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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalSandeep Balasubramani is a Chennai-based writer whose stories move through the unsettling spaces between crime, psychology, and the human mind. Influenced by his interest in art and animation, his narratives often carry a vivid, cinematic quality, blending tension, horror, and subtle dark humor.Read More...
Sandeep Balasubramani is a Chennai-based writer whose stories move through the unsettling spaces between crime, psychology, and the human mind. Influenced by his interest in art and animation, his narratives often carry a vivid, cinematic quality, blending tension, horror, and subtle dark humor.
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Across different parts of the world—cities separated by language, culture, and law—violent crimes occur without warning and without explanation. The victims are unrelated, the methods differ, and no organization claims responsibility. There is no demand, no manifesto, no threat of repetition. Each case is treated as an isolated incident, investigated locally, and eventually left unresolved due to the absence of motive.
As years pass, investigators n
Across different parts of the world—cities separated by language, culture, and law—violent crimes occur without warning and without explanation. The victims are unrelated, the methods differ, and no organization claims responsibility. There is no demand, no manifesto, no threat of repetition. Each case is treated as an isolated incident, investigated locally, and eventually left unresolved due to the absence of motive.
As years pass, investigators notice something disturbing: several of these “cold cases” share anomalies that cannot be officially acknowledged. Evidence appears and disappears without record. Witnesses recall details that were never made public. Timelines subtly overlap, as if the crimes were aware of one another despite occurring continents apart.
The attention does not come from the media or public outrage. The killings are not motivated by revenge or terror. They are linked by a precise logic rooted in obsession. Each victim played a role—indirect, legal, and socially acceptable—in events that caused irreversible harm to others. No crime was committed. No law was broken. Yet consequences followed, buried under procedure, policy, or indifference.
What remains is an unsettling realization: the crimes were never meant to be solved. They were meant to exist—forcing a world that relies on legality to confront the cost of actions that were never illegal at all.
The people who committed these crimes never understood what they had done. Without recognizing their mistakes, they accepted the acts as challenges to be completed. As time passed, some of them vanished without a trace, while others settled into family lives, burying the past and continuing to exist among us—untouched, unrepentant, and unseen.
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