It was one of the most brutal scenes police officers in Maple Shade had ever seen. Blood was everywhere, and a mother and her six-year-old son were dead.

“The scene that day was unimaginable,” Maple Shade Police Chief Christopher Fletcher said Tuesday.

Sasikala Narra, 38, and Anish Narra, 6, were killed in 2017 in their Fox Meadows Apartment. They were found by Sasikala’s husband and Anish’s father, Hanumanth Narra.

For eight years, the search for their killer had seemed to go cold. But out of public view, investigators in Maple Shade, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office and FBI were tracking down a suspect halfway across the globe based on a single droplet of blood found amidst the crimson pools at the scene.

On Tuesday, authorities said they charged Nazeer Hameed, a 38-year-o

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