Rotten Mango
Rotten but still a little sweet! Rotten Mango is a true crime + all things spooky podcast. We love doing deep dives into the darkest crimes and we tend to not leave out any details - which can get a little rotten at times. If you want deep dives in the psychology of killers, no holding back storytelling of crimes, and stories of lesser known criminals from around the world this is the place for you. Welcome to Rotten Mango but don’t worry it all comes with a seasoning of comedy/sweetness.
Episodes
Oh Won is getting into his next at home project – everything is set up for success. He has a whole bottle of his favorite Chinese liquor. It’s stronger than Vodka, but he’s tossing it back like water.
His hand reaches for his phone as he feels the urge again. He’s on autopilot mode - staring at his screen, swiping, swiping… He presses play and puts his phone up against the bathroom sink. The woman’s moaning is just echoing off the...
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May 15, 2024 • 121 mins
The "3 Body Problem" was going to be Jeff Bezoz’s billion-dollar investment. The plan? Invest $1B into a new sci-fi series and watch the subscriptions to Amazon Prime Video flow in.
All they have to do is buy the English adaptation rights off from the Chinese gaming giant – Yoozoo Gaming. They own the film and TV rights to the “3 Body Problem Universe.”
The deal was close to being done – till CEO Lin Qi of Yoozoo walks into a confe...
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May 12, 2024 • 110 mins
There’s a boring red brick building in the middle of Yale University’s campus. If you walk past it you might think it’s an administrative office. It looks - boring.
But if you look closely - there are 75 CCTV cameras pointed directly at the building. Covering every square inch of the exterior. Why would they need so much security for a university building?
It is the Animal Research Laboratory. It houses over 4000 research mice and...
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He once controlled the entire economy of the country—to put it simply. The man in the restaurant security footage is an ex minister of Kazakstan, the third most powerful person in the entire country.
His name is Kuandyk Bishimbaev and his wife, Sultanat Nukenova, were supposed to be on a dinner date; instead the security cameras capture something else.
Around 7 in the morning, the ex minister grabs his wife by a fistful of her...
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May 5, 2024 • 49 mins
That was it. He was going to kill her.
Sato, a bachelor, a young man who still lived with his mother terrorized her within the walls of her own home.
Sure, she could still go out, enjoy her life, but Sato had control over the household in a way that made her feel suffocated.
Trapped.
Sato’s mother called the police on him the first time she felt that her life was truly in danger. She was sure he would kill her.
At least that wa...
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He melted onto the street.
He was 6 years old when he was walking down the street in South Korea. Someone walks up to him and pours sulfuric acid down his throat and all over his face. His clothes were burnt black. The floor had bits of melted flesh.
Third degree burns over most of his body - the boy had a 5% chance of survival.
He was rushed to the hospital where he told the officers that the man - “Mr. Kim” who owned the frie...
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A family TikToker that posts wholesome videos with his 8 kids goes viral in China. HIs account starts blowing up with followers and a journalist decides it’s an easy story. Wholesome Tiktoker, wholesome interview, an easy article.
But when he gets to the man’s house - he notices something very odd. A woman.
Hidden inside his shed.
Chained.
He quickly records the woman before the TikToker notices. He exposes the wholesome TikT...
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April 27, 2024 • 67 mins
The first thing they feel is how stiff the table is underneath them… it feels so cold. Then, they open their eyes, and see a masked man staring straight at them holding a scalpel.
The first instinct is to scream. To run.
But that would be silly. They paid thousands of dollars for this surgery.
Suddenly, their eyes start feeling heavy again. The room looks blurry and they start to feel like something heavy is sitting on their c...
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April 16, 2024 • 93 mins
The summer sleep away camp for youths is held on the Island of UTOYA every single summer. About 500 teenagers will gather on the wooded island.
They sleep in tents, have bonfires, and tell creepy stories while roasting marshmallows.
But when the kids start playing games - that’s usually when the fun starts. Card games, tag, hide and seek -
A group of 11 teenagers were lying down in the grass right off the “Lover’s Path.”
“Here lay...
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April 12, 2024 • 118 mins
There was an emergency at Terri’s daycare. This had never happened before. Ever.
