13 yr old Girl & 45 yr old Housekeeper KILLED In Locked House - Police Suspects "Secret Affair”

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  • @Maya_hee
    @Maya_hee 2 місяці тому +3793

    Anyone accusing a 13 year old child for having an "affair" is a sick creep, no exceptions, none.

    • @Southparkkyle1956
      @Southparkkyle1956 2 місяці тому +23

      True

    • @saraha7006
      @saraha7006 2 місяці тому +9

      Absolutely 💯

    • @deaconworcestershire93
      @deaconworcestershire93 2 місяці тому +1

      Jeetistan

    • @lisaelisa4772
      @lisaelisa4772 2 місяці тому +9

      I can imagine an exception, like a 13 yo boy who caught his gf kissing other guy. But except for that, n o n e.

    • @lethfuil
      @lethfuil Місяць тому +39

      @@lisaelisa4772 I wouldn't call that an affair either, more like cheating, but overall: Yeah. If the boy-/girlfriend called it an affair, that would be the exception (the only one).

  • @kedaver263
    @kedaver263 2 місяці тому +2519

    Theres a sickening mentality in India where if a woman is found dead, but found sexually active/possibly raped then no matter what, the public will be against her. This is still happening, with a case as recent as last year where a woman, Shraddha Walkar was brutally murdered by her boyfriend, with body parts stored in the refrigerator. Her boyfriend showing no remorse, but oh! because she fought with her parents and moved in with him, that obviously means she got what she deserved ? Seriously effd up people in this country.
    Edit: Let's not turn this into a culture war, people.

    • @FloppityFlopFlop777
      @FloppityFlopFlop777 2 місяці тому +187

      That's sick. How backwards. A 13yo isn't even a woman, though. This victim was a little girl.

    • @katrianem2124
      @katrianem2124 2 місяці тому

      In this case it’s only the media and the police believing a child victim is guilty not the actual people. The actual people even protested against Hemraj and Ashishs mistreatment. It’s very likely that’s the case for most cases like the one you described but us on the outside will only see what the media write.

    • @Ddisha6113
      @Ddisha6113 2 місяці тому

      I truly am ashamed to be a citizen of a country where such people live

    • @maxmilanamulyalimbu6114
      @maxmilanamulyalimbu6114 2 місяці тому +21

      You did not mention Sharda Walker's boyfriend name and his thoughts.!?

    • @mountain85
      @mountain85 2 місяці тому +15

      Citizens like you must change that perspective, the law. Citizens must unite.

  • @eezus9452
    @eezus9452 2 місяці тому +728

    This case could’ve been solved EASILY if people did their jobs instead of making up fake conspiracies with no proof about the victims…SAD!

    • @sushibhadi_art
      @sushibhadi_art 2 місяці тому +33

      Or if people just was minding they own business and contaminating the crime scene like I’m clutching my pearls 😂

    • @cheycheyfriend247
      @cheycheyfriend247 5 днів тому

      im very disgusted that people are still convicting the parents in their minds with so little evidence.

  • @navyamunjal610
    @navyamunjal610 2 місяці тому +2676

    As an Indian, the most disgusting thing about witnessing this case as a 13 year old myself, was the false salaciousness around the narrative. The fact that the media had the audacity to dissect into most intimate thoughts of a developing teenager and could slut shame, a 13 year old is gross. We have no clue what happened, but even if she was found in compromising position, she was still a victim, incapable of consent. Media exploited every second of this tragedy. It is absolutely shameful.

    • @Nagvanshieus
      @Nagvanshieus 2 місяці тому +14

      Why are you watching stuff like this if you're 13???, this is mature content.

    • @navyamunjal610
      @navyamunjal610 2 місяці тому +267

      @@Nagvanshieus I was 13 when this case unfolded. These sensitive details were heavily publicized on every headline and every front cover of any daily mail. It was unavoidable, but more so, disgusting to process it back then.

    • @nandinishankar5984
      @nandinishankar5984 2 місяці тому +134

      i was a year younger than aarushi, and now as a 28 year old, it absolutely sickens me that people would think she would willingly sleep with ANYONE. it's beyond vile and the media wasn't criticised enough imo.

    • @0230Raveena
      @0230Raveena 2 місяці тому +58

      @@Nagvanshieus . Perhaps because she is a mature 13 year old, judging from her eloquent and articulated language? Plus, being aware of such atrocities and injustices at such a delicate age is a credit to her intelligence and perhaps her own loss of innocence that society would go so far to shame the victim so they can neatly wrap up the case.

    • @lethfuil
      @lethfuil 2 місяці тому +83

      ​@@0230Raveena OR, perhaps, because they where 13 AT THAT TIME and it was heavily covered in the media back then. As they clearly wrote.
      And, btw: No. If a 13 year old would watch rather graphic true crime videos, that wouldn't be credit for their intellect, but proof of their parents neglect, or simple unawareness.
      This content can be heavy on an adults mind, at 13 this could be harmful and definitely isn't appropriate content.

  • @natashasmith5246
    @natashasmith5246 2 місяці тому +3639

    I am from India and this is a case that still boggles me to this day. The fact that there were SO. MANY. discrepancies by the Police Department and the other people overall seem so very sketchy. How did absolutely NO one notice Hemraj’s body on the rooftop??? Not even a neighbour noticed??? And the way media has framed this poor 13 year old girl for having an “affair” with someone who saw her as his own daughter… disgusting. May their souls rest in peace 🕊️

    • @user-zk5cn3mp6q
      @user-zk5cn3mp6q 2 місяці тому +73

      @@OfficerZ637bro is rlly desperate for attention 😐

    • @Jasper_KN
      @Jasper_KN 2 місяці тому +46

      @@OfficerZ637What’s the point of posting this?

    • @oogaboogass
      @oogaboogass 2 місяці тому +36

      ​@@OfficerZ637 bad bot.

    • @vscreations9923
      @vscreations9923 2 місяці тому +25

      @@OfficerZ637says you

    • @rachelrae860
      @rachelrae860 2 місяці тому +7

      ​@@Jasper_KNI agree with you 💯

  • @That0neSister
    @That0neSister 2 місяці тому +2514

    I can’t wrap my head around why the friends/relatives of the family would clean the house after seeing a passed child

    • @smileyattitude6807
      @smileyattitude6807 2 місяці тому +204

      That’s what I can’t believe! I thought it was common knowledge not to touch a crime scene! Now they have all these fingerprints and other things contaminating the crime scene

    • @Coochie_829
      @Coochie_829 2 місяці тому +171

      that's just some next level dumbness or they were coerced into it.

    • @icebear5654
      @icebear5654 2 місяці тому +48

      usually to help them prepare for prayer meet etc

    • @kat10ko
      @kat10ko 2 місяці тому +25

      Part of the "cleanup" crew.

    • @Fxo2
      @Fxo2 2 місяці тому +20

      It's like when ppl prepare food after someone dies but they decided to clean up 😭

  • @anicasingh5005
    @anicasingh5005 2 місяці тому +1148

    There are a few details that they missed to tell in this case:
    1. Hemraj had not sent his family any money in months. It was speculated that he took loan from someone, and that anonymous body was after him. Hence, he contacted the social worker.
    2. The person who did the autopsy on the victim had NEVER done an autopsy on a woman before. He did not even know how the privates are supposed to look.

    • @aoi_lovesart
      @aoi_lovesart 2 місяці тому +44

      Oh it makes sense now!

    • @anitacrumbly
      @anitacrumbly 2 місяці тому +266

      how do you become a coroner without knowing the anatomy of a woman????? I mean we have an issue in the USA where most men don't know how women's anatomies work but the coroners know, you can't become a doctor without at least seeing a woman's anatomy. I'm sorry I know there are cultural differences but as a woman it makes me so angry that they don't have to know what a woman looks like we don't matter enough.

    • @Ddisha6113
      @Ddisha6113 2 місяці тому +47

      ​​​​​@@anitacrumblyas an Indian i don't think that is possible, i would say more so that, that doctor hasn't seen female private parts in real life....the samples in lab is mostly definitely not the same as real life but then again I am not sure cause then this case took place, i was just little over a year old so ... additionally it was 2008, things were not like now at all so ...

    • @peekaboo5905
      @peekaboo5905 2 місяці тому +65

      Lol as a medical student in India its absolutely impossible to not know human female anatomy before being an doctor who could do an autopsy. But definitely there can be someone not so educated about the samples to be taken. But such things happen only from newly employed doctor, and its highly unlikely that a newbie to be given a high profile case as murder without supervision of his/her seniors. Also if u may imagine its not just the doctor, but there are multiple trained personals present who would've pointed out the if the doctor was missing something.

    • @autumngrubb1468
      @autumngrubb1468 2 місяці тому +4

      @@anitacrumblyI agree with you, and I couldn’t have said it any better😒!

  • @PassTheMarmalade1957
    @PassTheMarmalade1957 2 місяці тому +687

    They heard the dad was having an affair, and the very next thought that occurred in the minds of the police was, "The 13 year old daughter was sleeping with the housekeeper." Make it make sense.

