Suchana Seth murders her 4 year-old-son: Movies/docu that show mother's heinous crime to her children

The news of Suchana Seth, CEO of a Bengaluru-based AI startup murdering her 4-year-old son in Goa has sent shockwaves across the nation. The founder of The Mindful AI Lab was carrying his son’s body by road to Karnataka, where she was apprehended by the police. According to the police, to prevent her estranged husband from seeing their child, Suchana planned a trip to Goa with her son. She murdered him in a room at a service apartment in North Goa before the scheduled meeting. While this news questions the pure bond between a mother and her child, there are movies and documentaries based on real incidents, which showcase a mother’s heinous crime towards her kids. Sins of our mother

The True Crime Tragedy is a three-part series, which narrates the story of Lori Vallow Daybell and her obsession with religion, which later branded her the ‘Doomsday Mom’ in the press. As of Monday 31st July 2023, she has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering two of her children and for conspiring to kill her husband’s ex-wife. She married 5 times. In an interview with E! News, director Skye Borgman said, “Lori Vallow has many faces. That of a mother, sister, wife… and liar. I don’t know if we will ever know exactly what motivated Lori to commit such unspeakable crimes. But to formulate any answer we must look at Lori through the eyes of the people who knew her best.” Ragini MMS 2

In Sunny Leone’s erotic thriller, the plot narrates the story of a ghost haunting the house, who is a mother of three kids (two daughters and one kid). The mother loves her son more than daughters because she conceived him after a lot of prayers and difficulties. One day while playing hide and seek, her son falls in the well and dies by drowning. An insane mother embarks on a desperate quest to resurrect his son from the dead. A baba who performs black magic convinces her mother that he can bring her son to life if she sacrifices both her daughters. She agrees to that. After chopping daughters’ heads, baba gives sword to the mother and tells her to chant closing her eyes. While she does that, he steals her money and runs away. Baby Blues 

The horror film is based on the 2001 killings of five children by their mother Andrea Yates. She suffers from a psychotic breakdown due to postpartum depression, which results in this crime.