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This Special Constable could only escape death ONCE - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Just after midnight on May 12, 2006, a man woke
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  Speaker 1: up inside of his quiet London suburb to the sound
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  Speaker 1: of pounding on.
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  Speaker 2: His front door. He immediately got up and went and
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  Speaker 2: answered it.
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  Speaker 1: And he found one of his neighbors standing outside looking
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  Speaker 1: completely shocked. And the neighbor told the man that something
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  Speaker 1: horrible had happened to his sister. And so right away
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  Speaker 1: after hearing this, the man left his house and sprinted
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  Speaker 1: down the road towards his sister's house. And as he
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  Speaker 1: was running, he was terrified of what he was going
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  Speaker 1: to find. Because he was always warning his sister to
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  Speaker 1: be more careful, but she never listened. And then when
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  Speaker 1: he got to his sister's house, the first thing he
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  Speaker 1: saw was a trail of blood leading down her driveway.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into today's story.
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  Speaker 1: On the evening of May 11th, 2006, a 29-year-old hairdresser
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  Speaker 1: named Nisha Patel-Nasri sat down for a rare break in
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  Speaker 1: between clients inside of her hair salon in the Wembley
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  Speaker 1: District of London. Nisha had opened up the salon when
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  Speaker 1: she was just 18 years old, and she'd been running
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  Speaker 1: it herself for the last 11 years. And in that time,
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  Speaker 1: she'd attracted around 2,000 regular customers, which was already very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: But it was particularly impressive because this was not like
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  Speaker 1: a big salon on a.
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  Speaker 2: Bustling city street.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, it was a tiny shop on a quiet residential
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  Speaker 1: road way out in the northwest suburbs of London.
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  Speaker 2: She actually ran the salon out of a single room in.
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  Speaker 1: Her brother's house. But through hard work and sheer talent,
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  Speaker 1: she had grown it into a thriving business. Now, generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: Nisha was glad to be busy because if she was busy,
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  Speaker 1: it meant she was making money. But sometimes, like right
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  Speaker 1: this second, stopping and kind of kicking back and relaxing
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  Speaker 1: for a second when she could felt very welcome.
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  Speaker 2: So she plopped down into a salon chair... She grabbed
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  Speaker 2: the morning paper and she started reading it.
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  Speaker 1: The front page story was about how the government had
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  Speaker 1: just released its report on the previous year's July 7th bombings,
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  Speaker 1: which were a series of terrorist attacks that had taken
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  Speaker 1: place on London's trains and buses during the morning rush hour. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it had been almost 10 months since these horrific attacks,
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  Speaker 1: but Londoners still did not feel safe. I mean, because
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  Speaker 1: of this attack, there was this growing fear of really
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  Speaker 1: all types of violent crime that could be visited upon them.
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  Speaker 2: It just felt like this shattered their worldview.
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  Speaker 1: And Nisha, more than most people, could really understand why
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  Speaker 1: people felt that way. In fact, she personally had experienced
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  Speaker 1: an attempted.
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  Speaker 2: Home invasion recently.
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  Speaker 1: Just five days ago, when Nisha had been at her house,
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  Speaker 1: located about a block away from the salon, she had
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  Speaker 1: been making dinner when she had begun to hear the
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  Speaker 1: front mail slot rattling. So on her front door, there
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  Speaker 1: was a slot that could open up from the outside
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  Speaker 1: where the mail person could slide mail into her house. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when Nisha heard this, she didn't immediately, you know, panic.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty normal for mail to be dropped
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  Speaker 1: off through her door. But, you know, she was curious,
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  Speaker 1: so she walked to the front of the house and
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  Speaker 1: she looked out the window to see who it was.
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  Speaker 2: Was it the mail person? Was it a neighbor? Was
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  Speaker 2: it a friend? But when she looked out, it was
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  Speaker 2: none of those people.
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  Speaker 1: It were these three men wearing dark clothes who she
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  Speaker 1: didn't know who they were, and they were clearly trying
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  Speaker 1: to break into her house. But these men had picked
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  Speaker 1: the wrong house to rob, because in addition to being
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  Speaker 1: a hairdresser, Nisha was also a special constable. which was
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  Speaker 1: basically a part-time volunteer police officer. So instead of her,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hiding or calling for help, she'd just gone
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  Speaker 1: out to confront the men herself. And they'd been so
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  Speaker 1: caught off guard by how confidently she strode out there
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  Speaker 1: and called them off that they'd literally just turned and
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  Speaker 1: ran away. Now, even though Nisha had really handled this
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  Speaker 1: quite well and basically scared these guys away, it left
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  Speaker 1: her feeling really unsettled. And so that, combined with the
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  Speaker 1: lasting trauma that Londoners felt because of the bombings of
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  Speaker 1: the year before... You know, Nisha these days was feeling
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  Speaker 1: very much on edge. However, every time Nisha found herself
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  Speaker 1: sort of defaulting to that victim mindset, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: fearful that something else terrible is going to happen to her,
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  Speaker 1: she would remind herself that, you know, she was a
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  Speaker 1: special constable. And whatever problems were thrown her way, she
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  Speaker 1: would handle them like she always did. But even though
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  Speaker 1: for Nisha that was sort of a confidence booster, for
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  Speaker 1: other people in Nisha's family, they weren't so thrilled she
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  Speaker 1: was a special constable. In particular, her older brother, Caden,
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  Speaker 1: the one who actually owned the house where Nisha ran
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  Speaker 1: her salon, he had pleaded with her not to join
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  Speaker 1: the special constable program because he felt like the work
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  Speaker 1: was way too dangerous. There were constantly stories in the
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  Speaker 1: papers about attacks on police. And unlike full-time officers, special
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  Speaker 1: constables were not authorized to use weapons to defend themselves.
