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