Rotten Mango - #337: 13 yr old Girl & 45 yr old Housekeeper KILLED In Locked House - Police Suspects "Secret Affair”
Episode Date: February 18, 2024“I can’t let you in…” The housekeeper was confused - what does the mom mean she can’t let me in? “Could you just toss the keys from your balcony?” The mother threw her keys from the balc...ony and vanished into the house. The housekeeper walked into the house and it was immediately chaos. The mother was hysterical - the father was banging his head on the wall. The mother threw her arms around the housekeeper. She cried and ushered her to a bedroom, “Come, come, inside and see what happened!” Lying in her bed was the family’s 13 year old daughter, dead. Her throat slit ear to ear. Her body looked posed and so were her stuffed animals, though they were eerily free of any blood or splatter. This case would become known as the JonBenét Ramsey case of India. Rumors of cheating, black mail, revenge, honor killings, truth serum, grooming and orgies consumed the media but the only thing we know for certain is - whoever her killer or killers are – they are free. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Barty rang the doorbell of the dentist's home it's friday morning 6 a.m i mean
yeah it's kind of early but they hired her to be here so she's kind of confused why nobody's
answering the door for her she's looking around tapping her foot hello ding she rings it again
no answer now usually the live-in staff member, Hemraj, opens the door for her, but
I don't know, maybe he's off today. She's starting to get anxious because she has a whole list of
other people's houses that she has to clean all day long, and she's supposed to finish the dentist
house in the morning. Ding! She's only been working here for the past week, and she's thinking,
I think I have a good eye for people. I mean, they don't seem like the type to just leave in the middle of the night or be out partying so hard that they don't make it back
until the morning. The homeowners are two dentists in their mid-40s. They've got a 13-year-old
daughter at home. Maybe they're just sleeping in. Maybe they're scrambling to answer the door.
Barty reasons with herself and in the meantime,'s thinking I'll just be extra efficient I can
go grab the mop from outside and by the time that I get back Nuper the mom of the house is going to
open the door for me and there she is standing at the other side of the door I can't let you in
to get into the Tovar's house you need to get past three doors the first is like an iron grill door so you can
see through it but it's really heavy it's almost like a gate once you get past that you walk into
a small enclosed hallway with two doors presented in front of you you've got one on the right that
is the door to the live-in staff member's room so that's hemorrhage's room it connects to the
hallway but also into the main house then you have in front of you two more
doors you've got a mesh door once you pass through that there's one final wooden door that you have
to pass through and now you are standing in the residence Nuper opened the wood door but not the
mesh one and she's staring at Bardi and she's like could you open the door for me please like
Hemraj wasn't around I need to go inside and I need to clean Nuper could not open the door for me, please? Like, Hemraj wasn't around. I need to go inside and I need to clean.
Nupur could not open the door.
The mesh door has a two-way lock.
It can be bolted from the outside,
meaning Nupur could only unlock the door from the inside,
but if someone doesn't have the key from the outside,
they can't unlock it from the outside.
Both sides need to be unlocked for you to be able to get inside.
Someone locked the door from the outside?
Yeah, which is normally how it works.
Like, I guess they lock themselves in.
But they can also open it from the inside.
Like, unlock it.
It's a little complicated.
So you're saying this door requires two ways to be unlocked.
So someone locked it from the outside and technically left.
Yes.
And whoever's inside is being locked inside.
Yes. But technically, you could go through hemorrhage's room and then you'll be outside the mesh door and you could
unlock it so it's not like you're trapped inside now bardy does not have the key newport tells
bardy maybe you can wait until hemorrhage gets back i think that he just went to go get some
milk and then he's gonna unlock the door for you bardy's like i don't have that kind of time this
is not the only house on my schedule today.
I need to get it moving.
I'm sure you have another set of keys, Mrs. Tolvar.
Could you just toss it out your balcony?
I could unlock it and start coming inside and cleaning.
I mean, it's not a bad idea, but I wonder if it's an idea that Barty would regret having.
New Per the mom went up to the balcony and threw the keys down.
Bardi opens the doors, walks into the home, and suddenly it's chaos. Nupur, the mom,
who had just moments ago tossed her the keys from the balcony, was now hysterical.
Rajesh, the father, was banging his head on the wall. And Bardi's initial thought was,
oh my God, they were robbed. Nupur, the mom, comes up to Barty, throws her arms around her and starts crying.
And she's like, what's wrong?
What's wrong, Mrs. Tovar?
Is everything okay?
Why are you sobbing?
Nupur just kept pointing at one of the rooms.
Go, go, go inside and see what happened.
Barty walked into the room and there, laying on her bed, was the family's 13-year-old daughter
dead with her throat slit from ear to ear. They call this the John Bonnet Ramsey case of India.
In the end, five people will be arrested for her murder, two convicted, two released,
and rumors of wife-swapping parties, blackmail, affairs, honor killings, revenge,
and obsessed admirers are just going to start circling the media. The only thing that we know
for certain in this case is whoever her killer or her killers are, they are free.
So let's get into the locked house mystery of the Noida double murders. We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mango to
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these causes. As always, full show notes are available at rottenminglepodcast.com. But really
quick, before we get started, this case is currently unsolved. There are so many speculations
and netizen theories available and pulled from the internet. Almost every case detail can be spun to
fit each theory as many of the
testimonies and reports have changed over the times. And though there has been no legal resolution
at this time that the episode has been published, there was this very informative book on the case
by Avrukh Sen titled Arushi. Some would argue that his work favors the parents. So with that being
said, we have done our best to remain as neutral as possible and have pulled from other sources as well our source material was translated by professional
researchers but again as always please let us know in the comments if anything is misrepresented or
lost in translation or if you have any additional information on this case or even just your opinion
i would love to know in the comments this case also discusses the suspected essay of a minor so
please watch
at your own discretion. A lot of the evidence that we talk about today has been tampered with
and or contaminated, and even the people who were involved in the collection of evidence,
they seem to have strong biases of who they think committed the crimes, so it's really hard to
separate the bias from the facts. After thoroughly researching this case with two of our wonderful
Urdu-speaking researchers, we still feel like we have no idea who did it and again we are not here to persuade investigate or
push an agenda towards a particular theory we have no political emotional personal mental skin in the
game on this one we just want to share the facts of this case through purposeful storytelling in
hopes of doing both victims justice so with that being said have you ever been in hopes of doing both victims justice. So with that being said, have
you ever been to one of those murder mystery escape rooms? Oh yeah. We have to go room to room
gathering all the clues and only when you solve the mystery can you escape the game, right? May 16,
2008, the toll of our house had turned into a murder mystery game. Neighbors, family members,
friends, random people who see a commotion outside
the house, they just started walking in through the open front door. They start going from room
to room. They walk through the entire home, even where 13-year-old Arushi is laying dead in her bed
and they're all gathering their own little clues. It's not fenced off no it took the police one hour to arrive at the residence for that hour
the crime scene was more of like a solve-it-yourself murder mystery game with friends family press
neighbors curious strangers all poking their heads in and investigating what the hell is going on
some of them even start cleaning up around the house thinking they're helping the grieving family
members they start cleaning while the murdered body of a 13-year-old
lay in the next room.
They cleaned the house.
What's up with the whiskey bottle
on the dining room table?
It's got little specks of blood on it.
Did you see that?
That's the thing that alerted Rajesh,
the dad, that something was wrong.
He woke up from the commotion
of Barty trying to get into the house,
the housekeeper that morning.
He wakes up, he walks out to the dining room and he sees his bottle of whiskey sitting there.
He's like, we all went to sleep at 1130 the night before.
None of us drank any whiskey.
So that bottle was supposed to be in the cabinet.
Why is it out?
Immediately, the parents start walking towards Arushi's room, not because they think that she drank the whiskey, but more instinctively than anything. But the very alarming part of this was when they saw that their daughter's
room door was open just a crack. Her room door was always locked when she went to sleep. Why was it
open? So they make a run for it. They run into her room and their only child, their precious daughter,
had been murdered while they slept nine feet away. Nine feet away in their
bedroom. Arushi was dead in her bed and everything about this crime scene was horrific. There was
blood splattered all over the walls. Her pillow was soaked in blood and the blood was now dripping
onto the floor. Arushi was laying in her bed almost entirely covered by her colorful blankets and her head
was covered by her school tote bag. Arushi's parents reached and pulled the bag back and her
forehead was crushed by some sort of blunt force trauma to the head. Her throat had been slit from
ear to ear. There was so much blood that Arushi's dad would later think to himself that his child,
his only child, looked like a red doll.
And immediately, two things were very noticeable.
One, Arushi's phone that she had always kept on her nightstand was now missing.
Two, there were small plushies arranged on Arushi's bed that did not have blood splatter on them.
Whoever did this to Arushi put the little stuffed dolls next to her dead dying body after they murdered her.
So there's blood splatter underneath the dolls.
Meaning if the dolls had already been there, they would have gotten blood on them.
Yeah, yeah.
But someone had placed it on top of the blood.
What kind of doll is that?
Like little stuffed rabbits.
The guests are walking around.
Did you notice the water spot underneath her body?
It's like someone tried to clean her or something. You think they tried to clean her? It was right
underneath her pelvis area. Well, I searched practically every inch of this house. There
were no signs of a break-in anywhere, so whoever did this also knew the family well. Speaking of,
I think it's the live-in staff member. Again, the guests, I don't know if you can even call them
that. They start sharing their theories about Hemraj,
the live-in staff member of the house.
If you connect the dots, it all leads back to him.
Like the whiskey bottle on the dining table.
What if, what if the live-in staff member, Hemraj,
got super drunk and decided to essay Arushi?
He snuck into her room, started assaulting her,
and when she woke up and started fighting back,
he was so scared that she was going to tell her parents he killed her. I mean, that explains the whiskey bottle, the wet
spot underneath Arushi. Maybe he tried to wash off the evidence of any, you know, bodily fluids that
he could have left behind in her pelvic region and the dolls. I mean, only someone who felt bad
after their crime would have left the dolls. Like it's someone that knew Arushi personally. Why else would they do that? Maybe a personal connection. This shows remorse. Additionally, there were a few more
things that pointed to Hemraj's involvement. One, he lived in the house, so he could have easily
gone into Arushi's room to murder her. There were no signs of a break-in and Arushi's parents didn't
have any guests over the night before. Two, earlier that morning, Arushi's parents had called Hemraj.
Someone picked up the phone and then hung up.
They didn't say anything.
It was weird.
So the parents called back and the phone was now turned off,
which is just very suspicious.
Oh, and number three, Hemraj was now missing.
He was nowhere to be found.
And it wouldn't be the first time that the killer fled the scene of a crime.
Once you step into the Dasna jail, you feel like you've been transported to a different world.
I mean, they say that time stops.
You lose all sense of identity.
You just become a number.
You wait in line.
And the payoff to this waiting is an aggressive frisking. They pat you
up and down. They search all of your holes. Barrack number seven, bed number 60. But there's no bed.
