In January 2024, India was shocked by the arrest of Bengaluru tech entrepreneur Suchana Seth, accused of killing her four-year-old son in a Goa apartment and travelling toward Karnataka with his body concealed in her luggage.

But this is not a story usually associated with postpartum psychosis. Instead, the circumstances raise a much darker question: can a parent kill a child in order to punish the other parent? Against the backdrop of a bitter marital breakdown and conflict over the father’s access to his son, the case has drawn disturbing parallels with Medea, the ancient Greek tragedy in which a mother destroys what her husband loves most in order to make him suffer.

I first covered the Suchana Seth case just days after launching my YouTube channel in January 2024. In this episode, I return to the case, the evidence, the alleged motive, and the uncomfortable question at its centre: when the child becomes the weapon in a war between parents.

In the final part of the Armin Meiwes story, the case moves from the farmhouse in Wüstefeld to the German courts. Could a man be convicted of murder when his victim had voluntarily agreed to be killed? We follow Meiwes through two extraordinary trials, the legal battle over consent, the overturning of his first conviction, and the decision that ultimately sent him to prison for life. We also examine what happened to Meiwes after the trials, where he is today, and how German law finally answered one of the most disturbing questions raised by this case: can anyone legally consent to their own killing?

Before Armin Meiwes became known around the world as the German Cannibal, there was a childhood, an isolated life, a developing fantasy — and a cultural landscape filled with some of Europe’s darkest stories.

In Part 1 of this three-part series, we go back to the beginning of the Armin Meiwes case.

Who was Armin Meiwes before the crime that made international headlines? How did his childhood, family life and increasingly disturbing fantasies develop? And why do stories of cannibalism, forests, abandonment and violence appear so frequently in the supposedly familiar fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm?

This episode places Meiwes’s story against the darker side of German folklore before following the development of the fantasies that would eventually move beyond imagination and into the real world.

Before Armin Meiwes became known around the world as the “German Cannibal,” he was an intensely lonely child growing up in a troubled and deeply isolated home.

In Part 1 of this three-part true crime story, we go back to Armin Meiwes’ childhood to understand the experiences that shaped the fantasies that would eventually make him infamous. His father left when he was seven, his older brothers disappeared from his life, and Armin was raised largely by his controlling mother, Waltraud, in an enormous old mansion in the forests of Hesse, Germany.

Agnes Tirop was one of Kenya’s brightest athletic stars — an Olympian, two-time World Championships bronze medallist, World Cross Country champion and world-record-breaking distance runner. At just 25 years old, she appeared to have an extraordinary career ahead of her.Then, on 13 October 2021, Agnes was found dead inside her home in Iten, Kenya. She had been stabbed

In this episode of Kollectively Vigilant – Law & Crime, we trace Agnes Tirop’s remarkable rise in athletics, the relationship behind the public image, the circumstances surrounding her death, the investigation that followed

in this episode Dr D and Sam discuss the law and the psychology that worked in an asutrian case where an Austrian man abandoned his GF to die on top of the Alps Alpine divorce

तुर्की के सबसे कुख्यात cult leaders में से एक Adnan Oktar की कहानी आखिरकार 8,658 साल की जेल की सज़ा तक कैसे पहुँची?

इस एपिसोड में डॉक्टर डी, जो एक प्रोफेसर और लॉयर हैं, और सैम, जो एक साइकोलॉजिस्ट हैं, दोनों मिलकर Adnan Oktar के cult की कहानी, उसके followers पर उसके नियंत्रण और cult psychology को विस्तार से समझते हैं।

Steven Hassan के BITE Model की मदद से हम Behaviour Control, Information Control, Thought Control और Emotional Control को इस cult के संदर्भ में देखते हैं और समझते हैं कि recruitment, manipulation, indoctrination, coercive control और psychological dependency किस तरह लोगों को एक high-control group के भीतर बाँधे रख सकते हैं। हम cult deprogramming और cult से बाहर निकलने की मनोवैज्ञानिक कठिनाइयों पर भी चर्चा करते हैं।

साथ ही, आपको मिलेगा तुर्की के आधुनिक इतिहास का एक संक्षिप्त crash course, जिससे यह समझने में मदद मिलेगी कि उस समय के सामाजिक, धार्मिक और राजनीतिक माहौल में Adnan Oktar जैसा cult leader कैसे उभर सका।

Kollectively Vigilant का यह Hindi true crime episode cults, criminal psychology, law, manipulation और power की उस दुनिया की पड़ताल करता है जहाँ नियंत्रण धीरे-धीरे इतना गहरा हो सकता है कि व्यक्ति अपनी स्वतंत्र सोच तक खो सकता है।

How does one man build a cult powerful enough to control hundreds of lives—and how do intelligent, educated people become trapped inside it?

In this episode of Kollectively Vigilant, Dr. D, a professor and lawyer, and Sam, a counselor, examine the disturbing rise and fall of Adnan Oktar, Turkey’s infamous cult leader, who was ultimately sentenced

Using Steven Hassan’s BITE Model, we break down the psychology of cult control—behaviour, information, thought and emotional manipulation—while exploring recruitment, coercion, dependency, cult deprogramming and the immense difficulty of leaving a high-control group. Along the way, we take a crash course through modern Turkish history to understand the political, religious and social landscape that allowed a figure like Adnan Oktar to emerge.

A deep-dive true crime episode about power, manipulation, belief, sex, crime—and what happens when charismatic authority becomes almost absolute.

Henry Nowak Murder: Vickrum Digwa, the Kirpan Debate & UK Knife Laws

In December 2025, 18-year-old university student Henry Nowak was fatally stabbed in Southampton by Vickrum Digwa, a case that would ignite national controversy across Britain. Digwa was later convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, while his mother, Kiran Kaur, was jailed for assisting an offender.

But the Henry Nowak case became about far more than one murder. It raised disturbing questions about the police response, allegations of racism, Sikh kirpans and religious exemptions under UK knife law, and the political battle that followed the killing.

In this episode of Kollectively Vigilant – Law & Crime, Dr. D, a professor and lawyer, and Sam, a counsellor,examine the murder of Henry Nowak, the prosecution of Vickrum Digwa, and the difficult legal and social questions this extraordinary case left behind.

In May 2026, Twisha Sharma was found dead at her matrimonial home in Bhopal. Her death was initially reported as a suicide, while her family alleged dowry harassment, abuse and foul play. The case remains under investigation.

But this episode is not another attempt to conduct a trial through headlines, television debates or social media speculation. In this solo episode, Dr. D examines how the Twisha Sharma case was rapidly buried beneath salacious allegations about her private life—and how dead women are routinely placed on trial before the evidence has even been tested.

Why does the Indian media obsess over a woman’s relationships, habits and character while paying far less attention to the social and marital pressures under which women continue to die? From prominent actresses and models to women whose deaths never make national news, this episode examines dowry, victim-blaming and the machinery of the media trial.