In 2023, a 23-year-old woman in Busan posted an ad on a tutoring platform, posing as the parent of a middle school student looking for an English tutor. Within days, she had arranged a meeting with a teacher she had never met. Hours later, that teacher was dead.

Much of the coverage focused on the crime itself and the unusual behavior of the perpetrator. But this episode looks at a different question: how was access gained so easily in the first place?

This is the story of the Busan tutor murder - not through the details of the attack, but through the pathway that made it possible.

The 2010 murder-for-hire plot, by Jennifer Pan, has been dissected for years.

The double life behind it has received much less attention.

By her early twenties, Jennifer was waking up each morning and leaving home for a university she did not attend. She forged transcripts, acceptance letters, and report cards while carefully maintaining different versions of herself for different audiences.

This episode examines the years before the crime: the expectations she grew up with, the deception that expanded over time, and the effort required to keep an entire life from unraveling.

Because the most enduring question in Jennifer Pan’s story may not be how it ended — but how it continued for so long.

In 2007, Felicia Teo disappeared after meeting friends in Singapore. For years, her case remained unresolved in a country widely seen as one of the safest in the world.

This episode of Missing Context examines how assumptions about safety, independence, and what was considered “normal” behavior for a 19 year old shaped the response to Felicia’s disappearance. It explores how those perceptions influenced the urgency of the investigation, the decisions made in the early days of the case, and the questions that remained unanswered for years.