The Chilling Murder of Omar Medina | Killers Caught On Camera | Forensic Files

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING] MAN 1: It just sounds like something bad is happening to her.
WOMAN 1: I heard her scream, no, stop it. MAN 2: I heard some gunshot. Drop it. Whatever it is, drop it.
That is not true that I killed my wife. WOMAN 2: We know what happened because the video
tells us what happened. MAN 3: The camera doesn't lie. NARRATOR: This time on "Killers Caught on Camera."
In California, a woman turns detective-- I knew that he had gone to a CVS. I knew he had gone to eat at Jack in the Box.
NARRATOR: --when her brother goes missing. Any sign of the person is huge. There was a human hair coming out of one
of the holes near the bottom. NARRATOR: And in the UK, a stalkers obsession-- He'd been spotted repeatedly walking
in front of her workplace. NARRATOR: --turns violent. This woman has got no idea what's going to happen to her.
NARRATOR: Chula Vista, a Southern neighborhood of San Diego, California, home to Omar Medina and his sister,
Alicia. We have 70 degree weather during winter, you know? It's beautiful. It's the city of sunshine.
Omar was funny. He was a great uncle. He was a great little brother. He wanted a full life for all of us, for himself.
NARRATOR: When Omar received a large sum of money in a settlement from a lawsuit, he decided to use some of it
to help his family. My brother had given my mom a check for $10,000, and he told her, you could cash this check.
He really wanted the best for our family. Omar and I would come to this park just so we could walk or just talk
about how the day was going. And it was more like mother-child type of relationship than brother sister.
She's been like my second mother. She's been there through thick and thin. She's awesome.
He never took an actual music class, he just knew it by ear, and he was very talented.
He's a really good drummer. And then, he picked up piano. And then, he picked up guitar, and he would write songs.
He would tell me, you know, one day, I'm going to win a Grammy. And you know, I was just like, yeah, yes, you are.
He would talk to me about his plans of having a family, kids, a wife, just-- he wanted the whole thing, like a house with the picket fence.
And it is good memories of good conversations here. NARRATOR: In the summer of 2017, Omar moved into a shared
house on McIntosh Street. Cheri Sommerville was a district attorney. So Omar used to hang out with some buddies.
They lived next to someone named Greg Cook. Greg took Omar under his wing, sort of, like a father figure,
helped him set up a bank account, where he deposited the $84,000 from the lawsuit,
gave him a job, sold him a car. NARRATOR: Greg's brother, Tim, sublet a room in his house
to Omar. In the backyard of that house is, sort of, a-- they refer to it as a game room, but it was more
like a Granny flat, kind of a very basic room with four walls and a door. No water or anything like that.
So Omar ended up moving in to that. He liked the fact that he could do his music in the backyard.
No one really bothered him. NARRATOR: Omar enjoyed his independence but maintained close contact with his family.
Omar and I would talk consistently. Omar would talk to my mom every day, like multiple times a day.
So we knew pretty much where Omar was at all the time. If not, we would check in with each other.
NARRATOR: On September 30, 2017, Omar went round to his mother's apartment. It was in the same block as Alicia's.
This is the place where we pretty much lived for 15 years. I remember walking out of our apartment,
and he happened to walk out of my mom's apartment at the same time. And my daughter ran out and yelled his name,
and she gave him a hug. I could tell that he was a little bit anxious. Omar told me that, you know, he's
like, I'm getting kicked out. And I'm like, why? Did you not pay your rent? And he said, yeah, I paid a month ahead.
I told him, you know what, it's OK. And I saw his car. I turned his car, and his car was full of his stuff.
And I said, where are you-- where are you going? I remember asking him, where are you going?
He said, I'm just going to go drive around. I said, OK. And then, I just saw him get in the car,
and I just stood there. And then, I just watched them, like, take off. NARRATOR: Alicia was worried, when
Omar sent her several messages later that evening. So I saw that the light would turn.
That means that he received the message. So I'm like, OK, his phone's on. He received my message.
He'll answer me later. But then, I messaged him again later on the night, and then it didn't go through.
The next morning, though, my mom calls me, and she tells me, have you spoken with Omar?
And that's when I started to get a little bit worried. NARRATOR: Omar's mother tried to call him,
but all attempts went straight to voicemail. Alicia decided she needed to speak to Omar's roommate, Tim.
She wanted to know if Omar had gone back home the previous night. At first, I actually just got a voicemail.
