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foreign [Music] type of homicidal maniac kind of thing she's not a shooter she's not a stabber
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but I haven't seen somebody this ruthless in a long time I've seen a lot of murders I've seen
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people killed with knives and machetes and guns with vehicles strangulation suffocation
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I have never seen anyone try to kill another person with a piece of cheesecake until now until now
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I'm a private investigator here in New York City I was hired to hunt down and assist in
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the apprehension of Victorian acurova as a perpetrator she's one in a million it was a call from Patrol saying that we
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have a woman Olga who's lying in bed who appears to be under the influence of something and
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she's advising that there are items missing from her bedroom then she tells me this tale of how this
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woman Victoria nazirova came to her home she arrived with what she described as the best cheesecake in New York she says
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please have this cheesecake alga there's okay I'll try the piece of the cheesecake
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immediately she felt extremely ill nauseous sweaty dizzy and she said I've never felt like that before I don't know
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what was going on she passes out within a very short amount of time Olga is fighting for her life someone was
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trying to kill you who did you think Victoria nazarova yep it's phenazepam in the
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cheesecake a sedative primarily used in Russia apparently it has no taste and a little bit too much can produce an
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overdose Victoria found someone that resembled her I think she wanted to kill this woman
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and assume her identity Victoria nasserole is dangerous arrogant cunning I didn't know how dangerous she
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was until I found out the trail of bodies that she was leaving behind in an unconscious State the only thing I
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remember I just took one bite of fish and I was out of it in five minutes for a week I was in the hospital
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police tune discovered that she was wanted for something far more serious this is for murder this is for murder
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right here I believe that Victoria felt that the walls were closing in on her Victoria
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nasirova had to be taken off of these streets I am not a killer I'm woman only woman
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I think anybody that trusts Victoria has something to fear [Music] thank you [Music]
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she is a very colorful criminal in his 20-year career as a New York police detective Kevin Rogers says he never met
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the likes of Victoria nazarova extremely Brazen diabolical and even the street smarts of a career cop left him
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unprepared for what he says she did I've never dealt with a case where cheesecake
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that's laced with poison is utilized it started on September 2nd 2016 with what seemed like a routine call it was a
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call from a patrol saying that we have a woman advising that there are items missing from her bedroom
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the woman was a Beauty Stylist named Olga svik who did eyelash extensions at a nearby salon Patrol officers told
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Rogers she'd reported items including purses had vanished from her home grabbed my partner and we headed out to
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This Woman's house she told him she had just returned home from the hospital where she said she'd been in and out of
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Consciousness with severe dizziness and nausea Olga's bedroom is the top right window when he got to the scene Olga a
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Ukrainian immigrant still seemed a bit woozy can you remember at all the police asking you questions no I don't remember
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the only thing she remembered was that a frantic client from the salon had come to her house a Russian woman named
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Victoria nazarova who had wanted her eyelashes extended in a hurry I need an emergency eyelash repair done please
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please August said I never have done that before every bit of work that I do is in my salon Olga had told her client
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she had no appointments available but she says Victoria was in the habit of being pushy she'd repeatedly suggested
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they spend time together outside of work she started acting like she's my friend
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you know feeling uneasy Olga refused Victorious offers to hang out and she noticed something else about Victoria
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something visually unsettling I thought she looked like me an uncanny physical resemblance
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while Olga turned down socializing with Victoria she relented to her pleas for eyelash help and told her to come over
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Olga's uneasy feeling returned when Victoria showed up at her door with three small slices of Cheesecake he's
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from like famous bakery like famous cheesecake Olga says Victoria quickly gobbled up
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two of the slices and then insisted Olga try the last one did you eat the entire
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piece yeah it's like smokies and what happened I got sick she says she threw up violently
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and then after that I don't remember anything so she tells you this story what are you
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thinking I'm suspicious with Olga acting woozy Rogers wondered if she was a drug user
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I said to her I says all guy I said I want to believe you however this doesn't add up
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she was adamant adamant this 100 happened and this woman is up to something in the garbage Rogers did see something
