Cyanide Mallika:India’s first convicted serial killer

She wore devotion like a disguise. She entered temples not to pray — but to prey.

In this chilling episode, we dive into the disturbing story of K.D. Kempamma, better known as Cyanide Mallika — India’s first convicted female serial killer. Between 1999 and 2007, Mallika murdered six women across Karnataka, using a deadly cocktail of lies, manipulation, and cyanide.

We explore how a woman, often underestimated and unnoticed, used religious faith as a weapon — gaining the trust of her victims in temples, luring them with promises of spiritual cleansing, only to rob and poison them. But what drove her to this path of darkness? Was it greed? Desperation? Or something far more sinister?