Heinous – An Asian True Crime Podcast — Podkast

The Man Who Stole Boys From The Streets | Baekuni "Babe" | 2010 | 2/2 16.07.2026 17min

Beneath the noise of Jakarta's terminals and back alleys, a street vendor named Baekuni built a reputation for kindness; offering food, shelter, and quiet protection to the city's most invisible children. And for nearly seventeen years, that reputation served as the perfect disguise... until his true horrors were brought to the surface. The country was shocked when the mutilated remains of a young boy was discovered in 2010, leading investigators to uncover a disturbing pattern of exploitation and violence that had gone on for far too long.    Part 1: We explore the conditions that allowed Baekuni "Babe" to develop into the monster that he would eventually become, and how he managed to remain undetected through nearly 2 decades.   Part 2: We follow investigators as they pick up on the discovery of the young boy's mutilated body parts, and witness Indonesia reckon with the fact that they allowed such a monster to roam their streets for so long.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Man Who Stole Boys From The Streets | Baekuni "Babe" | 2010 | 1/2 14.07.2026 17min

Beneath the noise of Jakarta's terminals and back alleys, a street vendor named Baekuni built a reputation for kindness; offering food, shelter, and quiet protection to the city's most invisible children. And for nearly seventeen years, that reputation served as the perfect disguise... until his true horrors were brought to the surface. The country was shocked when the mutilated remains of a young boy was discovered in 2010, leading investigators to uncover a disturbing pattern of exploitation and violence that had gone on for far too long.    Part 1: We explore the conditions that allowed Baekuni "Babe" to develop into the monster that he would eventually become, and how he managed to remain undetected through nearly 2 decades.   Part 2: We follow investigators as they pick up on the discovery of the young boy's mutilated body parts, and witness Indonesia reckon with the fact that they allowed such a monster to roam their streets for so long.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

54 Days: The Ngọc Bích Gold Shop Slaughter | Lê Văn Luyện | 2011 | 2/2 02.07.2026 16min

It was already morning when neighbors in Bắc Giang province noticed something wrong. The shutters to the local family owned gold shop hadn't gone up. No one had seen the owner make his usual rounds. And when someone finally forced their way in, they found a scene that would haunt the nation for years: a husband, a wife, and even their infant daughter, all slaughtered.   And in another room, an eight-year-old girl, barely breathing, her arm severed at the joint. She was the only witness. She was also, somehow, still alive.   Part 1: We take you through the horrific events of the Ngọc Bích gold shop slaughter as it unfolded, and profile the monster behind the brutal crime.   Part 2: We follow along with officers as they trace down the murderer, Lê Văn Luyện. Along the way, we'll also discover the complications that arguably prevented commensurate justice from being served in this case.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

54 Days: The Ngọc Bích Gold Shop Slaughter | Lê Văn Luyện | 2011 | 1/2 30.06.2026 15min

It was already morning when neighbors in Bắc Giang province noticed something wrong. The shutters to the local family owned gold shop hadn't gone up. No one had seen the owner make his usual rounds. And when someone finally forced their way in, they found a scene that would haunt the nation for years: a husband, a wife, and even their infant daughter, all slaughtered.   And in another room, an eight-year-old girl, barely breathing, her arm severed at the joint. She was the only witness. She was also, somehow, still alive.   Part 1: We take you through the horrific events of the Ngọc Bích gold shop slaughter as it unfolded, and profile the monster behind the brutal crime.   Part 2: We follow along with officers as they trace down the murderer, Lê Văn Luyện. Along the way, we'll also discover the complications that arguably prevented commensurate justice from being served in this case.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Women The War Forgot - The Comfort Women | Heinous History | 1937 23.06.2026 40min

When Japan surrendered on the 15th of August, 1945, the world called an end to its most brutal chapter in history. Flags were lowered. Peace treaties were signed. Everyone just wanted to move on.   But nobody told the comfort women.   For years during the war, while men braved the frontlines, hundreds of thousands of women were abducted from their homes and their villages; enslaved into camps and forced to satisfy the needs of passing soldiers. Many died of disease and malnutrition, while others were killed for trying to escape. And what made it even more chilling was how bureaucratic it all was, from the kidnapping and the enslavement, to even accounting for the fees collected for each sexual encounter. And yet when the war ended, the soldiers simply left, and the women, those who actually managed to survive the atrocities, were left to deal with their trauma on their own.   In this episode, we trace the architecture of the comfort women system: who constructed it, who enforced it, and who was paid to look the other way. And we hear from the women who waited sixty years to say out loud what everyone already knew.   The world tried to forget about them and move on.    So they had no choice but to make the world remember.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Taipei Subway Killer | Cheng Chieh | 2014 | 2/2 16.06.2026 19min

