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Obscura: A True Crime Podcast

Justin Drown

True Crime, Personal Journals, History, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 311 minutes

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Summary

In January 2025, Nguyen Dat, a 35-year-old Vietnamese man living in Ha Dong, voluntarily sought his own execution—fulfilling a years-long sexual obsession with decapitation. Through extreme pornography forums and dating apps, Nguyen publicly advertised his desire to be beheaded, eventually connecting with an unnamed butcher who shared his fatal fetish.

The killing occurred between January 25 and February 24, 2025, in a makeshift execution chamber. Graphic video footage—leaked to Vietnamese and Chinese Telegram groups—shows Nguyen's decapitation as he reached sexual climax. The butcher then dismembered his body with professional precision, documenting the process across 11 videos and 98 photographs. Evidence suggests the killer cannibalized Nguyen's remains, cooking parts of his body into Vietnamese dishes. When concerned citizens reported the leaked footage to authorities, they discovered Nguyen had been missing for five years.

This case represents only the third confirmed consensual homicide motivated by mutual sexual gratification—and the first where execution footage was publicly leaked. Obscura examines this disturbing intersection of extreme fetishism, voluntary death, and the dark corners of online subcultures where such transactions occur.

[BLACK LABEL CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains extremely graphic descriptions of violence, dismemberment, and cannibalism.]

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KEYWORDS: true crime, true crime podcast, Nguyen Dat, Vietnam crime, consensual homicide, voluntary execution, cannibalism case, Ha Dong Vietnam, decapitation, dismemberment, sexual homicide, extreme fetish, guro, murder case, Armin Meiwes, Zambian Meat case, 2025 crime, obscure true crime

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0:00.0	Listener, as part of the Halloween season, I'm going to give you access to a free black label
0:05.8	and two Halloween specials. If you want more where that came from, head to patreon.com
0:12.1	slash obscure a crime podcast. Anyway, enjoy.
0:17.1	Listener, this episode features extreme content.
0:21.8	We're talking 10 out of 10.
0:23.8	This is the first episode in a while that made me sick to my stomach.
0:28.8	The content within this episode, not just in the audio, but the subject matter itself
0:34.6	twisted my stomach in knots.
0:37.0	This is an episode not for the
0:39.1	faint of heart. And to be frank with you, it's black label Breaking New Ground. Today's episode
0:46.1	covers extreme sexual fetish, the dark web murder market, consensual cannibalism, and has extremely disturbing audio.
0:57.0	You've been warned. The Now, Newy and Dad was born on March 10th, 1989.
1:52.4	Little is known about him.
1:54.2	What is known is that he had severely debilitating physical health issues that caused him much pain. So much pain that Niuyan
2:03.3	depended on his parents. What little work he does is at a fish market, at least according to him.
2:11.2	Newian lived in Hadong, Vietnam. Somewhere along the way, he became addicted to pornography.
2:18.2	Not just any pornography.
2:20.2	Nuyen became addicted to Guro pornography.
2:24.1	Goro is a form of pornography that features extreme violence, usually animated.
2:30.7	It features a lot of gore, depictions of men and women being cut up, sliced up, torn apart, decapitated, mutilated. You get the idea. It's gore pornography. After years of consuming this stuff, a question arose in Nuyen's mind. What if he were the one getting decapitated, mutilated?
2:51.9	The man went from a Gurro fetish to fantasizing about his own decapitation.
2:57.8	His biography on Facebook reads, likes to be decapitated.
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