    • @lalalala7738
      @lalalala7738 Місяць тому +10

      It's just weird that the housekeeper took somebody else's job, somebody else also knew the house, the child.....

  • @lackingcreativity4772
    @lackingcreativity4772 2 місяці тому +837

    I am an indian and i think that misogyny and victim blaming played a HUGE part in why this case was left unsolved. People were always quick to point fingers at the little girl and accuse her of vile things just because of the police department's incompetence

    • @HemantKumar-id3jg
      @HemantKumar-id3jg 2 місяці тому

      Media sensationalisation is what started it all and the deep seated misogyny is what made many buy into that theory.
      Can always count on media to come up with weird theories to keep people glued to the screen.

    • @sandpiperr
      @sandpiperr 2 місяці тому +79

      The parts about the pathologist stating in the report there were no significant findings in the pelvic region, but they at trial saying that her parts were so dilated he could peer up into her cervix was so vile to me!
      For starters, that's not how va-jay-jays work! Even when you're giving birth you can't just peer up into it until the baby's head it coming out, and then all you can see is the head.
      And it just seemed almost like it was meant to be titilating in a really messed up way.
      And then the part where he said that Hemraj was for sure preparing to engage in intimacy when he died because his parts were enlarged after bloating inthe sun for two days...that's not how peeners work either!
      Then to say he wasn't basing it on medical experience but marriage experience. W.T.F?
      Did this guy get his medical degree from the place that Dr. Nick on The Simpsons did?
      That part, for me, was the grossest.

    • @lackingcreativity4772
      @lackingcreativity4772 2 місяці тому +31

      You're so right actually a lot pf the evidence in this case was just discrimination

    • @mynameiselvispresleygirlsa5911
      @mynameiselvispresleygirlsa5911 2 місяці тому +35

      Not to mention that even if it were true, she was being taken advantage of and then murdered so she's basically a victim twice

    • @kalpajha3002
      @kalpajha3002 2 місяці тому +15

      Well said, it's so true and deeply disheartening that the victims get violated not just by the police department but also by the media who love to write just rubbish and not having a heart or any thought about their implications on the true victims.

  • @nuthu96
    @nuthu96 2 місяці тому +3027

    I am Indian and was 12 years old when this happened. I watched everything play out in real-time. The things which were said about Aarushi were disgusting, and it made me so angry. The sad thing was that many believed the disgusting things which were said, and she was used as a cautionary tale.

    • @nomdeplume2213
      @nomdeplume2213 2 місяці тому +132

      Don't feel bad about believing the news.... the fact that your opinions changed with new information proves you have no ill intent. My mom use to always tell me "believe NOTHING you hear and only half of what you see". She was 100% right

    • @mansis4615
      @mansis4615 2 місяці тому +61

      same! I remember everyone talking about this and they would always paint Aarushi in bad light, even the way the media handled this was so disgusting, everytime I would turn on the news they would be talking like she was perpetrator and everyone else was the victim in the situation , it always made me so angry.

    • @Rexorazor
      @Rexorazor 2 місяці тому

      She was Sexually active, her mother said so.
      Aarushi also had a boyfriend who she broke up with a few months before being murdered.
      This only happens because she found a better sex partner, For example Hemraj (Whose dong is much bigger than her peewee boyfriends).
      Girls aim bigger starting from young age and everyone knows it.

    • @Rexorazor
      @Rexorazor 2 місяці тому

      @@OfficerZ637 It's obvious she has them.
      All these Know it All saints have CP on their devices.

    • @GingerNinja1
      @GingerNinja1 2 місяці тому +67

      ​@@OfficerZ637
      Stop posting this crap all over every thread

  • @TankHardcheese
    @TankHardcheese 2 місяці тому +355

    Holy shit, everybody--and I mean EVERYBODY--failed Aarushi and Hemraj. The community, the police, the CBI, the media, the courts, even the goddamn lab technicians! Literally everybody had a hand in fucking up this case irrevocably. And because of them, a 13 year old girl and a father will never see justice. Just... infuriating and heartbreaking at the same time.

  • @yakshithapunati3222
    @yakshithapunati3222 2 місяці тому +247

    Another important detail that was not mentioned in this video is there was a handprint found on the terrace right beside the door the leads to terrace (this was as soon as they found Hemraj’s body), but the police did not take any sample from the handprint or try to preserve the handprint (which was shocking). The next day it rained and the handprint eventually faded away. The amount of police negligence in this case is insane.

  • @TJ-bn2cn
    @TJ-bn2cn 2 місяці тому +3332

    It makes me sick when people put any thought of blame on a child. A 13 year old child, especially in that culture, is a lot younger than these men presume. It’s a disgrace that fully grown men are not capable of understanding that they are talking about a little naive girl! Breaks my heart that men are unable to see children as children, just because they’re growing up, doesn’t stop them from being children

    • @impano666
      @impano666 2 місяці тому +133

      It’s very telling of their inner thoughts, guilt, and shame 🙃 projection the entire time.

    • @rachelrae860
      @rachelrae860 2 місяці тому +22

      I agree with you 💯. Even though this case had me more than confused your right on point 🎯 with your comment and I just read a comment that she said rotten people are still watching her when she uses these cases for the clout and even lies so it's like your watching a horror film. So I asked her so you don't like rotten mango but no response yet. But I think she's reaching to far. I love her and think she's amazing. That girl has me thinking does she really lie to add more to her narrative and then says she adds her own stuff in to make it for the clout. I honestly don't think that at all. I think Stephanie is just an amazing story teller but lmk your thoughts 💭

    • @sandpiperr
      @sandpiperr 2 місяці тому +61

      In any culture it'd be insane to assume that about a 13 year old!
      When Stephanie started saying that the theory was Arushi caught the dad having an affair, what I thought she was going to say was that the theory was that the dad killed her to keep her from telling her mom.
      Which I was already a bit skeptical about. If your kid finds out something like that, you'd be more likely to intimidate, gaslight, and manipulate them into not saying anything than to think you have to kill them!
      I actually yalled outloud "WHAT?!" when she said the police theorized that she started sleeping with the family's 45 year old employee to get revenge on her dad for having an affair!
      That is nuts!

    • @teddy8311
      @teddy8311 2 місяці тому

      @@impano666jjj

    • @teddy8311
      @teddy8311 2 місяці тому

      J

  • @delarmahmadi1330
    @delarmahmadi1330 2 місяці тому +2100

    I'm a forensic student from Canada and we had a cold case class and we had chosen this case to investigate and attempt to solve it. But unfortunately because of the incompetence of the police and all the forensic evidence being contaminated and so much disparity between court reports and medical examiner report that it was deemed unsolved by us. There's so much lies involved in this case and I just hope that the victim is resting peacefully and the offender gets their karma.

    • @nomdeplume2213
      @nomdeplume2213 2 місяці тому +181

      I've been studying this case from day one. I'm just an arm chair investigator but I did fly to India to see the house and speak to locals... that family had some dark shit going on.... regardless I'd LOVE to see what you and your class did pertaining to this case. Its fascinating to me. I wanted to be a forensic psychologist but i had to drop out of college due to my mother's illness. Well I say "had" but i chose to amd have no regrets. I got to spend that time with my mom before she passed and I wouldn't have it any other way. Have you since graduated or still studying?

    • @Penultimate1785
      @Penultimate1785 2 місяці тому

      ​@@nomdeplume2213 fascinating

    • @jenellenelson4447
      @jenellenelson4447 2 місяці тому +40

      Well hey, feel good about the fact that there's at least there's a bunch of people TRYING to get to the bottom of this case!

    • @jaynekendall3049
      @jaynekendall3049 2 місяці тому +8

      I would like to have been a forensic investigator it's sooo interesting to me

    • @clairew5812
      @clairew5812 2 місяці тому +67

      @@OfficerZ637whats your problem thats not smth to joke abt

  • @yooncrown
    @yooncrown 2 місяці тому +515

    I believe the actual target was Arushi. Hemraj simply got caught in the midst of it and had to be eliminated. The thrashed phone, wiped memory and deleted pictures kinda prove it. Shouldn't they have investigated the victim's school a bit more? Maybe interrogate her friends and teachers?

    • @minafra1717
      @minafra1717 2 місяці тому +106

      exactly my thoughts...Arushi's murder seems premeditated whereas Hemraj seems like a witness victim. There is definetly more to it..

    • @neuswoesje590
      @neuswoesje590 2 місяці тому +68

      yeah the phone being whiped sounds like she was talking to/about someone and that person didn't want anyone to see

    • @kedaver263
      @kedaver263 2 місяці тому +59

      I think it's the opposite, Hemraj had received threatening calls prior to the incident. That's a huge red flag already. Its more likely Arushi witnesses something she shouldn't rather than Hemraj because c'mon, with her there's no motive, but there's more incidents that point to him.

