PH Murder Stories

High school sweethearts are couples that tend to be the strongest and happiest partners. Unfortunately for Maya's case, her long-lasting relationship with her husband had become toxic up to a point where she became missing up to this date. Maya was last seen by her family at around 5 p.m. on January 7, 2021, at her residence on Paseo Los Gatos in Chula Vista, San Diego, California. Based on numero...

Chop-chop lady cases in the Philippines have been among the most infamous incidents that caused public outrage in almost every decade since the first-ever chop-chop lady case happened to Lucila Lalu in the 1960s, which was never solved. Lucila was the first to fall victim to this kind of gruesome killing; however, she would not be the last. In the early 1990s, another chop-chop lady case would sho...

At midnight of July 18, 2002, a 32-year-old British businessman was found murdered at his apartment in Makati City, Metro Manila. For years, the case would go unsolved, while his mother battled to piece together the clues to his death. Exhausting every ounce of time, effort, and money she had, her life became consumed in trying to figure out who had killed her son. WEBSITE ▸ https://phmurderstorie...

On April 28, 1949, a former first lady of the Philippines was traveling to her husband's hometown for the Quezon Memorial Hospital's inauguration in Baler.  Unfortunately, a group of armed men blocked the 13-vehicle convoy along a mountainous road in the province of Nueva Ecija.  A group of 100 to 200 perpetrators fired at a Buick sedan containing Aurora Quezon; her daughter, Baby; her s...

On July 10, 2001, a Filipino family of three was found murdered inside their residence in North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. Initial reports suggest that the crime was racially motivated. However, further investigations say otherwise and their findings would later on shock the entire country that was almost fooled by the killer. The case was already complicated from the very start, as they ha...

On March 18, 1996, 162 people, mostly teenagers and young adults celebrating the end of the school year, were killed in a blaze that was supposed to be a party but turned out to be a tragedy. Ninety-three others were severely injured. That Monday night twisted a night full of fun into a night of inferno, being one of the worst fire incidents in the country and the seventh-worst fire incident in th...

In 2007, a young mother fighting for custody of her two daughters suddenly disappeared. Two years later, she was found cemented inside a drum dumped in the waters of Navotas City, Metro Manila, after a valid testimony of a disgruntled witness, who later on recanted his story and became missing up to this date. More than a decade later, her family is still seeking justice despite the overwhelming m...

In January 1977, Primitivo “Tibo” Mijares, a journalist and former chief propagandist of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, suddenly disappeared. Tibo left the Marcos regime in 1974 and went to the United States, where he had issued a defection statement, vowing to tell the lies and atrocities that the Marcoses had done during his time of service. From 1974 to 1977, the former Marcos confidant ma...

On the evening of February 21, 1977, the Chicago Fire Department made a gruesome discovery after putting out a fire in an apartment downtown.  A Filipino woman named Teresita Basa was found naked under a burning mattress with a knife plunged deep into her chest.  In a bizarre turn of events, there were reports that Teresita’s spirit possessed a female colleague, which helped solve her mu...

One of the most gruesome murders towards an overseas Filipino worker happened in 2016 when authorities from Kuwait discovered the body of a missing Filipina placed in a freezer at an abandoned apartment. The gruesome discovery of her remains sent shockwaves across the overseas Filipino community. It caused public outrage back in the Philippines.  Joanna Daniela Demafelis was a 29-year-old OFW...

On May 11, 2021, 20-year-old British-Filipina Caroline Crouch was found dead in the attic of her own home in Glyka Nera, Greece, after her husband, 33-year-old Babis Anagnostopoulos, initially claimed that three men barged inside their home, tied him up, tortured, and killed his wife in front of their 11-month-old baby girl named Lydia, and stole £30,000 British pounds worth of cash and jewelry. T...

Season 2 of PH Murder Stories is out now! And we partnered with Podcast Network Asia to provide more quality episodes for you guys! Like most people, we get fascinated by how the mind of a killer works, why a particular person got murdered, and when they will catch the suspect. PH Murder Stories is a podcast that intends to provide quality content and thorough research about murder and related inf...