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I walked over to the waste paper basket and right there was this plastic container with what appeared to be the
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remnants of pastry uh something that looked good Olga identified it as the cheesecake box
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Rogers told his evidence team to bag it and tag it whatever had been in that box
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Olga said it had made her very sick you almost died yeah I was in common 34 minutes but Olga
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admits doctors didn't find anything suspicious in her system still she told Rogers she was
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hospitalized twice he called the hospitals to confirm but says they wouldn't divulge patient information
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which again led me to believe that maybe she wasn't telling the truth Rogers did try to find Victoria nazarova
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but couldn't well it sounds like at that point this case is is almost over dead but a few months later the case came
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back to life when Rogers found a new witness a neighbor of Olga's who reported seeing a woman visiting her the
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day after the alleged cheesecake incident he told me that a woman had come and gone a few times
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the neighbors said the mysterious woman had told him Olga was sick and when he went to check on Olga he walked into a
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surreal scene and called an ambulance her room was like a sauna someone had turned the heat on full blast even
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though it was a Hot August day and Olga was passed out in the bed barely dressed
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when she is discovered she's discovered in this sort of racy lingerie Olga was stunned by this detail because she had
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been wearing sweatpants so someone changed you yeah changed your clothes yeah and there was more pills were
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strewn all over the floor Rogers wondered had someone tried to kill Olga and then stage the scene to
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make it look like a suicide Rogers realized that Olga had probably been telling the truth all along I do
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have to make that sort of uncomfortable apology to her of I'm truly sorry for not believing you 100 at first
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[Music] Rogers now turned his attention again to finding the suspect in this case Olga's
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client Victoria nazarova but where was she Rogers had no way of knowing that someone else was also trying to find her
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his name is Herman Weisberg he's a private eye and a retired New York City detective Weisberg was tracking Victoria
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through ads on Russian dating sites and social media where he says some of her Outreach seemed designed for a niche
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audience she was advertising her Services as a dominatrix call it slash escort he believed
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Victoria was using online ads to commit crimes of opportunity she would knock out with knockout drugs taking money
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watches jewelry whatever she can get and he suspected Victoria had done something
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much worse who murdered your mother Victoria [Music] with the fog of her mysterious illness
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behind her Olga's fix says she went back to work sharing the story of her harrowing ordeal
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that's when another client told her something she never expected to hear she said you know one of my husband friend
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I think somebody also drug him his name is Ruben meet Ruben burukov hi Tina how are you
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about two months before Olga ate that cheesecake Reuben who ran a nearby dry cleaning business met a woman on a
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Russian dating site her name Victoria nazarova she says she's a good cook and I said I'd love to eat the two arranged
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to meet at her place for dinner I just took one bite of fish and I was out of it in five minutes Reuben says he passed
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out and Victoria allegedly went on a shopping spree she took like 800 maybe a thousand dollars in my all together in
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cash 2400 in American Express so she's living high on the Hog on your money absolutely
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and then she brought me here two days later Reuben was still out of it when Victoria literally took him to the
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cleaners one of Reuben's employees took this video she was walking here and there and making some stories to my
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workers all we had wine he drank two bottles of wine I don't remember nothing as Victoria talks to the workers or
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something right the camera catches a glimpse of her sitting in the boss's chair luckily Reuben's sister called an
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ambulance Victoria would flee the scene before it arrived but not before cleaning him out
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I had someone in the basement a couple hundred here she took it she took the watch and Reuben believes Victoria
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nearly took a lot more than that did you almost die I think so that's how I was oh he was a
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sick man but private eye Herman Weisberg says when it comes to Victoria nazarova Olga
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and Ruben may have been the lucky ones in 2017 Weisberg began working with this woman Nadia Ford Nadia said her mother
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Allah alexianko with whom she was very close had gone missing back home in Russia and so every day you would talk
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to her every day Nadia says before her mother disappeared she had mentioned making a new best friend the friend's
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name Victoria nazarova before Victoria came to New York she was living in Russia and had become Allah's neighbor
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in the apartment next door here is your mother standing next to you right and here
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is Victoria right and they seem like an Odd Couple you just wouldn't think they'd hang out with each other she was
