PH Murder Stories

From time to time we make it our way to feature episodes with good outcomes. We know our podcast features true crime cases and accidents caused by humans or natural disasters, most of which did not have a happy ending, not that we expected it to be. However, we stumbled upon a story way back in 2010 at Dalaguete, Cebu, where a pine tree saved the lives of 32 people inside a bus that was about to f...

Before the country’s most disastrous ship-related tragedies, the MV Dona Paz incident. Seven years earlier, the tragic sinking of M/V Don Juan in April 1980 at the time was the most disastrous of such incidents in the Philippines. Negligence played a big role in this tragic accident, various avoidable instances were a factor such as overloading of passengers, and the vessel’s captain playing mahjo...

The West Philippine Sea is one of the most conflicted areas in the world, with various countries such as the Philippines, China, Vietnam, and others in the Asia Pacific claiming territorial rights in the disputed region. Given the heightened tensions between Manila and Beijing, we decided to look for incidents that fit our show’s genre.  We found one that happened in 2013 under the Aquino adm...

In the province of Negros Occidental, the bodies of 58-year-old Kevin Fleischauer, a former US Navy, and his Filipina wife, 60-year-old Lolly, were found inside a 20-feet deep well near their home after being missing for over two weeks.  Their fellow church members at Open Door Baptist Church had been worried about the couple after not hearing from them for over a week. With the help of autho...

The Philippines has its fair share of infamous tragedies linked to fires throughout its history. From the 1980s till the 2010s, there have been tragedies caused by fire every decade, which features cases with 70 or more casualties. These incidents are the infamous MV Doña Paz Tragedy in 1987 with 4,000 casualties, the Ozone Disco Fire in 1996 that killed 162 people, the Manor Hotel blaze in 2001 t...

Have you ever accidentally bumped into someone that quickly escalated into a physical confrontation? There have been various incidents in the past caused by accidental bumps in public places such as concerts, bars, malls, and other social gathering events that have been the reason for physical fights, and some have led to people killing one another. The victim in our episode for today, 28-year-old...

On a Saturday night last January 6, 2024, 45-year-old Ryan Ambrosio and 43-year-old Jennifer Ambrosio, a Filipino couple and parents of six children in Michigan, were on their way home from a date night.  As they were cruising through the Lodge Freeway near the Civic Center Drive in Southfield at around 1:30 am, a vehicle going the wrong way crashed into them, tragically leading to the demise...

As you probably heard, 35-year-old Jullebee Ranara, a Filipina who had to move to Kuwait to make ends meet and support her family as a domestic worker, was brutally killed in 2023. She was tortured, raped, and murdered. As if this grueling ordeal was not enough, Jullebee's heartless perpetrator even burnt her body, threw his victim in the desert, and ran her over with a vehicle. Based on a report...

There have been infamous crimes in the Philippines that have happened during the holiday season. A particular case that comes to mind is the heartless killing of mother-and-son Sonya and Frank Gregorio from Tarlac. Former policeman Jonel Nuezca had a verbal altercation with the Gregorios after the former policeman was arresting Frank for illegal possession of "Boga," an improvised noisemaker canno...

Violence in Philippine politics, especially in this modern era, has been a serious issue that has continued to hinder the country's path to political maturity, therefore raising more doubts about an ineffective justice system that is slow and, in other instances, can be bought by influential and powerful clans. However, the subject of our episode today involves a troubled medical professional...

Happy Halloween to all of you guys! It is the time of the year when most of us get to watch or listen to horror films, shows, and podcasts.  Indeed, there is a lot of content out there to consume, and chances are you have probably stumbled upon this podcast because it's Halloween Season. Let us tell you a horrific crime that happened in 2018. Some would say this is a lesser-known story, but to...

On March 11, 2019. Christine Silawan, a 16-year-old high school student, was found dead in a vacant lot in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu.  Half of her face was skinned to the skull, her body was stabbed twenty times, and she had signs of sexual assault.  The gruesome nature that Christine Silawan endured from her killer sparked nationwide outrage, which led to various groups urging the government to reinst...

We've seen that one iconic scene in horror movies before—the protagonist, either being chased or needing to hide, goes under their bed, trying their best to stay quiet as the killer roams around. Some survive, but some end up getting dragged away from under the bed... to their death. Fortunately for a Filipina nurse named Corazon Amurao, almost the exact scene happened to her in real life in 1966....