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  Speaker 1: But for Nisha, that had never been an issue. She
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  Speaker 1: felt very proud of what she was doing, especially now
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  Speaker 1: that everybody was so on edge after the July 7th bombings.
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  Speaker 1: Now was the time for people to continue to step
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  Speaker 1: up and keep London safe.
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  Speaker 2: And so she felt like that's what she was doing.
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  Speaker 1: And so as Nisha finished reading the front page of
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  Speaker 1: the paper, she heard a bell jingle on the front
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  Speaker 1: door of the salon. So she tucked the newspaper away,
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  Speaker 1: hopped up, and went to go greet her next client.
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  Speaker 1: Later that night, around 10 p.m., Nisha closed up shop
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  Speaker 1: and swept the salon floor. And then a few minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: she heard the front door jingle again, and she looked
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  Speaker 1: up and saw her husband, whose name was Fadi Nasri,
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  Speaker 1: walking in with a paper bag of takeout food. Nisha
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  Speaker 1: instinctively shouted up the stairs for her brother, Katen, who
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  Speaker 1: had come home from work earlier that evening and had
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  Speaker 1: been hanging out in his part of the house since then.
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  Speaker 1: And a moment later, he came down the stairs to join.
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  Speaker 2: The couple for some food.
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  Speaker 1: Fadi spread out the plastic containers of Indian food on
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  Speaker 1: the coffee table in the waiting area. And Caten began
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  Speaker 1: eating while Fadi went ahead and sat down in Nisha's
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  Speaker 1: salon chair to get his haircut. And Nisha was even
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  Speaker 1: more careful than usual with his haircut because she and
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  Speaker 1: her husband were going to their brother's wedding in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. And Nisha and Fadi knew they'd be
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  Speaker 1: in all the wedding pictures and so they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: look their best. While she cut Fadi's hair, she helped
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  Speaker 1: her brother talk through preparations for the wedding. Their mother
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  Speaker 1: and father had both passed away years ago. So when
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  Speaker 1: it came to big family events like this, the two
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  Speaker 1: siblings were kind of on their own. Caten reminisced about
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  Speaker 1: how he'd given Nisha away at her own wedding, which
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  Speaker 1: was exactly three years ago yesterday, since their own father couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Nisha smiled as she continued cutting Fadi's hair. Thinking about
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  Speaker 1: their wedding anniversary reminded her how grateful she was for
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  Speaker 1: her husband and the life they'd built together since. A
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  Speaker 1: few months after they'd gotten married, Nisha had loaned Fadi
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  Speaker 1: some money to open up a limousine rental company. And
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  Speaker 1: his business had really taken off. And Nisha was proud
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  Speaker 1: to see her husband working these long hours and making
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  Speaker 1: great money. It felt like they really were a team.
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  Speaker 1: Two ambitious, successful business owners working together to build a
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  Speaker 1: better future. Once Fadi's haircut was done, Nisha called Caden
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  Speaker 1: over and she gave him a pre-wedding trim as well.
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  Speaker 1: And as she finished up, Caden asked her if maybe
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to spend the night here at his house.
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  Speaker 1: He was still rattled by that attempted break-in at Nisha's
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  Speaker 1: house a couple of days earlier, and he really didn't
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  Speaker 1: feel like she was safe in her own home.
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  Speaker 2: But Nisha said, no, we're fine.
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  Speaker 1: So around 11 p.m., Nisha and her husband Fadi walked
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  Speaker 1: back to their house, which was, again, right around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Their house was a cream-colored two-story home with red shingles
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  Speaker 1: on the roof. And along with Fadi's car in the driveway,
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  Speaker 1: there was a stretch limo and a Humvee parked on
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  Speaker 1: the curb that Fadi used for work. and which both
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  Speaker 1: very much stood out in their middle-class neighborhood. Nisha unlocked
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  Speaker 1: the door and then tossed her phone and keys on
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  Speaker 1: the sofa and then went upstairs to get ready for bed.
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  Speaker 1: But while she was in the bathroom washing her face,
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  Speaker 1: Fadi popped his head in and told her he was
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  Speaker 1: heading out to go meet with his friend to go
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  Speaker 1: play snooker, which is a way of saying pool, but
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  Speaker 1: in the UK. Now, Nisha was not offended that he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go out and see his friend.
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  Speaker 2: Like, that was fine.
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  Speaker 1: But in reality, she and her husband had been talking
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  Speaker 1: about wanting to start a family. And for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: they both agreed that now was the time to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: try to have kids. And so when she was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about tonight, she was thinking, you know, maybe we could,
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to have a baby tonight. But it
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  Speaker 1: just seemed like not only tonight, but just generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: every time there was like a window to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: try to have a kid, Fadi was either too tired
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  Speaker 1: or he was going out with friends or it just
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  Speaker 1: seemed like he would say he was interested. But then
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  Speaker 1: when it was time to actually do the thing, he
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  Speaker 1: was nowhere to be found. And so it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: that was happening again tonight. But it was late and
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  Speaker 1: Nisha didn't feel like arguing with her husband. So she
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  Speaker 1: dried her face and just told Fadi to have fun
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  Speaker 1: with his friend. A few minutes later, as Nisha brushed
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  Speaker 1: her teeth, she heard the sound of her husband's car
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  Speaker 1: pulling out of the driveway. A little bit later, she
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  Speaker 1: went downstairs and turned off the lights and locked the
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  Speaker 1: doors and then went back upstairs and crawled into bed alone.
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  Speaker 2: But then about.
