With over 500 million downloads and 630 stories told thus far, this little podcast between two childhood friends, Ashley and Brett, has bloomed into a mega audio empire since its inception at the tail-end of 2017. The well-curated podcast series features interviews with police and eyewitness accounts, and paints an insightful landscape of what Hong Kong was like during the time of each crime. The podcast features cases that have become notorious in the press, with multi-part episodes focused on specific cases, ranging from the “jars murderer” about a taxi driver who murders hostesses and keeps their body parts in jars under his bed, to the gruesome, heart-breaking murders of two ESF highschoolers on Braemar Hill. Catching WormsĪ true crime podcast dedicated specifically to grisly, notorious cases in Hong Kong, Catching Worms makes us question how safe we really should feel in our hometown. Should we find it unsettling that now serial killer names the likes of Dahmer, Kemper, Corll, Gein and Gacy are garden variety household topics to be thrown around at dinner parties? Whether you are a true detective, or an amateur crime sleuth, we can guarantee that the following true crime podcasts - including one that’s specifically focused on Hong Kong cases - will give you a chilling earful indeed. With shows like Don’t F’’k With Cats, House of Secrets, American Murder, and Night Stalker on Netflix, many of us now fancy ourselves as armchair profilers, perhaps worthy of a sparring session in an interrogation room with Bundy. So if anything, we’ve toned down our fascination with the grotesque, or….have at least become better at hiding it on the Dark Web. A few hundred years ago, it was a “normal” family event to take the kids to a town hanging, or a beheading at the guillotine was the talk of the town. True crime is now considered a form of entertainment, and draws in massive ratings. However, our fascination with the macabre and monstrous depravities of mankind has always pulsed under the thin veneer of polite society.
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