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CASE 04  |  HOST OPENS AFTER ACCUSATIONS FILED
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THE KILLER IS:

DEEPA SINGHANIA

Wife of the Victim, 54  |  31 years. Two children in Dubai. One plan.

The Crime

Deepa Singhania had co-built an empire, raised a son, and maintained the image of a devoted industrialist's wife for 31 years. In February 2025, she found the divorce papers and the new will. Her entire life's work — financial and social — was being redirected to a woman in Dubai and two children she never knew existed.

She bought the thallium acetate on Valentine's Day. She registered a shell research foundation in Jaipur to make the purchase. She waited. The wedding was the perfect moment — a crowded event, an emotional family, maximum noise and confusion.

At 11:06 PM, while 200 guests danced at her son's wedding, she slipped into the suite, opened the wine, and added the poison. Thirteen minutes. She was back at the reception before anyone noticed the gap.

Scoring

CategoryMax Points
Correct killer50
Correct motive (Dubai family + divorce + will)30
Correct method (thallium in wine glass, pre-planted)20
Key evidence (key card log / chemical purchase / CCTV gap)20
Each red herring10 (max 30)
TOTAL150
📖 Case Debrief
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What Each Red Herring Was Designed to Do
🎭 Rakesh Sinha (CFO) financial irregularities
Corporate accounting questions + no independent alibi for part of the evening = CFO-did-it setup. But he had no suite key card access and was with the corporate delegation all evening.
🎭 Arjun Singhania (son) will inheritance motive
Son stands to inherit. Classic setup at a wedding. But his movements are documented through hundreds of timestamped wedding photos with independent verification.
🎭 Kavitha Rathore professional rivalry
A past dispute with Harish creates apparent motive. But she was on stage for 80 continuous minutes, recorded on video, in front of 80 witnesses — the cleanest alibi in the series.
The Hardest Connection in This Case
The Dubai family. The evidence is deliberately scattered across two documents — a property record and a bank statement — and requires players to synthesize that Harish had a second family in Dubai that Deepa had recently discovered. This is what made the divorce papers appear. Without this synthesis, the motive is incomplete.
What Most Groups Miss
The key card log showing 13 minutes in the suite during a window when Deepa claimed to be at the reception. Players often check the suite access log for Arjun's movements (son = obvious suspect) and scan past Deepa's entry entirely.
Discussion Questions
  • The wedding setting created extraordinary red herrings — which one was most convincing for your group?
  • Did anyone find the Dubai family connection independently? How?
  • The 13-minute window — when did you find the key card log, and how did it change things?
  • If Deepa had stayed an extra hour at the reception, would the window have been traceable?
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