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  Speaker 1: 30 minutes later, right as Nisha is about to fall asleep,
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  Speaker 1: she hears these footsteps in her house and she didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear the sound. of her husband return home. She just
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  Speaker 1: hears these footsteps downstairs. And so she sits up and
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  Speaker 1: she's hearing these sounds and she thinks to herself, it
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  Speaker 1: could be my husband. Or because just less than a
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  Speaker 1: week ago, somebody tried to break into her house. She's thinking,
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  Speaker 1: are they back? Has someone broken into my house? And
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  Speaker 1: so not sure who was down there, she got out
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  Speaker 1: of bed quietly, grabbed a flashlight, tiptoed out of her room.
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  Speaker 1: and then began heading downstairs to see who was in
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  Speaker 1: her house. A few minutes later, one of Nisha's neighbors...
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  Speaker 1: was woken up by blood-curdling screams in the street outside
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  Speaker 1: his house. He jumped out of bed, went to the window,
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  Speaker 1: pulled back the curtain, and when he looked out, he
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  Speaker 1: saw Nisha limping down the street in her nightgown with
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  Speaker 1: a flashlight in her hand. And so the neighbor instinctively
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  Speaker 1: called for an ambulance and then rushed outside to help Nisha.
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  Speaker 1: And when he caught up with Nisha, she was hobbling
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  Speaker 1: back up her own driveway, and he asked her if
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  Speaker 1: she was okay, and she just choked out that she'd
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  Speaker 1: been stabbed. But before she could say who stabbed her,
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  Speaker 1: she collapsed onto the pavement, clutching.
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  Speaker 2: This bloody spot on her thigh.
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  Speaker 1: At this exact moment, the neighbor looked up from Nisha
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  Speaker 1: and he saw a man in a hooded sweatshirt running
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  Speaker 1: away down the street. By this point also, more people
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  Speaker 1: were trickling out onto the road and another woman ran
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  Speaker 1: over to Nisha and put a towel on her leg
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  Speaker 1: and began pressing on the wound. And then as soon
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  Speaker 1: as the first neighbor who had gone outside and seen Nisha,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as he heard the ambulance coming down the road,
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  Speaker 1: he stood up and he bolted down the road to
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  Speaker 1: go find Nisha's brother and tell him what had happened
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  Speaker 1: and what he had seen. Over this past winter break,
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  Speaker 1: when myself, my wife, and my three kids were home,
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  Speaker 1: I was sent this package of MyMochi, which is like
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  Speaker 1: ice cream, these little bites of premium ice cream wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in this sweet, chewy dough, and I was told, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: try this out, see if you like it, and see
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  Speaker 1: if you want to advertise this product. And I'm like, alright,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I obviously tried the product, and I am
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  Speaker 1: hooked on my mochi. Like seriously, I was blown away
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  Speaker 1: by how good these things are. I was sent strawberry, mango,
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  Speaker 1: and cookies and cream. And let me tell you, cookies
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  Speaker 1: and cream is out of this world. It's so refreshing.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way my wife and I refer to my
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  Speaker 1: mochi as being like very refreshing. And so we plow
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  Speaker 1: through all this mochi we got sent. And literally we
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  Speaker 1: went out before this big snowstorm. We went out to
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  Speaker 1: the grocery store before it shut down because of the
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  Speaker 1: storm and just to buy all the mochi we could.
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  Speaker 2: Crushed it. It's so good. It's only 70 calories. It's gluten-free.
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  Speaker 2: It's so good, you gotta try it. My Mochi, it's
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  Speaker 2: the best.
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  Speaker 1: Each purple box comes with six perfectly portioned mochi snacks,
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  Speaker 1: available in mouth-watering flavors like strawberry.
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  Speaker 2: Mango, and cookies and cream. Cookies and cream, really quite good.
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  Speaker 1: Feel joyfully chill with every bite of My Mochi ice cream.
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  Speaker 1: Look for the purple box of My Mochi ice cream
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  Speaker 1: in the freezer aisle of your local grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: It's really, really good.
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  Speaker 1: Just moments later, a few minutes before midnight, Detective Chief
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  Speaker 1: Inspector Nick Scola felt his pager bus. He was an
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  Speaker 1: experienced detective working out of the Wembley station. And that night,
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  Speaker 1: he was the senior investigator on call in case any
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  Speaker 1: major crimes happened. He'd been hoping he could get through
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  Speaker 1: the shift without any emergencies. But when he called the
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  Speaker 1: station to see what that pager bus was about... He
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  Speaker 1: could tell, you know, there was clearly an emergency because
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  Speaker 1: the dispatcher told him to go to 17 Sudbury Avenue
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  Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. And so Skola hopped in his
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  Speaker 1: car and a few minutes later, he pulled up to
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  Speaker 1: a very chaotic scene on a residential street. In the
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  Speaker 1: driveway of a cream-colored house with red shingles, paramedics were
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  Speaker 1: loading this young woman into an ambulance and police officers
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  Speaker 1: were already cordoning off the area with tape to keep
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  Speaker 1: a crowd of very rowdy and restless neighbors away. As
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  Speaker 1: Scola walked closer to this house, he saw there was
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  Speaker 1: a trail of blood on the driveway. He flashed his
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  Speaker 1: badge to the other officers standing guard around the house,
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  Speaker 1: and they all lifted the crime scene tape to let
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  Speaker 1: him come inside. One of the officers told Scola there'd
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  Speaker 1: been a stabbing, and the victim, the young woman, was
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  Speaker 1: in critical condition. And while the officers were debriefing him
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  Speaker 1: on what they knew so far, Scola noticed a car
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  Speaker 1: pull up out on the street, and a man got
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  Speaker 1: out of the car and began running towards the house,
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  Speaker 1: and as he did, He was clearly crying and screaming
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  Speaker 1: and just basically hysterical. As he got close enough, Scola
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  Speaker 1: heard this man frantically tell the paramedics that he was
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  Speaker 1: the victim's husband. And so Scola saw this happening and
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  Speaker 1: just made a mental note to make sure he interviewed
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  Speaker 1: that guy as soon as he had any idea what
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  Speaker 1: he was dealing with. Scola looked around and he noticed
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  Speaker 1: right away that there was a stretch limousine and also
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  Speaker 1: a black Humvee parked in front of this house, which,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously those are expensive and so You know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe those attracted burglars to the house and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe she was there when burglars went inside.
