The automatic email response left by Rurik Jutting after he walked out of his job at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong. The British banker, who attended the prestigious Winchester College boarding school and Cambridge University, updated his Facebook page on Halloween with the slogan “Money DOES buy happiness.”

A few hours later, police arrived at his home on the 31st floor of his building to find a woman lying in his apartment with knife wounds to her neck and buttocks. She may still have been alive, but died soon afterwards. Once forensic officers had scoured the inside of the apartment, they discovered a suitcase on the balcony, which overlooked the city’s tangle of high-rises. Inside the bag, a second body was naked, wrapped in a towel, and almost decapitated.