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And she looked at him and shrugged. And so Part just put his beer down and stood up and walked over to the front door to see who was there. When Partt opened up the front door, he was very surprised to see his mother standing there carrying a small duffle bag. Partt's mother lived in Middletown Township, which was located about an hour and a half away from Partt's apartment. While it It was not unusual for Partt's mom to stay over at Partt's apartment, what was unusual is her just showing up unannounced. She never did that. And on top of that, as Partt is looking at his mom, he could see clearly she had been crying because her eyeliner was smudged and her face was all puffy. And so Part knew, clearly, there must be a problem here. But when he asked his mother, What's going on, mom? She wouldn't tell him. She would just say, I have to stay with you for the night. And then before he or Part's girlfriend could do or say anything, his mom just walked inside, walked down the hallway, went into the guest bedroom, and then shut and locked the door.

And so Partt and his girlfriend were left looking at each other like, What's going on here? Three hours later, at 11:00 PM, Part was in bed next to a sleeping girlfriend, just staring up at the ceiling, unable to sleep. Part was so anxious about whatever was going on with his mom because where he was staying, his bedroom, was right next door to the guest bedroom where his mom was staying. And so he already knows there's clearly some issue here with his mom. But all night, he's been listening to her next door, just pacing and crying in this guest bedroom, and he has no idea what's going on. But deep down, Part knew that whatever was going on, it very likely had to do with his father, whose name was Arun Kammar. Part's parents had a complicated relationship. They had immigrated from India decades earlier and had settled in Pennsylvania, where they had two kids, Partt and Partt's sister. Partt's father, Arun Kammar, worked as an engineer at Boeing, and Partt's mother owned a 711 franchise. Basically, since arriving in America, the two of them had really come with nothing and had worked their way up to now to where they had a very comfortable life, like the American dream, the house, the white picket fence, the kids, the whole thing.

And so Part had always believed that his parents, as a result of getting through so much hardship together, that they must truly love each other now. I mean, to have gone through all that together, that would certainly make two people very close. And for the most part, that actually seemed to have been the case, that his parents just got along great and were a great couple. That is until a couple of years earlier. Arun Kammar had started an affair, and Part's mother had caught him. Now, Arun Kammar said that this affair meant nothing, and he would stop right now, and Part's mother had forgiven him in order to keep the family together. But despite Part's mom forgiving Arun Kammar, Deep down, she just knew she could never actually trust him again. She actually wound up enlisting Part's help to basically watch Aruan Kamar's behavior. She had Part set up the software that basically spied on Arundh Kamar's computer. Through With his software, Part's mom could basically watch Arundh Kamar's email traffic and all of his internet activity. Now, Part had not felt good about setting up the spy software on his dad's computer. It just felt totally wrong to be getting in between his parents like this.

But he just felt like this was the only way Part's mom was ever going to be able to actually move on. And so Part felt like this was his responsibility. This is the way that the family was going to stay together. His mom really just needed that extra layer of transparency on her husband, otherwise the family was going to fall apart. But now, as Part lay in his bed, unable to sleep, listening to his mom paced back and forth in the room next door, he began to think to himself, Maybe my mom found something using the software on my dad's computer. Maybe Arun Kammar had started another affair, and that was why his mom was now so upset. But just then, Partt heard a new noise coming out of his mother's room. At first, it sounded like low murmuring, like his mom was saying something to herself, but then he realized his mom was having a real conversation with somebody on the phone. And since Partt couldn't sleep, and he was pretty intrigued about what the heck was going on with his mom to begin with, he decided to basically spy on his mom. So he very quietly got out of his bed, and he walked around to the wall that lined up against his mother's room, and he put his ear to the wall, and he began to listen.

And what he heard was far worse than anything he could have imagined. What he heard his mom saying to whoever she was talking on the phone was that she had discovered that Arun Kammar had taken out $3.6 million in life insurance policies on Partt, on his sister and on his mother. And now Partt's mom was saying to whoever she was talking to on the phone that she wasn't even worried about divorce at this point. She was worried about the physical safety of her and her kids. She was worried that her husband was going to kill her and her kids to get this payout. And so not long after saying this, Partt's mom hung up the phone and went back to pacing and crying in the room. And Partt, meanwhile, has just heard this horrifying news, and he had no idea what to make of it. I mean, he knew his dad dad was not a good husband. But the idea that his dad would want to hurt his wife or him or his sister just seemed totally impossible. But then, as Part standing there just processing what he's heard, he began to think back to these recent behavioral changes he noticed in his father that at the time, he had chalked up to maybe my dad's stressed or something.