Richard Sta. Ana, a father and loving husband, sought justice for his wife, Pearl, and their son, Baby Denzel, after two assailants brutally killed them by mercilessly bludgeoning their heads at their residence in Sta. Rosa, Laguna. As the investigators looked for answers, they surprisingly found out that the person behind the gruesome murder was someone they already knew from the start who was ho...

Chop-chop body cases in the Philippines are one of the most discussed topics in true crime, especially here in the Philippines.  Most fans of our show would send us episode requests through DMs and polls urging us to cover more chop-chop body cases.  In fact, our episodes relating to body dismemberments, particularly the gruesome murders of Lyndon Masinsin in 2017 and Elsa Castillo in 1993, were a...

Air disasters are one of the most heartbreaking tragedies that will always catch our attention. Probably you've heard of numerous of these cases, such as the infamous 9/11 terrorist attack on the US World Trade Center, the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and many others. Such incidents make us wonder are there plane-related tragedies that have also happened in the Phi...

Our show usually features cases where the victim is already confirmed dead. While plenty of tragic cases still need to be told, a specific case caught our attention.  The incident happened on November 1, 2018, in Atimonan, Quezon, where the victim, Roger Herrero, a pedicab driver from the town of Agdangan, was falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit. Rogue policemen hunted down Roger, brin...

Baguio City is known for being the summer capital of the Philippines when thousands of visitors from the lowlands and Manila take their annual journey to the city to cool off. However, little did we know that one of the most gruesome crimes in the country's special summer getaway would happen on August 15, 2018. The body of 22-year-old Lindsay Valdez, a pawn shop cashier at 202 Cellfone Pawnsh...

On November 22, 2000, Salvador "Bubby" Dacer, a prominent publicist to politicians, met with then-President Joseph Estrada, who was in the midst of an impeachment trial. The meeting was said to be about patching things up. In context, Dacer was a former PR man of Estrada, but as soon as he left his post, he began criticizing the Estrada administration for alleged corruption. Two days aft...

On December 23, 2018, a woman's lifeless body, sealed with duct tape, was found wrapped in a black garbage bag inside a brown box in Baseco, Manila.  Based on a tip from a Grab driver who witnessed the dumping of her body, authorities immediately uncovered the two male foreigners that had something to do with the young woman's killing. The victim's name is Tomi Michelle Masters. She is...

On August 3, 1999, typhoon Olga wreaked havoc all over Southeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula. More than 160 lives were taken by the deadly typhoon in North and South Korea. According to reports, the typhoon brought one of the heaviest rains recorded in the Korean peninsula that cost $657 million in damages.  In the Philippines, the devastating storm caused one of the most catastrophic landslides...

The perpetrator in the hijacking of Philippine Airlines Flight 812 that happened on May 25, 2000, using the name “Augusto Lakandula” as his alias, committing one of the most bizarre hijacking incidents in history, as some would say the Filipino version of D.B. Cooper. For those who don’t know, D.B. Cooper is a criminal who, in 1971, hijacked a commercial plane traveling from Portland, Oregon, to S...

There have been various instances across the globe in which a person had predicted their eventual death.  A brief google search would show you that some notable celebrities and artists had also bizarrely predicted their demise, which in some cases were nerve-rackingly accurate. Sadly, you will find the name of the late comedian and activist Arvin "Tado" Jimenez on the list of famous indi...

On June 28, 2015, the body of Tania Camille Dee was found buried in a shallow grave wrapped in a blanket with a plastic bag over her head in the backyard of a house located at Sta. Maria Subdivision, Barangay Balibago, Angeles City, Pampanga. Autopsy reports indicate the suspect ruthlessly shot her in the back of the head. She was only 33 years old at the time of her gruesome death. Tania Camille...

The use and distribution of illegal substances have been an ongoing problem since drug cartels figured out how to grow their syndicates into multimillion-dollar empires. Drug syndicates thrive on their customers’ addiction caused by narcotics, which has become a very dangerous cycle that doesn’t seem to end. In a generation where rave parties have been a massive occurrence for social events, it is...