You look around - you’re in the hospital but you feel trapped. Why can’t you talk? Why can’t you move? You start to feel your body involuntarily shake… The nurse noticed and rushed to your bedside. Good, someone is coming to help. She pulls back your covers and crawls into the bed with you. She’s stroking your hair, kissing your face, and wants to look you directly in the eye as your pupils dilate, violently convulse, and you take your last breath. You were always her favorite patient… right? 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

“Big John” loved his little apartment. It wasn’t nice but it was his. He was in his 40’s and he wanted to decorate it with whatever style he pleased. His bedroom was more of a game room with a mattress on the ground. The walk-in closet was wall-to-wall with the newest and latest games. Nintendo games, board games, barbies, you name it. His drawers were stuffed full with candy and his mini-fridge only had soda in it. The only thing is - none of these things were for Big John. Book Rec: “Buried Memories” - by Katie Beers (Written by the victim of the crime - and how she recovered from such a traumatic event. Get your tissues ready) 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

Charles took a step back from his self-portrait. He was just adding his finishing touches of paint. “Are you sure this is what you saw? This is how I’m going to die?” “Yes” the voice said. The painting showed Charles with a gag in his mouth and 5 bullet wounds on his forehead. It was a gruesome piece of art but everyone that knew Charles said he was just “eccentric.” They had no idea that’s almost exactly how Charles would later be found at the crime scene. With the painting hanging above 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

They sat around the dinner table - whispering. As if the man the town called “The Ripper” could hear them.  “Don’t wear red shoes - he will kill all girls wearing red shoes.” “I thought it was red clothes?” “I heard it was girls with long hair - because it’s easier to grab when they try to run away.” Whatever it is - we have to try it all. Cut your hair. Throw out your red clothes because if The Ripper gets a hold of you…  He will leave you without your hands, ears, breasts, and sometimes even the skin on your back.  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 banyan tree is a terrifyingly beautiful sight.  It looks like it's draped in a shredded cloak… with its long roots suspended from the branches - hanging eerily straight towards the ground.  That’s the first thing the officer thought of when he walked into the family home. 11 people dead. 10 hanging.  Together, perfectly spaced out, 10 family members were suspended from the ceiling like the roots of a banyan tree. Suspended. 3 generations of a family had been wiped out. But why? 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 7 nursing students were huddled in their dorm room bunk beds - panicking about what to do next. They had been tied up by an intruder. They waited till he came back into the room and he pointed at a nurse “you.” He escorted her out and tortured her for 30 minutes. She would never return.  One by one - like a ritual the killer escorted out nurses to their death.  The hostage room went from 7 to 6 then 5…4…3…2… Then there was one.  How will she escape? 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 17 year old girl woke up in a panic. Where was she? It was so bright and cold - a hospital?  She turned her head to the left - a pale dead body. She tried to scream but her voice wouldn’t work. She looked to her right - a dead body. She wanted to jump up and run out of there but half of her body was now paralyzed.  She had woken up in a morgue with half her hair torn out, she couldn’t move, and she didn’t even remember her name.  All she knew was earlier she was in a forest staring at the werewolf.  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

“Ooooh Sanford get out here! I have a present for you - it’s in the bucket!” Sanford didn’t understand why his uncle was so giddy to be back to the chicken farm but he rushed outside. He peered into the bucket for his surprise. Immediately he wanted to gag. Why did his uncle bring home roadkill? Why did it look like the animal had a wig on? “Look closer Sanford.” - Uncle Stew ordered.  And that’s when Sanford realized - this isn’t roadkill. It’s not an animal. It’s the severed head of a young boy not much older than 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

