82. Not So Jolly Joseph (Pt.2) - 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

Jolly’s whole family was dead. Well, almost all of them, but she never let that get her down. But this time, her friends noticed - something was very wrong with Jolly. 

She seemed out of it at the small gathering.

Anytime someone tried talking to her - she would gl ...

Joyce Sowa gave up her independence when she fell for a real estate agent named Bryant Parker. The couple soon wed, but it wasn't long before Bryant's charm wore off. His anger escalated, and soon their troubles left Joyce with a bleeding heart.Want even more true crime? Stream f ...  Show more

Even after Phyllis Phares' husband passed away, she insisted on staying in her friendly neighborhood on the west side of Charleston, West Virginia. But life takes a turn for the worse when the Mallo family moves in across the street. From the start, the family is an aggressive bu ...  Show more

To what extent can one know misfortune ? How many tragedies can occur in a life, and continuously break some rare periods of happiness ? For Manuela Gonzalez-Cano, there seems to be no limit : in 25 years, she had lost three husbands. Suicide, fire, depression... Each of her comp ...  Show more