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  Speaker 2: So wrong place, wrong time.
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  Speaker 1: But when Skola walked up the driveway past the forensics team,
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  Speaker 1: who was already taking photos and collecting evidence, he noticed
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  Speaker 1: that the front door and the windows near the front
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  Speaker 1: door had no signs of forced entry. There was no
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  Speaker 1: damage done. And then also when Skola went around to
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  Speaker 1: the back of the house, the back door, the other
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  Speaker 1: entrance into the house, also did not show any sign
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  Speaker 1: of forced entry. And then when Skola went into the house...
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  Speaker 1: He noticed that in the living room, there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: broken or anything out of place. And in fact, he
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  Speaker 1: even saw a wallet and a stack of cash sitting
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  Speaker 1: out in the open, totally untouched. And so even though
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  Speaker 1: his initial theory was robbery, it was starting to look
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  Speaker 1: less and less likely. Skola left the living room and
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  Speaker 1: went into the kitchen. And there he noticed there was
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  Speaker 1: a butcher block that was clearly missing one of its knives.
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  Speaker 1: And this butcher block was at the very back of
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  Speaker 1: the counter behind a bunch of other items, including a
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  Speaker 1: row of champagne glasses that did not look like they
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  Speaker 1: had been disturbed. So he figured that, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: knife could not have been taken during a struggle. Like somebody,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fighting with the victim, they grab the knife
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  Speaker 1: and then they stab her. The knife had to have
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  Speaker 1: been taken when there was relative peace in the house. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: those champagne glasses and the other stuff near the butcher's
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  Speaker 1: block would have been toppled over, and they weren't. And
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  Speaker 1: so Scola began to kind of piece together a working
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  Speaker 1: theory of what could have happened here. And what he
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  Speaker 1: came up with was the victim, the young woman, must
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  Speaker 1: have heard a noise that spooked her. And so she
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: wound up going into her kitchen and she carefully got
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: her knife to protect herself and then maybe stepped outside
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: to investigate this noise.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: And as soon as she got.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Out there, her attacker or whoever was out there making
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: the noises, maybe they were trying to break in or something,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: They must have seen her, they get into some sort
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: of altercation, the knife gets pulled out of her hand,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: and then she is stabbed with her own knife. Now,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: of course, this was really specific, and Skola had no
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: idea if this was true or not, but it would
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: sort of explain away all the anomalies he was seeing
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: so far. A few minutes later, Skola went outside to
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: speak to some of the neighbors who had gathered in
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: the street, and one neighbor told Skola that he had
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: actually seen a man in a hooded sweatshirt running away
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: from the scene. but this neighbor said he had not
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: seen the man's face, so he didn't know who it was.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: And so at this point, Skola figured the next thing
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: he would need to do is just speak to the
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: victim once she was stable, because she would obviously be
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: able to give a better description of what happened and
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: who her attacker actually was. But unfortunately, less than an
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: hour later, while Skola was still at the crime scene,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: just kind of taking it all in and asking basic
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: questions and gathering some evidence, he got a call from
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the hospital. His stabbing victim, Nisha Patel Nasri, had actually
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: bled to death on the way to the hospital, which
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: meant this was officially a murder investigation. The next morning,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: after Detective Scola was finally done processing the scene, he
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: walked into the Wembley police station, and it was unusually quiet.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: The other officers looked very somber.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: A little bit confused, Scola asked one of his colleagues
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: what was going on here. And she would tell him
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: that the victim, Nisha, from last night's murder was one
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: of their own. She was a special constable and plenty
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: of officers in the Wembley station had worked with her.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: And so Skola now understood, you know, what a gut
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: punch this really was. But also, you know, this information
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: was pretty interesting to Skola because at first he thought
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Nisha was killed in like a random robbery gone wrong.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: But now Skola wondered if this murder was not random
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: at all. You know, maybe Nisha was being targeted because
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: she was a police officer. You know, maybe there was
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: a criminal who she had put behind bars or prosecuted
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: in some way that was out to get her. And
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: when Skola began doing some digging on Nisha and some
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: of her police work, he learned that Nisha had actually
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: had somebody try to break into her house a few
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: days earlier. There were these three men that she had basically...