But now, given the context of what his mom was talking about, Partt began to wonder if these behavioral changes were a sign of something being terribly was really wrong with his father. The first change that Part had noticed happened a few weeks earlier. Now, Part's dad was normally a very mild-mannered and calm guy, but a few weeks earlier, he had gotten into this vicious dispute with their next door neighbor over the property line that ran between their two properties. It was like he was picking a fight with the neighbor or something. Then a few days after that, one of the bathroom sinks in their house had stopped working, and so Arun Kamar got out his tools and went to go break apart the sink and put it back together again. Because he was an engineer, this was something he did. This was typical behavior. But after breaking apart the sink, basically, ripping it all apart and having all the parts on the ground, Part's dad didn't put it back together. He just left all the tools and all the parts just scattered across the bathroom floor. And considering that Arun Kamar was typically incredibly meticulous and organized, and he's this brilliant engineer, to part seeing his dad leave this sloppy mess in this unfinished sink, it felt totally off.

And so standing there in his bedroom, totally horrified about everything he's heard, and now second-guessing everything he knew about his dad who suddenly seemed like this combative, disorganized guy, part suddenly felt like, I have to learn more here. I have to figure out if my dad really is a threat. So part quietly left his bedroom and made his way to the kitchen where his laptop was, and he loaded up that software that spied on his dad's computer. And as he began logging into this program, Partt was thinking, Maybe I'm going to find something that will show that my mom is clearly just overreacting and misinterpreting what she's seeing, that my dad is not out to kill us for some insurance payout. But after loading up this program and scanning through some recent activity, Partt realized that actually the situation with his dad was way worse than his mom had made out on that call he overheard. He not only found all these multimillion dollar insurance policies taken out on him, his sister and his mom, but also he discovered this stash of fraudulent-looking paperwork. There were all these passport photos of his father, but then connected to these photos, was a passport application that was using somebody else's name, as if his father was trying to forge paperwork to create a phony passport for himself.

And so at this point, Partt felt like his mother was certainly not overreacting here, that in fact, it really did seem like his father was preparing to kill his family and collect millions of dollars in insurance money, and then using this fake passport he was making, he'd be able to flee the country. For the next several days, Partt's mom stayed at Part's apartment, but she barely ever left the guest bedroom. Then when she would leave the bedroom, Part would go up to her and try to ask her, Hey, what's going on? Without giving away how much he knew already. But Part's mom was like, No, I don't want to talk about it. She would just go right back in the room, shut and locked the door. Finally, after several days of this, Part just went to his mom's bedroom door. He knocked on the door until she answered. Then before she could shoe him away, he said, Mom, stop. I know what's going on. I read the emails, and we have to figure out what we're going to do because our lives literally depend on it. I agree with you, it looks like dad is going to kill us and then flee the country.

And so Part and his mom would talk through all the details of what was found on his computer, and ultimately, they would decide that Part would be the one to go to police and tell them what was going on with Arune Kamar. And so the next day, Part went to the police station with a stack of evidence that he believed would implicate his father. And Part was so nervous about this, he was shaking. But when he talked to an actual police officer, they looked over his evidence and they heard the whole story, but they told him, Look, we really can't do anything about this. They told Part that it's not illegal to take out life insurance policies on your family. Then also the police officer pointed out that in addition to Arun Kammar taking out those policies on his kids and his wife, he had also taken out a policy on himself and made his wife and his kids the beneficiaries of that policy. And so the police officer said, Look, this does not look like a murder plot to me. It just looks like your dad is doing something fairly responsible. And then as for the passport application paperwork where his dad had used a phony name, the police officer said, Look, he has not filed this paperwork, and so it's not illegal what he's doing.