She picked up the phone -
“Hi, uh - there’s been a family emergency. Please come pick your children up right away. Please hurry.”
The parents rush to pick up their children and they let out a sigh of relief when they see all the toddlers are in one piece. But something is wrong with Terri. She’s rushing them into their car seats and you can just tell...
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Ruth just wanted to tell her boyfriend the truth. It’s not like their relationship sucked - he was just fine? He was kind of smart? But he lacked ambition. He was just a taxi driver… and… well she did have another big secret she was hiding from him. It was finally time to come clean.
Bryan wasn’t expecting it to hurt this much. It was bad enough to hear the love of his life had betrayed him… but to have it happen so publicly?
Bryan...
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In the seat facing away from the camera, all they could see was the student’s back and her arms digging through whatever was in her lap. For several minutes, she stayed like this. Then she got up. Turned around. And looked straight into the lens of the CCTV camera in the corner.
She locked eyes and stayed like that. They felt a chill as they watched the footage. An icy stare. Frozen in place. Then she lifted up her hands and held ...
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March 28, 2024 • 100 mins
Teenage girls start rushing to the apartment building, jumping excitedly and shouting “Hey Lindemberg! Come to the window, I came here just to see you!”
“We like bad boys!” - it’s like a concert for a boy group celebrity.
But Lindemberg is a ticking time bomb. He’s hiding away from the window in the apartment.
The hollers, catcalls, hearing his name - ugh he can’t focus! He needs to focus right now.
He stretches his arm out the...
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Jolly’s whole family was dead. Well, almost all of them, but she never let that get her down. But this time, her friends noticed - something was very wrong with Jolly.
She seemed out of it at the small gathering.
Anytime someone tried talking to her - she would glance across the room. It seemed like she was waiting for someone to walk in.
“Don’t you want to marry someone like him?” - Jolly said.
Her friend looked at her like she...
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March 17, 2024 • 91 mins
Kenta's Tuesday morning routine was always the same — a 5 a.m. breakfast of rice, miso soup, and salted salmon, followed by his walk to work at Tomogaoka Middle School, where he greeted students at the blue gates every morning.
But today was different.
Kenta took the same route as always — turned the same corner — and dropped his briefcase onto the ground. His hand flew to his mouth. Maybe he let out a scream, maybe he didn’t – and...
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Timothy, a film director, had a new script land on his desk. The movie was in its final screenwriting stages and it just needed his final approval.
They had been working to turn Alice Sebold, the famed author of “The Lovely Bones,” they were working on turning her memoir into a movie. Her memoir was about her real life assault in college and her fight to send her violent attacker to prison.
But the more Timothy read - the more he ...
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March 10, 2024 • 107 mins
15-year-old Eddie comes home from his jog – changes out of his soiled clothes – and starts googling on his computer:
HOW TO COMBAT ANXIETY.
He’s waiting for a text message from the girl he likes - but it’s not her.
It’s a former classmate of his – Scarlet. The message reads.
“My brother just told me not to go to Linear Park because a woman got stabbed there.”
Eddie replies: “Jesus – really?”
She responds: “Yeah, they say it’s...
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All the police could do was watch the livestream - the camera was set up in a motel room. They could see in the video the girl was helplessly crying as she was assaulted by a man.
One by one - more men showed up to the motel room to assault her.
They all stood in line in the order that they came - waiting for their turns. The victim would be found dead soon after. When news broke in the livestream chatrooms that she died - the com...
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The SBS news producers sat around a laptop in the conference room. They replayed the video of a girl with a bag over her head and a red string tied around her.
She says:
“I am The Doctor’s slave. I will light myself on fire in a few days in front of the SBS headquarters if they air the episode on The Doctor’s Room.”
The producers call the police who secured the headquarters but they needed to find out who the girl is. They need to ...
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February 29, 2024 • 109 mins
Eunhee was an A list actress and had always had star treatment but this was a whole new level. She had a guarded mansion and millions of dollars at her disposal.
Every evening, platters of shrimp, lobster, sushi, delicacies shipped in from all over the world filled an entire banquet table. It was all just for her.
Every morning, a new gift was delivered for her downstairs, a fur coat, lacy lingerie, or beautiful gowns. She added th...
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