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: scared off when they had tried to break into her house.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: And so now Skola's thinking, that can't be a coincidence.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: And so right away, a team of officers got to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: work trying to figure out the identities of those three
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: men who had attempted to break into Nisha's house the
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: first time. And so while the officers did that, Skola
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: headed back to the crime scene to go see if
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: he could find that knife that was missing from the kitchen.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: He figured at this point, that had to be the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: murder weapon.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: And if it was, the.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Killer's fingerprints or DNA could be on the knife. When
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Scola pulled up on Sudbury Avenue a little bit later,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: he saw swarms of reporters and TV cameras crowding around
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the house, you know, where the crime scene tape was
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: still up, keeping them back. And as Scola approached the house,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: a reporter noticed him and ran towards him with a
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: microphone and began asking him questions. Namely, did the police
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: have any idea why a special constable had been murdered
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: at her own home? But Scola brushed the reporter off.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: He was not about to talk about this case yet.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: He really did not have any information to give up anyways.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and he ducked under the police tape. Once inside the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: cordoned off area, Skola saw there were dozens of officers
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: already scouring the area looking for this missing knife, dumping
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: out trash cans and digging through the bushes. Skola caught
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: one of the investigators' eyes and she kind of shrugged,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: which Skola took to mean that they hadn't found it yet.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Skola also watched as two other officers hauled this high-powered
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: vacuum out of a truck and over to a storm
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: drain on the curb. And then they turned on this
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: vacuum and began sucking up everything out of the drain,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: presumably to look for this knife. Skola walked over to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: them right as they began sifting through what they had
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: sucked up. You know, the vacuum had pulled up a
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff between leaves and trash and food wrappers,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: but ultimately there was no knife. Skola figured the killer
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: must have dumped this knife somewhere near the crime scene
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: because they couldn't have gotten far before they realized they
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: needed to get rid of it. And so Skola felt
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: confident that this knife was going to turn up eventually.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: They just had to keep on looking. In the meantime,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Skola went back inside the house where he found a
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: pair of investigators sitting in the living room with Nisha's husband, Fadi.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and Fadi had his phone out, and he was playing
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: a recording of this woman shouting violent threats. One of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the officers who saw Skola pulled him aside and caught
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: him up to speed. They said that Fadi had a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: solid alibi for the time of Nisha's murder. He was
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: with a friend playing snooker a few miles away, and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: that friend had already confirmed it. And the officer also
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: told Skola that Fadi had come forward and said that
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: he already had a pretty good idea of who might
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: have killed his wife. And so Skola sat down on
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the couch next to Fadi, and Fadi at that point
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: started his story from the beginning. He said that two
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: months ago, he'd gotten into a feud with a rival
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: limo business owner in Scotland. He said that he had
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: sold a Humvee to this other company under the condition
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: that after the sale, Fadi could borrow it back for
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: one last job. But the other company's owner had gone
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: back on the deal and refused to let him borrow
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: the car after the transaction. So in a moment of
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: what he was calling poor judgment, Foddy had traveled to Scotland,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: rented the Humvee under a fake name and driven it
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: all the way back to London. But then Foddy said
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: while he was driving back to London, clearly the other
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: owner figured out what Foddy was up to because they
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: gave Foddy a call and Foddy recorded the voicemail they left.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: And so Fadi played the recording of this other business
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: owner for Skola. And Skola, he heard this woman screaming
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: over and over again that she was going to kill
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Fadi and his wife if he didn't bring her Humvee back.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: And as Skola listened, he thought this woman did not
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: sound like she was joking. This seemed like a real threat. Now,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Fadi said he did return the Humvee. He gave it
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: back to the business owner. And so she no longer
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: had a reason to kill him and his wife. Still though,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Foddy felt strongly that, you know, this woman really had
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: it out for them, and so he wanted the police
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to look into her. And for Scola, they really didn't
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: have that many leads to think of, and so he
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: figured he would check it out first. So he took
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Foddy's phone to download that audio recording and also all
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the call logs, and then he promised he would send
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a team to Scotland to look into this right away.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: One afternoon, about a month later.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Detective Scola sat in his office alone, going over the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: case files again and again. He was stressed because the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: media had been covering Nisha's murder since day one, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of public pressure to solve this case.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: But the police had been investigating it really aggressively for
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: a month, but realistically had.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Almost nothing to show for it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Ever since Scola's last conversation with Fadi, the investigation had
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: been moving very slowly. Some detectives had gone to Scotland
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to look into this rival business owner angle who had,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: you know, supposedly threatened Foddy and his wife, but they
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: hadn't found anything notable.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: So that lead was looking like a bust.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Also, the homicide team had not been able to identify
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: those three men who had attempted to break into Nisha's
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: house five days before she was killed.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Scola and his.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Team had interviewed Nisha's family, her friends, her neighbors, but
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: so far they had not been able to identify any
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: likely suspects, again, outside of that business owner in Scotland.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: It just didn't seem like there was anyone who would
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: have wanted to hurt Nisha. She was liked and respected
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: by basically everyone they spoke to. However, there had been
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: one pretty significant development in the case over the past month,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and it was that police had finally found a knife
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that looked similar to the one missing from Nisha's kitchen.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: It was found in a storm drain about a block
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: away from her house. However, Skola was still waiting for
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the crime lab to actually determine whether it was the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: murder weapon or not. But just then, Skola got a
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: phone call, and it was someone from the crime lab.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And they told him that after analyzing this knife, they
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: had found traces of Nisha's blood on the blade. So
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: this definitely was the murder weapon.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: For the first time in weeks, Skola felt really optimistic.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: He finally had a real piece of hard evidence, a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: fresh clue here to really lead this investigation.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: And now he needed all hands on deck. So he
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: hung up the.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Phone and then gathered his team for a meeting. And
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: then once they were all together, he told the other
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: detectives that they had found the murder weapon. they had
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to keep their discovery a secret. If the killer found
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: out police had this knife, they might panic and flee.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And so to avoid jeopardizing the investigation, Scola wanted to
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: keep the discovery out of the press. After everybody was
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: aligned on that, the next step in the investigation was
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that Scola was going to send officers out to collect
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: video from all the security cameras near where the knife
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: had been found. London is one of the most heavily
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: surveilled cities in the entire world, with hundreds of thousands
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: of CCTV cameras everywhere. So Scola figured one of those
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: cameras must have captured the person who dropped that knife
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: into the drain. The homicide squad would spend the rest
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: of the week combing through countless hours of CCTV footage
