Chennai

murder

Tamil Nadu

Mumbai

: The expertise he gained by downloading and watching over 50 videos on his iPhone on how tofailed to save this man, hailing from’s Villupuram district, from falling in the police’s net after killing his wife.D Ramadass, 34, murdered his wife Pushpa, 28, and tried to make it look like she drowned in a pond while bathing.Ramadass has been a resident offor 20 years. He married Pushpa, belonging to a village near Thirupalapandal, four years ago. The couple has a two-year-old daughter. He named his daughter after his concubine who lives in Mumbai.Four months ago, he came to his native village of Irukkankudi in Villupuram. He suspected his wife’s fidelity. Whenever a quarrel broke out between them, she used to go away to her maternal home, where he assumed she is having an affair with a neighbour. Hence, Ramadass plotted to kill her.The body of Pushpa was recovered by the police from a pond at the village on July 15. It was suspected to be a case of drowning. Ramadass maintained the same for nearly five days before he spilled the beans during interrogation.Villupuram superintendent of police S Jayakumar told Mirror that when the police examined his phone, they found out that he had deleted several videos. With the help of a recovery software, police retrieved the videos. To their shock, police found as many as 52 videos relating to how to murder a woman without leaving a trace. His wife was three months pregnant. He has also seen videos demonstrating how to kill a pregnant woman, who is not a speech impaired.Accordingly, he killed his wife, among other things, by stuffing her mouth with mud before drowning her.He reportedly confessed to the police that he went through all the videos before murdering his wife to evade arrest. However, he was arrested on Saturday and remanded in custody.