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Season 2: Murder in Maple Shade

Strangeland

Audiochuck | Western Sound

True Crime

4.22.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 3 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.

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Maple Shade, New Jersey, is a quaint suburb of Philadelphia, about 20 minutes from downtown,

0:07.8

population 20,000.

0:10.1

In recent years it's become a landing pad for foreign workers drawn to Philly's booming

0:14.9

tech businesses.

0:16.8

But Maple Shade's main street still looks like it was ripped straight out of the 1950s.

0:22.7

Pink dogwood trees, churches on nearly every block.

0:27.0

Our town motto is nice town friendly people.

0:30.6

Typically, calls to the police are for normal stuff.

0:35.0

Car accidents, people passing quietly in their sleep.

0:38.6

But around 10 pm, on March 23rd, 2017, the Maple Shade police were called to the scene

0:44.5

of a gruesome murder.

0:46.9

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

0:51.9

911, where's your emergency?

0:54.1

My wife and son had not been talking about dead in the kitchen, dead in the bedroom.

0:58.2

Oh, my God!

1:00.8

The man on the call was Hanumanthanara or Hanu.

1:05.8

He's a computer tech from India.

1:08.2

His six-year-old son Anish and his 38-year-old wife, Sasi Gala, had been killed in one of the

1:14.2

most grisly murders in Maple Shade's history.

1:17.9

In Maple Shade, it is a heinous crime that has law-abiding citizens shaking their heads

1:22.5

and dismat.

1:23.5

The brutal murder of a 38-year-old and her son has shocked the Indian community.

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