    • @madellynpineda5020
      @madellynpineda5020 2 місяці тому +46

      ​@@kedaver263 and possibly the person who was threatening him was someone close to them, and the girl had taken pictures or videos of them...

    • @nityanandbiswal4093
      @nityanandbiswal4093 2 місяці тому +24

      Actually arushi being the target and hemraj being the target are equal possibilities. What the media did was so vile and literally drifted everyone away from the main point. It revolved so much around arushi and her household and hemraj that it literally forgot to explore the most obvious background. Like her parents being involved in extramarital affairs with their friends and the family being involved with powerful people. Arushi also seemed pretty extroverted. The murderer could have literally been anyone outside of the family and for the most non sexual/predatory reasons. It's so weird and uncanny how everyone went straight to the inappropriate route.

  • @maylidaily
    @maylidaily 2 місяці тому +201

    It's so crazy that the argument with the mom's nightgown is "Would you not hold your child and get blood on you?" because when it came to Jon Benet's father picking her up & carrying her upstairs everyone said that was "suspicious" and called him guilty & accused him of covering up the scene because he contaminated DNA. Like it really just goes to show you that people's reactions to situations really don't matter all that much and everyone reacts differently.

    • @alauracollis6520
      @alauracollis6520 2 місяці тому +47

      There is no “right” way to act in these situations.

    • @maylidaily
      @maylidaily 2 місяці тому +9

      @@alauracollis6520 Exactly!

    • @sushibhadi_art
      @sushibhadi_art 2 місяці тому +9

      He’ll even I know for a fact I wouldn’t touch shit knowing that I want people to find out who really did this and have little to no tampering I’d probably inconsoilable

    • @fh9061
      @fh9061 23 дні тому

      Yea that's kinda interesting

  • @samanthabourne4865
    @samanthabourne4865 2 місяці тому +984

    So... this story is making me think the perfect murder isn't flawless...but just so messy you can't nail anybody with 100% surety.

    • @youknowwhat9911
      @youknowwhat9911 2 місяці тому +112

      Honestly I think it’s the lack of a motive that makes these unsolvable murders

    • @kaitlynng7214
      @kaitlynng7214 2 місяці тому

      @@youknowwhat9911that and the lack of uncontaminated physical evidence

    • @samanthabourne4865
      @samanthabourne4865 2 місяці тому +26

      @youknowwhat9911 I don't know. I think two hypothesis might be quite possible but there are facts that don't fit either of them entirely.
      If it was about some outsiders killing Hemraj, and even if Aarushi became collateral in some manner, why steal her phone and clean it? Why put dolls around her body? Why leave Hemraj's body on the roof terrace?
      If it was the parents killing Aarushi and Hemraj for whatever reason, the whiskey bottle lacking prints but having blood makes no sense, the leaving Hemraj's phone on, the not dumping Hemraj between the day Aarushi was found and him being found...
      And if it was somehow an Orient Express situation (if you know Agatha Christie), and two situations just coincided into this one confusing murder.... 😕 🤔
      We will just never know.

    • @queenofbeinghungryaf1025
      @queenofbeinghungryaf1025 2 місяці тому +21

      I think that if the first time that they searched and collected evidence was done professionally and the entirety of the house was searched thoroughly,they might have been able to narrow down the potential killers and then work from here to find the motive.

    • @mikumikuareka
      @mikumikuareka Місяць тому +4

      @@queenofbeinghungryaf1025 yeah, the time I heard that neighbors were walking around the crime scene and cleaning it, I knew already this case is not going to be solved

  • @alteregoapollo
    @alteregoapollo 2 місяці тому +565

    It boggles me how the phone being thrown away and wiped off data is barely mentioned by anyone. you would think that it meant something in there was valuable for the investigation, perhaps texts or pictures, but the investigators didn't even seem to try and make it part of the case it self. this whole mishandling of the case is so frustrating, my heart goes out to both victims and the people affected by their loss...

    • @malinasworld
      @malinasworld 2 місяці тому +47

      The answer to the case was definitely in there. It’s so sad.

    • @hassanshahid5832
      @hassanshahid5832 2 місяці тому +1

      Propably stolen by guests

    • @meme-gy5gx
      @meme-gy5gx 2 місяці тому

      @@hassanshahid5832 stolen, wiped then thrown away? Doubtful.

    • @saraasif5309
      @saraasif5309 Місяць тому

      Or maybe who found the fone wiped it out for themselves but scared to tell maybe..

  • @Allyourbase1990
    @Allyourbase1990 2 місяці тому +193

    The way they portrayed a 13 year old girl is absolutely ridiculous . Especially a girl who’s home and can’t even defend herself . The police really dropped the ball on this one .

  • @Myhalamanz
    @Myhalamanz 2 місяці тому +136

    The misogy was quite strong in this case. Accusing the victim of promiscuity from barely any evidence, accusing the mom of murder for not acting like a typical emotional woman.

  • @pinea560
    @pinea560 2 місяці тому +94

    Aarushi came to my school once for a competition I believe. I saw her photograph on the internet, and as a way to pay her a tribute me and my friends tied a ribbon to that exact same place where she was standing. Everytime I am reminded of the case I can't help but think about how cruel this world really is. 2 souls gone too early. 🌺RIP

  • @martinrowley6901
    @martinrowley6901 2 місяці тому +192

    The deleted pictures on that digital camera can likely be recovered. "Deleted" doesn't mean that the data from those pictures are gone, only that the space where they are on the camera's storage card is now flagged as "empty"

  • @kate8160
    @kate8160 2 місяці тому +91

    If I was the judge, I would imprison the police that was the first to investigate the scene. Because of their horribly poorly done job, there is a clear lack of evidence in this case and also the reputation of poor victims was destroyed, not even backed up by anything. Thus, the story should become a cautionary tale for the police and prosecutors, so that this never repeats again.

  • @tatimarie8277
    @tatimarie8277 2 місяці тому +59

    Is it possible that the liquid near her pelvis is pee or did they test to see if it’s water? She may have been terrified that she woke up to being murdered or just the fact that muscles loosen after death and many people holding their bladder all night.

    • @mynameiselvispresleygirlsa5911
      @mynameiselvispresleygirlsa5911 2 місяці тому +26

      Never thought about that. I wouldn't be surprised if they completely dropped the ball and didn't even think to test it

  • @paoo_vo
    @paoo_vo 2 місяці тому +287

    Thinking about a bunch of people just walking around and CLEANING the house even before the police arrived stressed me out so much omg

    • @em84c
      @em84c 2 місяці тому +8

      In Australia there was a serial killer targeting old ladies. At most of the crime scenes the old people who found the bodies had cleaned up all the blood by the time police got there!
      I guess they didn't know about DNA or thought the ladies had just fallen and thought it was disrespectful to leave blood there ?

    • @SaraLuna1993
      @SaraLuna1993 10 днів тому +1

      Just them walking around and touching things is bad enough. But they actively cleaned a crime scene. How dumb can people be?

  • @jamieharris2633
    @jamieharris2633 2 місяці тому +412

    My sister died in a car accident back in 87 and my mom didn't cry not because she didn't love my sister and not because she wasn't hurting but that's always how my mom has been. At that time she had lost her first husband, both parents, her sister when they were kids and 2 children. Even when my dad was in life support the only time I seen her cry was after we took him off life support and that was because she had promised him he would go home and she felt like she let him down. She has always felt like she needed to be strong for the rest of us so if she cried she never let us see her.

    • @chaoswitch1974
      @chaoswitch1974 2 місяці тому +120

      Sometimes you're just in shock, and numb. Everyone isn't comfortable crying in front of other people.

    • @sandpiperr
      @sandpiperr 2 місяці тому +66

      Not abnormal. Not everyone immediately starts crying when they learn of a death, and there's a lot of reasons why.
      Sometimes it doesn't sink in right away because it just doesn't feel real. Like your brain can't process that this person is actually dead.
      Sometimes you go numb.
      Sometimes your instinct is to stay strong for others.
      Sometimes, if it's a death you knew was coming, you're just kind of already at the acceptance stage. I didn't cry when my grandmother died and think this is why. She had late stage cancer, so we knew it was going happen.
      Bottom line, though, everyone reacts differently.

    • @StarAreebaGoRandom
      @StarAreebaGoRandom 2 місяці тому +25

      @@sandpiperryeah and maybe she cried earlier a lot so she was probably just numb and her eyes look exhausted

    • @starcherry6814
      @starcherry6814 2 місяці тому

      People just have a habit of villianizing anyone who doesn't fit their narrative
      The media was being very misogynistic and really hindered justice.

    • @malinasworld
      @malinasworld 2 місяці тому +16

      When my grandparents died my father told us not to cry during the funeral because they would’ve hated it. So we were all dry eyed. Some people probably thought we were heartless and cold when we were only respecting the memory of our grandparents. 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @layforlamebrain
    @layforlamebrain 2 місяці тому +68

    Indian media can be absolutely ludicrous. They can go any length to sensationalize a happening and suppress the truth.

