Season 2: Murder in Maple Shade
Strangeland
Audiochuck | Western Sound
4.2 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 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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