Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow award-winning podcast, is back. Unlike previous seasons, writer and host Jed Lipinski brings listeners new episodes every week with no end in sight. Each episode of Gone South Season 4 tells a different story about one of the South's most interesting crimes. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Someone is going to die at the luxury 5 star resort… it’s going to happen. It happened in Hawaii. The hotel manager was stabbed by a wealthy hotel guest.  Then in Italy. A wealthy woman was killed by her husband for her inheritance. And now - someone is going to die at the Four Season Resort in Thailand.  At least in the show White Lotus. Season 3 with Lisa from Blackpink will debut sometime in 2025.  The only thing is - did you know there was an actual real life murder mystery there?  The wife of one of China’s richest men was found floating in the private villa pool. She was dead. But more interesting than that is the rich man’s first wife was also found dead 10 years prior. Leaving everyone to question - is this wealthy man and high profile business tycoon killing off his wives one by one? How is he getting away with it? 3 deaths spanning across 3 countries.  1 billionaire family and a son searching for his dad to get answers.  Will White Lotus be based on this true story? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When you walk into an Abercrombie & Fitch store - just know, that they’re watching you. They know that most likely you will take a right upon entering. They know approximately how long you will stay in the store. What the scent and the music of the store does to impact your spending.  But most importantly - they know that you were lured in by the shirtless guys standing out in the front. Each employee is meticulously hand selected for their looks and attitude. It’s all about the brand.  This is all the work of then CEO, Mike Jeffries, a “mad genius.” Who has now been indicted for running a sex trafficking ring of male models.  His alleged ties and connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy are starting to come to light. With everyone wondering - how did this go on for decades? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s the middle of the day in South Korea. Koreans are at work, grabbing lunch, picking up their kids from school, minding their own business.  Amongst them is an American man named Ramsey- who clearly does not look like he’s up to any good.  He’s live-streaming on his phone while glancing from side to side.  When he feels the coast is clear he takes out his portable speaker… and starts playing… Diddy’s song “Last Night.” He runs in front of the camera, takes off his shirt, and starts pouring baby oil down his torso.  He starts dancing on the female figure in front of him. Sexually rubbing his body on her frame.  This video will go viral in South Korea. And a new game will start - hunting Ramsey.  Objective of the game? Hunt Ramsey.  Find Ramsey.  Punch Ramsey. Because the female figure he tried smothering in baby oil is not any random statue. It is the statue representing the hundreds of thousands of young girls who were taken, enslaved, and SA’d dozens of times per day for years during the war.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s a pre-fixed menu - like one of those fancy Michelin star restaurants.  Breakfast is served at 6 with two slices of their in house special bread.  Lunch is their iconic “special k loaf.” A dense mixture of - bread and cereal.  Dinner is typically a thick, goopy, chicken gravy over rice.  If this isn’t your style they always have the a la carte menu where you can order - rib meals, jalapeño cheese, and even hemorrhoid creams.  Reservations not required.  Attendance is mandatory.  Fully booked every single day. Welcome to the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. Famous former residents include - Ghislaine Maxwell, R. Kelly, cult leaders, crypto fraudster Sam Bankman Fried, and now… Sean Diddy Combs.  But there have been whispers….  That Diddy might want to get out as soon as possible. Because netizens are concerned he will face the same fate as Jeffrey Epstein in prison.  That there might be powerful people out there that might not want him to talk…  Technically, there are many powerful, wealthy people with millions of reasons to want him to shut up.  This is part 4 - covering the “Diddy’s List”  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In September 2024, Eminem released a new song - the lyrics read: “I’m like a R-A-P-E-R  Got so many SAs  Wait  He didn’t just spell the word rapper and leave out a P-Didhe? RIP, rest in peace Biggie and Pac  Both of y’all should be living  Cause he might put a hit on me like - Keefe D get em” Notorious BIG & Tupac were two of the most influential musicians in the world. They were both murdered within 6 months of each other, and Diddy has always been connected to their deaths.  One of them - he saw as his competition  Another he saw as his money-making machine.  Which means - did Eminem just ask the question - Did Diddy kill them? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A mysterious new book starts making its way to the top of the Best Sellers category on Amazon books. It just doesn’t make sense though. The book isn’t authored by a well known author… on top of that, it’s quite a pricey book.  59 pages.  $22. Reviewers say it’s riddled with typos and factual inaccuracies. Why is it suddenly on the best sellers list? The title is: “Kim’s Lost Words: A Journey For Justice From The Other Side” It claims to be a memoir written by Kim Porter, Diddy’s ex gf, and the mother of his 4 children.  