You walk into your cell and it's just a stone floor. It's a giant empty cold room with so many
half-naked people crammed inside with nowhere to go. I mean, there's hardly enough room to move.
All you get with you is a single sheet,
not even a blanket or a pillow, a sheet.
And the first night that you're there,
you have no plans to use this sheet because it smells.
It reeks of like a nasty, pungent sewage scent.
But then you realize you have no choice.
It is the only thing that you can put over your face
that keeps the mosquitoes and the flies from biting you
and crawling into your nose and mouth.
And at night, maybe there's a semblance of privacy.
You're like, okay, everyone has their sheets covering their face, so maybe I can get up and quietly make my way to the toilet.
But then you get to the corner.
There is no toilet.
It's just a layer of feces all over the floor.
Rajesh, Arushi's dad said,
that was the moment he puked.
His very first night in prison.
The day Rajesh Tilvar, Arushi's dad, had been arrested,
he was screaming,
I'm being framed, I'm being framed.
It wasn't me, you have to believe me.
I'm being framed.
The police might have believed him,
had just one body been found in his house.
But when there's two bodies found dead in your house, you know, people start to wonder
because there's no such things as coincidences. May 17th, 2008, just 24 hours after his daughter
Arushi was found dead, Arushi's parents were out of the house taking Arushi's ashes so that she
could be laid to rest. Rajesh's brother was watching the house, I mean the crime scene as they're out, and while the couple were in the car
they get a phone call. You need to come back home. They found him. 45-year-old Hemraj's body was found
on the family's terrace. He was found beaten and with a slit throat murdered on the terrace. He was
not a suspect. He was another victim he had been
murdered the night before at the same time that urushi had been killed and he's found on the roof
on the terrace the balcony oh to terrace yeah i see the parents you turn it they rush back home
they park the car but only rajesh gets out hindu custom forbids the re-entry of the ashes into the home.
So Nupur, the mom, she stayed outside in the car with Arushi's ashes.
Rajesh rushes into the house, up to the terrace, and the police are surrounding him.
Can you please ID this man?
Is this Hemraj?
Is this your employee?
I, I don't know.
You don't know if this is your live-in staff member that you've been living with for the past
almost a year rajay pulls out his phone and calls his wife who's waiting for him downstairs
hey um did hemorrhage have a t-shirt that says new york on it
a lot of people said rajay the dad was a little weird I mean the day before before anyone knew that
Henraj was dead on the terrace when people arrived at the house to investigate Arushi's murder
Rajesh was just screaming at them you have to find him his name is Henraj he's been living with us as
a live-in staff member he did this he did this to my child so go hurry and find him side note the
parents didn't even call the police themselves.
They called their friends and family first to come to the house
and once they all gathered inside the crime scene,
went from room to room contaminating everything,
whether it was intentional or not is up for debate,
but only then did one of them think,
we got to call the police.
So they grabbed the security guard of the residential neighborhood
and then that security guard called the police. there are some other sources that say no bardy the housekeeper said
i'm gonna go run and find the security guard and it took her a while and that's why the police
didn't get there until after all the friends and family arrived but people thought it was strange
nonetheless because wouldn't the first thing you do as a parent is call the police yourself?
The second thing about Rajesh and the parents was that they never tried to resuscitate their daughter. At least there's no evidence of it. The crime scene, their daughter was covered in blood
and yet the parents had no blood on them. And sure, you could argue that they're medical
professionals, they're dentists, and they can tell just by looking at her that it's way too late.
But if that's your child, usually you don't care about logic, no? You'll do whatever it takes to
save them. They didn't even take her body to the hospital in case there was this slight chance
of saving her that she was breathing. Also, some said Rajesh, the dad's reaction to seeing his
child murdered was kind of odd. He just told everybody that he needed
to go find hemorrhage. Sometimes he would walk around room to room in a trance-like state and
he would just say, hemorrhage, hemorrhage. And then he would pace and then bang his head up against
the wall and it was just hemorrhage. They gotta find hemorrhage. They even offered the police
cash, straight up cash money to go search for Hemraj. Meanwhile, authorities found bloodstains
on the stairway up to the terrace. And I'm assuming it's not an alarming amount, but a little bit of
blood, like little specks of blood. They follow the blood droppings up the flight of stairs,
straight to the terrace door. They grab the handle. It's locked. They go to Rajesh, the dad.
They're like, where's the key to the terrace? And he's like, I don't know. I mean, it's locked they go to rajesh the dad they're like where's the key to the terrace and
he's like i don't know i mean it's locked from the inside but i don't know where the key is usually
hemorrhage keeps the key so i don't know what to do and he's like it doesn't really matter though
i don't know why you're wasting time trying to check the terrace when we know it's hemorrhage
who did this so go find hemorrhage he ran away after killing my child. Oh, this is when the police first time at the scene.
Yes.
And they never checked the terrace.
The first 24 hours, they don't check the terrace.
And Rajesh, the dad is like, forget the terrace.
Go find Hemraj.
But Hemraj will be found on the terrace.
Surprisingly, the police just stopped bothering with the bloody locked terrace and started the hunt for Hemraj will be found on the terrace. Surprisingly, the police just stopped bothering with the bloody locked terrace
and started the hunt for Hemraj.
The day after Arushi's body was found,
the commotion at the house had died down
and everyone had shuffled out with their own little theory of what they believed happened.
The Talvars were very busy having their daughter autopsied and cremated.
So a family member was staying at their house,
which, you know, a lot of people thought it was strange.
They wondered, why were the parents so quick to cremate the body of their only child,
who was clearly murdered?
Would they not have wanted to preserve her body for more evidence to catch the killer?
But there's a knock on the door.
Retired police officer G was standing there.
Retired police officer G had inserted himself into this whole case yesterday.
When everybody was in that house looking at Arushi's dead body, he had walked in.
He's not even on the force anymore.
But he's like, I'm bored.
I want to solve a murder.
Let's do it.
He ends up causing more trouble than it's worth.
But anyway, I digress.
Retired Officer G shows up at the house the next day, 24 hours later. And he's like,
I just want to check up on everyone and everything and see if everything's all right.
Because he's a retired police officer, the family member lets him in. Now, again, the parents are
not in the house. So this is just a relative. And G is like, oh, yeah. Did you guys ever get
that terrace unlocked? Oh, no. The police yesterday said something about getting a locksmith here, but they never did. Well, can I take a look? Sure. Officer G walks up to the
terrace area and starts pinpointing all of the strange things that, I mean, some of them were
discovered yesterday, but he's like, the lock has a bit of blood on it. There are stains that
suggest that someone or something has been dragged through the door perhaps. That's what it looks like but I don't know. I feel like we need to get into this terrace.
He calls the police force back in and they finally break through the lock,
run out into the terrace and in the corner is Hemraj's dead body. He still had his slippers
on his feet and he was badly decomposing. It was clear that someone made an attempt to make sure
that Hemraj's body was not noticeable from the made an attempt to make sure that Hemraj's body
was not noticeable from the terrace door.
On one side of Hemraj's body was the cooler panel,
which is like a foamy rectangular board that covers him.
On the other side, a sheet was hanging
to cover Hemraj from the other neighbor's view.
But probably the most alarming
was when authorities did their rounds
talking to everybody who knew the family,
Rajesh's assistant had a lot to say. He's like, oh, you found Hemraj's body? Well, let me tell
you something. So the assistant is 22-year-old Krishna. He is the couple's assistant at the
dental clinic. And he's like, okay, first of all, the dental clinic is owned by the Tolvars and
another couple. The two couples are really close.
They both have daughters.
Their daughters are best friends.
They're like besties.
Everything they do together, they're super tight-knit, both families.
Perhaps too tight-knit.
Krishna claims Rajesh, Arushi's dad, is having an affair with the wife of the other couple.
He's sleeping with his business partner.
His daughter's best friend's mom and his wife's
best friend he said rajesh tovar is a cheater so the police theory starts to emerge the theory goes
arushi found her dad cheating on her mom with her mom's best friend of all people the wife of the
couple that co-owns the clinic with them arushi's best friend's mom arushi finds out
tells her dad you got to come clean to mom okay but he refuses arushi wants to teach him a lesson
he wants to retaliate to make him feel the pain that she's feeling so arushi according to the
police start sleeping with hemorrhage the family's 45 year old live-in staff member that's what the
police are saying that is not a theory that i have
okay it's insane that that's the the theory they came up with like i mean we're gonna dissect all
of this later but it's such a deplorable theory and i mean it's so unacceptable on both ends to
arushi as a victim but also to hemorrhage as a victim it makes hemorrhage out to be this creepy
guy that would absolutely be down to engage in activities with a 13-year-old when everyone who knew him said that he had a father-daughter
relationship with her. Even Arushi's grandparents said Hemraj treated Arushi like one of his own
kids. But the investigators, they pushed on this theory, which is that night Arushi was in bed with
Hemraj in her bedroom when the dad walked in on her and found them in this
suggestive position and he was so overcome with rage and the threat that this would ruin their
family name that he killed them. Side note, at one point the theory that Hemraj and Arushi were
intimately involved was so widely rejected by the public that the authorities would kind of tweak it
later to state, actually we changed our mind. Hemraj was the one that knew about rajesh's affair and they he started blackmailing him rajesh the dad went to go kill
hemraj but his daughter arushi witnessed the whole thing wanted to report him so he had to kill his
own daughter the theory would change back and it would revert back to oh no father catches both of
them in suggestive position in bed and murders them both
yet for some reason the police keep coming back to the wild theory of this adulterous father and
sexually free 13 year old daughter i mean it's a story of revenge sex and a middle-class family
of dentists doing the most insane things and the media was absolutely hooked. They did not want to touch anything that was borderline slanderous.
They wanted straight up defamation.
They're like, we don't even want the middle ground.
We want the most heinous, insane stories out there.
Like, that's what we're hunting for.
The police talked to a close male friend of Arushi's without the consent of his parents,
might I add, because he's a minor.
And he would later state that he was so scared when he was talking to the police that he just wanted to give them whatever
they wanted. And what they wanted, for some strange, bizarre reason, was for someone to say
that 13-year-old Arushi was, quote, easy. That she was, quote, easy with her affections. The authorities
started releasing all of Arushi's personal messages, or at least the ones that proved that
she was, quote quote characterless.
I mean, I can't even tell you that they're bad. Like I wish I could be like, oh, maybe this is
why the police did this. Otherwise, I just don't understand how they can be so evil, right?
They're not even bad. Not that that would be excusable. But if anything, these are the types
of messages that people will cringe over later in life. Arushi wrote on Facebook, you hate me.
I know it's my fault.
I'm such a freaking slut.
I know.
Even the way she typed it out,
it's very childish.
Like she typed out no as K-N-O-E.
And I don't think that she's actually calling herself a slut
because she's intimate with other people,
but it's just like, oh, you know, I'm such a hoe.
Like, like that.
