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The Desi Crime Podcast

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 53 min
Latest: 4 Oct 2026
Language: English

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4 Oct 2026 · 59 minNew

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

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 frightened her so badly. The caller said he was ready to go to jail for her for twenty-one years. He did not say what for. By then, a car had already been set ablaze and a twenty-one-year-old man was dead, and within two days, three people would be charged with his murder. This is the story of that one car, that one death, and those 3 people. This is the story of Gagandip Singh. Hosted…

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26 Sep 2026 · 40 min

209. Murder in Room 1701 | Wendy Albano

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 and stabbed repeatedly. There was no obvious sign of who could have wanted Wendy dead. But the hotel’s CCTV held one crucial clue: Wendy hadn’t arrived in Bangkok alone. For days, cameras had captured her with a mysterious young man, almost half her age. And just hours before her body was discovered, that man had picked up his bags, walked out of the hotel, and disappeared. For…
20 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

208. Murder at DuPont Plaza Hotel | Krishna Maharaj

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 Trinidad, who had arrived in London fourteen years earlier with nothing and drove a lorry for a living. By then he owned a hundred racehorses and had gone through twenty-four Rolls-Royces. Twelve years later, he was eating dinner at a Denny's near Miami airport when a detective slid into the booth beside him, pressed a gun into his side, and told him to get up and act like a…
13 Sep 2026 · 53 min

207. The Chameli Bagh Murders | Oishee Rahman

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, the date was observed across the country as the National Day of Mourning. But on August 15, 2013, as Bangladesh remembered the violence of the past, another home in Dhaka was becoming the scene of a mystery of its own. The apartment belonged to Mahfuzur Rahman, an inspector with the Special Branch of the Bangladesh Police, and his wife, Swapna Rahman. From the outside, there…
30 Aug 2026 · 53 min

206. A Werewolf in Virginia | Pankaj Bhasin

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 a street in one of the safest neighbourhoods in Virginia. Her grown daughter was in the passenger seat. She got out to put money in the parking meter, which took her perhaps forty seconds, and in those forty seconds a man got into her car. He was covered in blood from the arms down, with a trail of blood on the pavement behind him. He was not wearing pants and had a marker in…
22 Aug 2026 · 55 min

205. Murder Trial Of The Century | Ananda Sathasivam Case

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 best cricketers on the planet, he would be the first person he picked. Garry Sobers called him the greatest batsman who had ever lived. And was not just admired for how well he played. He was a celebrity. He walked out to bat wearing a silk shirt and a cravat. He practised his shots in front of a mirror every morning. Women who had never watched a cricket match before came only…
16 Aug 2026 · 57 min

204. Murder in Monte Sereno | Raveesh Kumra

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, then got on a plane to America in 1970 and built success. That night he was lying on the floor of his own seven thousand square foot mansion, in one of the safest towns in the United States, with tape across his mouth. The other was twenty-six. He was homeless. He had been homeless most of his life. That night he was lying on the pavement outside a corner shop in downtown San…
9 Aug 2026 · 54 min

203. The Orkut Murder | Adnan Patrawala

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 messages, tonight, like most nights for the past 3 weeks, is a girl. Her name is Angel. Angel is flirty. Angel is funny. Angel keeps saying they should meet. And the boy is interested, but he's being smart about it. Before anything else, he wants one thing: a photo. Send me a photo. And Angel keeps dodging. Week after week. A teenage standoff, playing out one scrap at a time.…
3 Aug 2026 · 55 min

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

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, write to us at staydesi [at] thedesistudios [dot] com. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join Download the game here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sd5kPlSXJm1rxLm1NEnJ1l9rWe8dCqBB/view?usp=drivesdk For fastest updates,…
2 Aug 2026 · 47 min

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

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 names were becoming larger than the crimes attached to them, turning into a strange mixture of warning, legend and aspiration. But one of the most extraordinary stories from that world did not begin with a drug deal, a revenge killing or a man walking into a nightclub with a gun. It began inside a courtroom where six men stood trial for executing two brothers at the centre of…
25 Jul 2026 · 49 min

