This episode contains adult themes and is not appropriate for all audiences.

Listener discretion is advised. Hello the world.

This is They Will Kill a true crime podcast. I'm Sadieck.

And I'm Courtneyek. And it's Courtney's night to tell y'all's story.

Yeah, it sure as heck is.

And this story was written by our darling Deli Mozingo,

who I will forever be mad at for not submitting her own name to name time

because of most best name.

Such the most bestest one.

It's such a good story.

And thank you so much, Deli, for writing it.

Because you wrote it, Mama was able to go out on a boat yesterday, like a wealthy story. Thank you so much, Dully, for writing it. Because you wrote it, Mamma was able to go out on a

boat yesterday like a wealthy person, and Mamma wrote a tube around and got slammed into her face

and her sinuses were set on fire. And today, Mamma was very sore and sunburned. And it was worth

every bit of my sunburn and every bit of my sore muscles, but I would not

have been able to go on the boat without this story deli. So thank you so much. It's also just a

fabulous and truly her heinous and horrible story. She did put a note in here that she relied heavily

on a four-part series from the Winston-Salem Journal by Monta Mitchell and Richard Gold.

And this is the opium murders.

So before we start this story, it needs some important context.

We're taking a brief field trip to the Southeast Asian country of Laos.

It is a small rural country that's a little bit smaller than Texas.

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