LAGIM Podcast
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Lagim Podcast brings you stories of crimes from the Philippines. Lagim is a Filipino word that means dread/terror. Every two weeks Filipino-German host, Christine Abrigana, takes a close look at infamous and not so known cases that have certainly given Filipinos that feeling of fear and dread. If you need a true crime fix Filipino-style, then please follow, subscribe and listen to Lagim.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/lagim-a-filipino-true-crime--5701073/support.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime makes Philippine cases legible through careful chronology, institutional scrutiny, and sustained attention to affected people.
Christine Abrigana builds cases from careful chronology, official actions, and the points where an investigation's public account begins to strain.
An unlogged bra strap in Bree Jonson's case gives your neat ending nowhere to land.
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A hopeful meeting turns into a grim forensic recovery, with the family's need for justice held firmly in view.
Hope is the first danger in LAGIM's account of a young Filipina from Manila who meets a man she has known through long conversations, travels with him by car, takes photographs, and starts preparing food at his home before pain and chaos take over.
A campus-safety question leads into a careful account of witness identification, recovered belongings, and a shifting murder investigation.
The Given Grace Cebanico Story frames the case through a wider question: how safe students, particularly female and femme-presenting students, are in and around higher education.
A dormitory murder is pieced together through CCTV, autopsy findings, and the campus security concerns that followed.
Queen Leanne Daguinsin's killing is traced through a tight sequence of physical clues and surveillance. Her landlady and classmates found that she had been stabbed to death, her door was still locked, and police saw no sign of forced entry.
A grave, socially framed reconstruction of Jessa's killing and the limits of LGBTQIA visibility in the Philippines.
Lagim sets Jessa's killing against a broader question: whether public signs of acceptance can sit beside real danger for LGBTQIA Filipinos. It moves from gender-neutral language, celebrity visibility, gay pageants, gay-friendly beaches, and a 73 percent acceptance survey to the…
A Vancouver stabbing becomes a pointed account of grief, visibility, and the long wait for justice.
January Marie Lapus's killing in Vancouver is handled as more than a case file: it becomes a story about fear, delay, and a community forced to wait while a killer remained out of reach.
A grave, carefully built account of Flor Contemplacion's case and the failures that followed her execution.
Flor Contemplacion's execution in Singapore is the episode's central wound, and Sara Balabagan's story broadens it into a harder look at the risks faced by women overseas Filipino workers.
A marriage case built around money, suspicion, and unresolved claims.
Stephen Alston Davis's story is told as a marriage under pressure, where trust, money, and suspicion keep turning the knife. The affair claim, the missing school fees, the pawned wedding ring, and Stephen's response all land with enough gravity to make the domestic details feel…
A sober look at martial law memory and what it still asks of the present.
The piece treats martial law memory as a current political fight, not a sealed off past. It ties family stories and school memory to Marcos Sr. and to the present day thinning out of public remembrance. The arc moves in order, from the country's lost holiday to the Marcos Jr.
Retired detectives and victims' families walk through Australian murder cases with host Meshel Laurie.
A dark calendar of consequential cases.
True crime with blunt questions and rough edges.
Appalachian case files, told from the record.
Southern cases, sharp context, steady storytelling.
Historical mysteries built from the smallest clues.
In 2019, a headline from Cyprus hit Filipinos hard.
Jemboy Baltazar's killing is treated as part of a larger charge against Philippine policing.
This episode explores two martial law-era atrocities: the 1971 Manili Massacre, where Ilaga paramilitary forces killed Muslim villagers in Mindanao, and the story of Primitivo Mijares, a Marcos insider who defected, leading to his disappearance and his son Boyet's murder.
She comes through full of promise.
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime links the cases of Mitzi Joy Balunsay, Queen Leanne Daguinsin, and Justine Valdes through violence against young women in Cavite, Ireland, and a university dorm in Dasmariñas.
Brie Hansen arrived in La Union on 17 September 2021 for a trip connected to a December art exhibit and a possible studio plan, then died by early morning on 18 September at Flotsam and Jetsam resort in San Juan, La Union.
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime follows the hazing death of Horacio Castillo III, known as Acho, a 22-year-old University of Santo Tomas law student who was last seen at an Aegis Juris “welcoming party” on September 17, 2017.
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime focuses on Lori Barros, a Baguio-born student activist who graduated cum laude from the University of the Philippines in 1970 and later founded Makibaka in July 1969.
In May 1991, Filipino domestic helper Delia Maga and her young charge Nicholas Huang were murdered in Singapore.
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime covers the 1995 death of Navy Ensign Philip Andrew Pestaño aboard the BRP Bacolod City, a Philippine Navy cargo ship traveling from Tawi-Tawi to Manila.
Lagim: A Filipino True Crime covers the assassination of Percy Lapid by tracing how a veteran broadcaster born Percival Karagmabasa on March 14, 1959 became a target after years of criticism of corruption, red-tagging, Duterte’s war on drugs, and the Marcos Jr.
65% of Filipinos personally believe homosexuality was immoral
Host of Lagim true crime podcast contextualizes campus sexual violence as global crisis (13% of US students, 62% of UK students) before presenting the Given Grace Cebanico case.
The episode follows the Pamplona Massacre and the killing of Governor Roel Digamo as a case shaped by political rivalry and hints of something deeper at work.
The episode traces Ana Marie Quito Macedonio from Angeles City to Okinawa, where she met Ali Nasser Abulaban in 2014 and later moved with him to Bristow, Virginia, after their daughter Amira was born.
Lagim re-releases its Bri Honson case coverage on September 18, 2024, marking three years since the artist died in Flotsam and Jetsam Resort in San Juan, La Union, at about 3:30 a.m.
Mary Jane Veloso was facing execution in late April 2015.
Lagim: A Filipino True Crime covers the case of Benny Lynn Burke and her daughter Jellica, beginning with Benny Lynn leaving Manila and later moving to Bristol, where she lived in emergency accommodation in Kingswood.
The episode centers on Constancia's death in Kuwait.
Christine frames Lagim After Hours as a less scripted add-on to Lagim and uses it to track the disappearance of Catherine Camilon, a 26-year-old teacher from Tuy, Batangas who represented Batangas in Miss Grand Philippines 2023.
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime covers The Leo Echegaray Case, beginning with Rodessa Echegaray’s accusation that her stepfather Leo raped her in Barangay San Antonio, Quezon City, and ending with a wider argument against capital punishment in the Philippines.
Lagim: A Filipino True Crime covers the Escalante Massacre of 1985 through the sugar industry’s history, from pre-colonial trade and Nicholas Loney’s 19th-century reforms to the collapse triggered by the 1974 sugar price spike and the end of the Lorry-Langley Agreement.
Blessie Gutinko disappeared after leaving work in Auckland on 24 May 2014, and her family found her phone, lunchbox, and shoes near Salisbury Road before police identified her body in Birkenhead Glenfield Cemetery.
The episode opens with a minute of silence for victims in Gaza and Palestine, Sudan, and Congo, then shifts to modern slavery in Filipino domestic work.
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime covers the 1963 RCA heist in Paco, Manila, where Apolonio Adriano, Mario Sandiego, Mariano Domingo, and Leonardo Bernardo planned to steal about 500,000 pesos from the Rice and Corn Administration.
January Marie Lapuz was born in Santiago, Isabela in April 1986, sold as a two-month-old baby for 1,000 pesos, and later migrated to Canada at age 18 before identifying publicly as a transgender woman.
Stephen Alston Davis, born in Nottingham on 27 March 1970, moved from computers in England to a lucrative Hong Kong job that paid three times his salary.