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always trying to be very friendly to her you know and my mom she trusts everyone
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in the fall of 2014 Allah had told Nadia she would be sending her daughter special gifts her new best friend
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Victoria would bring them Victoria would be carrying six thousand dollars in cash
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and other valuables including two fur coats to be hand delivered to Nadia but Victoria never showed and on October
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5th Nadia tried to call her mother but couldn't reach her how many times did you call your mother that day October
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5th oh a lot a lot about 100 really 100 times at least at least I tried everything and she would not answer no
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so what are you thinking I got afraid because for eight years she never happened that she didn't answer the
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phone never Nadia says she had found Victoria's sudden friendship with her mom suspicious and that suspicion only
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grew when she accessed her mother's cell phone records online and I saw the last
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person who called her it was Victoria the call had come in at 11 PM and there were no other calls after it and that's
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it and then my heart dropped I just started to have this feeling that something happened
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something terrible something terrible happened Nadia decided she had to go to Russia to find out the truth about two
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years later 48 Hours went with Nadia to retrace her steps we brought her back to her hometown of
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krasnodar about 800 miles south of Moscow near the Black Sea to show us how she launched her own investigation into
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her mother's disappearance first Nadia convinced Victoria to meet her outside her mom's apartment building
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where she confronted her she says Victoria loudly insisted Allah was alive and then she ran up the stairs and then
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I'm like where are you going why are you running and if she runs up here are you
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chasing her exactly yeah Nadia told us she notified police and took them inside her mother's apartment
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so when I walk into the apartment she quickly realized the place had been looted nothing credit card's gone
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nothing nothing family heirlooms an expensive jewelry gone everything and whoever did this also stole most of her
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mother's life savings forty thousand dollars Allah kept in a secret Hideaway if you take this off it was gone and as
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far as Nadia could tell so is Victoria what are the police and the district attorney and what are these people
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saying to you just wait she's gonna go she's gonna come back undaunted Nadia carried on her search
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crisscrossing the country hosting Flyers like this one pleaded with Victoria by text listen
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they give you everything my apartment money you name it please just give me my mom
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back Nadia feared she was getting nowhere when she had an idea Nadia where are we
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right now we're in the highway that Victoria had my mom she noticed that most main roads had traffic cameras what
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if one of them had photographed Victoria the night Nadia's mother went missing but you got to get access to these
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photographs how do you do that it's Russia you buy things you have money you buy things
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Nadia got access to images from local traffic cameras about 100 miles from the apartment that's the camera is she right
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there Nadia hit Pay Dirt that's the camera that showed that my mom was with Victoria these are the pictures that
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changed everything the pictures look blurry but Nadia was certain that this is Victoria nazarova
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behind the wheel and equally sure she knew who was sitting in the passenger seat
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her mom no doubt in your mind but what's the date that this picture was taken October 5th in the morning 10
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o'clock October 5th the day that you lost all communication with your own mother if
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the picture could be believed it meant her mother could still be alive this camera gave me hope
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Nadia called Russian police about the pictures and was shocked at their response what does the detective say he
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said I know I have these pictures with investigators now working the case Nadia says they confirmed Victoria rented this
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car with these plates tracked her down and brought her in for a lie detector test
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but before the results could come back unbeknownst to the cops Victoria caught the first flight out of Russia
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sure she cannot get away with this with Victoria on the Run Nadia desperately continued her search for her
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mother hoping against hope to find her alive I dedicated my life to that I quit everything and everyone I didn't believe
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that my mom is not alive but hope turned a heartbreak in April of 2015 when she got a disturbing phone
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call charred human remains had been found in a remote area about a two-hour drive
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from Allah's apartment authorities called Nadia in to make an identification I said no
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that's not her no it's it just remains and then a few minutes later I started looking at her
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teeth and you knew you knew it was your mother yeah and yeah so I basically recognized my mom by her teeth
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behind me is the Russian town of armaveir it's about 110 miles from krasnodar and it's important to this