It was 4:25pm on a Wednesday afternoon in Taipei. Commuters, students, strangers were on board a train on the Bannan line heading west to Jiangzicui from Longshan Temple; the longest gap between any two stations on the entire Taipei Metro network. To anyone else, this detail wouldn't mean much, but Cheng Chieh had pondered over this for years. Later, he even revealed to investigators that he chose that specific stretch precisely because he knew it would give him more time. And twenty seconds after leaving the Longshan Temple station, he pulled out a knife. Passengers flooded out of the carriage when the train finally pulled into Jiangzicui, screaming for people on the platform to run. Four people were dead. Twenty-four were injured. It was the first fatal attack on the Taipei Metro since the day it opened. Cheng Chieh was only twenty-one years old. And he had been planning this attach since childhood.   Part 1: We examine Cheng Chieh's troubled background and the conditions that led him to the attack in May of 2014.   Part 2: We dig into the fallout following Cheng Chieh's horrific metro attack, as well as the shocking revelations uncovered during his murder trial.    Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Taipei Subway Killer | Cheng Chieh | 2014 | 1/2 09.06.2026 15min

It was 4:25pm on a Wednesday afternoon in Taipei. Commuters, students, strangers were on board a train on the Bannan line heading west to Jiangzicui from Longshan Temple; the longest gap between any two stations on the entire Taipei Metro network. To anyone else, this detail wouldn't mean much, but Cheng Chieh had pondered over this for years. Later, he even revealed to investigators that he chose that specific stretch precisely because he knew it would give him more time. And twenty seconds after leaving the Longshan Temple station, he pulled out a knife. Passengers flooded out of the carriage when the train finally pulled into Jiangzicui, screaming for people on the platform to run. Four people were dead. Twenty-four were injured. It was the first fatal attack on the Taipei Metro since the day it opened. Cheng Chieh was only twenty-one years old. And he had been planning this attach since childhood.   Part 1: We examine Cheng Chieh's troubled background and the conditions that led him to the attack in May of 2014.   Part 2: We dig into the fallout following Cheng Chieh's horrific metro attack, as well as the shocking revelations uncovered during his murder trial.    Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Ampatuan Massacre | 2009 02.06.2026 29min

On the morning of November 23, 2009, a convoy of vehicles wound through the highways of Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines. Inside were lawyers, political supporters, journalists, and the wife and family members of a man who simply wanted to run for governor. They had no reason to believe they wouldn't make it home by nightfall. But they never did. Armed men blocked the convoy on the highway, and herded the group to a nearby hilltop where several open graves had been dug up. Then, without warning, they opened fire. When it was over, 58 people were dead. Among them: 32 journalists and media workers, two lawyers, and six motorists who had simply been travelling the same road. It would become the single deadliest attack against journalists ever recorded, and one of the most brazen acts of political violence in modern history. Behind it all stood the Ampatuans a powerful clan whose private army had long operated in the shadows of state power, linked to killings, torture, abductions, and a culture of fear that had gone unchallenged for decades. This is a story about what happens when impunity becomes a way of life. About power so entrenched it believed itself untouchable. And about the long, gruelling decade-long fight to make it answer for what it did on a hillside in Maguindanao.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Milkshake Murder | Nancy Kissel | 2003 | 2/2 26.05.2026 17min

On the surface, Nancy Kissel had the life people dreamed about. A luxury apartment in a posh Hong Kong neighbourhood. A high-flying husband who works in banking. Three beautiful kids. A postcard existence, by any measure. So why, on the night of November 2nd, did she hand her husband a strawberry milkshake laced with enough sedatives to drop a man twice his size? And why, hours later, was Robert Kissel found dead and wrapped in a carpet and locked in a storage room? The answer isn't simple. It never is. Because behind every perfect life, there are things that don't make it into the postcard. Affairs. Secrets. Years of something quietly rotting underneath, until it surfaces in the most heinous way imaginable.   Part 1 - We trace the roots of Robert and Nancy's marriage. Detailing how they first met, and where the tensions started to build up before culminating in Robert's brutal murder.   Part 2 - We follow the sensationalized trial of Nancy Kissel and the media furor that surrounded it. Will justice be served? Or will Nancy get away with it all?   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Milkshake Murder | Nancy Kissel | 2003 | 1/2 19.05.2026 22min