All morning there had been whispers at LHS - they found a student’s body in the old gym. The body of 17 year old KJ had been found rolled up into a giant gym mat about 6ft tall.  When the police arrive they rule out foul play - they believe KJ willingly went into the mat where he would later suffocate to death.  But what about all the other strange evidence? The blood on the gym walls, the FBI agent’s high school son who had problems with KJ, and why were KJ’s organs missing?  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com New Merch available at https://Fanjoy.co/stephaniesoo 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 couple embarked on a cross country trip in their converted van to experience the beauty of the national parks. They documented their trip, posted on Instagram, YouTube, they were in the process of starting their blog.  But only one came back.  How is that possible? Where did Gabby go? Why did Brian - her fiance - come back with the van without her? And now with Gabby’s body found and Brian is now missing - the ongoing investigation is only getting muddier.  If you have any tips or information please reach out to the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALLFBI (225-5324).  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 walked by her house in the exclusively rich part of Newport Beach California you would never think it holds such sinister secrets. She was holding young women captive in her house and would be arrested for slavery charges.  After escaping from prison - she went on to brutally murder and scam her way into millions of dollars with her boyfriend. Who is her boyfriend you ask? Well, none other than her very own son.  And just when you think you know her - she surprises you. Book Rec: “Son Of A Grifter” - by Kent Walker (one of Sante’s sons I couldn’t put it down it was so good!) 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

First day of Kindergarten is always a nerve-racking time for parents. But when they meet Mrs. W their tensions are probably eased.  She has a soft face with a dirty blonde bob and she’s a mom of three! She seems like the perfect teacher - kind, nurturing, sweet.  But when she’s with the police she’s a totally different person.  “I want to see where it stabbed her.”  “I want to see a video of them having s** with my husband!”  It makes you wonder - how well do we actually know our teachers?  Book Rec: “Wilder Intentions” - by C.J. Wynn (This is the best deep dive on the case and it’s meticulously researched!) 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

You want us to do what? - the couple had been kidnapped and forced to live in North Korea for years before they found out the truth.  The wife was a former beloved movie actress. The husband was an award-winning film director. And now North Korea had kidnapped them to make movies for Kim Jong Il.  It sounds like a fictional story - but it was very much real. And the couple’s lives depended on how good of a movie they could make.  (Please listen to Part 1 before this episode!) Book Rec: “A Kim Jong Il Production” - by Paul Fischer (Even my Korean parents who grew up with this case on the news learned so much from this book! 10/10) 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

She couldn’t believe it. They wanted her to write a letter to her kidnappers thanking them for all that they have done for her.  Are these people out of their minds? She missed her old life in South Korea - she had been a famous movie actress, her children, freedom, she missed it all.  Now she was kidnapped in a foreign country forced to write letters of love to the men who ordered it.  She started the letter - Dear Kim Jong Il The Supreme Leader of North Korea… Book Rec: “A Kim Jong Il Production” - by Paul Fischer (Even my Korean parents who grew up with this case on the news learned so much from this book! 10/10) Don't forget to check out - https://www.analuisa.com/rotten  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 goal was simple. Break into the house - sneak into the upstairs room and murder the 18 year old high school girl.  Now comes the hard part - the wait. Waiting in an eerily silent house near the body of the young girl till her parents come home. They too have to be murdered.  Now for the finishing touches. Write on the walls in big blue spray paint “f**k off Asians KKK.” 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

She was rushing to the emergency room - her 5-year-old son was in the back. Every minute could mean life or death. He had been having seizures all day.  But before entering the hospital she stood over her suffering son and took a picture. What would she caption this one? Maybe she would mention how this was going to be his 13th surgery. Yeah, that would be good. The followers would eat that up.  Book Rec: “My Sweet Angel” - by John Glatt (Such a great deep dive on this 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

Her body was found by her own children. When the police rushed to the scene they were shocked.  She had been brutally mutilated - but something curious was in her hands. They were the keys to solving the case. A clump of hair was found in each hand - when they ran the DNA…  One locket of hair belonged to her - the other an unidentifiable woman. A ritualistic killing with an emphasis on women’s long hair. Who is this strange killer? And will they catch him in time?  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 wasn’t like the other boyfriends and husbands. He treasured every single moment that he spent with her.  When they went grocery shopping he studied her favorite foods and brands. When they went shopping he admired all the clothes that she picked out and watched her try them on.  Sure - she was married but that can’t stop true love. And what if she doesn’t know him yet? Once he kidnaps her - she will fall in love.  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 stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean.  1 of them has lied to the others. The truth will have deadly consequences.  1 of them is hiding a big secret from the others. A secret she doesn’t want to get out.  And only 1 will survive the 70 day ordeal.  Book Rec: “Lost” - by Thomas Thompson (one of my fave authors) it’s so good you’ll read it all in one sitting especially if it’s a rainy day. 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

