What’s in a name? Astrologers would argue two syllables might entail your entire destiny; such is the power of a name. But what if your life is the exact opposite of what your name portends? Our protagonist today bears such a name. Her name is Jolly. Jolly Joseph. One of her neighbors went on record to say, “Jolly seemed like the perfect woman to us.” If you didn’t know any more about her, you’d assume that praising a person in a true crime podcast implies that they are the victim, or soon to be victim. Here you have a pretty girl, everyone loves her, and her name means ‘joy’. But I urge you to keep aside your preconceived notions for this episode. This is the story still shakes Kerelaites to their core; this is the story of Jolly Amma Joseph.

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Every film industry seems to have a dark underbelly. It seems to have countless unexplained murders, mysterious disappearances and ties to high profile criminal activity. Bollywood is the same way. From Sri Devi to Jia Khan, from Pratyusha Banerjee to Raj Kiran, crime seems to seep through our industry, leaving behind death and devastation. This is the story of one such crime that shook Bollywood, the story of a family, massacred. This is the story of Laila Khan.

Latifa was onboard a 100 ft yacht, Nostromo. The ship had set sail from Muscat on February 24, 2018. The objective was to transport princess Latifa and her friend Tina to the shores of Goa. Although the seafaring voyage was meant to last a few weeks, Latifa’s journey had started long before. In fact decades before. This was merely the final leg of a lifelong plot to escape her father’s fangs. Did Latifa manage to escape or did her father’s grasp finally catch up with her? Find out, in part 2 of Latifa: The Missing Princess of Dubai.

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The best way to break a spell of awkward silence with your friends is to ask this simple question: what would you give up for a billion dollars? This question takes many forms: would you give up your arms, or your legs, or vision or your relationship, and the toughest of them all… would you give up your dog for a billion dollars? A princess in Dubai faced this dilemma. Not posed by her friends, but by her very life’s circumstances. The question was: would you give up your freedom for a billion dollars? This is the story of Dubai’s missing princess.

In Part I of the Sheena Bora Murder, we told you the story of a seemingly broken family the wounds of which had led to murder. A famous Mumbai police cop had received a tip of a missing woman, a body had been buried and the name of a murderer had emerged. This body was of Sheena Bora, sister of famous Mumbai socialite Indrani Mukherjea. But was Sheena really Indrani’s sister? We had successfully covered the who-dun-it part of this mystery. Today, we’re covering the why-dun-it. Welcome to part II of the Sheena Bora Murder.

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A commonality across all families is struggle, hard times, broken relationships, and dirty laundry we keep to ourselves. Regardless, we love our families. Whether it’s those horrible teenage years where you can’t stop arguing with your parents or whether you were blessed with a sibling completely your opposite or whether your mother hates her mother-in-law, these problems are common and universal across time and culture. But some families have secrets deeper and darker than these. Some families have secrets that leave lives destroyed. Families that give credence to the saying, “with a family like this, who needs enemies?“. This is the story of one such family- the Bora family. This is the Sheena Bora murder case.

22 year old Nadia Malik is nowhere to be found. All we know is that her partner, Bhupinder Singh, picked her up in a black Nissan Altima around February 6th. She got in probably thinking it’s a car ride that will last a few minutes. But minutes turned into hours, hours turned into days, and the days turned into a week, yet Nadia was nowhere to be seen. An unsuspecting sedan turned into a car ride that would never end. Welcome back to part 2 of the unsolved case of Nadia Malik.

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A murder involves a murderer, the murdered, a murder weapon and more often than not, a motive. This template is true for most cases covered on our podcast, and on any true crime podcast for that matter. But where there is a rule, there is an exception. The case we have for you today is one such exception. This case has a murder, but no murder weapon, no motive, and no murderer. This is the story of a 22 year old girl that shook the city of Philadelphia, this is the story of Nadia Malik.

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When in 1999, the body of a beautiful 34 year old model and celebrity bartender was found lying on the floor of the fancy Tamarind Court restaurant in Mehrauli in New Delhi, with a clear bullet wound to her head, her family and the cops thought this was an open and shut case. This was a party of 300 some people, after all. Someone has to have seen someone, someone will come forward. There should’ve been no dearth of evidence in the case at all. And 7 years after the crime, the verdict was out. The Times of India printed the verdict on the front page of their February 22’ 2006 paper. “No one killed Jessica”. This is the story of that night in 1999 when Jessica Lal was killed, yet somehow nobody killed her. This is the story of Jessica Lal.