On May 31, 2002, a supposedly typical day at the Philtranco Pasay City Bus Terminal turned wicked when a drug-crazed man named Diomedes Talbo suddenly grabbed Dexter Balala, a four-year-old boy, and held him, hostage, with a 10-inch double-bladed knife pointed to his neck. Coming from a two-week vacation in the province of Camarines Sur, the young boy was about to ride a bus with his mother, Salva...

We would like to thank Mr. Ben Hernandez for sharing with us the story behind his father's gruesome killing in 1994. Kuya Ben messaged us on Instagram last February 2021 and told us about the revelations he recently learned about his father's killing after reconnecting with his relatives in 2019. For more than two decades, Kuya Ben did not know much about his father's case. He only knew back then...

On July 10, 2000, a mountain of rain-loosed garbage collapsed and turned into flames, burying a housing site in Barangay Payatas in Quezon City. The incident caused the death of as many as one thousand individuals and the destruction of about a hundred houses.  According to official records, around 260 deaths were reported, and around 300 persons were missing, while 655 families were rendered...

Shoutout to Ms. Vera Shaina Placides for reaching out to us through Instagram and our Facebook Group, PH Murder Stories: The Verdict. Thank you for suggesting this case and supporting our podcast! On January 7, 2020, an alleged high-value drug dealer from Spain, and a surfer residing on the island of Siargao, was killed by authorities at his home amid an illegal drugs operation. The police claimed...

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In 2001, a Filipino-American actress was found dead with her skull bashed on the third floor of a 24-story apartment building. According to initial reports, she committed suicide by jumping from her penthouse on the 23rd floor of the Platinum 2000 apartment building along Annapolis Street in Greenhills, San Juan City. The victim's house-helper, who found the lifeless body, had revealed vital infor...

The Olongapo Regional Trial Court Branch 74 convicted US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton guilty of homicide. He was sentenced to six to 12 years imprisonment, but the camp of slain transgender woman Jennifer Laude took it as a “bittersweet” ruling. The court ruled that the killing of Laude amounted only to homicide and did not meet the standards for murder because Pemberton acted out...

On October 12, 2014, a transgender woman was found naked and beaten to death on a restroom floor in a motel located in Olongapo City. Witnesses saw another transgender person accompany the victim, and a white male foreigner entered the Calzone Lodge the night before the body was found. Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude was a 26-year-old transgender woman who went under the nickname "Ganda," which means bea...

As PH Murder Stories dig deeper on the truths that matter on this case, we found a 2016 Rappler article as the latest reference of updates. In the said news report entitled “12 years on, still no justice for Hacienda Luisita massacre victims”, no trial has brought the victims justice as of the date of the writing. In 2010, at the helm of President Corazon's only son, President Benigno Aquino III,...

Last November 16, 2004, 14 people were killed in a bloody protest in Hacienda Luisita, including two children aged 2 and 5 who died from suffocation from teargas thrown by police and army dispersal teams. After being wounded, one of the victims was reportedly strangled and his dead body hanging at the factory's gate. At least 35 people have been confirmed to have suffered gunshot wounds, 133 have...

A handful of legislators opened an inquiry into Espinosa’s death in Manila. Jovie attended. It ended inconclusively days later. As Jovie left the hall, he received a call from a PNP director. “Jovie,” the voice crackled. “I will assign you to Ozamiz.” On December 8, 2016, Chief Inspector Jovie Espenido announced his transfer to Ozamiz City. In a text message, Espenido said, “Please kindly include...

Juan Luna's colorful life may have reached all textbooks, especially for his roles as an illustrator, propagandist against the Spaniards, and one of the most renowned painters in the Philippines. However, little did you know that Juan Luna had a dark past involving the murder of his wife and mother-in-law. This episode is in collaboration with Just Another Podcast with Mik. Subscribe to Bianca Mik...

In this episode, we will tackle the Philippine government's poster-boy, Chief Inspector Jovie Espenido, during the controversial war on drugs campaign and his participation that led to politicians and their family members' deaths linked to the illegal drug distribution in their areas. WEBSITE ▸ https://phmurderstories.com PODCAST ▸ Spotify — https://spoti.fi/3iz2YI3 ▸ Apple — https://apple.co/2Gma...