Kasaragod: Police solve murder mystery by tracing accused's browser history

Kasaragod police has solved a murder mystery of a 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly killed by her brother earlier this week. Police busted the heinous crime by tracing Google search history of the accused's mobile.

Kasaragod (Kerala): Albin Benny, 22, who was arrested by the Police on Thursday in connection with the murder of Ann Mary, his 16-year-old sister, and the attempt to wipe out all his family, was taken to Vellarikkundu town in Kasaragod district of Kerala to collect evidence in the case on Friday.

The police team identified and gathered evidence from the shop from which Benny had bought rat poison to lace the ice cream and murder his family. Evidence was also collected from the bakery in the town from where he had bought ingredients needed to make ice cream.

The police found out that Albin had used the mobile phone that was gifted to him by his father Benny just a week ago. The police discovered that Albin had also established ‘friendships’ with many married, young women through social media platforms in the meantime.

The culprit studied on poisons in detail and ‘learnt’ from the internet how to kill his family by lacing poison in their food, using the phone gifted to him by his dad. Benny had gifted Albin a mobile phone which cost him around Rs 16,000 a week prior to the incident. Ironically, it was being used by Albin to plan the murder of Benny, his wife and his daughter.

According to Albin’s statement to the police, he learnt about the strength of the rat poison and the dosage to be used while lacing food with it, in just a week since he got the new smartphone. Later, Albin executed what he learnt with precision and expertise.

When Albin’s mother Bessy told him to give the leftover ice cream to their pet dog, Albin discarded the same knowing that it is poison-laced. He did not give any of it to the dog.

Albin had earlier told the police that his intention was to usurp the family property of about 5 acres and to live as he pleased, after wiping out others in the family. His sister Ann Mary died on August 5 after ingesting the poison-laced ice cream and contracting jaundice while in hospital, as a secondary effect. Albin’s parents are still in the hospital.