On the surface, Nancy Kissel had the life people dreamed about. A luxury apartment in a posh Hong Kong neighbourhood. A high-flying husband who works in banking. Three beautiful kids. A postcard existence, by any measure. So why, on the night of November 2nd, did she hand her husband a strawberry milkshake laced with enough sedatives to drop a man twice his size? And why, hours later, was Robert Kissel found dead and wrapped in a carpet and locked in a storage room? The answer isn't simple. It never is. Because behind every perfect life, there are things that don't make it into the postcard. Affairs. Secrets. Years of something quietly rotting underneath, until it surfaces in the most heinous way imaginable.   Part 1 - We trace the roots of Robert and Nancy's marriage. Detailing how they first met, and where the tensions started to build up before culminating in Robert's brutal murder.   Part 2 - We follow the sensationalized trial of Nancy Kissel and the media furor that surrounded it. Will justice be served? Or will Nancy get away with it all?   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Purge at the Water’s Edge - The Sook Ching Massacre | Heinous History | 1942 12.05.2026 26min

It was February of 1942. Singapore has just fallen to the Japanese.  But for its residents, the surrender wasn't the end of the terror, it was the beginning of something far worse. Within days, the Japanese Imperial Army rounded men up at screening centres set up across the island. Some were released, while others were loaded onto trucks. The trucks drove to Changi Beach, to Punggol, to Sentosa. And they never returned. This is the story of the horrific period in Singapore's past known as Sook Ching; who gave the order, who carried it out, and why the full truth has never quite been allowed to surface.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Imperfect Perfect World | Menhaz Zaman | 2019 | 2/2 05.05.2026 19min

It's a Sunday morning in July 2019 on a quiet street in Markham, Ontario. The kind of neighbourhood where nothing ever happens. Somewhere across the world, in an online gaming community, messages are coming in. Photographs. A confession. Players are staring at their screens, unsure if what they're reading is real, or just another disturbing joke from the guy they know as an online troll. But unfortunately, this wouldn't end up being just another joke. Because shortly after, four people would end up dead. A grandmother. A mother. A father. A sister. And the man who killed them is still inside the same house where he murdered them all. Menhaz Zaman had spent years building a lie; a carefully constructed fiction about university degrees, engineering careers, and a future that never existed. And when that lie was finally about to unravel, he made a choice that no one who knew him saw coming.   Part 1 - We look into the background of the Zaman family, as well as the how the brutal family murders were carried out by Menhaz.   Part 2 - We dig into the chilling evidence uncovered by investigators as they try to make sense of this senseless crime. Online messages, warning posts, gruesome images, all signs indicating that trouble had been brewing for a lot longer than anyone had expected.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Imperfect Perfect World | Menhaz Zaman | 2019 | 1/2 28.04.2026 21min

It's a Sunday morning in July 2019 on a quiet street in Markham, Ontario. The kind of neighbourhood where nothing ever happens. Somewhere across the world, in an online gaming community, messages are coming in. Photographs. A confession. Players are staring at their screens, unsure if what they're reading is real, or just another disturbing joke from the guy they know as an online troll. But unfortunately, this wouldn't end up being just another joke. Because shortly after, four people would end up dead. A grandmother. A mother. A father. A sister. And the man who killed them is still inside the same house where he murdered them all. Menhaz Zaman had spent years building a lie; a carefully constructed fiction about university degrees, engineering careers, and a future that never existed. And when that lie was finally about to unravel, he made a choice that no one who knew him saw coming.   Part 1 - We look into the background of the Zaman family, as well as the how the brutal family murders were carried out by Menhaz.   Part 2 - We dig into the chilling evidence uncovered by investigators as they try to make sense of this senseless crime. Online messages, warning posts, gruesome images, all signs indicating that trouble had been brewing for a lot longer than anyone had expected.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Boy Who Cried Grief | Sef Gonzales | 2001 | 2/2 23.04.2026 16min

On the night of July 10, 2001, Sef Gonzales walked into his family home in North Ryde, Sydney, and into a scene that would shock an entire nation. His mother, his father, his sister. All gone. All killed inside the house they called home.   In front of the cameras, he wept, he pleaded, and he played the role of a devastated son so convincingly that for a time, the world wept with him. But grief, it turns out, can be performed. And the detectives would soon notice the cracks.   Part 1 - We follow investigators as they look closer into the horrific scene on 10th July, as well as the family dynamics that allowed such a tragedy to take place.   Part 2 - We look closer at the man at the epicenter of this heinous crime, Sef Gonzales, and uncover a shocking trail that would be impossible to refute.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Boy Who Cried Grief | Sef Gonzales | 2001 | 1/2 21.04.2026 17min

