A good police investigation can not only solve a crime but it can also lead to the acquittal of innocent people. The cracking of a case of the double murder of a senior citizen and his wife in Mahadevapura in Bengaluru in October 2019 opened the window to the murder of an elderly couple 100 km away in Mandya, three months earlier, and led to the release of a young couple who had been wrongly arrested for the crime. The story of the double murders of two elderly couples in three months involves a debt-ridden 30-year-old cab driver and his young wife who allegedly targeted their wealthy distant relatives to pay off their dues.
Advertisement The first double murder On July 18, 2019, a cook in Bengaluru filed a police complaint about finding the decomposing bodies of his brother Gundegowda, a 55-year-old farmer, and his wife Lalithamma, 50, at their home in Rayasamudra village in Mandya. The cook, R S Kumar, had received a call from his mother in Mandya at around 7.30 pm on July 18 saying she had gone to Gundegowda’s house but found it locked.
A foul smell was emanating from the house. Kumar rushed to the village and arrived that night. He removed the tiles on the roof of the house with the help of a few villagers and peeked inside to find his brother and sister-in-law dead.
When the villagers and Kumar broke open the door of the house, they found highly decomposed bodies with clear signs that the house had been ransacked as the cupboards were lying open and the contents of the.