But the media just ran with it.
They're like, look, she admits herself that she's addicted to intimacy
and she's a little temptress.
They did not report heavily on the fact that she's just a teenager
who hung out with her friends and they would make jokes like this.
All of them would talk like this.
Her and her friends called themselves the awesome foursome,
but that doesn't fit the narrative.
The media had to keep up with the idea that they're just sluts, all of them.
A lot of people close to Arushi said it felt like the media was making her out to be some sort of
35 year old. The way they talked about her, you would never assume that they're talking about a
13 year old child. This is the same girl that without fail would forward all the chain mail
that she got in her emails. You know, the challenges that's like, if you send this to
your top 10 friends,
you're gonna get a kiss from the love of your life.
And if you don't, you'll be cursed forever.
She's sending those.
She's 13.
She's a literal child.
I mean, clearly when she calls herself a slut,
she's just joking with her friends.
It's not that serious.
This is the same girl that wrote in her letter
for Santa that year.
Dear Santa,
Merry Christmas. I know you're tired from running here and there giving children everything they
want, but I just want something totally different. I want the well-being of my family. My second wish
is that I want my parents to always be with me and my friends too. My third wish is a bit silly.
I want a dog and I wish my parents will agree. Merry Christmas. At one point, Arushi's parents were asked,
what kind of blanket does Arushi use?
They said a blue bed sheet with Disney print on it.
Nobody liked that.
They were like, no, that doesn't fit our narrative.
She's a skank.
There was a press conference where the police straight up
call Arushi by another name.
It wasn't even a nickname or anything.
It seems like the police really dropped the ball on this one.
And that's to say it lightly.
They completely ruined it.
And as for Hemraj, he wasn't even considered in the media.
He's not even really considered a victim in the media.
That's why we have such little information on him.
He's just the guy that worked for the Tovars.
He ends up dead.
And most likely he engaged in relations with a 13-year-old temptress
if you listen to the police theory. Nobody focused on the fact that he has a wife and three kids back
in Nepal and that he only worked for the tovars so that he could send practically every single
penny of his earnings back to his family to support them. He earned about 60 to 72 dollars
a month and he sent it all back to his family. Everyone who knew Hemraj said that he was
such a mild-mannered, kind, even-tempered man. He worked so diligently, he wouldn't even look at you
in the eyes while talking to you because he was a little shy. Hemraj wasn't even supposed to be
working for the Tolvars. His friend was their live-in staff member, but his friend was going
on vacation, so he was like, hey, Hemraj, can you please go work for me fill in for me for a few weeks hemraj starts working there and the tolvars are
like we like you better can you work for us they loved the way that he treated arushi like his own
daughter i mean nobody wanted to talk about that the fact that he works so hard every day to make
delicious food for arushi he wanted her to eat more vegetables and traditional food
because all she really ate were pizza and she would eat out all the time.
So he would try to make his dishes more enticing.
Nobody cared about that.
I mean, none of that mattered.
He was basically invisible in this case,
and it's really hard to find more information about him out there.
The news outlets never called out the cops on their wild behavior.
Instead, they fully
embraced it. There was one TV anchor that soaked his hands in red paint before going on air to show
and emphasize that someone's got blood on their hands. I will say, I don't know what the police
or the press are on because the public were outraged with everything that's going on in the
news. One close friend of Arushi stated, I remember staring at the
screens and hearing screaming headlines about the adulterous affair between Arushi and Hemraj. I
mean, all of this is absolutely untrue and ridiculous. It was so surreal and absurd,
but no one cared. They flashed those headlines the next morning after my 14-year-old classmate
was murdered. Arushi's friends and classmates held protest they believed the victims
were being killed twice this time by the media i mean what is the reason for such baseless character
assassinations everyone's running with the theory that the dad found 13 year old arushi and the 45
year old staff member hemorrhage in a compromising position then the dad murdered them out of pure
anger and to protect the family honor where is the proof in that both
arushi and hemorrhage are gone the dad said that never happened do the police and media have
evidence to back it up how are they so confident that this is the truth you are being lied to
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The United States, as well as a handful of other countries, including India, have been using truth serum in criminal cases and allegedly intelligence investigations for decades.
Most of the time it's reserved for high profile cases and it's only used allegedly with the explicit consent from the accused. It takes almost a week to test a single person. It's incredibly invasive.
True serum administration, or they call it narco-testing, it feels like you're getting
ready for bed. Once you're inside this hospital-looking room, a nurse comes in,
checks your vitals, takes your blood pressure, and then provides you with the instructions.
Change into the hospital gown, crawl into the patient bed, lay all the way back, get comfy.
You know, the test is going to take a while.
Your stomach is going to be a little growly.
Nausea can be a side effect, so we like to have you fast before the actual testing.
So you lay down in the hospital bed with the blanket pulled up, and this is where things get very weird.
A tripod and camera will be set up at the head of your bed,
pointed straight at your face so that you're being recorded the whole time.
A nurse will begin an IV so that the doctor has direct access to your bloodstream,
and one by one, everyone will take their places.
The psychiatrist will be present to monitor your psychological changes.
You'll have a police investigator who will be there asking all the questions.
And finally, the doctor will arrive with the truth serum.
And then you enter the twilight zone.
The doctor starts pushing the first dose into your IV and right into your bloodstream.
It's pretty much a sci-fi serum that you think about when you hear the phrase truth serum.
Like, that's what it sounds like.
A lot of the drugs used in the truth serum are just anesthetics or they're basically drugs
that put you to sleep, that force you into a state of unconsciousness. If you're having surgery,
you'll get some of this. Now, too much truth serum, you go completely under. You're knocked
out. You're not talking to anybody. You can't listen to anybody. You're gone.
Now, if you get too much of even that, then you're dead. But too little true serum, your brain is still way too conscious and you can think about the questions being asked. You can think about
how you're going to filter your thoughts. The twilight zone is the name for the sweet spot in
the middle. It's sort of purgatory. Each dose depends on the size, metabolism, and a whole bunch of
other factors relative to each person, but there's always a twilight zone for each person where they
can answer full open-ended questions, but they lose the ability to filter their thoughts. They
lose the ability to think about, wait, is this going to help me if I say this or is this going to hurt me?
They're almost delirious. They just say whatever's on their mind. Michael Stevens, also known as Vsauce
on YouTube, did a minefield episode where he was injected with truth serum in a low stakes form of
narcoanalysis testing and he described what it felt like throughout the entire procedure. He said
with each dose, he fell deeper and deeper into this twilight zone.
He said, I'm feeling warm all over,
just all over so warm.
I feel like in order to feel like this,
I would have to have six alcoholic beverages.
I feel kind of drunk.
At a certain point,
I feel like I'm gonna go unconscious.
Full immersion in the twilight zone
is like a hypnotic trance.
You lose all critical thinking and basically the concept of time doesn't even exist.
Your doctor will continue to monitor you as the officer or police investigator starts asking you questions.
And they start off really easy just to see if you're there.
What's your full government name?
Who's the current president of the United States?
When Michael Stevens reached this point in the true serum experiment, he said,
I don't remember anything after them asking me who the president was. But that's the scary part.
They could have told me that I said anything and I wouldn't know if they're telling the truth or
not. I didn't know how much time had passed and I was forming memories all again. I mean,
all of a sudden, it's like he had no memories and then all of a sudden he woke up and started
forming memories again. It's just a time block. Gone.
But he was awake. He was talking to them.
Afterwards, they'll advance you into the actual case interrogation.
And unlike a polygraph test that only consists of like yes or no answers, if done correctly,
narcoanalysis tests allow for open-ended questions.
Vsauce said once you hit that final stage, it feels like death.
That's what it's like to be dead, he said. I mean, I wasn't asleep. I wasn't awake. It's not painful.
I was just like dead. I felt dead. And then I was born again when they gave me the antidote.
It was a very different, crisp change when they injected the antidote. It wasn't like,
that was restful. It was like a dreamless sleep of non-existence
and then suddenly i wasn't dead anymore but i could have been dead you could have told me that
i died in that moment and i would have said i know i could tell interesting so it's not even
like falling asleep no he's like trying to describe it into like a it's a weird existence
almost like you're dead but you're not dead.
You lose the ability to form memories, but then you wake up, but you don't feel like you went to sleep.
And then you wake up and you're like, I mean, I honestly could have been dead.
But you're there when you're dead.
He even said to the police investigator, I didn't realize that you were still a real person asking me questions at one point.
So it sounds maybe like a dream.
Not really. But like put every suspect under true serum and we're going to have a crimeless society. What a dream. But nothing is
ever that simple. Truth serum will weaken the brain's inhibitions, but lying and even leading
can still occur. It's like a polygraph. People can still pass when they're lying and you can still
fail even when you're telling the truth.
And in this case, true serum would lead to the arrest of three more people.
So Rajesh was arrested.
They start going back and asking other people about other things that they saw. Now, there are speculations that after Rajesh was arrested, the CBI took over from the police and the CBI wanted Rajesh out of prison.
It's a speculation that Rajesh and the Tolvars had a lot of influence. So in order to get Rajesh out of prison, what do you
need? You need people to take his spot. That's the speculation. Now, I would say that India is pretty
split half and half. Some people think that this next theory is the truth. Some people think that
Rajesh did it is the truth.
So let's get into it.
Retired officer G, remember the one that injected himself into the crime scene?
All of that, right?
He said, I paid special attention to Hemraj's room that day.
Because, you know, without being asked, I conducted a formal inspection and I found a lot of things.
Depressions on Hemraj's mattress that indicated that three people had sat on his mattress the night before.
There were three glasses in his room, two of them containing some kind of alcohol.
There was sodas, a bottle of whiskey that was empty in his room.
And interestingly enough, that leads to the question.
Did Hemraj have guests over the night before?
Retired Officer G then made his way to the restroom where he found an even more alarming clue.
The toilet was stinky. It was a mess. It looked like at least three people had peed into the
toilet. For certain, more than a singular person had used that toilet recently. The conclusion of
retired officers' informal formal inspection was that Hemraj had guests over the night of the
murders. There were other people in the house.
So who were they?
If we go with this theory, who was in the house that night?
Hemraj, the Telvar's live-in staff member.
Krishna, the Telvar's assistant at the dental clinic.
Rajkumar, the live-in staff member of the couple's best friend. So remember the co-owner of the dental clinic?
He's their Hemorrhage his name
is raj kumar he was over allegedly right and it kind of makes sense how these three would all
know each other hemorrhage and krishna were tied to the tovar family raj kumar worked for the
family's best friend so they're obviously they run in the same circles but there was a fourth person
that was speculated to have been there that night Vijay he worked as a live-in
staff member for a neighbor so maybe he ran into them while working and they all formed some sort
of friendship I will say that he's the least important person in this theory some variations
of this theory don't even include him at all and he does have a pretty airtight alibi so he's just
kind of a side character more than anything so we're not just gonna we're gonna kind of disclude
him and the reason that the CBI was very suspicious of these three men was krishna was the assistant
that was brought in early on he was interviewed and krishna was the one that was like oh yeah
rajesh is a cheater so they thought it was kind of suspicious then they heard a rumor that krishna
actually hated the tovars because recently Dr. Rajesh had scolded him,
had yelled at him,
embarrassed him in front of all the patients
for making an incorrect dental mold.
