prosecution s theory that this was a premeditated honor killing. he accused boughey of making up that whole idea. you gave him this it was honor because you knew something about his culture, right? yes. bill: and then the prosecution countered with the two police officers who responded to the prior incidents involving noor and her father. he told me that he would rather spend the rest of h his life in jail than have his daughter continue to disgrace his family and he believes that his family law was higher than our law. bill: finally, detective boughey returned to the stand to read the translation of the jailhouse phone calls al-maleki had made to his wife. using al-maleki s own words against him. no one hits his daughter but honor is dear. when you hear a piece of evidence like that, is there any doubt in your mind that you
of phone calls to his wife. husband and wife were told their conversations were being recorded. even still, those tapes reenforced investigators belief that they were dealing with an honor killing. neither the mother nor the father thinks they did anything wrong to al-maleki. they think noor al-maleki is better off in paradise dispatched there by her father than living as an american
no one would talk to us. investigators tell us one way honor violence differs from other kinds of domestic violence is that the family often sides with the attacker, not his victim. in peoria, arizona, police claim that is what happened as they tried to capture faleh al-maleki who fled to europe by way of mexico. he spent two to three days in nogales and took a bus to hhermosillo and from mexico city flew to london. when they ran his passport they found an american warrant for h his arrest. within days he was flying back to the u.s. accompanied by federal marshalls. he landed in atlanta. peoria arizona police
up on the median and runs over a tree. he looks out, noor. noor my baby is lying there. two vastly different accounts of what happened. who would the jury believe. the prosecution s first witness was charles cooper who worked at the welfare office and said he saw al-maleki rundown noor and amal and then run off. cooper was questioned by stephanie low, record s caisson tell. coal. can you tell us what you saw then? two females exited the building and then the screech of the tire and sounds of cracking and breaking and then the lady hits the ground. a bystander tearily recounted how she rushed to noor s aid after she was hit. i pushed the hair out of her face and i held her hand.
detectives were there waiting. they interrogated him in this room at the airport. state your name, sir. okay. this case wasn t a who done it. my biggest interest was to find out why it happened. and to try to get al-maleki to confess to purposely running down noor and amal. i think you are a man that is trying to do the right thing by your family and by your kids and everything else, okay. i understand that. and what happens more often is that good people like yourself get into a situation and for a split second in their lives they make a very bad decision and i know this was not an accident. i lost control. i will not believe that you suddenly lose control of your car, no. you pointed your jeep at both of them and you struck them. i lost control and i don t