Anybody can get some paperwork out and fill it in with whatever they want. It becomes illegal if they attempt to actually pass it off and submit the paperwork. And as far as we know, he hasn't done that. So that's weird, but it's not illegal. And so Part had to leave the police station, and he went back to the apartment, and he told his mom what happened. And ultimately, they decided all they could do now was just wait and continue to watch that software that monitored Arun Kammar's computer and just hope Arun Kammar would do something that was incriminating that they could then bring to the police and say, See, he's trying to kill us and collect a payout and flee the country. Thank you to Betterhelp for sponsoring today's video. Back in 2017, I had just gotten out of the military after seven years of service, and honestly, it was a huge struggle trying to reintegrate back into civilian life. Not only was I totally out of the loop with modern technology, but I also had no idea how to get a job or even how to identify what a good job was. I just felt lost.

And so that, combined with dark thoughts swirling around my head from previous deployments, made it so I really couldn't even function. And so before long, I was jobless, depressed, and angry. But I didn't tell anyone. Even though I had been raised in a household where talking about your feelings was a very normal thing. But now that I really needed to do that, I just couldn't. But luckily, my family and friends noticed the big change in my behavior, and ultimately, they convinced me to go seek out professional help. I'm so glad I did because it was such a relief. Speaking to a neutral, trained third party about your darkest thoughts is so cathartic and really promotes healing. And while, of course, therapy is not some one-size-fits-all solution, it is a great starting point for anybody who's struggling right now. And a great option for therapy is better help, which is entirely online. All All you have to do is fill out a quick survey online, and then very quickly, you'll be paired with a licensed Betterhelp therapist who is trained to listen and give you unbiased advice. Let Betterhelp connect you with a therapist who can support you all from the comfort of your own home.

Visit betterhelp. Com Mr. Balin, or select Mr. Balin during sign up to enjoy a special discount on your first month. Okay, back to the story. Over the next few days, that Part and his mother every day just constantly check this software and watched what Arun Kammar was doing on his computer, all they saw was Aarun Kammar was using his computer to do work emails and really basic stuff. Absolutely nothing incriminating. In fact, over these few days, Aarun Kammar would actually call Part's mom to ask her when she was coming back home again, and she would tell him that basically she was going to stay at Part's place indefinitely. Aarun Kammar did not seem upset or annoyed by this at all. If anything, it just seemed like he was really distracted and wasn't actually listening to Part's mom as she was speaking. And while this did seem suspicious to Part and his mom that basically Arun Kamar didn't care that his wife wasn't coming home anytime soon, it still wasn't incriminating. And so Part and his mom decided to just continue looking deeper and deeper into Arun Kamar's computer to see if there was anything that could begin to explain what was really going on here.

And sure enough, Part dug deeper and deeper into Arun Kamar's computer, and he did discover something. Part began finding all these emails with people back in India that vaguely indicated that Arun Kamar was involved in a very sketchy deal, like a business deal. Now, again, the emails were incredibly vague, but what was clear in these back and forths in these emails was that it seemed like Arun Kamar had gotten wrapped up with some really shady people, and they were having these really nasty exchanges in these emails about this deal that Arun Kammar seemed to be involved in. And so part began to wonder if maybe he and his mom had this all backwards, that he, his mom, and his sister not the ones actually in danger here, that in fact, it was Arun Kammar who was in danger, maybe because this deal went south and these people that he was doing this deal with, maybe they were mad at him. And so perhaps all these life insurance policies and this new fake identity were some move by Aruan Kammar to flee the danger he was in. And so obviously, if this was true, this was still a horrible situation for their whole family, but it was markedly better than what Part and his mom had been operating on before, which was that Arun Kamar was going to kill his whole family.

And so pretty quickly, as a result of thinking about this in a new way, Part's mother started feeling a lot better about the whole situation and actually left Part's apartment and went back to the house to go live with Arun Kamar. And Part himself began to think that maybe this is not as big of a deal as we thought it was. I'm sure my dad will figure out whatever he needs to figure out here to get out of whatever mess he's in. And over the coming days, Part checked in with his mom every single day because now she's living with Arund Kamar, and she said everything was fine. And Part He continued to check his dad's computer activity and nothing else really popped up. It was still just the same stuff they had originally found. And so it just seemed like maybe this really is not as big of a deal as we thought it was. But on the morning of January 20th, 2008, so about two and a half weeks after Partt's mom showed up at his apartment, everything changed. On that morning, Partt logged into his computer to check on his dad's computer using that software because he was still checking it every single day.