201. The 999 Call from Pakistan | Sara Sharif

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. This is the story of a case that horrified the UK and beyond-- a case of bruises, broken trust, unanswered warnings, and a little girl who had been failed by the very people meant to protect her. This is the heartbreaking story of the killing of Sara Sharif. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios Join our YouTube…
20 Jul 2026 · 42 min

200. Murder in the Penthouse | Fahim Saleh

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 continents, becoming known as an ambitious founder with roots in Bangladesh and a reputation for seeing opportunity where others saw risk. To the outside world, he was successful, driven, and surrounded by possibility. But inside that New York apartment, something had gone terribly wrong. Inside that apartment, was a scene so disturbing, it would shock investigators, horrify…
11 Jul 2026 · 50 min

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

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 one morning, inside their apartment, everything changed. Two of them would never make it out alive. At first, the case seemed to point outward-- to strange sightings and possible intruders. But as investigators looked closer, the story became far more complicated. Timelines shifted. Suspicions changed. And a case that seemed like it should have a clear answer became one of the…
4 Jul 2026 · 26 min

198. Murder in The Hague | Sharmila Shinde

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 nowhere to be seen. When investigators entered her home, what they found inside would turn this disappearance into one of the most chilling cases connected to the Indian community in the Netherlands. This is the story of that one woman, and that one home in the Hague. This is the story of Sharmila Shinde. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at:…
26 Jun 2026 · 46 min

197. The Lohagad Murder | Ketan Agarwal & Siya Goyal

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 it stayed exactly what it looked like: a tragic trekking accident. But his fiancée Siya Goyal, a man in a hoodie named Chetan Chaudhary, 2004 phone calls, and a string of earlier attempts nobody saw coming turned this into one of the most disturbing cases India has followed in 2026. We break down every credible thread the police have pulled so far in the Ketan Agarwal murder…
20 Jun 2026 · 42 min

196. The Santa Serial Killer | Bruce McArthur

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 them freedom. They moved through bars, dating apps, friendships, and chosen families — until, one by one, they seemed to vanish. At first, there were rumours. Then there was fear. People in the community warned each other that something was wrong, that someone was targeting men who were already easy for the world to overlook. But the warnings were dismissed for far too long.…
14 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

195. The TikTok Killers | Mahek & Ansreen Bukhari

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 mother, Ansreen Bukhari, who were convicted of orchestrating the deaths of 21-year-olds Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin after a relationship threatened to become public. What began as an online scandal ended in a fiery crash on a dark English highway. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios Join our…
7 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

194. The Ripper of Kerala | K P Jayanandan

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 that the whole country would soon be talking about it. In the weeks that followed, a name would surface. A name that became folklore, the kind of name parents used to frighten children, the kind the newspapers printed in the heightened language usually saved for natural disasters. They called him the Ripper. The trouble is, twenty years from the crime, nobody can tell you for…
30 May 2026 · 27 min

Chai & Chithi 34 | The Haunted Painting

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, write to us at staydesi [at] thedesistudios [dot] com. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join For fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya…
24 May 2026 · 39 min

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

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 dangerous. He typed back. How would they find out. Three days later, two Bangladeshi doctoral students at the University of South Florida — two young people who were quietly planning to spend the rest of their lives together — would disappear. This is the story of Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, and the machine that, allegedly, was asked to help plan their deaths. For extra…
16 May 2026 · 45 min

192. Vanishing in Parvati Valley | Justin Alexander Shetler

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 story of that man. But this is also the story of the Parvati Valley—a sliver of the Indian Himalayas so staggeringly beautiful and so consistently deadly that the list of people who have walked in and never walked out reads less like a police register and more like a haunting. And it is the story of a phenomenon called India syndrome, a kind of spiritual psychosis that has…
9 May 2026 · 34 min

191. The Tragic Death of Matthew Perry

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 was simple: a troubled man, a long battle with addiction, a tragic but unsurprising end. But the investigation that followed pulled at a thread that unraveled something far bigger than one man's overdose. Behind that body in that hot tub was a supply chain so elaborate, so layered, that it involved 2 doctors, a middleman, a personal assistant, and at its center, a woman who…
11 Apr 2026 · 54 min

