A murder story that becomes a warning about spectacle.
The Thai Murder Babes | 2017 starts with a smell in a dry Thai field and builds from that small unease into a story about murder, flight, and public fascination.

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From Mediacorp and 1 Up Media, Heinous - An Asian True Crime Podcast is a revived look at the most heinous crimes that happened across Asia. Every Tuesday, tune in as we dig into the key events of the crime, the mindset of the criminals, and the human circumstances that led to their heinous actions. To stay up to date on the podcast, you can visit our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. The views and opinions shared during this podcast series are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of Mediacorp P...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Heinous brings Asian cases into focus through patient reconstruction, social context, and close attention to the people living with the aftermath.
Heinous - An Asian True Crime Podcast builds narrated reconstructions that move from atmospheric scene-setting into family histories, investigative turns, court outcomes, and unresolved questions.
A quiet Vietnamese shoreline looks peaceful; you'll want to know why the fish are floating belly-up.
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A murder story that becomes a warning about spectacle.
The Thai Murder Babes | 2017 starts with a smell in a dry Thai field and builds from that small unease into a story about murder, flight, and public fascination.
A serious, methodical true-crime account that traces an ordinary life against an extraordinary case.
The piece is strongest when it sets an ordinary grocery-store morning against the violence that shadowed Bayin and Bao Tu for almost three decades.
A bleak, carefully built descent from routine police work into one of true crime's darkest cases.
This episode turns on the first hard shift in the Leonard Lake case, when a routine shoplifting stop opens onto something much darker. The narration keeps tightening the net: a silenced pistol, a stun gun, ammunition, a false identity, then the slow move into Lake's background…
A grim, procedural setup that turns a family home into a national case.
The Vizconde Murders | 1991 | 1/2 opens with the June 30, 1991 police call to Paranacue, Metro Manila, and keeps its attention on the quiet house at BF Homes, a middle-class subdivision built around privacy and security.
A museum legend gives way to a careful question: what if the man in glass was not the monster the story made him into?
This episode follows the Si Quey story from a Bangkok museum display to the fear that grew around it. It moves through the Siriraj Medical Museum and the old Siriraj Hospital grounds, then turns to the details that began to weaken the legend: contradictions in the confessions,…
A grim family case shaped by pressure, duty, and a terrible break in trust.
The episode treats the case as one shaped by pressure, obedience, and what can happen when duty hardens into fear. It spends time with that family background before the violence arrives, which makes the crime feel like part of a longer emotional pattern rather than a sudden turn.
A grave, intimate look at obsession and control, set against a case that still unsettles.
This is one of the stronger episodes, and it gives the Sada Abe and Kichizo Ishida case room to breathe. It starts in 1936 with the Shinagawa hotel check-in, the false name, shopping, a film, a massage, and three bottles of beer, then lets the wider Tokyo manhunt and newspaper…
A grave, carefully paced account of catastrophe built from cost-cutting, routine, and lives lived beside the plant.
The episode frames the disaster as a slow chain of cost-cutting and weakened safeguards, starting just before midnight on December 2, 1984 and widening into the lives of workers and families near the plant.

Ashley Flowers and Britt Prawat revisit unsolved murders and cold cases as new evidence surfaces.

Two friends narrate true crime cases, listener stories, and archived live-tour shows.

Multi-part true crime narration, from BTK's Wichita letters to Australian cold-case disappearances.

ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.

LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.

