She watched true crime documentaries, she borrowed true crime books. Twenty-three-year-old Jung Yoo Jung was obsessed with murder...

Then, she stabbed her victim a hundred and ten times...

The police said she did this "out of curiosity". They said that she wanted to know what murder was like... 

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Heather Mack was a nineteen-year-old American heiress. She was a trust fund baby slated to inherit 1.56 million dollars. 

Was the money the reason she killed her mother? The mother and daughter had a tenuous relationship - arguments, police visits, and abortions... 

Sheila Von Wiese-Mack was bludgeoned in a St Regis hotel room, before being stuffed in a suitcase and abandoned in the trunk of a taxi...

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Cheng Jianan and Li Chiming were in their early twenties, taking a luxurious holiday in Bali. They were expecting five-star hotels, refreshing beers, rest, and relaxation. 

Instead, tragedy found them. Jianan was found dead in the bathtub, while Chiming had crawled for 20 minutes in the hotel corridor before bleeding out...

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Sagarika Chakraborty was far away from home. She had moved to Norway with her husband. Her husband, Anurup Bhattacharya, worked long days. 

She did not speak the language, she had few friends, and even fewer allies in the city of Stavanger.  

What could she do when it was decided that she was an unfit mother, that they were unsuitable parents? What would she do to get her two young children back?

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Jennifer Laude was just 26 years old. It was 11th October 2014, a Saturday night. 

She started her evening at the Ambyanz disco bar in Olongapo, Philippines. Then, she left for the Celzone lodge with 19-year-old American Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton. 

She would never go home. 

Jennifer would be killed in the motel room, drowned face-first in the toilet...

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Le Thanh Van left behind a trail of death. There were former employers, friends, and even her husband's family...

She was Vietnam's first modern serial killer, taking more than a dozen lives...

How did she elude capture for so long, leaving authorities baffled? And what motivated her to commit such chilling crimes; or did she just fall into the habit of killing?

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Piang Ngaih Don had been beaten daily, burned with a hot iron, starved, and deprived of sleep. When she died, she weighed 24kg. She had lost 38 percent of her body weight. 

Her abuser wasn't a gangster or a thug, but still certainly a cold-blooded killer. Her abuser was a middle-aged murderer, married to a policeman.

Her murderer, Gaiyathiri Murugayan, was documented on CCTV abusing her in front of her young children...

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I can't believe we're a hundred episodes in! Michelle and I have a great time recapping three of the most listened cases of the podcast:

1. The Yishun Triple Murder 
2. India's Bandit Queen - Phoolan Devi 
3. The Murder of Abby Choi

We also have a quick Q&A answering questions from Instagram. Who is Teddy? Which cases intrigue me? Why did I start this podcast...?

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Jessica Wongso and Wayan Mirna Salihin were as thick as thieves. Both wealthy, beautiful Indonesians studying in the Billy Blue College of design in Sydney. 

But life after college couldn't have been more different for each of them. Jessica had a tumultuous relationship with her Australian boyfriend; drunk driving, car crashes, and suicide attempts. Mirna married her boyfriend of eight years, Arief Soemarko, in the tropical paradise of Bali. 

When Jessica visits Jakarta, the friends meet. But how did the happy reunion end in tragedy...?

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Javed Iqbal was a middle-aged monster. And one by one, the boys in the market square slowly disappeared. Why didn't anyone notice? Why didn't anyone care?

The vats of acid were cheap, he bragged. Each vat of hydrochloric acid cost him 120 rupees, only about $2 dollars or so.

He could have killed so many more if he wanted to. And the thing is, I don't doubt it...

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