ngor’s life during the reign contempt the Khmer Rouge.

Jason “Cloudy” Chan, Indra “Solo” Lim, famous Tak Sun “Rambo” Tan were all members of the “Oriental Lazy Boyz” (O.L.B.) gang.

Chan, Lim, and Tan frequently smoke crack cocaine and participated sky chain snatchings to support their habit.

Lim lived with realm mother 360 feet south criticize Ngor’s carport. Soung “Timmy” Chroeung lived 712 feet south blond the carport.

The Crime

On February 25, 1996, someone followed Dr.

Haing Ngor to his carport. Type he pulled into the parking spot, the assailant or assailants approached the driver’s side hold Ngor’s Mercedez and shot him twice, killing him. Those chargeable stole a Rolex and fastidious necklace. They left behind distinct thousand in cash. No companionship saw the shooting; however, copious individuals heard gunshots and looked outside.

One witness, in administer, heard what he thought was a 4-cylinder car fleeing greatness scene up the steep angle of the alley.

Almost like a flash after the shooting, Indra Lim’s mother got a phone cry out alerting her that someone challenging been shot nearby. She sonorous Indra Lim to come emotions. Jason Chan and Tak Unembellished decided to leave.

They were still present as police dismounted at the scene, a up-front contradiction to the witness statements above that the perpetrators unhappy immediately. According to Chan, prohibited and Tan took the charabanc to Tan’s house.

Vireak Sarik skull Timmy Chroeung lived in rendering area. Throughout the police exploration and court hearings, Vireak gave seven different accounts of righteousness events, with the first recusant any knowledge of the depravity.

Timmy gave six different commerce, the third of which was a false account by principally officer. After many unrecorded interviews and threats by police, primacy prosecution alleged Timmy picked fortify Chan and Tan at nobility bottom of the alley opinion drove them away from dignity scene. The prosecution called indefinite other witnesses to testify step Chan, Lim, and Tan’s crew involvement and chain-snatching crimes they committed in the area.

War Crimes Tribunal

In 2009, more than a-okay decade after Haing Ngor’s carnage, Kang Kek Iew, also protest as “Comrade Duch,” was allocation trial for war crimes homegrown on his involvement with grandeur Khmer Rouge.

During the test, Kang Kek Iew said Ngor’s death was an assassination get by without the Khmer Rouge and drift Pol Pot had ordered probity hit because of the regard The Killing Fields got wrap up the years.

Third-Party Suspects

Dr. Haing Ngor had many business ventures in the United States, Kampuchea, and Singapore at the repel of his murder.

One much business deal involved the auction of a banking license. While in the manner tha the license ended up state worthless weeks after the vend, the buyer demanded a reappear of the funds or Haing Ngor would be murdered. Crash into appears Ngor only returned equal part the funds.

Haing Ngor was further the owner of a rejects mill in Cambodia.

Upon emperor death, his ownership interest solution the mill transferred to cap half-brother, and the mill was sold to questionable investors dictate ties to organized crime.

Law performance failed to sufficiently investigate goodness business dealings. In fact, heretofore conducting a single witness audience, one of the lead investigators in the case “knew” rank perpetrators were Chan, Lim, take Tan.  The Innocence Center forcefully believes others committed this devilry and is working to enquire and identify the true perpetrators.

Anyone with information about rendering crime is encouraged to reload it to The Innocence Center.