Part of the introduction reads: “He was so charming - a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A devil and I fell for it. This story must be told despite the fact that it will hurt my children. I cannot hide it any longer. Sean Combs must be stopped....” But there’s no way Kim Porter published it herself - because she passed away in 2018.  So who wrote it? The author claims he received a flash drive from close sources. But is he trustworthy?  But more importantly - why are netizens calling for Kim Porter’s death to be re-investigated? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jonathan Oddi has a lot of conspiracies. He believes everything has been engineered with agendas to create the most chaos and confusion possible - that is the fall of humans.  That’s what he’s telling confused investigators in the interrogation room after firing shots inside of a hotel. He’s telling them he did this to wake up the American people from the illuminati. The officers ask him how he knows all of this…  He slams his hand on the table and asks -  “Do you know Sean Combs?” Is he talking about Diddy? The music mogul, billionaire, and famous artist?  “I was basically his sex slave.” Jonathan Oddi claims he was having intimate relations with Diddy’s then girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, while Diddy watched. He says while he was there he was forced to take liquid cocaine and he heard LOTS of important details.  Like how Diddy is part of the illuminati.  How they’re all transporting drugs in private jets across the US.  And how Diddy was having him followed.  In 2018 - everyone believed he was a dangerous unhinged man coming up with the most fantastical stories.  In 2024 - everyone is wondering… maybe he’s right about everything…  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A woman named Ashley walks into the emergency room with strange injuries. Bruises all over her body. Scrape marks on knees and bite marks on her face.  The nurses don’t feel comfortable with her explanation of how she sustained such severe injuries. The only answer that makes sense to them… is abuse. Severe abuse. A beating.  They call the police to report it - and by the end of the night, the patient is dead.  Now the police are left to investigate - her boyfriend. Her affair partner from work. Her lover’s girlfriend. And even his little 17-year-old sister.  4 different people with connections with Ashely.  4 different reactions to the news of her death.  And 2 responsible for killing her.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ronan’s 6 year old daughter has finally come back home but something is not right. Ever since the little girl got home strange things have been happening…  A cockroach breaking through the window. The child suddenly growing double the teeth in her mouth. Somehow she’s able to shut doors that are on the other side of the room. She’s talking to people who aren’t there…  Ronan knows why. Her little daughter is possessed and it’s up to her to find out how to break the curse.  That sounds like the plot of a movie - doesn’t it? It is - the horror film “Incantation.” It is arguably one of the scariest horror films to be released recently. Yet.  It’s all based on a true story of a family of 6 in Taiwan. A family where they all became possessed until finally 1 of them dies.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lucy Li is sitting in a small room with a blanket draping over her shoulders.  A man sits in front of her and asks about how her flight was. “It’s not the best flight experience, I’m not used to sitting in tight spaces… And I feel really bad for the officers that had to come and get me because they had to make stopovers…” She puts her hand to her heart, “Me and mom was really concerned about that. And we offered Interpol to tell them we would fly them private.” Lucy has just gotten off an international flight from Eastern Europe after a murder (double murder attempt), fleeing to multiple countries, and being wanted by Interpol for months.  She’s just a little unhappy that she wasn’t able to fly private to come home. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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For the low price of $200k you can freeze yourself. Freeze yourself so that one day you can reach immortality. One day in the future, if someone can figure out how to make humans immortal - all they have to do is thaw you out.  It’s a luxury only the wealthy can afford.  In Taiwan, an 18 year old boy has been kept in the morgue freezer for over a year now.  But it’s not because he’s trying to reach immortality. He’s been frozen for a completely different reason.  People are demanding answers to his very suspicious death.  These are the events before he mysteriously fell 10 floors to his death  One week before - he inherits $500M. 2 hours before - he marries a total stranger.  Now the question is - did someone kill him? Was it an accident? And who is going to get his money?  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There was this rumor going around in the K-Pop world in 2016 If you want your favorite artist to do well – you have to buy their albums from two specific retailers… One of those companies was called Synnara Records.  At their height, it is said they had a 30% share of the record market volume. They are one of the rare business success stories raking in millions of dollars.  Until you dig deeper.  The name Synarra means- New Nation. The record company was founded by a woman who wanted to create a new nation for her followers.  