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They raised him to inherit the throne. Instead, investigators say he walked into a room filled with his own relatives and turned his guns on the people who had raised him.
On June 1, 2001, Crown Prince Dipendra joined Nepal’s royal family for their regular private gathering at Narayanhiti Palace. Witnesses described him as heavily intoxicated that evening, and eventually he was taken back to his chambers. His family believed he would sleep it off.
He didn’t.
According to survivors, Dipendra returned dressed in military fatigues and carrying multiple weapons. King Birendra was shot. Family members tried to intervene. Queen Aishwarya and her youngest son fled toward the garden, but witnesses said Dipendra followed them. Roughly 15 minutes later, one family had been devastated from within.
Then came an even stranger twist: Dipendra survived in a coma. Under Nepal’s constitution, the accused killer inherited his father’s throne and became king.
But the official explanation has never silenced every question. The investigation lasted around a week. There were no autopsies. No independent forensic analysis. Dipendra never regained consciousness to give his version of events. And decades later, much of the physical evidence that could have settled those questions is gone.
Join Megan as she investigates the night a son allegedly turned on his parents, a crown prince became an accused mass killer, and a tragedy inside Nepal’s royal palace left an entire country searching for answers.
Did the official investigation tell us what really happened that night?
Podcast: Dark Asia with Megan