Rotten Mango

May 27, 2023. 3AM. South Korea.A taxi driver pulled over to put up a young girl and her suitcase. He watched her struggle to load it into his trunk, but when he offered to help she refused.They got in the car and silently drove towards the park near the river.How odd, he thought.The park at this hour? With a heavy suitcase?And she looks as young as a middle schooler - what could she be doing?Because of what he does next - she is arrested for murder. This is the recent viral case of a South Korean woman who posed as a middle schooler to get away with murder. She said she did it - because she was curious. She wanted to know what it felt like…Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

11 hours - 25 hostages.An unhinged man had boarded a Hong Kong tour bus and started waving his rifle around. He told them if everyone stayed still and did what he said he would not kill them.He lied.For 11 hours, the bus was parked in the middle of the busy street. Police, media, journalists, and civilians were all surrounding the bus.The hostage negotiators were in charge of preventing loss of life, but they would make mistake after mistake that would cost lives.All everyone could wonder from the outside was - will those poor hostages live? Or will they die?Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

March of 2023, a local news station interviewed a new children’s book author, Kouri Richins. She had just written a book for kids on grief. She said she pulled from her experience of losing her own husband and trying to help her 3 kids move on.She talked about how she wanted to help other kids and parents cope with their pain. The news anchor felt tears pool in her eyes, listening to a grieving widow.Right after the interview aired, the news anchor received a chilling anonymous email. It simply read, “you know she killed her husband…”Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It’s the crack era. The most violent time in New York City history. The NYPD is fighting a losing battle and instead of protecting the city from drug dealers, some police officers have become them. The Set is the never-before told, first-person documentary of the biggest police corruption scandal in NYPD history and the investigation that uncovered it all. From Audacy Originals and Zak Levitt, the Emmy, Peabody, and NY Press Club Investigative Journalism Award winning creator of Root of Evil, Gangster Capitalism, and Relative Unknown. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

He was on his way to airport security when the girls came up to him. The first one came up behind him and covered his eyes. She ran off. Then almost immediately after, another woman came up and put her hand on his mouth and ran off.The two girls, who had never met prior to this, had just executed a near perfect assassination. They had a deadly chemical agent VX on their hands that was now on his face. He would die a painful death in the matter of 30 minutes. But more puzzling is - why did he have the antidote to that very illegal substance in his backpack? Did the girls know he was Kim Jong Un’s brother? Were the girls working for North Korea or were they really just filming a YouTube prank video?Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The famous TikTok star strained to hear the conversation through his phone. He knew the voices - one was his soon-to-be ex-wife and the other was a male voice.They had no idea that he had installed spyware in her home and was listening to every part of the conversation as he sped on the highway to go meet them.He felt rage. How could she give up their fame, followers, and career for something like this? How dare she leave him?By the end of the day - two people would be dead, and the TikTok star would be found driving down the highway with his 5 year old daughter and a loaded gun in the car.National Domestic Violence Hotline - (800) 799 - 7233National Domestic Violence Website -https://www.thehotline.orgFull Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

When a 22 year old mall employee vanishes without any trace - netizens can’t help but bring up the dark whispers of the past.“How is it possible that there is no footage of her leaving the mall?” - people wondered. Then does that mean she’s still in the mall?When there are no answers to the case - people start to wonder if the tunnels were back. Rumor has it, the mall had an underground tunnel system that connected to each of the fitting rooms. When a young, beautiful woman enters, the floor drops open, sending her sliding through the tunnels to be taken. Taken for what?Human trafficking?To be fed to the son of the mall owners?Was this an urban legend? Or was this the cause of her vanishing?Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A video went viral in South Korea of a CEO slapping an employee on the face in front of all his employees. Netizens were enraged - but as new details emerged, they realized the truth was even darker.The sadistic CEO would force his employees to decapitate live chickens during company retreats, force them to drink beer till they urinated themselves, he force-feed them multivitamins till they threw up, and shoot at them with BB guns for fun.The terrifying part was that this was just the tip of a very dark, cold iceberg.This is the true story that inspired the hit K-Drama series “Taxi Driver.”Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

They say a dead body smells like rotting meat - but with a thick, syrupy, sweet undertone. It’s the sweet part that makes most people want to vomit. But these days heavy chemicals are used in morgues to neutralize those smells - but working in a morgue is far from easy.The students at the University of the Philippines sacrificed partying on the weekends to work at the University hospital - inside the morgue. One day, the students curiously watched as police officers ran into the morgue. They had two bodies covered in white sheets. They warned the students - it was gruesome, bloody, and one victim had evidence of being assaulted and tortured by at least a few killers.The students held their breath as they peeled back the sheet. They stood in horror to see their friends from college laying on the cold steel tables.This case would lead to the vanishing of a police officer, 7 high profile killers being thrown in jail with a combined sentence of nearly 2,000 years, and even the President getting involved.Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Kavita was on a flight from London to Mumbai, India to visit her older sister and mom. Her sister was a successful actress in Bollywood but she managed to carve out time in her schedule to celebrate Kavita’s birthday.When she landed - she connected to the airport wifi and all the text messages, DM’s, calls, that she had missed while in the air kept flooding in.She collapsed on the airport floor. Her sister had died while she was in the air. She was found mysteriously hanging from her ceiling fan. The police rules out foul play but there were too many suspicious conditions - like the fact that there wasn’t a single fingerprint in key parts of the room. Not a single print. Not even her own.A few days later - Bollywood went up in flames when 6 pages of her personal diary were leaked. Her death would now be connected to a powerful family in Bollywood. How much involvement did they play in her death?Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.