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Prosecutors wanted the jury to hear from close friends and relatives of the Abulabans. On the stand was Ali's cousin who was communicating with him at the time of the murders. Jurors learned more about what may have motivated this TikTok star to plot and carry out the murders of his wife and her friend. According to his cousin, Ali got jealous that his wife was hanging out with another man after they separated. This was after Ali himself had sex with another woman in the couple's apartment.
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.
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.
S1, EP63 "Emotional Manipulation, Sexual Frustration"
The defendant, Ali Abulaban, told jurors there was 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.
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.
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.
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.
S1, EP58 "I Hit Rock Bottom"
The intensity of a marriage separation by both sides were highlighted to jurors. They heard everything from cocaine binges, domestic abuse, Internet searches of chopped up bodies, and extramarital affairs. In the days preceding the murder, Ali Abulaban admitted that he had become increasingly jealous and paranoid about Ana cheating on him. He was also high on cocaine while posting numerous clips of his marital drama on social media.
S1, EP57 "The Marital Separation"
Jurors learned about what happened during the moment Ali Abulaban and his wife, Ana, separated. Alleged extramarital affair and the filing of a restraining order occurred in the window of time just days before it all ended in the double murder. According to Ali Abulaban, it was he was the victim of verbal abuse, insults, and rejection by his estranged wife and not the other way around.
