KRIMINAL: A crime podcast | By Jairo Bolledo
35 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -The crime scene is just the beginning. We tell you the full story. Listen to Rappler’s crime podcast hosted by police beat reporter Jairo Bolledo
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Episode 35: Model killed, dismembered by ex-husband, ex-in-laws
June 01, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBIn this episode of Kriminal – now a true crime podcast – Rappler crime reporter Jairo Bolledo discusses Abby Choi's case, including the full details of her death. A segment in this episode was produced by the BrandRap team in partnership with Prime Video. Here, Armand Dela Cruz and Giselle Barrientos talk about the thrilling crime fiction series, Cattleya Killer. Set decades after the ‘90s film “Sa Aking Mga Kamay,” we follow the story of Anton dela Rosa who is chasing after a serial killer...
Episode 34: The missing sabungeros case
February 26, 2023 11:49 - 6 minutes - 5.58 MBIn this episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler crime reporter Jairo Bolledo discusses the case of missing sabungeros and the authorities' efforts to solve the disappearances
Episode 33: The first Filipino serial killer
January 29, 2023 07:31 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBIn this episode of Kriminal – now a true crime podcast – Rappler crime reporter Jairo Bolledo discusses the Philippines' first documented serial killer that dates all the way back to the Spanish colonial rule.
Episode 32: From drug suspect to pastor
January 26, 2023 07:33 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBOne man in Antipolo City, Rizal, proved that drug offenders can change and bring reforms to his community. Dieg Teopaco, a former drug suspect, holdupper, and gang member underwent rehabilitation to improve his life. In this episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler’s crime and justice reporter Jairo Bolledo talks to Pastor Dieg about his inspiring story.
Episode 29: Nightmare inside schools
November 28, 2022 16:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBSchools are considered as safe space for children and young adults. But this notion of schools was challenged when reports of alleged sexual abuse in various schools surfaced. In this episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler reporter Jairo Bolledo talks to lawyer Clara Rita Padilla, founder and executive director of EnGendeRights, to further understand the nightmares inside schools that haunt the students.
Episode 31: Percy Lapid case – Why are prisoners being used for crimes?
November 12, 2022 11:04 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode of Kriminal, Rappler's crime and justice reporter Jairo Bolledo talks to prisons expert and Southern Illinois University Carbondale criminology professor Raymund Narag to explain why PDLs are being involved in crimes.
Episode 30: Surviving hostage-taking, what's next for De Lima?
October 15, 2022 11:44 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBIn this episode of Kriminal, Rappler reporter Jairo Bolledo talks to lawyer Boni Tacardon, De Lima's legal counsel, to talk about De Lima's future plans
Episode 28: Truths my father told me about Martial Law
September 17, 2022 11:26 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBIn this special episode of Kriminal, Rappler reporter Jairo Bolledo talks to Kris Lanot Lacaba, son of Martial Law survivor Pete Lacaba. Kris shares the realities his father told him about the tyrannical rule of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Episode 27: Kian delos Santos, buried but not forgotten
September 03, 2022 09:46 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBIn this new edition of KRIMINAL podcast, Rappler’s Jairo Bolledo sits down with Randy delos Santos, Kian's uncle, to talk about their family's plights years after they lost Kian.
Episode 26: Regrets from creating the drug war
July 09, 2021 09:46 - 25 minutes - 47.2 MBFormer police chief Camilo Cascolan tells Kriminal what he wishes had been done differently in President Rodrigo Duterte's 'drug war'
Episode 25: The making of Duterte's drug war
June 30, 2021 03:40 - 24 minutes - 44.5 MBIn this episode, Rappler's Rambo Talabong speaks with former police chief and Office of the President Undersecretary Camilo Cascolan – one of the men behind Command Memorandum Circular 2016-16, more popularly known as Oplan Double Barrel. Did they do anything to stop the killings?
Episode 24: Blessing the drug war's dead
June 17, 2021 12:39 - 45 minutes - 85.2 MBRappler's Rambo Talabong sits down with Father Flavie Villanueva of the Society of the Divine Word. Villanueva is one of the religious leaders who stand at the frontlines in the anti-drug campaign. He has lost count of the dead he has blessed.
Episode 23: Is new PNP chief Eleazar any different?
May 30, 2021 11:25 - 32 minutes - 61.4 MBHow is General Guillermo Eleazar any different from his predecessors? In this episode, Rappler's Rambo Talabong sits down with veteran police reporter Dave Veridiano to ask him about Eleazar's potential as the country's new top cop
Episode 22: When police block the media
May 21, 2021 09:36 - 35 minutes - 66.3 MBOn Friday, May 14, the Central Visayas Regional Police Office blocked Rappler Cebu correspondent Lorraine Ecarma from covering the release of detained Lumad children and their teachers. What do we do when the police block us from covering? Listen to the latest episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler's crime podcast
Episode 21: Living with a red tag in the Philippines
May 14, 2021 12:40 - 34 minutes - 26.3 MBIn this episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler’s crime podcast, reporter Rambo Talabong sits down with former Bayan Muna representative Teddy Casiño on what it is like to live with a red tag
Episode 20: The secret jail cell in Manila
April 27, 2021 01:13 - 48 minutes - 37.6 MBKRIMINAL speaks with Commission on Human Rights investigators who exposed the secret jail cell in Manila.
Episode 19: What does the CHR do?
