15Minutes2Kill

EP 5 | 15Minutes2Kill | Tokyo Underworld: Airi Sato and the Murder Behind the Livestream

Before the murder, there was the world that made it possible. Where parasocial obsessions met the grind of content creation. Airi Sato was a social media influencer and live streamer killed on the streets of Tokyo by a former fan. Discover the details of the crime after a short introduction to Japan's largest red light districts. Places where your host, D.J. Swales, has often wandered after dark, to write in the windows of 711 convenience stores, and watch the neon-bathed workers and clients of Japan's underworlds whisk by. Dark travel journals, true crime, and creatures of shadow. Welcome to 15Minutes2Kill. Recorded in Times Square, New York City. KEY WORDS: TOKYO UNDERWORLD, AIRI SATO, STALKER, PARASOCIAL, LIVE STREAM, RED LIGHT DISTRICT, K-POP, HYUNAH, PARIS FASHION WEEK, TUILERIES PALACE "In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. They then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute. Everyone has their own path to the world of true crime. That was mine. . ." Author D. J. Swales, international tumbleweed of 120 countries and 45 U.S. states, invites you to explore the Dark Earth. Discover a new perspective on true crime, dark travel journals, serial killers, twisted history, mysteries, cryptids, and terrifying folklore. When D. J.'s travel journals burned in Seoul, he wrote new ones. Enjoy all your favourite dark themes from wanderings on the open road. From the dangerous world of London rent boys, to familiar places seen from dark paths after midnight. Rediscover the Dark Earth through the eyes of someone who has lived it. His only constant companion, a huge suitcase called Letitia. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

EP 4 | 15Minutes2Kill | Tokyo Underworld: Airi Sato and the Murder Behind the Livestream

Before the murder, there was the world that made it possible. Where parasocial obsessions met the grind of content creation. Airi Sato was a social media influencer and live streamer killed on the streets of Tokyo by a former fan. Before we get to the crime, D.J. builds the world where it took place. This prelude and Dark Journal takes the listener from the host bars of Shinjuku to the front row of Paris Fashion Week — where your host D.J. Swales worked alongside K-Pop megastar HyunA and the late designer Kenzo. With a detour through history, we go from the glittering heights of live streaming to its perilous shadows. The same tool. Very different worlds. Meet Yuriko: fictional, but completely real. A farm girl turned Kabukichō hostess, live streaming her way through Shinjuku's neon alleyways, feeding the algorithm and ignoring the creeps in the comments. Yuriko is every brave young woman who believes that visibility should never have to compromise safety.  Dark travel journals, true crime, and creatures of shadow. Welcome to 15Minutes2Kill. Recorded in Times Square, New York City. KEY WORDS: TOKYO UNDERWORLD, AIRI SATO, STALKER, PARASOCIAL, LIVE STREAM, RED LIGHT DISTRICT, K-POP, HYUNAH, PARIS FASHION WEEK, TUILERIES PALACE "In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. They then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute. Everyone has their own path to the world of true crime. That was mine. . ." Author D. J. Swales, international tumbleweed of 120 countries and 45 U.S. states, invites you to explore the Dark Earth. Discover a new perspective on true crime, dark travel journals, serial killers, twisted history, mysteries, cryptids, and terrifying folklore. When D. J.'s travel journals burned in Seoul, he wrote new ones. Enjoy all your favourite dark themes from wanderings on the open road. From the dangerous world of London rent boys, to familiar places seen from dark paths after midnight. Rediscover the Dark Earth through the eyes of someone who has lived it. His only constant companion, a huge suitcase called Letitia. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

EP 3 | 15Minutes2Kill | Southern Gothic, Unexpected Guests, and the Denver Spider Man

Welcome, Drifters! This episode finds us in the Southern Gothic beauty and dark history of the marshy South Carolina Lowlands, where vampires seem to lurk like in the pages of an Anne Rice novel. An opulent hotel room conjured thoughts of Versailles. A cliffhanger is closed from EP2, but draws us into a terrifying true crime that shook Denver. A murderous case with the power to haunt us to this day. Wise words of warning are left to ring in the ears of the listener. . . KEY WORDS: Deadly Guest, Vampires, Denver, Civil War, Mood Swings, Midnight Mass, South Carolina, Palace of Versailles, Clapham, Beaufort, Gullah-Geechee, Spanish Moss, Singapore, Fukuoka, and Ferrets. "In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. They then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute. Everyone has their own path to the world of true crime. That was mine. . ." Author D. J. Swales, international tumbleweed of 120 countries and 45 U.S. states, invites you to explore the Dark Earth. Discover a new perspective on true crime, dark travel journals, serial killers, twisted history, mysteries, cryptids, and terrifying folklore. When D. J.'s travel journals burned in Seoul, he wrote new ones. Enjoy all your favourite dark themes from wanderings on the open road. From the dangerous world of London rent boys, to familiar places seen from dark paths after midnight. Rediscover the Dark Earth through the eyes of someone who has lived it. His only constant companion, a huge suitcase called Letitia. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

