Seven Sins by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: BIO027000, crime mysteries, True Crime, Unsolved crime, LAN008000, Unsolved murders, Murder mystery, BIO024000, TRU002000
ISBN: 9781620840016
Publisher: Village Voice Media, LLC
Published: 2012-05-18T06:00:00+00:00

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Faleh Almaleki remained a fugitive as his daughter, comatose and unresponsive, clung to life.

Noor’s photos, many of them lifted from her Facebook and MySpace pages, were displayed on sites across the Internet.

They showed a beautiful young woman with long, black hair and a wistful expression.

Noor rarely smiled in the photos, possibly because of embarrassment over braces she had worn for a while. But her friends say she was naturally upbeat, blessed with a sassy sense of humor that she employed even when times were tough.

“Noor, Noor, Noor. How can I describe Noor?” says one female pal who spent hours on end chatting with her at a coffee shop on the west side, where Noor was a part-time student at Glendale Community College.

“She was a trusting, loyal person who would calm everyone around her. She was an angel. Like a lot of us [Muslim women], she could be private, but she told me that her dad didn’t understand her.

“We have to respect our parents, but she said he wanted her to be this perfect Arab woman, not questioning or demanding anything — ‘Whatever you say, Father’ — and that just wasn’t her.”

On October 24, Ali Almaleki spoke with a television reporter about his sister.

He said she had been “going out of her way being disrespectful [to their parents].”

Ali continued, “The boy [Marwan Alebadi] that is supposedly her boyfriend now — I don’t like him.”

He contrasted Iraq and the United States, saying, “Different cultures, different values. One thing to one culture does not make sense to another culture.”

But he noted that seeing Noor at the hospital “just broke my heart. Nobody should have to go through that.”

Ali said his father had called home the previous day to ask about Noor’s condition, but “my mom yelled at him and hung up.”

That day, Peoria detectives learned that on October 22, a young man, possibly of Middle Eastern descent, and a woman wearing a veil had picked up prescription medicine for diabetes in Faleh’s name.

Detectives returned to the Almaleki home on October 26 for a follow-up interview with Ali and his mother, Seham.

By now, the detectives had examined phone records, which showed that Faleh had been in touch with his immediate family and others around the time of the assaults.

Seham admitted that she had lied in her earlier interview with police, but she continued to deny knowing her husband’s whereabouts.

Mother and son also admitted they had picked up the medicine at the pharmacy. But Seham insisted she had thrown the pill bottles out of her car window, though she couldn’t come up with a reason for having done so.

Seham again blamed onetime friend Amal Khalaf for what had happened in the DES office parking lot.

Amal got what was coming to her, Seham alleged, because she is the matriarch of a family allegedly flush with drug abusers and thieves.

By contrast, Seham told the detectives, “We have a good family.”

Ali told her, “No, Mom. We don’t.”

Later that evening, Ali Almaleki met alone with Detective Boughey at a Glendale restaurant.

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