I didn't get him. So then, a few hours later, he called me, and he told me that he had, that he
had seen him, that he had stopped by, and that he was drunk. He just told me that my brother was not in a good place.
At that point, the family decides that they need to contact the police department because something's, obviously, not right here.
I told them that my brother was missing and just some things were not adding up,
and that we needed help to locate him. NARRATOR: But Alicia didn't get the help she was looking
for from the authorities. If somebody is over the age of 18, and unless they have a medical condition,
they will not go look for them. That's what I was told. You know, when you're an adult, you can go missing.
People do go missing of their own volition. NARRATOR: Alicia was desperate for answers
and decided to take matters into her own hands. I called the hospitals. I checked in the jails.
I started looking for him, you know, wherever I can. Then, after that, I started to look for his phone records.
I wanted to see his outgoing calls. I want to see his incoming calls, who was the last people
he had conversations with. In a situation like this, time is of the essence. So I went to the telephone company.
I went to a shop, and they told me that they don't have those records. And I told the young lady that I was
desperate because my brother had been missing. She was kind enough to give me his password,
and we were able to see all outgoing calls. And I didn't find anything, other than him calling my mom,
so we didn't really have any information. When somebody is missing, it's like the worst feeling
you could possibly feel. Are they in danger? Do they need help? Like, it's so-- the desperation of somebody missing
is just horrible. NARRATOR: Alicia had no solid leads but was determined to find her brother.
She continued her investigation with friends from church. And it just so happens on that day, which
was October 7, one of the people in there search party located Omar's car. I had a lot of emotions going on because, you know,
like, we finally found something. It had been a week. When you have somebody missing, any sign of the person,
you know, any clue, anything that leads to something is huge. NARRATOR: Robyn Garrett was an officer at the Chula
Vista Police Department. A normal everyday call and didn't think anything was going to come of it.
NARRATOR: But Omar's car was in the wrong place and abandoned. When I met with the sister, she explained to me
that his car was parked several blocks away from where he actually lived. It was unlocked.
There was stacked with a bunch of property inside of it, which is not normal. When you have visible electronics,
things of value in the car. NARRATOR: The case was escalated to Detective LeVar Brown.
Finding the vehicle around the corner from his house, that was a big, big, big flag for us.
If someone's just leaving on a road trip or something, they're going to take their car with them.
Or if they were moving for some reason, they're going to move with their car. They're not going to park it around the corner
from their house with all their belongings still unlocked. So those things, that raised some red flags.
Like, this is something more suspicious. This is more than just a missing person
who just hasn't contacted their family in a few days. I asked the officer if she could, please, go to the house
and see if he was there, or if they could find any indication of what could have happened.
The sister explained that some of his property should still be at the house. And so, those are the things that I'm looking for.
That was, like, the first time I felt like a relief because somebody was going to start looking for him.
Like, things are starting to move. Me and my partner we walked up to the house, and I knocked on the door.
A Timothy Kirk answered, and I asked if he had seen Omar, that his sister had been looking
for him, Tim explained to me that he had not seen him in several days, that he moved out just recently,
that all of his property was gone. And I asked him if it would be OK if I can come into the house
to, kind of, just check and see if Omar's property or if anything else was in there,
maybe help find where Omar may have gone. He let us through in the living room, and I just basically followed him.
And I wondered where Omar's room was. And he said, it was out back. And when he set out back, I didn't realize it was a house,
actually, in the backyard. And the first thing I noticed was that, when you walk to the little house,
that there was a broom and some debris. Looked like carpet had recently been removed,
and there was a puddle of water. And I noticed that there was a shattered window in the back as well.
And to me, it didn't seem like anyone had recently lived there. Tim told me that it was how Omar lived.
He was a very messy person. NARRATOR: Officer Garrett continued to search for clues in the house.
Alicia took the opportunity to look through receipts found in Omar's car. A paper trail of expenditure helped her calculate
some of Omar's last movements. I knew that he had gone to CVS. I knew he had gone to eat at Jack in the Box.
It was the last place he had gone to eat. It gave me some, sort of, like, OK, I knew these
are the places that he was at. I took the receipts to the police station, and I told the detective, that was assigned at the moment,
these are the last places that my brother was at. You could go and get the surveillance footage.
NARRATOR: By October 12, Omar had been missing 12 days. Alicia continued to gather her own evidence.
Then, a significant and gruesome discovery changed everything. There was a man named Skip Horton.
