Autopsy reports have revealed how an ex-Meta engineer murdered his twins in their $2.1 million family home last year before turning the gun on himself.
Anand Sujith Henry, 37, killed his sons Noah and Neithan, both four, and his wife, Alice Benziger, 38, at their posh San Mateo home in February 2024.
Responding officers found the couple with gunshot wounds next to a 9mm handgun and a loaded magazine in the bathroom.
The boys’ bodies were found on a couch in one of the five bedrooms.
In a newly released coroner’s report, San Mateo officials found the children died in a homicide.
Reports indicate that the boys were found in a supine position, with a pillow along each of their right sides, indicating that they had been smothered to death.
Officials at the scene also noticed a large “foam cone” emerging from Noah’s nose and mouth and small red or purple dots on the boys’ faces — signs of strangulation or suffocation.
Researchers explained that the dots and pads “suggest the possibility of asphyxia, but this diagnosis cannot be made based on the limited investigative information and nonspecific findings,” the researchers said. Sacramento Bee.
Anand Sujith Henry, 37, killed his sons Noah and Neithan, both four, and his wife, Alice Benziger, 38, at their posh San Mateo home in February 2024
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.
Apparently the divorce never materialized, and after leaving his post at Meta last June, Henry founded his own AI company.
The company, identified on the veteran computer scientist’s social media as Logits, provides companies with the means to “privately train and operate generative AI models” to meet their own specific business needs. The site is offline at the time of writing.
Previously, he spent a year and a half at Meta, after nearly eight years at Google’s Sunnyvale office.
At one point, Henry lived in New York City, where he was a member of Toastmasters, a nonprofit organization that teaches how to overcome the fear of public speaking.
During that time, the family lived in at least four apartments across San Francisco, records show, before moving into the home where the crime occurred.
This move took place around the birth of his children – and local police revealed that they were called to the house several times in the time since.
They did not disclose the nature of those calls and said no note was left at the scene.
In a newly released coroner’s report, San Mateo officials found the children died in a homicide
Officials at the scene also noticed a large “foam cone” emerging from Noah’s nose and mouth and small red or purple dots on the boys’ faces — signs of strangulation or suffocation.
Responding officers found the couple with gunshot wounds next to a 9mm handgun and a loaded magazine in the bathroom
Benziger’s mother was reportedly staying with the family and left on February 11, the day before the suicide.
Neighbors said they had never seen anything like it in their community.
Ashley Villalobos, 27, who worked as a nanny for the twins two years ago, shared her own shock at the news and how she had never seen any red flags in the couple.
“My heart aches that their lives were taken in such an unforeseeable incident,” she wrote in a social media post.
‘I can’t ignore how and why. All I have are the memories and silly beautiful moments I got to share with these guys.
“Every morning they loved playing with bubbles in the front yard while we waited for the morning bus at Alameda to pass by so they could wave!” It was always a highlight of their morning.
“Anand came into the room while Alice was packing up her work supplies,” Villalobos continued.
Reports suggest the boys were found in a supine position, with a pillow along each of their right sides – indicating they were smothered
Benziger’s mother was reportedly staying with the family and left on February 11 – the day before the suicide.
“He said to the boys with a big smile, excited to see the boys, ‘Okay boys, time to play with daddy!’ They jumped for joy, happy to play with daddy.
“Alice loved those boys so much,” she wrote. “I can’t understand what went wrong… You just never really know.”
The couple, the family said, were both alumni of TKM Engineering College and both also attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Alice went on to earn a master’s degree in data science from the University of San Francisco, according to her LinkedIn, and then held positions at Dictionary.com, Idibon and Change.org before taking on 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.