  • @Iransiren
    @Iransiren 2 місяці тому +41

    26:30 I’m a 21 year old virgin but I used to joke like that with my friends too when I was in middle school and highschool… it’s so weird of them to call a 13 year old a “temptress” for joking about sexual thing with her teen friends

  • @prashanthreddy1502
    @prashanthreddy1502 2 місяці тому +84

    I believe you also missed a very important part of finding Hemraj's body. It was bad enough that the police lost a bunch of evidence since the body already decomposed so much but they never even got proper forensic data from the terrace. The forensic team did not arrive to collect data on the same day that Hemraj was found, the very next day it rained! So likely a majority of the forensic evidence had been washed away by the time the police finally called for forensics on the terrace a couple days later.

  • @itssupriyahere
    @itssupriyahere 2 місяці тому +51

    Hemraj is remembered as a criminal more than a victim. All because no killer has been arrested. Such a shame. People are illiterate to the point where they don't understand the meaning of 'innocent until proven guilty'. They dumped everything on the deceased because it was convenient for them rather than running around and making efforts to solve this mystery. Hemraj was someone's husband, someone's son, someone's father and much more. He deserves apology

  • @user-xt3wd8nx8k
    @user-xt3wd8nx8k 2 місяці тому +51

    I studied about this case almost an year ago. And if i remember correctly, the retired officer was actually asked to come over by Aarushi's uncle as they knew each other.
    Also a bloody handprint was discovered on the terrace but no action was taken to know who's handprint that is and when it was finally investigated it has been out for too long and was no longer traceable.

  • @mikih636
    @mikih636 2 місяці тому +48

    I remember this story a while back. It was always so weird how her parents quickly cremated her and destroyed all evidence or didn't care much for getting justice for her daughter murder. I really think the father was abusing his daughter and the worker caught him and he murdered both of them and just had the story twisted and destroyed the evidence. The mom was forced to stay quiet from the father or else she would be next.

    • @user-ml2eu9ub2u
      @user-ml2eu9ub2u 2 місяці тому +12

      Yeah I don’t understand why they want cremated their own daughter too soon…
      If their innocent I 💯 guarantee they want evidence 1st before cremation

    • @raindrops005
      @raindrops005 2 місяці тому +7

      Well, they were Hindus and generally in some areas, they do cremate the body soon after. They don’t really leave it or wait for long. Atleast I believe it was one of the counter arguments against this cremation argument.

    • @Ashley_Ezlynn
      @Ashley_Ezlynn Місяць тому +2

      Idk but generally South asian cremated dead as soon as possible for religious reason.. The later you do the funeral the more the soul suffer... In Hinduism and lslam it said to do the crematory or burial soon after the date.. Some even suggest to do it in the same day they passed... So the soul can rest in peace... Even in religion cutting through body after death is really disrespectful for the dead it is painful for the soul too... So most of the time even though there was a crime committed family Doesn't want to do autopsy... It's all religious reason.. So i Don't think It's a big deal that they cremated soo fast... Most avarage india would do that... It's the culture after all...
      And yeah they Didn't touch her daughter is must be the reason of Their medical background... Even of i saw someone loved laying in a pool of blood i might call someone rather touching them... It would make me go crazy and scared to even touch... It's just a instinct.. Even though i have no relation with medical but still it would bey first instinct...
      The whole investigation is flowed with no evidance rather making the Parents a scape goat to hide the misconducting of the investigation...

    • @qtpiefuuurrrever
      @qtpiefuuurrrever Місяць тому +1

      Thats what i think too i mean really its the only theory that makes sense. The rest is just sensationalism.

    • @Parasolhyena
      @Parasolhyena Місяць тому +4

      I mean that doesn't seem one hundred percent fair, the mother in the interview in May 2008 was asking someone, anyone to find the killer of her child even when he lawyers told her not to. It's also quite common to cremate fast in some parts of india, even with murder victims. As recent as last year in Patiala the police barely managed to stop a murder victims cremation from going forward when they realized her husband killed her.
      All I want is for this not to be another Lindy Chamberlain where just because the mother was bad with emotions the public hated her. Most people only know Lindy to this day as the "the dingo ate my baby" woman, and the sad thing was it was true.
      I just don't think we have enough proof one way or the other to actually convict anyone. I do think the parents are very likely but I wouldn't swear on it.

  • @jellobeanie
    @jellobeanie 2 місяці тому +308

    Hi, I'm from india. this case still remains one of the most famous unsolved cases of india. there is also a movie made on this case 'talvar' which tbh tried to portray the parents as complete saints. i mean idk if the parents did it or not but surely they knew something, there are literally so many loopholes in the stories and honestly the police really showed negligence during the first 24 hours, by the time they actually started investigating seriously all the evidences were gone or tampered with. but i honestly feel bad mostly about how arushi even after death was character assasinated and dragged through mud just because the media wanted a spicy story. i'm really glad stephanie that you decided to cover it, you didn't leave out a single detail otherwise this case is really hard to get in detail. its all over the place.

    • @cocothumb
      @cocothumb 2 місяці тому +5

      @OfficerZ637😐

    • @cocothumb
      @cocothumb 2 місяці тому +7

      @OfficerZ637are u mentally okay?

    • @malinasworld
      @malinasworld 2 місяці тому +2

      I like how you feel bad about Arushi being maligned but just finished implying that the parents were involved, with no evidence.

    • @EmEm78
      @EmEm78 2 місяці тому

      ​@@cocothumbjust report all their comments. They're spamming with this disgusting nonsense.

    • @GirlWithLuvAsh
      @GirlWithLuvAsh 2 місяці тому +2

      Why didn’t have the forensic check if there are any fingerprints on hemrajs body ?? It kills me that they left Hemraj as he was nothing 😢

  • @oneluckygirlandherdog
    @oneluckygirlandherdog 2 місяці тому +311

    The wetness under her pelvic region was probably her bladder releasing it's contents upon death.

    • @sandpiperr
      @sandpiperr 2 місяці тому +85

      Yeah it could have been a lot of things, which is why evidence collection is important!

    • @Rexorazor
      @Rexorazor 2 місяці тому +3

      It was not urine.

    • @Rexorazor
      @Rexorazor 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@sandpiperr Stop denying it. Admit the teen was of a very loose character.
      She was Sexually active and she even had a boyfriend who she broke up with a few months before the murder.
      Why do you think she broke up with her boyfriend?
      Hint Hint: the Cooks dong was bigger.

    • @alisson484
      @alisson484 2 місяці тому

      @@Rexorazoryou are disgusting. This is a child you are talking about

    • @Sassyvibes06
      @Sassyvibes06 2 місяці тому

      ​You're so disgusting, She was murdered!! She was an Indian girl having a bf, not any white girl, You don't know how asian parenting is, you don't know the dating culture 13 year old has, they just would've hold hands, exchange chocolate 🍫​@@Rexorazor

  • @charlottesmith6434
    @charlottesmith6434 2 місяці тому +59

    I have a theory…
    I know what young teenagers are like with their mannerisms and vocabulary, even if she wasn’t sexually active at that time, it’s definitely a highly discussed topic. She was active on social media, publicly calling herself a “dumb ****” and publishing images of herself. I think this probably triggered her parents, a lot. As respectable people, having their own daughter saying such things for the world to see probably would’ve brought shame upon them. I have heard of many cases in the UK where young girls have been killed by their family for going against their cultural norm, and trying to engage more in western behaviours, even just by straightening their hair. Hemraj noted to his wife that the father was not a nice person and would punish him for even simple mistakes, so it would make sense that he’s equally as awful to his daughter. I think Hemraj probably heard the commotion that night, went to investigate and ultimately met his own demise for having witnessed the Talwar’s murder their own daughter. Then the next day, having a load of people come and trample the murder scene and even clean up, to make solving her murder, practically impossible. These are clever people, they would without a doubt KNOW that this is the absolute worst thing to do in such a circumstance. Honestly just horrible, but this is my take on things which makes most sense to me.

  • @felicianash694
    @felicianash694 2 місяці тому +21

    She said to the cleaning lady that the housekeeper went to buy milk so to come back.. she insisted on coming in and this is the scene she walked into...the mother didn't act like anything was wrong ..she wanted her to go away until they decide what to do with their daughter's body..why would he be engaged in anything with their 13yr when he had called a social worker and his wife in Nepal that he feared for his life..MAKES NO SENSE!

  • @supertuna9525
    @supertuna9525 2 місяці тому +140

    I clicked on the video so fast. I am from India and I remember this case shook the whole country, the investigation went on for soooo long that people became so frustrated and angry. I remember I was actually around the age of Arushi when she was so brutally murdered and I remember my parents being so invested in this case and kind of disgusted by the headlines in the media.

