Latest Pilipinas Podcast Episodes
LAGIM: After Hours on The Disappearance of Catherine Camilon
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - December 29, 2023 11:47 - 32 minutesMabuhay, LagimFam! Welcome to the first ever episode of Lagim: After Hours, a semi-regular bonus content series that I am embedding in the regular feed as well as on my YouTube feed. The episodes are mainly a more freestyle vodcast but I have extracted the audio for the podcat-only audience in ...
The Killing of Jemboy Baltazar
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - December 22, 2023 05:25 - 51 minutesOn the 2nd August 2023, Jerhode Jemboy Baltazar and his friend, Sonny Boy, planned a fishing trip to earn a couple of bucks. The boys set out to first clean their boats before sailing out but as they were minding their business, a group of police officers approached their area in Navotas and open...
The Murder of Jullebee Cabilis Ranara
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - October 27, 2023 16:18 - 1 hourOverseas Filipino Workers or OFWs have long been dubbed as the Philippines' modern-day heroes. They leave family and friends, their comfort zones, their culture and homes behing to try their luck in foreign and far-flung countries, hoping to earn a better living than from the few opportunities of...
The Pamplona Massacre and Killing of Roel Degamo
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - October 13, 2023 20:44 - 1 hourOn the 4th March, a group of armed men in military gear entered the residence of Negros Oriental governor Roel Degamo. What looked to be a normal Saturday of meeting his constituents suddenly turned into a nightmare that his family is still living to this very day. In a matter of days, it becam...
The Chilling Case of Blessie Gotingco
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - September 22, 2023 21:21 - 42 minutesHi LagimFam! I am releasing this episode a week earlier as it is my birthday weekend and I want to fully be in the moment for the next weekend and the next couple of weeks as I go travelling again. So today, I am presenting the story of Blessie Gotingco, a Filipino expat in New Zealand who in 2...
Re-release - The Ongoing Case of Bree Jonson
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - September 18, 2023 12:55 - 1 hourTwo years after her death, justice for Filipino artist Bree Jonson remains elusive. This is frustrating, heartbreaking and a stark reminder that the wheels of the justice systemin our country is so slow and so hindered by power, influence and wealth that it might as well be stationary at this poi...
The Martial Law Series: The Incredible Life of Lorena Barros
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - September 15, 2023 08:26 - 25 minutesHi LagimFam! This is the last instalment of the Martial Law Series for this season. In this episode, I look into the incredible life of Maria Lorena Barros, a remarkable Filipina activist and the founder of MAKIBAKA. From her early years to her pivotal role in the face of Martial Law, Lorena's s...
The Martial Law Series: The Escalante Massacre Of 1985
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - September 01, 2023 10:05 - 40 minutesHi LagimFam! I am finally back and with me is this season's first instalment of The Martial Law Series. In this episode, I delve into a somber chapter of Philippine history as we explore the Escalante Massacre of 1985. Join me as I give a brief history of sugar and as I uncover the events leadi...
The Cases of Jessa Remiendo and Ebeng Mayor
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - June 24, 2023 02:16 - 41 minutesIn this Pride Month episode, I cover two cases involving a trans woman and a trans man, respectively. I talk about Jessa Remiendo from Pangasinan and Ebeng Mayor from Quezon City. I want to issue one of many trigger warnings at this point as some of the details in these cases are truly upsetting....
GUEST EPISODE - Bedtime True Crime - The Tokyo Subway Attack
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - June 07, 2023 22:10 - 18 minutesLinks to our partner, Bedtime True Crime Spotify - CLICK HERE Apple - CLICK HERE Hi LagimFam! This week I am doing something a bit different. As I need more time to prep the next Lagim episode, my friends over at 1Up Media thought it would be a great idea to have the second episode of their n...
The Mitsero Killings (feat details about the new TV show, Cattleya Killer)
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - May 28, 2023 21:58 - 49 minutesMabuhay, LagimFam. This week, come dive with me into an international case that has echoed globally - the Mitsero Killings, involving Cyprus' first recognized serial killer. In this episode, I narrate the chilling events in the serene village of Mitsero in Cyprus. I cover the 2019 discovery of ...
The Given Grace Cebanico Story
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - April 27, 2023 23:25 - 40 minutesOn 11th October 2011, some residents of Brgy Putho-Tuntungin in Los Baños, Laguna woke up to a horrible discovery in one of their canals. It was the body of a young woman who seemed to have been murdered only a few hours before. This discovery would send shockwaves all throughout the municipalit...
The Hazing of Atio Castillo
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - April 11, 2023 16:23 - 50 minutesIn September 2017, a family was left waiting and then reeling when reports emerged that their son has died as a result of hazing. A once brilliant light in his family's life, Atio's star was extinguished so prematurely after going through the intiation rites of teh Aegis Juris Fraternity, a frate...
The Story of Bennylyn and Jellica Burke
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - March 19, 2023 17:42 - 50 minutesIt was 2021 and most of the world was still in the tight grip of the COVID-19 pandemic that started the year before. Countries had implemented strict lockdowns. Life as we knew it came to a grinding halt and we were being bombarded by daily updates of COVID deaths, as if it was just a part of our...
