If the intention is to person why marry have children then no it's not right it's wrong on life which father will do that >> what's that which father will do that no father will do that not sky horrible person >> Sunday October 13th 2019 Roseville California a family that seemed to have reached stability in the United hates suddenly disappeared from view. Behind the closed windows of an apartment on Junction Boulevard, something began to unfold in silence. Isolated arguments, mounting debts, and a father increasingly withdrawn into himself. No one in the community suspected it. But within days, that apparent normaly would turn into the beginning of one of the most disturbing family crimes in Northern California's recent history. What could have happened inside that apartment for a few days of silence to reveal a crime capable of shaking all of California? I'm Tyler and this is your daily dose of crime. >> Why don't you have a seat right here? >> I'm sorry. >> I That's all right. No big deal. So, obviously you've been here for a while and you've been in a in a in a jail cell. So, I want to read your rights. Okay. >> Okay. You have the right to remain silent. Do you understand? >> Anything you say maybe is against you in court. Do you understand? You have the right to presence of attorney before and during any question. Do you understand? >> If you cannot our attorney won't be appointed to you free charge before any question if you want. Okay. Okay. Um so I mean obviously it's been kind of a rough day. I just kind of want to find out obviously I just kind of want to find out what led you up to this point and kind of what happened. >> I was with him the whole day after I strangulated thought of many options. Even I thought of strangulating myself. I put them in so much pain. I deserve lot more punishment. You are you yourself. You are so suffering. >> And that's when you decided to come in here. >> Yes. I I had gone by this place. I'd gone to the park there with my son yesterday to get some water. So I had seen the police station strangled my son. I said my gas my car did not have gas to drive that. >> So and I did not have money. >> All I had was $425. I don't want death penalty. I know that is easy. >> Yeah. It sounds like feel bad for >> I feel miserable for putting them through it. But I deserve the words strangulating myself is easy. No, I don't deserve easy. Yeah. I don't want I want my brother to come and take the bodies and crim. But I don't want to meet anybody. No visitors, no lawyers. I'm admitting whatever mistakes I have. I don't want a lawyer. I want I don't want to meet my brother. >> You don't want to meet your brother? >> I don't want to meet anybody. Let him come take the bodies and criminal. >> Monday, October 14th, 2019. Sitting before the officers is Shankar Nagapa Hang, a 53-year-old man born in India with a career in Northern California's tech sector. He had worked as a data architect, a position which allowed him to support his family and project the image of success so many immigrants strive to achieve in the United States. But in 2019, that facade collapsed. The loss of his job and a federal tax lean of more than $178,000 would place him under unbearable pressure. That morning, he arrived voluntarily at a police station in Mount Shasta and asked to speak with investigators. His calm appearance contrasted sharply with the gravity of what he was saying. Something had happened inside his home, and he did not want his relatives involved in the aftermath. His first request was that no funerals be held, that the bodies be cremated without ceremony, and that no contact be made with his family. For the officers, this demand was an early sign of the case's magnitude. He was not yet speaking of what had happened, but rather of how its trace should be erased. Why would someone who surreners to police begin talking about funerals instead of what actually happened? >> Shame the fact. >> So, what I want to do is kind of go back. I want to go through kind of the timeline just a little slower. >> Any number of times it can go. I'll try to remember it as much as possible. Don't ask me dates because after this 9th, I lost track of date. I don't know what today is. I think today is 13th or maybe the 14th. I'm not sure. >> The 14th. So you mentioned you discussed this on the 3rd. You thought with your family? >> I informed my kids on the 29th. >> Okay. The 29th that you were planning on >> on 29th. I said you know what I do not have for have not found a job. My plan is to end our lives. So I gave them an option to pro it over whether they want to fly with us or whether they want to live by themselves. My daughter wanted to, but I knew she didn't stand a chance. >> So your your daughter was >> My daughter and my youngest son were apprehensive because they were full of life. >> Yeah. >> She was working in GAP kids. She was studying in Wood Creek Elementary. Not Wood Creek High School. She was getting a A this year. Don't be nice to me. not a nice guy, a horrible person. So my they were thinking they can live by themselves. I told them, "You guys don't stand a chance. By