The Kanpatimar: India's Most Prolific Serial Killer
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Erscheinungsdatum
02.03.2026
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Mark KellySeitenzahl
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Englisch
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9798232675981
The Kanpatimar: India's Most Prolific Serial Killer
In September 1973, three men sleeping in a Gurdwara in Ganganagar, northern Rajasthan, were struck on the temple while they slept. Two died. The attack left behind a sealed iron cashbox bearing a set of latent fingerprints, and the first trace of the man who would become India's most prolific serial killer.
The Kanpatimar reconstructs the full arc of the Kanpatimar Shankariya case: from the forensic investigation that secured his first conviction in 1975, to the catastrophic systemic failure that allowed him to commit seventy additional murders across Rajasthan, Punjab, and Haryana before his second arrest in January 1979. Drawing on court records, forensic science, criminological theory, and the social history of 1970s north India, this book examines not only who Shankariya was, but what conditions made his crimes possible, and possible for so long.
This is a story about a killer who confessed to targeting the temple because the screams sounded like music. It is also a story about the rural poor who slept unprotected in dharamshalas and on railway platforms, about the institutional failures that left them there, and about a justice system capable of forensic brilliance and administrative catastrophe in the same breath.
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