The first thing he saw was his dad had sent this email to this woman who Partt didn't know, and this woman was certainly not his mother. In this email, his dad told this person that he had a big contract coming up and he was going to make a ton of money from it. Then also at the end of this email, he told this woman that he loved her. And so right away, Part's thinking, Okay, my dad is obviously having another affair because this is not my mom, and he's saying he loves her. And also, what's my dad talking about with this big contract coming up? Is he talking about the insurance policies? Does he expect those to pay out soon, indicating that I, my sister or my mom, might be dead? And then also, the other thing that Part noticed that morning as he's checking through his dad's computer activity is he found another message his dad had sent out recently where he communicated to somebody that his father had died, so Partt's grandfather had died. And also in this message, Arun Kammar is telling this person that he's going to go to his dad's funeral alone, that his wife and two kids were not invited to this funeral.

And so Part's reading this, and he's totally devastated by the fact that his grandfather's dead and the fact that what, he's not being invited to the funeral. But again, he's thinking, oh, my gosh, is that because my dad thinks I'm not going to be alive? Is this all connected between the big contract and the fact that we're not going to be at the funeral? Is this my dad thinking he's going to enact this murder plot soon? Part didn't know, but he felt like he and his mom and his sister were running out of time and he needed to act right now. And so Partt got off his computer, he called his mom, and they made a plan. That evening, At around 9:15 PM, Part got in his car and began driving towards his parents house to go confront his dad. This was the plan he and his mom had come up with. Basically, his mom would stay at Part's apartment, and Part would go and tell his dad, We know about what you're doing, and you got to stop. Even though Part was totally jacked up on adrenaline as he drove towards the house, he felt like he really had the upper hand going into whatever this confrontation was going to be because number one, Part was showing up totally unannounced at night to his dad's place I mean, his dad's going to be caught off guard when he sees him.

Also, Part knew he was much physically bigger than his father. Part was over 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds, and so he had the physical angle as well. So Part really felt confident driving towards the house that he was going to come out the victor in whatever ensued. At around 10:45 PM, Partt finally arrived in front of his parents house. He parked the car, he got out, he walked up the front steps, and he knocked on the front door. A couple of seconds later, Arun Kamar came to the door. He opened it up, and totally confused to see his son standing there. And then before Arun Kamar could do anything, Partt, in his deepest and most authoritative voice, looked at his dad and said, We need to talk. And then he intentionally bumped into his dad with his shoulder as he walked into the house. And so his dad is standing at the front door, not really sure what's going on. And part, after taking a few steps in, he abruptly turns around. And so now he's looking back at his dad, and he takes a step forward and gets right in his dad's face and says, I know.

I know what you're up to. I know what you've done. And you have a simple choice to make. You can either stop what you're doing and become the family man you're supposed to be, faithful to mom, or I'm going to go to the police and tell them what you're up to, and you're going to go to jail. Either way, whatever you're doing, stops right now. For a moment, Part and Aarun Kammar are basically staring at each other in silence. Then Aarun Kammar, before Part could stop him, basically ran past Part, passed him down the hallway, and he ran into the master bedroom, disappearing from Part's view. And so Part turned around, and he wasn't expecting this. And suddenly, all that confidence he had going into this confrontation was gone because he's thinking, Oh, my goodness, my dad, maybe he's got a weapon in there. I need to get in there and stop him. And so Part, he turns and runs down the hallway. He He starts into the bedroom having no idea what he's going to see inside, but what he sees does catch him off guard. Arun Kammar is just sitting on the bed doing nothing.

He's just staring what looks like at the wall, and Part just stops in the doorway, looks at his dad, and then realizes is his dad's not just absently staring at the wall. He's staring into the open bathroom. And in the open bathroom on the ground are all those tools left over from where his dad had been working on the sink and then never finished. Like all these tools are scattered on the ground, including one tool that now Part is realizing his dad is looking directly at. It was a big, heavy metal pipe wrench. And suddenly, Partt realized, My dad is looking at a weapon, and he's considering whether or not to get that weapon and attack me with it. The next morning, Part's mother pulled up in front of the house that she shared with Irun Kammar, and she walked up the steps, went to the front door, she opened it up, and as soon as she stepped inside, she yelled out, Hello, who's here? But there was silence, and immediately she got a bad feeling, but she knew she had to investigate. And so Part's mom began slowly walking down the hallway, the same hallway that Part and his dad had been fighting in the night before.

