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Strangeland

Ep 3 of 14: The Husband

Strangeland

Audiochuck | Western Sound

True Crime

4.22.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Following the murders, Sasi’s husband Hanu was taken in for questioning. But investigators soon let him go, saying his alibi holds up.

Transcript

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0:00.0

After months of trying to get the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office to answer any of

0:12.5

our questions, we've arrived here in Mount Holly, New Jersey. These dissonant church bells

0:18.8

echo around the buildings surrounding us. There's a jail, some courthouses, and even a prison

0:25.6

museum. But today we're on a mission. Our reporter Betsy Shepherd and I head through a metal

0:32.0

detector and security pulls us aside. They ask us a few questions and inspect our recording

0:38.5

gear. Finally, we head to the second floor. Burlington County Prosecutor HQ. The County

0:51.0

Prosecutors lead investigator on the NARA case, has agreed to sit down with us. His name is

0:57.4

Detective Sergeant Brian Cunningham, and he joined the department in July 2018, well after the murders.

1:04.7

He's young, with slicked back hair and wearing a coat and tie. But our meeting has some pretty

1:12.1

stringent ground rules. No questions. We're only to record him reading two outdated press releases.

1:19.9

Headline, 25,000 reward posted for information on Maple Shade double homicide.

1:26.1

Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Cufina, special agent in charge of the FBI Newark Division, Timothy Gallagher.

1:33.0

It's a weird scene. Betsy and I have the recording gear out, expecting to get something.

1:38.8

But immediately the PR guy warns the room. No one's to go off script.

1:44.2

The bodies of Sassakala NARA, age 38 and a niche NARA, age 6, were discovered inside their unit at the Fox

1:51.4

Middle apartments on March 23rd.

1:53.2

I stopped a second. I'm sorry. Her name is Shoshikala. Sassakala. Sassakala. Sassakala. Sassakala.

2:02.4

Yeah, okay. I just don't want to have her name is Monsignal from our office.

2:06.4

Six years after the murders in their only statement to us, investigators are still stumbling over the victims' names.

2:16.4

They say it's an open and active investigation, which is why they won't talk about it.

2:21.4

But they also won't show us any evidence they're doing much of anything.

2:27.4

The Burlington County Prosecutors Office ignores our public records requests.

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