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: from the area, hoping to find the moment when the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: knife got dropped in the storm drain.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: But it was like trying to find a needle in
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: a haystack.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: However, after about a week of this, another detective eagerly
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: called Scola over to his computer.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: He said he had finally found something that could be useful.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And so Scola walked over and the detective said that
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the footage he was looking at, which was paused at
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the moment, was of a CCTV camera taken from a
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: shop that was on the same road as the storm drain.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: And so Scola bent down and stared at the screen
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: as the detective hit play on the video.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Now, the storm drain itself was just barely out of frame.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: But the camera clearly captured the glow of headlights as
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a car pulled up near the storm drain. The car
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: stopped there for about seven seconds. And even though you
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: cannot see anybody getting out and disposing of a knife
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: into this drain, the car was stopped long enough that
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: somebody could have done that before the car took off again.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: But critically, when this car.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Took off again, it passed through this camera's frame very clearly.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: And as the car drove past the storefront, the detective
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: paused the camera. As soon as he did, Scola leaned
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: in closer to get a better look at this car. Now,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the video was dark and grainy, so right away it
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: was impossible to read the license plate on the car. But,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: despite the graininess, there definitely were a few identifying details
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Scola could make out. The car was clearly a gray Audi,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and there was an antenna in the center of the roof,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and also one of the lights above the license plate
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: was not working. Now, Scola knew there were literally tens
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: of thousands of Audis in London. And so they knew
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the only way they'd track this one down is by
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: sending officers out into the street to literally look for it.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: But really what they're looking for is Audis that have
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: that antenna on the roof and a light that doesn't
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: work in front. Now, of course, this was going to
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: be extremely time consuming, but Scola felt like they didn't
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: have a better lead here.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: And so they began this process.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: And for the next few weeks, that's all they were doing,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: just out on the streets canvassing for this Audi.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: And they didn't find it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And so as this investigation was feeling like it was
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: about to hit another dead end, Scola felt like he
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: just couldn't let that happen. There was too much pressure
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: on him to get this done. But then suddenly, he
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: thought about something that he'd totally put out of his mind.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Fadi's phone. They'd actually taken the phone from Fadi.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Two months ago to download that voicemail and also download
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the call logs. But they actually hadn't given it back
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to Fadi yet. They were just holding the phone in
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: evidence right now. Now, Skola felt like that audio message
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: on the phone really had not amounted to anything and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: likely wouldn't. But Skola figured, you know, why don't we
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: look in that phone to see what else is on there?
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe there were fresh clues about who might
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: have wanted to hurt Nisha. So he assigned one of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: his forensic techs to download everything from Fadi's phone onto
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a drive. And then once they had done that, Skola
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: took this drive and he plugged it into his computer
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and began sorting through.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: All this data.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: He saw a photo that caught his eye. The photo
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: was of a woman's thigh and she was clearly lying
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: in a bed in what looked like a hotel room.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: And even with the bright flash and poor camera quality,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Skola could.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Tell that the woman's skin was pale white. And so
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: it was definitely not Nisha's leg.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: After finding this photo on Fadi's phone, Scola immediately drove
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: to Nisha.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: And Fadi's house.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: And when Fadi opened the door, Scola stepped inside and
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: showed him the photo and asked him point blank if
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: he was having an affair. Fadi right away said no,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: and he insisted he would never do that to Nisha.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: And the woman in the picture was literally just a friend. Now,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Scola immediately felt like Fadi was lying. He did not
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: believe him.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: For a second. But there was no way to, you know,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: force Fadi to tell the truth.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: And so ultimately, all Skola could do was just leave,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: get back in his car, go back to the station.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: And on the drive there, he wondered to himself if
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: he had sort of just blown that opportunity. Should he
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: have waited for more solid evidence before confronting Fadi? But
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: he was also thinking that, you know, there's so much
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: pressure on him to solve this case, you know, that
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: he just had to make moves like this, take some chances.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: And so it is what it is.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: When Skola got to the precinct, he parked his car
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and he went in his office to think. And almost
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: as soon as he sat down, there was a knock
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: at the door. It was a man named Sid Shenoy,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: who was the family liaison officer who'd been working with
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Nisha's family. His job was to support the grieving family
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and communicate with them throughout the investigation. And so as
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: a result of this role he was playing, Sid had
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: created a level of trust with the family that really
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: none of the other detectives had with the family. And Shannoy,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: when he walked in the room, told Skola that he'd
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: just gotten a really.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Interesting call from Fadi.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: He said Fadi had confessed to something that he'd basically
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: been too afraid to tell Skola in person when he
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: had just been visiting him, you know, a couple minutes ago.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: And so Shannoy told Skola that you really ought to
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: call Fadi and let him tell you what he just
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: told me. And so right away, that's what Skola did.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: He called Fadi.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: And Fadi, when he picked up, he sounded very nervous
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and anxious and ashamed as he broke down and admitted
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: that actually, yes, he.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Was having an affair. He had lied.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: He said the leg in the photo belonged to a
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: woman named Laura Makin, and she was a Lithuanian sex
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: worker who he'd been seeing for three months before his
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: wife's death. Fadi said the reason he had lied to
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Skola is because he didn't want Nisha's family to find.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Out he'd been cheating on her.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: But Scola knew there was also another obvious reason to
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: lie here, because an affair would clearly give Fadi a
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: motive to kill his wife. Fadi had been crossed off
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the suspect list at this point just based on his alibi.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: But this, this affair, now made him look very suspicious.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: However, Scola just felt like it just didn't make sense
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: that Fadi would be the killer. Number one, he did
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: have a strong alibi. And also, too, apart from hiding
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: this affair, which you could justify, you could say that
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: obviously he didn't want ripple effect damage on the family
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: or something, he'd been very cooperative with the investigation. I mean,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: he'd given them his phone, which had this damning photo
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: on it. I mean, he'd sort of been very forthright.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: And so a new theory began to take hold in
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Skola's mind. You know, if Fadi wasn't the killer, maybe
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: it was possible that his mistress, Laura, was, or at
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: least was directly involved in some way.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, she would have all the.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Reason in the world to want to get rid of Nisha.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: So on September 1st, almost four months after Nisha was murdered,
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  Speaker 1: her husband's mistress, Laura McKean, was brought into the station
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  Speaker 1: on suspicion of murder. In the interrogation room, detectives confronted
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  Speaker 1: her with all the evidence they had gathered that showed
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  Speaker 1: her relationship with.
