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.
98. The Death of Geetika Sharma
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 ...Afficher plus
On February 4, 2010 the McStay family disappeared without a trace from their home in Fallbrook, California. Over the years, the case made international headlines and everyone seemed to have a theory about what happened to the family of four: Did they walk over the border to Mexic ...Afficher plus
When Sherman McCrary met Carl Taylor, they quickly formed a wicked partnership. The father and son-in-law started writing bad checks together to support their families. But then checks gave way to guns and these small time criminals developed a sweet tooth for donuts and death. W ...Afficher plus
April 22nd: Wolf Family Murders (1920) Can one fight really lead to the death of an entire family? On April 22nd 1920 a family was killed in a case that, it would later be learned, was all the result of one small argument between farmers. *Suggested by duh.its.steph* https://bi ...Afficher plus
In mid-1994, the bodies of married couple Robin and Margaret Bain, and three of their four children, were discovered in their home in the city of Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand. They had all been shot to death. The only person to survive was the Bain's family oldest s ...Afficher plus