  • @Kassandraws
    @Kassandraws 2 місяці тому +166

    Even if I’ve heard of the case before, the way that Stephanie tells it it’s like a whole new case with so much detail and information. Thank you to you snd your team for all the hard work and amazing content as usual💕

    • @rachelrae860
      @rachelrae860 2 місяці тому +9

      I'm a fairly new subscriber and her story telling is unmatched 🤗

    • @mac2040
      @mac2040 2 місяці тому +3

      @@OfficerZ637Do you have a life?

    • @shradha7624
      @shradha7624 2 місяці тому +2

      @@OfficerZ637 what?

    • @ttvmikimoto5475
      @ttvmikimoto5475 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@OfficerZ637Okay, so cite the sources? None? Thought so.

    • @Starriibubbles
      @Starriibubbles 2 місяці тому +1

      I too have listened to her story after already seeing and hearing the case before. She just tells it more thoroughly even if I watched the whole interrogation myself which I had twice before.

  • @zahraabdullahi1601
    @zahraabdullahi1601 2 місяці тому +96

    The only theory that fits the facts is that the dad SA'd the daughter and was caught by the live-in assisstant. Mom knew it had been happening, hence the detachment. Explains why the cremation, and they likely bought off the medical examiner. Explains the attempt to wash their daughter. They probably killed her to keep quiet about the murder of the assisstant.

    • @peenyweeny3834
      @peenyweeny3834 2 місяці тому +20

      thats still just a theory but its the one that makes the most sense, &it feels like authorities + the media kept coming up with way more outlandish unreasonable theories just to avoid implicating the father in any way (for social + sexist reasons i have to assume). statistically speaking, most s/ual violence against kids is committed by immediate family

    • @peenyweeny3834
      @peenyweeny3834 2 місяці тому +13

      but even if the father was abusing the kid it wouldve still been blamed on her for being a promiscuous child or something. its obscene

    • @sourlikefunkee
      @sourlikefunkee 2 місяці тому +25

      That's the exact same theory I was thinking. With all the evidence being destroyed or tampered with, the biggest indicator is the father talking about the assistant in the past tense.
      And you are so right about the mother's behavior being the result of the fathers abuse. Idk some people can become "emotionless" empty husks after exposure to abuse for periods of time.

    • @raindrops005
      @raindrops005 2 місяці тому +8

      Well, it is Hindu custom. I believe that was one of the top arguments. They do try to cremate the bodies within 24-48 hours. The house is cleaned by relatives. And they also help clean and dress the bodies of the lost family members too. It doesn’t have to be the reason. But it is a custom.

    • @iampigoinkoink5185
      @iampigoinkoink5185 Місяць тому

      ​@@raindrops005yes we do clean...but it was murder scene.... Even kids know if they clean all evidences will be gone

  • @katiegreenhalgh-higham3400
    @katiegreenhalgh-higham3400 Місяць тому +17

    Not only tons of sexism in how this case was framed by the media, but also classism as well. Of course the live-in servant is treated like either a criminal or an afterthought.

  • @vanshikadogra6344
    @vanshikadogra6344 2 місяці тому +69

    Hey! I am from India. And I was in school when this happened, and it shook the nation. The defamation of a 13 year old and the way media portrayed it was crazy. As a kid it was hard to understand what was going on but, later on when I rewatched all of it things became more clearer. I still think about her, she was just an ordinary girl like anyone and had plans about the future, excited for her board exams to finish. I have seen multiple documentaries and coverage on this case but Stephanie always brings something new and does full justice to the victims and research, love ya ❤️❤️

  • @Lena.luvv.
    @Lena.luvv. 2 місяці тому +275

    Hiiii stephanieeee, I think you should do an episode on the Hawe Family Murders, It was a case where a man wanted to take his own life but decided to take his wife and two sons along with him. It happened a couple of years ago and he actually used to live 10 minutes away from where I lived and I even met him once! It's a really complex case!! Its not a really known case at all!

    • @ilysera6177
      @ilysera6177 2 місяці тому +73

      @@OfficerZ637 i see you on a lot of these videos, spreading this misinformation is disgusting. lets not.

    • @sodaa.88
      @sodaa.88 2 місяці тому +30

      @@OfficerZ637 that's rlly disgusting, don't spread misinformation like that..

    • @choerrybomb
      @choerrybomb 2 місяці тому

      @@OfficerZ637as they should, you creep

    • @ItzSalad
      @ItzSalad 2 місяці тому +34

      @@OfficerZ637bro I’d stop if I were you this is defamatory and she could sue you for this.

    • @renren660
      @renren660 2 місяці тому +11

      @@OfficerZ637so distasteful.

  • @kuhootiwari6855
    @kuhootiwari6855 2 місяці тому +29

    As an Indian, this is one of the most mind boggling and frustrating cases. Truly terrible how the victims were treated

  • @annieyesiam2758
    @annieyesiam2758 2 місяці тому +34

    this kind of cases make me want to have the ultimate knowledge or become a ghost just looking in the past or sth im so curious about what exactly happened

    • @ruuuru321
      @ruuuru321 2 місяці тому +17

      Ikr unsolved cases brings me so much anxiety, I want to know what happened so bad and if the monsters who truly did this is free and about

  • @julesazar1093
    @julesazar1093 2 місяці тому +53

    I love how patient she is with explaining everything to her husband

    • @L_i_o_n_e_s_s
      @L_i_o_n_e_s_s 2 місяці тому +1

      Is he her husband?

    • @eddielath9333
      @eddielath9333 2 місяці тому +13

      ​@@L_i_o_n_e_s_syep! Wedding was not long ago

  • @hanimibrahim82
    @hanimibrahim82 2 місяці тому +83

    It's crazy how eloquent and articulate you are, Stephanie.. thank you for sharing this with us..

    • @purplerain2314
      @purplerain2314 2 місяці тому +10

      I'm always totally in awe of her abilities. I have never experienced this with anyone before, and I'm old.

  • @anastasiagraham2418
    @anastasiagraham2418 2 місяці тому +37

    The amount of victim blaming in this story is insane

  • @jammed0719
    @jammed0719 2 місяці тому +23

    At the end of the day the police community botched this investigation. Rule one of investigating cases is that you let the evidence lead you to the answer. These detectives/ police officers already had the answer in their heads and tried to find evidence to fit their narrative.

  • @kurosetsuna29
    @kurosetsuna29 2 місяці тому +48

    What if it was Hemraj's friend? The original housekeeper, if he lost is job because of Hemraj and got angry? There wasn't much more detail about him.

  • @aarushisb
    @aarushisb 2 місяці тому +22

    So my name is Aarushi and we all do that thing where we look up our names. That's how I discovered this case. The case of Aarushi Talwar gives me chills to this day and I have done plenty of research on it. I have not seen the episode yet so I look forward to hearing how Stephanie tells her story. RIP Aarushi and everyone who tragically lost their lives in this case

  • @kidcthulhufortney1320
    @kidcthulhufortney1320 2 місяці тому +30

    You weren't kidding when you said this was the Indian Jon-Benet Ramsey case! So frustrating and fascinating at the same time. Great job, Team Mango!

  • @d.j482
    @d.j482 2 місяці тому +87

    Not only was the crime scene compromised, but the people who handled the case were INCOMPETENT. This case was mishandled so bad, no wonder it's unsolved and the poor victims never got any justice

  • @mingyubuffchest
    @mingyubuffchest 2 місяці тому +50

    I live in noida,UP ..she was one the girls from prestigious, well known school here..its just so sickening to hear about these cases in our own city..noida has also one more famous case of nithari murders, please cover about this one.. anytime in future .

  • @TheBlackBadgeArmy
    @TheBlackBadgeArmy 2 місяці тому +30

    For me this case was one of the most complex case Rotten Mango has ever done. There were so many suspects and so many ways that Arushi and Hemraj could have died. AND THE KILLER IS STILL FREE!?!

  • @christinesaludares4724
    @christinesaludares4724 2 місяці тому +22

    My take on this case is the father killed both victims and the mother is helping to cover her husband's crime and to save face.
    I think Hemraj really cares for ahrushie and both became really close. Both victims may know secrets that can ruin the parents (such as Ahrushie being SA by the father)
    Hemraj may have been lured by the father and killed at the rooftop.
    Then knowing Ahrushie and Hemraj are close, they need to get rid of her as well.
    So much evil if this theory is true.
    May their soul rest in peace and may find justice someday.

  • @rajeshranjan4070
    @rajeshranjan4070 2 місяці тому +21

    Here, in India, it is strongly believed that the case was influenced by many people. Especially by those who were in favor of the Talwar family. Also idk if it is true but there is a speculation that the one of the IPS/IAS involved in this case was a relative of the family and was constantly trying to push the blame on the other 3 people especially the other victim Hemraj. But yes to this day it remains a mystery who did it, why they did it. It is just disgusting to know how in out country victim blaming is sold to increase the ratings of news channels. Had been the investigation done properly, just maybe the victims would have got the justice they needed.

  • @nyurma_eden
    @nyurma_eden 2 місяці тому +48

    I’ve listened to this case so many times from so many real crime channels but Steph! The way you shone some light on HemRaj’s life and how he was a victim too and Arushi’s character… hands down no one would have done it the way you and your team looked at it. This is why listening to you makes me a wiser and more literate person and also the amount of survival knowledge you put it out there.. you are a life changer! Thank you so much Rotten Mango team!!!

  • @Rinee_9556
    @Rinee_9556 2 місяці тому +76

    This case baffles me to this day, as I remember there being an uproar in the entire country when it happened, so many years have passed and nothing has happened, but as much as I have followed, I am very much inclined towards the parents doing it, probability of an unknown person coming to their house, killing two people, covering Aarushi with a blanket, and leaving casually, all the while parents sleeping in the nearby room doesn’t seems an acceptable theory to believe, something is fishy to say the least.

    • @malinasworld
      @malinasworld 2 місяці тому +18

      I can’t see any reason for the parents to kill Arushi and Hemraj. Personally I’m more inclined to the theory that Hemraj invited someone into the house, kept him in his room overnight, and that person killed Hemraj in a fight, then Arushi as an accident: maybe she saw him?
      The reason I believe this is because Hemraj came out of retirement to work for the Talwars and he wasn’t sending money home though he was being paid on time. Seems like he had some troubles. Plus the extra bottles/glasses in his room and the phone.

    • @MusMasi
      @MusMasi 2 місяці тому +4

      @@malinasworld 45 isn't retirement age

    • @malinasworld
      @malinasworld 2 місяці тому +10

      @@MusMasi His exact age wasn’t known. It was widely reported to be somewhere in the 50s. Avirook Sen, the author of Aarushi, tracked down Hemraj’s previous employers and found out that Hemraj left them after ten years of service saying he was too old to work.

    • @qtpiefuuurrrever
      @qtpiefuuurrrever Місяць тому +2

      I think the father raped his daughter and Hemraj saw so the father killed them both on the spot in fear and dragged Hemraj to the terrace . When her body was first discovered the dad was frantic to make sure the initial police did not check the terrace so he clearly knew what was up there and why there was a trail of blood connecting on the wall to the terrace. The daughter also probably had evidence of her parents being trash on her phone and thats why it was wiped. Mother was likely complacent to father’s abuse and the mom and dad mightve tried to sit Hemraj down in his room to talk him down from saying anything at first (since there were three indents on Hemraj’s bed which the retired police alleges/claims means there were three adults at play) but then they just decided its better to leave him dead so the father maybe slit his throat which caused the blood to splatter and they tried to clean it but missed the blood on the fingerprint-less liquor bottle??? It would also explain why both the mother and father were very quick and uncompromising on getting her body cremated before a proper autopsy could be done. Aarushis mom and dad also ALLOWED all the family and neighbors in to clean and touch everything before the police even came so seems like the parents purposefully wanted evidence as hard to collect as possible. This is just me taking guesses of course. I dont think any of the neighbors or workers did anything to the daughter. Because why would the neighbors dental friends give their worker an alibi for where he was that night if he (their worker) 1. Was besties with Krishna who accused the wife of the dental friend being in an affair with Aarushi’d dad 2. If he actually did it and their was some sort of evidence to attest to it which would also help clear his wife’s possible infidelity??
      Idk again im just guessing but this is what i think. I havent finished the video yet, im only at 53 minutes but this sounds like what is happening to me. Everybody is lying to protect Aarushi’s mom and dad and yet they are the two getting questioned the least? Its odd.

    • @iampigoinkoink5185
      @iampigoinkoink5185 Місяць тому

      I was shocked watching parents interview .. especially mother..it was very strange...

  • @anoushkamehta417
    @anoushkamehta417 2 місяці тому +17

    Just one clarification that is the pillow cover with Hemraj's blood was mostly recovered from Krishna's house but it was mislabeled which caused it to get lost. Plus they also suspected krishna at some point because he is also a dental assistant so from a medical background and could also have made the clean cuts. Also like it seems like most of people always think that Arushi was the target and hemraj was the collateral damage however it could have been vice-vesa which Noone even cared to investigate.Thus case is just so disturbing because somewhere someone who knows the truth of what happened that night and is still roaming free. RIP to Arushi and Hemraj

  • @dansweda712
    @dansweda712 2 місяці тому +21

    Normally I'm annoyed by people who come to the comments section just to praise the host, instead of giving a view or opinion on the content of the video. So to prevent myself from annoying myself I've left a couple of highly intelligent and thought provoking comments about the case. So.. i may have said this before , but I'm a 54yr old single white conservative American male who believes this young lady right here is the best I've heard so far. Everyone has their own individual style, I'll listen to a couple hours of Mr. Ballen re-runs just about every night, then you have Mr. Nightmare, UR Maker, Let's Read, Josh from What Lurks Beneath, and on and on, they're all pretty awesome, but if I had to chose " Who is the best" I'd have to give it to Rotten Mango

  • @funnyrearend
    @funnyrearend 2 місяці тому +81

    OMG Rotten Mango!!! This was/is such a HUGE case since forever in India.
    I would turn the TV off whenever there was news about this case and I refused to read about this because it was so distressing
    I’m watching this for the first time now because I trust your compassionate storytelling

    • @Kim-gd5th
      @Kim-gd5th 2 місяці тому +6

      Yes favorite thing about her she makes it easy to listen to without feeling sick or overwhelned

  • @NamiTheNeko
    @NamiTheNeko 2 місяці тому +26

    I'm just listening while at work. The mother during the interview sounds like she's doing her best to stay calm while taking. I do hear emotion in her tone, especially how she gets quieter at the end of the sentence.

  • @jeevikadaima9921
    @jeevikadaima9921 2 місяці тому +25

    NO WAYYYYY YOU COVERED THIS CASE!!!!!!! I was so into it and wanted so badly for someone to authentically cover it, and you did. I mean, as soon as I read the thumbnail, I couldn't help but write this comment down. Thanks sooo muchhh! absolutely love your videos!

  • @vanditabhuria9716
    @vanditabhuria9716 2 місяці тому +8

    A few details missed.
    1 Aarushi was born through IVF.
    2 there was actually a full blood soaked handprint found on the balcony. I don't remember what they did bout it.
    3 idk really know if it's that useful. But hemraj couldn't open his rooms door that lead to the very first metal door. Because yk like there is one corner in you room where you just throw all the stuff, especially when you don't have alot of space to keep your stuff. So hemraj just threw all his stuff in front of the door. So it was blocked. But i guess he could move the stuff.

  • @soude85
    @soude85 2 місяці тому +12

    So Hemraj contacted a social worker because of something going on with the family. When she didn’t respond he maybe had to intervene himself… *My theory:* Hemraj found out that the father was abusing his daughter at night (maybe with help of medication, so she didn’t know). He wanted to report it to the social worker because he knew the police wouldn’t do anything.
    That night it was happening again and Hemraj couldn’t take it anymore, so he confronted the father after he came out of his daughter’s room.
    In order to not wake up the mother/daughter, the father told Hemraj they should go to the terrace to talk… 🗡️
    Then he went back to his daughter’s room🗡️
    *If* the mother awoke, the father could have told her that he caught Hemraj with his daughter and had to do it-but I’m not sure about her involvement🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @jetbllackwings
    @jetbllackwings 2 місяці тому +7

    1:24:50 househelp wouldn’t know how to wipe data off the phone. parents look very suspicious.

  • @isaisa967
    @isaisa967 2 місяці тому +14

    I’m sorry but I just couldn’t finish this video. The more I watched it the more mad I got. So you’re telling me grown ass men really believed this 13 year old did this to herself? And then people were cleaning the crime scene while there is a murdered 13 year old in the bed room??? Absolutely insane.

  • @kat10ko
    @kat10ko 2 місяці тому +14

    I am considering the attitude of her mom when she hesitated to let the cleaner in.

  • @MonstersInTheShadows
    @MonstersInTheShadows 2 місяці тому +16

    The way the two victims were treated is utterly heartbreaking. It’s crucial that such cases receive the extensive media coverage they deserve, until concrete actions, including the filing of charges and convictions are obtained.

  • @donnathomas9111
    @donnathomas9111 2 місяці тому +48

    Did they even check to see if she was sexually active or assaulted and check for DNA?

    • @mikumikuareka
      @mikumikuareka Місяць тому +3

      As far as I understood, no
      The guy who made an autopsy allegedly was not qualified to do this procedure and then parents cremated her body

    • @alex_putsyouinyourplace
      @alex_putsyouinyourplace Місяць тому +4

      @@mikumikuareka Yeah from a comment on here apparently the autopsy man didn't even know how a woman's body parts looked like and had never done an autopsy on a woman before so he doesn't know how the parts are supposed to look like.

  • @dialogues4144
    @dialogues4144 2 місяці тому +35

    I was a teenager when this happened and I hated how police had been treating the dead, absolutely disgraceful, putting random theories on the deap people. I’m glad the police has gotten better now. Not great, but better.

