Sampoong Mall Disaster

Oh Hwi-woong was executed for the 1974 murders of Jeong Si-hwa and his two young children despite a complete lack of physical evidence linking him to the crime scene. Despite having an alibi, he was found guilty. Decades later, even the presiding judge would be haunted by lifelon ...  Show more

17-year-old Han In-taek dialed 112 to contact the police in a desperate attempt to save his life. The call lasted 20 seconds before In-taek went silent. The recording of the emergency call would begin a chain reaction of coerced confessions and a contaminated witness testimony. W ...  Show more

A shocking murder rocks South Korea when a young woman, obsessed with true crime stories, kills a random stranger to satisfy her darkest curiosity. But how can fascination with real-life murder cases spiral into deadly actions? Are true crime podcasts and shows fueling dangerous ...  Show more

On 8 Jan 2002, a security guard doing the rounds at Orchard Towers would stumble upon a peculiar sight at the carpark: a silver Daewoo Chairman that had been at the same spot for the past four days. Upon closer inspection, he would pick up on a foul odour emanating from the ve ...

Send us Fan MailOur story today centers around Japan’s bizarre and murderous doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, aka the Aum Cult. Members went on to commit one of Japan’s largest mass killings in modern history when they released nerve gas on a Tokyo subway system in 1995. Later it was ...  Show more

On 8 June 2008, the crossing of Kanda Myojin-dori and Chuo-dori in Akihabara, Tokyo, was bustling with the usual weekend throng of shoppers and tourists. However, chaos would soon break out as a van drove straight into the crowd, before the driver stepped out with a knife; in ...