Episode 321: Girl went missing in boarding school, found dead in a LOCKED boy’s restroom 33 days later

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16 year old Gao was one of the most popular girls in the entire boarding school - till she went missing. All the students had their own little theories on what happened. Some believed she ran off with a guy she met online. Others speculated her ex boyfriend had something to do with it. Or her best friend. Her best friend was the last one to see her alive.

But they all agreed - wherever she was now… she was far away from the school. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

Gao’s body was found in the locked boy’s restroom in the main building of the boarding school. Her body had signs of torture, SA, and even necrophilia.

The students had been living with their dead classmate just 30 feet away from them.

And now they were living with a killer.

Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

School layout

Metal padlock

Latch

Inside the restroom

Structure of the restroom

Where her belongings were found

White bloody woven bag covering the upper body of the body

Jacket

Latch experiment 1

Latch experiment 2

Latch experiment 3

In Zhang’s initial confession, this book was the “trigger” to his “crimes”

Verdict

Possible routes

Zhang and his mother outside of court

Janitor Li - “They even checked under the teacher’s bed, every single bed, the only place they left out was there (toilet) because it was locked. Who would’ve thought about it.”

Zhang’s response after he received compensation for his time - aside from his loss of youth and freedom, Zhang was also not able to keep up with society’s progress after being released

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