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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.

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Speaker 1: In a horrifying act of domestic fury, a Long Island

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Speaker 1: accountant was suffocated to death with a cyanide like chemical

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Speaker 1: in her own home by her stalking, estranged husband, just

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Speaker 1: hours after dropping their three young children at school. Elena Asif,

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Speaker 1: forty six, was found unresponsive with severe burns scarring her

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Speaker 1: face and mouth inside her large drive home. The certified

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Speaker 1: public accountant, described by family as a quote beautiful human

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Speaker 1: being end quote and devoted mom, had been dead for

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Speaker 1: hours when officers arrived at three point fifty two pm.

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Speaker 1: Her eighteen year old daughter had frantically dialed nine one

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Speaker 1: one for a welfare check after a sea failed to

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Speaker 1: pick up her seven year old sister from school, unaware

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Speaker 1: that nightmare had already unfolded. Nasau County Homicide Squad Captain

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Speaker 1: Stephen Fitzpatrick detailed the ambush with the media. We have

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Speaker 1: him showing up waiting for the right opportunity, entering the house,

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Speaker 1: waiting for his wife to drop off the kids at school,

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Speaker 1: and then assaulting her and killing her. Prosecutors allege Usif

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Speaker 1: Koreshi fifty three, the victim's unemployed software engineer husband orchestrated

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Speaker 1: the attack with cold precision. Kueshi, who had been served

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Speaker 1: divorce papers which he refused to accept, began a menacing

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Speaker 1: pattern of stalking days later, surveilling us Thief's routines to

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Speaker 1: strike when the kids were away. On the fatal morning,

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Speaker 1: he slipped into the home undetected, waited for us Thief's

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Speaker 1: return from the school drop off, then forced the toxic

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Speaker 1: substance down her throat, possibly via a rag, causing fatal asphyxiation.

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Speaker 1: Police said he fled the scene on a scoot, evading

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Speaker 1: capture until his arrest in a rented Belrose Queen's room

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Speaker 1: orres She was then arraigned in Hempstead on second degree

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Speaker 1: murder charges. The couple's twenty year marriage was strained by

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Speaker 1: bitter fights. Police had previously responded to five domestic incidents

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Speaker 1: at the residence, many revolving around finances. Tragically, the escalating

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Speaker 1: danger was known to authorities, as Sif had notified police

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Speaker 1: on four separate occasions that she feared for her safety.

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Speaker 1: Detective Fitzpatrick revealed the sickening nature of Qureshi's prior threats.

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Speaker 1: The suspect had vowed to force his wife to swallow bleach.

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Speaker 1: Despite the history of violence and stalking, no protective orders

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Speaker 1: were ever issued. The medical examiner ruled the deaf a

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Speaker 1: homicide by chemical asphyxiation. Tests continued to id the exact

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Speaker 1: poison Korres She appeared in court where a judge ordered

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Speaker 1: him held without bail pending further proceedings, while prosecutors now

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Speaker 1: pushed to upgrade the charge to first degree murder. The

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Speaker 1: couple's three children, aged seven, fourteen, and eighteen, are now

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Speaker 1: staying with relatives. For the latest crime and justice news,

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Speaker 1: and YouTube. More crime and justice news. After this, a

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Speaker 1: bizarre and twisted attempt to force a reconciliation ended in

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Speaker 1: a fatal ambush when a San Antonio man, having spent

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Speaker 1: hours hiding in his ex girlfriend's closet, emerged to execute

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Speaker 1: her lover in a spray of bullets. Shatik Deshaun Wilson,

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Speaker 1: twenty three, is facing a first degree murder charge following

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Speaker 1: the slaying of thirty five year old Noel Denzil Miller

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Speaker 1: in side the woman's home on the seventy three hundred

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Speaker 1: block of Ravine Trail in Bexar County. According to unarrest affidavit,

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Speaker 1: the wore began around one in the morning. Wilson, armed

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Speaker 1: with a black handgun, sneaked into the home after his

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Speaker 1: ex failed to answer all his calls. He brought a

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Speaker 1: sinister collection of supposed peace offerings, including a bouquet of flowers, cash,

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Speaker 1: and cocaine. Finding the house empty, he hid inside the

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Speaker 1: closet of the woman's young daughter. Huddled in the dark,

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Speaker 1: Wilson sipped an alcoholic beverage and scrolled social media, just waiting.

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Speaker 1: The couple returned from their night out around two am.

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Speaker 1: As they headed to the shower, Miller walked toward the

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Speaker 1: laundry room and found Wilson bursting from the closet, sparking

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Speaker 1: instant chaos. Gunshots then ripped through the home, leaving Miller

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Speaker 1: fatally wounded on the bed. The killer then snatched his

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Speaker 1: ex's phone and bolted, ditching the murder weapon and wilted

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Speaker 1: flowers as he fled. Wilson, who initially told detectives he

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Speaker 1: was quote unquote frightened, was arrested without resistance at his

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Speaker 1: mom's San Antonio home, but not before stopping for breakfast

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Speaker 1: at a McDonald's while he was on the way. He's

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Speaker 1: being held on a three hundred thousand dollars bond, facing

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Speaker 1: a first degree murder charge. Now, instead of a rekindled

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Speaker 1: romance and finally talk about a ghoulish site, the California

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Speaker 1: jogger is haunting a quiet Salinas neighborhood after launching two

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Speaker 1: separate attacks on one family's festive decorations. Homeowner Tanya Samponaro says,

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Speaker 1: the runner, who is clearly not feeling the Halloween spirit,

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Speaker 1: is waging a literal war, a which hunt if you will.

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Speaker 1: The first encounter, caught on doorbell camera, shows the woman

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Speaker 1: pausing to get a creepy smile before returning to the

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Speaker 1: yard to cast a punch that knocked down three unsuspecting

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Speaker 1: which figures. Ten days later, she returned for a bizarre encore,

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Speaker 1: rolling up her sleeves in broad daylight before delivering a

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Speaker 1: swift boom blow to the remaining figures, completing her coven's demolition.

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Speaker 1: Tanya spoke to Inside Edition, I was frustrated, angry, You

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Speaker 1: know that she would come back and do it again.

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Speaker 1: Saponaro finds it spellbinding that the runner only targets the witches,

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Speaker 1: ignoring skeletons and cauldrons. Anyhow, she doesn't know who the

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Speaker 1: unhinged jogger is, nor to the neighbors, but the Cardio

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Speaker 1: conqueror is wanted for questioning after police reports were filed.

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Speaker 1: Someone needs to tell her though. This trick will not

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Speaker 1: get her any treats, but it will get her a

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Speaker 1: mugshot to show off that resting witch face. For the

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