190. Murder on Reality TV | The Villupuram Case

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 a family ate dinner every night literally above the truth of those 3 missing people. What finally brought it to the surface wasn't a detective or a tip or a breakthrough in forensics. It was a reality TV show. A reality show where, one may afternoon, the cameras rolled, the conversation began. And then, under the searing studio lights, in front of a live audience, on a show…
8 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

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

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 of all Desi Crime episodes on the story, followed by a segment on what we know now as of April 2026. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join For fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Aryaan…
5 Apr 2026 · 33 min

189. The Fairfax Family Massacre

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 almost nothing: domestic assault, 2 victims. He has handled these calls before. You show up, you separate the parties, you take statements, you file a report. Most of the time, the situation has already cooled by the time you arrive. Most of the time, nobody is actively dying when you open the door. This is not most of the time. What Nicholas is about to walk into, what his bodycam…
23 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

188. The Pramod Mahajan Murder

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 Maharashtra. The man who organized Advani's Ram Rath Yatra. The man who, as India's Telecom Minister, helped put a mobile phone in every Indian's pocket. Corporate India courts him. Delhi's power corridors bend around him. He is being spoken about, in hotel lobbies and drawing rooms across the capital, as a future Prime Minister. And for the last 6 months, astrologers have…
15 Mar 2026 · 52 min

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

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 announcer's PA system, repeated hundreds of times over several days, until it becomes just background noise to the people who have heard it their whole lives. That name is Syed Modi. What the crowds in those stadiums rarely talk about--what the gleaming trophy and the BWF World Tour branding don’t mention--is that Syed Modi was twenty-five years old when two men shot him dead…
7 Mar 2026 · 38 min

Chai & Chithi 33 | The Girl On My Ceiling

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, write to us at staydesi [at] thedesistudios [dot] com. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join For fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya…
1 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

186. The West Chester Quadruple Murder

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. Inside a single apartment, four adults from one Indian family were found shot dead— not together, but scattered like someone had moved through the home with purpose. A woman on the kitchen floor. An elderly aunt lying in the hallway. A mother-in-law in the living room. And the father-in-law inside a bedroom. There was no broken door. No struggle loud enough for neighbors to hear.…
22 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

185. The Khairlanji Massacre

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 unclear, almost deliberately so. But as details slowly surfaced, the crime revealed something far darker than a simple act of violence. What happened in Khairlanji wasn’t just brutal — it exposed wounds that ran deep within Indian society, and sparked outrage that would shake an entire state. This is the story of the Khairlanji Massacre. For extra episodes, early access, silly…

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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Desi Crime Podcast

Latest episode

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

Earlier episodes 29 most recent

209. Murder in Room 1701 | Wendy Albano

208. Murder at DuPont Plaza Hotel | Krishna Maharaj

207. The Chameli Bagh Murders | Oishee Rahman

206. A Werewolf in Virginia | Pankaj Bhasin

205. Murder Trial Of The Century | Ananda Sathasivam Case

204. Murder in Monte Sereno | Raveesh Kumra

203. The Orkut Murder | Adnan Patrawala

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

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

201. The 999 Call from Pakistan | Sara Sharif

200. Murder in the Penthouse | Fahim Saleh

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

198. Murder in The Hague | Sharmila Shinde

197. The Lohagad Murder | Ketan Agarwal & Siya Goyal

196. The Santa Serial Killer | Bruce McArthur

195. The TikTok Killers | Mahek & Ansreen Bukhari

194. The Ripper of Kerala | K P Jayanandan

Chai & Chithi 34 | The Haunted Painting

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

192. Vanishing in Parvati Valley | Justin Alexander Shetler

191. The Tragic Death of Matthew Perry

190. Murder on Reality TV | The Villupuram Case

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

189. The Fairfax Family Massacre

188. The Pramod Mahajan Murder

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

Chai & Chithi 33 | The Girl On My Ceiling

186. The West Chester Quadruple Murder

185. The Khairlanji Massacre

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