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The Desi Crime Podcast

Desi Studios

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Desi Killers, Desi Kidnappers, Desi Criminals - find them here. Brought to you by Aryaan Misra and Aishwarya Singh, powered by The Desi Studios. We are your one stop shop for all things Desi, and all things Crazy. Support the work we do by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios Tooooooooo much of true crime is centered around America - New York murder this and Chicago Killer that. What about the Delhi Dons and Karachi killers and Bangladeshi Burglars?! If you are tired of the the same-old American murderer, British killer, Australian kidnapper, Canadian stalker… NO MORE! The Desi Crime Podcast brings DESI crimes. From India, Pakistan, Nepal and other brown communities, we’ll bring you cases that can only be described as Desi. Crimes that take place in the Indian subcontinent aren’t remotely similar to Western crimes— desi crimes are gory, complicated, corrupt and hardly documented. After thorough research on the most sinister cases, we’ll take you on a bumpy, jaw dropping ride around South Asia. Stay Crazy. Stay Desi.

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  1. Chai & Chithi 36 | Ghost On A Roller Coaster

    · 37 min

    Welcome to Chai & Chithi, a segment where we read some of the scariest, most terrifying, and most haunting stories that YOU send in to us. In this week’s episode, we’re reading: To send us your scary stories to read,…

  2. 211. The Trial of Ajmal Kasab | Ft. Ujjwal Nikam

    · 1 h 00 min

    July 20, 2009. In a Mumbai courtroom, a trial has been under way for months. But before today's witness can begin, the accused has a request. He asks the judge to let him address the court and admit his guilt. The…

  3. 210. The Burning Car Murder | Mundill Mahil & Gagandip Singh

    · 59 min

    On the 26th of February 2011, a young woman’s phone rang somewhere in England, and the voice on the other end said something this woman would repeat, almost word for word, to a friend minutes later, because it…

  4. 209. Murder in Room 1701 | Wendy Albano

    · 40 min

    In February 2012, American interior designer Wendy Albano flew halfway across the world to Bangkok. Days later, a hotel employee entered her luxury suite and found the 52-year-old dead on the bathroom floor, strangled…

  5. 208. Murder at DuPont Plaza Hotel | Krishna Maharaj

    · 1 h 05 min

    In June 1974, at Royal Ascot, a horse called King Levanstell completed the race ahead of the Queen's own runner. Standing in the winner's enclosure was a thirty-five-year-old Hindu man from a village in southern…

  6. 207. The Chameli Bagh Murders | Oishee Rahman

    · 53 min

    Every year on August 15, Bangladesh remembers a family destroyed inside its own home. In 1975, soldiers entered a residence in Dhaka and assassinated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, along with most of his family. Decades later,…

  7. 206. A Werewolf in Virginia | Pankaj Bhasin

    · 53 min

    Indē Wild Discount: Use code WILD5 on the website for 5% off your order + 29% off already on the webside! Visit Indē Wild at: https://sl1nk.com/nvxg73w On a Friday morning in July 2018, a woman parked her Mercedes on…

  8. 205. Murder Trial Of The Century | Ananda Sathasivam Case

    · 55 min

    In 1951, one of the most famous men in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, was a batsman. Some of the greatest players in the world believed he was a genius. Frank Worrell said that if he were choosing a dream team made up of the…

  9. 204. Murder in Monte Sereno | Raveesh Kumra

    · 57 min

    On the night of the 29th of November 2012, in the same California county, two men ended up flat on their backs about ten miles apart. One of them was 66 years old, from a small town in Punjab. He got into IIT Delhi,…

  10. 203. The Orkut Murder | Adnan Patrawala

    · 54 min

    It's the 18th of August, 2007. A Saturday. And in a flat in Lokhandwala, in Andheri, a 16-year-old boy is sitting at a computer, doing what every teenager in India is doing that year. He's on Orkut. And in this boy's…

  11. Chai & Chithi 35 | Scary Stories Ft. Murder Mystery Game Solution

    · 55 min

    Welcome to Chai & Chithi, a segment where we read some of the scariest, most terrifying, and most haunting stories that YOU send in to us. In this week’s episode, we’re reading: To send us your scary stories to read,…

  12. 202. The Gangster and the Juror | Peter Gill & Gillian Guess

    · 47 min

    By the mid-1990s, Vancouver’s Indo-Canadian underworld was no longer operating quietly. Young gangsters were threatening each other on television. Brothers were being shot in traffic and left dead in alleyways. Their…

  13. 201. The 999 Call from Pakistan | Sara Sharif

    · 49 min

    A child of ten. Approximately one hundred injuries. A two-bedroom flat in Surrey. A flight to Pakistan. A handwritten note left next to her body. And a system that had been watching her household for over a decade.…

  14. 200. Murder in the Penthouse | Fahim Saleh

    · 42 min

    In July 2020, inside a luxury apartment building in Manhattan, a young tech entrepreneur vanished behind the doors of his own home. His name was Fahim Saleh. At just 33 years old, he had already built companies across…