“Welcome to Bob’s Bazaar Bizarre” - the small shop for oddities from around the world. May Bob interest you in some genuine human skulls? Perhaps a shrunken head in a jar? When you leave the shop’s bizarre environment you can’t help but wonder… that Bob guy is so strange… And how does he even collect so many real human skulls? You can’t help but wonder what Bob does in his free time to enlarge his collection. 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 been searching for Shannon for 24 days - a search that would cost taxpayers over $3.2 million.  The police were doing yet another routine search of a house they heard a tiny voice call out “stop it you’re scaring me.” Shivers went down their spine. Where is that coming from? Inside the bed? They looked closer and realized the 9-year-old was underneath the mattress…  They asked her “well where is the man that took you?” She pointed at the bed… 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

Joe wasn’t your average Joe - he wanted to be someone spectacular. Someone to be feared.  He skipped class, stole cars, carried guns, and even managed to get a girlfriend named Esther. So when he saw the “E” ring he knew he had to have it - to give to his girlfriend.  He leaned over and pulled it off the girl’s lifeless hand. The girl that he and his friends had just murdered.  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

After a rough start, Kristin was adjusting well at Cal Poly. She made friends and even took a lifeguard position that required her to get up by 4:20 AM. And then she disappeared.  Nearby, Mary had just rented a new house but the problem was that dang alarm. It would go off every day at 4:20 AM and she didn’t know where it was.  But strangely it wasn’t coming inside the house. But outside. Sounded like it was buried. But who would buy a stopwatch? ' *The podcast “Your Own Backyard” - by Chris Lambert is one of the most heartbreaking, thorough, and well-done podcasts I’ve ever listened to… Please go give it a listen because there’s so much more to this story.  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

Did you hear? The upper elite of New York City had a new resident - Clark Rockefeller. You know - from the billionaire Rockefeller family.  He swooped in with his impeccable designer suits, tens of millions worth of art, and his old beat down car. Some might think that to be strange.  But you know what they say - old money never flaunts.  But why did he kidnap his 7-year-old daughter in the middle of the street? And how is he related to the Sohus family murders from 20 years ago? 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

If you saw Patti & David walk down the street they look like the perfect couple. But those who knew them looked like they had seen a ghost.  The whispers - but David’s wife was only recently murdered. What about the girl that the police found in his doghouse?  And why is the younger sister of his dead wife wearing all of her clothes and jewelry?  Strange things happen in perfect towns.  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

You walk into an empty abandoned bank. You walk straight for the vault.  Sure, you know there won’t be anything of value left but you can’t help but try. In there you see a strange sight.  6 giant barrels lined up against the wall. Maybe they’re filled with money? Or maybe it contains the tortured, dismembered, and cannibalized remains of 8 people. Well, go on - open it.  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

Wanda was reading a tabloid of “The Perfect Crime.” She couldn’t believe it - how does a family man just viciously murder his entire family in their 19 bedroom mansion? And the worst part is he got away with it and has been on the run for 18 years. At that moment she looked up and saw the killer. Staring back at her. Only it wasn’t John List. It was her new neighbor… or was it? 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 investigators arrived at the scene - it was Friday the 13th and the victim had been brutally killed with an axe. The victim suffered over 40 stabs with a 3ft long axe and half of her face was missing.  Was it a gang? A serial killer? It definitely wasn’t the cute little housewife that makes taco salad, takes painting classes, and was headed for church that day - because that would be crazy.  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 2-year-old James goes missing at the mall his mom is quick to start her frantic search. Within seconds he had disappeared into the crowd.  When the police arrive and show her the CCTV footage everyone is relieved. James had been lured out of the mall by two 10-year-old boys. Thank god it’s not some creepy old man.  Nobody had any clue that these 10-year-olds were planning a murder.  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