A woman who allegedly forced young healthy men to line up outside her door to wait for their golden chance to be SA’d by her.  A woman who was tried for the torture and murder of a 5 year old baby.  This is the story of the Baby Garden cult - and how they made millions in the K-Pop industry without anyone knowing… They’re still around to this day.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There is an annual competition - where 10 groups come together to use NASA level technology to beat each other in a high speed race. Who can create the fastest car. Who can go the fastest and win.  The key component here is to stay alive because when you’re driving at 200mph. It’s not an easy feat.  That’s why the Formula 1 drivers get paid so much. F1 is ultimately a dangerous sport with car crashes, flips, fires, and death.  But what happens when a 16 year old spoiled teenager gets into a fight with his mom because he wants an American Express Gold Card - and decides to go onto the street to drive like a F1 race car driver? There are 2 people in the car.  Only 1 survives.  But there are rumors that 2 people will be arrested for this.  Who and why would they be arrested if they were never in the car to begin with? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He doesn’t know it yet but his wife is about to divorce him. They have been married for the past 50 years and everyone that knows them - believes them to be the perfect couple.  How is he going to explain that it was all an accident? He didn’t mean to film up the girl’s skirts at the supermarket?  He tries to convince her it might be dementia. Perhaps his brain is finally giving out at his old age. His caring wife goes with him to the police station to get it sorted out.  But there’s always more to the story - isn’t there? The police want to talk to her. Alone.  What’s the matter here? After arresting her husband for filming up skirt videos in the market - they went through his devices and found a folder titled “ABUSES.”  There were over 20k digital files.  From 2011 to 2020 - for almost 10 years - he had been drugging his wife. Inviting over at least 72 strange men into the house at night to SA his wife in her sleep.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

7-year-old Heaven was brought into the Budha House to be healed. The neighbors who brought her in tried to explain - she had been playing and hanging onto a bar when she fell and hit her head. She is now unconscious.  But the healers could just take one look at Heaven and know - the little girl is dead.  When Heaven’s mom finally sees Heaven’s little body - she finds something even more puzzling. Her mouth is filled with cement. Her autopsy shows she was assaulted “front and back” and had these weird little cuts all over her body.  On her neck, you could almost make out the 5 fingers that were wrapped around her. Suffocating her.  It feels like all the neighbors are in on some big conspiracy. Why do they keep insisting that she fell when it’s so clear she did not. What are they hiding? Heaven’s mom is going to figure out what the hell happened to her daughter.  https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-heaven-and-her-mother Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s said the parents of Nova (Northern Virginia) have their little groups that they stick to during school drop offs and pick ups. It’s an upscale neighborhood - with many residents working in government as politicians or even federal agents. It’s only a 30 minute drive to DC.  But there is one woman that most moms likely avoid at the school bus stop.  The new live in lover of the federal agent that lives down the street.  The whole thing is just eerie.  She moved into that house just months after the federal agent’s wife was brutally murdered.  And now she’s dropping off the murdered woman’s child as if… as if she’s trying to take her place? It’s just strange.  It makes people question - did she have something to do with the murder? And who was the other man that was found dead in their house? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

South Korea is going through an erase all faces panic. Every single selfie is being wiped from the internet just in case. As a response - a male college student wrote on a forum -  “Put a finger down and ask yourself  Have I ever been asked out or confessed to? (Joke confessions do not count)  Do a lot of men try to talk to me even though I don’t talk to them first? Have I ever looked into the mirror and resented my parents? Can other people recognize me without makeup? Do I weigh more than 145 pounds? Do I frequent feminist online forums? When I walk on the street, do children avoid me? If you answered yes to more than 3 of these questions - don’t worry. Your rate of being a victim of sexual deep fakes is very low. Men have standards too. We don’t just deepfake any woman.” This is the case of the “new Nth Rooms” where over 400 schools have been found to be operating illegal chatrooms where students are getting deepfaked into sexually explicit photos and videos.  A whole network of deep fake trading and creating has been found.  Most victims and perpetrators? Teenagers.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Grandma C knew that something wasn’t right about what she was looking at. Her daughter is standing there holding her 2-month-old baby. But everything is wrong.  Her daughter’s pants are soaked in urine.  The way she’s talking sounds like someone clamped her tongue, and two-month-old baby Mirabelle is not moving.  In fact, Mirabelle’s little face is bright angry red and her body seems stiff.  Grandma C rushes to put her down and unzips baby Mirabelle’s onesie…  She’s peeling. The skin on her entire body is peeling.  