  15. 199. Murder on Barker Street | Tay Lyang & Tony Chuan

    · 50 min

    In September 2003, three young Singaporean students were sharing an ordinary apartment in Sydney. They were far from home, studying in Australia, living the kind of life that many international students know well. But…

  16. 198. Murder in The Hague | Sharmila Shinde

    · 26 min

    In a quiet neighbourhood in The Hague, a woman disappeared without warning. Her name was Sharmila Shinde. She was a wife, a mother, and an Indian woman living thousands of kilometres away from home, until she was…

  17. 197. The Lohagad Murder | Ketan Agarwal & Siya Goyal

    · 46 min

    A boy from a big Pune business family, a girl about to marry into it, and a wedding being built on a scale that barely sounded real. Then Ketan Agarwal went over the edge of Lohagad Fort near Lonavala, and for 5 days…

  18. 196. The Santa Serial Killer | Bruce McArthur

    · 42 min

    For years, men were disappearing from Toronto’s Gay Village. Some were immigrants. Some were refugees. Some were South Asian or Middle Eastern men living complicated, private lives in a city that was supposed to offer…

  19. 195. The TikTok Killers | Mahek & Ansreen Bukhari

    · 1 h 04 min

    A secret affair. A blackmail threat. And a mother-daughter duo willing to do the unthinkable to keep it all hidden. In this episode of Desi Crime, we unravel the shocking case of TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari and her…

  20. 194. The Ripper of Kerala | K P Jayanandan

    · 1 h 03 min

    Watch Brown on Zee5 TODAY!https://www.zee5.com/web-series/details/brown/0-6-4z5968730 For a village in the suburbs of Ernakulam, the morning of October 3rd, 2006 arrived with a smell of kerosene and a scene so brutal…

  21. Chai & Chithi 34 | The Haunted Painting

    · 27 min

    Welcome to Chai & Chithi, a segment where we read some of the scariest, most terrifying, and most haunting stories that YOU send in to us. In this week’s episode, we’re reading: To send us your scary stories to read,…

  22. 193. The USF Double Murder | Nahida Bristy & Zamil Limon

    · 39 min

    On April 13, 2026, somewhere in Tampa, Florida, a 26 year old American man typed a question into ChatGPT. What happens if a human has put a black garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster. The chatbot told him it sounded…

  23. 192. Vanishing in Parvati Valley | Justin Alexander Shetler

    · 45 min

    In 2016, a man who was equal parts survivalist and seeker, a man who traded a six-figure tech career for a life in the wilderness, a man who was phenomenal at surviving in nature, disappeared in it forever. This is the…

  24. 191. The Tragic Death of Matthew Perry

    · 34 min

    On October 28, 2023, the world woke up to the news that one of the most beloved sitcom actors in television history was found face-down in his hot tub. Matthew Perry. Chandler Bing. 54 years old. The initial assumption…

  25. 190. Murder on Reality TV | The Villupuram Case

    · 54 min

    In a small village in Tamil Nadu, three people walked into a house in 2008 and were never seen again. No missing persons report was ever filed. No investigation was ever launched. For four years, the world moved on and…

  26. The Murder of Jayaraj & Bennix: The Full Story (2026 Update)

    · 1 h 03 min

    We first covered the brutal custodial killings of Jayaraj and Bennix in 2020, and then again as an update in 2022. In light of the recent updates on the case that have shaken the country, this episode is a compilation…

  27. 189. The Fairfax Family Massacre

    · 33 min

    February 23, 2026. Fairfax County, Virginia. It is 5 in the morning and it has been snowing. A young police officer, Nicholas Brazones, is walking toward an apartment building in the suburbs. Dispatch has told him…

  28. 188. The Pramod Mahajan Murder

    · 1 h 06 min

    April 2006. Pramod Mahajan is 56 years old. He is the organizational brain of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The man who brought the BJP into the digital age. The man who brokered the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance that conquered…

  29. 187. The Murder of India's Badminton Star: Syed Modi

    · 52 min

    Every year, on a Thursday in December, the best badminton players in the world, from China, Indonesia, Japan, Denmark, arrive in Lucknow to compete in a tournament. Flags go up. Stadiums fill. A name echoes across the…

  30. Chai & Chithi 33 | The Girl On My Ceiling

    · 38 min

    Welcome to Chai & Chithi, a segment where we read some of the scariest, most terrifying, and most haunting stories that YOU send in to us. In this week’s episode, we’re reading: To send us your scary stories to read,…

  31. 186. The West Chester Quadruple Murder

    · 1 h 07 min

    West Chester, Ohio. A clean, quiet suburb where Indian families build their “American dream” one grocery run, one school pickup, one festival at a time. But on April 28th, 2019, that dream turned into a crime scene.…

  32. 185. The Khairlanji Massacre

    · 1 h 04 min

    On a quiet evening in September 2006, something horrifying happened in the small village of Khairlanji. By morning, four members of a single family were gone — and the village was silent. At first, the story seemed…

