#92: The Hair Fetish Serial Killer (Case of Danilo Restivo)

You want us to do what? - the couple had been kidnapped and forced to live in North Korea for years before they found out the truth.  The wife was a former beloved movie actress. The husband was an award-winning film director. And now North Korea had kidnapped them to make movies for Kim Jong Il.  It sounds like a fictional story - but it was very much real. And the couple’s lives depended on how good of a movie they could make.  (Please listen to Part 1 before this episode!) Book Rec: “A Kim Jong Il Production” - by Paul Fischer (Even my Korean parents who grew up with this case on the news learned so much from this book! 10/10) Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

10 Sep 202148min

She couldn’t believe it. They wanted her to write a letter to her kidnappers thanking them for all that they have done for her.  Are these people out of their minds? She missed her old life in South Korea - she had been a famous movie actress, her children, freedom, she missed it all.  Now she was kidnapped in a foreign country forced to write letters of love to the men who ordered it.  She started the letter - Dear Kim Jong Il The Supreme Leader of North Korea… Book Rec: “A Kim Jong Il Production” - by Paul Fischer (Even my Korean parents who grew up with this case on the news learned so much from this book! 10/10) Don't forget to check out - https://www.analuisa.com/rotten  Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

8 Sep 20211h 18min

The goal was simple. Break into the house - sneak into the upstairs room and murder the 18 year old high school girl.  Now comes the hard part - the wait. Waiting in an eerily silent house near the body of the young girl till her parents come home. They too have to be murdered.  Now for the finishing touches. Write on the walls in big blue spray paint “f**k off Asians KKK.” Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

5 Sep 20211h 6min

She was rushing to the emergency room - her 5-year-old son was in the back. Every minute could mean life or death. He had been having seizures all day.  But before entering the hospital she stood over her suffering son and took a picture. What would she caption this one? Maybe she would mention how this was going to be his 13th surgery. Yeah, that would be good. The followers would eat that up.  Book Rec: “My Sweet Angel” - by John Glatt (Such a great deep dive on this case) Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

1 Sep 20211h 20min

He wasn’t like the other boyfriends and husbands. He treasured every single moment that he spent with her.  When they went grocery shopping he studied her favorite foods and brands. When they went shopping he admired all the clothes that she picked out and watched her try them on.  Sure - she was married but that can’t stop true love. And what if she doesn’t know him yet? Once he kidnaps her - she will fall in love.  Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

25 Aug 20211h 7min

3 people stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean.  1 of them has lied to the others. The truth will have deadly consequences.  1 of them is hiding a big secret from the others. A secret she doesn’t want to get out.  And only 1 will survive the 70 day ordeal.  Book Rec: “Lost” - by Thomas Thompson (one of my fave authors) it’s so good you’ll read it all in one sitting especially if it’s a rainy day. Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

22 Aug 20211h 10min

“Welcome to Bob’s Bazaar Bizarre” - the small shop for oddities from around the world. May Bob interest you in some genuine human skulls? Perhaps a shrunken head in a jar? When you leave the shop’s bizarre environment you can’t help but wonder… that Bob guy is so strange… And how does he even collect so many real human skulls? You can’t help but wonder what Bob does in his free time to enlarge his collection. Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

18 Aug 20211h 22min