April 21, 2021 02:55 - 56 minutes - 42.5 MBPresident Rodrigo Duterte's term has been marked by numerous allegations of human rights violations. Amid the accusations of abuse is the institution tasked to monitor and work to prevent all of them from happening again: the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). In this episode, Rambo Talabong sits down with CHR Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit to discuss how the CHR works.
Episode 18: Death by exercise
April 13, 2021 07:49 - 25 minutes - 19.3 MBDarren Peñaredondo dies after police force him to do exercises. He was only out to get water. Listen to KRIMINAL, Rappler's crime podcast hosted by Rambo Talabong.
Episode 17: The Lumad arrests in Cebu
April 05, 2021 11:13 - 28 minutes - 52.1 MBOver a month has passed since Cebu police barged into the University of San Carlos - Talamban campus in what they described was a "rescue operation." Was it really a rescue operation? In this episode, Rappler's Rambo Talabong speaks with Visayas correspondent Lorraine Ecarma on the Lumad arrests in Cebu.
Episode 16: Blood in Calabarzon
March 30, 2021 15:23 - 36 minutes - 27.7 MBMarch 2021 opens and closes with the killings of activists in the Calabarzon region. In this episode, Rappler reporter Rambo Talabong speaks with Rappler human rights reporter Jodesz Gavilan on activism and crackdown in the region.
Episode 15: The PNP and PDEA's trust problem
March 08, 2021 02:14 - 38 minutes - 71.9 MBHow does coordination between PNP and PDEA work? In this episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler's police reporter Rambo Talabong sits down with retired police general and Dangerous Drugs Board chairman Catalino Cuy to discuss the relationship of the two agencies.
Episode 14: Fixing the Philippine medico-legal system
February 12, 2021 10:31 - 27 minutes - 50.2 MBHow can we prevent another botched investigation like in Christine Dacera's death? Listen to this episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler's crime podcast, where police reporter Rambo Talabong speaks with law group ImagineLaw executive director Sophia San Luis.
Episode 13: How government intelligence works
January 28, 2021 12:41 - 31 minutes - 59 MBIn this episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler's police reporter Rambo Talabong speaks with former national security adviser and National Intelligence Coordinating Agency chief Cesar Garcia.
Episode 12: Why Filipinos should care about the UP-DND accord
January 20, 2021 05:19 - 21 minutes - 40.3 MBThe impact of the Duterte government ending the UP-DND accord goes beyond university campuses. In this episode, Rappler police reporter Rambo Talabong speaks with youth organizer Raoul Manuel of the Youth Act Now Against Tyranny to talk about the impacts of the government's abrogation beyond UP's campuses.
Episode 11: How police ruined the Dacera case
January 10, 2021 12:13 - 14 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler police reporter Rambo Talabong talks about how police botched its probe in the case of Christine Angelica Dacera, the flight attendant who was found unresponsive in a Makati hotel’s bathtub on New Year’s Day 2021.
Episode 10: Don’t trust Duterte’s drug war numbers
January 06, 2021 06:09 - 16 minutes - 30.6 MBFor the 10th episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler’s crime podcast, Rappler’s police reporter, Rambo Talabong, discusses why the numbers released by the government should not be trusted, and how it is seeking to distort reality on the ground.
Episode 9: The PNP's human rights office
December 10, 2020 09:57 - 42 minutes - 79.1 MBRappler's police reporter Rambo Talabong sits down with the Philippine National Police's Human Rights Affairs Office's acting chief Colonel Vincent Calanoga to discuss the office's history, its achievements, and why their office is being slammed for doing too little.
Episode 8: Covering Debold Sinas
November 13, 2020 13:03 - 44 minutes - 82 MBDebold Sinas is much more than the mañanita issue. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the controversial general.
Episode 7: Red October – Duterte's biggest red-tagging spree
October 31, 2020 11:27 - 18 minutes - 35.4 MBIn the latest episode of KRIMINAL, Rappler's crime podcast, we revisit the history of red-tagging and how it has been used by different administrations to stifle legitimate dissent.
Episode 6: The killing that stopped the drug war
October 18, 2020 06:08 - 16 minutes - 30.5 MBIn this episode, Rappler's police reporter, Rambo Talabong revisits the story of Jee Ick Joo and breaks down the latest on the case that remains unsolved 4 years later.
Episode 5: When an EJK victim plays dead
October 05, 2020 04:53 - 11 minutes - 22.3 MBWhat happens when an EJK victim survives the attack to tell the story? In this episode, we revisit the case of Kim Lester Ramos and Lauro Lagarde on October 5, 2019, when a policeman shot them both in a Marikina subdivision.
Episode 4: A Martial Law survivor's story
September 20, 2020 21:35 - 21 minutes - 39.7 MBTrining Herrera Repuno retells the story of how her freedoms were abused when late dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines.
Episode 3: Where is justice for Jennifer Laude?
September 09, 2020 14:09 - 17 minutes - 32.3 MBWe start from the beginning — the story of "Ganda" — and trace it to how discrimination and controversial policies that benefitted Pemberton before Duterte dealt the final blow.
Episode 2: The life and death of Ka Randy
August 31, 2020 10:13 - 17 minutes - 33.4 MBListen to the story of the activist life and the brutal death suffered by lifetime advocate Randall "Randy" Echanis.
Episode 1: The boy named Kian
August 15, 2020 12:31 - 21 minutes - 39.4 MBListen to the story of the boy whose death sparked the outrage of the nation. Listen to the story of Kian delos Santos.