On the night of July 10, 2001, Sef Gonzales walked into his family home in North Ryde, Sydney, and into a scene that would shock an entire nation. His mother, his father, his sister. All gone. All killed inside the house they called home.   In front of the cameras, he wept, he pleaded, and he played the role of a devastated son so convincingly that for a time, the world wept with him. But grief, it turns out, can be performed. And the detectives would soon notice the cracks.   Part 1 - We follow investigators as they look closer into the horrific scene on 10th July, as well as the family dynamics that allowed such a tragedy to take place.   Part 2 - We look closer at the man at the epicenter of this heinous crime, Sef Gonzales, and uncover a shocking trail that would be impossible to refute.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Best of Heinous - The Taiwan Celebrity Hostage Crisis | 1997 14.04.2026 44min

n the spring of 1997, the tranquil district of Linkou in Taiwan was shattered by an unthinkable tragedy as word got out that the teenage daughter of celebrity Pai Bing-bing had been kidnapped; and quickly developed into a full-blown hostage crisis. Part 1 - Join the media frenzy as the hostage situation unfolds with Pai Bing-bing and her daughter.Part 2 -  Join the hunt as the search for the abductors intensify, with the situation developing into a full-blown hostage crisis FYI we have just started a YouTube channel where you can watch these Heinous stories:https://www.youtube.com/@GrimAsia_1UpMedia Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Best of Heinous - The Jars Murderer | Lam Kor Wan | 1982 07.04.2026 34min

Hey Heinous fans, thank you for your listenership and support through our latest season of Heinous. The team is taking a break to retool and recharge so that we can come back with even more new heinous cases. But in the meantime, we will be releasing full versions of some our most popular stories to tide you over. // From an early age, Lam Kor Wan had endured a tumultuous upbringing. Moving homes across countries, changing schools, receiving physical and verbal punishment from his father, and even committing acts of voyeurism and molestation.  All this, however, would pale in comparison to his most heinous acts; as he roamed the streets of Hong Kong as a taxi driver looking for his victims, thereafter cementing himself as one of the country's most notorious serial killers.  Part 1 - We explore the troubled background of Lam Kor Wan, and the events that led up to his first murder. Part 2 - We follow Lam Kor Wan as he continues his heinous streak, and how it all eventually came to an end.  FYI we have just started a YouTube channel where you can watch these Heinous stories:https://www.youtube.com/@GrimAsia_1UpMedia Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Best of Heinous - Kallang River Body Parts Murder | 2005 31.03.2026 36min

Hey Heinous fans, thank you for your listenership and support through our latest season of Heinous. The team is taking a break to retool and recharge so that we can come back with even more new heinous cases. But in the meantime, we will be releasing full versions of some our most popular stories to tide you over. // On the morning of 16 June, 2005, a cleaner was making his usual rounds along the banks of the Kallang River in Singapore when he spotted something odd in the water. At first, he dismissed it as just another piece of thrash, but when he picked it up, a severed torso fell out, leaving him in complete shock.  Part 1 - We follow the police investigation as they look into the grisly findings along the Kallang River, and its connections to a Chinese migrant named Liu Hong Mei, and her illicit lover Leong Siew Chor.  Part 2 - We dive deeper into the motive for the gruesome murder, and relay the events as they happened on that fateful June day in 2005. FYI we have just started a YouTube channel where you can watch these Heinous stories:https://www.youtube.com/@GrimAsia_1UpMedia Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Best of Heinous - The Killer Geisha | Sada Abe | 1936 24.03.2026 33min

Hey Heinous fans, thank you for your listenership and support through our latest season of Heinous. The team is taking a break to retool and recharge so that we can come back with even more new heinous cases. But in the meantime, we will be releasing full versions of some our most popular stories to tide you over. // In 1936, businessman Kichizo Ishida stepped into a discreet hotel in Tokyo to meet with his lover, Sada Abe. It had become routine for Ishida in the recent months, him putting aside his duties and responsibilities for days on end to indulge in the affair. But his sins would eventually catch up to him when he failed to leave the hotel; with the name of his lover ominously etched onto his skin. Part 1 - We follow the background of the mysterious Sada Abe, and the journey that led her into her fateful encounter with Kichizo Ishida. Part 2 - We explore the fallout following Abe's brutal crime, and how she was eventually put to justice. FYI we have just started a YouTube channel where you can watch these Heinous stories:https://www.youtube.com/@GrimAsia_1UpMedia Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Puppet Master of Kitakyushu | Futoshi Matsunaga | 1996 17.03.2026 33min

In March of 2002, a seventeen year old girl bursts into a police station in Kitakyushu, Japan, to make a startling report. She tells the authorities about a man, an apartment, and about the people who were brought inside but never made it out alive. She tells them that the dead were dismembered and boiled and disposed of so thoroughly that nothing remained. She tells them that the man who orchestrated all of it did not do the killing himself but coerced others do it.  She tells them she is the only one left who can say any of this, because everyone else is dead.   Join your fellow Heinous fans and interact with the team at our website or through our socials (IG, TikTok) @heinous_1upmedia. - Love Heinous? But feel its getting too dark for you? Check out: 📝💕 "Post, Love", Essays on Love, Life and Everything in Between.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.