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case because it's where Victoria nassarova grew up why is that significant because less than a quarter
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mile from where I'm standing right now is where Allah's body was dumped the body was here
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Victoria took everything for me my family my life my mom my everything by this time Interpol already had issued
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an International arrest warrant for Victoria nazarova in Allah's murder Nadia went home to Brooklyn determined
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as ever to track down Victoria nazarova on a whim she turned to Facebook and you'll never guess whose face popped up
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on the screen Victoria was posting pictures all over Facebook checking in at this place at that place
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beautiful life we flew to Mexico having a great time yeah from Mexico she flew to New York
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Nadia reported all this to U.S police and immigration officials but they couldn't find Victoria that's when Nadia
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started working with private investigator and former New York City detective Herman Weisberg he combed
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through Victoria's Facebook profile with an experienced eye for detail I never look at what people want me to see on
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these sites I'm used to looking at everything except for what's supposed to draw your attention in late at night
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Weisberg meticulously studied every photograph and made a remarkable Discovery right on Victoria's face this
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particular picture was the most beneficial she's wearing the Ray-Ban sunglasses that are mirrored and she
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took a great picture for us to see the dashboard of the car but more importantly
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the stitching on that back headrest yeah that's just black leather with a light gray stitching on it I decided the next
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morning I was going to be at a big parking lot at a train station row after row of vehicles peering into
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Windows hoping to find the make and model that had that stitching and it's a big hub for the railroads hundreds of
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cars in here yeah probably thousands all over the place so it's real easy to look
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for the kind of detail I was looking for then a Chrysler sedan caught his eye so
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you look inside the car and what do you see all right it's got the same stitching and show me on your phone
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there's her mirrored sunglasses the stitching over here turns out that only a Chrysler 300 had this stitching and
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dashboard layout now the hard part finding the specific car Victoria was driving again this was such a wild goose
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chase at this point but Weisberg saw that a series of likes on Victoria's Facebook page were clustered around
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Sheepshead Bay a Russian neighborhood in Brooklyn so you send some of your investigators to look for one of these
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Chrysler 300s did they have any luck well yeah we found a bunch of them then the next day I had somebody run the
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license plates and luckily we found one that came back to a Russian sounding name Weisberg took our 48 Hours crew
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into the area he searched and called me to the scene when he again found the Chrysler 300 at the heart of this
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investigation this is it yeah this is the car this is the car yeah take a look inside you see the stitching yep
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hard to miss now oh there it is now you see how unique it is right yeah this is only an area of 8.5 million
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people you found the car it wasn't a needle in a haystack you had to find a haystack first and when Weisberg went to
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the address connected to that car the building looked familiar Weisberg had seen it before in another one of
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Victorious selfies when you look at it and you see that that telephone pole and the location of
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that manhole cover and that manhole cover and if you look over there you got the telephone pole and you've got the
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two manhole covers this is brilliant Herman through that reflection in her and her glasses you
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figure out this is the apartment building where the man who owns that Chrysler 300 lives and with Victoria in
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the picture you thinking she might be living with this guy it she looks like she took a selfie
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there and it all starts to make sense amazingly the woman Russian authorities wanted for the murder of Nadia's mother
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was now living with her boyfriend in Nadia's own backyard four or five blocks away
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you got to be kidding me you know did you try to go find her no why because I would kill her
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we got lucky early on and we spotted Victoria and her boyfriend out here the boyfriend was the owner of the
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Chrysler 300 and lived in that apartment building that boyfriend told us that he
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eventually became one of Victorious victims himself he says not only did she steal from him but that she killed his
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beloved beagle Joey apparently Victoria got very jealous of the dog getting some
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of the spotlight in their house and decided to poison the Beagle allegedly on the beagle's birthday I'm a dog lover
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so that stuff I've seen him on TV enjoy the beagle's demise didn't sit well with
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Victoria's neighbors either she killed his dog that [ __ ] killed his dog every time you learn something else
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about this woman you realize that if she was left un arrested this could have really ended poorly or
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Brooklyn but now Weisberg knew the hunt was finally over he says he called Interpol