the 10th of the month, I'll be kicked out of this. It's not a nice time of the year to be on the streets begging for food." >> You mentioned that your two youngest were apprehensive about it. >> Yes. >> How did how did your oldest, how did feel about that? My oldest was thinking, he didn't talk to us. He tried to do research. He told me that day before yesterday. He did research on Craigslist saying that how much does it cost for him to live by himself? How much does it cost for him to pay for insurance for his car? >> How was he doing research? Was that a new way? >> With a laptop. He has got a laptop for >> Where is that? >> It's at home. >> At home. >> At home. Have you gone home? >> Yeah. Have you not seen the laptop? >> Um, well, we've been driving so I haven't been there. I know some other officers are there. >> Let me let me tell you. The master bedroom is where my wife lives to sleep. The barricade part was still there. If you have to remove the body, you have to take barricade away. >> Why would Why did she have a barricade? >> She was in pain. So, you would hardly talk. She would hardly come downstairs. probably about a month and a half ago, she stopped eating and whenever she felt hungry, she used to ask my daughter. So my interaction with my wife was almost negligible. In the other bedroom, I used to sleep with my little son and downstairs on the sofa, my daughter and my son used to sleep. It's not the best of arrangements. I told my wife now once again in that other bedroom my laptop >> that's second bedroom downstairs >> court records reveal that one of Shankar's sons had been accepted to Yale an academic achievement which represented the culmination of years of effort and expectation but that very milestone underscored the growing tension while his son looked toward a promising future. The father had lost his job and faced a crushing tax lean that threatened to pull them all down. Inside the Roseville apartment, daily life reflected that imbalance. The mother kept to her bedroom, distant from the rest, while the children were divided across separate floors of the home. What may have seemed like an ordinary household routine was in reality the expression of a deepening isolation that grew silently each and every day. that contrast between a son with a future and a father in freef fall. Was it enough to trigger what he would soon reveal in detail inside the interrogation room? >> And uh he did research figure out how much does it cost if I had to just get a room as a Cadillac dealership or some dealership he was working while he was studying in. >> Oh, he was trying to get in. >> No, he already got it. >> If you check his phone, you'll see the messages. So he said dad with what I'm working he was can something like I will not be able to but the other two little ones they did not and my little one he didn't have a clue that he was in eighth grade and never came home and studied at home he said no dad I can survive I'm good at studies that I want to finish they all agreed my two kids convinced my little heart conversations and portion. >> It's a IT company from India called Tata Consultancy Services. >> Okay. And he lives in India. >> He is based out of India, but I don't know where he's living. >> hn.com. >> Yes. >> And then what's the phone number for your home in India? And who would answer that phone? >> It would either be my sister or my sister-in-law. >> So you said I think you said your it wasn't until the sixth that your wife started talking to you. second that she was not talking to me but she was still very she had a lot of animosity and anger. We had a lot of misunderstanding. >> What was she an angry you? >> Basically it all started off way back in 2002. It is when my depression started off at their nonacceptance of my wife. She did not like the way they treated me. And that anger by that time I had already left all my relationship. I stopped talking to my mother at that. But she did not like it. You're like your brother when you do this. You're like your sister-in-law when you do this. I stopped everything talking to people, making friends, listening to me. I said if I make my wife happy but that anger turned around on me and she started yelling and screaming and she was angry that kind of when I was depressed I didn't know what I so she felt that I was trying to listen to my family I tried to patch up over period of time so we had our upset >> so you're arguing a lot from 2011 on to >> No we had Our argument started from the second day of our marriage not something but I tried my level best to improve it. She thought of her way of improving it. I thought my way was better. Here we are. She's dead right now. >> She's dead anyway. >> I'm alive. >> So, let's go back. We We kind of got off topic a little bit. We We're talking about on the 6th, I believe, it was finally decided that that she would you were you were going to kill her. I'm going to help her in her handing process. She wants me killing the >> And when how did that happen? >> You mentioned I think you mentioned she tied the note the news or the the rope. >> See what happened was on 6th