He actually cleans the bottom of boats. So he had gone out in a dinghy on the bay here in San Diego.
He was on his way to clean a boat on the other side, near Coronado Island, and he came
across a 55-gallon drum that was floating in the middle of the bay. He called the San Diego Harbor Police Department
and called it in as a boating hazard. Most people don't realize that the edges of the bay
are deeper. It allowed for boats to travel. However, in the middle, where the barrel was dropped off,
isn't very deep. Earlier in the day, we're down two to four feet. So you can imagine, four feet of water
with a barrel that's three feet, it's not going to hide very well in there. So they didn't do their research.
As they began lifting in, they realized there were steel cables drilled into the barrel
and tied to cinderblocks, a makeshift anchor, if you will, to hold the barrel down.
Then, they got the barrel back on to the boat. And there were some holes drilled in it.
And they noticed that when they looked inside, they sound like-- it's all like a brown fur or blanket.
You can see a hand sticking out. There was what appeared to be human hair coming out of one
of the holes near the bottom. So then, in fact, we knew we had a human body, and it was a homicide investigation
began at that point. NARRATOR: The chief of police was now involved. It has to go through the whole autopsy and identification,
but we start checking immediately. Do we have any missing person cases? Oh, well, we have a missing person in Chula Vista.
So all these little pieces come together. The deceased had been stabbed and had sharp force injuries
to various parts of his body. There were 66 sharp force injuries. NARRATOR: When police combined the autopsy and missing
person reports, they could confirm that the body was Omar Medina. Alicia was informed.
Hey, they just told you that they found your loved one in a barrel, dead. It is incredibly hard to think of what
my brother went through. He was stabbed in the heart. He was stabbed in the nose.
He was stabbed in the neck. Once it's discovered that, yes, this was a positive identification.
This is Omar Medina's body, then the police start working on getting search warrants for various locations.
NARRATOR: The warrants included CCTV footage from the Marina, a potentially vital electronic witness
to how Omar's body ended up in the water. We knew when the barrel was recovered,
so we requested video from all these different partners, so we can start surveilling the video
to figure out when Omar and the barrel went into the water. These two cameras played a vital role
because the vehicle with a boat attached was seen backing up into this harbor, about where we are standing now.
NARRATOR: The footage revealed two men launching a boat into the water. Now, we're starting to get some factual evidence and
some things to follow up on. We learned that a certain vehicle, which was a green Ford F-150, was seen at the residence,
where Omar used to reside. We eventually able to see that the barrel was in the boat at the time.
NARRATOR: The truck was registered to Tim Cook's brother, Greg. When questioned, Greg told police
that Tim borrowed it, as he needed to get out of town. He told his brother Greg Cook that he was actually
in Northern California because he needed to get some of his items from his girlfriend's
residence in Oroville. NARRATOR: The recording of the truck contradicted Tim's alibi.
Detectives turn their attention to retracing Omar's footsteps. The key is, you want as many cameras
out there as you can because they tell the real story. We really had to work backwards and put all of this
together and figure out, OK, what happened to Omar? When did the homicide actually occur.?
And then, how was it that he ended up in a drum out in the bay. NARRATOR: Alicia's detective work with the receipts
helped police discover footage of Omar's last movements. We know from video surveillance, that
was collected, that he went to a CVS or Rite Aid type of store, bought some items.
Then, from there, he went to a Jack in the Box, got some food. And that Jack in the Box happens to be
very close to Macintosh street. From there, the call detail records for Omar's phone
number, showed that he was actually back at that residence on the afternoon of the 30.
NARRATOR: But the police still needed to identify the owner of the boat filmed at the Marina.
The video quality wasn't good enough, so we assigned an actual detective to research the boats.
She actually did an excellent job. And based off the sticker pattern and the colors that
was on the side of the boat, the company was able to say what year they believe the boat was in.
NARRATOR: Through an incredible process of elimination, they found the owner. The boat's registered to somebody that Tim Cook knows.
We were able to go up into a helicopter from one of our local law enforcement agencies,
fly over the residence, and spotted the boat on the property. NARRATOR: The helicopter confirmed that the boat
belonged to Derek Spurgeon, who was a friend of Omar's roommate, Tim Cook. Focus then turned to the green truck.
