Introducing The Chinatown Sting: Lucky Bird

Death of an Artist

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Arts, True Crime

4.6 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Here’s a preview of a new Pushkin podcast, The Chinatown Sting. In the late 1980s, a group of women connected through the mahjong parlors in Manhattan’s Chinatown were caught in a massive undercover drug bust. But this bust was just the beginning of an even bigger case. Host Lidia Jean Kott and co-reporter Shuyu Wang interview sources who’ve never spoken on record before, including witnesses, defendants, and federal prosecutors, to reconstruct a case that still has repercussions today. In this episode, we meet Tina Wong, a young mother who found herself in the middle of the operation with two choices—go to prison, or risk her life to bring down the man at the helm.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:03.9	In 2013, two brutal murders left the city of Davis, California, paralyzed in fear.
0:10.9	The victims were an elderly couple. It was up close and personal.
0:14.7	I'm 48-hour's correspondent Aaron Moriarty.
0:18.4	He's a, I think the word is psychotic.
0:20.8	This is 15 inside the Daniel Marsh murders.
0:24.5	Follow and listen to 15 inside the Daniel Marsh murders on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:41.2	Pushkin.
0:47.0	Hi, everyone. I'm Lydia Jean-Cott.
0:52.3	I'm dropping into your feed today to bring you a preview of my new podcast, The Chinatown Sting.
0:57.0	It's about a woman living in Manhattan's Chinatown in the 1980s.
1:02.7	After she agrees to receive a package in the mail for her best friend, she finds herself caught in a criminal case. It's led by a prosecutor, determined to bring down one of Chinatown's most notorious
1:08.9	gangsters, no matter the cost.
1:11.7	Let's get into it.
1:16.2	On February 9, 1988, David Sheehan was working his usual shift.
1:21.9	He was a U.S. customs agent at JFK Airport.
1:25.3	His phone rang.
1:28.4	I was talking to a customs agent in California
1:33.0	who says, hey,
1:35.2	we just got three shipments of heroin
1:37.8	and three different bail parcels.
1:40.8	Do you guys want the case?
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