Serialously with Annie Elise
337: The Most Disturbing & Gruesome Case I’ve Covered | Noida Murders
17 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialist League. 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.
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Chapter 2: What events led to the disappearance of children in Noida?
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. 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. 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. 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. And many of the families in Natari lived paycheck to paycheck.
Most people worked low-wage jobs, selling vegetables, cleaning houses, driving rickshaws, picking up whatever work that they could find. Power outages were also pretty common. Clean water wasn't ever guaranteed. And access to health care was always hit or miss, depending on the day. Yet despite their differences, there was constant movement between the two neighborhoods.
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Chapter 3: How did the families respond to the police's inaction?
They talked to anybody who might have seen something. I mean, neighbors, shopkeepers, street vendors, schoolmates, you name it. And some families even went so far as to travel to other nearby neighborhoods and train stations, thinking, you know, maybe their child had gotten lost or accidentally ended up somewhere unfamiliar. But every search always ended up the same.
Zero answers and zero direction of where to look next. So the longer that this went on, the more hopeless these families began to feel. And by 2006, over 20 children had gone missing. And despite all of the efforts of these families, nothing changed.
No one had been found, no suspects had been named, no leads were publicly shared, and essentially, there was no investigation into any of these disappearances. Now among those 20 children missing, two were young girls. A 10-year-old girl named Jyoti, and a nine-year-old girl named Rachna. Now, in April 2006, Rachna had gone out to go visit her grandparents.
Then she was going to go run a few errands for her parents in Noida. It was something that she did very frequently, and she always returned home before it got too dark. But hours passed, and she never returned. So her parents filed a police report, but they never received any help. Now, Jyoti had also been in Noida when she was last seen. So the families of these two girls knew each other.
and when neither of them received help from the police, they started to help one another, because they really could only turn to each other. They searched, they searched, and Rachna's father went all around Noida asking if anybody had seen his daughter on the day that she went missing.
He started right near a tailor shop, which was one of the places that Rachna was visiting the day that she disappeared, and right across that tailor shop was a very large house, and it had two men just standing outside talking to one another. So Rajna's father approached these two men, asked if either one of them had seen his daughter, but both men said no, and then they quickly shuffled inside.
And something about the way that they responded just felt very off to Rajna's dad. It was almost like they seemingly were running away from the conversation, like they wanted nothing to do with her father, that they couldn't get away from this conversation quick enough. And that moment really stuck with him.
And over the next few days, as he continued to search, his attention just kept circling back to that house that those two men were standing out front of. And by talking with Jyoti's family, he discovered that Jyoti had also passed that exact same house on the day that she disappeared. So this, of course, only fueled his suspicion.
So both Jyoti and Roshna's fathers went to the police with this information, hoping, you know, having this story of these suspicious men, the coincidence of them both passing this same house, that all of that would make the police take their concerns seriously for once, right? A lead, evidence, something. At least go question them.
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Chapter 4: What shocking discoveries were made during the search for missing children?
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Born in August 1957, Pandher, Goldie to friends, studied at Simla's elite Bishop Cotton and was a history graduate from Delhi's St Stephen's College. Pandher inherited a successful transport business spread across Delhi, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. He married Davinder Kaur and then had a son, Karandeep, who went on to study in Canada.
The Panders bought a double-storeyed bungalow in Noira, Sector 31, in March 2004. Mulinder Singh Pandir spent most of his time there while his wife stayed back in Jandigarh.
Now, Moninder also had a domestic worker, otherwise here in the States known as, you know, a housekeeper or a house manager. And this was a man in his 30s named Surinder Coley. Surinder was married, had two children, managed all of the household chores, and he handled maintenance, looked after the house whenever Moninder was away, and he was just kind of like the house manager of sorts.
He was the eyes and ears of everything and just managed all of the chores. He was hired in early 2004, and he wasn't a very talkative person, but he was regularly seen outside of the house, just sweeping the sidewalks, taking out the trash, and, you know, running errands. So to most people, the two men were unassuming. They were quiet.
They were familiar to the neighborhood, but overall pretty ordinary. However, these were also the two men that Rajna's father had talked to that day out front of the house, the ones that he said gave him a weird vibe, that he felt like they were trying to get away from the conversation as quickly as possible.
Now, as far-fetched as it sounded, the rumor that somebody had actually seen body parts outside of Moninder's home, it really was more than anything else that the families had to go on. That was the only real lead that they had. And at that point, they were willing to follow up on just about anything. So on the morning of December 29th, 2006, the two fathers and S.C.
Mishra decided that they were going to go check out that area for themselves, do their own little investigation. Now in this part of Noida, the storm drains aren't like what you might be picturing. They weren't like the typical underground covered sewer systems like we have in the U.S., kind of, you know, from that movie It with the clown, how it's like that storm drain and everything's below.
That's not how it is. Instead, these drains are very long. They are like open trenches that run alongside the roads. They collect runoff, trash, food waste, and in many places, they hadn't been cleaned in months. So when the group reached the section of drain that was right outside of Moninder's house... The smell, the odor, it hit them almost immediately. The water was barely moving.
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