337: The Most Disturbing & Gruesome Case I’ve Covered | Noida Murders

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Serial killers seldom stick out of the crowd. It's a moment not just of utter panic, but what do you do? Your child's gone missing. You can't find it.
Annie Elise 1:06
Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialist League.
Annie Elise 1:29
In 2004, something unsettling started happening in Nitari, a very densely populated working class neighborhood just outside of New Delhi in Northern India. Children were disappearing. Now at first, it didn't seem connected. A young boy left home to run an errand and didn't come back. Then a few weeks later, a girl vanished on her way to the market. Months would pass, then another child would disappear. The point being, it wasn't frequent enough to cause immediate panic. But it was just enough to make families feel like something was off.

What events led to the disappearance of children in Noida?

Annie Elise 2:02
Now, each case on its own was treated like an unfortunate and isolated event. Again, not connected. But as the months dragged on, families in the neighborhood started comparing stories. They started talking about the similarities and it became too much to ignore. The same age range, the same type of errands, and slowly what once felt like a series of coincidences started to look more like a pattern. So parents did what anyone would do. They went to the police, they asked for help, they filed reports, and they begged officers to take their concerns seriously. But instead of launching searches or asking questions, the police just told them not to worry, that their children had probably just run away.
Annie Elise 2:44
You know, they'd be back soon. Just calm down, nothing to worry about. But the kids didn't come back, and the police still didn't act. Then as more and more children began to disappear in Nitari, that fear started growing into frustration, then into anger. These weren't one-off incidents. This was something bigger. And while all of these families were just continuously being ignored, something far more sinister was quietly unfolding just down the road. And when the truth finally came out, it exposed one of the most disturbing criminal cases that India has ever seen. One that would shock the country, it would dominate the headlines for years, and even still to this day, it leaves people with questions.
Annie Elise 3:30
Because after all of that time, it may not have been as open and shut as it once seemed. New details have since emerged, and now, nearly two decades later, families are asking, did the real killer ever face justice? Or did everybody just have it completely wrong from the very beginning? This is the story of the Noida Natari murders. Hi, True Crime Bestie. It's me, your host, Annie Elise. Thank you for listening today, and we are going to jump right in. Noida and Natari are two neighborhoods just right outside of New Delhi. Now, on a map, they sit only a few blocks apart, but in reality, they could not have been more different. Noida was a quiet, clean, upper-class neighborhood. I mean, think gated homes, private security guards, wide roads.
Annie Elise 4:16
Manicured lawns, great schools, access to health care, all sorts of other resources, too. And Noida, by all means, was a great place to live. It was safe. It was comfortable. But Natari, just down the road, was nothing like that. It was densely packed. It was dusty. It was made up of small one-room homes, this very narrow, crowded lane.

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