We were able to track the green truck leaving that residence, with the boat in tow,
driving past this intersection from the Elder Community and then pulling into a nearby convenience store
with a gas station, where they filled up gas. NARRATOR: A figure in a red t-shirt and white shorts
led to a breakthrough. He has a very distinct tattoo on the back of his calf. You were able to see that in the video surveillance.
NARRATOR: It was Tim Cook, Omar's roommate, the same man who had showed officer Robyn Garrett around the house, 33 days earlier.
We got our suspect with the barrel, which we believe Omar Medina was in at the time.
So that video surveillance was very critical. NARRATOR: Police had now identified
the two men in the truck as Tim Cook and his friend Derrick Spurgeon. It captured them taking the boat out into the bay,
and you can actually see a white cylindrical object in the hole of the boat. The video surveillance was able to show that they only went out
on the water for, approximately, an hour, which is a fairly short time to be out.
We believe they work together. Derrick Spurgeon helped him. They attach to the barrel that was made of a rope wire
and cinderblocks, hoping that that would sink the barrel. And then, they disposed of the body out in the bay.
And then, leaving the Marina, and then driving by another private business that had video,
and then driving back by the convenience store. According to the world's biggest report on homicide,
80% of the victims of homicide are men and boys and 90% of the perpetrators. So most killing, most murder as well,
is a man killing another man. NARRATOR: Another key recording revealed Omar's car being moved
the day after he went missing. Through video surveillance, detectives are able to piece together that Tim Cook then drives
Omar Medina's car away from the residence, several blocks down the road and parks it on Oak Lawn with all of Omar's
belongings still in it. And then, on the video surveillance, you see Tim Cook, who we believe to be Tim Cook-- you
couldn't see the person's face, but it has similar posture and stature-- walked towards the McIntosh house from there.
We started surveillance there at the residence, where Omar live with Tim Cook. And we believe that the crime scene was actually
in that corner of the room. And the drywall was removed, the flooring was removed in order to prevent any forensic evidence
being collected from the scene. NARRATOR: Also, after Omar went missing, Tim Cook's suspicious behavior continued, revealed
by point of sale footage. They were able to get video surveillance from a Home Depot,
which showed him buying a tarp, a scrub brush, Simple Green concentrated cleaner.
We were also able to capture him on video surveillance at another convenience store, where he was purchasing gloves.
He was dressed, sort of, in an outfit that you'd wear if you were working, manually.
It was significant because during that time, when he was running around doing these errands to clean up and cover
up his crime, we had text messages showing that he told his brother, Greg Cook, that he was actually
in Northern California. And so, he, sort of, kept up this lie, this facade that he
was out of town while he was here in San Diego County, cleaning up the crime scene and disposing of the body.
We saw Mr. Cook in the driveway, power washing stuff, loading bags of trash, wet rags thrown into his, vehicle
and then leaving the house. NARRATOR: The same phone records hinted at a strained relationship between Tim Cook and Omar.
It came to a head the night before Omar was murdered. We knew that on September 29, Tim Cook was
very upset with Omar Medina. He had a friend over at the house, who he was introducing Omar to.
According to text messages that Tim Cook sent, Omar was extremely intoxicated when this person
came over to the house, so much that he couldn't really stand up. Mr. Cook felt disrespected and embarrassed by the way Omar had
acted in front of this person. Also, Mr. Cook talked about Omar's cleanliness and called Omar a dirty pig and saying that it was not
going good for Omar right now. NARRATOR: A search of his phone and browsing history
provided more clues as to Tim Cook's motive for murdering Omar. From text messages that we were able to recover,
it was pretty apparent that this whole situation with Omar, living in the backhouse, was really
just a financial situation because Tim Cook didn't have very much money. It was apparent that Tim Cook knew
that Omar Medina had received this $84,000 settlement from a legal case. Tim Cook had copies of Omar Medina's bank information,
personal identifying information, and basically had access to his savings and bank account.
People knew that he had this money, this new money, and that information was in Mr. Cook's cloud account.
NARRATOR: Detectives believed that, ultimately, Tim was after Omar's money. Tim Cook repeatedly stabbed Omar Medina in that back room,
then enlisted his friend, Derrick Spurgeon, because he had access to a boat. We presented the case to the San Diego County District
Attorney's Office, and they agreed there was enough probable cause to arrest Mr. Cook and his accomplice on the charges of murder.
I remember getting a call from LeVar and asking me if I was home. And I said, yes.
And I remember him telling me, OK, I'm going to be there in half an hour. And then, he asked if my mom was there.
