This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

It is not intended for children.

Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

This month I've chosen cases to cover from suggestions sent on by you, the listeners.

We're in the final chapter of this series and this case is a bit of a who-odunit. A young girl living outside of New Delhi, India,

is found murdered in her own bedroom in a high security apartment building with her parents

sleeping mere feet away. Was her murder an inside job or caused by an unknown intruder?

A rash of mistakes made by police at the outset of the investigation would result in the

public coming to their own conclusions about who was responsible for the murder.

When a second murder victim, a domestic worker employed by the family is discovered,

the public and the media would be divided by race and class regarding the suspects.

I want to thank listener Niroj for sending me this case suggestion via our website.

Thanks, Niroj. This is the case of the Noida double homicide of Arushi

Tawar and Ham go right into the story.

I won't be giving as much biographical information as I normally do because I want to spend more time on the

details of the investigation. Since this is technically still an unsolved case, I decided to

approach it a little differently than I normally do so you can decide what you think.

13-year-old Arushit-Tawar lived in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Noida is an acronym for New Okla Industrial Development Authority and is a planned city

located in Outer New Delhi.

A city of over 600,000 people,

it was ranked as the best city in housing in all of India

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