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In the season and podcast finale of Asia In The Shadows, I explore a slightly obscure case from the motherland, the Philippines. The case takes place in Narra, Palawan, a place that never before made any headlines up until that humid month in J
The Lunar New Year celebrations in 2019 were supposed to be a joyous occasion especially in the Cao Family home. Daughter, 22-year-old Cao Mỹ Duyên, was home from university and was helping with the family business. On the 4th February, she hea
In 2019, Warinthorn Chaichayet suddenly disappeared and her family reported her as missing. When the police in Bangkok initially investigated her disappearance they were unsuccessful until an informant came forward, telling them about Warinthor
Sheila von Wiese-Mack just wanted to spend some time with her daughter, Heather. So, she thought that booking a luxury vacation in Bali would help her bond with her and start a journey back to a point in their mother-daughter relationship that
When children and women first started disappearing from Nithari the parents thought the police would come to their rescue and help them find their loved ones but they were wrong. It would take a persistent father and a grisly discovery in a bac
Pai Hsiao-yen and her mother, Pai Bing Bing, lived a comfortable life owing to Pai Bing Bing’s success as a media celebrity. They were in the limelight and that was not a problem for the many years the mother and daughter had been exposed to Ta
Annie Leong was a 30-year-old wife and mom who finally had enough. When she decided to leave her husband, Anthony, she thought that she and her daughter would finally have a chance at a more peaceful life. However, Annie could not be more wrong
In March 1991, on a day of great political importance for South Korea, five boys from Daegu set out for a little adventure near their village. They would never come home. What started out as parents searching for their sons, turned into a murde
Just before New Year’s Eve in 2000, the Miyazawa family from Setagaya, Japan were preparing for a new start into the year 2001. They were excited that in the new year, they could finally move homes and start afresh but none of that happened in
Malcolm Caldwell existed in a time when communism was frowned upon in the West. But he did not mind. He spent most of his life and his academic career, writing about his admiration and support of communism, especially the communist revolution i
Jean was a former beauty queen who chose a quiet life as a wife, mother and teacher. When tragedy hit her family in 1978 her whole life trajectory would be forced to change and not for the best.Listen now to learn more about this mystery that i
She was famous, unapologetic, confident and she owned her sexuality. In a society and country where women are mostly not allowed to have agency over their bodies, Qandeel Baloch, a famous internet personality from the Punjab Province, defied al
Welcome back to another season of Asia in the Shadows, a true crime podcast hosted by Filipino-German Christine Abrigana. The new season of the show will unravel new crime stories from all over Asia, the largest and most diverse continent on th
Junko’s case is one that will be told over and over again not necessarily because the harrowing details of her last 44 days are interesting. The details are horrifying and nightmare-inducing, in fact. I think the reason we come back to Junko’s
Life on Lane 4 in Burari, North Delhi would never be the same after the bodies of eleven members of a much admired family were found dead in their home. Police were perplexed and could not determine initially if what they were looking at was a
On the 6th January 1979, the peace and quiet of Block 58 in Geylang Bahru was shattered as parents Lee Mei Ying and Tan Kuen Chai discovered a most awful scene in their apartment.This case would become one of the most compelling criminal cases
Iraq and Iran of the early 1900s were going through some seismic changes not only in realising their eventual independence from the Ottoman Empire but in establishing their position in the world.However, for a young Iranian named Ali Asghar Bor
On a seemingly normal day in February 1982, construction workers working near the Shing Mun River in Hongkong happened upon a horrible discovery. It was a woman’s head. This discovery kicked off a six-month investigation that led the police to
In October 2006, Mongolian national Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa disappeared. When she was finally found, blown to tiny pieces near a dam in Shah Alam, the Malaysian people and the world would slowly but surely learn about a tale of extramarital a
In 1986, shaman Ahmad Suradji dreamt of his late father who went on to tell him how to strengthen his spiritual powers and how to finally achieve immortality.The community who had grown to trust and admire Suradji over the years did not know th
Mona Heydari’s only crime was being born as a girl, as a woman. By 12 year old, she was forced to marry her cousin and two years later she became a mother to a baby boy. Five years into the marriage, Mona reached a breaking point and needed to
Backpacking or simply travelling with friends is almost like a right of passage or in Nara’s case, a way to end the perhaps more carefree chapter of being a student before starting a serious job in the real world.For Nara and his two friends, t
Otto was 21 when he decided to travel to North Korea before starting a study programme in Hong Kong. He loved to travel anyway and he had always been curious about the isolated Asian nation. So, why not just go?When his five-day tour started to
Xulhaz Mannan was a proud gay man in Bangladesh, which made him one of just a few people who decided to own and live their truth in a very conservative and predominantly Muslim country. But Xulhaz went a step further than that. He created the f
In the late 80s, the mining town of Baiyin (白银) was plagued not only by an increase in unemployment but also by a series of killings that lasted well into the new millennium. The killer flew under the radar for almost three decades and only a c
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