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He reported his mum and dad missing and publicly asked for help finding them. Police eventually found them — their heads were inside two refrigerators.
And somehow, that wasn’t even the most disturbing discovery waiting inside the apartment.
In March 2013, 65-year-old Glory Chau and his wife Moon Siu suddenly disappeared from Hong Kong. Their younger son, Henry Chau, told police they’d travelled to mainland China and joined his older brother in searching for them.
They reported their parents missing, approached the press and appealed publicly for information.
There was just one enormous problem.
Glory and Moon had never left Hong Kong.
Immigration records proved it.
And Henry knew exactly where they were.
Days earlier, Henry had invited his parents to a flat in Tai Kok Tsui. CCTV captured them entering the building with their son.
They were never seen leaving alive.
For years, Henry had blamed his parents for his academic failures, unsuccessful relationships, career problems and almost everything he believed had gone wrong in his life. Eventually, he convinced himself that removing them would allow him to start again.
“If they died, I could be reborn.”
What followed became one of the most shocking solved murder cases in Hong Kong true crime history.
After Glory and Moon were killed, their bodies were dismembered. Some remains were salted and refrigerated. Others were cooked or heated, while portions were packed into lunchboxes with rice as part of attempts to disguise and gradually dispose of them.
But while police searched for his supposedly missing parents, Henry continued playing the concerned son.
Until he did something almost unbelievable.
While being questioned by police about their disappearance, Henry began confessing to his friends through WhatsApp.
He admitted his parents were dead and revealed that the plan had been to create a missing-person case while their remains were disposed of piece by piece.
One of his friends contacted police.
The following day, investigators entered a small apartment in Tai Kok Tsui.
They found blood evidence, plastic containers and human remains.
Then they opened the refrigerators.
Inside one was Henry’s father’s severed head.
Inside another was his mother’s.
But the case was about to become even more complicated.
Henry claimed his friend Tse Chun-kei had helped him commit the murders.
Tse denied it.
He admitted becoming involved with the remains afterwards but insisted he hadn’t killed Glory or Moon — and claimed Henry’s real accomplice was a mysterious third man known only as “Ah Kin.”
Then came a murder trial so disturbing that the first jury couldn’t even finish it. The proceedings were abandoned and an entirely new jury had to start again.
In March 2015, Henry Chau was found guilty of murdering both parents and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Tse Chun-kei?
He was unanimously found not guilty of both murders.
This is the disturbing true story of Henry Chau and the murders of Glory Chau and Moon Siu — a Hong Kong family murder involving a fake missing-person story, months of planning, a WhatsApp confession, dismemberment, conflicting accomplice stories and one of the most horrifying crime-scene discoveries imaginable.
Podcast: True Crime w/ Anna Templeton