Entombed

In 2003, a grand and prestigious wedding was held in Tokyo, where the groom was said to be a member of a collateral branch of the imperial family. Or was he? After the wedding, the guests began to wonder where their cash gifts had actually gone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun Saito was a man in his thirties who still lived with his parents and was generally considered a harmless hikikomori. However, he had skeletons in his closet—almost literally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1948, Japan was going through a period of postwar reconstruction. That year, a strange bank robbery took place in Tokyo, in which 12 people died from poisoning. The alleged perpetrator was found and imprisoned, but was he really guilty? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kanae Kijima was an ordinary-looking woman who was seriously searching for a husband. She could cook well and knew how to please men, who easily fell in love with her. Unfortunately, Kijima’s motives for these relationships were deadly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mirna Salihin was a young Indonesian woman who met two friends at a café. However, drinking the coffee proved fatal for her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Naoko Takai was a 54-year-old unmarried and childless woman when she suddenly adopted an adult man. Even more surprising was that she was found dead in her home some time later. Was there a connection between these two events? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kim In-suk was 39 years old and expecting her first child. The situation was complicated by the fact that the child’s father already had a family with another woman. The lovers decided to run away together, but in the end, only Kim In-suk disappeared without a trace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Junko Sato was a 28-year-old Japanese tourist who vanished without a trace in Zermatt, Switzerland. The case has given rise to theories ranging from an accident to an abduction carried out by North Korea, but answers are still missing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hong Kong is a modern metropolis, but it is also home to nature and hiking trails. The area called Sai Kung is one of the hiking destinations, but strange stories also circulate about people disappearing into another dimension. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between 1968 and 1974, nine similar murder cases occurred in the Tokyo metropolitan area. A man named Etsuo Ono was accused of them, but he even gained his own support association and was eventually cleared of the charges. Why, however, was another similar murder still linked to him about twenty years later? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The four-member Miyazawa family was found murdered in their own home on the last day of the year 2000. The case remains one of Japan’s most well-known mysteries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EPISODE 100! This time, the topic is a case that took place in Yongso Valley, South Korea, where a man in his forties tragically drowned during a trip with his wife and friends. The man had an unusually large life insurance policy, and when the insurance company immediately refused to pay, his wife took the case to the media. In the end, this may not have been a very good idea for her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In an apartment in Pocheon, South Korea, a gruesome discovery was made in 2014: inside a plastic barrel were two heavily decomposed bodies. Who did the bodies belong to, and where was the apartment’s owner? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Noriko Ogawa was a 28-year-old introverted woman who still lived with her parents, and whose life mainly consisted of going to work and staying at home. So why did she suddenly disappear? It soon emerged that there was a side of her life her parents had never known about. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

33 men set out from the Chinese city of Rongcheng to fish for squid in the waters off Peru and Chile. Only 11 returned. What really happened? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mikhail Pichugin was on a boating trip with his brother Sergei and his nephew Ilya to watch whales on the Sea of Okhotsk when they met with an accident and were left drifting helplessly. Hope of finding the group had already been abandoned when, after 67 days, an unexpected turn of events occurred. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many people are familiar with the horror film Ring, which originally comes from Japan. Far fewer, however, know about the real-life individuals who inspired the film. In this slightly different episode, we delve into the stories of these women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chen Baolan and Chen Baozhen were sisters in their early twenties who had moved from China to Japan after graduating from high school. In 2017, however, they suddenly disappeared. At first, the police believed they had left voluntarily, but thanks to the persistence of their friend, something far darker was eventually uncovered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kang Jeong-suk was a middle-aged wife and mother who suddenly disappeared in 2002. The police believed she had left of her own free will, but her husband, Song Hyeon-seo, did not accept this explanation. It soon became clear that Kang was closer than anyone could have imagined. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the Japanese city of Suzuka lived a woman named Fujiko Yokoyama. She was 45 years old and married for the fifth time. Each of her husbands had been in his twenties, and the most recent one was a former classmate of her son. This final marriage, however, ended differently from the ones before. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shao Tong was only 19-year-old university student in the United States when her life ended tragically. Her boyfriend, Li Xiangnan, had just traveled to China, so the case soon became an intercontinental one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In November 1998, young journalist Noriko Tsujide left work late at night but never made it home. Her car was later found abandoned, with the driver’s seat positioned farther back than usual. Noriko herself had vanished without a trace, and even decades later, the mystery remains unsolved. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Park Jung-hyun was a successful manga editor with a loving wife and four children. Unusually for Japan, he was on parental leave and appeared to be the ideal family man. Beneath the surface, however, things were not as perfect as they seemed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Li Yinglei was a Chinese-born mother who set out on a Mediterranean cruise with her family in 2017, but she never arrived at the ship’s final port. Her husband claimed that she left of her own free will, yet many pieces of evidence suggested otherwise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kazuyoshi and Kazumi Miura were walking down a street in Los Angeles when a car stopped in front of them — and suddenly, shots were fired at them. Kazuyoshi escaped with minor injuries, but Kazumi eventually died from her wounds. This marked the beginning of a 27-year-long saga that ultimately left many questions unanswered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daisuke Maruyama, a member of the Nagano prefectural assembly, was interviewed on television on the anniversary of his wife’s death. When he said he hoped the killer would be punished, he couldn’t suppress a brief chuckle. Did he himself know more about the perpetrator? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