So maybe this was his revenge.
They bring Krishna in into this hospital looking room,
but it has like this operation theater in it,
meaning people can sit there and watch him
as he lay helplessly on the patient bed
and they were going to be injecting him with truth serum.
Yeah.
If Krishna was scared watching this whole performance of the doctor getting the needle ready,
getting the liquid into the needle,
he would not be scared anymore once the truth serum kicked in.
He would feel serene.
A sense of at least temporary deadness.
Then he would feel very talkative, like he would
want to talk and talk without a filter and say whatever was the first thing on his mind. And now
investigators tried to fill the gaps. Krishna's brain allegedly told investigators that, well,
first they said that he was very deceptive and manipulative and that he was loyal to nobody.
During the truth serum interrogation, he stated a few things.
A, he, Rajkumar, and Vijay
were all present the night of the murder.
B, Dr. Rajesh had nothing to do with the murders.
And C, he witnessed Rajkumar killing
both Arushi and Hermaj that night.
Rajkumar, the other couple's assistant,
would be brought in and he would say,
well, actually, i was there that
night but it wasn't me that killed them it was krishna rajkumar also admits to being in love
with arushi okay so the three people right now what's going on they're pointing fingers at each
other they're just like i was there like they get under the truth serum and they're like oh yeah i
was there and then they're saying this happened yeah
we killed them basically is their story matching with each other only that they were all there
and that they were all drinking that night but then the story starts splitting off and getting
weird there's actually a lot of differences between their stories under the truth serum
but the minute that all of them were no longer under the influence of the truth serum they
recanted everything and stated we were never in that house the night of the murders. We were
home asleep in bed. And a lot of them actually had alibis from their own employers that they
were asleep in bed that night. So this is getting very confusing and weird. So what is the theory?
There's two sequences of events in this theory. And I'm just going to go through one of the most widely believed ones because there's just small variations and it would just be too tedious.
In one version, Rajkumar, the family friend's assistant, is the main offender.
In another version, Krishna, the Tolvar's dental assistant, is the main offender.
So let's explore the new CBI theory that they claim they got from the suspects while they were under the influence of the truth serum.
Krishna, the dental assistant, and Rajkumar, the family friend's staff member, had gone over to the Tovar house to drink.
Now, since most of them work all day long, at night is the only time that they can blow off some steam.
And since Hemraj's room has a door that leads straight to the gate door, they don't have to go through the house family front door.
It's very easy to gather in Hemraj's room.
Now, the three of them are in Hemraj's room
and they already drank through the beer and wine
that they brought and they're getting dry.
They drank it all.
They turn to Hemraj and they're begging,
hey, convincing him,
like, can you go into the family liquor cabinet
and just grab the good whiskey?
You could just replace it with water tomorrow. They'll literally never know. They don't even drink that much liquor cabinet and just grab the good whiskey you could just replace it with water tomorrow they'll literally never know they don't even drink that much so
please just grab the good whiskey hemorrhaged isn't even drinking he doesn't even drink much
but he agrees he leaves the room and quietly goes into the kitchen and he leaves the two of them
krishna and raj kumar to their own devices and they start talking about how much they like Arushi and all the things
that they would like to do to her technically now is the time Hemraj is busy in the kitchen
grabbing the whiskey I mean when else are they going to have time alone in this house Arushi is
in the next room over asleep they could just get in there right now and do what they need to do
so they sneak out of Hemraj's room, sneak past the kitchen,
and they see two doors. One would lead to the Tovar parents and the other would lead to Arushi's
room. And in a crazy twist of coincidences, Arushi's door room was open a crack. Her door room
is never open a crack. Arushi's room door worked like a hotel door. You need a key to get inside
from the outside. So the parents had the key. Every night they would lock her hotel door. You need a key to get inside from the outside. So the parents had the
key. Every night they would lock her room door. So unless you had the key, you can't open the door
into Arushi's room. But just like a hotel, if Arushi wanted to get out, she could open the
door and get out. Usually the Tovar parents are really diligent about keeping that door locked
at night. But because they were having internet router problems and the internet router was in Arushi's room,
they stated that they kept going in there to fix it
and they had, according to this theory,
left the key in the keyhole and just went to bed.
Now the room door is open a crack.
They see Arushi peacefully asleep in her bed.
They sneak into her room, close the door behind her,
jump on top of her in the bed.
Arushi immediately wakes up and she goes to scream, but they cover her mouth and they the door behind her, jump on top of her in the bed. Arushi immediately wakes
up and she goes to scream, but they cover her mouth and they start assaulting her. She flings
around trying to break free from them. All of her stuffed animals and belongings on the bed start
falling off everywhere. Eventually, she becomes overpowered. Not that she had a choice. According
to this theory, the two guys had brought with them a kukri which is a type of nepali knife that was primarily
used for fighting it's usually around 10 to 18 inches long the handle is very interesting it
doesn't look like a regular knife handle it kind of has this rounded butt at the end which is
supposed to make it easier to grip so that if you're pushing into something the handle won't
slide out of your hand but it also means that the base of this handle is pretty blunt.
Like you could probably do some damage slamming it down on something.
The knife has origins as a fighting weapon used in combat.
There's actually a saying that you cannot put a kukri back into its sheath
until you've drawn blood.
So every time you take it out, you better make someone bleed.
The theory continues that these two men
threatened her with this knife she was so scared that she agreed to keep quiet she just wanted to
get everything over with asap so she could get help and at this point one of the men pulled down
her pajamas to essay her now she's panicking again because she realizes what they're trying to do
really and when she goes to scream again they slam the butt of the knife down
on her head the handle rendering her unconscious she's knocked out on the bed the two guys are
starting to realize and they're sobering up like this is no longer fun we're about to go to jail
for a very long time and henraj places the whiskey on the dining table because he thinks he hears
something he pauses he realizes oh my god the noises are coming from Arushi's room.
He goes into his room to check and sure enough, the guys are gone. He runs as quickly as possible
to Arushi's room door and he's standing outside of it and he's whispering. He's pleading with them
to just let him in because he can't, he can't, you know, he doesn't know what's going on inside
and he's scared to scream. He doesn't want to wake up the parents. So he's just like, please let me
in. What are you doing in there? He just keeps begging with them to let him in. And the door slowly opens. He sees
Arushi on the bed. His eyes go wide. He's about to scream, but they cover his mouth, drag him over to
Arushi's bed and calm him down. They put his hand under his nose. See, she's still breathing. Calm
down. We can fix it. We just need to think straight for a second.
But just in case, they clean up the scene.
I mean, what if the parents check in on Arushi in the middle of the night?
They open the door just to check that she's still laying in bed.
They need to make sure that they don't see any blood.
So they cover up her with a blanket, throw a fabric tote on top of her head,
and, oh wait, the assault.
They grab a mug of water, pull down her pants, wash her privates.
They set up the toys so that it seems like Arushi is just flinging around in her sleep,
but nothing alarming has happened.
Because the tote bag is on top of her head.
But like, you know, if you've got all these stuffed animals on the ground,
maybe they'd investigate.
Then they ask Hemraj to go to the terrace to game plan what they're going to do next.
Hemraj guides them up the stairs to the terrace,
unlocks it, slips the key back into his pocket, and now theraj guides them up the stairs to the terrace, unlocks it,
slips the key back into his pocket, and now the three of them are standing in the night air whispering about what the hell are we gonna do. Hemraj is pissed. He wants to come clean to the
Tovars now because yeah, I mean he's probably gonna lose his job, but that doesn't mean
that doesn't mean anything really because if they these two guys leave, he's gonna lose everything.
He's gonna go to jail. It's gonna seem like he's the one that did this.
But Krishna and Rajkumar cannot have that.
Now, can they?
So a fight breaks out.
The two men grab the flat end of the knife and they hit Hemraj on the head with it,
just as they did with Arushi.
Then they slice his throat with the blade of the knife from ear to ear.
They leave his body on the terrace.
They grab his key from the lock and they lock the door behind them to ear they leave his body on the terrace they grab his key from the
lock and they lock the door behind them they also grab his phone now they just need to make sure
that arushi is 100 dead they walk into her room she's unconscious but to be 100 short they slice
her neck with this knife the same thing that they did with hemorrhage they rush out of there they
start freaking about what what they need to do.
They think the smartest thing is to stay in town. They don't have the funds to go on the run. And if they do, it's just going to make them look even more suspicious. So the game plan is to implicate
the Tovar. So when Krishna was brought in to be interviewed, he tells the authorities Rajesh
was having an affair with his business partner. But what kind of motive is that?
Like, what does that even do?
Yeah, I guess it's just an essay motive.
Drunk essay motive.
Now, there had been three main investigating teams on this case.
So first, the police come in and they butcher everything.
They butcher the crime scene.
They butcher finding the body on the terrace.
They screw up so royally that they're quickly taken off of it.
And the case gets transferred to the CBI, which is India's version of the FBI.
The first CBI team that takes over, they actually release Rajesh, the dad from prison,
in favor of the theory that the three staff members did it.
And had they stayed on that case, it's likely that everything would have played out differently.
These guys would probably be in jail.
But they were replaced by another CBI team.
And they did not believe that these three guys had anything to do with it.
They felt like the first CBI team just wanted to take the easy way out.
Either A, the staff members are just staff members while the dentists are from a different socioeconomic class.
So just to throw these three men in jail is going to keep the peace and everyone's belief on how the world
works. Protect the ones with and forget the ones without that kind of mentality. The three men
being Nepali were also a very big part of this case. Protests started happening in the Nepali
communities because of the arrest. People believed that they were being discriminated against for
being Nepali and for being domestic servants. And as a result, they were being discriminated against for being nepali and for being domestic servants and as a result they were being forced into confessing for a crime that they
didn't even commit another detail is there's not even evidence that these people were close
it's almost assumed by the police because they're three nepali and they're domestic helpers so they
must be friends yeah that's what i'm saying what is the evidence behind that this whole story yeah there's not much evidence i mean there's no evidence that
they were close enough to be even drinking that night there's zero evidence that they were
coordinating a meetup that night there's no phone calls no text messages nothing i mean the three
men they had pretty solid alibis that night i mean many of them were backed up by their employers who
had nothing to gain by protecting their employees. Additionally, truth serum tests are like polygraphs. They can't
even be used in court. You know, there's also the implication that the CBI pressured the three to
take the fall for the murders. In Krishna's interrogation, he states under the influence
of truth serum that he was pressured to take the fall for this crime. Then he immediately takes
back what he said
and begs the interrogator not to bring it up again
in front of the lead of the CBI,
like the lead investigator on this case.