And she went down the hallway and she turned and looked into the master bedroom, and she couldn't believe what she saw. There was blood on the carpets, on the walls. It was a blood bath. And in the middle of the room was an obvious dead body that was so mutilated and destroyed, she couldn't even identify it. And so seconds later, she had run outside and dialed 911. It would take police almost four years to finally untangle Arun Kammar's insane web of lies and also make an arrest for the murder that took place inside of that house. And the reason it took nearly four years is because nothing in this case was what it looked like. Now, Part and his mother had been correct about a number of things about Arun Kammar. For example, Arun Kammar was having another affair. He had taken out life insurance policies on his whole family, and he was looking to obtain a fake identity. They were also right that Arun Kammar had become imbroiled in a very shady deal back in India, but the specifics of that deal were not what Part and Part's mom thought it was. When Arun Kammar announced in that message that his father had died and he'd be traveling to India all alone that his wife and his kids weren't coming, they weren't invited, well, Part and his mom had been correct, that this was a cover.

This was an excuse for Arun Kammar to put his big plan into action. And Arun Kammar's big plan did involve murder. And so Part and his mom were right about that aspect of his plan. However, Arun Kammar's target for this murder was not who Part and his mom thought it was. They were not the target. Arun Kammar was going to murder himself, or more specifically, he was going to pretend to kill himself. That was actually the shady deal he was involved in back in India. He was working with people who could help him fake his own death. And so what he was going to do is go to India, fake his death, and then once he was dead on paper, that would trigger an insurance payout of his own life insurance policy, and that money would go to his wife and his kids, and then Arun Kammar would disappear using his fake identity he would have, along with his mistress, the woman he was having an affair with. That was the person he had sent that email to talking about the big payout. But Part and Part's Mom did not know this last critical piece of Arun Kammar's plan.

They really believed they were the target of this big plot, that they were going to get killed. And so that's why they felt like they had to act first. So on January 20th, 2008, Partt and his mother worked out an alibi for themselves. What they were going to tell people is that at around 08:00 PM, Partt went and picked up his mother from the house that she shared with Arund Kamar, and the two of them just went back to Partt's apartment, and that was it. But in reality, Partt never went over and picked his mom up and brought her back to the apartment. Instead, she was at the house with Arun Kammar when Partt showed up at 10:45 PM to confront Arun Kammar. So it was him and his mom at the house as Part is demanding Arun Kammar come clean and stop what he's doing. And then at some point during this heated argument in the hallway, Arun Kammar turned and ran into the bedroom and Part chased after him. And Part, he sees Arun Kamar sitting on the edge of the bed, and he thinks his dad is looking at the pipe wrench on the floor in the bathroom, and Partt thinks, My dad is about to get that wrench and attack me with it.

And so Partt just acted first, and he ran and grabbed that wrench, and he beat his father to death with it. And then after leaving his father's unrecognizable mutilated body just lumped in the middle of the bedroom floor, blood all over the walls, he and his mother just left the house and went back to Partt's apartment. And then the The next day, Part's mom went back to the house, and she pretended to find Arune Kamar's body, even though she already knew he was in there. And then she called 911 and acted totally beside herself when they showed up as if she had just happened upon her husband's dead body. But Almost four years later, when the truth finally came out about this horrible situation, Partt and his mother were arrested. Now, both of them absolutely maintained that they genuinely believed their lives were in danger because of Arundh Kamar, and they said, During that confrontation in the house, Partt was only acting in self-defense. He really believed his dad was going to grab that pipe wrench first, and so he had to do it before him, and that's why he killed his dad. But ultimately, Partt would bleed guilty to manslaughter, and he would be sentenced to 33 months in prison, and Partt's mother would bleed guilty to conspiracy, and she would be sentenced to 10 months in prison.

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