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TikTok Star Murder Trial
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, EP16 "Surveillance Footage"
Prosecutors turned the jury's attention to the shooting deaths of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. A security surveillance camera captured the moments after Ali Abulaban alleged committing the murders. The footage caught what was happening between Ali and Ana before the shootings. In the video Ali was heard on the phone with a woman discussing cheating and then, a woman's voice was yelling just before gunshots rang out.
S1, EP17 "The Arrest"
Prosecutors contended that the defendant called his mother and confessed over the phone. He then called police. When they arrested him, his daughter was in the car. The officer who arrested Ali Abulaban told jurors that Ali pulled over on his own and calmly got out of the car with his hands up. San Diego police treated this as a high-risk vehicle stop. The jury watched the entire arrest unfold on police bodycam video.
S1, EP18 "Investigating The Crime Scene"
The jury learned about the grisly crime scene where his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron were shot. The two were at her apartment just days after Ali moved out. Law enforcement arrived at the crime scene a few minutes after the defendant called 911. The arresting officers told the jury that when they took him into custody Ali was calm and cooperative.
S1, EP19 "Amira And The Child Care Specialist"
A child care specialist took the stand. When Ali Abulaban was arrested, his daughter, Amira, was in the car. She was only five years old when her mother, Ana, and her mom's friend, Rayburn Barron, were killed. Jurors learned how authorities attempted to get personal information from young Amira during the murder investigation. She had been living in the apartment during her parent's troubled marriage.
S1, EP15 "The Responding Officers To The Scene"
The jury watched bodycam video of responding officers. When police arrived, they saw Ana Abulaban and her friend, Rayburn Barron, dead on the couch with gunshot wounds to the head. Just minutes after police arrived at the crime scene another police unit caught up with the defendant and arrested him. Ali Abulaban was picking up his daughter from school at the time.
S1, EP14 "The 911 Call"
Jurors heard testimony from a next-door neighbor who recalled hearing multiple gunshots and then seeing the defendant leave the apartment. Inside that apartment, Ana Abulaban and Rayburn Barron had been shot to death. Next, prosecutors brought in police and firefighters who responded to the shooting deaths of his wife Ana and her friend Rayburn Barron. The defendant was the one who made the 911 that brought police to the 31st floor of that luxury apartment high-rise.
S1, EP13 "Hearing The Fatal Gunshots"
Another next-door neighbor gave more details about the troubled relationship between Ali and Ana Abulaban. Carolina Prieto remembered hearing the deadly gunshots which ended the life of Ana and Rayburn Barron. She and her husband each testified that they saw Ali immediately after the fatal shootings and before police arrived at the crime scene.
S1, EP12 "The Next Door Neighbor"
The property manager of Ali and Ana Abulaban's building testified that Ana wanted Ali off the apartment lease just weeks before she and her friend, Rayburn Barron, were killed. Next, prosecutors brought in the next-door neighbor to testify. Jurors got a sense of the problems between Ali and his wife Ana before she and her friend, Rayburn Barron, were killed. Daniel Lacerda learned about Ana's intentions to separate at the time Ali was supposedly trying to save his marriage.