And I remember LeVar telling me that they hadn't made an arrest that morning, and that it was Tim.
And I just remember sobbing. I was just sobbing uncontrollably. Like, yeah, it was a special moment.
Tim Cook was convicted of second degree murder, and he was sentenced to 56 years to life in state prison.
We discovered that he had recently discharged from California Department of Corrections parole,
so he did have a criminal past and had served a significant amount of time in the State Penitentiary.
He was a member of a prison gang that's prominent here in the California Department of Corrections.
Tim Cook had been sentenced to prison prior to the homicide for an attempted murder, where he shot a man in the face,
and he received 17 years in state prison. NARRATOR: Derrick Spurgeon was given six months for unlawfully
disposing of a dead body. Sometimes, in criminal psychology, the statement is said that the best
predictor of future behavior is past behavior. And so, if your past behavior includes violence and attempted
murder, then that is a pretty good predictor that you're certainly capable of doing those things again
in the future. People can change, and they break their cycle. But overall, repeated criminal convictions for violence,
it's a pretty bad sign. In the case of Omar, it was a little different because Alicia
was really involved, and she really got the initial part of the investigation going.
Without her supporting and her fight for her brother, information and some of the facts may have taken longer,
but her dedication to her family and her brother was vital. The video surveillance was extremely
important to this prosecution. I mean, we wouldn't be able to trace their steps.
We wouldn't have known where they went. We wouldn't have known what Tim Cook was doing,
following the homicide. And then, it was able to show us exactly where they went
and how they were able to dispose of the body out in the bay. When we have the camera footage
or we have the body worn camera footage, it's very difficult for someone to argue the point
that that wasn't me. And when we were-- 30 years ago, we just didn't have those tools available to us.
When we can show the jury this video, we can show them the barrel in this boat going out into the sea with Omar in there.
They can see the planned malice in this, what it took to get rid of Omar, this person, like it was trash.
I remember the day that Omar was born. I was super excited that I had a new baby brother.
I was only able to see him through the little cubes-- box that they have him in, and I had
to see him through something. The last time I saw him, it reminded me of his birth
because I got to see him through a screen, you know, like, his body. So that was my last goodbye, just
to see him through a screen. I missed my brother terribly. I didn't know what big of a role he played in my life.
I always felt like I'm the big sister, you know. Like, I'm your provider, your protector.
In reality, I think he was my escape, too. I think he was the thing that gave me something
to work for, and fight for, and try to be good for, and try to set an example for.
Just like he would tell me that my kids were, you know, his everything, he was my everything.
NARRATOR: In big cities, there aren't many trips you can do without getting caught on CCTV.
There are some gaps in the network, but cameras can usually help, as in Omar Medina's case.
During the entirety of the investigation, video surveillance played a pivotal role on this,
starting from locating the barrel being backed into the water on the boat to retracing the steps of the day.
NARRATOR: The footage rarely shows the crime being committed, but circumstantial video evidence
can still be enough for a conviction, like in the case of Marina Shaban. Birmingham in the UK, January 2022.
Amber Haque is a journalist, who knows the city well. Birmingham is the second largest city here in the UK.
It's a pretty diverse place. It's a really big South Asian population. NARRATOR: It was home to 41-year-old Marina Shaban
and her husband Mohammed Irfan. Marina and Mohammed were both of South Asian descent.
They'd had an arranged marriage when they were teenagers, and they'd had four kids together.
Mohammed Irfan was a pretty quiet hard working taxi driver. He struggled a bit to assimilate into UK life.
He struggled with English, but his family was his whole world. NARRATOR: Kirsty Bennett is a criminologist
at Leeds Beckett University. What we see in those Marina, particularly adopting quite westernized views, she was quite independent,
and she was working, earning her own income to support her children. NARRATOR: At times, Marina's lifestyle
clashed with Mohammed's ideals. They had, sort of, a bit of a traditional, kind of, Pakistani-South Asian marriage.
By 2016, it's clear that Marina wanted to get her own freedom and do stuff outside of the marriage.
She wanted to join the gym. She hung out a bit more with her family members. It was New Year's Eve, 2020, when
Marina finally felt like she had the courage to leave him. Marina had moved in with her mom and the children,
and she's got a new partner. She was moving forward with her life. NARRATOR: 28th of January 2022, police
were called to an address on a residential road in Birmingham. They found a body slumped on the doorstep.
