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Vishal

Episode 4: The Coincidence

Vishal

BBC Studios

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8529 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Decades pass with no answers. In 2020 lightning strikes when a BBC reporter gets a call.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We focus on the part of the internet that most people don't know about.

0:05.0

It's called the dark web.

0:06.0

Undercover in the furthest corners of the dark web,

0:10.0

US special agents are on a mission to locate and rescue children from abuse.

0:16.0

Move in now.

0:17.0

Police!

0:18.0

From the BBC World Service, World of Secrets, the darkest web follows their shocking investigations.

0:24.8

Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get to your BBC podcasts.

0:30.4

When a murder has remained unsolved for as many decades as the case of Vishal Marutra,

0:36.9

I've heard that there are only really three

0:39.1

ways it might ever be cracked. A new witness or confession, a forensic breakthrough, or a

0:47.3

coincidence. I can tell you right now that we don't have the first two. But a coincidence?

0:53.4

Well... that we don't have the first two. But a coincidence? Well, in 2019, something astonishing

1:01.0

happened. A man sitting in an office spot something in an old folder. Just one word. It could be nothing.

1:12.3

Or, after nearly 40 years of agony,

1:16.3

it could change everything.

1:23.8

I'm Suchin Marotra.

1:26.7

From BBC Studios, this is Vishal.

1:35.0

The true story of a boy who went missing, while the world looked the other way.

1:43.5

The story of his family. my family, and the story of the investigation into Vishal's

1:51.8

disappearance.

1:57.4

Chapter 4. The Coincidence

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