# House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths (2021)

> A three-episode Netflix docuseries that probes the 2018 Burari deaths of eleven members of a Delhi family, weighing suicide, murder and other theories.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 3
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: documentary, crime
- Created by: Leena Yadav
- Network: Netflix
- TMDB rating: 7.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14167390/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: somber, unsettling, probing, sober

## What critics say

Viewers broadly find the three-part docuseries a thorough, gripping and ethically thoughtful account of the 2018 Burari deaths, tracing the family history behind the case.

## Synopsis

House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths (2021) is an Indian true crime docuseries created by Leena Yadav and released on Netflix. Across three roughly forty-five-minute episodes it revisits the 2018 case in which eleven members of a single family were found dead in their Burari home on the outskirts of Delhi, a tragedy that shocked the country when the news broke. Rather than chasing a single verdict, the series traces the household's history, interviews those drawn into the story and lays out the competing suicide, murder and other theories that surrounded the deaths. Its engine is the open question at the center of the case: what drove so many people to the same end, and what was hidden inside the home. The tone is sober, probing and unsettling, with an emphasis on the mental health questions and the press coverage that shaped public understanding. It is a limited, self-contained investigation that will appeal to viewers of Making a Murderer and The Staircase who want a real case laid out with patience and ambiguity rather than sensation.

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