Evil can be anywhere and everyone. It can lurk in the shadows of your own home or your neighborhood. It can watch from a distance as you go about your day or it can stare at you right in your face. And most times, we don’t realize we came so close to evil till it’s already too late. For the victim in today’s story, that is exactly what happened. As this 7 year old went about his day, evil watched and in an instant, life for a family changed forever. This is the story of that 7 year old and a hunt that has lasted 20 years. This is the story of Rahul Raju.

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If there is any one thing common to all humans, regardless of race or age or ethnicity or the time period in which we lived, it is our longing for freedom. Freedom from coercion, freedom from oppression, freedom to choose, freedom to live. But sometimes, this freedom comes at a cost, a cost we don’t even know we need to pay until it's far too late. Freedom is all one 17 year old Pakistani British girl longed for and freedom is what she never got. This is the story of that one 17 year old. This is the story of Shafelia Ahmed.  

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Valentine's is all about being lovey dovey. But not all dates turn out like that. Some can be creepy, or outright horrid. Today's episode is a collection of just that. The scariest dating stories you have ever heard.

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For over a decade, Cyanide Mallika preyed on women in Karnataka, luring them with promises of wealth and spiritual rituals before poisoning them with cyanide-laced food or water. She would convince her victims to remove their jewelry for a cleansing ritual, then kill them and flee with their valuables. Her crimes went unnoticed until 2007, when investigators linked a series of similar deaths, leading to her arrest. But was Mallika the only woman in India’s history to kill this way—or just the one who got caught?

One bathtub, three dead bodies, a marriage in turmoil and a feverish lover. The house on 20 Grass Tree Close, Bridgman Downs, Queensland, Australia holds all the answers. Who is behind Queensland's largest ever investigation?

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The case that we have for you today is one that India took a long time to make peace with. With the heinous nature of the murder, the gory details of the crime, all recorded on video tape by the authorities for the first time in the Indian judicial system and the incredibly high profile lives of the people involved, this case shook the country. This is the story of the granddaughter of the Dewan of Mysore, whose glorious life came to a crashing end in a way that can only be described as people's worst nightmare. This is the story of Shakereh Khaleeli.

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In 2007, a young couple from Haryana, Manoj and Babli, dared to defy their families and khap traditions by marrying within the same gotra, sparking outrage in their conservative community. However, their pursuit of freedom came under threat when Babli’s family accused Manoj of abduction, setting off a chilling chain of events.

Usually, when we cover cases on this podcast, we talk of the stories of a singular victim. A woman raped, a man murdered, a child kidnapped. And that one victim’s story is enough to enrage us; to make us feel sorrow and anger. But what happens when crime organizes itself across a whole city, engulfing more than 500 victims, destroying lives and scarring generations? This is the story of one such crime that has somehow been erased from our common psyche; this is the story of the Ajmer sex scandal.

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Welcome to Chai & Chithi, a segment where we read some of the scariest, most terrifying, and most haunting stories that YOU send in to us. In this week’s episode, we’re reading:

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