Wait, what do you mean not to bring it up again?
Because he's scared.
Because that's probably the one allegedly
who told him that you're going to take the fall for this.
So he said it.
And then he's like, don't tell him I said that.
Don't tell him I said that, basically. basically what and even during the true serum interrogation the interrogator asked pretty
leading questions i mean yeah i mean i would say they're kind of leading and they had to stop
pretty abruptly in the middle of this true serum test because krishna's pulse almost started
dropping and essentially he almost died yeah also there's theories and allegations
that the first cbi team was replaced because the tolvars were influencing them what do you mean by
that they're being influenced that the tolvars had connections with the cbi team maybe they were
bribing them maybe they were promising them things once everything was over and the cbi team was like
you're right i don't think it's you you You guys are good dentists. Let me find a different solution.
The defense attorneys for Krishna, the dental assistant,
and Rajkumar, the other family's assistant,
claimed the setting of Hemraj's room was tampered with
and that evidence was planted to make the two men look guilty
and free the Tolvar parents from any sort of doubt.
And this is going to be the same way later with the
two parents, but two things can be true at once. So just keep that in mind. The three men could
technically be guilty or innocent and the investigators could be horrendous at their
job. So I just don't want anyone to think that when I am pointing out horrendous investigation
skills, I'm like trying to use that as proof that someone is innocent or guilty. I'm just saying the
investigators were dumb point blank, like regardless of who's guilty, who's not,
they really fumbled it on this one.
And it was really bad.
One of the biggest pieces of evidence
that the authorities had on these three guys
was that they stated that they found hemorrhage,
the victim's blood,
on Krishna, the dental assistant's pillowcase at his house.
So Krishna went home with all this blood on him and then laid on his bed and now there's hemorrhage's blood on his pillowcase at his house so krishna went home with all this blood on him and then
laid on his bed and now there's hemorrhage's blood on his pillowcase but later that was discovered
that it was just mislabeled they found hemorrhage's the victim's blood on the victim's pillowcase
in the victim's room so they just accidentally wrote that it was in krishna the dental assistant's room that's a huge
difference though like a massive that's that's not even the same universe i don't even think you can
make that kind of mistake at a dentist's office yeah like just writing people's name over each
other like there was also no evidence to tie the three men to the scene of the crime no fingerprints
no car records the urine that was allegedly in the toilet wasn't even tested so truly nothing puts these three men at the scene except parts of their true serum tests that could
have easily been manipulated so once the second cbi team takes over they were firm on the belief
that the parents were the killers and that these three men had nothing to do with it and they're
gonna pivot their investigation back onto the tollvar parents. But first, a new piece of
information completely sidetracks them in a different direction. Because what if? What if
it wasn't the parents? What if it wasn't the three men? What if it was someone else entirely?
AJ Chadha, who we're just going to call AJ, was a close family friend of the Tovars,
the parents.
And he had been one of the many that crowded into that apartment on the days that Arushi and Hemraj were both found dead. He was doing everything that he could help the parents, the couple. I mean,
they were grieving. And sometimes that included house sitting, the crime scene. The day after
Arushi was found dead, but before Hemraj was found on the terrace, AJ was house
sitting. So he's alone in this
house and he hears a knock on
the door. He opens the front door
and there's like four people standing in front of him.
It's like a man and three
women and they introduce themselves
as detectives and they're like, we're back
to investigate the crime scene
and more specifically, we're back to
investigate Arushi's room. Now, this is an active crime scene, but AJ still didn't really feel that comfortable being
the one to make that type of call. His job, after all, is to house sit while the parents are gone.
So he lets them into the living room because he's under the impression, you know, like these are
detectives. They're back the next day, right? He tries to call the parents, the couple. They're not picking up not picking up so he's like i don't know i don't want to let you guys into the room because
that's where their child was murdered so can you guys just like hang tight so they sit around in
the living room and he thought that they were going to leave and they'd be like we're just
going to come back but they keep sitting around they keep loitering basically until one of the women stands up and is like, can I use the restroom? AJ's like, well, I can't not let her. He shows her to the guest
bathroom that you can open the door through the living room and minutes go by. And then the second
woman is like, can I use the restroom? AJ's like, well, there's not another. Well, maybe there is.
In the guest room, there's a bathroom. So there is in the guest room there's a bathroom
so they walk into the guest room he opens the bathroom door and she goes in she spends like
15 minutes in that bathroom i mean both women spend like 15 minutes in the bathroom which may
sound completely normal until you find out that there's actually another way into Arushi's room. The guest bathroom is connected
to Arushi's bedroom. So you can technically get into Arushi's room even if it's locked.
You can walk in through the guest bedroom, walk in through the bathroom, open the door,
and you are in Arushi's bedroom. So if someone wanted to come in and out of Arushi's room without
passing through that self-locking door that was or maybe was not locked that day, there was another way.
So essentially, the possibilities of what happened that night doubled, if not then, to an infinite amount of possibilities.
Why is that?
Because prior to this, it's like, oh, the only people that could have killed Arushi were people who knew where Arushi's room was, knew that it was locked and knew that night it wasn't going to be locked.
Right.
But now it could have been a stranger for all they knew.
Because they could have just walked in through the guest room, walked in through the bathroom, and they're now in Arushi's bedroom.
Oh, so you're saying like they can walk in without any going through any locks.
Yes. You still have to kind any going through any locks. Yes.
You still have to kind of know the house layout.
Yes.
Yeah.
So AJ did not know that that woman
was probably spending time investigating Arushi's bedroom,
the active crime scene,
just like how he probably didn't know
that these are not real detectives.
Which brings us to the theory
that Hemraj was the original target that night.
So allegedly one of the individuals that went to use that restroom that day was a social worker by the name of Usha Thakur.
Now, AJ told the CBI about this.
He's like, this is really weird.
These people showed up.
They were pretending to be detectives.
Then I turned on the TV the other day and then Usha was there.
And I was like, wait a minute.
She's not a detective.
She's a social worker.
So now I'm telling the detectives about it. Usha was saying that Hemraj had approached her five days before being killed. And Hemraj was incredibly distressed about a possible threat
to his life. He was saying that his family was being threatened. He was being threatened. He
wanted to speak to Usha, the social worker, privately because she's been known to help
people in times of need. Now, Usha and Hemraj did not end up meeting that day because her schedule was jam-packed and a few
days later his dead body was found now she never confessed to the CBI that she was inside of the
family's house that day with AJ but it's presumed that she went in there to kind of investigate because she didn't know if the police were going to do a good job.
Wait, so she knows that he's in danger,
but she has no idea what is going on.
Yeah.
Who is threatening who?
Why is he reaching out?
They were going to meet up to talk about it,
but she had been so busy.
And then the next thing she knew, he was dead on the terrace.
And she came over to
investigate pretending to be a detective she wanted to investigate investigating her room yes
now there's a lot going on but usually murders are not that random that's what the cbi believed
and you have to look at the people around the victims that are behaving strangely and the
parents they were behaving strangely the tovar
couple's neighbor came to the police one day and told them that he had a bloody mattress on his
terrace he's like yeah the parents told him that they were cleaning up the house and needed someone
to storage arushi's bloody mattress that she was found on so they put it on his terrace along with
slabs of ice they had used slabs of ice to preserve Arushi's body and they just like dumped it on his terrace.
It was all very strange.
And like the fact that it's slabs of ice,
that means it feels rushed.
Like the parents are so desperate to clean the apartment
before an investigation could be done
that they're willing to throw ice
and their child's bloody mattress
onto a neighbor's terrace.
Also, people thought it was really suspicious
because before Hemorrhage was
found dead they were pointing the finger at hemorrhage they were like i will even pay the
police to go look for hemorrhage but the minute that hemorrhage is found dead on their terrace
the couple have nothing but nice things to say about him that he was trustworthy and kind and
the contradicting opinions about hemorrhage did not sit well with the general public and it just
made them look even more suspicious why is that because if they hated hemorrhage did not sit well with the general public and it just made them look even more suspicious why is that because if they hated hemorrhage even afterwards it's like well did
you hate him did you have motive to kill him okay what if i don't know i'm just listening to this
what if they really thought it was him so they hated him but when they found out that he was
killed then they were like oh okay maybe he is innocent yeah that's what a lot of the people
that believe that they're innocent believe so you see what i mean everything can be flipped both ways so it's
not that i believe this theory more the other it's just hard for me to go through each point because
each point can be argued for each different theory in a way that's beneficial to that theory okay so
that's what some people on the other side say some people on this side say well no not this side doesn't mean but you know yeah yeah anyway additionally hemorrhage's widow
also spoke out and said that her husband hemorrhage had been calling her telling her about how the
family was kind of evil how the dad was a short-tempered man who scolded him for the smallest
things and even physically abused him she said that 15 days before her husband was killed,
he had called her from a payphone and was saying things like,
oh, the parents think that I'm going to tell their secrets to the outsiders,
but I don't know what they're talking about.
So with all of this, I would say in general,
the couple did not sit well with the public, especially the mom.
The mom did an interview
which she was advised not to do but she did it and she wanted to refute some of the narratives
circulating in the press and she completely disagreed with all of the theories that her
husband was cheating on her with their business partner slash her best friend or the idea that
her 13 year old daughter is some sort of wildiscuous, sexually crazed girl that's willing to do anything to get revenge,
which is understandable.
She hated it all.
And honestly, she was appalled that the police
were part of the reason that these narratives
were being spread.
She thought she was just doing an interview
as a mother who was saying,
guys, look at what they're doing to my dead daughter.
Look at what the police are saying about her.
But she didn't realize that she was putting herself on the stand.
The whole world was analyzing her facial movements, her emotions.
Every little word that she used would be analyzed and ripped apart.
The general public did not like her.
It was argued that she was completely emotionless during the interview.
She didn't cry like everybody expected her to.
I mean, some even wanted her to cry, but she didn't.
People felt like as a mom, you lose
your kid and this is how you respond. She's so cold. She's so emotionless. And she just had this
like poshness to her. The way she spoke just made it so hard for people to feel sympathetic towards
her. She just spoke very unrelatably, very rich, almost like her language and verbiage was better than you,
kind of condescending, like smarter than you. I'm a doctor. Side note, the interviewer that spoke
with the mom that day did say the mom cried a lot and they just turned the cameras off because they
wanted to give her a private moment to collect herself, but the public didn't really care. Now,
the CBI interviewed a few of the first
people at the scene that day when their daughter was found they even asked friends of the couple
neighbors and one friend stated yeah the mom was acting strange they said well i don't want to say
anything because they're my friends but i don't know the mom has always been someone that cared
a lot about her appearances and even that day in her own daughter's
room while her daughter's dead body lay a few feet away from her she kept looking in the mirror and
fixing her hair the parents did undergo rounds of truth serum investigations as well but it was said
that nothing revolutionary came out of their sessions which the people who are for the parents
say that this proves that they are innocent because the other three guys, a lot of information allegedly came out, right?
