She's The Most Dangerous Woman in India

[00:00:00]So, this woman didn't want to get a real job. So, she killed her whole family.

[00:00:05]Now, the woman's name is Jolly, and Jolly's around 25 when this story starts, and she's living in Kerala, India. And here's the thing about Jolly.

[00:00:12]She wants nice things in life, like a nice house, and expensive jewelry, but she doesn't want to work for it.

[00:00:19]Instead, she wants to marry into a rich family. And one day in 1997, she gets that opportunity. Because she links up with this guy that she knows. His name is Roy. And she and Roy, they hit it off, and they start chatting, and pretty quickly, they get into a long-distance relationship. Because he lives in a different district. And as the relationship progresses, Roy decides it's time to introduce Jolly to his family. But, there's just one problem with that. Roy is from an educated and established family in the community.

[00:00:53]While Jolly comes from a family of farmers. She barely went to college. And she's worried that if Roy's family finds that out, that they won't accept her.

[00:01:03]So, she lies to them. She tells Roy and his parents that she has not just a bachelor's degree, but a master's degree in commerce. And this actually works.

[00:01:14]Roy's family, they're all impressed, and they welcome her into the family. And now, eventually, Roy and Jolly get married, and Jolly moves into Roy's family home. So, now she's living with his whole family, but she's living the life that she's always wanted. Roy works every day so that she doesn't have to, and she just like stays at home, and she chills comfortably. But then, after a while, Roy's mother starts thinking that Jolly's wasting her education by sitting at home all day. So, she starts encouraging her to get a job. But of course, Jolly doesn't want to get a job.

[00:01:50]And every time the topic comes up, Jolly comes up with some [ __ ] excuse. So, years go by, and it's now 2002 and that is when Jolly's non-working ass runs into a problem. Jolly's dad is planning on coming to town to visit her at the Roy's family home and this makes her nervous as hell because she knows Roy's mom will probably talk to him about finding her a job and that her dad won't keep the lie going. He'll admit that Jolly doesn't have a master's degree in commerce and if that happens, then she'll be exposed and she might be kicked out of the family for lying and she isn't about to let that happen. So, she comes up with a plan. A plan to kill Roy's mother before her secrets get exposed. So, one day Jolly's able to obtain some cyanide through a friend and she mixes it into Roy's mom's mutton soup and Roy's mom eats it and shortly afterwards, she unfortunately dies.

[00:02:50]Now, because Roy's mom is older and has already been dealing with several health problems, the family just assumes that she suffered a heart attack or some other natural medical issue. But most importantly, no one suspects that it was Jolly. So, with Roy's mother gone, she essentially becomes the new matriarch of the house. Like she cooks for the family, she runs the household and things are going exactly the way she wants them to and about six years pass.

[00:03:18]So, it's now 2008 and by this point, her behavior has gotten really wild. Around this time, she starts having an affair and smashing with one of Roy's cousins.

[00:03:29]So, she's always on the phone with Roy's cousin and whenever Roy isn't around, this cousin keeps showing up to the house and eventually, Roy's dad notices and he starts asking questions. But Jolly, she's always like, "Ah, there's nothing going on." But he's still suspicious and over time, Jolly starts seeing Roy's dad as a problem. Someone else who could potentially expose her, and she decides to get rid of him, too.

[00:03:58]So, she gets some of that cyanide, and she puts it in one of Roy's dad's pill capsules. And one day, Roy's dad takes the pill, and he unfortunately collapses and dies.

[00:04:11]And again, he's a much older man, so they assume it was a heart attack, which wouldn't be unusual for someone his age.

[00:04:17]Cyanide poisoning mimics the appearance of a heart attack, so no one questions anything, and Jolly gets away with murder again.

[00:04:25]And three more years go by, so it's now 2011. And suddenly, things aren't going so well for Jolly's husband, Roy. I mean, his business isn't doing well, and he's just struggling to support the family. And it's around this time that he discovers that Jolly is having an affair. And so, he confronts her, and he lets her know that that's not okay. And this creates a lot of serious tension in their marriage. And that is when she decides it's time to get rid of him, too. So, one night, she serves Roy dinner, and she mixes cyanide into his rice and curry. And Roy eats it, and within minutes, he collapses, and he unfortunately dies.

[00:05:08]Now, this time, not everyone believes he died of a heart attack or natural causes. I mean, Roy wasn't an elderly man. He was around 40 years old. So, specifically, one of Roy's uncles gets suspicious, and he starts pushing for an autopsy to be done. So, an official autopsy is done, and guess what the doctors find in Roy's system. Cyanide.

[00:05:32]And this is not looking good for Jolly, because unlike the previous deaths, now there's actual evidence pointing toward poisoning. And so, she starts telling people that Roy, he must have taken his own life because he was in a lot of debt, and he didn't want to live with that. And because she's his wife, a lot of the family members believe her. A lot of the family members, except for Roy's uncle. That stubborn old man, he doesn't believe this one bit. He keeps doubting Jolly's story. So, Jolly eventually decides that Roy's uncle also has to go.

[00:06:08]And so, one day in 2014, she invites him over to the family house, I guess to discuss some family matters or whatever.

[00:06:15]Then, she serves him some kind of drink laced with cyanide and he drinks it and he unfortunately dies as well.

[00:06:24]And so, now we're in 2016. And by this point, Jolly's crazy ass still hasn't been caught. And she's started smashing and having an affair with one of Roy's other cousins, like a different cousin than the one before. And it seems like she really wants to marry him. The issue with that is that this cousin is already married and has kids. Well, Jolly isn't going to let that get in the way. She decides, just like the others, that she's going to get rid of this wife and kids. And just like the others, she poisons the wife and eventually one of the kids as well and they unfortunately don't survive. And about a year later, she marries this cousin. And once again, everything seems to be going exactly the way she wants. She's successfully murdered six people in 14 years and police aren't investigating her or anything. So, at this point, it's starting to look like she might actually get away with all of it.

[00:07:23]Until until this woman enters the picture, Roy's younger sister, Renji. So, to Renji, a lot of things feel off about her brother's death. And so, she decides to investigate herself. And she requests Roy's postmortem records and when she goes through them, she notices some inconsistencies between what the reports say and what Jolly claimed had happened.

[00:07:49]So, she reports this to the police, and the police open an investigation. And eventually, they exhume the bodies of the victims because, you know, they want to check to see if there are traces of poison in them. And when the news of this investigation becomes public, this story blows the [ __ ] up across India.

[00:08:07]And from here, the pressure starts to get to Jolly. So, her son, who's also Roy's son, confronts her about it. Like, "Did you really kill Dad?" And she confesses her crimes to him. And he goes and he reports her to the police. And so, bam, she gets arrested. And ultimately, she confesses to all these murders to the police, and she actually hasn't been convicted yet. This case is still in trial. So, even though she confessed, all of this is still technically alleged.