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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
- 0:05Speaker 1: In a horrifying act of domestic fury, a Long Island
- 0:09Speaker 1: accountant was suffocated to death with a cyanide like chemical
- 0:13Speaker 1: in her own home by her stalking, estranged husband, just
- 0:18Speaker 1: hours after dropping their three young children at school. Elena Asif,
- 0:23Speaker 1: forty six, was found unresponsive with severe burns scarring her
- 0:28Speaker 1: face and mouth inside her large drive home. The certified
- 0:33Speaker 1: public accountant, described by family as a quote beautiful human
- 0:37Speaker 1: being end quote and devoted mom, had been dead for
- 0:41Speaker 1: hours when officers arrived at three point fifty two pm.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Her eighteen year old daughter had frantically dialed nine one
- 0:49Speaker 1: one for a welfare check after a sea failed to
- 0:53Speaker 1: pick up her seven year old sister from school, unaware
- 0:56Speaker 1: that nightmare had already unfolded. Nasau County Homicide Squad Captain
- 1:03Speaker 1: Stephen Fitzpatrick detailed the ambush with the media. We have
- 1:07Speaker 1: him showing up waiting for the right opportunity, entering the house,
- 1:11Speaker 1: waiting for his wife to drop off the kids at school,
- 1:14Speaker 1: and then assaulting her and killing her. Prosecutors allege Usif
- 1:19Speaker 1: Koreshi fifty three, the victim's unemployed software engineer husband orchestrated
- 1:25Speaker 1: the attack with cold precision. Kueshi, who had been served
- 1:29Speaker 1: divorce papers which he refused to accept, began a menacing
- 1:35Speaker 1: pattern of stalking days later, surveilling us Thief's routines to
- 1:39Speaker 1: strike when the kids were away. On the fatal morning,
- 1:43Speaker 1: he slipped into the home undetected, waited for us Thief's
- 1:47Speaker 1: return from the school drop off, then forced the toxic
- 1:51Speaker 1: substance down her throat, possibly via a rag, causing fatal asphyxiation.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Police said he fled the scene on a scoot, evading
- 2:01Speaker 1: capture until his arrest in a rented Belrose Queen's room
- 2:06Speaker 1: orres She was then arraigned in Hempstead on second degree
- 2:10Speaker 1: murder charges. The couple's twenty year marriage was strained by
- 2:14Speaker 1: bitter fights. Police had previously responded to five domestic incidents
- 2:19Speaker 1: at the residence, many revolving around finances. Tragically, the escalating
- 2:24Speaker 1: danger was known to authorities, as Sif had notified police
- 2:28Speaker 1: on four separate occasions that she feared for her safety.
- 2:32Speaker 1: Detective Fitzpatrick revealed the sickening nature of Qureshi's prior threats.
- 2:37Speaker 1: The suspect had vowed to force his wife to swallow bleach.
- 2:42Speaker 1: Despite the history of violence and stalking, no protective orders
- 2:46Speaker 1: were ever issued. The medical examiner ruled the deaf a
- 2:49Speaker 1: homicide by chemical asphyxiation. Tests continued to id the exact
- 2:55Speaker 1: poison Korres She appeared in court where a judge ordered
- 2:59Speaker 1: him held without bail pending further proceedings, while prosecutors now
- 3:04Speaker 1: pushed to upgrade the charge to first degree murder. The
- 3:08Speaker 1: couple's three children, aged seven, fourteen, and eighteen, are now
- 3:12Speaker 1: staying with relatives. For the latest crime and justice news,
- 3:16Speaker 1: follow Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on your favorite podcast app,
- 3:20Speaker 1: or watch Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Fox one
- 3:23Speaker 1: and YouTube. More crime and justice news. After this, a
- 3:32Speaker 1: bizarre and twisted attempt to force a reconciliation ended in
- 3:37Speaker 1: a fatal ambush when a San Antonio man, having spent
- 3:42Speaker 1: hours hiding in his ex girlfriend's closet, emerged to execute
- 3:47Speaker 1: her lover in a spray of bullets. Shatik Deshaun Wilson,
- 3:52Speaker 1: twenty three, is facing a first degree murder charge following
- 3:56Speaker 1: the slaying of thirty five year old Noel Denzil Miller
- 3:59Speaker 1: in side the woman's home on the seventy three hundred
- 4:02Speaker 1: block of Ravine Trail in Bexar County. According to unarrest affidavit,
- 4:07Speaker 1: the wore began around one in the morning. Wilson, armed
- 4:12Speaker 1: with a black handgun, sneaked into the home after his
- 4:16Speaker 1: ex failed to answer all his calls. He brought a
- 4:20Speaker 1: sinister collection of supposed peace offerings, including a bouquet of flowers, cash,
- 4:27Speaker 1: and cocaine. Finding the house empty, he hid inside the
- 4:31Speaker 1: closet of the woman's young daughter. Huddled in the dark,
- 4:34Speaker 1: Wilson sipped an alcoholic beverage and scrolled social media, just waiting.
- 4:40Speaker 1: The couple returned from their night out around two am.
- 4:44Speaker 1: As they headed to the shower, Miller walked toward the
- 4:48Speaker 1: laundry room and found Wilson bursting from the closet, sparking
- 4:52Speaker 1: instant chaos. Gunshots then ripped through the home, leaving Miller
- 4:57Speaker 1: fatally wounded on the bed. The killer then snatched his
- 5:01Speaker 1: ex's phone and bolted, ditching the murder weapon and wilted
- 5:06Speaker 1: flowers as he fled. Wilson, who initially told detectives he
- 5:10Speaker 1: was quote unquote frightened, was arrested without resistance at his
- 5:14Speaker 1: mom's San Antonio home, but not before stopping for breakfast
- 5:19Speaker 1: at a McDonald's while he was on the way. He's
- 5:22Speaker 1: being held on a three hundred thousand dollars bond, facing
- 5:25Speaker 1: a first degree murder charge. Now, instead of a rekindled
- 5:30Speaker 1: romance and finally talk about a ghoulish site, the California
- 5:36Speaker 1: jogger is haunting a quiet Salinas neighborhood after launching two
- 5:40Speaker 1: separate attacks on one family's festive decorations. Homeowner Tanya Samponaro says,
- 5:47Speaker 1: the runner, who is clearly not feeling the Halloween spirit,
- 5:51Speaker 1: is waging a literal war, a which hunt if you will.
- 5:55Speaker 1: The first encounter, caught on doorbell camera, shows the woman
- 5:58Speaker 1: pausing to get a creepy smile before returning to the
- 6:02Speaker 1: yard to cast a punch that knocked down three unsuspecting
- 6:07Speaker 1: which figures. Ten days later, she returned for a bizarre encore,
- 6:12Speaker 1: rolling up her sleeves in broad daylight before delivering a
- 6:15Speaker 1: swift boom blow to the remaining figures, completing her coven's demolition.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Tanya spoke to Inside Edition, I was frustrated, angry, You
- 6:24Speaker 1: know that she would come back and do it again.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Saponaro finds it spellbinding that the runner only targets the witches,
- 6:30Speaker 1: ignoring skeletons and cauldrons. Anyhow, she doesn't know who the
- 6:34Speaker 1: unhinged jogger is, nor to the neighbors, but the Cardio
- 6:37Speaker 1: conqueror is wanted for questioning after police reports were filed.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Someone needs to tell her though. This trick will not
- 6:45Speaker 1: get her any treats, but it will get her a
- 6:48Speaker 1: mugshot to show off that resting witch face. For the
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- 6:59Speaker 1: I'm just on a for gold