Oriental Express

K W
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All aboard the Oriental Express — a weekly true crime podcast pulling real, lesser-known cases from across the East, most of which English-speaking audiences have never heard before. Conductor K guides you through one case each episode, start to finish: the timeline, the details, the human truth underneath — no embellishment, no spoilers before departure. New destination every Tuesday. Find your seat.

Episodes

  1. 2d ago

    Ep3. The 1994 Qiandao Lake Massacre

    Qiandao Lake, 1994: a tour boat is found burned out in deep water where no pleasure boat has any business being, with thirty-two people dead in a crew cabin a metre and a half high — a room you can only reach by climbing down. Every life jacket aboard is still in place, unused. In a fire that burns through the night with six professional boatmen aboard, somebody always gets out. Nobody got out. The wreck is full of things that don't belong. A petrol drum on a boat that ran on diesel. A forty-kilogram iron ladder gone from the only way out, and divers who can't find it in the lake. Money hidden in the dead's shoes. For six days it stays a pile of facts with nothing to do with each other — and then a forensic doctor comes down from Beijing, looks at the same twelve details everyone has already looked at, and inside a week makes every one of them point the same direction. Welcome aboard Oriental Express. I'm your conductor K. Our next stop: The Qiandao Lake Massacre. All aboard.

  2. Jul 22

    Ep2. The Cabbage Head: The 1972 Shanghai Dismemberment Case

    In January 1972, a 19-year-old farmworker was cutting cabbages in a frozen field outside Shanghai when she found one bound shut with twine—and sliced it open to find a woman's severed head staring back. As detectives raced to identify her, working with a police force gutted by China's Cultural Revolution, the trail went cold. No name, no suspect—just twelve packages pulled from a nearby river, and a killer who knew exactly how to disappear. The break came a month later, in the last place anyone expected: a militia detention room, and a woman who said one sentence too many through a paper-thin wall. Welcome aboard Oriental Express. I'm your conductor K. Our next stop: The Cabbage Head. All aboard.

  3. Jul 14

    Ep. 1 She Was There All Along: The New Taipei Elevator Mystery

    In August 2010, a 48-year-old woman left home for a routine medical appointment in New Taipei City—and never arrived. As police searched for days with no trace of her, unsettling reports began to spread from the very building she was supposed to visit. Residents spoke of strange knocking inside the elevators. Others claimed they heard the faint sound of a woman crying late at night. Some blamed old machinery. Others wondered if something far darker was haunting the building. What began as an ordinary missing-person case soon became one of Taiwan's most heartbreaking urban mysteries. Welcome aboard Oriental Express. I'm your conductor K. Our first stop: The New Taipei Elevator Mystery. All aboard.

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All aboard the Oriental Express — a weekly true crime podcast pulling real, lesser-known cases from across the East, most of which English-speaking audiences have never heard before. Conductor K guides you through one case each episode, start to finish: the timeline, the details, the human truth underneath — no embellishment, no spoilers before departure. New destination every Tuesday. Find your seat.

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  • Creator
    K W
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © K W
  • Show Website
    Oriental Express