He wasn’t a stranger. He was their son. Her brother. The quiet one. But in April 2017, after meticulous planning, he turned their home into a slaughterhouse.

Four family members murdered. Bodies burned. A dummy left behind to mislead the police.
What turned a son into a remorseless killer?

This episode of Kerala Crime Files retraces the horror that unfolded in Kerala’s capital.

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He was family. He shared meals and memories. but one day, he became the villain of their lives.
In a quiet home just 200 metres from a police station, six lives were snuffed out in a single night.

What followed was a manhunt that pushed the limits of Kerala’s investigative capabilities and rewrote forensic history. But the most disturbing detail? The killer didn’t flee in panic. He stayed. He waited. And then he vanished.

This episode of Kerala Crime Files unravels the story of the Aluva massacre, a case where betrayal wore a familiar face, and the most trusted became the most feared.

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He was the man who terrorised border villages for a year—brutal, unpredictable, and unrepentant. But what unfolded after his conviction was unlike anything India had seen.

For four long years on death row, Muthukutti Chandran—later dubbed Ripper Chandran—lived in the shadows of the gallows, slipping through execution dates, hiding sleeping pills to end his life on his terms, and then giving them away as a token of friendship.

This episode of Kerala Crime Files peels back the layers of a chilling case—one that saw the court’s verdict delayed by public sentiment, rare rope shortages, missing hangmen, and a convict’s astonishing transformation behind bars.

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In 1980, Kerala was rocked by one of its most chilling twin murders. A peaceful home in Meenthalakkara turned into a crime scene, and the nation watched as a relative—once lovingly called Madrasile Mon—emerged as the prime suspect.

This is the story of the Karikkanvilla Murder and the man at its centre: Reni George. A drug-addicted killer who became a preacher. A death row convict who went on to win the Citizen of the Year award.

In this debut episode of Kerala Crime Files, we revisit the brutal crime that shook a village, the gripping police investigation that followed, and the extraordinary transformation of a man who found faith and purpose inside prison walls.

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