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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 438: The Amazing Story of Kobe Lee & Tiffany Rubin

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 2007, Tiffany Rubin, a special education teacher from Queens, New York, was sharing joint custody of her 6-year-old son, Kobe Lee, with her ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Lee. During a scheduled visit, Lee abducted Kobe and secretly took him to South Korea, his native country, without informing Tiffany. Tiffany flew to South Korea with the help of some amazing people with the American Association for Lost Children, after receiving a tip via her MySpace page from a local teacher who had seen Kobe. Tiffany successfully returned Kobe to the U.S., and her story became a powerful example of a mother’s determination and love. American Association for Lost Children: https://aaflc.org Click here to join our Patreon.  Click here to get your own Inhuman merch.  Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group.  To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up you guys? I'm Andrea. And I'm Haley. having a good start to your week. This goes out

0:35.3

on my day, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I hope you had a good weekend.

0:39.2

So today's case, buckle up because it is a journey. It is a journey. So. Okay. I know nothing about it.

0:47.8

So I'm not excited because I know it's probably going to be very sad, but I am looking forward to going on

0:55.2

this journey with you. Yeah, it is a wild ride, like I said. So what would you do if your child

1:02.0

was abducted, taken abroad, and you knew their location and the individual involved, but you

1:09.6

lack the means to recover them on your own.

1:13.1

Oh, my God. I don't know.

1:15.4

This is exactly what happened in the case of six-year-old Kobe Lee and his mother, Tiffany Rubin.

1:23.6

Six?

1:25.1

Yes.

1:25.9

Six years old?

1:27.2

Oh, my God.

1:28.5

And if you guys have ever seen the movie taken, it's definitely like sort of those

1:35.1

vibes.

1:35.7

Obviously, it's very different and you'll see why.

1:38.5

But this woman is a true badass and she is just the epitome and the embodiment of a mother

1:47.8

and what a mother should be and do.

1:50.1

And I just love her so much.

1:53.5

That's amazing.

1:55.9

Tiffany Rubin was born in 1977 and grew up in Queens, New York, and a close-knit family led by her mother,

2:04.2

Belzora Rubin, who played a pivotal role in her life.

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