Solved: The "Iron Cage Corpse" Infamous Chinese Murder of Zhang Hong
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This story is largely unknown outside of China, but it is among the most infamous true crime stories in the largest country in the world. Mike brings us the story of Zhang Hong, referred to as the Iron Cage Corpse in China, thanks to a reddit writeup by "moondog151".
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the crime and coffee couple. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Mike. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Allison. |
| 0:08.8 | Yeah, Bev. |
| 0:09.5 | And since I'm talking, I'm going to be the one delivering the story this week. |
| 0:12.7 | Yes, you are. |
| 0:13.3 | Did you know that? |
| 0:14.0 | I did know that. |
| 0:14.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:15.6 | Otherwise, I'd be pretty unprepared right now. |
| 0:17.5 | Yeah, well, you're never unprepared. |
| 0:19.1 | So that's good. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm excited. |
| 0:20.9 | This one's going to be interesting. |
| 0:22.4 | It's got a lot of Chinese names. |
| 0:24.7 | It's gave you kind of a sneak peek, so I'm going to do my best to, you know, say the |
| 0:28.8 | names and everything. |
| 0:29.6 | But before we get into that, I wanted to mention, if you enjoy this podcast, if you can |
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| 0:39.0 | We got bombarded with these like three or four reviews of one-star, and they're like, you guys, talk too much. |
| 0:43.7 | And it's like, okay, well, fast forward and go ahead and listen to the rest if you'd like. |
| 0:46.7 | Or become a Patreon and go listen to some episodes that have the banter's okay, then go ahead and go move over to that Apple podcast |
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