Mirabelle’s mom starts to explain that she must have suffered a stroke while holding her baby and fell on top of her… onto the space heater. Squashing her baby into the space heater and burning her.  But when authorities arrive - they start to think differently.  Because Mirabelle’s injuries are not consistent with someone who has been burned by a space heater. Also, why was her little purple pacifier found in the microwave? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There is a college student laying down on the hospital bed. She’s staring up at the ceiling in distress as someone records her silently from the corner of the room.  “I’m going to have such a long day tomorrow - I’m not going to answer anyone’s Snapchats!” The person recording does not respond.  “Well, you’re too quiet. I’m going to start singing since I hate the quiet.”  The girl gets up in the hospital bed to perform Justin Bieber’s “Intentions.” She’s whipping her head around like she’s giving a stage performance on tour. She just doesn’t understand why the man in the room with her is so stiff. Loosen up. Have some fun.  He snaps at her - “you want me to be honest with you? You’re going to jail. You don’t have bond. You killed two people tonight. That’s what’s going on. So no, you’re not going to school tomorrow.” This is the case of Stephanie Melgoza - the college student who killed two people and proceeded to complain the whole time about how she needed to go to class, told the officers about how excited she was for her Vegas trip, and sang songs at the crime scene.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hospitals are no strangers to death. But something very odd was happening inside the walls of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College.  The medical students, junior doctors, professors were all running away from the classroom. Screaming.  Administrators rushed to call Dr. Di’s parents.  ‘She self exited.’ That is what her parents were told. Their precious daughter had taken her own life. Perhaps it was the unbearable pressure and long work hours? Or not.  The autopsy would show that Dr. D, a 31 year old female doctor, was found gang SA’d to the point her pelvic bone was damaged, bleeding from her eyes, mouth, and private parts, bite marks all over, and her legs found bent at an unnatural contorted angle. Anyone could see that she clearly had not taken her own life.  So then, why would her parents be told that? Who is the hospital protecting? What are they covering up?  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The entire courtroom is quiet as each person walks up to the front and points. They point at this tiny miniature model of a movie theater sitting on the table.  The tiny blue miniature-model seats are positioned just like they were when it all happened.  3 years ago - the emergency exit door to Theater 9 would open. A man with bright orange hair wearing tactical gear would walk into the theater - and open fire.  At the midnight premiere of Batman The Dark Knight Rises.  He is now sitting in the courtroom charged with 24 counts of murder, 140 counts of attempted murder, and 1 count of illegal explosives.  But there are still so many questions - he told his psychiatrist months prior that he wanted to kill people. Why wasn’t he put on a psychiatric hold? Why did he write a notebook filled with his plans to mail to her? Why did he, a neuroscience major, hate humanity so much to believe in something as vile as “human capital?” The idea that taking a life increases the value of your own.    Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On June 1, 2024, A Korean YouTube channel uploaded a video titled - “Pack Ki Beom, did you think that I wouldn’t find you?” The video includes details about Pack’s personal life. Showing his comfortable luxurious lifestyle with his wife and young daughter. It would appear that overnight Korean netizens flock to Pack’s page leaving hate comments. “I hope your daughter gets taken away from you.” “I hope the same thing happens to your daughter - then what will you do?” It seemed overnight all of Korea would turn on a random civilian named Pack Ki Beom. 20 years ago Pack was the ringleader of the Miryang 44 case. Where 44 high school students blackmailed, tortured, and SA’d a middle school girl for over a year straight. All 44 perpetrators were not punished. Without even a mark on their criminal records. They were free to live as anonymous free men in the world. Until June 1st. This would be the start of a string of vigilante justice YouTubers releasing the identities and doxxing the perpetrators involved. One by one. Leaving everyone in South Korea to wonder - do I know one?   Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ophelia, an Italian mafia boss, had a thing for fingers. She likes the way they curve, the soft bend at the knuckles, the tender skin, just everything about hands. She loves.  She just hates that she only has one.  Her hand was cut off in a war with the enemy mafia over territory.  Ophelia is sitting at a bar when Kim walks in. Kim is part of the enemy mafia. Kim sits down and slides over a gift.  Ophelia peers inside and a small smile creeps onto her face…. This is perfect.  So beautiful.  She uses both of her hands to place the gift bag under the table. Yes, both of her hands.  Because Ophelia’s hands were never cut off.  She’s not a mafia boss.  In fact, her name is not even Ophelia.  She is a South Korean high schooler who joined a role playing game. But now the question is - who is Kim? Because inside the gift bag are very very real human lungs and flesh.  