What would you do if someone unfriended you on Facebook? You probably wouldn’t even notice. Maybe you confront them. Or maybe you sneak into their house and brutally murder them and their significant other…  How dare they unfriend you on Facebook? This case is filled with twists, delusions, social media drama, and so much cat-fishing that you start to believe there’s no way this is real.  But you know what they say - social media can be deadly 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 27 years he only spoke one word. “Hi.” For decades he lived without a mirror - he had forgotten what he had looked like.  He had no friends, no family, no pets, no emotional attachments - those were all cut off the day he disappeared.  When he is finally arrested after 27 years - the questions remain. Why did a 20-year-old walk into the woods and decide to disappear? Was he running from something? Does he know something we don’t? And what happens to someone who has no social contact for 27 years? Full Source Note: 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

Sharon - the high school student with straight A’s. She seemed perfect - but why does a 14-year-old have a closet full of lingerie and provocative clothes? Tonya - the mom who took a job as a dancer at a club. She was found dead on the side of the road. But why is her husband acting so strange? Sandra - the mom whose baby was kidnapped. But why are there rumors that Sandra sold her child? And how do these three individual stories collide into one big devious mess?  Full Source Notes Here: 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 rookie police officer was sent to the local middle school to give a lecture on how to be safe. Stranger Danger! But this town had nothing to worry about - it was a safe small town. The officer left happy with his work - he had no idea that one of the very kids sitting in his lecture would be kidnapped and murdered right after school. This case was unsolved in the FBI files for over 30 years… but would a woman’s phone call in 2020 finally catch the child killer? Full Source Notes Here: 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 4 teenage girls decided they wanted McDonald's for breakfast after their all-nighter. They carefully reverse parked into the lot so that all the bloody handprints on the back of their trunk would be hidden. They ordered a full breakfast - and one of the girls lifted up the sausage patty and giggled “doesn’t this look like Shanda?” The 12-year-old girl that they kidnapped? The one they tortured in unspeakable ways for the past 8 hours? The one that they just burned alive? Source: “Little Lost Angel” - by Michael Quinlan (I thought I knew this case but then I read this book. One of the best deep dives I’ve read in a while - you’ll be engaged the whole time)  Full Source Notes Here: 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 hottest clubs in New York City were run by Michael. He knew how to throw a party - serving cat food as appetizers, performances of women pulling Christmas lights out of - well, you know where.  A rotating wheel of 6 cow tongues for anyone to “rub” up against. This was the place to be.  But when rumors started circling that Michael had injected one of his friends with Drano and dismembered him in his bathtub… nobody believed it. Or maybe they didn’t want to? Because the party must go on.  Source: "Party Monster" by James St. James - wow... this book is a first-hand account of the whole scene, the environment, but also the crime. Really fantastic read that goes far more in-depth!  Full Source Notes Here: 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

You’ve booked a room in a nice hotel that everyone calls “The Castle.” You quickly realize things are not what it seems here.  Doors with spikes attached. Vaults filled with acid. Secret peepholes in the rooms. Staircases that start and stop out of nowhere.  You see the “elasticity machine” it’s supposed to stretch your body so you can be taller. The owner wants to create a new race of giants…  Everything feels so strange. Why the weird maze like layout? And who is H. H. Holmes? 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 hardworking FBI agent was on his way to a meeting when he noticed the large crack on the passenger window of his car. How is he going to explain that? He had a lie for the large wound on his hand. What about the deep scratches all over his neck? Surely he could come up with something.  Now the only thing left to take care of - was the decomposing body in his trunk.  Nothing an FBI agent can’t handle. 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

“What’s the last thing you ate?” the doctor asked.  All 16 of them responded the same - “human flesh.” A plane of 45 passengers had crashed into the side of a snow covered mountain in the Andes. Yes, it’s freezing, they were only wearing t-shirts, and many were wounded if not dead - but, they will be rescued soon.  That was what they put their faith in. But they were wrong. They wouldn’t be rescued for another 72 days and only 16 would get out alive.  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