This episode recounts the 2008 Greyhound bus murder where Vince Lee killed and decapitated 22-year-old Tim McLean while suffering from severe schizophrenia.
This segment describes the public and media frenzy in 2008 at the site where Very Idham Henyansyah, dubbed the Indonesian Jeffrey Dahmer, was linked to 11 deaths, highlighting his unsettling demeanor during the investigation.
The coast near Vong An in Vietnam's Ha Tinh province starts to fill with dead fish.
Wu Xieyu grows up under crushing expectations.
A routine shoplifting call in South San Francisco turns uneasy when officers search a car and find more than stolen hardware.
Late May 2017 brings a smell that does not belong.
It begins with a retreat.
This episode re-examines the 1958 case of Si Kuei Sai Ong, a Chinese migrant worker in Thailand executed for child murder and cannibalism and displayed as a museum specimen for 60 years.
This episode details the horrific 14-year killing spree of Gao Chengyong, the 'Baiyin Butcher,' who murdered at least 11 women and girls in China between 1988 and 2002 while living a seemingly ordinary life as a husband and shopkeeper.
This episode recounts the chilling 1958 case of Si Kuei Sai Ong, a Chinese immigrant gardener in Thailand accused of murdering children and consuming their organs.
This episode chronicles the rise and fall of Hong Kong criminal Cheung Tze Keung, known as 'Big Spender,' who kidnapped billionaires Victor Lee and Walter Kwok for massive ransoms before escalating to stockpiling explosives.
This episode details the 2011 murders of the Ding family by former business partner Anxiang Du, focusing on the tragic 999 call made by 12-year-old Alice Ding that was dispatched to the wrong address, and Du's 14-month fugitive life in Morocco before extradition and conviction.
This episode recounts the 2011 murder of the Ding family by their former business partner Ahn Siang Du, detailing how a 12-year legal dispute over their herbal remedy business escalated into obsessive resentment and brutal violence.
This episode details the 2010 disappearance and murder of Malaysian cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three associates.
A clubgoer steps between a woman and a man in Burning Sun's VIP area.
Heinous opens with thanks and a December collection frame before moving into a case of family violence.
This episode recounts the infamous 1936 case of Sada Abe, a former geisha who murdered her lover Kichizo Ishida in a crime of obsessive passion.
Heinous – An Asian True Crime Podcast focuses on the Bhopal gas disaster of December 2, 1984, when tank E610 at Union Carbide's plant released 40 tons of methyl isocyanate into the night air.
This episode examines the 1991 Vizconde murders in the Philippines, where a mother and her two daughters were brutally killed inside their secure gated community home.
Raigad forest in Maharashtra becomes the opening image for a case about a body burned in a clearing and a disappearance that followed on April 24, 2012.
This episode traces the tragic story of Vince Lee, a Chinese immigrant software engineer whose promising life in Canada unravels due to severe mental illness, culminating in his fateful boarding of a Greyhound bus in July 2008.
Heinous revisits the 2003 disappearance of Kenny Ong after a farewell dinner at Mon Restaurant in Bangsar Shopping Complex, Kuala Lumpur.
This episode recounts the brutal 2010 Kallang slashing spree in Singapore, where four men from Sarawak attacked and robbed four victims, leaving three severely injured and one dead.
This episode recounts the case of Gao Chengyong, a serial killer in Baiyin, China, who murdered 11 women between 1988 and 2002.
Heinous traces how Futoshi Matsunaga, born in 1961 in Kitakyushu, used charisma, fraud, and electric shocks to control people around him.
A true crime podcast revisiting a 1997 Taiwanese murder case, detailing the disappearance of a teenage girl and the subsequent investigation.
This episode recounts the 1996 kidnapping of Victor Lee, son of Hong Kong billionaire Lee Ka Shing.
This episode recounts the historical context and siege of Hong Kong during World War II, setting the stage for a crime story.
This episode recounts the brutal 2009 murder of the Lin family in Sydney and the discovery of the crime scene.
A detailed narrative of a 2009 mass murder in a quiet Sydney suburb, setting the scene for the crime.
This episode recounts the murder of two-year-old Nur Ashura Binte Mohamed Fauzi in Singapore.
This episode recounts the 1978 abduction and murder of siblings Geeta and Sanjay Chopra by Ranga and Billa in India.
This episode recounts the 2015 murder of Xie Tianxin by her son Wu Xieyu in Fuzhou, China, exploring his psychological state.
This episode covers the 1978 explosion of the oil tanker ST Spiral in Singapore, part of a cross-promotion for another true crime podcast.
This episode explores the murder of 16-year-old Christine Lee Silawan in the Philippines, examining how jealousy can lead to heinous crimes.