For years, a ruthless trio prowled the crowded streets and fairgrounds of western Maharashtra: a mother, her two daughters, and sometimes Renuka’s husband. Between 1990 and 1996, they kidna@pped at least 13 children — mostly toddlers — and used them to carry out pick­p0cketing and chain-sn@tching in crowded places. When the children outlived their usefulness, the sisters and their mother muπdered several of them in horrifying ways. Their cr!mes finally came to light in November 1996, when the po