  • @Dear-Rhiannon
    @Dear-Rhiannon 2 місяці тому +13

    1:33:24 This detail made me feel sick. Not just because of the horror Arushi went through but the continuation of the sloppy work of these 'professionals'.
    Every person who messed up the case should at least be fined including the press.
    Rest in peace sweet Arushi and Hemraj. 🕯️🕯️

  • @himangidayal414
    @himangidayal414 2 місяці тому +39

    Just a note - retired office "G" was not just any police officer, he retired as deputy superintendent of police and was very influential, that's why police at that time paid attention to what he said even when he was not longer serving.

    • @cgitahi
      @cgitahi 2 місяці тому +8

      He actually did more than the original investigators on the scene .

    • @himangidayal414
      @himangidayal414 2 місяці тому +1

      @@cgitahi true that!

    • @feitan2
      @feitan2 Місяць тому +1

      I though he looked cool, straight from a movie XD

  • @mycoldheart
    @mycoldheart 2 місяці тому +8

    The issue is that there are too many people that are trying to insert themselves in this incident. From AJ, to the social worker, to the CBA that wanted to go "for a walk", to the retired detective, to the relatives that came to "clean the house". There's just too many people that try to play the hero. We don't need a hero. We need the truth.

  • @emjai2122
    @emjai2122 2 місяці тому +11

    This is why it’s important for competent people to be in charge.

  • @Scorpio.Iamher.
    @Scorpio.Iamher. 2 місяці тому +16

    It is possible that the father was engaging in sexual abuse towards his daughter, and she may have threatened to report him. As a result, he resorted to murdering her. The helper may have witnessed the crime, which led to the father also killing him. The mother may have had an inkling of the father's abuse, as evidenced by the lock on the daughter's door. However, she chooses to ignore the situation to avoid disrupting their marriage and dental business.

    • @malinasworld
      @malinasworld 2 місяці тому +3

      Great but that doesn’t explain why Hemraj came out of retirement to work again, yet hadn’t sent money home to his wife for a year despite being paid on time, why he had alcohol and extra glasses in his room despite not drinking alcohol himself, why he served himself dinner but didn’t eat it, why his body was found with facial hair in his teeth, and how he was killed with a khukri, and why there was an unknown fingerprint in blood on the bottle of scotch.

    • @malinasworld
      @malinasworld 2 місяці тому +3

      My theory is that Hemraj was in some trouble and got mixed up with a bad person. He unwittingly invited him and Aarushi’s murderer into the house that night.

    • @destined2bebossy
      @destined2bebossy 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@malinasworld you are under a lot of comments pointing the finger at the dead man and defending the parents

    • @malinasworld
      @malinasworld 2 місяці тому +2

      @@destined2bebossy If you’ve read so many of my comments, tell me where I blamed Hemraj? Even in the comment above, I said he unwittingly invited in the person who ended up killing both him and Aarushi. I believe that an outsider did it, and Hemraj was in serious trouble.

    • @destined2bebossy
      @destined2bebossy 2 місяці тому +2

      @@malinasworld you just answered your own question lol

  • @razer0072073
    @razer0072073 2 місяці тому +13

    How loyal are the women who are married to their husband in India? If it was the dad who sa'd and killed her, why would she not rat him out and get justice for her daughter? Why is she protecting him? What does she have to gain? Also, why didn’t the police bug the house and listen in on the parent's when they were alone? Surely, they would have spoken about it whether they did it or not. The only way we're gonna find out is a deathbed confession if it was the parent's.

    • @nussknacker9827
      @nussknacker9827 2 місяці тому +6

      When a child is being abused, usually the entire family sides with the abuser.
      Usually the victim is used as a scapegoat , called a liar, silenced and threatened.
      It's sadly normal that abusive family members are protected and supported

    • @drg598
      @drg598 2 місяці тому +2

      U don't hv to bring whole country into it

    • @iampigoinkoink5185
      @iampigoinkoink5185 Місяць тому +2

      Not only father if he was some relative ..they would try to hide it .. I have gone through something similar and when I told my parents about it they told me to stay away from him and not tell anyone anything...they never ever even confronted him ...I was 9-10 ... They made me feel like I was wrong one here and seducing him ..they would tell me to stop wearing frocks anymore and smile less ..😅 God!!!

  • @BeComingNyrell
    @BeComingNyrell 2 місяці тому +21

    if he was "caught" in a compromising position with the daughter- why did he still have slippers on when found on the terrace?

    • @anushka18260
      @anushka18260 2 місяці тому +4

      That's a very good point indeed
      Never heard it mentioned much here in India back then

    • @anushka18260
      @anushka18260 2 місяці тому +1

      That's a very good point indeed!
      Never heard it discussed more here in India back then

  • @persgodiva
    @persgodiva 2 місяці тому +20

    I feel so horrible for Hemraj's family.

  • @roshniasroseella855
    @roshniasroseella855 2 місяці тому +8

    You didnt highlight how shady the parents acted the morning of the murder when the househelp came in, she told the police that Nupur the mother of Arushi opened her room's door and the moment the mother saw Arushi instead of rushing towards their child or calling for help she rushed to Bharti (the househelp) and started saying 'Go and look what someone did to our child shes dead Hemraj killed her' and the father was saying the same things, then instead of calling the police or an ambulance they told the househelp to freaking go and tell the neighbors what had happened and then started to call their relatives to ask them to come and see what has happened and when all the commotion began and said neighbors did start to come in the parents invited them in again saying 'look what has happened look what Hemraj did' and for 1hr they did this and then finally they called the police. This was the statement of the househelp and it shows that the parents deliberately invited as many people inside their house as they could to make sure that the crime scene turns into a mess, that in all that commotion when the police does arrive, its so chaotic that when they blame everything on hemraj the police might just believe them. I hate that the police questioned a literal child's character in such a disgusting way and I refuse to believe that anything romantic or sexual was going on between little arushi and hemraj but I do think that the parents of arushi for some reason believed that it did and that this is a case of pure anger and honor killing done by the parents.

  • @laurafernandes7410
    @laurafernandes7410 2 місяці тому +7

    For me it's clear that the parents have something to do with the crime. Why would they call friends and family instead of the police? Why were they that desperate to clean the house? And why were they in a hurry to cremate the body? It's at least weird.

    • @raindrops005
      @raindrops005 2 місяці тому +1

      Well, it is Hindu custom. I believe that was one of the top arguments. We do try to cremate the bodies within 24-48 hours. The house is cleaned by relatives. And they also help clean and dress the bodies of the lost family members too. It doesn’t have to be the reason. But it is a custom.

  • @kumkum_2848
    @kumkum_2848 2 місяці тому +11

    Finally you are covering this. I was 12 when this happened. This one really baffled the whole nation. I remember I used to read newspapers everyday and would discuss every small detail with my friends wondering why the police can't just solve it.

  • @user-jo3pd6nk3t
    @user-jo3pd6nk3t 2 місяці тому +8

    I recently came across this channel. You have a very captivating, unique way of telling these stories and shed light on the victims personalities and what they endured. It's almost like listening to an actual audiobook about a crime.

  • @beamuah
    @beamuah 2 місяці тому +14

    It’s disgusting how they dragged the victims name through the mud… no peace even after death

  • @wolf.alliance
    @wolf.alliance Місяць тому +3

    I'm obsessed with you guys. Thank you so much for bringing light to these cases. You're incredible at retelling these stories and I can't tell you how grateful your audience is for how respectful and thorough you are. We love you!

  • @BL.and.winter_lover
    @BL.and.winter_lover Місяць тому +11

    This made me remember, so many cases of Indian women getting raped aren't reported/taken action agaist... I'm 12 year old and my best friend is 13 (we still study in the same class since she was admitted to the school one year late). In her locality, at least one girl gets raped almost each month.. She comes to school and tells me about a new case almost every month... She told me 3 cases in between 2 month... She told me about a boy getting arrested for raping a girl this month (March 2024). It's so horrible, I hope the amount of rape cases in India will decrease soon..

