Episode reviews
Reviews of individual cases and themes
Each page below is a separate review of one episode or theme from SG Crime Story — what the case is about, what the episode adds, and whether it is worth your time.
They are not plot transcripts copied from court documents. They are editorial judgements written after listening, with strengths and weaknesses stated plainly.
Start with the Chin Swee Road review if you want to see what the series does best. Use the listening guide if you need an entry order before opening Spotify.
Every review links to the others so you can move without returning to this index.
Lead review
Review: Chin Swee Road Murder — Beyond The Crime Scene
True crime works when it looks past the headline. This episode examines the 2019 discovery of a toddler's remains and the five-year gap nobody closed.
Review: The McDonald's Boys — Singapore's Unsolved Disappearance
Marcus Leong Wei Hong, Editor
Review: The Anthony Ler Case — Staged Grief and a Murder Plot
Amirah Binte Hassan, Crime Reviewer
Review: The Body Parts Murder — John Martin Scripps
Jonathan Teo Kai Le, Research Reviewer
Where to Start with SG Crime Story — A Listening Guide
Grace Lim Xiu Wen, Listening Notes Editor
In Conversation: How We Review True-Crime Podcasts
Marcus Leong Wei Hong, Editor
Each review page covers one episode or theme. Chin Swee Road, McDonald's boys, Anthony Ler, and Body Parts Murder each have distinct arguments — they are not interchangeable templates.
The listening guide is the only page that recommends order across episodes. Other pages stand alone.
We do not quote transcripts from the programme. We describe what the episode covers and judge whether that coverage is fair and useful.
Episode reviews link to each other so you can read sequentially or jump to the case that interests you.
If Spotify adds episodes after our publication date, we may review them later. Absence here is not a negative verdict.
Cite a review by URL and title. Dates reflect when we finished listening, not when the episode originally aired.
Heavy content warnings appear on child-death and execution episodes without graphic detail in our prose.
None of the reviews ends with a hard sell to subscribe — the listen rail links to Spotify once, plainly.
Authors are named with role so readers know who covered courts versus unsolved cases.
Each review ends with a summary table: topic and our take, not production checklists.
The index uses one lead review (Chin Swee Road) because it best shows what the series values.