The Disappearance of Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - February 07, 2023 23:04 - 1 hourIn 2006, two UP Diliman students and an elderly farmer from Hagonoy, Bulacan were forcibly taken, abducted and illegally detained in secret military facilities as a part of a crackdown on activists suspected of supporting the military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the NPA or Nati...
The Unsettling Case of Emelita Reeves
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - January 19, 2023 23:47 - 41 minutesIn October 1994, friends of Emelita Villa Reeves woke up, not having heard from their friend for over 24 hours. The last moments they had with her were worrying. Emelita always answered or returned calls and page notifications, so why was she not doing this now? When people finally paid attention...
The Case of Cosette Tanjuaquio
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - January 06, 2023 11:27 - 45 minutesHello LagimFam! Finally, I back on the podcast saddle and can continue with Season 4. Today's episode covers a case from 1964 - a case that would become notorious for the largest inter-agency investigation conducted at that time. At the centre of this case are two families from Quezon City and...
The Sonya and Frank Gregorio Murders
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - November 19, 2022 00:05 - 41 minutesThis week's episode takes us to Barangay Cabayaoasan in Paniqui, Tarlac where in December 2020 a video was recorded of a horrible crime that would shock Filipinos mere days before Christmas. Still in the middle of a ravaging pandemic, the people of Cabayaoasan would suddenly be pushed into the s...
The Gonzales Family Murders
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - November 04, 2022 11:43 - 56 minutesIn July 2001, the quiet Sydney suburb of North Ryde was rattled awake by a triple murder that seemed to have been the result of a robbery gone wrong. Little did they know that these murders were in the making for so long and could be traced back to Baguio, Philippines. For its first episode for ...
The Ongoing Case of Bree Jonson
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - October 14, 2022 07:44 - 1 hourFor the past year, I have been following this case closely. Something about the circumstances surrounding this case deeply bothered me from the very beginning. I followed reports and articles written about Bree and her death for over a year now and have collated all these reports in blog posts in...
The Jovelyn Galleno Case
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - September 21, 2022 19:30 - 32 minutesOn the 5th August 2022, a young student from Palawan went missing. Three weeks later, a shocking discovery near her hometown opened more questions than there are answers.This is a rather sad and terrifying case where the motive of the alleged perpetrators remains unclear.I have recorded this almo...
The Cabading Family Murders
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - September 01, 2022 22:05 - 52 minutesLagimFam, it is time for another season finale.In this season ender, we go back to the 1960s to look into one of the more prominent true crime cases before true crime was even a thing. In this episode, I look into the Cabading Family Murders and I also briefly discuss Filipino family dynamics and...
The Gana Family Tragedy
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - August 19, 2022 23:07 - 43 minutesThis week's case is a case from the diaspora. A listener suggested this case through the case suggestion list and I am glad I was able to cover it.The case is about a Filipino-American family in California who was considered unassuming and very much run of the mill. At least for those looking fro...
The Undoing of Romeo G Jalosjos Sr
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - August 04, 2022 23:06 - 54 minutes***MASSIVE TRIGGER WARNING due to multiple graphic references to child sexual abuse***In 1996, the Philippines was rocked by news of a prominent congressman from Zamboanga del Norte, being accused of multiple counts of rapes and other sexual offences against an 11-year-old girl.Congressman Jalosj...
The Case of Kian delos Santos
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - July 21, 2022 23:01 - 56 minutesIn August 2017, young Kian delos Santos was killed during an anti-drug raid conducted in a poor neighbourhood in Caloocan. What the police hoped to just be another night full of dead bodies on the streets, quickly turned into a watershed moment that exposed the brutality, consequences and casualt...
The Case of Caroline Crouch
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - June 23, 2022 23:02 - 49 minutesIn this episode of Lagim, I re-explore the case of Caroline Crouch. I have featured this last year on my old Patreon and back then the trial in this case had not started yet. Even though most details from trial are things that were covered profusely in the media, it was nevertheless good to have ...
The Life and Heroism of Macli-ing Dulag
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - June 09, 2022 23:01 - 45 minutesIn the telling of Filipino history, the stories and heritage of the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines are often missed if not completely erased. This is very much our loss because the Indigenous Peoples of our country are a small looking glass into which we could see a future that we could ha...
The Cases of Liliosa Hilao and Archimedes Trajano
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - May 26, 2022 22:59 - 45 minutesIn this episode of Lagim, I am featuring two cases involving two heroes who were taken from this world too soon and in the most brutal of ways. Both Liliosa Hilao and Archimedes Trajano were young students who stood up to the Marcos Regime and its agents and then paid dearly for it.Listen now to ...
The Palimbang Massacre
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - May 12, 2022 22:51 - 45 minutesIn September 1974, the sleepy municipality of Palimbang would be rattled awake by cannons being dropped by army units aboard naval ships. What followed were days of torture, violence, starvation and a massacre that would forever traumatise a whole generation of Moros in the midst of Marcos's mart...
The Cochise-Beebom Double Murder
LAGIM: A Filipino True Crime Podcast - April 29, 2022 08:46 - 46 minutesIn the evening of 25th April 1990, life as the Bernabe and Castaños families knew it would change forever. When news of their son and daughter's abduction reached them, they initially had hoped to find young Cochise and Beebom, two bright students who studied law and mass communications at the Un...
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