119: The Burari Deaths: One Family, Eleven Bodies

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In 2018, 11 people in the Chundawat family were found dead from what looked like a ritual sacrifice. It left the public with questions: was the family corrupted by a evil guru? Was this a robbery gone wrong? Or was there something even darker at play? TW: Suicide, child death Get stickers! https://shop.heartstartspounding.com/ Subscribe on ⁠Patreon ⁠for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus content as well as other perks. And members of our High Council on Patreon have access to our after-show called Footnotes, where I share my case file with our producer, Matt. Apple subscriptions are now live! Get access to bonus episodes and more when you subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow on ⁠Tik Tok ⁠and ⁠Instagram⁠ for a daily dose of horror. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.0	It was the morning of July 1st, 2018, just after 5.30 a.m.
1:11.7	A milk delivery truck rumbled down a quiet street in the Burari neighborhood of Delhi in north central India, and it stopped just outside of a storefront.
1:16.4	It was a little more than a bodega, but it served as a vital hub for the densely packed
1:21.4	village, and every morning the delivery truck dropped off a fresh load of milk, and one member
1:26.1	of the Chundwatat family, who owned the
1:28.1	store, would run out and grab it. But today, something seemed off. As the driver unloaded
1:34.2	the crate from the back, he saw the shop's metal grate was still closed and bolted. That was
1:39.5	strange. He wrapped on the metal door, but no answer. So he looked up above the store to the apartment
1:46.8	where the Chondwot family lived. Maybe they were still upstairs, though it didn't really look
1:51.2	like there was any activity inside. Well, they would probably be down soon enough, he figured. So he left
1:56.8	the crate out front and he got back to the rest of his route.
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