Desi Studios

Inside The Kasab Trial ft. Ujjwal Nikam

268K views · 2w ago · 1:00:30

Guest: Ujjwal Nikam

July 20, 2009. In a Mumbai courtroom, a trial has been under way for months. But before today's witness can begin, the accused has a request. He asks the judge to let him address the court and admit his guilt. The accused is Ajmal Kasab, the only one of the ten Mumbai attackers to have been captured alive. A gasp ripples through the room. Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam objects, but the judge lets Kasab speak.

This obsessive relationship ended in murder | Gagandip Singh & Mundill Mahil

227K views · 3w ago · 59:00

On the 26th of February 2011, a young woman’s phone rang somewhere in England, and the voice on the other end said something this woman would repeat, almost word for word, to a friend minutes later, because it frightened her so badly. The caller said he was ready to go to jail for her for twenty-one years. He did not say what for.

She never left her Bangkok hotel room | Wendy Albano

201K views · 1mo ago · 40:18

Guest: Wendy Albano

In February 2012, American interior designer Wendy Albano flew halfway across the world to Bangkok. Days later, a hotel employee entered her luxury suite and found the 52-year-old dead on the bathroom floor, strangled and stabbed repeatedly. There was no obvious sign of who could have wanted Wendy dead. But the hotel’s CCTV held one crucial clue: Wendy hadn’t arrived in Bangkok alone. For days, cameras had captured her with a mysterious young man, almost half her age.

The Millionaire Accused of a Double Murder | Krishna Maharaj

115K views · 1mo ago · 1:05:18

Guest: Krishna Maharaj

In June 1974, at Royal Ascot, a horse called King Levanstell completed the race ahead of the Queen's own runner. Standing in the winner's enclosure was a thirty-five-year-old Hindu man from a village in southern Trinidad, who had arrived in London fourteen years earlier with nothing and drove a lorry for a living. By then he owned a hundred racehorses and had gone through twenty-four Rolls-Royces.

The Most Hated Girl in Bangladesh

312K views · 1mo ago · 53:21

Every year on August 15, Bangladesh remembers a family destroyed inside its own home. In 1975, soldiers entered a residence in Dhaka and assassinated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, along with most of his family. Decades later, the date was observed across the country as the National Day of Mourning. But on August 15, 2013, another home in Dhaka was becoming the scene of a mystery of its own.

The Brutal Werewolf Murder of Virginia | Pankaj Bhasin Case

125K views · 2mo ago · 52:45

Guest: Pankaj Bhasin Case

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How a Scottish Scientist Solved Sri Lanka's Most Famous Murder

285K views · 2mo ago · 55:09

In 1951, one of the most famous men in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, was a batsman. Some of the greatest players in the world believed he was a genius. Frank Worrell said that if he were choosing a dream team made up of the best cricketers on the planet, he would be the first person he picked. Garry Sobers called him the greatest batsman who had ever lived. And was not just admired for how well he played. He was a celebrity. He walked out to bat wearing a silk shirt and a cravat.

This Indian Millionaire's Murder Shocked California | Raveesh Kumra

120K views · 2mo ago · 57:14

Guest: Raveesh Kumra

For fastest updates, follow our socials at Apple Desi Crime Creators & Producers: Aryaan Misra and Aishwarya Singh Editing: Maria Casubhoy & Varun Sunil Kumar Thumbnail: Aayush Tuteja

The DM That Killed Adnan Patrawala

227K views · 2mo ago · 53:33

It's the 18th of August, 2007. A Saturday. And in a flat in Lokhandwala, in Andheri, a 16-year-old boy is sitting at a computer, doing what every teenager in India is doing that year. He's on Orkut. And in this boy's messages, tonight, like most nights for the past 3 weeks, is a girl. Her name is Angel. Angel is flirty. Angel is funny. Angel keeps saying they should meet. And the boy is interested, but he's being smart about it.

This Juror Fell in Love with a Murderer | Gillian Guess & Peter Gill

115K views · 2mo ago · 47:17

By the mid-1990s, Vancouver’s Indo-Canadian underworld was no longer operating quietly. Their names were becoming larger than the crimes attached to them, turning into a strange mixture of warning, legend and aspiration. But one of the most extraordinary stories from that world did not begin with a drug deal or a revenge killing. It began inside a courtroom where six men stood trial for executing two brothers at the centre of Vancouver’s growing gang war.

Inside the Murder of Sara Sharif

114K views · 3mo ago · 49:08

A child of ten. Approximately one hundred injuries. A two bedroom flat in Surrey. A flight to Pakistan. A handwritten note left next to her body. And a system that had been watching her household for over a decade. This is the story of a case that horrified the UK and beyond-- a case of bruises, broken trust, unanswered warnings, and a little girl who had been failed by the very people meant to protect her. This is the heartbreaking story of the killing of Sara Sharif.

This Was a New York CEO's Last Elevator Ride | Fahim Saleh

94K views · 3mo ago · 41:08

Guest: Fahim Saleh

In 2020, inside a luxury apartment in Manhattan, a young tech entrepreneur vanished behind the doors of his own home. His name was Fahim Saleh. At just 33 years old, he was successful, driven, and surrounded by possibility. But inside that New York apartment, something had gone terribly wrong. Inside that apartment was a scene so disturbing, it would shock investigators, horrify his family, and make headlines around the world.

The Sydney Double Murder That Makes No Sense

108K views · 3mo ago · 50:15

In September 2003, three young Singaporean students were sharing an ordinary apartment in Sydney. They were far from home, studying in Australia, living the kind of life that many international students know well. But one morning, inside their apartment, everything changed. Two of them would never make it out alive. At first, the case seemed to point outward-- to strange sightings and possible intruders.

This Murderer is Living Among Us

133K views · 3mo ago · 25:38

In a quiet neighbourhood in The Hague, a woman disappeared without warning. Her name was Sharmila Shinde. She was a wife, a mother, and an Indian woman living thousands of kilometres away from home, until she was nowhere to be seen. When investigators entered her home, what they found inside would turn this disappearance into one of the most chilling cases connected to the Indian community in the Netherlands.

Everything We Know About The Lohagad Murder | Ketan Agarwal & Siya Goyal

232K views · 4mo ago · 45:52

A boy from a big Pune business family, a girl about to marry into it, and a wedding being built on a scale that barely sounded real. Then Ketan Agarwal went over the edge of Lohagad Fort near Lonavala, and for 5 days it stayed exactly what it looked like: a tragic trekking accident.