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  Speaker 2: Fadi was not just a casual affair.
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  Speaker 1: The two of them had met at a brothel where
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  Speaker 1: Laura was working as a sex worker.
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  Speaker 2: But eventually... she.
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  Speaker 1: Stopped charging him to see her, which likely meant she
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  Speaker 1: must have developed real feelings for him. And so the
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  Speaker 1: detective suggested that, you know, if Nisha was gone for good,
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  Speaker 1: Laura would have Fadi all to herself. Laura insisted she
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  Speaker 1: did not know anything about the murder, and then she
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  Speaker 1: gave them a solid alibi.
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  Speaker 2: But that didn't mean much.
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  Speaker 1: Because eyewitnesses thought they saw a man in a hooded
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  Speaker 1: sweatshirt running away after Nisha was stabbed. So the working
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  Speaker 1: theory was if Laura was involved in this murder... it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty likely that she had hired somebody else to
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  Speaker 1: do the dirty work. However, the detectives did not have
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  Speaker 1: real evidence. And so despite their suspicions, they had.
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  Speaker 2: To release her. And then once again, they were back
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  Speaker 2: at square one.
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  Speaker 1: However, not long after Laura was allowed to go home,
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  Speaker 1: Scola was walking through the precinct when the family liaison officer,
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  Speaker 1: Sid Chenoy, came running up behind him. Chenoy told him
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  Speaker 1: that he just had a very interesting conversation with Nisha's brother, Caton.
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  Speaker 1: Caton had told him that after finding out about Fadi's affair,
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  Speaker 1: he had been furious. The whole family was so upset
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  Speaker 1: about it. And Caton said that now that he really
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  Speaker 1: had this horrible opinion of Fadi... he felt comfortable sharing
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  Speaker 1: something about Fadi that he had been keeping to himself.
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  Speaker 1: Caden told Chenoy that he thought Fadi might not be
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  Speaker 1: the professional businessman he pretended to be. Instead, Caden said
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  Speaker 1: that Fadi might actually be involved with something criminal. According
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: to Caden, Fadi had said there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: sketchy people in his contacts, and he was worried about
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  Speaker 1: what the police might find on his phone. But Caden
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  Speaker 1: said that Fadi had not been specific about what he
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  Speaker 1: meant when he said, sketchy people.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he didn't know what he was saying or
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  Speaker 2: why he was involved with them.
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  Speaker 1: And so after hearing this, Scola told his team to
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  Speaker 1: go through Fadi's phone records and run the name of
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: every person who appeared in his call log. And apart
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: from all the calls back and forth to Laura, the mistress,
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  Speaker 1: there was one other name that jumped out, a convicted
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  Speaker 1: drug dealer named Roger Leslie. And when Scola saw this,
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  Speaker 1: he realized that he might have been approaching this investigation
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  Speaker 1: all wrong. He'd really struggled to find suspects. because there
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: was no one who would have wanted to hurt Nisha
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  Speaker 1: who didn't have an alibi. But now he realized that
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: maybe that was the case, because Nisha was not actually
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the killer's target.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the target was Fadi.
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  Speaker 1: If Fadi was involved in the drug trade, then anyone
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  Speaker 1: could have come after him for any.
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  Speaker 2: Number of reasons.
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  Speaker 1: It could have been a drug deal gone wrong, or
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: retribution for a debt he didn't pay, or even maybe
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: a hit by a rival gang. He didn't know, but
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  Speaker 1: there was way more possibilities here. And the more Skola
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: dug into Fadi... more suspicious evidence he found. He learned
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  Speaker 1: that before Fadi and Nisha got married, Fadi had run
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  Speaker 1: an escort agency. He'd closed it down and started a
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  Speaker 1: more legitimate business three years ago, but Skola knew there
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  Speaker 1: could be any number of former employees or customers or
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  Speaker 1: customers' wives who might still have a problem with Fadi.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was that threatening voicemail from the rival
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  Speaker 1: limo company. I mean, that whole story made it seem
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: entirely possible that that Foddy could easily get wrapped up
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  Speaker 1: in very serious business disputes, which meant there could be
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: more disgruntled rivals out there. Basically, it seemed entirely possible
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that there were loads of people out there who might
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: have had it out for Foddy, not Nisha. And so
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  Speaker 1: that became the new direction of this investigation. And so
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  Speaker 1: the first person Scola looked into with this new direction
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  Speaker 1: was Roger Leslie, the drug dealer who had made a
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: few calls to Foddy. However, there was one issue that
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  Speaker 1: kept Roger from becoming a primary suspect. He didn't own
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: a gray Audi. So if he was involved in the murder,
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  Speaker 1: he probably didn't work alone. And so the police set
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: up a trace on Roger Leslie's phone, hoping that his
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  Speaker 1: call logs would lead them to an associate who did
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  Speaker 1: own a gray Audi. And eventually, they sure did. And
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  Speaker 1: that person who owned the gray Audi was the missing
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  Speaker 1: piece that made the whole puzzle come together. Based on
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  Speaker 1: those call logs and all the other evidence found during
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: this investigation, the following is what police believe happened to
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Nisha Patel-Nazri on May 11, 2006. Around 11.50 p.m., just
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: as Nisha was falling asleep, the killer pulled up to
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  Speaker 1: her house in the passenger seat of a gray Audi.
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  Speaker 1: The driver waited in the car while the killer got
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  Speaker 1: out and crept around to the back of the house.
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  Speaker 1: And as he walked to the back of the house,
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  Speaker 1: he kept looking in the windows to confirm all the
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  Speaker 1: lights were out.
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  Speaker 2: And they were.
