Murder at Hanging Gardens!

Shockingly, it's not exaggeration.  It happened Monday night, apparently rather early in the evening.  We had an American friend over for dinner, and the three of us went along having a good time, completely oblivious to the incident.  Pam and I didn't know about it until Tuesday morning when we got to work.  We even read the paper and didn't know it - the article referred to our neighborhood by a name we don't know!  

Anyway, the reason we didn't know is that it happened in the staff quarters, which are a world to themselves.  The builders did their best to make sure that the staff are out of sight of the owners, and it worked - unless you specifically go down there, you would never know the area exists.  In this case, it seems that a man had an illicit relationship with a woman who works in our building, and at some point she angered him, and he strangled her.  Ghastly.  

It took the police a day or two to find the man, but we're told that he has now been caught.  I suppose between that and the fact that it was a domestic dispute, there's not too much for the rest of us to worry about.  Still, our driver, Ramakrishna, was a bit spooked.  His mom even called him home, back to their village for the next couple of nights!