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Actors Miller Khan, left, from Malaysia, and Amanda Manopo, from Indonesia, appear in a scene from the second season of the TV series "The Bridge." (Courtesy of Double Vision)

MARCO FERRARESE, Contributing writer

February 3, 2021 08:00 JST

KUALA LUMPUR -- Battered and bloodied, the body of an Indonesian businessman is found inside a yacht. He is bent on his knees facing the couch where his wife and two baby daughters are slumped in a macabre file of dead spectators. Like a stake, a dagger goes through the back of the man's neck, emerging from his lips.

The murder is not just gruesome, but complicated: The Indonesian family was holidaying in a Singapore-registered yacht, and killed in Malaysian waters.