Sasikala and Anish Narra were brutally murdered inside of their apartment at Fox Meadows apartment complex in Maple Shade on March 23, 2017.
Sasikala Narra, 38, a software engineer, and her 6-year-old son Anish Narra were stabbed multiple times in their residence. Autopsies performed by Burlington County Medical Examiner Dr. Ian Hood concluded the pair died from slash wounds to their necks.
The mystery of their murders is among several lingering cold cases in Burlington County.
Sasikala and Anish Narra
In the Narra case, the woman’s husband reported to police that he found the bodies shortly after 9 p.m.
A $25,000 reward was announced five months after the murders by the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office, the FBI and the Maple Shade Police Department.
Bonita ‘Bonnie’ Krummel
Bonita “Bonnie” Krummel of Medford was a married mother of two children when she went missing Jan. 23, 1991.
A day later, Krummel’s vehicle was recovered at a local library along with her keys, identification, purse, credit cards and a wedding ring. Krummel herself hasn’t been seen since.
When Krummel’s car was recovered, a note was discovered inside.
“I am sorry that it had to come to this but I can’t go on another minute,” it read. “Love you all. Love, Bonnie.”
Krummel, who was 44, suffered from Huntington’s disease at the time of her disappearance. Huntington’s is an inherited disease that causes nerve cells in the brain to deteriorate and die.
Medford Township police Det. Sgt. William Knecht, who has been with the Medford police since 2004, has had the case since 2009.
“She obviously went missing Jan. 23, 1991 and nothing since,” Knecht said. “Nobody’s ever seen her, nobody’s ever talked to her. There’s been no financial activity. There’s been nothing.
“When she went missing, she was suffering from Huntington’s disease. It’s an inherited condition and it affects the nervous condition. We’ve talked to doctors and unfortunately, Ms. Krummel could not be alive at this point, based off just the progression of the disease. I wasn’t here when Ms. Krummel went missing, but I got this case when I became a detective and I’ve had it on my desk for a very long time now. We’d like nothing more than to give the family some type of answers.”
Margaret Fox
Margaret Fox, 14, of Penn Street in Burlington City and her 11-year-old cousin Lynn Park placed a newspaper ad seeking babysitter work.
After receiving an answer to the ad from a “John Marshall” offering Fox work caring for his 5-year-old son in Mount Holly, on June 24, 1974, Fox boarded a morning bus for Mount Holly.
Two witnesses saw her walk off the bus at her destination. One said she spoke to young man in his 20s, who was driving a red sports car.
She was never heard from again.
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In late 1975, according to a Courier-Post story, a vagrant named Charles Clobridge from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in custody for larceny, claimed he had strangled Fox and threw her of a cliff in the mountains in upstate New York. He eventually admitted that he lied about the story once authorities determined Clobridge was in the hospital when Fox disappeared.
On June 24, 2019, the FBI offered a $25,000 reward on the 45th anniversary of the young girl’s disappearance.
Celina Mays
Celina was 12 years old and nine months pregnant, two weeks from her due date, when she vanished from her Willingboro home. She was reported missing Dec. 16, 1996.
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Mays’s mother had died two years earlier and the girl was at the heart of a custody battle between her parents’ families.
She lived in a home with about a dozen people and was homeschooled through her family church. Family members said Mays would not give the identity of her baby’s father, the Courier-Post reported.
After the original investigator on the case retired in 2017, another detective began to take a fresh look at the case and worked with the National Center of Missing & Exploited Children to produce an age-progressed photo of Celina.
Theresa Maria Caserio
On July 24, 1973, 16-year-old Theresa Maria Caserio was found dead in a bedroom closet of her home in Willingboro.
Caserio’s hands and feet were bound with stockings. She had suffered asphyxiation by a sock or stocking. She also had anywhere from 21 to 50 stabs wounds to the chest, according to various media reports.
She had a punctured lung and had also been beaten in the head with a blunt object, reports said.
A Courier-Post story said that the young lady had been staying with neighbors while her parents were away. She had returned to her house to do chores. She was last seen hanging laundry.
Witnesses reported seeing a sandy haired man, 6-foot-2 and approximately 40 years old, wearing a light jacket and driving a red car in vicinity of victim’s home.
Mildred Santiago
Police found the body of Mildred Santiago, 37, who had been strangled to death with camouflage tape and bound at the wrists, in an industrial section of the Cinnaminson Township on the afternoon of Feb. 1, 1993.
Authorities believed that the victim, a prostitute who worked in the Kensington and Alleghany (K&A) section of Philadelphia, was killed elsewhere and dumped at the location in South Jersey, according to the Burlington County website.
Carolyn Majane
Carolyn Majane, 15, left her Moorestown residence Aug. 22, 1975 to socialize with friends.
She later decided to attend a party a short distance away, but didn’t make it to the event. Majane was last seen alive at approximately 10:15 p.m. on the above date.
On Dec. 20, 1985, skeletal remains, subsequently identified to be those of Majane, were discovered within a construction site in neighboring Mount Laurel Township.
Lorraine ‘Lori’ Rea Herbster
Lorraine “Lori” Rea Herbster, 17, was last seen in Mount Holly on March 9, 1979.
Herbster left her job on a Friday at about 4 p.m. at Microcircuit Corporation along Rancocas Road in Mount Holly, where she had worked as a lab technician for about a week. A co-worker gave her a partial ride home. She exited the vehicle and had about six blocks to walk to her Westampton home in the Tarnsfield development.
A witness saw Herbster walking toward her home, so that account appeared to rule out her co-worker as a suspect. An ex-boyfriend, who she had broken up with months earlier in December 1978, was interviewed by police, but he was cleared.
Karen Lynn Zendrosky
Karen Lynn Zendrosky, 16, was last seen Oct. 23, 1979 at a local bowling alley in Bordentown Township.
There were reports that she may have gone to a nearby lagoon with two or three men. Police searched a sludge pit in Hamilton, Mercer County, in 2005, but did not locate her remains.
John J. Gilbride
On Sept. 27, 2002, 34-year-old John J. Gilbride of Maple Shade was found dead from gunshot wounds in the front seat of a running 1985 Ford Crown Victoria parked outside of his apartment complex.
Police had responded to a call by a resident of the 300 building, Ryan’s Run West, Kings Highway, reporting that a motor vehicle had been left running with headlights on in front of the building. A driver’s side window was shattered and spent casings were found on the ground near the vehicle.
Gilbride was a baggage supervisor for U.S. Airways.
Drew Johnson
On Aug. 5, 2006, Johnson, 24, of Willingboro was found by police bleeding from the neck after being fatally shot. Police were on the scene investigating an accident. They continue to investigate Johnson’s murder.
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