  33. 184. The Mysterious Death of Wasim Thajudeen

    · 53 min

    It's 10 p.m. on May 16, 2012, and Havelock Town pulses with the electric hum of Colombo's nightlife, a cold breeze from the Indian Ocean fans across Sri Lanka’s capital city. Inside El Greco nightclub, Wasim Thajudeen,…

  34. 183. Murder In A Church: Arlis Perry

    · 57 min

    On an October night in 1974, Stanford University was quiet in the way elite campuses often are after dark—orderly, confident, almost untouchable. Students slept behind locked doors, bells stood silent, and the church…

  35. 182. India's First Serial Killer: Ripper Chandran

    · 45 min

    In the mid-1980s, families across North Kerala began dying inside locked homes, attacked while asleep, with no signs of struggle and no witnesses. This episode unpacks the Ripper Chandran case — the fear that gripped…

  36. Chai and Chithi 32 w/Bhumi Satish Pednekkar

    · 34 min

    Welcome to Chai & Chithi, a segment where we read some of the scariest, most terrifying, and most haunting stories that YOU send in to us. In this week’s episode, we’re reading: Watch Daldal:…

  37. 181. The Orange Sock Murders

    · 1 h 01 min

    A moonless night in the Rocky Mountains. January 6, 1982. Snow has been dumping for hours over Colorado as temperatures plummet. Far above the ski lights of Breckenridge, on a remote mountain pass, tragedy had already…

  38. Are Cheaters Scarier or Ghosts? | The Last Sleepover Ep. 01

    · 58 min

    Welcome to Moment of Silence x Desi Crime: The Last Sleepover. Remember those sleepovers where you stayed up way too late; swapping rumours, gossiping, and trying to spook your best friends with scary stories? This is…

  39. 180. Aviation's Weirdest Hijacking: Air India 224

    · 1 h 05 min

    On the night of November 25, 1981, an Air India Boeing 707 descended toward Mahé in the Seychelles expecting a routine refuelling stop—and instead flew straight into a war zone. Below, a coup was unfolding. As tracer…

  40. 179. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Actress Murder: Maple Batalia

    · 47 min

    On a winter evening in January 2011, a university campus in British Columbia was slowly winding down. Classes were over, lights glowed softly inside lecture halls, and students moved through parking lots thinking about…

  41. 178. The Murder of Manjit Panghali

    · 36 min

    Recorded live at Apple BKC, Mumbai It began as a routine evening in Surrey — the kind that never makes headlines. Manjit Panghali stepped out, expecting to return home like she always did. But she didn’t. At first, it…

  42. 177. The Freemont Killer: Varun Suresh

    · 36 min

    This is the story of Freemont’s real life Dexter. This is the story of a 29-year-old Indian-American engineer, Varun Suresh. Get your hands on our favorite gum: https://neurogumindia.com For extra episodes, early…

  43. 176. The Murder of Saima Khan

    · 55 min

    Order our book, Desi Crime, available now on Amazon:https://amzn.in/d/0WyttKWGet the audiobook with our lovely voices: https://www.audible.in/pd/B0FK4L77SY?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007 On some nights, life moves…

  44. 175. The Man Who Solved 26/11, Kasaab & Indrani Mukherjee | Rakesh Maria

    · 2 h 38 min

    He solved the 1993 blasts, interrogated Ajmal Kasab, and reshaped Mumbai’s police force—Rakesh Maria is one of India’s most legendary cops. Listeners know we’ve been hinting at “that one guest” for years, and we can’t…

  45. Chai & Chithi 31 | The House That Waits

    · 50 min

    Sign up for our Today @ Apple session in Mumbai where you can watch a live Desi Crime Ep recording (for free), at the Apple BKC Store: https://apple.co/desi-crime-pod Welcome to Chai & Chithi, a segment where we read…

  46. 174. The Case That Broke India | Baby Falak

    · 50 min

    This is the story of one baby, left broken and battered at a Delhi hospital, who went on to change India. To know more about this case, watch Delhi Crime Season 3, now on Netflix! Some stories don’t begin with a…

  47. 173. The Murders of Bear Brook Forest

    · 54 min

    Order our book, Desi Crime, available now on Amazon:https://amzn.in/d/0WyttKW Get the audiobook with our lovely voices: https://www.audible.in/pd/B0FK4L77SY?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007 In the quiet woods of New…

  48. 172. The Rafay Family Murders

    · 1 h 07 min

    Order our book, Desi Crime, available now on Amazon:https://amzn.in/d/0WyttKW Get the audiobook with our lovely voices: https://www.audible.in/pd/B0FK4L77SY?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007 In the summer of 1994, a…

  49. 171. The Murder That Shook Kerala: Safiya Case

    · 51 min

    Order our book, Desi Crime, available now on Amazon:https://amzn.in/d/0WyttKW Get the audiobook with our lovely voices: https://www.audible.in/pd/B0FK4L77SY?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007 November 11, 2024. Kasaragod…

  50. 170. Murder in Kings Park: Corryn Rayney

    · 58 min

    Order our book, Desi Crime, available now on Amazon:https://amzn.in/d/0WyttKW Get the audiobook with our lovely voices: https://www.audible.in/pd/B0FK4L77SY?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007 On a calm September night in…

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