Mandya Murder Horror: Love, sex, half cut bodies of women and serial killer couple

Bengaluru: The brutality with which 35-year-old T. Siddalingappa and his girlfriend Chandrakala committed the murders left even the police shocked. Both are currently lodged in the state prison. Solving the mystery of the half-mutilated, headless bodies of women found 24 kilometers apart required a dedicated investigation. Siddalingappa and Chandrakala had planned to kill at least five, more known women, in the most brutal way possible.

The truth came out in the investigation that Siddalingappa had done this to please his girlfriend. He told the police that these women met their gruesome end because they had forced his girlfriend into prostitution. Enraged by this, Siddalingappa conspired to kill him in a most brutal manner.

Case:

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On June 8, the mutilated bodies of two women were found near a water canal in Karnataka’s Mandya district. They were found at different places. The upper body of the bodies had been chopped off and body parts from the hip were found in a semi-decomposed state. The killers had cut off the upper part of the bodies of both the women and stuffed the lower part in sacks and thrown them in the canals at two different places. Of. A mutilated body was recovered from the Baby Lake canal near Bettanahalli. The other was found in the CDS canal near Arakere village, which falls under Pandavapura town and Arakere police stations in Mandya district, respectively.

The killers had tied the legs of the mutilated dead bodies. Local people were shocked by the brutality of the killers and this created a tense situation in the area. Mandya district superintendent of police Yatish, who is supervising the investigation, told IANS that the police department took the case as a challenge. Not only human but also extensive technical efforts were made. It took about 50 days to resolve the matter.

A team of 40 to 50 policemen traveled to three to four states and collected information. “It was a horrific incident. We didn’t expect a woman to join him, it came as a shock to us. We did not understand why and who did these murders. He was actually planning to kill some more women,” he said. It was not a matter of money. That woman was his girlfriend. Although he had a family, he still lived with her.

The victims had pushed her into prostitution. Yatheesh told that Siddalingappa was very sensitive towards his girlfriend and carried out the brutal murders. “We have to be careful to prevent such incidents in future. It was very difficult to identify the dead bodies. After being identified, the killers were caught within four-five days. The killings were most brutal, we cannot comment more on it,” he said.

Investigation:

With no progress in the investigation, the Mandya police announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh to anyone providing any clue about the murders. The police team distributed 10,000 leaflets in the surrounding areas about the mutilated bodies and the identity of the murdered women. They formed 9 special teams and 2 technical teams to solve the case. Police verified 1,116 cases of missing women in the state and neighboring states.

The police came to know about the double murder when Geeta’s missing case came to light at Chamarajanagar police station. Geeta was one of the victims whose body was cut in half. The police investigated the case as there were similarities between Geeta and the recovered half-mutilated body. The police tracked down the phone calls made by Geeta and managed to nab the killers.

The accused confessed during interrogation that they had killed another woman named Kumuda in Bengaluru. They told that they took Kumuda’s body on a bike and dumped it somewhere. Police arrested Siddalingappa, a resident of Kodihalli Colony near Kudur town in Ramanagara district, and his girlfriend Chandrakala, a resident of Harvu village near Pandavapura town in Mandya district.

The women, whose bodies were cut in half, were identified as Parvati, a resident of Hosadurga, and Geeta alias Putti, a resident of Chamarajanagar, in Chitradurga district. The killer duo killed Parvati on May 30 and Geeta on June 3. The victims’ bodies were cut into two pieces because it was difficult for the killers to transport their bodies from their homes on pikes. Later the dead bodies were thrown at different places.