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and Homeland Security but neither one agreed to take action so he alerted the NYPD and on March 20th 2017 the police
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made their move the woman who had once posed as a dominatrix suddenly found herself in handcuffs I just cried
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I couldn't believe that it's actually happened it's a miracle detective Kevin Rogers couldn't believe
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it when his phone rang Brooklyn advises us that they had this woman Victoria nazirova in their custody Rogers says
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the cheesecake case suddenly started making sense Olga had something that Victoria wanted and it wasn't money and
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it wasn't handbags he says the instant he started reviewing police evidence photos he saw something that made it
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clear exactly what Victoria was after this idea of Olga's was found in Victoria's apartment the picture looked
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eerily similar to Victoria herself I think she wanted to kill this woman and assume her identity
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to back up his theory Rogers knew he would need to prove that Olga's cheesecake had been poisoned when he
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sent the container found in Olga's house to a lab they found nothing but when Rogers decided to send it for more
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extensive testing he got a hit phenazepam is a sedative primarily used at the time in Russia it makes you
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sleepy yeah sleepy Coleman Rogers learned that finazepam is especially dangerous in a hot
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environment remember the heater in Olga's room had been left on high and Victoria's DNA was on the cheesecake box
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all these pieces of the puzzle they've come together absolutely so you think this was a planned murder absolutely
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Victoria was charged with attempted murder for the attack on Olga assault and grand larceny before trial she
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agreed to sit down with us at New York's Rikers Island jail Victoria yes what do you make of Herman weisberg's
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investigation to see more go to 48hours.com [Music] we'd heard cruel and colorful stories
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about Victoria nazarova for months so in 2017 when we interviewed her in jail as
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authorities investigated her for attempted murder in Olga's case Victoria nazarova yes Peter Van Sant please have
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a seat thank you we weren't sure what to expect don't you look at this yeah this is Allah yes she insisted she
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had nothing to do with The Disappearance of Nadia's mother Allah Victoria did you kill Allah no
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you did not no there's a woman named Olga who looks a lot like you who claims that
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you tried to kill her by giving her a piece of poisoned cheesecake he wanted her dead so you could steal her identity
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Victoria delivered her answer using the careful language of someone with a lot to lose
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I know whom you mean I know this young woman I can tell you that um I did not force her to eat it you're
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telling me all of these accusations against you all of that is false no I admit doing a part of it but I will
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only talk about it at the trial Victoria nazarova would be in custody for nearly six years as the pandemic
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caused delays before she stood trial for the poisoning of Olga's Vic when the case went to court in January
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of 2023 the trial of a woman accused of poisoning her look-alike with cheesecake
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the media we're watching there are elements of this case that you won't find anywhere else The Beautician
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the cheesecake in all the evidence you have what is the most important in your opinion we're looking at it right here
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it's this container the cheesecake box from Olga's garbage still has crumbs left inside
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outlandish as it is assistant district attorney Dino latorgis tells jurors in opening statements this is not a joke
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it's not just a story they should see it as a potential murder weapon this defendant
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intended to kill this woman and steal her identity he calls Olga first to highlight the
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human consequences and she's going to explain to you everything that happened to her
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everything that she can remember of course she was poisoned with something that impacted her memory cameras were
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not allowed to record witness testimony Olga makes it clear that talking about the details of her ordeal is still like
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reliving a bad dream and testifying in front of her alleged attacker traumatizes her all the more was she
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looking at you oh yeah she looked at me what did you see on her face in her eyes
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you know she's smiling she was smiling she was smirking the state also calls Nadia Ford I was trying
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to get her look look at me look at the person who mother you killed look look into my eyes remember them for
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the rest of your life the judge has strictly limited prosecutors from going into specifics about the murder charges
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facing Victoria in Russia so they're hoping Nadia can finesse the details and still get the point across
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I'll tell you it was a risky strategy what has she told them that you think helps your case what she told the jury
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is that something serious happened in Russia it's one thing for me to say the crime was serious and it's another thing
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for a witness to come in and show with her body language with her eyes with her overall demeanor that this was an