Including a pretty little finger. Ophelia’s favorite.    Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Nandi walks into the morgue… She’s a celebrity doctor – she provides Botox and chemical peels to some of the top celebrities in South Africa… She’s here to pick up her dead father’s body. But within a few weeks, she’s back at the morgue picking up another body. And then like clockwork, she’s back at the morgue, picking up another body. Why does she keep taking bodies from the morgue?  What the hell was she doing with them? But perhaps the most important – what does she have to do with a murderer who was found burned to death in his jail cell? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Finding love is not easy. Especially when you’re competing against almost 3.9k other people for just one man. You really only have one shot, so how do you stand out? You could send pictures or even nudes! Though on second thought…they’ll probably get flagged and he won’t even be able to read them. Maybe a love poem? “I know you’ve been hurt, but I’ll be with you. I see the pain in your eyes.” It’s kind of like the bachelor; everyone fighting for one man’s affections. Who’s going to come out on top? Only, this man is not the bachelor. He’s a killer. He committed double homicide. He killed two people in cold blood.   He has gone viral on tiktok for being ‘hot’ and now thousands of people from all over the world are writing to him—believing they can change him. This is the case of Wade Wilson. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Earlier this month, an audio clip went viral on the internet. In the clip you can hear a man’s voice aggressively screaming - “SHUT UP SHUT UP! You stupid b*tch, didn’t I tell you not to this??” You can hear a woman crying, begging for him to stop. Begging him to stop and spare her life. That woman is TzuYang. She is the biggest YouTuber in South Korea with over 10 million subscribers. And she had essentially been held hostage for the last 4 years of her life and forced to film eating (Mukbang) videos. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

7-year-old Mary Galvin has plans to kill her older brother. The way he roams around town with that empty gaze. The way their parents refuse to talk about his behavior. It was all going to end. Mary had her older brother, Donald Galvin, tied to a tree as she gathers sticks to pile at his feet. He is a witch about to be burnt at the stake. Donald is more than happy to play along. In the end, Mary backs out of her plan to kill him—she didn’t bring matches along and by the time she realizes what she’s really doing—she’s sprinting away like it never happened. Donald is fine either way. If she had gone through with it he would’ve happily died right then and there because to him, Mary is more than just his little sister. She is the Virgin Mary. The Mother of Christ himself—and it makes sense—because they’re not even real siblings. Donald had been switched at birth and his real mother is actually an octopus. This is the story of the ‘most mentally disturbed family in America’ (according to one psychiatrist). 12 full blood siblings living in one house. 6 out of the 12 siblings would be diagnosed with schizophrenia. This is the case of the Galvin family. Donate To The Galvin Family Trust: https://galvinfamilytrust.org/  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

They are the only ones inside the laundromat and they need help.  The two sisters are standing over baby Benson’s tiny body trying to do chest compressions. Everything was fine two seconds ago.  He was asleep in the car and they brought him while they were running errands - why is he ice cold to the touch? None of this makes sense? When the police arrive at the scene. They agree. None of this makes sense.  Because baby Benson was dead when the sisters pulled him out of his car seat to perform CPR. He was dead when they walked into the laundromat.  In fact - he had been dead for a few hours.  Which begs the questions - how long has he been dead, how did nobody notice, and who did this to him?  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This was probably the strangest call the Hollywood police received.  A foul stench coming from an apartment unit. A dead man is found with his head painted green and red. He didn’t even look human - he looked like he was wearing a mask.  But in front of him is a tripod set up - with a camera. Someone had filmed his death. In fact, someone had filmed 20 hours of this man losing his mind. His mental collapse.  20 hours of footage that shows him slowly losing touch with reality and start living fully in his fantasy world. His ultimate fantasy? Send one of the most famous singers an acid bomb. Because if she’s ugly. Nobody will want her anymore. She will come crawling to him - her biggest fan.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The police had a strange situation on their hands. A thief had broken into a multi-million dollar home - to steal a safe. The safe had 3 items in it. Jewelry. Investment documents. And the home owner’s old phones. The police were able to quickly determine that the thief did not want the jewelry or the investment documents in the safe. Which means - the thief is going after the home owner’s old phones. Why would a thief want some old phones? Was there something on there that they didn’t want anyone else to see? But most puzzling is - who would do this to Goo Hara? The home belonged to a k-pop idol who had just died just 49 days ago. What did they want from her safe? And how does this connect to the Burning Sun case? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man calls the police around 3:30 am to report that he had just been physically assaulted by his ex-girlfriend. Officers are dispatched and the caller greets them with a few red scratches on his face. He had gone over to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment to break up with her—but that’s when she went crazy; scratching his face and twisting his arm. The officers ask the man for her name. Goo Hara. A K-pop idol from the girl group KARA.   When the police begin investigating, the man’s story begins to fall apart. If what he’s saying is true, why is there CCTV footage of Goo Hara on her knees—seemingly begging the young man? Why did he email Dispatch, a Korean tabloid, twice during this so-called ‘one sided assault?’ And what does all of this have to do with Burning Sun? A couple of months pass, and Goo Hara helps reporters blow the lid off the Burning Sun case. Not even a year later, she is found dead. This is part two of Burning Sun. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s this fascinating little town called ‘Little Japan.’ It’s a gated community with cookie-cutter houses, though they boast beautiful chandeliers and heated floors, and all of them have a matching set of priceless portraits hanging on their walls. The residents are nine Japanese families, hence the name, and they have their own private chefs, maids, even chauffeurs in black Mercedes. A small movie theater, a massive sauna house, and a grocery store where they never have to pay. The catch? If they ever want to leave the community ‘gates,’ they must ask for permission from the Supreme Leader… The town itself is not even an hour outside of North Korea’s capital. The families themselves are neither Japanese nor North Korean royalty, nor are they diplomats or even government officials either. They’re a gang of hijackers. Hijackers who stole a plane and flew it into North Korea—and now the distinguished guests of the Kim regime were to become his secret weapon. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A church in South Carolina has gone viral recently--even making national headlines. A young pastor by the name of JP is caught on a recorded sermon saying: “One day I’m going to preach about getting rich, strong, healthy, and finding a hot wife that loves Jesus!”  The congregation laughs awkwardly because on his left hand ring finger is a wedding band—he’s already married—but he won’t be for much longer.  Just a few weeks later, Pastor JP’s wife—14 years younger than him—is found face down, submerged in a marsh, an entire state away.  Just four days after that, the media reports that Pastor JP was drinking at a bar with a woman thought to be his mistress.  This is the ongoing investigation into the tragic death of Mica Francis Miller.  Mica Francis Miller’s Go Fund Me link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justiceformica Official Justice For Mica website link: https://justiceformica.com/home Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

3 people are sitting at a table in a diner. Miriam, a middle aged woman sits stiffly, and across from her are two young men. One of them fiddles with a radio; a police scanner. He leans towards Miriam as if they’re sharing a secret across the table. “Your daughter smoke weed or something?” She gives him a look. Radio man continues, “I mean… she’s just so relaxed. Easy to deal with which is good. I like that. That’s why I want to let her go… for a price.” He tells Miriam that he will convince his boss to spare her daughter from a torturous death for $2k USD cash. Miriam suppresses a smile; she has to play along or else everything she’s planned will fall apart. Her daughter Karen had been kidnapped by one of the most dangerous cartels in all of Mexico and Miriam knew that nobody gets taken by that cartel and gets out alive. She also knew that she would not stop until she took every single member out for what they had done to her family. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Somi doesn’t normally go through her husband’s things, but their house has been so cluttered, she’s going to lose her mind. From the back of their closet, she comes across old VHS tapes and a VHS player that she doesn’t recognize. Home movies, old memories? She pushes the tape in and presses play. The screen lights up. It’s a bed and two naked bodies. Her husband… and another girl laying next to him. There are words written all over both of their bodies in thick marker, words like ‘Prince’ and ‘King.’ Then Somi sees the blood. The girl has a long slice down her private area; she’s bleeding, trembling, completely terrified. The male—her husband’s voice—snaps at the girl, “Endure it even if it hurts.” Then he proceeds to SA her. Somi is frozen—but her mind is in overdrive—she can’t shake the feeling that she knows the girl—she can’t place a name but she recognizes the girl’s face. It was the same one on the missing posters in town. The girl in the video was the little, 8-year-old girl that had gone missing a year ago. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A man is laying face first, unconscious in his living room. Alyssa and Vanessa are standing over him. Alyssa reaches for the zip ties and binds his ankles together, three zip ties thick. Vanessa on the other hand is terrified. She’s screaming in her head to ‘STOP! This needs to stop! It’s taking things too far!’ But the words won’t come out; the only thing she can do is wait for a moment when Alyssa looks away—then Vanessa dives for the scissors. She cuts the zip ties off his ankles. “NO!” Alyssa forces Vanessa aside and reties his ankles and his wrists. Vanessa lost her chance. She can only watch helplessly as Alyssa yields a massive hunting knife and sends it plunging into the man’s neck. Then she begins sawing—back and forth. They watch the blood soak into the carpet. Police would later find the victim, Harold Sasko, and announce that his suspected killer was a 19 year old girl named Sarah. However this episode is NOT Harold’s story. Neither Alyssa’s, nor Vanessa’s. This is the case of Sarah McLinn, diagnosed with DID, and the many, many people who believe she should be free. RAINN Resources Website link to CHAT w/ a trained staff member who can provide you confidential crisis support: https://hotline.rainn.org/online  Call the National SA Hotline anytime at: 800.656.4673 Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Orchards are not fun at 3am. The rustling of the leaves feels no longer feels like a nice sunny, breezy day, it sounds like someone is hiding behind a tree somewhere watching you. Standing in the middle of an orchard is a group of high schoolers and young 20 something year olds just huddled in a circle.  “What did kim say about the—? “HURRY just start pouring it!”  They kick their shovels aside, start pouring the concrete into the hole, and watch as it covers first the hand, then the torso, and now the face.  The face of the 15-year-old girl that they held captive for a month and tortured.  When they’re done, they head back to their cars with their shovels… And honestly? They think they did it; that they’re getting away with it. But don’t they know? History always repeats itself.  A very, very similar case took place 26 years ago in Japan: The case of Junko Furuta.  This episode is about a case that everyone in South Korea has been calling: The Korean Junko Furuta case. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“I’m going to use the restroom real quick.” Jia’s husband opens his eyes and looks at his phone. It’s 1AM. The two of them are on an overnight train heading home. He blinks before ripping his blanket off to escort his wife -  “No, it’s okay. I have my phone with me. Just stay here. I’ll be back quick.” She leaves for the restroom - careful to not wake up any of the other passengers in the sleeper carriage. She climbs down the bunk bed steps and balances through the aisle to the restroom.  BAM. Jia’s husband eye’s fly open and he checks the time. 1:30AM. It’s been thirty minutes and his wife is not back from the restroom. Strange…  He searches the entire carriage before alerting the train conductor…  “Please you have to help my wife is missing!” The train conductor smiles at him. “Don’t be ridiculous. Nobody goes missing on a moving train.” Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The to do list for the party mainly consists of purchasing groceries, cleaning the upstairs rooms, and airing out the pungent smell in the bathrooms.  17 year old Cassandra grabs the bottle of bleach and pours it out onto the bathroom floors. There. That should do.  Her boyfriend, Johnny, helps her glue the bathroom door shut. Sealing it with a caulk gun. There. Now nobody can get in and nobody can get out.  But more importantly - the smell won’t get downstairs and ruin the vibes.  “It’s a sewage issue.” That’s what they tell the party guests.  19 year old Johnny had used the restroom and because the sewer lines were blocked up he couldn’t flush. Excuse the smell.  They did not tell them that they were getting high right under 2 dead bodies that were decomposing upstairs.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The police office ran through the apartment complex - only stopping to investigate a suspicious looking Korean girl in a blue mustang.  “What unit?” “656” she said.  The exact unit he was called to for a potential home invasion and hostage situation.  “What’s your name?” “My name is Sunny Han.” He tried to memorize her face before running to the unit. They found in the apartment 2 college girls had been tied up by gunmen. They were trying to kill the girls.  As the officer is interviewing the two female victims he can’t help but shake the feeling of deja vu.  “Wait, I’m sorry what did you say your name was?” “Sunny. Sunny Han.” But that’s not possible. How can someone be two places at once?  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It was supposed to be a cute little road trip.  12-year-old Isabella, her best friend Asunta, and Isabella’s mom were in the car heading towards the beach.  Isabella’s mom tried to keep the spirits high for the girls -  “Okay, why don’t we all share a story! Get our creative juices flowing!” 12-year-old Asunta offers to start. Her voice suddenly shaky -  “There once was a girl who laid in her bed to sleep. She awoke to a man in a mask dragging her body off her bed, covering her mouth, and then choking her with his big strong hands. The girl could not breathe. She could not scream. She was going to die.” Isabella’s mom pulls the car over to the side of the road because Asunta is bawling her eyes out. “Sweetie, are you alright?” Asunta was not alright. This was a true story, and it happened to Asunta - a man broke into their home and tried to kill her.  But when Isabella’s mom talks to Asunta’s parents about it - she’s even more confused. Why are they not freaked out? Why didn’t they report this to the police? Who is this masked man, and is he still out there? Why would he want to kill Asunta? And did the man come back? Because 2 months later, Asunta would be murdered.  Soon - everyone in Asunta’s life would become a prime suspect. Including her wealthy adoptive parents.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Department of Justice makes a very public statement—it feels more like a threat.  “Please do not reproduce, share, or use this exhibit in any way. If you have downloaded this file, please delete it off your device.”  The DOJ had accidentally leaked a file they previously moved to seal from the public. Not one thing, nor one name was redacted.  The file in question - is the client list to one of the most high profile sex workers in all of Manhattan.  Her revenue in just a few years was in the millions of dollars - her hourly rate was $1500.  It’s safe to assume that this leaked, ’sealed’ file includes the names of NYC’s upper elite. High peorfile businessmen, millionaire-married couples, artists, restaurant tycoons, and lots and lots of rich married men.    Some of the names were recognized to be high level executives at Apple, other major retailers, one wealthy hedge fund manager, one international diamond dealer, and a former NY Supreme Court Judge.  But they hadn’t just been listed as clients for sex work.  They had all been named as alleged clients of a sex trafficking business run by a college cult.    10 years prior, a man had walked onto an elite private school campus to visit his daughter, a sophomore at the university. The man, her father, ends up staying on campus, living in his daughter’s dorm, and quickly begins the process of grooming and brainwashing all of his daughter’s friends.    The result was a decade long cult. Some of the friends turned cult members were ‘promoted’ to chauffeur or solder. Others into forced labor. His daughter’s friends would become his wives.’ And that left one, forced to turn to sex work. They all served one old, middle aged man.  This is the case of Lawrence Ray and his decade long cult of college students and sex.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Hey, can my dad stay with us for a little while after he gets out of prison?”  It was an odd request but Talia’s roommates felt like they couldn’t say no. Talia was a good friend, she always talked about wanting to become a lawyer and help people. She just had this tiny little quirk…  She was obsessed with her dad.  Even at parties - she would not stop talking about what an incredible man he was. He’s just going to stay in their dorms while he looks for a new place. What could possibly go wrong? When Larry Ray moves into Talia’s dorm - he slowly starts brainwashing all of Talia’s friends. Soon, he will be sleeping in Talia’s best friend’s room. Encouraging the students to all have intimate relations with each other… while he watches.  This would be the start of his decade-long college cult.  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oh Won is getting into his next at home project – everything is set up for success. He has a whole bottle of his favorite Chinese liquor. It’s stronger than Vodka, but he’s tossing it back like water.  His hand reaches for his phone as he feels the urge again. He’s on autopilot mode - staring at his screen, swiping, swiping… He presses play and puts his phone up against the bathroom sink. The woman’s moaning is just echoing off the bathroom wall… He lights a cigarette and squats down with his 8-inch knife. He starts moving the knife back and forth.  The key is that each cut has to be uniform; all the same thickness and size. It’s the most enjoyable for consumption that way… Before Oh Won knew it, six hours had passed. 365 pieces of meat, meticulously sliced into uniform, same-sized, thin pieces. He portioned them out and placed them into 17 separate black plastic bags. All that’s left are the bones and the parts that aren’t really important. He flips over the piece he was working on all morning. He stares at her face. He didn’t—couldn’t take any meat from there. Her face and hair were untouched, but below her neck, all of her flesh had been sliced off up until her knees.   He had deboned her. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The "3 Body Problem" was going to be Jeff Bezoz’s billion-dollar investment. The plan? Invest $1B into a new sci-fi series and watch the subscriptions to Amazon Prime Video flow in. All they have to do is buy the English adaptation rights off from the Chinese gaming giant – Yoozoo Gaming. They own the film and TV rights to the “3 Body Problem Universe.” The deal was close to being done – till CEO Lin Qi of Yoozoo walks into a conference room in LA. Dressed like a gangster. Puts his feet up on the table and suggests a co-production. He blew up the deal that Amazon had been working on for 8 months. Amazon was upset but as they were walking out of the meeting room… they noticed something. Nobody around CEO Lin looked happy either. They wouldn’t be surprised when they heard the news 2 years later. The billionaire CEO Lin was murdered by someone inside his company. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s a boring red brick building in the middle of Yale University’s campus. If you walk past it you might think it’s an administrative office. It looks - boring.  But if you look closely - there are 75 CCTV cameras pointed directly at the building. Covering every square inch of the exterior. Why would they need so much security for a university building? It is the Animal Research Laboratory. It houses over 4000 research mice and has tens of millions of dollars of research experiments being conducted inside the brick walls.  It is one of the most secure buildings on campus.  Till a brilliant Yale graduate student disappears inside.  She walks in.  Never walks out.  She is nowhere to be found in the building - or at least that’s what the authorities initially thought.  But have they checked the walls? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices