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Murder case takes bizarre turn 
By Emily Tjelmeland 
12/21/2004
Praveen Mandanapu hacked off his dead wife's arms and legs because he 
couldn't lift her, then tried to kill himself with firecrackers and 
poison but failed, Sheriff's investigators revealed at a hearing Dec. 
16. 
The case was sent to the grand jury to consider an indictment Jan. 
9.Sheriff's officers laid out a chilling tale of Mandanapu's bizarre 
story about his actions in the days after his wife was found in a South 
Riding dumpster last June.
Sheriff's Investigator Greg Locke said Mandanapu told him during 
interrogation that he strangled his wife Divya before cutting her up. 
Locke said the motive was that Divya, who worked for a local bank, was 
going to leave her husband.
Locke testified that this is what happened on June 12: Mandanapu said 
his wife asked him to go to the store. When he returned from Shopper's 
Food Warehouse approximately 30 minutes later, his wife's demeanor had 
changed.
Divya said she was leaving, and began packing clothes into a suitcase. 
As she proceeded down the steps with the suitcase, Mandanapu said Divya 
tripped and fell on the landing. "He saw this as an opportunity," Locke 
said.
While Divya was on the landing, Mandanapu said he leaped on top of her 
and strangled her as she screamed, Locke testified. Then, Mandanapu took 
the clothes she had packed out of the suitcase, put her body in a blue 
bag and placed her body in the suitcase, according to Locke. 
Locke said Mandanapu then hauled the suitcase to his car, but when he 
found a place to dump it, he couldn't lift the suitcase out of his car, 
so he returned home.
Locke said Mandanapu told him that the next morning, he used a meat 
cleaver to cut off Divya's arms and legs, before disposing of them in 
two separate bags along with the cleaver. Mandanapu dumped the bags at 
the Shenandoah Crossing apartment complex in Fairfax, where the couple 
resided before moving to Ashburn, Locke said. "He decided if he cut the 
arms and legs off, it would reduce the weight," Locke testified. 
Mandanapu then disposed of the suitcase at a trash bin in South Riding's 
Abbey apartments, where it was found the next day.
Locke went on to reveal that Mandanapu tried to kill himself by 
swallowing fireworks. When that didn't work, he settled on a mixture of 
orange juice laced with the insect repellent Deet and 100 sleeping pills.
Mandanapu was arrested June 16 and charged with murder after a Clarke 
deputy found him unconscious in his Honda on the median of Route 7 
headed toward Loudoun. He was taken to Winchester Hospital, then 
arrested. Locke said the incident was an apparent suicide attempt.
Court documents have revealed a history of domestic violence at the 
Mandanapu household, including a Nov. 5, 2003 emergency protective order 
against Divya, citing "reasonable grounds" for abuse.
A court affidavit also revealed that the couple had been arguing the 
weekend of the murder.
Locke testified that Mandanapu said he thought his wife was stowing 
money to send back home to her family in India. "He used the term that 
her family was blackmailing him," Locke said
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 16. 
Pretty bad, but I've heard worse.
ari