Ep 3 of 14: The Husband
Strangeland
Audiochuck | Western Sound
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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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 We're only to record him reading two outdated press releases.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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