It was Marina. Members of the public tried to help Marina. The emergency services arrived, too,
and they battled to try and save her life. NARRATOR: Resuscitation attempts failed,
and she was pronounced dead. She had a throat slit, and she was stabbed 20 times.
The only witness to the attack was a young boy. He'd seen someone in an Afro wig,
who followed Marina to the doorstep and attacked her. So the police start looking at the CCTV
to try and find someone with this Afro to match the description. They couldn't find anyone.
But they found a suspicious-looking vehicle that was leaving the scene at the time of the murder.
This was a Toyota Corolla. NARRATOR: Retracing Marina's footsteps, police discovered she'd left work
just minutes before her murder. Emi Polito is an expert witness and forensic video analyst.
We start with the CCTV here, and we have three different camera views, filming from outside the victim's work location.
And right away, the police would have been looking at this and noticing a vehicle.
The same vehicle going up and down outside Marina's place of work. You know, potentially, this could be a taxi,
but it's just too much of a coincidence that a vehicle, just a few hours before the murder,
is identified to be driving up and down the road, so close to the murder. Police have got to be thinking, we have to have a look at this.
Potentially, could be a lead, very important lead. Investigators then began trying to identify
the owner of the vehicle. Most of the time, with CCTV of this nature, it's virtually impossible to decipher all the characters
of the license plate. The police thought that, maybe, it was a 55 plate. NARRATOR: Detectives decided to trace the car.
Trying to find any owners of that maker model in the Birmingham area, but they didn't find any information.
NARRATOR: Police reviewed more footage from just before the attack and saw a man outside Marina's work.
He'd been spotted repeatedly walking in front of her workplace. We have a couple of frames, maybe two or three frames,
when we can discern he's looking inside. You know, what is he trying to do? Does he want her to know that he's stalking her?
Does he want her to know that he's there? He's watching her. Or is he in disguise?
Is he undercover? Is he just probing you to see if the situation and the circumstances are right for him to find the right time
and place to hurt her, potentially murder her? Or is it simply just an obsession that he had?
If you notice a person repeatedly, who is new in your environment and who appears to be following
you, or is harassing you, is invading your daily routine, it might count as stalking.
It might not because it could also be illusory because it might just be someone else who's also now
walking their dog in the park. And you might be second guessing yourself and thinking,
well, probably not so bad. Maybe it's coincidence. And you don't want to overreact.
People are most likely to be stalked by a current or former romantic partner, especially romantic partner of more than two years.
He had waited nearby to see when she would finish work. Marina then leaves her place of employment
in her new partner's car and travels back to her mom's house. We are looking at Marina's last moments alive.
This woman has got no idea what's going to happen to her. She's just going by her normal life.
And what? Less than an hour later, less than a half an hour later, she will be dead.
It's very chilling. It's very sad. It's also an important piece of footage because it established what was happening
and what is going to happen to her. Marina's new partner dropped her off outside of her mom's house.
Marina then starts walking towards her mom's front door, when a male with a knife attacks Marina.
Despite the best efforts of Marina's neighbor, Marina, unfortunately, dies at the scene.
NARRATOR: But a week after the murder, they made a breakthrough on the car seen driving outside Marina's work.
That Toyota Corolla was found in this area called Rockville Road, and the police found that that vehicle was registered
to Mohammed Irfan, who'd purchased it just a few weeks earlier. NARRATOR: Police also confirmed that Muhammad
was the man stalking Marina, and the car provided important evidence. Blood was found on the door handle.
They found a lump hammer inside the car, and they also found a wig box. And that was really important because it implied
to the police that Mohammed had tried to disguise himself on the night of the murder to distract the police
and prevent them linking him to Marina's murder. NARRATOR: After reviewing hours of CCTV footage,
one particular clip showed Mohammed immediately after the murder. That same vehicle pops up in here after the murder,
and we have a suspect approaching a bin and disposing of something. NARRATOR: Police had to work out what
had been thrown in the garbage. Luckily, they got there in time and found a knife.
It was quite clear that Mohammed was trying to cover his tracks. NARRATOR: Then, police uncovered footage of him,
just minutes after Marina stabbing. We're looking at Mohammed Irfan half an hour after the murder, and we clearly
see he's got no remorse, whatsoever, about what has happened. You know, everything suggests to me that this
was totally premeditated. Imagine, after having committed a murder, you would be, perhaps, in a state of panic or shock.
