182. India's First Serial Killer: Ripper Chandran

31 Jan 2026 · 45 min

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

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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 entire districts, the investigative blind spots of the time, and the moment India was forced to understand serial crime for the first time.

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