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Anatomy of Murder

NEW SEASON: Strangeland

Anatomy of Murder

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True Crime

4.818.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Maple Shade, New Jersey is a quaint suburb; its slogan is “Nice Town, Friendly People.” But on the evening of March 23, 2017, an Indian tech worker, Sasikala Narra, and her six-year-old son, Anish, were found brutally murdered in their apartment. Police questioned the husband and father, Hanumantha, but his alibi had checked out.

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0:00.0

Each week we walk through homicide cases from around the country, dissecting the details to unravel the many layers,

0:07.2

from the victim to the crime and the overall investigation.

0:11.2

But what happens when the path to justice for victims gets lost in translation?

0:16.4

In the new season of Strangeland, murder in Maple Shade, a husband comes home to find his wife and son

0:23.1

brutally murdered in their home.

0:25.3

Because the husband had an Allen by that checked out, the case eventually went cold.

0:30.4

Now, six years later, the case is still unsolved. You may know from our show that some cases

0:36.1

have stand out clues that may require some unconventional investigations, and that's exactly what happened.

0:43.4

Strangeland's investigative journalist Benedict Eare and veteran journalist Tinku Ray

0:47.6

sought out to conduct their own investigation to reveal the details, the authorities,

0:52.5

neglected to acknowledge. Check out the trailer to hear about this devastating case that shook up

0:58.0

the town of Maple Shade, New Jersey. Maple Shade, New Jersey, is a quaint suburb of Philadelphia,

1:06.3

about 20 minutes from downtown, population 20,000. In recent years, it's become a landing pad for

1:12.8

foreign workers drawn to Philly's booming tech businesses. But Maple Shade's main street

1:19.1

still looks like it was ripped straight out of the 1950s. Pink dogwood trees, churches on nearly

1:26.0

every block. Our town motto is nice town friendly people. Typically, calls to the police are for

1:34.2

normal stuff, car accidents, people passing quietly in their sleep. But around 10 pm,

1:40.2

on March 23rd, 2017, the Maple Shade police were called to the scene of a gruesome murder.

1:46.6

A man arrived home to his apartment to discover his wife and son stabbed to death.

2:01.7

The man on the call was Hanumanthanara or Hanu. He's a computer tech from India. His six-year-old

2:09.2

son Anish and his 38-year-old wife, Sasi Gala, had been killed in one of the most grisly murders in

2:16.2

Maple Shade's history. In Maple Shade, it is a heinous crime that has law-abiding citizens shaking

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