What is going on True Prime fans? I'm your host Tee. And I'm your host Daphne. And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody. I hope you're having a wonderful week. It is Friday. It is Friday. Well not really.

Yeah, almost a weekend. Hopefully you guys have some spooky plans for this weekend. Yeah, absolutely. And so today's case, I'm sure that one of you or more of you has recommended this case in the past, but I could not find any names. So apologies if you have recommended this one, but also thank you. I was trying to find an October case and I came upon this one recently again. And I had completely forgotten about it because we almost covered it a couple years ago. Yeah, I remember we did want to cover this case like

a while ago, but I think another podcast had just covered it. So we were like, maybe we'll give it some time. Yeah, we give some space. All right guys, this is episode 246 of Going West. So let's get into it.

In October of 2008, a young woman threw a Halloween party along with the rest of her apartment complex with countless attendees.

But three days later, her body was found in her apartment and the scene was not only gruesome, but incredibly confusing. With multiple party goers as potential suspects, it was unclear to police from the start, who was actually behind this tragedy.

This is the story of Arpanajanaga.

Arpanajanaga was born on November 3rd, 1984 in Hyderabad, India. And Hyderabad is a city in the center of the southern half of India. And it's the capital of the state of Telangana. And it's the fourth largest city in India with about 10 million residents in the metropolitan area. So it's huge.

And it's known for its tech industry, even hosting a suburb called High Tech City, which is a hub for investors and company specializing in IT, health, engineering and of course tech.

Arpanajanaga was born to her parents, BC and near Malah, and then she was also the oldest of two girls, she had a younger sister named Pavitra. So their father, BC, held a doctorate and was a professor of computer engineering at a college in Hyderabad called Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. And near Malah stayed home with the girls.

So Arpanajanaga was extremely sharp from a young age and taking after her father was a gifted student and a relentless intellectual. As a child, she took up art, gymnastics and writing as hobbies when she wasn't devoting her time to schoolwork.

When she was a teenager, she competed in a contest for the IEEE. I don't know if I think we need some more ease in there.

I don't think it's the IEEE. Well, it's the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

There it is, all those ease. And that is based in New Jersey. And according to their website detailing this year's competition, the IEEE Hardware Design Contest was meant to quote,

provide an opportunity for student competitors to showcase their creative skills while informing other students or the general public about a topic relevant to electromagnetic compatibility or signal power integrity.

And students were instructed to submit a 10 minute video detailing their concept. And Arpanajan's participation earned her accolades from both universities and tech companies.

Yeah, so by the time Arpanajan was graduating from higher secondary school, she had become an expert in microchips.

In 2005, at the age of 21 years old, she participated in another design competition and although she didn't win, she placed in the top 20 participants worldwide.

And it put her on the radar in the tech community as a wonder kind in her field.

And a wonder kind is just a person who achieves great success when they're pretty young. So it makes sense. She is insanely smart.

Right, yeah, she is. So after completing her undergrad in India, she was accepted to a master's degree program at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

And she made the over 8,000 mile or almost 13,000 kilometer journey to the east coast of the United States to pursue her new career and her new life.

In December of 2007, Arpanaj graduated with a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering.

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