Meanwhile, the people that are against the parents say
the true serum interrogations were administered by someone who was closer to the parents, you know?
Like they were likely influenced to not ask leading questions
and they argued that the men were coerced into confessing and all of those things.
So we can't really go off of that.
But I will say the mom does briefly mention
that while her husband was arrested,
because remember he was in jail
before the three guys were in jail,
she had physical relations with AJ,
the guy that was house sitting.
Okay.
So I don't know.
Did she just admit to having an affair
while her husband is in prison for her daughter's murder?
The investigators asked AJ if this was true.
And he said, that's a stupid question.
I'm close to her because I feel that she is a victim of a tragedy.
But no, I did not have extramarital relations with her.
Now, some argued that this isn't really how truth serums work.
Like you drop your filter so you might say things and she might be attracted to him.
But she also talked a lot during
her truth serum investigation about how much she loved her husband so it's very feasible that she
loves her husband but has a physical attraction to this man and there's nothing wrong with that
i guess you could argue i mean it's not murder it doesn't imply guilt right but that doesn't
necessarily mean that she cheated on her husband while he was in jail others argued oh yeah no this is confirmation that she cheated on her husband while he was in jail
for their dead daughter's murder that's crazy what kind of mom does that major news outlets
also started reporting on the parents affinity for orgy parties they said the parents love them
they would host these major wife swapping events in their house and lock arushi in her room so that she wouldn't bother them and that's why they had the log so
that no one could go into her room at these orgy parties another story emerged of how the couple
would book 12 hotel rooms at once and fill them with 12 different couples and like the husbands
would go room to room just like wife swapping. There's no evidence of any of that. None. But the media outlets stated the CBI as their source of
information. The parents wrote to the head of the CBI and they were like, oh, yeah, oops.
I take it back. But the damage was already done. The general public, a lot of them believed that
they were having some crazy orgy parties.
But to the general public, the most damning pieces of evidence against the parents were two things.
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Hemraj was not found yet.
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The two parents, the Tolvars, were arrested and they would be tried for their own daughter's murder as well as their employee's murder.
pride for their own daughter's murder as well as their employees murder. Now just a quick disclaimer from what I can see online the people who believe the parents are genuinely guilty do not believe
the murder happened the way that the prosecutors are going to describe in court nor do they believe
that's the murder here. So let's go through with the investigator theory. The investigator theory is
the night Rajesh the dad awoke from a noise. The night of the murder. He wakes up. He
hears a noise. He goes to investigate. He goes first to Hemraj's room, but the employee's not
there. There's two golf sticks laying in his room. Golf clubs. Those are his. So he grabs one and
investigates the rest of the residents. He goes straight into Arushi, his daughter's room, where
he finds the two in an objectionable, suggestive position on Arushi's bed.
The dad processes the scene.
He already has his golf club in hand.
He swings it up in the air, slams it down on Hemraj's head.
Hemraj is instantly incapacitated.
It's a huge blow to his head.
Then the dad goes in for another one.
He swings his arms back.
When it comes swinging down full force,
Hemraj's body gives up and he rolls off the bed from on top of Arushi.
And instead of Hemraj being hit by the club,
it struck his own daughter straight in the skull.
Two blows, two dead.
The mom hears the commotion, rushes into the room,
and they check both pulses on Arushi and Hemraj.
Both pulses are weak. They're both gonna die.
There was nothing that could be done to save them.
They're dentists. They know. So they get to work.
The two wrap Hemraj's bloody body into a bedsheet and drag him all the way up a flight of stairs onto the outside terrace.
They hide him behind a cooler panel.
They hang up the bedsheet so that the neighbors can't see.
And for good measure, just to make sure he really is dead they slit his throat but the severing of
the neck would be one of the things that would actually give the couple away it was done so
cleanly the investigators allege that only a doctor or a butcher would have done it like that
it's such a precise cut then once they're done with hemorrhage they knew what they needed to do
they had to do the same thing with their own daughter but this was going to be a lot harder
because it's their daughter so the dad goes downstairs takes a bottle of whiskey out of
the cabinet takes a swig of it puts it on the dining room table leaving specks of hemorrhage
and arushi's blood on the bottle walking away and goes to make the same
exact cut on arushi's throat using a scalpel so he used a scalpel for both of them they like went
and got a scalpel now for consistency reasons they clean her up they clean up the private parts to
make sure that no evidence was left behind by hemorrhage they still needed to save their family's
honor they didn't want anyone to know
that Arushi had been intimate with anyone,
let alone with the house staff member
that's 45 years old.
They wanted to protect their reputation.
And whether it's to make the scene
more confusing for the police
or whether it's to kind of assuage
some of that guilt they felt,
they grab a few of Arushi's stuffed animals
and place them around
her. They were her favorite, and maybe they wanted her to not be alone after she passed.
The parents passionately object this theory, and they believe that this is more of an unhinged
plot of a badly written book. Their defense attorney focuses on the fact that none of it
made any sense. They argue that, first of all, even if the parents were having wild intimate
parties with everyone on the block, they didn't have proof of that.
But even if they were, to extend that kind of logic and promiscuity to a 13-year-old, to say that their daughter was so upset with them that she had an affair, that's what they called it.
The prosecutors called it an affair.
It's not an affair, by the way, if there's a 13-year-old involved.
That she had an affair, though, with a 45-year-old man is just wild.
It's just so unhinged.
And the idea that this 45-year-old grown man
who seems to genuinely care for children
would have an affair, quote, affair,
with a 13-year-old,
it's insulting and offensive for both victims.
But the parents' defense attorneys argue,
okay, fine, let's entertain the idea
that the CBI has and the prosecutors have that Arushi and Hemraj were intimate.
The defense attorney argued, would Arushi really not even think to lock the door to her room when her parents are right next door?
And why would the dad grab the golf clubs from Hemraj's room before he goes to Arushi's room?
That's usually something that you'll grab in a fit of anger after you process a really heinous scene.
He stated he heard a noise.
He didn't hear screaming or anything alarming.
And if Hemraj is not in his own room,
why would the dad grab the golf club and go to his daughter's room?
Now, the prosecutors do have a rebuttal,
which is because he already suspected that they were intimate.
So maybe he thought something was going on.
Now, the defense attorneys would say it's not impossible, but it just doesn't make any sense
human psychology wise. Additionally, once the dad is in the room, the defense attorneys argued,
why would they not just kill Hemraj right then and there? Because naturally, wouldn't they be
scared that he would wake back up and fight while they're trying to move his body up to the terrace?
Why wouldn't they just kill him in the room? And let's say they did bring his body to
the terrace to quote finish him off. Why didn't they just kill him with the golf club or put a
pillow on his face and suffocate him? Why did they suddenly decide to slit his throat, which is
undeniably a much, much messier job, and it's going to leave a lot more blood left behind soaking into
the cement. So these are the main premises that the two parties went into the trial with.
And now I'm just going to rapid fire point by point.
One thing to note before we get into it is that a lot of people,
again, do not like the mom's energy during the trial.
They said that it looked like she owned the room.
Like she didn't look guilty.
She looked determined and just unemotional the whole time.
It just was a lot.
Others defended her and said, well, yeah, because if you were being ridiculously framed
for your daughter's murder and they were accusing your daughter of sleeping with a 45-year-old
man, would you not look pissed and determined more than anything?
I don't know.
Now, the first argument was Hemraj's body was found hidden on the terrace.
The cooler panel, the sheet, it blocked everything.
You know, the missing keys.
Was that intentionally done so that the police would have to stall
or could not find a way onto the terrace?
The defense argued,
it would be incredibly stupid for the parents to make a crazy assumption
that the police would not search the terrace the first day.
Most people would safely assume that the police would search the terrace because it's their job. So if it were the parents that killed Hemraj, are they really
stupid or bold enough to think that the police are not going to search the terrace right then
and there? It's kind of the most logical place to search for weapons or clues. And a little house
lock on it is not going to be a barrier to the police. The defense got a little bit more intense
with their arguments. They argued that the timeline given by the CBI,
it just doesn't make sense.
If the couple killed Arushi and Hemraj that night,
why did they not try to dispose of Hemraj's body the night before?
So if they killed him at 2 a.m., they had like four hours.
Like take him away from the house?
Yeah, like take his body into the trunk of the car
and like dispose of him somewhere else. Because they can't keep him on the terrace forever that's very short-sighted
it's stupid to think that the police won't search the terrace and second of all i mean the entire
residence is going to be watched like a hawk after arushi's body is found at six in the morning
there's no way i mean everything going in and out of that house is going to be watched by press
media police everyone and it's may in india the weather is about 100 degrees there's no way that I mean, everything going in and out of that house is going to be watched by press, media, police, everyone.
And it's May in India.
The weather is about 100 degrees.
There's no way that they would think that Hemraj's body could just be left up there to decompose and not signal to any neighbor that there's a nasty smell,
a suspicious smell coming out of that already suspicious home.
That's what the defense attorneys are arguing.
They stated the most logical option for the Tovar parents,
had they killed both of them that night, would be to hemorrhage's body into a sack put his body into
a car and dispose of him outside of the house then they come home set up the scene make it look like
hemorrhage was trying to essay arushi then ended up killing her and then fleeing the scene and is
now on the run and in fact leaving hemorrhage's dna on their daughter's private parts if there
was any and
not wiping her like the prosecutor claimed would have been the best in their favor they would have
been the victim their daughter would have been the victim hemorrhage would have been the evil killer
yeah i mean i see like every theory makes no sense like yeah it's like we don't know man it doesn't
add up nothing adds up and it's gonna get worse.
The prosecutor argued that maybe it's not possible that there would be nowhere in that town that the parents could really dispose of Hemraj's body in the city and he would not be found.
And moving the body would be a clear implication of guilt.
Whereas if Hemraj's body was found in the house,
they could still try to argue that maybe someone broke in while they were sleeping
or that Hemraj had invited people over to his house and had been murdered or something of that sort.
Maybe they ran through all the possibilities in their mind.
But if the police found a speck of Hemraj's blood in their car, what kind of answer do you have for that?
No innocent person has an answer for, sorry, I moved a body.