EP 2 | 15Minutes2Kill | Bitch-Pudding, Craigslist, and Transatlantic Crawl Spaces

Welcome, Drifters! This episode of the occult and macabre serves a bowl of bitch-pudding as we lurch between Los Angeles and London, with side quests in Yosemite and West Texas. KEY WORDS: Bitch-Pudding, Haunted, Craigslist Sofa, Crawl Space, Beverly Hills, Black Mould, George Michael, Hampstead, Brown Recluse Spider, and Golem. "In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. They then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute. Everyone has their own path to the world of true crime. That was mine. . ." Author D. J. Swales, international tumbleweed of 120 countries and 45 U.S. states, invites you to explore the Dark Earth. Discover a new perspective on true crime, dark travel journals, serial killers, twisted history, mysteries, cryptids, and terrifying folklore. When D. J.'s travel journals burned in Seoul, he wrote new ones. Enjoy all your favourite dark themes from wanderings on the open road. From the dangerous world of London rent boys, to familiar places seen from dark paths after midnight. Rediscover the Dark Earth through the eyes of someone who has lived it. His only constant companion, a huge suitcase called Letitia. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

EP 1 | 15Minutes2Kill | An Invitation to the Night | Dark Travel Journals, True Crime, and Creatures of Shadow

Welcome, Drifters! "In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. They then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute. Everyone has their own path to the world of true crime. That was mine. . ." Author D. J. Swales, international tumbleweed of 120 countries and 45 U.S. states, invites you to explore the Dark Earth. Discover a new perspective on true crime, dark travel journals, serial killers, twisted history, mysteries, cryptids, and terrifying folklore. When D. J.'s travel journals burned in Seoul, he wrote new ones. Enjoy all your favourite dark themes in these dark encounters from the open road. From the dangerous world of London rent boys, to familiar places seen from dark paths on countless midnight walks. Rediscover the Dark Earth through the eyes of someone who has lived it, his only company a large sassy suitcase called Letitia. Join D. J. Swales, night walker of the Dark Earth and possibly reformed prostitute. Author, podcaster, and human tumbleweed, D. J. fled the bloody Northern Ireland conflict as a child, then kept on going. Since that wet night on a ferry to Liverpool, D. J. drifted across six continents running from the dark, yet strangely drawn to it. But he'll always see the world through the lens of what he calls Belfast Gothic. D. J. kept travel journals all his writing life. Most of them burned with his home in South Korea. A dozen more disappeared in the red dust of West Texas. But their curious, kamikaze, and bookish spirit lives on in 15minutes2kill. So, for the true crime and dark podcast lovers out there. . . if 15minutes2kill podcast was a happy hour cocktail in a Times Square dive joint–and I was your bartender, backed up by Mister Ballen–what would the recipe be? Well, first I’d salt your glass with Angela’s Ashes, then sweeten it with syrup of Rotten Mango. I’d serve it RedHanded with the poison of your choice, my mixers would be Crime Junkie, Morbid, The X-Files, and The Amazing Race.  David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs would be deejaying in the corner. If you had Second Sight, you’d see none of the barstools are actually empty. They’re all occupied by the ghouls of Times Square-past, as guests of Most Haunted and Tales from the Crypt.  Chasers, if required, will be flaming shots of Baby Reindeer, Crazy Rich Asians, and Encyclopedia Britannica.  And if you slam back the Youtube version of this cocktail, you can expect calligraphy to flow like margaritas in Cancun. More calligraphy than even the diaries of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, my fellow calligraphy geek and the first self-made millionaire in the royal family. Enjoy 15Minutes2Kill, but don't miss Letters to Kody – the lighter sister podcast to this one. An antidote to the dark. Please follow both. Letters to Kody is a charming travel podcast of luck, love, and humble happenstance on the open road. All episodes of Letters to Kody are dedicated to a young friend who yearned to see the world beyond the beauty of Kentucky. He never got the chance. Kody’s life ended on his way to work at Walmart, at the age of twenty-three. TRIGGER WARNING. 15minutes2kill contains all kinds of violence and abuse– of both recent and historical varieties. Not only inflicted on adults, but sometimes children and animals. Adult listeners only please. To help guide your listening I’ll label episodes as either dark travel, true crime, hauntings, myths, dark history, etc, etc.  Now I need to get something out of the way before we go any further. I’ve was warned to make a disclaimer for my own protection. So here goes. . . You’ve heard it all before, but for legal reasons, I declare the following: All events and people described in this podcast are fictitious. Any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental. This is all a creation of the addled mind of author D. J. Swales. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.