You would try to hide yourself from view and, perhaps, take some time by sinking
in what has just happened. He just goes on about his life, and he goes and hook up with his mates at the barber shop,
and very calm. He doesn't look agitated. He doesn't look stressed. Potentially, he appears as if he's very pleased with how
the night turned up for him. NARRATOR: Police now had what they needed. On the 7th of February 2022, Mohammed was arrested
for the murder of his wife. More details started to emerge about the background to Marina
and Mohammed's relationship. NARRATOR: Mohammed's reaction to Marina's death seemed callous.
When Mohammed found out Marina was dead, he turned round to friends and said, where am I going to find
an English-speaking woman now? Mohammed had these expectations that Marina should look after and cook for his family.
Reports then came out that Mohammed had been physically abusive to her. On one occasion, he had caused bruising to her arm,
her eye, and a thigh. He would, sometimes, make comments about her appearance, what she was wearing,
saying that some of her outfits were a bit too revealing. Violence towards intimate partners
usually starts with coercive control, psychological violence, like belittling or mocking
people who are going out with their friends, maybe taking control of their finances.
And then, it will escalate. But from that escalation, you're much more likely to, also, then be the victim
of intimate partner homicide. NARRATOR: Friends and family described one particular incident in 2018.
Mohammed tried to emotionally manipulate Marina into staying with him. The couple had got into quite a heated argument.
Marina had said she was going to leave. And then, Mohammed said, that if she did,
he threatened that he was going to cut himself. She started to walk towards the door, and he did exactly that.
He cut himself. Mohammed is really putting a lot of responsibility on Marina for his happiness, his safety, and also his life.
And that puts Marina in a really difficult position because this is a father of her children,
threatening to harm themselves if she leaves. When we look at certain religious backgrounds as well,
the act of suicide is a sin. And if somebody should kill themselves, they're never going to have a peaceful afterlife.
So Marina is not just her potentially losing her husband, it's going against their religion
and their personal beliefs. NARRATOR: It was nearly four years before Marina got
the courage to leave Mohammed, but it wasn't the end of their issues. Not too long after, Marina meets another man,
and Mohammed found out about that. And then, he just began to exhibit this extremely
jealous, angry behavior. He was calling her all the time. She blocked his number.
Marina confided in her friends that Mohammed just wouldn't let it go. He was starting to stalk her.
He found it very difficult to accept the relationship had ended, and particularly
that Marina had moved on. NARRATOR: Mohammed was found guilty in July 2022 and sentenced to a minimum of 22 years.
The CCTV footage was the whole crux of this case. It was enough evidence to charge Mohammed with murder
and eventually convict him. CCTV was totally integral to this case. Without that, the police might not have got that conviction.
Within Asian communities, divorce is not really an accepted practice. So once they agree to marry, that is for life,
and that's a really strong commitment that shouldn't be breached. There is still this stigma that
exists within the community, that if you divorce within a marriage, that it's somehow a failure,
and divorce should be avoided at any cost. And it's still seen as quite shameful thing,
I would say, particularly for men, if you have been divorced, and your wife has left you.
That's seen as dishonor. So when we're looking at Mohammed after the event, smiling with his friends, it might
be that he feels his behaviors are going to be acceptable to that community and what he's doing
is right and wrong. Because Marina, in his opinion, isn't behaving in a way that he thinks is acceptable.
Domestic violence killings within our society is predominantly a male on female.
Women are the greatest risk once they choose to leave their partner. Ultimately, in this case, this was
Mohammed's obsessive jealousy that led to this brutal and senseless attack, and it's left these four kids now without a mother
and with a father in jail.

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Brief Summary

Omar Medina's murder investigation and Marina Shaban's stalking and murder are detailed, highlighting the role of surveillance footage in both cases.

Key points

Omar's Life and Dreams. Omar Medina was a talented musician with dreams of a family and a Grammy.
Alicia's Desperate Search. Alicia takes matters into her own hands when her brother goes missing.
Gruesome Discovery. A floating barrel in the bay leads to a homicide investigation.
The Investigation Unfolds. Police piece together Omar's last movements through surveillance footage.
Identifying the Suspects. Video footage reveals Tim Cook and his friend disposing of Omar's body.
Tim Cook's Motive Revealed. Detectives believed Tim Cook was ultimately after Omar's money, leading to a tragic outcome.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Any sign of the person is huge.

Alicia reflects on the importance of finding clues.

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