Imagine you are at a desolate temple with no one in sight. You are performing a special ritual that will relieve you of all your troubles then, a lady approaches you and offers you some water as part of the ritual. You start drinking it and as you finish it your vision begins to fade and the lady stands in front of you, waiting for you to die. The story you will hear today involves a serial killer, sociopath that will leave you speechless. The unique manner in which she carried out the murders, her motive and her life story will get you thinking as to can this happen to anyone? This person also has the distinction of being the first convicted female serial killer of India.

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Timestamps:

00:00: Introduction

3:23: Mysterious murders begin

12:43: Arrest of Jayamma

15:23: Confession

18:00: Kempamma's childhood, scams, killing ritual and planning

30:46: Court Trial

32:20: Challenging societal stereotypes

Disappearances are happening in small Chinese town of Nehe. This is a story where you will not see the end coming your way and a sequence of events that will make you scratch your head. Do listen to it till the end.

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Time Stamps

00:00: Introduction

01:06: Musings about China

02:09: enter Xiu Lin, the runaway kindergarten teacher

04:56: enter Jia Wang, the handsome, rich man

10:03: Xiu and Jia head to his apartment

12:06: more missing person reports coming from Nehe

15:08: news about Nehe disappearances spreads and police investigation

16:21: unexpected lead from a random search at a railway station

19:33: search at Jia Yang’s apartment

22:06: what happened to Xiu?

27:25: questioning Xiu’s decisions and Jia Wang’s backstory

30:59: remorse, confession and punishment

33:17: concluding thoughts

Imagine you are in the early 1800s in the dense forests of central India. You are traveling by a small pathway used by travelers in that area. As you are walking you hear the sounds of Hyenas laughing, you quicken your pace but as you look sideways something much worse comes out. A large group of men surround you then make way for a man in a turban, walking towards you with a yellow handkerchief in hand. Unbeknownst to you or anyone else at that time, the handkerchief was his murder weapon and you were captured by the most prolific serial killer in the history of the world - Behram Jemedar.

It is recorded that Thug Behram confessed to killing more than 931 people in his lifetime and this man till date, hold the guinness world record for the most prolific murderer ever to have lived. This story will leave you speechless.

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Time Stamps:

00:00: Introduction

2:23: Present day locations

3:54: The OG ‘Thug life’

5:24: Behram’s childhood

7:20: Behram’s entrance test and first recorded kill

11:25: How the Thugs operated

13:19: Behram’s rise and terror, Britishers take notice

14:49: Behram’s power grows, his cult and rules

16:40: Panic and fear of the thugs, their unique strategies and secret language

20:59: Behram’s ingenious killing method, murder weapon and world record

24:21: Dolly and the love story

28:28: Enter Sleeman and investigation starts

32:04: Capture of Amir Ali

34:30: Capture of Behram, confession and staggering death count

36:53: Trial of Behram and British excesses

38:39: Sleeman’s legacy

40:29: Thoughts and did the British manipulate the story?