The sad Story of the "chop chop lady"
The most well-known "crime of passion" in the Philippines, as well as the goriest, could very well be the murder of Elsa Santos Castillo by Stephen Mark Whisenhunt. Whisenhunt and Castillo had an affair, although both were already married to other people. On September 24, 1993, Whisenhunt stabbed and killed Castillo in his condo in Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila, then dismembered her body and threw away the different body parts along the road to Bagac, Bataan. The mutilated parts were later recovered by different persons in different places, spawning the term "chop-chop lady". The Pasig City Regional