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Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP17 "Physical And Psychological Abuse"The jury's attention shifted from the death of Jorge Torres to the years of domestic violence he and the defendant dealt with. Sarah Boone testified that she was a woman in fear of her life when she and Torres played a deadly game of hide-and-seek. Next, large images of Boone's bruises were displayed for jurors. She was testifying about the constant physical violence she claimed to have endured at the hands of her allegedly abusive boyfriend.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP18 "Domestic Violence Allegations"Domestic and alcohol abuse came to define the violent relationship between Sarah Boone and Jorge Torres. On the stand, Boone gave jurors a timeline of events where Torres allegedly attacked and abused her. But, the defendant never mentioned any alleged abuse while she was being interviewed by police. Yet on the stand, she told the jury that zipping her boyfriend up in that suitcase and leaving him in there to die was the first time she fought back against him.
Suitcase Murder Trial
S1, EP19 "Defendant Faces Cross-Examination"In her murder trial, Sarah Boone told the jury that she was shocked that she was arrested for the murder of Jorge Torres. Even though she never talked about any abuse in her interview with police, she told jurors that her actions that day was her way of defending herself from being killed. It was the State's turn to question the defendant on the stand. They wanted to discredit her claim that she zipped up her boyfriend in a suitcase and left him there for hours because she feared for her life.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP30 "Suspecting The Mother"Jurors listened to more descriptive testimony from the person who discovered Gary Farris' human remains. After his youngest son, who was living on the family farm, discovered the corpse in that burn pile he told police he was missing a gun and he found some blood inside the home. It didn't take long for Scott Farris to suspect his mother, Melody, in shooting and killing his father. Scott pointed out for jurors the fights and suspicious behavior of the defendant leading up and after the homicide.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP31 "Challenging His Alibi And Motive"An intense cross-examination was underway. Melody Farris' defense argued that the state got it all wrong. It was Scott who was the real killer in this homicide because he was living and working at the farm when Gary disappeared and then turned up dead. Scott was the defense's straw man. The defense wanted to poke holes in his take on what happened to his father and raise doubts that he had nothing to do with Gary Farris' death.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP32 "Life Back Home"Jurors listened to his son's troubled life after coming back home from his three tours in Iraq. After he returned and before his father, Gary, was killed, Scott struggled to get and keep a job. He was essentially forced to live at home and work for the family as a farmhand. Melody Farris' attorney brought jurors back to the family money which prosecutors claimed was her motive to kill her husband, Gary.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP33 "The Money Exchanges"Who had the debit card? Gary Farris' son living at the farm or his wife, Melody? That was a question raised during Scott Farris' cross-examination. The Defense dismissed the State's assertion that Melody killed her husband so she could reap money from his multi-million dollar estate. A murder weapon was never found. The .38 caliber bullet found in Gary's remains did not match the revolver Scott came across. Jurors also learned there were a sheer amount of firearms on the family property.
Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield
S1, EP15 "California v. Murray"Michael Jackson's personal doctor Conrad Murray takes an oath to first do no harm, but that's exactly what prosecutors argue he violates when Jackson dies from an overdose of a powerful anesthesia drug.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP62 "Double Standard"Prosecutors questioned the credibility of the defendant on the witness stand. In the months before the double murders, Ali claimed he was a victim of emotional manipulation and sexual confusion which prompted him to kill out of heated passion. The State alluded to a double standard Ali had for his marriage. According to the defendant when he was separated from his wife, Ana, he cheated on her with another woman but grew upset when Ana was friendly with a male friend.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP63 "Emotional Manipulation, Sexual Frustration"The defendant, Ali Abulaban, told jurors there were a million reasons his wife did not want to be with him days before she and her friend, Rayburn Barron, were killed. They included: Ali cheating on her with another woman in their home, the physical abuse, and his growing cocaine addiction. Jurors heard the allegations that Ana was the emotional manipulator, the neglectful wife, and the verbal abuser, according to her estranged husband.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP64 "Defendant Lashes Out On The Stand"While on the stand in his own murder trial, the State portrayed Ali Abulaban as a controlling, abusive husband whose jealousy led him to plot and carry out the murders of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. Despite Ana telling him she didn't want to be with him anymore, and she was getting ready to file a restraining order, Ali testified that his marriage was not over. Jurors watched the defendant throw a fit at the lead prosecutor's probing questions.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP65 "Seeking The Truth With A Loaded Gun"Ali Abulaban recalled the very moments leading up to the fatal shootings of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. While the State contended that he premeditated both homicides, Ali claimed killing two people was never on his mind. He just wanted to find out the truth about his estranged wife allegedly cheating on him. When he aimed and fired at close range on the two victims, Ali recalled having an out-of-body experience and didn't even remember shooting his own wife.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP66 "The Moments After the Shootings"Crime scene tampering is part of the State's case against Ali Abulaban for double murder; the lead prosecutor contends that Ali planted several bullets at the bloody scene immediately after shooting his wife, Ana, and her friend; Taren Brast claims that the moments right after the murders were just as important as the deadly shootings themselves; Ali admits that he took a cell phone photo of the two victims and confesses to his mom while going to pick up his young daughter from school.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP67 "Jailhouse Confession"While testifying on the stand, Ali Abulaban's defense attorney blew the whistle during his cross-examination. The State brought up a jailhouse confession Ali allegedly made where he bragged about killing his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. Later, the jury listened to the defendant be apologetic about his role in the fatal shootings. Ali admitted that he was initially in the victim mindset until he began his so-called Journey of healing.
TikTok Star Murder Trial
S1, EP68 "Defense Rests Their Case"Ali Abulaban's attorney had more questions for him during redirect examination. She wanted him to clarify claims he made that alluded to him premeditating and carrying out the murders of his estranged wife, Ana, and the friend she was with, Rayburn Barron. Later, Ali Abulaban wrapped up his long testimony on the stand and then his defense rested their case-in-chief to jurors. Later, the state delivered their closing arguments.
Someone They Knew With Tamron Hall
S1, EP9 "Home Alone?"After leaving a work party late at night, Ramona Krotinea's body was discovered in the trunk of her own car the next day, and police need to reconstruct who and what happened in the intervening hours.