[UA] US woman killed in lottery rite

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US woman killed in lottery rite
By Alex Spillius, South East Asia Correspondent


Police: American was victim of human sacrifice [24 Jun '01] - TheStar.com

Malaysian Lottery Analysis Centre



AN American woman whose body was found 19 months after she disappeared near
her home in Malaysia was murdered in a bizarre ritual sacrifice to ascertain
winning lottery numbers, according to police.
Senior officers quoted by Malaysian newspapers said a man who confessed to
the murder of Carolyn Jamica Noraini Abdullah, 35, had led them to her body
buried on an oil palm estate at Sungai Siput in the northern state of Perak.
He had confessed that he had carried out the murder with his brother and
another man. Belief in black magic is still prevalent among Malaysians.
Cockerels or goats are sacrificed to spirit gods by groups of men whose
leader goes into a trance and supposedly reveals winning combinations to the
four-digit national lottery. Although very rare, there have been reported
cases of human sacrifice.


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