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Morning Cup. There. were two

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more word few miles away robert

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brown gullible We have a weird homicide. What

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happens when a serial killer infiltrates an area known

2:06

as a paradise? What

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happens when it's actually a group of

2:18

serial killers acting together to

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take human lives? On

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March 30, 1977,

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a group of men were arrested for crimes

2:28

that took the lives of 10 individuals and

2:31

sent an entire city into a

2:33

panic. So if

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you like your coffee hot but your bones

2:37

chilled, sit back and start your day with

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a morning cup of murder. Attending

2:42

the Abhinav Kala Maha Divyaalaya, a

2:45

fine arts institute in India, were

2:47

a group of young men who

2:49

had the reputation on campus for

2:52

drinking heavily and committing robberies. Their

2:55

names were Rahendra Jekal, Dilip

2:57

Sutar, Shanta Ram

3:00

Kanhoji Jatap, and

3:02

Munawar Hohran Shah. And

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on January 16, 1976,

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they decided, for reasons unknown, to

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take things a step further

3:12

and turn their seemingly harmless crimes

3:15

into something much, much deadlier.

3:19

Later called the Joshi Abhayankar Serial

3:21

Murders, of which there would be a

3:23

total of 10, the first to

3:26

fall victim to this group of young

3:28

men was a classmate, Prakash Hajdzi. Knowing

3:31

that his father owned a small restaurant

3:34

behind the school, though some sources claim

3:36

he owned a very popular nearby hotel,

3:39

the boys came up with a plan to

3:41

kidnap Prakash for ransom, picked him

3:43

up under false pretenses on January 15, and

3:46

along with another classmate, Suhas

3:49

Chandak, took him to a

3:51

tin shed on Carve Road and forced him

3:53

to write a note to his father saying

3:55

he was leaving home. The

3:58

following night, they gagged the boy. took

4:00

him to a park and strangled him

4:02

to death with a nylon rope. Placing

4:06

his body in an iron barrel

4:08

and adding stones just to be

4:10

sure, Prakash was thrown into the Park

4:12

Lake and the next day they sent

4:14

a ransom note to his father. While Prakash

4:17

Hejdi was treated as a missing person

4:19

by the police, in August of 1976

4:21

the boys struck

4:24

again when they moved to the

4:26

city of Kolhapur and

4:28

unsuccessfully targeted the home of

4:31

a local businessman. Then

4:33

on October 31st 1976, Akiat

4:36

Joshi was attacked by members of the

4:38

group, brandishing knives and forcing

4:41

their way into his home. Both

4:44

he and his wife Usha were

4:46

bound and though he was

4:48

strangled to death with a nylon rope like

4:50

the first victim, his wife

4:52

was suffocated to death. Then

4:54

when their teenage son Anand arrived

4:56

home, the group forced him to strip

4:59

naked and strangled him to death as

5:01

well. Stealing several items

5:03

before they left, the gang left

5:05

behind no real clues and

5:08

the police investigation quickly hit a dead

5:10

end. As panic

5:12

started to spread in the

5:14

area on November 22nd, the

5:16

men attacked Yashumari Bafana in

5:18

her bungalow. She and

5:21

her servants however fought back and survived

5:23

the harrowing ordeal. Then came their

5:26

most deadly attack on December 1st 1976. Choosing

5:28

the family after an argument

5:33

brought on by their most recent failure at

5:35

the Bafana bungalow, the group

5:37

entered the home at around 8 p.m.

5:39

after ringing the doorbell and

5:41

smashing a ball of cloth into

5:43

the mouth of 19 year old

5:45

Dhananjay Abhayankar. Tying his

5:47

hands and telling him to direct them around the home,

5:50

the men one by one went to each

5:53

member living in the home, stuffed

5:55

cloth into their mouths, bound

5:57

them and then strangled them to death.

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with a nylon rope. They

6:02

were noted Sanskrit scholar 88 year

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old Koshanath Shastri Abhayankar,

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his 76 year old wife Indira

6:10

Bai, their maid 60 year

6:13

old Sakubai Wag, their

6:15

20 year old granddaughter Joy, and

6:17

their grandson Dhananjay. She

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kept alive the longest, was

6:22

stripped naked and forced to direct them

6:24

to all of the valuables inside the

6:26

home before she herself was killed. Walking

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away with jewelry, valuables, and cash

6:31

worth tens of thousands of dollars,

6:34

they, like they did in the Joshi

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residence, sprayed the home heavily

6:39

with perfume, but left behind

6:41

no clues for police to zero in

6:43

on. It was at

6:45

this point, however, that police knew without a shadow

6:47

of a doubt that they were dealing with serial

6:49

killers, deadly killers who

6:52

completely shattered the area's reputation

6:54

as a laid back, culture

6:56

rich paradise and sent

6:58

everyone into a panic. The

7:01

very last attack committed by the group was on March

7:04

23, 1977,

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when they offered a ride home to the younger

7:09

brother of their college friend, Anil

7:11

Jokhale. Offered a ride

7:13

on Rajendra's motorcycle, he was taken to

7:15

a shed where he was strangled to

7:17

death with a nylon rope tied to

7:20

an iron ladder, weighed down

7:22

with boulders and dumped in a

7:24

nearby river. The

7:26

group later tried to break into his

7:28

home, but they were unsuccessful. When

7:31

reported as a missing person, the

7:33

men actually joined the search and

7:36

even went to the police station to

7:38

ask questions and offer their assistance. When

7:42

his body was found and the whole case

7:44

turned into a murder investigation, the police

7:46

inspector in charge noticed the nylon ropes

7:48

used to fasten the body to the

7:51

ladder were identical to the

7:53

ones from the previous murders. Though

7:56

They initially believed the killings were the result

7:58

of botched robberies, This most

8:00

recent one made it clear that these

8:02

men were killing for their own personal

8:05

enjoyment as well as to gain money.

8:07

So. There are no clues to work with. They

8:10

did find the actions of the group

8:12

of men who continually visited the police

8:14

station a little bit odd. That.

8:16

Curiosity over the changes soon raise

8:18

suspicion, especially after police found out

8:21

that I kneel was last seen

8:23

with Rohingya as a call. So.

8:25

Police began monitoring their movements

8:28

and eventually. Arrested were Hendra

8:30

and brought him in for questioning. Bringing.

8:33

In the other men as well, they

8:35

soon found out that were Hendra was

8:37

in possession of a bottle of perfume

8:39

that matched the one sprayed at the

8:41

last crime scene. Speaking.

8:44

To each individually, the men began

8:46

contradict each other stories. And finally

8:48

a man named the Peace Corps

8:51

a colleague who were hendra boasted

8:53

too often. Cracked. Under pressure

8:55

and revealed information about for

8:57

cause had these murder him.

8:59

Between this the nylon rope

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and some more confession from

9:03

another classmate. The. Killers were

9:06

all officially apprehended on March Thirtieth.

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Nineteen Seventy Seven. And. Taken

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to trial where after four months

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and court. For a

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hundred a call. Twenty five.

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Believe Sitar, Twenty One Santorum

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That's up. Twenty three Am

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an alarm. Shaw Twenty one.

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Or. All sentenced to death in

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September of Nineteen Seventy Eight. Though.

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Appeals remade. All four men were

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hanged for their crimes. On.

9:33

November twenty seventh. Nineteen.

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Eighty Three. Thank. You

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