After the Incident: Deception, Denial, Staged Scenes, Lies, and False Narratives in Relationship-Connected Crime

A descriptive analysis of coded deception or concealment, source-linked language, relationship context, and incident classifications in RelationWatch public records. It distinguishes recurring documented wording from an assertion that every excerpt is a verified verbatim quote.

Based on a fixed 1561 verified RelationWatch casesSource-reported language, not causal proof

580Cases coded for deceptionStructured deception or concealment observation

300With source excerptCases with displayed source-linked wording

280Narrative support onlyNo short public excerpt stored

18Most common language patternLied / lying

What happened to the other cases?

This Brief analyzes 580 of 1561 verified cases because a structured Deception or concealment observation was recorded. The remaining 981 cases are not treated as honest, non-deceptive, or free of post-incident behavior; they simply do not have this specific observation in the fixed snapshot. Missing source excerpts also do not mean that no statement was made.

Recurring deception language

Source-excerpt cases can appear in more than one category. Percentages use the 300 cases with a source excerpt.

Evidence coverage

How the structured deception observation is supported in the fixed snapshot.

Relationship context

Recorded relationship conditions among cases coded for deception or concealment.

Incident classifications

Classification composition within this analytical group; this is not population prevalence.

Recorded cases by incident year

Dataset coverage by incident year. It reflects cases added from publicly available open sources.

Countries represented

Dataset composition only, not a national comparison or prevalence estimate.

Reported language in source excerpts

These are selected source-linked excerpts from cases in the Brief. They are displayed as reported language: the current historical data do not consistently identify the speaker or prove word-for-word transcription. Open the case for the broader source context.

Murder of Ketan Agarwal by Siya and Chetan, Maharashtra, Pune INDIA

“She was posting such statuses and pretending”

A 6-year-old boy named Angadveer Murder Case by his mother Gurpreet Kaur and her boyfriend, Arpit Sharma, a bank employee. in Bahsuma, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India,

“When the mother realized her son was missing, she pretended to be shocked. She acted as if the child was missing, putting on a show.”

Varalakshmi Gajuwaka Murder Case by her ex-boyfriend Akhil in Visakhapatnam, India

“He first told one story, then a second, then a third. But every story was proven false, and in the end, the real story came out.”

Attempted Murder of Emily Godest - Occitania, France

“he even insisted on the importance of both maintaining the same story when talking to the authorities”

Jamnagar Staged Hit-and-Run Homicide Case and Udupi Slow-Poisoning and Suffocation Homicide Case

“Rinkle pretended to be sorrowful. But when the police mentioned Akshay Dangaria’s name, her face turned pale. She became very nervous and started answering questions hastily and inconsistently.”

Jamnagar Cyanide Homicide Case by His wife, Prithvi Mavadiya, a nurse, and her alleged lover, Nilesh Kachetiya in Gujarat, India

“When asked why she was lying, Prithvi could not lie to the police for long and confessed.”

A 3-year-old boy named Madhav was fatally strangled by his mother, Ruchi Gupta. in Chhauli Village, Baldev, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh

“At first, the wife denied it completely, saying she did not kill him, it was an accident, and she did not know how he died.”

The murder of Busan Dongbaek by drowning in a vehicle driven into the sea in South Korea

“He reported the incident to 119 to disguise the crime as a traffic accident, jumped into the sea pretending to rescue the victim, and tried to cover up the crime.”

Roopjahaan Disappearance Involving Nausher Khan, Jan-e-Alam, and others, Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, India

“they pretended in front of Roop and Shivam that if they wanted to marry each other, the family was not against it.”

Future cases can use a structured Reported Statements field to record speaker, exact wording, source location, and whether the wording is verbatim or paraphrased.

How to read this Brief

“Deception” describes a structured observation from publicly available reporting. It is not a judicial finding in every case.
Words such as lied, claimed, and pretended can be narrative language by a reporter, witness, investigator, or other source—not necessarily a direct offender quotation.
Language categories overlap. Their counts should not be added together.
RelationWatch uses publicly available OSINT sources. Findings describe this fixed dataset, not population prevalence or causation.

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