Most people collect ordinary things - paintings, books, baseball cards. But what if you could collect your darkest desires? Two men decide they will collect women to be held captive in their torture bunker.  The men started gathering all their weapons of torture - power drills, clamps, gags, and pliers… the last thing they needed was a video camera. Because they were going to film it all.  The snuff film director, the collector, and the serial killer. 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 step into this Walgreens it feels like any other - aisles filled with cosmetics, household goods, and a pharmacy. The employees are kind but they’re harboring their own dark secrets.  The woman in cosmetics had inappropriate relations with a German Shepherd and her ex boyfriend refuses to get rid of the incriminating pictures. The store manager has a deadly liking for underage girls.  Another employee is plotting the murder of 3 people.  But is this really more sinister than your local Walgreens?  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

She died twice on that 12 story bridge.  The first time - she was thrown off the bridge by two men in hopes of killing her. This would be the only way their night of sick torture would stay secret.  The second time - 19 years later. The same bridge. The same spot. The same 120 feet fall.  Are the events connected? How does someone die twice? 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 with a briefcase entered the cockpit of Western Flight 701. The man tells the pilots there are 2 bombs on the plane and a grenade in his suitcase.  For 20 hours - a couple terrorized the entire flight in hopes of having their demands met. They wanted $3 million dollars in cash, 5 parachutes, a woman on trial for murder to be handed over to them, and a flight to Vietnam.  And for decades they got away with it - because the sky is the limit. Source: "The Skies Belong To Us" - by Brendan I. Koerner (honestly, one of my favorite books ever and this episode does not even come close to how thorough, entertaining, and gripping this book was. 10/10 must read)  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 family of 4 is startled awake by two masked men - they tell them that everything is going to be okay. We just want money - that’s all.  Slowly for the next 7 hours - it becomes clear that’s not all they want. The 11yr old daughter was assaulted. The mother was assaulted and strangled. The house engulfed in flames - all while the police were standing outside.  “A thief in the night. I’ve come to steal NOT your jewels and money. But your personal safety, privacy, and security. I violate your inner asylum of intimacy.” - Cheshire Home Invader / Killer. 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 knew something was different about their family. The sisters saw it. They had guests doing chores - completely nude - in the house. Guests being duct-taped to the walls. They had a man jumping from their roof onto his bare feet over and over again. Until his legs broke.  Even all this pain - was nothing compared to the humiliation and psychological torture taking place… what was really going on here? Who would finally tell? 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

Dear Mr. John Wayne Gacy…  That’s how it all started… One letter to the “Clown Killer” who was responsible for 33 murders of young boys - and Jason was hooked.  For months he developed relationships and even visited with John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard Ramirez, and Charles Manson. He wanted to get inside their heads - but what happens if they get inside his first? 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

Why do so many people go missing in National Parks? Alien conspiracy theory? Government experiments? Or just lost in nature?  In this case - it’s none of the above. It’s a serial killer that leaves a trail of bloodshed and a decapitated head bobbing in a stream in Yosemite.  Once they catch the killer that’s when the real mystery begins - wasn’t his little brother a national hero? Didn’t they make TV shows about this family?  How did one brother become America’s sweetheart and the other America’s heartless serial killer? 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 international panic on the fate of the missing British Airways flight attendant… and the crazy leads don’t make it any easier for police.  She was sold to the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia).  An adult film producer claims his colleague kidnapped her for producing a snuff film.  The police finally get their first good lead - they knock on the suspect’s door and open up a can of worms. Why is his dog frozen? What are all the videotapes? How many victims does he really have? *Please listen to Part 1 first (#61) 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 Japanese Hostess Club - purchase a table by the hour - female hostesses will come and sit with you the entire time. They pour your drinks, light your cigarette, flirt with you, and stroke your ego.  There’s an unspoken law that all the flirting - was nothing but a fantasy.  But when a British Airways flight attendant disappears while working at a hostess club - a question arises…  Was her abduction someone’s fantasy? 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