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The Casual Criminalist

Flashback to The Chiong Sisters: The Most Insane Miscarriage of Justice

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

True Crime

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this flashback episode, the disappearance of two sisters in Cebu leads to one of the most controversial murder cases in Philippine history. Sponsor: shopify.com/casual ⁠- sign up for your $1 per month trial  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know when you're listening to a true crime story that has an unbelievable plot twist that makes you stop in your tracks?

0:06.7

That's what our podcast, People Are the Worst, brings you with each episode.

0:09.9

I'm Rachel.

0:10.7

And I'm Rebecca.

0:11.6

We're identical twins who love true crime cases that make you say, didn't see that coming, and we hate the people responsible for them.

0:17.8

Listen to People Are the Worse now on on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your

0:21.0

podcast.

0:27.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of The Casual Criminalist. As always, I am your

0:31.1

host, Simon. Welcome to the show. What happens here? One of my writers in this case, Kevin,

0:36.0

thank you, Kevin, writes me a scripts that I've never read before. It's called a cold read. We're going to read it together. Explore the Philippines most controversial murder trial, the Chiong sisters. Kevin pitched this to me via email, and I was like, Kevin, this sounds like children are going to get murdered, and he's like, that's not the main drift of the story.

0:55.2

The main drift of the story is apparently the trial and what went wrong with it and all of that stuff.

1:00.3

And I was like, okay.

1:01.1

Because immediately I was like, dude, please, no more killing children.

1:04.0

I've had enough.

1:05.6

It was a while ago now.

1:07.8

But I remember just recording something.

1:09.1

I was like, I don't want to do that now,

1:11.6

Kevin. I need a break, but he persuaded me otherwise. So yeah, we're going to go into it. Hopefully,

1:18.2

it's not going to be too horrible. I'm feeling better than I was last week when I think

1:21.9

Kevin pitched this to me, because that was a rough week. I think I recorded like three casual

1:26.3

criminals, and they were all fairly dark

1:28.1

and I was like,

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