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  Speaker 1: And then when he got to the back door, he
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  Speaker 1: pulled out a key he'd managed to get his hands
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  Speaker 1: on to open it up.
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  Speaker 2: And then once the door was open, he stepped inside.
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  Speaker 1: The killer slowly moved through the kitchen and then stopped
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  Speaker 1: because he heard the floorboards upstairs creaking. And so he
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  Speaker 1: held his breath as he realized that somebody upstairs was
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: making their way downstairs.
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  Speaker 2: They were caught. The killer didn't know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: They hadn't prepared for this at all. He thought everybody
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  Speaker 2: in the house would be asleep.
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  Speaker 1: So he panicked and he reached over and pulled a
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  Speaker 1: knife out of that butcher's block in the kitchen and then.
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  Speaker 2: Ducked behind a wall to hide.
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  Speaker 1: He heard the footsteps getting closer and closer and he's
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: trying his best to hide. And then he saw a
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  Speaker 1: beam of a flashlight make its way into the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: And then it comes across and lands squarely right on them.
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  Speaker 1: And the person holding that flashlight was Fadi's wife, Nisha.
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  Speaker 1: When Nisha saw the killer, she screamed and ran for
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  Speaker 1: the front door. But the killer knew he could not
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  Speaker 1: let her get away because now she'd gotten a clear
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  Speaker 1: look at his face and he was caught. So he
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  Speaker 1: chased her outside, out into the driveway, clutching that kitchen
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  Speaker 1: knife in his hand. And about halfway down the driveway,
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  Speaker 1: he tackled her, and then sunk the knife deep into
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  Speaker 1: her thigh. Nisha actually managed to fight him off despite
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  Speaker 1: this gaping wound in her leg, and she scrambled up
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  Speaker 1: and began running down the street screaming for help. And
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  Speaker 1: at this point, the killer saw lights coming on in
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  Speaker 1: the neighbor's houses, and his heart was pounding, and he
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  Speaker 1: knew that Nisha was no longer his biggest problem. He
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  Speaker 1: had to get out of here immediately before anybody on.
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  Speaker 2: The block saw his face too.
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  Speaker 1: So he just sprinted back to the Audi and where
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  Speaker 1: the driver was still waiting for him, and he told
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  Speaker 1: the driver to go, just take off, drive out of here.
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  Speaker 1: And so the driver, they did just that, but they
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: were panicked and confused, and as they're going around the corner,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: they're asking the killer, like, what just happened? I mean,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: as far as the driver knew, they were only here
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  Speaker 1: to pick up some ecstasy for a drug deal. They
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: did not expect anybody to get stabbed, but the killer
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  Speaker 1: just snapped at the driver to stop talking about it,
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  Speaker 1: because he He hadn't expected the night to go this
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  Speaker 1: way either.
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  Speaker 2: It was a total mess.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point, the killer looked down at
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the bloody knife that was still in his hand, and
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  Speaker 1: he realized he had to get rid of it. And
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  Speaker 1: so he told the driver to just pull over. And
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  Speaker 1: so the driver did. They pulled over to the curb
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  Speaker 1: on this commercial street, just a block away from Nisha's house.
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  Speaker 1: And the killer quickly opened up the door and threw
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  Speaker 1: the knife into a nearby storm drain. Then he slammed
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  Speaker 1: the door shut again. And as the Audi careened down
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  Speaker 1: the road, the killer took the driver's cell phone out
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  Speaker 1: of the cup holder, and called the man who'd hired
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  Speaker 1: him to tell him everything that had just gone horribly wrong.
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  Speaker 1: The person he called was the drug dealer, Roger Leslie. However,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: when Roger got off that phone call with the killer,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Roger immediately called the person who'd hired him. Roger had
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: actually been hired to pull off a hit. but he
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: didn't want to get his own hands dirty, so he'd
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  Speaker 1: outsource the job. But now, after having spoken to the
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: killer about this botched hit where basically they stabbed her
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  Speaker 1: and they had no idea if she actually was going
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  Speaker 1: to die or not, in fact, the last thing they
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: saw was her running down the road screaming for help,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: you know, now Roger knew, he would have to explain
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  Speaker 1: himself to the actual mastermind of the murder plot, the
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: person who'd given him the key to get inside. And
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  Speaker 1: that person was indeed Fadi Nasri, Nisha's husband. it turned
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: out that Fadi was involved.
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  Speaker 2: With a bunch of criminals. But they weren't after him.
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  Speaker 2: They were his friends.
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  Speaker 1: Because even though Fadi pretended to be this successful, legitimate businessman,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: he really was not. He was deep in debt, and
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  Speaker 1: he'd paid Roger Leslie to kill Nisha for the life
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  Speaker 1: insurance money.
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  Speaker 2: That way he could pay his.
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  Speaker 1: Debts and then also run off with his new mistress, Laura.
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  Speaker 1: And so while Nisha had been wanting to start a
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: family and was starting to sense that maybe Fadi was
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: not fully committed to that idea. Well, her instincts were
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  Speaker 1: good because it turned out Fadi did not want to
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  Speaker 1: start a family with her.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to kill her and move on.
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  Speaker 1: According to prosecutors, that earlier break-in at Nisha and Fadi's
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: house a few days before she was killed was very
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  Speaker 1: likely either a reconnaissance mission or a failed first attempt
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  Speaker 1: to kill Nisha. In the end, four people were arrested
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  Speaker 1: and charged with Nisha's murder.
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  Speaker 2: They were Fadi Nasri, Roger.
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  Speaker 1: Leslie, the hitman who actually stabbed Nisha, his name was
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Jason Jones, and the driver of the car, a man
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: named Tony Emanuel. Now, the driver was acquitted, but the
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: other three men were all convicted and sentenced to life
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  Speaker 1: in prison.
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