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The Case Next Door
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Every neighbourhood hides a story with some darker than you’d ever imagine. The Case Next Door dives deep into gripping true crime cases in your area.
Join our hosts as they piece together investigations, police reports, and courtroom testimonies. From high-profile murders to the chilling crimes that happened just down the road, each episode uncovers the human side of horror: greed, fear, obsession, and everything in between.
Real cases. Real emotions. Real crime. Because sometimes… the scariest crimes aren’t on TV… they’re next door.
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The Familiar Monster Next Door - The Xie Wen Jing Case
Nov 1800:32:29Tap to summarizeIn 1992, 16-year-old Xie Wen Jing left home on her red bicycle for what should have been a simple errand - to collect a lottery ticket from her father’s trusted friend. She never returned. Days later, the quiet town of Anshun was shaken as fragments of her body surfaced along the Perak River, revealing a crime so brutal that it left the community scarred for decades.What investigators uncovered was even more horrifying: the man she trusted, Zhang Zhen Shun, had drugged her, assaulted her, killed her, and dismembered her body in a desperate attempt to hide the truth. A betrayal committed not by a stranger in the shadows, but by someone welcomed into the family’s home.This episode retraces her final moments, the twists in the investigation, and the highly controversial court decision that reduced a murder charge to manslaughter. It’s a story about trust, obsession, and the terrifying reality that the most dangerous people are sometimes the ones closest to us.Join us as we revisit the tragic case of Xie Wen Jing, and ask the question that still lingers more than 30 years later:Was justice ever truly served?BGM:beautiful things - Joseph TilleyThe Paranormal is Real - Leonell Cassio (ft. Carrie)DAWN SOFT PIANO - Luke FaulknerBefore Spring Ends - Wang OK
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The Glamour, The Greed, and The Grave – The Mona Fandey Case
Nov 1200:33:12Tap to summarizeShe was once a pop singer, then a self-proclaimed witch... and her name became one of Malaysia’s most chilling legends. In this episode of The Case Next Door, we revisit the infamous Mona Fandey case, a tale of dark rituals, political power, and a brutal murder that shook the nation.Through reconstructed testimonies, police investigations, and courtroom drama, we explore how glamour turned to greed, and how greed led to a grave mistake that ended in one of Malaysia’s last public hangings.Step into the shadows with us... where fame, fear, and faith collide.🎧 Because sometimes, the scariest stories aren’t urban legends… they’re real.
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