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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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S1, EP61 "From Military Discharge To Behavioral Counseling"Cross-examination continued on the defendant who was trying to appeal to jurors that he's no mastermind killer. Prosecutors challenged Ali Abulaban's credibility in his actions leading up to the shooting deaths of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. The lead prosecutor had Ali walk the jury again through his troubled relationship with Ana back when they first dated overseas.
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S1, EP60 "The Moment of the Fatal Shootings"In his murder trial, Ali Abulaban walked the jury through the very moment of the murders of his wife, Ana and her boyfriend, Rayburn Barron; on the day of the fatal shootings, Ali told jurors that he heard his wife and a man's voice laughing in a secretly placed listening device; his immediate response in the midst of his paranoia and jealousy was to take a lot of cocaine and head to the apartment, armed with a gun; the reason for the fatal attack, betrayal.
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S1, EP59 "Cocaine-Binge Hysteria And Paranoia"On the stand in his own murder trial, Ali Abulaban detailed the events just hours before he committed the double murder. He recalled that he had not slept in over 24 hours and was high on cocaine. Ali elaborated for jurors how heated passion from a cocaine-binge paranoia led him to fatally gun down his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. This was contrary to the State's theory on what happened. They claimed he premeditated the fatal attack.
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