    • @user-jc6vw9rz1o
      @user-jc6vw9rz1o Місяць тому

      Omg that’s really bad
      From which state do you belong if you don’t mind me asking.
      I’m Indian too btw

    • @BL.and.winter_lover
      @BL.and.winter_lover Місяць тому +1

      @@user-jc6vw9rz1o West Bengal

    • @drg598
      @drg598 Місяць тому

      Per capita R...cases r some of the lowest in India

    • @drg598
      @drg598 Місяць тому

      Why r u over exaggerating
      As an Indian women,never in my life hv heard of such locality

    • @BL.and.winter_lover
      @BL.and.winter_lover Місяць тому

      @@drg598 Maybe it's cause we live in different places? Just so you know, I'm not over exaggerating... My locality is more of a village area with lots of mysogynists and close minded people, I'm not saying everyone is like that but most people

  • @tasi4372
    @tasi4372 2 місяці тому +18

    I want to point out something about not hearing the screams or struggles. It's completely possible for the parents not to hear their daughter's screams from a close proximity. I used to be baffled by this too but last year, something happened in my own house. I had taken headache medicines and I was completely asleep. My mom, and ex-cop, was also sleeping beside me that day while my dad was in the other room which was just a few feet away. My dad is a heavy sleeper but my mom is usually a light sleeper. She slept at around 3.30 after checking all the rooms except for the guest room which is at the other end of the house. For some reason, she forgot to check it but went to sleep. Around 30-ish minutes later, a thief broke in through an open window in the guest room. He melted part of the window's grill with acid, bent the rest of it and squeezed through it (he must've been really skinny). He came straight into my room and sprayed something in the air. I was already asleep but now I was in a deeper sleep. My mom who was next to me also fell into a deep sleep. The thief went ahead to steal my laptop which was on my ved right above my pillow. He also stole my phone and my cash. He didn't go to my dad's room because it was nearly 4.30 am and it was time for morning prayers. People were going to wake up. If anyone caught sight of him while he escaped, he would be caught. So he took whatever he could and escaped. We live on the second floor btw, so the thief had to climb down by scaling the wall.
    When the police was informed, they kept on pressing me why I didn't know the thief stole things which were right next to me. They just won't believe I was under medication and headache medicines put me under deep sleep anyway. They didn't even do any sort of drug test to conclude if the thieves used any sleeping sprays on us. So, it's possible for a crime to happen right next to someone and them not to have any clue about it. The police just failed to search all the possible angles. Same thing may have happened with this case. The parents weren't saints but the police were so adamant on painting them as the culprit that they didn't check most of the clues and possible scenarios.

    • @nussknacker9827
      @nussknacker9827 2 місяці тому

      Do you have any idea what the sleeping spray was made of?
      It's my first time hearing of it and I would like to know more about it
      (It also terrifies me because I'm also a survivor)

    • @tasi4372
      @tasi4372 2 місяці тому

      ​@@nussknacker9827 I'm not sure what these are made of but it's a common tactic used by thieves in my country. It's like chloroform but in gas form (I'm not sure if that's the right chemical).

  • @Theofficialfr3akshow_BK
    @Theofficialfr3akshow_BK 2 місяці тому +6

    My deduction is that the father was caught SAing his daughter by the house helper. He had to kill them both to cover everything up, and the mother is defending her husband both to protect the family name and so she wouldn't be alone to stand by her husband, so on so forth that what seems to be the case and they tried to sloppily cover it all up

  • @jayhopper4228
    @jayhopper4228 2 місяці тому +6

    Quick question.. how did the father hear the original commotion that made him come out of the bedroom, if the air conditioner made so much noise that he couldn't hear his daughter scream?? That's one contradiction in the story that to me proves the father is telling at least a half a lie somewhere along the lines

    • @jayhopper4228
      @jayhopper4228 2 місяці тому +5

      Seems to me that the parents had help from other doc "friends" that helped with the cover-up

  • @relaxingreads_
    @relaxingreads_ 2 місяці тому +7

    I don't know who did it. Everyone is eligible to be called a suspect because everybody was acting suspiciously. At that time I myself was of the age of Aarushi. I was 13 back then and I was barely understanding anything but I could only understand one thing that this was an honor killing and the father did it. Like even before this narrative was out there people already made up their mind that it was the dad. And yes the mom was indeed looking way too smart and composed, and she wasn't frantic like she was going through the toughest time if her life .. I lost my dad during Covid, I was being practical and went into survival mode but I soon had a breakdown too. But Aarushi's mom was just way to OK. Maybe she is one of those emotionally matured person who deals everything practically, but this much? It scares me... R.I.P Aarushi and Hemraj I hope you find peace 🕊️

  • @jonathanmatthews8862
    @jonathanmatthews8862 2 місяці тому +8

    I had heard about this case before and had felt bad for the parents being accused but then I thought it was odd. Why didn’t they check her body? If you say it was because they already knew she was dead and didn’t want to contaminate the scene then why did their relatives clean? Why did they cremate her so quickly if they wanted to preserve any evidence? I don’t think there are any parents out there that could so easily not grab their child upon seeing such a scene. I can’t say they did it but it seems like they didn’t really want the crime solved.
    Edit: wait…he doesn’t have fingerprints on his own bottle of whiskey? Has he never handled that bottle without gloves? It’s actually more suspicious to not have fingerprints on your own bottle of whiskey. That means someone wiped it.

    • @raindrops005
      @raindrops005 2 місяці тому +4

      I can explain the cremation. Or at least why it won’t be seen as something too important.
      They did mention that the Talvars are Hindus. They do try to cremate within 24-48 hours.
      And if there is a death in the family, relatives to come in and clean the house, help the family prepare, even help family members change (if required), clean and dress the body of the deceased. They probably didn’t touch her body due to the circumstances of the death. But rest can be explained by stating that they were preparing for the funerary rituals. It is a religious, Indian thing. I am not saying that may have fully been the reason, but yeah, they won’t look too hard on this due to this angle.

    • @jonathanmatthews8862
      @jonathanmatthews8862 2 місяці тому

      @@raindrops005 I didn’t mean to suggest they cremated her too soon; I meant if the reason they didn’t touch her when they saw her is because they wanted to preserve evidence then the fact that they cremated her counters that point. It’s possible to see your own child’s body and not run to her but holding back that urge is usually associated with either not wanting to contaminate the body or wanting to look innocent. But it is extremely difficult to do. I don’t know if you have kids but it is really hard to muster that kind of restraint. I can’t say which was the case here. And I can’t give them the benefit of the doubt because they didn’t even check everywhere in the house. The relatives cleaned the house but didn’t ever go out to the terrace? Isn’t cleaning the whole house required? And why did his own whiskey bottle not have his fingerprints on it? All of my whiskey bottles have my fingerprints on them. You have to wipe them clean to remove those. Cremating a body quickly is also a method used in India to hide a victim’s SA (although usually by people other than the family). This case is too hard to say they did or did not do it; they either had something to hide or they just made a lot of seemingly purposeful mistakes.

    • @raindrops005
      @raindrops005 2 місяці тому +1

      @@jonathanmatthews8862 I agree, I was just stating the reason why their actions regarding the cremation or cleaning won’t be seen as strange by a lot of Indians. I’m not disputing the fact that it is all strange.
      Also I’m not defending any of this. I personally find all of it suspicious. Just stating reasons why some of these scenarios are overlooked or dismissed.

  • @ShaRenaes
    @ShaRenaes 2 місяці тому +3

    I'm so happy I found this channel a few months back... you are such an amazing narrator. You bring these victims to life and give them a human aspect that many forget about in these cases. Your facial expressions are so spot on to the emotions. True genius!

  • @user-dl6vv1bv3h
    @user-dl6vv1bv3h 2 місяці тому +3

    I recently discovered your channel and I have been obsessively watching ever since. I love the way you tell these people’s stories, you can really tell how hard you and your team work to get all the information. I also always learn something from every single one of your videos. Thank you for what you do, and for sharing these difficult stories with grace, for the victims and their families. ❤ I would love to hear you explain the story of the boys that were trapped in the Tham Luang cave.

  • @YoutubebansmecusiIspeakfacts
    @YoutubebansmecusiIspeakfacts 2 місяці тому +12

    I am from india, and really we are the worst when it come to preservation of crime scene everyone wanna be play CID(its a crime show). So yeah . Also this case was a wake up. Hated the parents thought completely hated them. They had hands in mudding their own 13 years of daughter name and character, later playing the victim card. All. It was sad for aarushi.

  • @SnigdhaPandey0607
    @SnigdhaPandey0607 2 місяці тому +11

    I saw this case happen and all the chaos this created all over the nation. I thank Stephanie and her whole team to cover this case. Love from 🇮🇳

  • @jisungrocks5871
    @jisungrocks5871 2 місяці тому +12

    What a mess! This might as well of been a community murder. I hope the truth comes out! This is horrible. Its possible all suspects were involved. Also, those knives are very thick. Seems like a double murder and an attempted ' NETWORK" cleanup failure. All the scenarios are combined. every suspicion is correct, why not? Again as usual, Rotten Mango duo did an outstanding video! The 2 of you are a superb team. Keep it up guys, you will have your own TV show one day and well deserved!!!

  • @janhvimore25
    @janhvimore25 2 місяці тому +1

    thank you for taking my suggestion ❤️
    i really like how easily you explained it ‼️🤗

  • @salomi311
    @salomi311 2 місяці тому +13

    I feel like bad police work and misogyny just made this case takes so many wild turn.

  • @megvmi_
    @megvmi_ 27 днів тому +4

    I was shocked when Stephanie first explained the theory that Late Aarushi was having an "affair" with a grown man at 13, however I just felt disgusted that I've been waiting for over an hour and 10 minutes and that theory was still NOT dropped.

  • @NamiTheNeko
    @NamiTheNeko 2 місяці тому +10

    Only an hour and 17 minutes in, but I wonder if they considered or even attempted tracking the last location that the cell phone that belonged to their employee was active.