India's Most Dangerous Serial Killer (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Shankariya Kanpatimar murdered nearly seventy people across Rajasthan, Punjab, and Haryana in just eighteen months, making him India's first recorded serial killer. He was executed at Jaipur Central Jail on 15 May 1979.

His crimes were committed with chilling brutality, driven solely by theft. Entering his victims' homes naked, he would kill using whatever object was at hand, then calmly eat, smoke bidis, bathe, and leave with whatever cash he could find. In one case, his reward amounted to just two rupees. He became known as "Kanpatimar" because of the striking similarity in his murders: each victim was fatally struck on the temple (kanpati in Hindi).

Drawing on police files, FIRs, contemporary newspaper reports, and interviews, India's Most Dangerous Serial Killer meticulously reconstructs both the murders and the social conditions that allowed them to unfold. Told in Rakesh Goswami's unsparing and meticulously researched voice, the book traces Shankariya's transformation from a petty thief into one of India's most notorious killers, while exposing the deeper moral and institutional failures that lay beneath his reign of terror.