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37 Min Left • Original Air Date: Jan 8, 2025
Investigators treated these murders as a domestic violence case where the husband allegedly used coercion, intimidation, and threats to control his wife until it finally ended in a deadly encounter.
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2025
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Season 1


Original Air Date: Jan 8, 2025
Things get emotional for Ali Abulaban when the autopsy photos of his deceased wife, Ana, are displayed for the jury; on the stand was the medical examiner who performed the autopsies on Ana and her friend, Rayburn Barron.
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Original Air Date: Jan 8, 2025
The medical examiner who performed the autopsies on both Ana Abulaban and Rayburn Barron testified. Jurors saw graphic photos from the examination as they learned more about the gunshot wounds.
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Original Air Date: Jan 7, 2025
The jury learned more about the gun used in the shooting deaths of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. They were shot at close range in her apartment.
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Original Air Date: Jan 7, 2025
Jurors heard the perspective of police on what happened to the defendant's wife Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. According to Detective Robert Hopper, jealousy and anger had been on Ali Abulaban's mind before he committed these murders.
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Original Air Date: Jan 7, 2025
Ali Abulaban's lawyers had questions for the Detective-Sergeant who interviewed the defendant after his arrest.
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Original Air Date: Jan 7, 2025
Police said the defendant, Ali Abulaban, called his mother after the shooting deaths of his wife Ana and Rayburn Barron. Jurors later learned about the day his wife, Ana, had enough of the alleged abuse.
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Original Air Date: Jan 6, 2025
The detective who investigates the social media activity of Ali Abulaban answers questions under cross-examination.
Jul 4
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5PM
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Original Air Date: Jan 6, 2025
Prosecutors wanted to make clear without a doubt how they say the defendant pulled off this double homicide. Their case argued that the defendant, Ali Abulaban, was so addicted to social media that he grew angrier, narcissistic and jealous.
Jul 4
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4PM
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Original Air Date: Jan 6, 2025
The jury followed along with the video clips and camera images showing his movements in the lead up to the fatal shootings of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron.
Jul 4
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3PM
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Original Air Date: Jan 6, 2025
More law enforcement officials took the stand. Prosecutors wanted the jury to hear what police found and analyzed when they processed all the evidence linked to the murders of Ana Abulaban and Rayburn Barron, her friend.
Jul 4
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2PM
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Original Air Date: Jan 3, 2025
Jurors listened intently to the candid testimony of one of Ana Abulaban's close friends. Alexandria Black described Ali Abulaban as controlling, mean, attention-seeking, and even racist.
Jul 4
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1PM
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Original Air Date: Jan 3, 2025
A child care specialist took the stand. When Ali Abulaban was arrested, his daughter, Amira, was in the car. She was only five years old when her mother, Ana, and her mom's friend, Rayburn Barron, were killed.
Jul 4
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12PM
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Original Air Date: Jan 3, 2025
The jury learn about the grisly crime scene where his wife, Ana and her friend, Rayburn Barron were shot; the two were at her apartment just days after Ali moved out.
Jul 4
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11AM
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Original Air Date: Jan 3, 2025
Prosecutors contended that the defendant called his mother and confessed over the phone. He then called police. When they arrested him, his daughter was in the car.
Jul 4
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10AM
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Original Air Date: Jan 2, 2025
Prosecutors turned the jury's attention to the shooting deaths of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. A security surveillance camera captured the moments after Ali Abulaban allegedly committed the murders.
Jul 4
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Original Air Date: Jan 2, 2025
The jury watched bodycam video of responding officers. When police arrived, they saw Ana Abulaban and her friend, Rayburn Barron, dead on the couch with gunshot wounds to the head.
Jul 4
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Original Air Date: Jan 2, 2025
Jurors heard testimony from a next-door neighbor who recalled hearing multiple gunshots and then seeing the defendant leave the apartment. Inside that apartment, Ana Abulaban and Rayburn Barron had been shot to death.
Jul 4
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7AM
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Original Air Date: Jan 2, 2025
Another next-door neighbor gave more details about the troubled relationship between Ali and Ana Abulaban. Carolina Prieto remembered hearing the deadly gunshots which ended the life of Ana and Rayburn Barron.
Jul 4
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6AM
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Original Air Date: Jan 1, 2025
The property manager of Ali and Ana Abulaban's building testifies that Ana wanted Ali off the apartment lease just weeks before she and her friend, Rayburn Barron, were killed; prosecutors bring in the next-door neighbor to testify.
Jul 4
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Original Air Date: Jan 1, 2025
The property manager of Ali and Ana Abulaban's building testified that Ana wanted Ali off the apartment lease just weeks before she and her friend, Rayburn Barron, were killed.
Jul 4
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4AM
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Original Air Date: Jan 1, 2025
Prosecutors wanted the jury to hear from close friends and relatives of the Abulabans. On the stand was Ali's cousin who was communicating with him at the time of the murders.
Jul 4
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3AM
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Original Air Date: Jan 1, 2025
Prosecutors presented more details about the relationship drama between Ali Abulaban, the defendant and the wife he was accused of killing. When the couple split, witnesses said he didn't take it so lightly.
Jul 4
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2AM
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Original Air Date: Dec 31, 2024
The defendant, Ali Abulaban, met another woman in the elevator of his apartment building. Ashley Sanchez testified that she had sex with him just weeks before the fatal shootings of his wife Ana and her friend, Rayburn Barron.
Jun 28
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5PM
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Original Air Date: Dec 31, 2024
Friends of Ana Abulaban told jurors in her husband's murder trial that she kept giving Ali second chances. This was after they said she had bruises and faced psychological torment.
Jun 28
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4PM
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Original Air Date: Dec 31, 2024
Jurors learn about the physical abuse allegations against Ali Abulaban, along with accusations that he stalks his estranged wife Ana and even spies on her.
Jun 28
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3PM
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Original Air Date: Dec 31, 2024
The allegations of abuse were crucial to the State's case against TikTok star-turned murder suspect Ali Abulaban.
Jun 28
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2PM
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Original Air Date: Dec 30, 2024
Another close friend of Ana Abulaban took the stand. Prosecutors wanted to portray the defendant, Ali Abulaban, as an abusive, jealous, out-of-control husband whose behavior led him to plot and kill his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron.
Jun 28
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1PM
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Original Air Date: Dec 30, 2024
The jury learned more about the issues in the relationship between the defendant and his wife, Ana. Months before she and her friend Rayburn Barron were killed, she was allegedly beaten, harassed, and even stalked by Ali.
Jun 28
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12PM
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Original Air Date: Dec 30, 2024
According to her friend, physical, mental, and verbal abuse had been a part of Ana Abulaban's home life with her husband before she died.
Jun 28
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Original Air Date: Dec 30, 2024
Jurors had been learning about the evidence against the defendant, Ali Abulaban. He was accused of the premeditated murder of his estranged wife, Ana, and her friend Rayburn Barron. Both were shot in the face at close range.
Jun 28
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10AM
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