Dad 'smothered twins' before shooting his wife and himself in murder-suicide at $2M California home
A former Meta engineer killed his twin boys and his wife before turning a gun on himself in a murder-suicide at their $2million family home.
Autopsy reports have confirmed Anand Sujith Henry, 37, killed his sons Noah and Neithan, both four and his wife, Alice Benziger, 38, at their San Mateo, California, house in February 2024.
The couple were found with gunshot wounds beside a 9mm pistol and a loaded magazine in the bathroom, while the boys' bodies were found on a sofa inside one of the five bedrooms.
Dead: Anand Sujith Henry, 37, killed his sons Noah and Neithan, both four and his wife, Alice Benziger, 38, at their home in February 2024
In a newly released coroner's report, San Mateo officials have determined the children were killed in a homicide.
Reports suggest the boys were found in a supine position, with a pillow resting along each of their right sides indicating they were smothered.
Officials also noted a large 'foam cone' emerging from Noah's nose and mouth at the scene and small red or purple dots on the boys' faces - signs of strangulation or choking.
Examiners explained said the dots and the pillows 'suggests the possibility of smothering, however this diagnosis cannot be made based on the limited investigative information and nonspecific findings,' according to the Sacramento Bee.
Henry, a former software engineering manager at both Meta and Google, filed for divorce in December 2016, records show - years before Benziger, a data science manager at Zillow, gave birth.
Tragic: In a newly released coroner's report, San Mateo officials have discovered the children were killed in a homicide
Crime scene: Officials also noted a large 'foam cone' emerging from Noah's nose and mouth at the scene and small red or purple dots on the boys' faces - signs of strangulation or choking
Academic success: Responding officials found the couple with gunshot wounds beside a 9mm pistol and a loaded magazine in the bathroom
Apparently, the divorce never materialized, and after leaving his post at Meta this past June, Henry founded his own AI company.
The firm, identified on the computer scientist's social media as Logits, provides enterprises with the means to 'privately train and serve Generative AI models' to serve their own specific business needs. Its site, as of writing, is down.
Before that he worked at Meta for a year and a half, after a nearly eight-year stint at Google's office in Sunnyvale.
At one point, Henry lived in New York City, where he was a member of Toastmasters, a non-profit organization that teaches how to overcome a fear of public speaking.
During that time, the family lived in at least four apartments across San Francisco, records show, before they relocated to the home where the crime occurred.
This move happened around the time of the birth of his children - and local police revealed that in the time since, they have been called to the home several times.
Autopsy: Reports suggest that the boys were found in a supine position, with a pillow resting along each of their right sides - indicating that they were smothered to death
Horrifying outcome: Benziger's mother had reportedly been staying with the family, leaving on February 11 - the day before the murder-suicide
They did not disclose the nature of those calls, and said there was no note left at the scene.
Benziger's mother had reportedly been staying with the family, leaving on February 11 - the day before the murder suicide.
Neighbor Ashley Villalobos, 27, said she never saw any red flags with the couple.
'My heart aches that their lives were taken in such an unforeseeable incident,' she wrote on social media.
'I can't wrap my head around how or why. All I have is the memories and silly beautiful moments I got to share with these boys.
'Every morning they loved to play with bubbles in the front yard while we waited for the morning bus to pass by on Alameda so they could wave hi!
'It was always a highlight of their morning.'
She added: 'Alice loved those boys sooo much.
'I can't come to understand what went wrong…. You just never truly know.'
The couple, family said, were both alumni of TKM Engineering College, and both also attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
After that, Alice obtained a master's degree in data science at the University of San Francisco, her LinkedIn shows, after which she held positions at Dictionary.com, Idibon, and Change.org before assuming her senior role at Zillow six years ago.
The couple emigrated to the US in 2018.
Henry's father, Dr G Henry, was the former principal of Fatima Mata National College in Kerala, India.