we all had nice dinner went to bed >> and it was just a nice dinner at home. >> No. >> Or you usually go out. >> I went out and bought food >> in Roseville. >> In Roseville. So, you just brought it home. Okay. >> And then you had a nice dinner. Yes. >> You and your your wife and your three kids were all there. >> And what was the topic of conversation for dinner? >> My daughter was on Instagram. My son on the the eldest one on that now that I'm going to die. I want I've been saving money. I want to buy that and play that game and win that game is what he said. He bought it. I did not. >> Okay. Your son. Your oldest son bought my oldest son got it and uh we were playing the game. At that point in time, my wife was going through my WhatsApp conversations with my brother and my other family members to see if I was cheating on her. Was I listening to them? Was I doing something wrong against her? She never believed me. She never trusted. So she was going through or she spent the whole night going through my WhatsApp conversations with my family. It was not a it was not a conversation to be very frank cuz my family members sending photographs wishing me for some festival birthday things like that asking questions everybody. they would probably have 100 posts and so she went through that and she felt kind of happy Singapore made her feel happy that I didn't do anything wrong for her. I never intended to do. I never wished bad for anyone ever. Even when the officer here was sneezing, I wished him. >> Bless you. Bye. [Music] >> That environment marked by financial ruin and the erosion of authority also became the setting where the first fatal decisions took shape. According to the investigation, the early days of October were decisive. It was then that domestic tension ceased to be only verbal and turned into irreversible acts inside the Roseville apartment. What at first sounded like the story of family conflicts became the confession of a series of killings he had carried out himself. How could a man with education, a professional career, and children academically on the rise turn his own home into a crime scene? So after that there was hardly any conversation between 1 and 2 in the morning you went to bed >> um >> for my son >> Verun said he needed some time I think some time which has the tools stools that I have in my house is not enough to garage >> what were you going to tie the rope in the garage for the room >> garage opener >> okay the garage door opener that opens the big door >> so the the the controller for that is there right is in the center Yeah. >> Did that >> you were going to try that? >> Okay. But you realized that was wasn't going to support his weight. >> No, I did not realize that. >> Okay. Oh, you actually tried to do it, right? >> I never realized that. So, but it was at a height and the chair was too short for that. >> Okay. >> So, I told you we need to go and ladder. >> Okay. Try that. Make sure it's not too hot. I think it just feels warm. Who was mentioning a blanket? today like any chance probably not. >> Thank you, sir. >> That was good. >> A little better. >> Um, so you were going to get a ladder. >> So we went to >> Come on. Fairway >> first then comes the hallway. >> Okay. >> So check the prices. She bought a ladder from Home Depot from Home Depot. >> And that would So that would be on that would be on the 8th >> night. >> Oh, that was the next day. >> Where did you guys sleep that night? >> Upstairs. >> Upstairs in the bed. >> When I was sleeping, I was wring my thoughts. >> Were you writing during that? >> Yes, I was updating that chronicles I was mentioning to you and I wrote an email to my brother, too. If you open the laptop, you'll see that email. >> You didn't send it though. >> I did not send it >> cuz the plan was to send it after we all died. >> Okay. >> Or after the kids died and just before me hanging myself. >> So that did not happen. >> And in the meantime, as non-payment, Exfinity canceled my internet connection. So that also happened. So >> So what time what time did you go to Home Depot and those and then you bought that ladder? What kind of ladder is it? >> Like a A-frame like the ones that >> No, not those big huge com cumbersome ones. Not >> like a step stool. >> Kind of a large step stool. >> Okay. >> Which kind? >> Like a smaller ladder or large step stool. >> I I I look for those huge ladders or like I would like to back trace myself. Let's start. >> Subsequent findings confirmed that between October 7th and October 13th, 2019, the Roseville apartment ceased to be a home and became the site of multiple murders. First his wife, then his children. Each crime committed on different days, but under the same logic. The belief that financial collapse and personal failure justified annihilating the entire family. During interrogation, Shankar admitted that during this period, he was writing what he referred to as his chronicles. They were not mere personal notes. They were records where he outlined what he planned to do and detailed what he had already carried out. For prosecutors, that documentation became crucial and showed