25. The Mysterious Facebook Deaths - India

Welcome to Chai and Chithi, a segment where we take fan stories mailed in to us, as well as share some of our more personal ghastly experiences. Mail in your spooky, crime or desi stories to desicrime@thebranchmedia.org. 

Over the last decade, India has been home to a slew of unexpected, scandalous and devastating suicides with sinister back stories. These suicides, those of Jiya Khan, Pratyusha Banjerjee, Sushant Singh Rajput, Tunisha Sharma and more, weren’t just stories of people who gave up on ...  Show more

Nothing seemed to be amiss when 27 year-old Shraddha Walkar matched with Aftab Poonawala on the dating app Bumble. Yet, a few years into their relationship, Shraddha became unreachable to friends and family, with authorities later discovering that her phone had been switched o ...

Nothing seemed to be amiss when 27 year-old Shraddha Walkar matched with Aftab Poonawala on the dating app Bumble. Yet, a few years into their relationship, Shraddha became unreachable to friends and family, with authorities later discovering that her phone had been switched o ...

An online love triangle spirals into a deadly obsession. Thomas Montgomery, a married man in his mid-forties, pretends to be a younger Marine named “Tommy” in an internet chat room. He meets “Talhotblond,” an online persona used by an 18-year-old high schooler named Jessi. 

A social media blogger is tied up in her home and her husband is abducted, and later found dead. Police soon have a web of suspects, and learn that appearances and the truth can be far from the same.

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