Fatal Affairs: When Husbands Kill for Love
True Crime Cases with Lanie
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4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this chilling episode of True Crime Cases, host Lanie examines two shocking murder cases where husbands killed their wives for new relationships. From domestic abuse to calculated murder plots, these true crime stories reveal the devastating consequences when men choose violence over divorce.
Featured Cases:
The Murder of Sejal Patel (2005) – A young Indian-American woman trapped in an abusive marriage becomes the victim of a family murder conspiracy in Twinsburg, Ohio
The Murder of Barbara Jean Finch (1959) – A West Covina doctor and his mistress plot the brutal killing of his estranged wife
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| 0:00.0 | Did you hear those ads at the beginning of this podcast? |
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| 0:09.9 | subscriptions. Links will be in the show notes. |
| 0:13.3 | Explicit content is found in this episode, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome back to True Crime Cases. I'm your host, Lainey. If you're |
| 0:24.5 | listening to this episode, you are probably no stranger to true crime. Many high-profile murders |
| 0:31.1 | show us that aside from domestic violence, men often kill their partners because they want |
| 0:36.4 | their wives out of the way for their new girlfriends. |
| 0:39.8 | Scott Peterson allegedly killed his wife Lacey Peterson because he had a girlfriend. |
| 0:45.2 | Chris Watts had a girlfriend on the side and killed his entire family. |
| 0:49.2 | Today we look at two other cases of men who found the grass to be greener on the other side. |
| 0:55.1 | Okay, on to the show. |
| 1:09.1 | Sejul Patel emigrated from India in 1981 when she was around four years old and grew up in the Chicago area. |
| 1:16.7 | She loved subway sandwiches and watching sports on television. |
| 1:20.6 | Sejul was quiet and did not have any close friends growing up. |
| 1:24.9 | Still, following tradition, when she graduated from high school, she started |
| 1:28.9 | looking for her husband. In 1996, she met Chayton Patel through her uncle in New Jersey. |
| 1:36.3 | Chaytan had just immigrated from India, coming from the same small village in the Gujarat province of |
| 1:42.4 | India. Therefore, they had similar backgrounds and even |
| 1:45.9 | spoke the same specific dialect of the Indian language of Gujarati. Quick disclaimer on names in this |
| 1:52.2 | case, many of the perpetrators, the victim, and her family all shared the same surname of |
| 1:58.3 | Patel, but this doesn't mean that they're directly related to each other. |
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