that he had not acted on impulse, but followed a deliberate process that stretched out for over nearly a week. But what kind of mind records each step of a crime as though it were part of an inevitable routine? >> How many nights I spent? >> Yeah, I have spent five nights also. >> Yesterday, >> yesterday morning is when I strangled yesterday >> 13th 13th morning around 10:30 is when I strangled. So that puts us So on the 9th >> 9inth morning >> you end up in Orville that night. >> No, ninth morning is when I you put the nose around your room. >> Okay. >> And I put the chair. >> And that was morning after you went to Lowe's. >> I think I don't know whether I went to Lowe's on 9th or on 8th afternoon itself. I think so. It was 8th afternoon. >> Okay. >> Okay. And then the ninth is when >> ninth is when I did that and the rope snapped. Then I said >> I came up I said no I'm doing injustice to myself. >> Why? >> This is wrong. No that is so easy. put to them how many years my wife I got married in 97 22 years she has suffered for some reason or the other all my children are suffering no I deserve worse sorry it's not that easy it's not that I die now I could have ran away could have left the car somewhere. I did not do any of that. I said, "No, I will car park right next to the gas to the police station." >> So, you drove here and then >> I drove >> just parked next to you. You see the car? >> I saw I parked it right there. Walked in and told the lady and she had a shot of her life and she saw me at the point. But yes. >> Do you feel bad about killing your wife and your kids? I do feel bad. It's like saying you know why do you marry when you want to kill them if the intention is to kill a person? Why marry have children and then kill? No, it's not right. It's wrong on my part. What >> I fought with my wife to have children. She was not. She was saying let's plan it better. Let's do it this way. Let's do it that. I said no I want to have children and see what I did. The boy fell down from the garage. What did I do finally to him? The same thing I did it in the car. I strangled him. Hanging, strangling. It's all the same. Which father will father will do that? No father will do that. I did it. [Applause] The investigation reconstructed the sequence of the murders. On October 7th, inside the apartment, he killed his wife and one of his younger children. The following day, he struck again, this time against another child. For almost a week, he remained in the apartment, living alongside the bodies while his eldest son was still alive in the same home. That waiting period revealed a chilling calculation. He managed each step in stages as if he needed time to process the disappearance of his family piece by piece. On October 13th, he broke that pattern, taking his eldest son on a 200-mile drive and then killed him during the journey to Mount Shasta. He did not hide the body or even attempt to dispose of it, but instead made it the centerpiece of his confession, surrendering to police with a corpse still in his car. When officers opened the vehicle, they discovered the body and realized they were facing a crime designed not only to be committed but also to be discovered. >> Had gone to get the ladder. That is the time when I had >> Yeah. >> I had a slice of the last time. >> What do you What do you think should happen to somebody that killed somebody? should go to my equivalent of actually in my letter I read I said that the punishment for murdering poor people is death penalty and I'm going to give it to myself >> you say you look that I wrote that up. >> Oh, you wrote that? >> It's there on my laptop. >> I mean, you seem like you're thinking very clearly through this process. >> Yes. >> And plan kind of what what was going to happen. >> I don't know how many jobs I applied for. I don't know how many interviews I got. >> Yeah. >> I said no. What kind of work were you were you doing? >> I'm supposed to be data architect specialist at managing data. >> That's not positions. >> What's that? >> That's not co positions. I said I'm sorry. Have you ever been diagnosed with any mental health problems? >> The case of Shankard Nagapahud concluded in Placer County Court 2 years later. In September of 2021, he accepted responsibility through a plea deal, three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of his children, and one additional count for aiding his wife. In November of that same year, he would be sentenced to three consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, plus a concurrent two-year sentence for the death of his wife. For prosecutors, it was not an act of sudden rage, but of calculation in which unemployment, overwhelming debt, and cultural pressures were transformed into justification for wiping out an entire family. Judges emphasized the systematic nature of the killings carried out on successive days and culminating in a confession that Shankar had prepared with chilling precision. The Hungude case left a lasting mark not only in California's courts but in a community which learned how the facade of success can conceal the most destructive of decisions.