Who Killed Haing Ngor?
The FBI ruled the 1996 murder of Haing Ngor a robbery gone awry. This podcast will examine some of the lingering questions surrounding the case.We invite listeners to contact us with tips about the case, or to arrange to share any personal memories of Dr. Ngor.Who knows? We may just discover something new.
Episodes
August 1, 2023 • 18 mins
Art, it’s been widely said, imitates life. But there are also moments when it changes it.
The impact of “The Killing Fields” was so profound, that some credit it with helping launch Cambodia’s peace plan, ending decades of civil war.
This is the second episode of a two-parter, in which I talk with journalist Jon Swain and photographer Roland Neveu. Along with Ngor, they share the distinction of having been the only people on t...
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July 26, 2023 • 20 mins
The first of two episodes covering my conversations with Jon Swain, of the Sunday Times, and photographer Roland Neveu. We take a look a closer look at Dith Pran, a so-called "fixer" for New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg, whose courage and heroism is what "The Killing Fields" is about.
Both Swain and Neveu covered the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge in 1975 and went on to be involved in the film, “The Killing Fi...
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July 5, 2023 • 18 mins
This week I’m talking with Dorothy Chow, the producer of the “Death in Cambodia” podcast. In it, she interviews her father, Robert Chau about his experience as a teenager escaping the Khmer Rouge.
That’s relatively rare. Many survivors are reluctant to talk about their unresolved trauma. That trauma - and the intergenerational trauma they’ve handed down to their children - are linked to the conspiracy theories surrounding the...
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June 26, 2023 • 18 mins
here’s an enduring conspiracy theory about the murder of Haing Ngor. Many believe that the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot had him killed. That suggests that Pol Pot’s power stretched from the jungles of Cambodia to the streets of Los Angeles.
The person probably most responsible for fueling that conspiracy? It was Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Comrade Duch.He the top executioner for the Khmer Rouge.
That Pol Pot killed Haing Ngor...
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June 21, 2023 • 19 mins
A conversation with Nic Dunlop, the man who found and “wrote the book” on Kaing Guek Euv, better known as Comrade Duch.
He was the infamous head of S-21 - better known as Tuol Sleng - the Khmer Rouge prison and torture center.
Duch is the one who claimed Pol Pot ordered the murder of Haing Ngor - a conspiracy theory we dismiss.
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June 2, 2023 • 19 mins
I have to admit: from the moment I decided to launch this podcast about the murder of Haing Ngor, I knew I had to interview Sam Rainsy.
When I was reporting from Cambodia in the 1990’s, Sam Rainsy was seen as a bright and shining star. He was a democracy activist, who had worked in finance in Paris – so he had his own money, and was seen as uncorruptible. He became Cambodia’s Finance Minister.
Rainsy was also an absolute darling ...
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May 26, 2023 • 17 mins
Haing Ngor returns to Cambodia's "Wild West" in the 1990's to run his foundation. But he soon find himself mired in a dispute with a Canadian-run orphanage, that drains his finances and impacts his ability to work. At the same time? He's shopping a screenplay.
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May 11, 2023 • 20 mins
The last installment of our look Tim Page and Marianne Harris's quest to resolve the fate of missing journalists Sean Flynn and Dana Stone. Tim Page had competition in his search, in the form of military veteran and investigator, Zalin Grant. It’s a tale of rabbit holes within rabbit holes — and here are more of them.
Part Three of Three.
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May 9, 2023 • 16 mins
A look at the extraordinary casualty rate of the press corps in Cambodia in the 1970’s, including the disappearance of Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, and Tim Page’s quest to resolve their fate. It’s a tale of rabbit holes within rabbit holes — such as the mutiny on the Columbia Eagle, a US Merchant Marine vessel delivering napalm to Vietnam.
Part Two of Three.
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May 5, 2023 • 13 mins
"The Killing Fields" is one of the top "journo" movies ever made, because it shows how frightening and confusing it is to work in a war-zone. In fact, Cambodia in the 1970's had an extraordinary casualty rate among the press.
What happened to the journalists who just disappeared, like Sean Flynn and Dana Stone? We take a look at “gonzo” photographer Tim Page’s quest to resolve their fate. It's a story of rabbit-holes within rab...
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April 4, 2023 • 23 mins
A look at how too often, former child refugees from Cambodia are forced to join gangs to survive in the US. If they commit a felony? Then, they may get deported back to Cambodia - a country they only know through the traumatic memories of the previous generation.
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March 13, 2023 • 16 mins
My interview with friend and veteran aid-worker Andy Pendleton, about working on the Thai-Cambodian border amid the Vietnamese invasion and Cambodia's civil war in the 1980s, and how he came to know Haing Ngor.
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February 22, 2023 • 8 mins
An Introduction to Who Killed Haing Ngor?
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