But like, trust me, I'm innocent.
sorry i moved a body but like trust me i'm innocent the prosecutors also argued if anybody else had killed henraj in that house why would they even bother moving his body up into the
terrace hiding him behind the cooler panel and then hanging up the bed sheet so that the neighbors
don't find him they would just kill him and leave him wherever he was dead and flee the scene as
quickly as possible if indeed two people were sleeping in the next room over because there's so much risk
that they're going to get caught yeah additionally prosecutors argued the terrace was locked from the
inside meaning to get out onto the terrace the authorities needed a key so these intruders while
the couple were asleep killed arushi dragged hemorrhage onto the terrace without him screaming
and waking up the parents killed him got the key out of his pocket unlocked the terrace door then got him up to the terrace killed him and then for some the parents, killed him, got the key out of his pocket, unlocked the terrace door, then got him up to the terrace, killed him, and then for
some reason hid his body out of view, grabbed the terrace key back, and then locked the terrace on
their way out, and then ran off? To the prosecutors, that just didn't sound feasible. The prosecutors
also argued that the attempt to hide Hemraj's body lay in the fact that the dad was hoping the
police would just take his word for it, that Hemraj was the killer, that he's just hired help after all, and he himself is a reputable
dentist. That's why the dad kept urging the police to stop searching the house and find Hemraj,
because they wanted the police out of the house and not search the terrace. But the defense
attorneys argued that the parents are just using critical thinking skills. There are four people
in the house, no signs of a break-in, one is dead, one is missing. You would imagine that the one
missing might be the killer, no? The defense attorney argued they're merely trying to catch
their daughter's killer who may have not gotten that far at this point. The longer you wait,
the harder it is to catch a killer. Would you not do the same thing for justice for your child?
The prosecutors argued, speaking of justice for the child,
why were the parents so quick to cremate her body?
All the clues to the crime are hidden in the body.
So why?
Unless they themselves have something to hide?
It just seems unnaturally quick.
The defense argued that up until that point,
Hemraj was the killer in their minds.
And the autopsy, the medical examiner was like,
yeah, we're good.
So they wanted to put her body to rest.
They said they had already cremated her
and it was too late by the point that Hemraj's body was found.
Had Hemraj's body been found sooner,
they would not have cremated her body.
But how about the fact that once they found Hemraj,
the dad couldn't even ID him?
Was he truly such a bad employer and a heartless, cruel person
that he didn't even recognize the guy that he had been living with for the past seven months or is that guy just invisible to him because he's
the help or was this another attempt for the dad to confuse investigators is he trying to be like
maybe it is hemorrhage maybe it's not it could be a different guy we don't know is that what he was
trying to do the defense argued no they stated that stated that Hemraj's body was so bloated after
death and the heat of the terrace for the past 24 hours that he looked drastically different.
But to the police, because they had never seen Hemraj prior to his death, they had no original
face to compare him to. Even the retired officer G stated that Hemraj's face was quote, it was huge.
Nobody was able to recognize him. The defense argued if you reference medical texts you will
see that there is a lot of changes in the face the first 48 hours of decomp. Eyes are forced out of
their sockets. A frothy reddish liquid is just forced out of the mouth and the nostrils. The
abdomen becomes distended. The whole human body goes into a bloat phase where it becomes twice
its size. So yeah he didn't recognize him him the prosecutors argued both bodies were found with
slit throats caused by a very sharp edged light instrument that they suspect was a scalpel it was
too light and sharp to be a butcher's knife or a big kitchen knife or even the kukuri the napali
knife it just this was even thinner it seemed like a surgical instrument that was wielded with
precision the prosecution argued not many people especially people without these types of professions
would have the ability to create cuts this clean the defense argued why would the parents use a
scalpel why would they use an instrument that nobody else has in their house but dentists and
like other doctors like that would be dumb why wouldn't they just use
a kitchen knife if they have kitchen knives right in their kitchen why would they go out of their
way to get a scalpel instead they also argued because they're dentists they're not surgeons
they mainly work with dental scalpels which are really tiny like they're used to cut into your
gums not like into your body it's it's the blade is only like one to three centimeters deep
but the prosecutors argued it
really only takes two centimeters to sever the major arteries in the neck now why the slit throats
as for the reasoning behind slitting their throats the prosecutors argued the parents did it to
confirm that both were actually dead they had to kill hemorrhage because he was a witness to
everything and he was sleeping with their daughter they had to kill their daughter because he was a witness to everything and he was sleeping with their daughter. They had to kill their daughter because she was already injured and dying and they couldn't they couldn't
go away for this right? It would ruin the family honor. Okay but that's why they had to be killed
but why slit their throats? The defense argues none of that makes sense. I mean if they wanted
to kill both of them why not just do something that's less bloody like why leave so much blood behind
would it not have been smarter to just suffocate them with a pillow or a bag over their heads and
then take it away the slitting of the throats makes just weird it's weird it makes more sense
in a situation if someone wants to make someone shut up because maybe if you're suffocating someone
and you still think that there's a risk of them coming back conscious they could scream and they could scream through the pillow but slitting their throats i mean it's pretty instant
and it's a very noiseless death the defense said for that it makes more sense that it was the three
staff members that would slit their throat so that they wouldn't make a noise speaking of blood the
defense wanted to know how the parents could have killed both hemorrhage and arushi in the bedroom and there is zero evidence of hemorrhage's dna in the bedroom
no blood nothing but he was hit with the golf club according to the prosecutor's theory in the
bedroom and he had a head wound that was probably bleeding so none of his blood was in her room not
a single drop of blood. So maybe he didn't
bleed or the parents are just so good at killing and like they're able to see whose blood is whose
blood. The defense argued that if you just had the crime scene and use reasonable logic, the more
logical assumption would be that Hemraj was killed on the terrace, that he had voluntarily walked up
to the terrace and then he had been attacked, which makes more sense in the three men theory
versus the parent theory.
Because if the parents caught him in the bedroom,
how would they get him up the stairs
without injuring him?
Does that make sense?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The defense also argued that Hemraj was found
with slippers on when he was found.
And the prosecutors are stating that Hemraj
was dragged in a sheet all the way up the stairs
and his slippers never fell off.
Or they're saying that the slippers did fell off, but the parents put them back on after he was killed.
The defense is like, no, he probably walked up to the terrace and then was killed.
And that's why.
Another big point of dispute was the cell phone.
So that morning, Bardi came to the house and the housekeeper.
Usually Hemraj would be the one to let her in, but this time he wasn't there. So the mom calls Hemraj and someone answers the phone,
but they hang up quickly afterwards. And then when the mom calls back, the phone is shut off.
Somebody had turned it off. The prosecutors argued that perhaps the mom called Hemraj's
phone to act like she was trying to see where he was because later if the police get involved,
she needs to have record of this phone conversation or at least the attempt to call.
But when she called, she realized that his phone's ringer wasn't turned off.
So she and her husband quickly picked up to disconnect the sound in case Barty could hear from outside the door.
They hung up and then they turned the phone off and then they called again just for, you know, making it look good.
just for, you know, making it look good.
But on the other hand, the defense argued that if the Tilvars had killed both their daughter and Hemraj,
they had all night to set this up.
One of the first things that they would have done
is look for Hemraj's phone and silence it or turn it off.
Even Arushi's phone was missing from the house.
So clearly if they were guilty,
they were paying close attention to their phones.
It doesn't make sense for them to forget to turn it off and let it ring and then it's just weird but the prosecutor argues
that a lot of things can be forgotten in the rush of the moment the parents were on a time crunch
they knew that bardi was coming at six in the morning to clean the house so they needed to get
all of these things done by then now side note arushi's phone was found later on. Yeah, a man had it.
Found where?
Yeah, he just like found it.
He was like, yeah.
So we can assume that the killers dumped her phone.
But he had no affiliation with the murder or the crime.
And the phone, interestingly enough, he did not know it belonged to a murder victim because it was completely wiped of all the data.
And that is another point that the prosecutors use.
The prosecutors argue that the parents would be the only ones
to have any sort of incentive to delete the data off their daughter's phone.
Who else would do that?
Like the three guys, if they were just there to essay Arushi,
there would be no point for them to wipe her phone other than just trash it.
Why wipe it?
But then I guess you could argue.
Why even trash it?
I don't get the cell phone thing.
That's so true.
There must be something on there.
Like, what are we doing?
That's so true.
We read two books on this case,
watched like a whole docuseries
and did so much internet research
and no one pointed that out.
Yeah, why trash it?
Then there was the argument about the whiskey bottle
left on the dining table.
It had both Arushi and Hemraj's blood on it,
but none of the parents' fingerprints.
So the prosecutor stated that it was their belief
that the dad took a swig of whiskey in preparation to kill his daughter.
Killing Hemraj was easy for him, right?
Because he's nobody.
He's invisible.
He's a helper.
But killing his precious daughter is a different story so he went and grabbed it transferring the blood onto
the whiskey bottle and took a sip but there's no none of his fingerprints on the bottle yeah the
prosecutors say he was wearing gloves that's why the defense argues well that just doesn't make
any sense when did he put on gloves right so now we're just like putting together all these random things and why would he have left it on the dining room table
then why would he have not just cleaned off the blood and then put it back in the cabinet
or why didn't he plant it in hemorrhage's room or try to come up with some sort of
case clues that the police can go off of that would point away from the parents
that doesn't even make any sense.
That's what they said. But then the prosecutors argue, so if it wasn't the parents, then the real quote-unquote real killers would have taken out the whiskey bottle and drank from it? What kind
of killers do that? If they're in a crime scene where there's two parents sleeping and they could
be caught at any moment, who stops to go find the whiskey bottle and then drink out of it?
On top of
that the family does not have like a clear liquor cabinet it's in like an enclosed space so you would
have to either a know where the family keeps their liquor or b go searching for the liquor
why would they be doing that now in defense of the teddy bears the prosecutors argued that the
same goes for the setting up of the teddy bears on Arushi's bed, all the stuffed animals.
Remember, someone had set up the teddy bears around Arushi after they killed her.
The teddy bears were placed on top of blood splatter, but there was no blood splatter on the bears, indicating that they were placed on top after the crime.
What kind of killer does that?
The prosecutors argued, who would waste their time when the victim's parents are sleeping nine feet away
to position teddy bears around the victim?
It's odd.
Unless you know the parents are not going to come
bursting into the room
because you are the parents.
Are you placing the dolls on the bed
to get rid of some of that guilt?
The defense argues that still doesn't make any sense.
They argue the theory that the three men
set up the scene before they go to the terrace with Hemraj after essaying Arushi.
That makes more sense.
Why else would they put the teddy bears on there?
Then what about the internet router?
This was like a whole thing.
There's five million points for this trial, okay?
The prosecutors argued that there was an internet router in Arushi's room.
Apparently that night it stopped working so the mom had to go into arushi's room to reset the router which suggests that she was
in arushi's room but also that she was awake and the prosecutor stated the internet remained active
in the night of the gory incident suggesting that at least one of the accused one of the parents
remained awake during the events the prosecutor how do we know there was internet
activity coming from the house but anybody could be on the internet yeah the defense they're saying
they're dead by at two o'clock and someone's still using the internet yeah so and the parents said
they're asleep but then the defense argued that the internet router showing activity doesn't mean anything
because there was activity even the next day when briefly nobody was home.
Another huge point of contention was that Arushi was just nine feet away from her parents.
How was she murdered without them waking up or hearing anything?
To that, the defense argued a few points.
One, that Arushi was sick when she was murdered.
She had laryngitis, so for her to scream, it was very difficult.
Two, the parents defended themselves,
stating that they had a broken air conditioner in their room
that was so noisy that they could not hear anything coming from outside of that room.
And it's like 100 degrees outside.
