Crimes From The East

The Burari Banyan Tree Ritual - Part 2

Were the deaths of 9 adults and 2 minors a suicide pact, cold blooded murder or a naïve accident? Did the last few days of the seemingly perfect Bhatia family hold any clues to their fate? We go over various facts, theories and speculate a LOT. 
Bollywood Corner - House of Secrets, B13

The Burari Banyan Tree Ritual - Part 1

On the 1st of July 2018, 10 members of the picture perfect happy Bhatia family in Burari, Delhi were found hanging from the ceiling & the oldest, 77 year old matriarch was found asphyxiated in the adjacent room. The public was chilled to the core & baffled by the weird occult overtones of the deaths. Hidden clues were found in diaries in the home and a terrible secret emerged. One the family had been keeping for 11 years.

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Masala News 06 - Drunk Rats & Ant Chutney

Travel back in time as we mysteriously seem to be in Diwali 2021 season! Yup this is a lost episode unreleased before this for no apparent reason. :D

Enjoy an almost exclusively animal & critter related Masala News edition or as we are calling this one, the Jungle News! Hear stories of Rats blamed for missing alcohol. marijoowana & even missing money from police custody & Alex talks about all kinds of exotic strange foods eaten in India.

Also tell us, what have Rats done for/to you lately?

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Deadly Delivery - Patnagarh Parcel Bombing

On a lazy afternoon in 2018, newlywed couple Soumya & Reema from Patnagarh, Odisha were trying to decide what to cook for lunch when a mysterious package was delivered to their home. Thinking it was a wedding gift Soumya opened it, unfortunately the package unleashed a deadly bomb & took the lives of Soumya & his grand aunt. Who had done this & why?

Bollywood Corner : Andhadhun

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Terror on Pan Am Flight 73 - Neerja Bhanot

On Sept 5th 1986, 4 hijackers held 379 people on board Flight 73 hostage in absolute terror for 16 long hours at the Karachi Airport before they erupted in reckless violence killing 22 people. 359 people survived thanks to the courage & calm shown by the brave 22 year old Flight Attendant Neerja Bhanot & her strong flight crew of 13. This is their story.

Bollywood Corner - Neerja

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Bangladesh Bank Cyber Heist

In 2016, a mysterious gang of cyber criminals carted off $81 million USD from Bangladesh Bank in Dhaka! It was no ordinary thievery & took nearly a year of infiltration & planning by these digital bandits. Listen up to a looong episode on this caper. Actual story starts around the 20 minute mark in case you wanna skip all our internet nostalgia talk.

Bollywood Corner - Chakra, Kannum Kannum Kollaiadithal

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Chamber of Secrets at the Padmanabhaswamy Temple

In 2011 Indian Courts ordered the secret vaults of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala to be opened & the wealth inventoried. What emerged was a treasure worth a whopping $22 BILLION USD! This was from just 1 of 6 secret chambers. Vault B remains unopened! Come hear about the history & myriad rumors about this fascinating Temple in South India.

Source - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/30/the-secret-of-the-temple

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Killer Curry - Murderous Wives

We explore some killer tales of wives murdering their husbands and cooking them into a curry. It happens a LOT! We talk about Zainab Bibi from Pakistan & Nagaratha from Singapore, Alex talks a bit about Omaima from the US & Katherine Knight from Australia. When these women got fed up they got cookin!

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Masala News 05 - Flip Flops & Horse Cars

As usual it's a handy dandy collection of news clips you probably didn't even need in your life but now that you hear them you will question the direction human evolution might be taking. 

We got tales of $8000 flip flops for sneaky cheaters, Horse Cars, potential new bovine God & resin condoms. Yikes.

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Crimes from the East Trailer

Swanky new Trailer for this Podcast where you can hear us spill the Chai on True Crime & Strange Phenomenon from South Asia. Namaste!

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