Meanwhile, a small find: correspondence between Nate Thayer and Khmer Rouge official Tep Khunnal – Pol Pot’s former right-hand man. There’s a small twist within, for the Cambodia-heads.

For this bonus episode to season 3, we’re going to the cutting room floor to rescue material that tells a deeper level of the story: UNTAC’s successes and its deliberate compromises; and the criminal forces already reshaping the country Haing Ngor had come home to rebuild.

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In this episode - the season three finale of Who Killed Haing Ngor? - Patricia Nunan meets two retired gangsters. She traces the history of the Seetong and the Ah Kong — from their Singaporean roots to Amsterdam and Phnom Penh.

Did Ngor, already in financial turmoil, believe he could safely borrow money from dangerous organized crime figures?

In this episode - the season three finale of Who Killed Haing Ngor? - Patricia Nunan meets two retired gangsters. She traces the history of the Seetong triad and the Ah Kong syndicate — from their Singaporean roots to Amsterdam and Phnom Penh.

Did Ngor, already in financial turmoil, believe he could safely borrow money from dangerous organized crime figures?

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It’s time to confront Larry. In April 2026, Nunan went to Singapore to do exactly that.

It’s time to confront Larry. In April 2026, Nunan went to Singapore to do exactly that.


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In this episode, Patricia Nunan reviews the path so far: Cambodia, Taiwan, the film industry, debt, threats, banks, money-laundering, the “Singapore Group,” the political climate. Nearly all of these are leads the LAPD overlooked… or blew off.

It’s a recap. The investigation is still unfolding, with patterns emerging around money, organized crime, and the circles Ngor moved through in 1990s Cambodia.

In this episode, Patricia Nunan reviews the path so far: Cambodia, Taiwan, the film industry, debt, threats, banks, money-laundering, the “Singapore Group,” the political climate. Nearly all of these are leads the LAPD overlooked… or blew off.

It’s a recap. The investigation is still unfolding, with patterns emerging around money, organized crime, and the circles Ngor moved through in 1990s Cambodia.

The reporting examines fragments: a former home, a school built on land Ngor once owned, and traces of the business and social world he moved through in the 1990s.

Nunan set out to find people – and she did. More significantly, though, may be the pattern that emerges from tracing some of Ngor’s steps in the last year of his life.

The reporting examines fragments: a former home, a school built on land Ngor once owned, and traces of the business and social world he moved through in the 1990s.

Nunan set out to find people – and she did. More significantly, though, may be the pattern that emerges from tracing some of Ngor’s steps in the last year of his life.

So who were they?

In this episode, Patricia Nunan and Frank follow that lead through Singapore’s corporate records, interviews with former FBI financial-crimes investigators, and a maze of companies that raise some serious questions.

Singapore’s reputation is all about law-and-order. But when it comes to money-laundering – sometimes – authorities look the other way.

In this episode, Patricia Nunan traces how Cambodia went from abolishing money under the Khmer Rouge to becoming a Wild West financial playground in the 1990s.

Was Ngor’s bank license just a failed business deal? Or was it tied to something much larger — the emergence of a criminal economy that still shapes Cambodia today?

The episode also follows the larger question at the center of Season 3: If Ngor’s murder is linked to business disputes, then who in Cambodia would have the ability - and the willingness – to kill him in Los Angeles?

Ngor may have been trying to right a wrong of his own making. He returned to Cambodia after “The Killing Fields,” and aligned himself with the autocratic prime minister, Hun Sen. It was a decision friends said he had come to regret.

But Ngor wasn’t just doing business in Cambodia. He was an actor – active in in the Hong Kong and Taiwanese film industries. The movie business was deeply entangled with triads.

That’s how Nunan can connect some dots between Liu’s assassins and Ngor. The result is a clearer picture of Ngor’s proximity to organized crime, as his financial life was in turmoil.

The Bamboo Union – and other illicit networks -- haven’t disappeared. They’ve metastasized. Today, they sit at the center of a cyber-scam economy worth billions — built on fraud, coercion, and trafficked workers.

In this episode, Patricia Nunan investigates if the Bamboo Union’s early forays into Cambodia can shed light on who Haing Ngor may have been dealing with.

In this episode, Patricia Nunan travels to Taipei to find out if that case can reveal any new truths about the Ngor killing. After all, if a triad had the reach to carry out a killing on U.S. soil once — couldn’t it happen again?

Nunan sits down with Chang An-lo, also known as “White Wolf,” a founding member of the Bamboo Union. He’s an “Original Gangster.” He was also a “blood brother” to of one of Liu’s assassins.

Together, they dive into the Liu assassination to see if it offers any answers to the Ngor case.