Three Suspects Identified In NJ Chemist Murder

Investigators yesterday identified three suspects in the drowning murder of a New Jersey water-treatment chemist, with roughly 40 of the woman's co-workers left to be interviewed.

A fellow employee shoved Geetha Angara, 43, into a dark, 35-foot-deep well at the Passaic Valley Water Commission plant in Totowa last week, authorities said. Because the plant closely monitors who comes and goes, only a co-worker could have committed the murder

"We have now interviewed about half of the 85 people who worked with her," said Passaic County Prosecutor James Avigliano. A law-enforcement source said that only three of those already questioned "could have had the opportunity to commit the crime."

Meanwhile, the family of tragic mom of three, who came to New York from India in 1984 for a better life, are urging a sweeping review of security procedures at the supposedly ultra-secure plant, which supplies water to Passaic, Clifton and Paterson.