21-year-old Satoru Kobayashi was waiting for the last train of the evening at JR Ikebukuro Station when an argument with a drunken fellow passenger led to tragic consequences. The indifference of other people on the platform also shocked many. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Norio Nagayama was a Japanese serial killer who committed four murders in 1968 when he was only 19 years old. He claimed that poverty and the cruelty of society drove him to kill, but the court did not consider these as mitigating circumstances. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A young woman fell from the 9th floor of an apartment building in Busan, South Korea. Was it suicide, an accident, or perhaps murder? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A 23-year-old Japanese woman, Mariko Iguchi, went on a vacation to Taiwan but never returned. Her disappearance seemed to involve something supernatural — but the truth was eventually revealed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kyoto Animation is a well-known and beloved animation studio both in Japan and internationally. However, in 2019 it became the target of a devastating attack when one of its studios was set on fire. The incident claimed 36 lives and left 33 injured, making it one of the deadliest mass murders in Japan since World War II. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2020, in the U.S. college town of Auburn, a case that began with a dispute over a rented room escalated unexpectedly into murder. The people involved were Chinese residents living in the United States, which deeply shocked the local Chinese community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

19-year-old Yuki Endo had an obsession: his beautiful 17-year-old classmate Misaki Inoue. This obsession ultimately led to a brutal crime and landed Endo on death row despite his young age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chen Liren and Yu Xuanyi seemed like a happy married couple. Both worked as engineers at Google and lived together in Silicon Valley, California. However, things were not quite as they appeared, and their relationship ended tragically when Chen killed his wife. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The wedding of 21-year-old Hitomi Masuyama was just three weeks away when she suddenly disappeared. Only her car was found, defaced with insults. It still remains a mystery what happened to Hitomi. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2000, young manga artist Yōko Yoshida was found dead in her apartment in the Kōtō ward of Tokyo. Many questions still surround the case, and the police never uncovered the truth about what happened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

46-year-old Tadayuki Hara was a hardened criminal who shared popular streams on social media about his prison and crime experiences. However, he met a grim end in 2023, and the police had their hands full investigating his potential killers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province, a chilling case was uncovered in 2022 when a body was found in a young man’s home. The investigation revealed a web of lies, fraud, and murder, with the main suspect being a man who had presented himself as charming and charismatic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1980, two consecutive kidnapping-murder cases took place in Japan. In both cases, a woman had picked up the victims in a red sports car. The perpetrator eventually became the seventh woman in Japan to be sentenced to death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Saki Kondo was a young Japanese woman who was considered warm and open by nature. She spoke excellent English and enjoyed meeting foreigners. Unfortunately, one meeting with an American tourist proved fatal for her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The president of a Japanese restaurant chain, known as the “Gyoza King,” was found shot dead in 2013 in the parking lot of the company’s headquarters in Kyoto. Rain had nearly washed the crime scene clean, and there were no eyewitnesses. Who wanted the 72-year-old CEO dead – and why? The case appears to be linked, at least in part, to the Yakuza criminal organization. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

20-year-old Japanese student Yurika Masuno traveled to Romania through the AIESEC organization but disappeared shortly after arriving in the country. A few days later, she was found murdered. The case revealed a disturbing serial offender and serious negligence by both the authorities and the organization. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In July 2025, China’s online world was shaken when secretly recorded videos of a man dressed as a woman engaging in sexual encounters with other men began to spread. This "Sister Hong" was a 38-year-old man who, despite not being particularly attractive, claimed to have met with over 1,600 men. The case quickly sparked a wave of memes, and the phrase “Well, since we’re already here...” became especially popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2022, a murder case in Germany quickly became known as the "Doppelgänger Murder." A young woman was found dead in a car, and at first, she was believed to be the owner of the vehicle. However, the truth left even the police in disbelief. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A playful prank went terribly wrong in Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture in 2011. A young couple ended up buried headfirst in the sand—and in the end, no one was laughing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shin Chang-won is a man who committed crimes in South Korea during the 1990s and became famous for his prison escape and thefts. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor – at least sometimes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kaori and Yūsuke Mihashi’s marriage seemed perfect on the outside, but behind closed doors, deep conflicts simmered. When Yūsuke disappeared in December 2006 and body parts were found in Tokyo around the same time, a horrifying truth began to emerge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23-year-old Rurika Tojo vanished without a trace from a new apartment building in Tokyo’s Kōtō ward in 2008. The case became well-known in Japan because the disappearance initially seemed impossible—surveillance footage showed no outsiders entering or leaving the building. Eventually, it was revealed to be a murder connected to a neighbor's violent fantasies and incel worldview. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2022, in the peaceful town of Lacey, Washington, 42-year-old stay-at-home mom Young Sook An mysteriously disappeared — but the truth was quickly uncovered thanks to an Apple Watch. This episode tells the story of Young Sook’s resilience and her narrow escape from a killer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the spring of 1999, 21-year-old university student Shiori Ino became the target of increasingly severe harassment and threats from her ex-boyfriend. The authorities’ indifference allowed the situation to escalate, with tragic consequences. The case sparked widespread public debate in Japan about stalking and the lack of protection for victims. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.