For up to seven years, Thai garment workers were held behind razor wire in a Los Angeles suburb, sewing clothes for American stores. One escape and a hand-drawn map ended it. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
A Florida police officer found a man dead on a welfare check. Investigators say he then spent nearly four years quietly taking over the dead man’s house. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
In 2007, teenage boys vanished from a Chinese train station and ended up in illegal brick kilns. The police did not find most of them. Their parents did. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
A homeless man was sold to a salt farm on a remote Korean island. Escape was impossible, because everyone on the island was watching. Then he drew a map and mailed it to his mother. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
In 1995, the story goes, the last bus to Beijing’s Fragrant Hills picked up three men in Qing dynasty robes and vanished. Here is the legend, and what the records actually show. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
In 1991 a calm, polite man called a Seoul family more than 60 times about their kidnapped son. Police recorded his voice. He was never found. The true story behind Voice of a Murderer. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
Fishermen were locked in a cage on a remote Indonesian island, and the fish they caught reached American supermarkets. The true story behind the AP’s Seafood from Slaves investigation. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
Police once stopped him while he wore a victim’s watch, and let him go. The true story of South Korea’s Hwaseong serial murders, the case behind Memories of Murder. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.