Woman uses cheesecake to try to kill her stylist and steal her identity | Forensic Files

August feck a New York City Beauty Stylist found one of her clients to be pushy Victoria nazarova had been
hounding her with requests to hang out outside of work she started acting like she's my friend you know
Olga wasn't only thrown off by her client's interest in her but also by Victoria's appearance I thought she'd
look like me the physical resemblance between Olga and her client uncanny [Music]
in August of 2016 Victoria called Olga with an urgent request I need an emergency eyelash repair done please
please please Olga said I never have done that before every bit of work that I do is in my salon
Olga decided to make an exception and agreed that Victoria come to her house she said Victoria showed up with three
small slices of cheesecake and urged her to eat some is from like famous bakery like famous
cheesecake August says Victoria quickly gobbled up two of the pieces and insisted that Olga try the last one did
you eat the entire piece yeah it's like small piece and what happened I got sick Olga says she was
hospitalized and went in and out of Consciousness when she got home she noticed things were missing on September
2nd 2016 detective Kevin Rogers got a call it was a call from Patrol saying that we have a woman advising that there
are items missing from her bedroom Olga told officers that items including her purses had vanished from her home
Olga told detective Kevin Rogers that all she remembered was Victoria coming to her house and giving her a Slice of
Cheesecake Rogers noticed something in the garbage I walked over to the waste paper basket
and right there was this plastic container with what appeared to be the remnants of pastry something that looked
good Rogers took the container into evidence he suspected whatever had been in that box may have made Olga sick but
Olga admitted that doctors didn't find anything suspicious in her system detective Rogers tried to find Victoria
but couldn't well it sounds like at that point this case is is almost over dead a few months later the case came back to
life when one of Olga's neighbors told Rogers he'd seen a woman visiting Olga the day after the alleged cheesecake
incident according to the neighbor the mysterious woman had said Olga was sick when The Neighbor went to check on Olga
he found her passed out in bed with pills strewn about on the floor Rogers wondered if this mysterious woman
had drugged Olga and then staged the scene to look like a suicide he suspected the woman was Victoria
nazarova and he turned his attention back to finding her Rogers had no way of knowing that someone else was also
trying to find her Hermann Weisberg is a private investigator and retired New York City detective he had been hired by
a woman named Nadia Ford to track Victoria down who murdered your mother Victoria
it turns out an International arrest warrant for Victoria nazarova had been issued for the murder of Nadia Ford's
mother Allah alexianko in Russia in 2014. she cannot get away with this on March 20th 2017 two and a half years
after Nadia's mother went missing her efforts to find Victoria paid off Hermann Weisberg had found out Victoria
was living in Sheepshead Bay a Russian neighborhood in Brooklyn detective Kevin Rogers couldn't believe
it when his phone rang Brooklyn advises us that they had this woman Victoria nazirova in their custody
Roger says the cheesecake case suddenly started making sense Olga had something that Victoria wanted and it wasn't money
and it wasn't handbags Rogers says the incident he started reviewing police evidence photos taken inside Victoria's
apartment he saw something that made it clear to him exactly what Victoria was after
it was Olga's ID card he says to hide from authorities Victoria needed to be someone else that someone was Olga I
think she wanted to kill this woman and assume her identity

Viktoria Nasyrova was wanted for murder in Russia, and came up with a daring plan to disappear.

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Brief Summary

Olga's illness after cheesecake leads to a murder investigation involving her client Victoria Nazarova, who sought to steal her identity.

Key points

The Cheesecake Incident. Olga gets sick after eating cheesecake from Victoria, leading to a police investigation.
Mysterious Woman. A neighbor reports seeing a woman visiting Olga after her illness, raising suspicions.
Victoria's Arrest. Victoria is found in Brooklyn, linking her to both Olga's case and a murder in Russia.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I thought she'd look like me.

Olga's surprise at Victoria's resemblance to her.

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