EPISODE ONE
The Mysterious Movements of “Larry”
This season, we dive deeper into a key question: if Haing Ngor was killed in Los Angeles because of something that happened in Cambodia, then who had the reach to do that? The answer may be a triad — a transnational organized crime group.
Enter “Larry.” He was one of Ngor’s business partners. When a deal over a bank license fell apart, Larry threatened Ngor, saying he knew professional killers. Within a few months, Ngor was dead.
The LAPD focused on a “botched robbery” narrative, locking up three teenaged gang members. But authorities never seriously investigated Larry.
Join Patricia Nunan as she works with the Innocence Center to examine Ngor’s tumultuous final months. Her goal is - hopefully - to help bring justice to the three men wrongfully convicted of his murder — and to finally do justice to Ngor’s memory.
EPISODE SEVEN
OLD FRIENDS
Being a movie star allowed Haing Ngor to make new friends - and to connect with some old ones he thought he had lost.
In this episode, Patricia Nunan talks to Ngor’s Hollywood agents, who knew the eager actor happy to take any job to finance his humanitarian work in Cambodia.
She also connects with CC, a friend from Ngor’s student days, who knew both his warmhearted and arrogant sides. CC offers vivid details about Ngor’s tumultuous life in Cambodia - including the steady stream of death threats he was receiving - in the seven months before he was killed.
EPISODE TEN
HISTORY IS A LIVING THING
The Bonus Episode
Available now!
The Killing Fields is often described as a film that changed history.
In Cambodia, it served a more practical purpose.
Before modern international courts, commissions of inquiry, or formal human-rights mechanisms were in place, the film became one of the few ways a devastated country could convey what had happened — and why the Khmer Rouge could not be allowed to return to power.
In this - season 2's bonus episode of Who Killed Haing Ngor - Patricia Nunan revisits the film through firsthand accounts, exploring how "history is a living thing."
EPISODE EIGHT
TIMBER MAFIA
Haing Ngor was a doctor – launched into an unlikely career as an actor and activist. When Cambodia opened up in the early 1990’s, he decided he was also a businessman.
He bought a saw mill – an investment in forestry: one of the most dangerous economic sectors there is, run by the “timber mafia.” Top players in that mafia? Ngor’s own brother, Chan Sarun, and Prime Minister Hun Sen.
That may sound like Ngor had it easy. But he was dogged by the same financial turbulence that characterized nearly all his efforts in Cambodia’s post-war “compassion fad” economy.
Was it nostalgia? Naïveté? Or did Ngor think he had what it takes to swim with the sharks?
The investigation continues.
THE Season 3 launch now planned for
May 2026!!
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EPISODE NINE
THE KNOWN UNKNOWNS
The Season Finale - Almost! ***
Haing Ngor’s life reads like a Greek tragedy — promise, loss, survival, and a final act no one can quite explain.
People who knew him describe a man split between warmth and arrogance, humanitarian impulses and anger. Plus there was his untreated trauma.
The LAPD claimed Ngor’s murder was a robbery gone wrong. But nearly every part of that narrative collapses under scrutiny. So do the other narratives – a Khmer Rouge assassination; a killing linked to the timber mafia; the murky question of involvement by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
This episode recaps the “known unknowns” - the unanswered questions from the last years of Ngor’s life,
This is the last episode of season 2’s investigative arc.
From eliminating known suspects, we’ll pivot to advancing the investigation. Season 3 will be out in early 2026.
*** A BONUS EPISODE WILL DROP IN DECEMBER 2025 ***