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#150: The Chinese Corpse Dungeon (Serial Killer Jia Wenge)

Mar 27, 2022
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ANECDOTE

Woman Survives Corpse Cellar

  • A woman woke up in a dark cellar surrounded by dozens of decomposing bodies and corpse mud filled with maggots.
  • She climbed the stacked corpses to escape and later confessed the killings to police to avoid execution.
INSIGHT

Confession Triggers Deeper Inquiry

  • The arrested woman initially claimed involvement in mass murder and demanded homicide investigators, surprising police.
  • Her shaken delivery triggered inter-jurisdictional scrutiny that uncovered a buried cellar of corpses.
ANECDOTE

Forensics Overwhelmed By Putrid Cellar

  • Forensics opened the cellar and were hit by a putrid gas and layers of rotting bodies that overwhelmed teams.
  • Investigator Lance crawled into a 19-foot, two-by-three-foot pit repeatedly and suffered physical and psychological effects.
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