They can't keep it on.
The judge wrote about this whole sound debate.
A sound test was
carried out and it was found that the accused sleeping in their bedroom with the air conditioning
switched on cannot hear opening and closing or bolting of entry exit doors interestingly the
sound test also showed that shouting and screaming from the next room could not be heard because of
the ac wow that must be really loud ac yeah then there is the situation of the deleted photos
the night of arushi's death she was gifted an early birthday present a digital camera she was
playing with it at dinner taking pictures and messing around but when police took the camera
into possession 18 pictures had been deleted which doesn't sound like a lot but take into
consideration that she only took 23 pictures meaning that she kept 5 and deleted 18 pictures. Why? Did the parents delete them? Like how they
deleted all the data off of her phone before getting rid of it? Were there pictures of Hemraj?
Were there pictures of Arushi and Hemraj? Did it show pictures of the parents doing something in
the background or doing other things that they didn't want the public to know? Is that why?
The defense argued the deleted pictures were just a result of a teenager messing around on a camera that she just got.
Like, would you keep every single faulty picture on your camera roll?
And it's her first time using the new digital camera.
She could have been learning the settings.
But more than that, the defense argued that the camera was actually photographic evidence that the parents were not killers.
The pictures from the night before showed the mom in her nightgown and the next morning when
bardy the cleaner came and the police came she was still wearing the very same nightgown and she had
no blood on her nightgown so that detail matched up yes but. But the prosecutors argue, what if that was planned?
Because let's say her story is correct.
She woke up to her daughter being dead.
You would not hug your daughter.
You would not hold her in your arms.
You would not resuscitate her getting blood on you.
Did you intentionally keep your nightgown clean to say hey look at the
pictures and they also argued why give her her camera a few days early before her birthday
okay now the argument sounds like they're saying it's premeditated yeah premed that will be even
more insane then the whole this whole plot will be even crazier yeah they would i feel like they
would have planned it much better than
this right yeah so i honestly i don't know what to think about any of these things now i will say
that the defense actually had a pretty strong case in the trial not because i'm saying that the
parents are innocent i truly don't know but it does seem like the prosecutors just took a really
strange angle at this case i think a lot of the public agrees, even if they think that the parents are guilty.
But it didn't really matter
because the judge had made up their mind.
The judge, he was writing his verdict statement
before the defense even started their closing arguments.
There's a lot on this judge in a second, okay?
Now, the parents would be sentenced to life in prison
for double homicide.
Yeah. Now, I will say again, regardless of what you believe, the general public does agree that regardless of actual guilt, the parents in this
specific trial, it seemed like all circumstantial evidence, and yet they were still convicted.
It didn't seem like there was like that one strong, aha, gotcha moment. There were a lot
of other parts of the trial that were really questionable. So right after inspecting Arushi's
body during the autopsy, Dr. Doherty stated that there were no injuries on Arushi's private parts.
He even wrote that on the report saying nothing abnormal detected. He took swabs, sent them to a
pathologist who stated that there were no signs of SA in the
swabs, no male fluids detected either. But suddenly during the trial, he came back years after Arushi's
death, years after seeing Arushi's body, because she can't be exhumed. Remember, she's cremated.
And the doctor was like, oh yeah, by the way, I have like a new finding for you. Her private parts
were so dilated that I could make eye contact with her cervix. Dilated meaning wide open.
Which seems like a detail that you would absolutely include in the initial autopsy.
When the CBI asked, why didn't you include that in the initial autopsy report, Dr. Doherty?
He said, comments about the private parts of the body were not made as findings were nonspecific and just very strange.
Isn't that the point of the autopsy to point out
anything and everything that's strange even if you don't have a like a shady shady shady shady
shady yeah it's just so weird so he goes from nothing abnormal to later stating in trial it
was so wide that he had never seen anything like that before. But you didn't think to include that in the initial autopsy?
Then the doctor who did Hemraj's autopsy came to testify.
It's a different doctor.
And he stated that Hemraj's private part was so swollen after his death
that he absolutely must have been engaged in intimate relations
or was about to start intimate relations a thousand percent.
Otherwise, it would not be so swollen post-mortem.
The defense brought in other doctors and medical texts because remember his body was bloated to twice its size
every part of his body was bloated they're like what are you talking about everything gets swollen
during decomposition and the doctor's rebuttal to that was just oh well i wasn't going off based
off of medical texts or medical experience.
I was actually making this speculation in theory from my marriage experience.
Was he trying to state that when he is about to be in intimate settings, he gets so swollen,
so that must mean that that's why hemorrhage is swollen, regardless of decomposition processes?
There were a lot of different instances
of mishandling of evidence, mislabeling of evidence like the pillowcase. Also, like DNA
swabs were mislabeled. So at one point there was a whole rumor that she wasn't even the biological
child of the parents because they ran her DNA and it was mislabeled. It wasn't her DNA. And they
were like, oh, my God, she's not the child yeah it was a mess then there
was the situation with the email address okay so the CBI created an email address the new team that
hates the parents right whether rightfully so or not I don't know but they created a new email
address with hemorrhage's full name at gmail.com and they would only use that email to reach out to arushi's parents yeah like at best it's very
creepy like imagine the police are investigating you for murdering this specific person and now
they're emailing you with that specific person's name in the email address for what purpose like
are they baiting no no they're they they're like this is the cbi they're just trying to get in their heads
yeah i don't even know what to think like there's so much argument there's so much
random evidence that's so confusing and so unreliable and it's just so all over the place
guys we had like five people all hands on deck working on this and i just want to say this is just the tip of the iceberg each point can get boiled down even more there's more points
i didn't even fully cover so and that's why you're saying like even like most people still don't know
no everyone just kind of feel like yeah everyone just has like a gut feeling and they're like yeah i think that's the theory that makes the most sense but it's really hard there were allegations that the
relatives of the victim's family well arushi's family had called and asked the autopsy technicians
like can you not mention any like r-word essay in the report that was later denied
i mean there's just a lot going on later the cbi also kept referring to aj do you guys remember aj
the one that the truth serum the mom was like oh yeah i like had physical relations with him but
also he let the people in that weren't detectives that guy yeah yeah the cbi kept referring to him
as a relative which he's not a relative so it's very
confusing is he the man that the mom was having an affair with or is he a relative or in the eyes
of the cbi is he both yeah the judge was also very interesting character in all of this he just
really did not care he was retiring literally five days after the trial was over and he just seemed
ready to go he was also blatantly
very biased sometimes the defense attorney would be talking and he would just say how much more sir
how much more let's finish it off come on yeah then there was the situation with the morning
walker during trial so there was a guy named sanjay and he testified during the trial about
all the weird behaviors that the couple were having the
morning that their daughter was found dead he's like yeah the parents are freaking weird now sanjay
said that every morning he liked to drive somewhere to take his morning walk after his walk he was on
his drive back home and he saw this commotion outside this house a lot of activity so he goes
in he's curious and he sees just like very odd things happening he said that someone was murdered he
quickly put it two and two together the parents were acting very strange he said that the parents
were roaming from room to room talking to the visitors more like they're hosting some sort of
networking event he noted that he never saw them going anywhere near their daughter's body and
showed zero signs of grief and he was very surprised he also mentioned seeing blood on the stairs leading
up to the terrace now here's a few problems with his testimony he works for the cbi
he works for the cbi but he said that he's not testifying as a cbi official because he wasn't
working on this case he was just there at a personal capacity but then also sanjay was an
invisible witness.
Not a single person remembered seeing him at the crime scene.
And additionally, he lives 20 miles away from the family.
Meaning, did he drive 20 miles one way just to take a morning walk and then 20 miles back?
He also could not name any landmarks near the family house.
Like you were saying, he could be making this up it's like
people are very strongly saying that the cbi was just like oh we need another witness
and he's like i work for the cbi let me just go over there yeah he's the witness that never
existed yeah and again regardless of if you think the parents are guilty or not that's not what i'm
arguing i'm just trying to say the trial was crazy. The trial was crazy. And a good chunk of the public still does not care.
They still do not like the parents. At one point during the legal proceedings, the dad was attacked
on the way to the courthouse with an unhinged man with a meat cleaver. He was attacked in broad
daylight and his forehead and his hands were really badly injured. And when he was imprisoned,
this was the very first time he was imprisoned.
The dad said it was like just really gross
the way that they were treating him.
At this point, he was about to be free.
The dad was about to be free, remember?
And the three men had been arrested
for his daughter's murder.
And one of them, his own assistant,
was on the way to the courthouse with him in the police van
and they have to handcuff all the people together, the prisoners together, in pairs of two.
With his own assistant?
Krishna, his dental assistant.
Oh, so they're all in jail at the same time.
Yeah, and they're all about to go from the jail to the courthouse at the same day because they've got the same day of hearings.
And each person that goes into that policeman has
to be handcuffed in pairs the guards were like you and krishna are going together and the dad is like
no no this is the guy who's in jail for killing my daughter and they're like sorry we only have
this extra pair of handcuffs so they handcuffed him to krishna and he said it was the worst day
of his life he said he was sobbing please don't do this this man
killed my daughter please so again even if the parent is guilty that's just crazy because
he didn't have a trial at that point that was his very first arrest
now the two parents were thrown in jail and after five long years of being in prison they had
appealed the minute that they were thrown in prison.
The verdict was overturned and the parents were free.
Five years later, the new judge that took a look at the case
said the CBI failed to prove the three pillars of a trial.
There was no direct evidence linking the parents to the murder.
There were no eyewitnesses,
and they failed to establish a valid motive for the murders. A lot of people were divided on this decision. Some people who
thought that the parents were guilty were upset. And later, the parents' own defense attorney was
asked what he thought about the couple. This is the guy that defended them. And if they were capable
of murder. And he said, honestly, the dad, too soft, too emotional, not capable of murder, would not be able to live with himself.
And the mom, yes.
I don't know what that means.
I guess he just thinks that she's capable of murder.
But like that doesn't, I don't know what that means.
Like I don't know what any of this means in anything anymore.
in anything anymore. I think the saddest part about all of this is that regardless of who we think that did it or who you think that did it, Hemraj is kind of a double victim in this. I think
Arushi got a lot of attention for being 13, for being the child of the parents. But Hemraj, I mean,
he worked 24-7 to ensure that his family back home had a livable income.
He had a wife and children and he showed no tendencies of any inappropriate violent behavior.
There was no presence of drugs or alcohol in his system.
Not that that would change anything, but instead of being viewed as a victim who lost his life in a violent murder, his reputation just swings back and forth.
Oh, is he a person who's willing to sleep with a 13-year-old?
Is he this? Is he that? Does he hang out with killers?
It just...
Hemraj's widow, his wife, said that life was difficult with him away for work.
But now it's even more miserable.
Because at least back then, she always knew that he was coming home.
So, regardless of who you believed in it,
all we know is the killer is free so leave your thoughts in the comments please stay safe and i will see you on wednesday for the next one bye