The rich family fell at the hands of the wicked bride

In the living room of a three-story house in Koodathayi town, Kerala state, solemnly hangs a picture of a beautiful smiling woman. The person in the photo is the landlady, Jolly Joseph.

Mrs. Jolly was born into a wealthy family, but from a young age had moral problems, was expelled from school for theft while studying at university. Jolly hides this past, lying about graduating with a master’s degree from a famous school. In 1997, Jolly met Roy Thomas, the son of another wealthy family and married a year later.

The Thomas family is highly respected, as they have a lot of fields and Roy’s parents are both retired Kerala state education officials. In the family, besides the eldest son, Roy, there is a daughter who is a foreign language teacher and the youngest son works in the US. All members of the family are Indian elites. No one expected that over the next 14 years, six members of the family were poisoned to death one after another. The culprit, none other than the bride, Jolly Joseph.

Jolly’s first victim was her mother-in-law, Annamma, who was the de facto ruler of the family, especially financially. She has absolute discretion over every expenditure in the family, which makes Jolly very uncomfortable.

At first Jolly did not have a job, Mrs. Annamma felt strange, why can’t a master’s degree find a job? Jolly therefore faked her work card as a professor at the Calicut Academy of Science and Technology, going to work on time every day. But Jolly was very afraid of her false identity being exposed, so she decided to control the supreme power of this family. On August 8, 2002, Annamma died after eating a bowl of lamb soup Jolly had scooped up. She had an underlying medical condition, so her family thought it was a sudden old illness.

After her mother-in-law died, Jolly became the mistress of the family. Jolly is an intelligent, extroverted person, very good at handling work, and has wide connections both inside and outside the family, loved by everyone.

After taking over the financial position, Jolly bought herself a new car, driving every morning pretending to go to work, returning home at night. This time Jolly’s husband Roy began to drink alcohol, do nothing. The father-in-law sold a part of the field for 1.8 million rupees for his son to do business.

Jolly’s husband used this money to run a lubricant store and a tailor shop, but both of them lost money, making him very unhappy. He said he would not give his son any part of the rest of the land.

Jolly was very angry, on August 26, 2008, he put poison in his father-in-law’s porridge bowl, but everyone thought he died of heart disease. In India the dead are almost never autopsied, because traditional Indian culture considers an autopsy to be an insult to the deceased.

After quietly killing her husband’s parents, Jolly chooses her husband as her next target. Jolly and Roy have been married for many years, have two sons, but no feelings remain. Jolly thinks that Roy is an alcoholic, doesn’t know how to do business, not worth his life. Jolly wants to be the wife of a stable economic man. The one she has her eye on is Shaju, Roy’s cousin, who is married and has children. Shaju is a high school teacher, economic conditions are very good.

On September 30, 2011, Jolly put poison in her husband’s curry rice. Roy died in the bathroom. This time because the deceased was young and healthy, Roy’s uncle insisted on an autopsy. The autopsy results showed that the body contained potassium cyanide – a chemical commonly used in ore mining and jewelry making.

Jolly cried and said that her husband committed suicide, because Roy was heavily in debt. Jolly begs the police not to continue the investigation to shame the family. Because of Jolly’s impeccable reputation and outstanding performance, everyone trusted her.

But at this time, Jolly decided that the next person to die would be Mr. Mathew, the younger brother of Annamma’s mother-in-law, who was also the one who requested an autopsy when Roy died.

On February 24, 2014, Mathew died after drinking a whiskey that had passed through Jolly’s hands. People think the cause is heart disease. Four members of the family died in a row, everyone thought that this family was cursed, Jolly was of course very supportive of this saying.

The fifth victim is Alphine. Alphine is the daughter of her cousin Shaju, who is only two years old. On May 3, 2014, during a family gathering, after eating a piece of bread, Alphine blushed and stopped breathing. The doctor thought it was choking, but Jolly actually applied poison to this little girl’s lips.

The sixth victim is Alphine’s mother. Because she wants to marry her cousin Shaju, Jolly determines the only obstacle, only her sister-in-law, Sily. On January 11, 2016, Sily was waiting for a medical check-up in a private dental office when she “accidentally met” Jolly. Jolly poured Sily a glass of water. After drinking the water, Sily fell down. Of course, no one asked for an autopsy.

In 2017, after a while back and forth, Jolly finally remarried to Shaju. Two years later, Jolly’s crimes were revealed from the inheritance dispute. After her husband’s death in 2011, Jolly made a will from her father-in-law, leaving the house to Roy and Jolly, and the rest of the land was divided equally among the three children.

The will is not dated, nor is it signed by witnesses. Roy’s brother and sister became suspicious and complained to the police. After nearly 9 years of investigation, the Indian police discovered that Jolly’s bachelor’s and master’s degrees were fake, his university teaching was also fake, and also discovered many problems surrounding the deaths of the dead. family’s person.

In October 2019, Jolly was arrested at the age of 47. She admitted to forging documents, using potassium cyanide to kill the six people mentioned above. Two of Jolly’s accomplices were also arrested, Jolly’s mistress, a jewelry store owner, and a jeweler who supplied Jolly with potassium cyanide.

Because of the complexity, involving many people, the case is still under investigation.

Khang Diep (According to Toutiao)