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incredibly serious crime that Victoria nassarova was one for I was staring at her
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I just want her to look at me she didn't look at me once [Music] I was almost certain in the beginning of
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the trial that Victoria was going to testify and I know that she likes to talk as it turned out Victoria declined
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to testify and answer questions but something she did say made it into the trial something she said to me in a part
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of her 48 Hours interview published online it's an Evidence Peter Van Zandt asked this woman in English there is a
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woman named Olga there's a woman named Olga who claims that you try to kill her by giving her a piece of poison
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cheesecake liturgis has someone read Victoria's answer into the record yes I know whom you mean I know this young
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woman I can tell you that I did not force her to eat it I did not force her to eat it for me as
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an individual she's guilty with that statement where in that answer does she say I didn't
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poison anybody Miss nazarova is not guilty of these charges but defense attorney Christopher Hoyt
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doesn't call a single witness to help improve it instead he argues the spectacle of this case obscures the
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specifics details that amount to reasonable doubt there's no direct evidence of anyone seen Victoria
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naturova putting finazepam and cheesecake he reminds the jury Olga's doctors didn't find anything unusual in her
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system and he says there is nothing particularly unusual about Victoria's life in New York either she's been just
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living in the U.S using her normal name that's just the point says the prosecutor Victoria's U.S visa was set
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to expire she was scared of facing charges in Russia and needed a new identity to help her hide there's only
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two categories of people that need someone else's ID you have college kids under the age of
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21 who want to borrow their Buddy's ID to go drink and then on the other hand you have international fugitives who
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need someone's ID as a Lifeline to stay in this country and not go back to Russia
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this is not a case about what happened in Russia and the defense insists that even if Victoria
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poisoned the cheesecake it's not enough to prove she wanted Olga dead I submit you that they have not proven that
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intent this case has more than you need to conclude Beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant is guilty
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but will the jury agree as they file back in what are you seeing on their faces [Music]
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[Music] when this jury goes off to deliberate what's going through your mind what's going through my mind is that
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they understand the Diabolical calculation that occurred for this crime Queens district attorney Melinda Katz
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says Victoria nazarova is a lot smarter and more committed than the average criminal defendant it takes patience
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and it takes planning but it takes the jury in her trial only an hour and a half
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to reach a verdict of the indictment charging the defendant Victorian aceroba with attempted murder
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in the second degree guilty or not guilty guilty guilty of attempted murder in the second degree
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were there tears yeah [Music] at sentencing Olga tells the court her suffering went
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on long after Victoria's attack she caused me to lose trust in people I have difficulty to trust people and I
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cannot know for sure what their true intentional I am grateful that this person will be
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punished for what she did to me the maximum punishment she can stand up is 25 years in prison you are an
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extremely dangerous woman I sentence you to 21 years in jail judge Kenneth holder
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decides a 21-year sentence is enough with credit for time served Victoria may be out in 15. even so she has some
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Choice words for the court as she is Led away barely audible under her mask thank you
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she's a narcissistic homicidal maniac that's what narcissistic homicidal Maniacs say when they something
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everything goes bad for them Victoria's time Behind Bars has already been rough in 2018 at Rikers Island in New York she
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was assaulted by fellow inmates and suffered multiple injuries to her face [Music]
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and when she's done serving her time in America Victoria faces deportation and murder charges back in Russia I know
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there's great satisfaction for you that Victoria's finally going to prison but it's not for what she did to your
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mom is that still an emptiness inside for you I feel better at least I know now that for next 15
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years she's not gonna hurt anyone two of the people Victoria has hurt most have resolved to draw strength from each
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other since tragedy unexpectedly brought them together Nadia and Olga have become the
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best of friends we met I feel like I knew Nadia all my life my mom Nadia she's went
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through hell they seem to know it takes one victim of Victoria nazarova to truly understand
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another do you think the two of you will be friends for life I think yes [Music]
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an Olympic Horseman he was a legend of falling out with a student she attacked him on social media
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he says she drove him to do it the verdict 48 hours Saturday on CBS [Music]