The women of Bareilly were disappearing. For over a year, fear gripped the villages. Between June 2023 and July 2024, nine women were found dead in sugarcane fields. Their bodies lay hidden among the tall stalks, their lives cruelly stolen by an unseen hand. The killer moved like a ghost, striking and vanishing without a trace. At first, the police thought these were isolated cases: a robbery gone wrong, a personal dispute, or an accident. But as the pattern emerged, a terrifying realization spread: a serial killer was on the loose. He had a signature strangulation, with the knots always tied to the left. He killed with precision, leaving behind no clues, no evidence. The people of Bareilly lived in fear, locking their doors before nightfall, whispering about the murderer who walked among them. Then, in July 2024, the police caught a man: Kuldeep Kumar Gangwar. When questioned, he simply smiled and confessed, "I killed six." But if he admitted to six, who killed the other thr...
An unidentified Serial Killer, known as Stoneman by the media, shocked the entire nation as the killer’s intent and target was the pavement dwellers who had nothing in life.
Killing by smashing heads or either bodies of pavement dwellers with a huge stone was the modus operandi of the Stoneman. In 2010, Such kind of stone killings took place in Guwahati, Assam reminding people of the distressing serial killings in Bombay and Calcutta 24 years ago.
The first round of killing took place in Bombay between 1985 and 1987, when he killed twelve people and the serial killing took a hiatus as brutally as they started for two years.
In October, 1985, his first murder was in the Sion-King’s Circle area in Central Mumbai, one week after this incident, similar types of murders were reported, But Nobody ever saw him as he hunted over his prey at night and killed them by dropping a huge stone on their face while they were sleeping.
It was after the 6th murder that the police started to observe a pattern in the crime, all of the victims were homeless pavement dwellers who slept alone in the city’s dimly lit areas and had no relationships or associations with regular society. The police tried to use wits and did what it took but it turned out to be inconclusive. In any case, the murder spree, which had now claimed over 12 lives, came to an end by 1988. But that was just in Mumbai.
In the middle of 1988, the killings suddenly stopped but after a hiatus of two years, the killings started again in 1989. However, this time it was Calcutta, the crime scene and method of crime was observed to be similar to the stoneman murders, and within the next 6 months there were 13 more murders attributed to the Stoneman.
For more than three decades, the stoneman mystery has haunted India and no one has ever been charged as the mystery remained unsolved.
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