Taking forward the probe into the serial murders in Koodathai in Kerala's Kozhikode district, the state police, on Friday, recorded statements of prime accused Jolly Thomas's sons. Jolly's mobile phone was also handed over to the probe team.
The police also recorded statements of Renji, sister of Jolly's husband Roy Thomas. Roy's brother Rojo is expected to arrive from the US soon. The probe team will also head to Kattapana, where Jolly hails from, to look into her childhood and other family details.
Jolly has admitted to the murders of retired educational department officer P. Tom Thomas (66), his wife Annamma (57), son Roy Thomas (40), wife of Tom Thomas's brother's son Shaju Skaria, Sily Shaju (44) her two-year-old daughter Alphine, and Annamma's brother Mathew Manjadiyil (68). Jolly, according to the police, had named two co-conspirators—M.S Mathew and Praju Kumar. Reportedly, it was Kumar, employed with a jeweller, who procured the cyanide. Goldsmiths use cyanide to extract the yellow metal.
The news hit headlines after eerie similarities between all the six deaths, in a span of 14 years, came to the fore. Jolly was arrested on October 5 over the death of her husband Roy in 2011 following consumption of cyanide-laced food. A local court in Kozhikode on Thursday sent Jolly, and the two others to police custody for six days.