The first Indian biological weapon murder Pakur was a small but wealthy zamindari estate in the Santal Paragons of present-day Jharkhand state. In fact, it was one of the wealthiest estates in Bengal at that time (annual revenue of about Rs. 30,000, equivalent to about Rs. 25,00,000 today).Pratapendra Chandra Pandey, the head of the family, had…
Jigsaw Murders On the morning of September 29, 1935, a young woman named Susan Haines Johnson peered over the parapet of an old bridge 2 miles (3 km) north of the Dumfriesshire town of Moffat to see a rotting human arm protruding from a package below. Someone had dropped it in the water as a bundle…
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On February 11, 2011, someone tipped off the Delhi Police that a travel bag was lying under suspicious circumstances near Delhi Railway Station. The police team rushed to the information and found the dead body of a young woman inside the bag. The corpse had a peacock tattooed on its stomach. There was no other evidence from that…
The Brides in the Bath Case Two weeks before Christmas 1913, newlyweds George Joseph Smith and his wife Alice came to live in a paying guest house in Blackpool, England. The owner of the building was Joseph Crossley, and his wife, Margaret, was not at all aware of their new occupant. At first Margaret found George Smith…
Born into a wealthy family, Mata Hari struggled in her early youth following her father’s financial collapse and remarriage. She married Rudolph John McLeod, an officer in the Dutch colonial army who was much older than her, and came to Indonesia at the age of eighteen. There they got acquainted with the local culture and practiced…
Tandoor murder case Abdul Nazir Kunju, a native of Kollam Ochira, and home guard Chandrapal were on duty at Ashoka Road that day at Delhi’s Connaught Place Police Station. The streets are quiet. There are not many people on the streets.Suddenly they heard someone shouting loudly that the hotel was on fire. Abdul Naseer and his colleague…
Woman tries to feed boyfriend’s corpse to children after skinning him. Catherine was born on October 24, 1955. Catherine is the younger of twins born to her mother, Barbara, by her husband’s colleague, Ken Knight. Barbara lived in Aberdeen, but when everyone in the country found out about her relationship with Ken, she moved to Moray,…
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He was the first person convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling. DNA testing was first used by the police 33 years ago.In November 1983, a 15-year-old girl named Lynda Mann disappeared in Leicestershire, England. Linda had left the house to meet her friend. The ten pound line was missing. The family, locals and the police started…
Techie Accused of ‘Killing’ Wife and Making Hoax Bomb Calls to Airports Everything you need to know about the Bangalore techie who killed his wife and created a bomb scare.MG Gokul. (Credit: Facebook) On September 5, 2015, a few messages came to the WhatsApp of the Terminal Manager of Kempa Gowda Airport in Bangalore. There were messages…
Sukumara Kurupe The National Highway connecting Thiruvananthapuram to Alappuzha was then known as NH 47. At that time a person named Kuttappan Nair had a movie theater called Hari Talkies at Karuwata, six kilometers north of Alappuzha from Haripad, on the right side of the national highway.Saturday 21 January. Film representative NJ Chacko arrived at the theatre. As…
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