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Many Unanswered Questions in Doctor's Murder

R S Shankar

As authorities in Los Angeles are getting ready this week for the preliminary hearing for Dr Kevin Anderson who allegedly killed his business partner Dr Deepti Gupta, the victim's family and the Indian community wants to know what exactly happened.

"The family has secluded itself," said a family friend, "and they are treating it as a private affair." But many people wonder how a person who practised a healing profession could take the life of another person, who also belonged to the same profession.

Dr Anderson, 40, was seen by a driver pushing a Mercedes off a cliff in San Gabriel mountains.

The passerby called the police who found the body of Dr Gupta, a 33-year-old neonatologist, in the car.

The police caught up with Dr Anderson in a few minutes. He reportedly owned up to strangulating Dr Gupta, but said it occurred in his car following an argument about a stillborn business venture.

But sources say that lab reports indicated that Dr Gupta, a mother of two and wife of a professor at a major university in Los Angeles, was dead for over eight hours before her body was pushed down the cliff to make it appear like an accident.

Many people who have known Dr Gupta believe that she might have tried to back off from business venture with Dr Anderson because she might have suspected his sincerity and integrity. The two worked together as doctors for several years.

Dr Anderson and his lawyers have refused to comment on the allegations.

Dr Gupta arrived in the United States for graduate studies about eight years ago.

Friends of the family say she had planned to start a private medical business with Dr Anderson in Pasadena.

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