The upcoming 2025 midterm elections are near, which means the future of our leaders will be based on our votes this coming May.  Through the years, there have been various incidents or initiatives from well-known or infamous politicians that broke or paved the way for their careers in public service. On April 23, 2012, a supposedly peaceful dismantling of a wet market quickly escalated into violence, resulting in one death and 40 injured people after the informal settlers of the Silverio Compound, fearing that they would lose their homes, confronted the police along Sucat Road in Paraña ..read more

Sagay City, located in the northern part of the province of Negros Occidental, is a significant hub for agriculture resources, where its local community is deeply connected.  Historically, Sagay has been a major player in the sugar industry, which is a significant economic driver in the province. However, despite economic gains from the sugar plantations in Sagay, most of its farmers and plantation workers are being treated poorly by greedy land owners and land grabbers, some of which are influential and are supported by some local politicians or possibly even nationwide-elected leaders ..read more

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 fall off a cliff.  This story was so amazing that we really need to go out of our way from our usual stories to cover this one for our listeners. CONNECT WITH US ▸ https://linktr.ee/phmurdersto ..read more

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 mahjong moments before the accident causing the lives of 176 people and hundreds of missing people.  At the time, little that our elders knew that the tragedy that happened to M/V Don Juan would be ..read more

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 administration. On May 9, 2013, a 65-year-old Taiwanese Fisherman named Huang Shih-Cheng, who was aboard a fishing boat, was shot dead by members of the Philippine Coast Guard aboard a surveillance sh ..read more

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 authorities, they were led to a well that was emitting a strong, foul odor. As they initially suspected, the authorities found the bodies of Kevin and Lolly Fleischauer in the well.  Upon inspectio ..read more

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 overseas Filipino worker and cruise ship photographer Gino Basas, was killed in a bar in Tomas Morato, Quezon City, after bumping into a male college student with toxic masculinity issues.  B ..read more

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 of Ryan and Jen. The culprit, 35-year-old Angel Melendez-Ortiz, was evading police at the time. In order to lose them, he decided to drive on the wrong side of the freeway with the headlights of hi ..read more

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 from Vice World News, there are over 268,000 Filipinos currently working in Kuwait, most of which consist of domestic workers.  The Kafala system governs migrant workers in Kuwait, and various ..read more

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 cannon. Sonya, his mother, came to her son's aid, and the altercation with Nuezca promptly escalated. Nuezca ended up shooting both victims, and it became one of the most infamous crimes in 2020. Three ..read more