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Chapter 1: What happened on February 4th, 2019?
Chapter 2: Who was Ammar Alyasari and what was his family like?
If you were to ask their friends and neighbors, they would tell you that the Alyasaris were a stable, happy family living a typical suburban life. But on February 4th, 2019, at 8.05 p.m., that facade would come crashing down with a frantic call to 911.
911, what is the address of the emergency? Okay. What's going on there? Okay, are you with the patient now? No, I'm outside. I'm scared to come in. Okay, how old is he? I'm scared if someone's inside.
So the initial 911 call was from Badura Eliasari, and she, during that 911 call, had told dispatchers that she walked into her home, she didn't know what had happened, that her husband was down.
Okay, is he awake? No, I don't know. I just saw him on the ground and I left. Okay, is he breathing? I talked to him, he didn't talk to me.
Nicole Matusko is a prosecutor with the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office in Lansing, Michigan.
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Chapter 3: What details emerged from the 911 call?
So some of the first questions they had for the 911 caller was, how did this happen? What did you see? Did you hear anything?
Yeah.
But Doerr told the operator that when she walked in and saw her husband laying lifeless on the floor, she immediately fled the home, fearful the attacker might still be inside.
I did not go back inside the house because I'm sure someone's still in there.
Within minutes, paramedics and deputies from the Ingham County Sheriff's Office responded to the location, the lights and sirens shattering the tranquility of the suburban street where every house has an attached garage and a tree in the front yard.
So Holt is a residential area. It was a very quiet neighborhood. It was a dead-end street. If you were to drive by the homes, you could see kids playing outside. It's just your average neighborhood community. We do have pockets of high crime, but I wouldn't call Holt one of those pockets of crimes.
Arriving deputies found Bedore crying hysterically in their front driveway.
She was frantic. She ran up to the deputies, telling them that someone could still be in her house and that her husband was down. Her friend had come over to pick up her children.
When deputies entered the home, they encountered a unsettling scene. And from someone who has handled these panicked 911 calls, I can tell you while your training kicks in, in the back of your mind, you do wonder what you're walking into. Of course, we're only human, and there are so many cases that even the most seasoned officer can be shocked by what they find. And this was one of those cases.
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Chapter 4: What clues did the crime scene reveal?
You know, Anastasia, there's a reason why that this observation is so significant, because it tells us a lot about what may have happened and who may have been involved.
And look, we've obviously talked about things like this many times before in AOM, but these type of injuries often prove to be personal, right? Some sort of like deep-seated anger or rage. However, again, always looking at the flip side too, which investigators and prosecutors must do,
While not as likely, we've definitely also seen cases where something like this, even this severe, is completely random with someone with a deep-seated anger and even maybe mental health issues on display. But, you know, Scott, obviously there are signs of this not only being deliberate, but also thought out in advance with the heavy smell that they determined to be bleach in the air.
When they actually got into the scene and started looking at it, there was evidence that the bleach had been poured on top of Ammar because he had dark clothing. And when bleach is poured, it creates the bleach pattern that many individuals are familiar with when they're doing their own laundry.
There was also evidence that the bleach had been poured on the walls and someone had tried to potentially wash down some of the blood spatter that was on the wall. They had found bleach at the scene, but they weren't able to determine if that was the bleach used to pour on top of Amar or on the walls of the location where he was killed.
The use of bleach at a crime scene is usually an indication that the perpetrator had tried to either clean up or destroy evidence as the chemicals in household bleach are typically strong enough to remove bloodstains, footprints, DNA, and other clues that might help identify a killer.
Whether the killer brought the bleach to the scene or found it in the house, it definitely indicated that this was likely not a chance encounter or botched home invasion. This killer came prepared with a plan.
So there was no sign of forced entry. The door didn't have damage to it. There was no signs that anyone had to break into the house. The house was also not ransacked. So everything appeared to be in the place where it was expected to be.
Detectives theorized that Ammar likely walked in from the garage and had been attacked by someone lying in wait who was already inside the house. A truly terrifying thought.
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Chapter 5: How did the alarm system play a role in the investigation?
In February of 2019, husband and father of two, Amar Al-Yusari, was found brutally murdered in his Holt, Michigan home. The perpetrator appeared to be a killer lying in wait, even though the home had a security system.
But detectives had turned up evidence that Amar's wife, Badur, who had discovered her husband's body, had also remotely disabled the security alarm at 5.32 p.m. on the day of the murder.
I know that they really began to get suspicious when they got the records that showed that it was turned off remotely when she was not home. And it would have been consistent with the time or right around the time when Amar would have been coming home.
Investigators also began to uncover inconsistencies in Bedore's statements and actions on the day of the crime.
She had indicated that she couldn't get the garage door to open. But then when the first responders arrived on scene, her car was actually parked inside the garage. So at some point, she was able to open that garage door and then pull her car inside.
There was also the fact that Bedore had called a friend to come pick up her daughters before calling 911. And not only that, when police interviewed that friend, they made a disturbing discovery.
When her friend came to pick up her children, she was not hysterical. She was calm, and she put her children in the car, and she didn't mention that Amar was murdered brutally inside that home. And then she called 911.
And then she called 911. I think, Adesika, that's pretty significant. So Badur goes into the home. Witnesses something so horrific, walks out calmly and makes sure that her children are looked after before even calling 911. So another huge red flag for me.
You know, it's interesting, and I've been kind of swirling these things around in my mind because, yeah, like that strange behavior, again, taking the flip side, like, is it that she's just being strong for the sake of her kids, you know, protecting them by not letting them see her break down?
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Chapter 6: What was discovered about Badur's relationship?
Chapter 7: What did the text messages reveal?
And I think to your point, Scott, and I think it is a good point that as we know, people say all sorts of things and many people may have just taken it as like, oh, he's boasting and really not thought much about it. But, you know, it's also interesting that as much as he talked in the bar when he was arrested, he chose not to make any statements to police.
Yeah, there's many things that you could tell people in the bar and a bartender and order a drink. But one of them seems to be off the wall to tell them a story like this. And one week after Fisher's arrest, Bedora Alassari was also taken into custody. And like Fisher, she gave no additional statement to investigators.
So here we was, Anastasia, talking to bartenders, talking to bar patrons, but not talking to investigators.
And so based on the evidence that law enforcement has collected at this point, which included footage from a dash cam that Bedore had operating in her truck, investigators formed a theory as to how the pair had worked together to commit murder.
Our theory was that Ammar had indicated to Padur that he had left work and that he was driving home. We then had her at a stoplight turning off the alarm remotely. It was our theory that she had communication with Jacob. He knew that alarm was going to be off. She had turned it off and she had let Jacob Fisher inside the home just moments before Ammar Alyassari would have arrived.
Police suspected Bedour Alassari had left the front door unlocked to allow Fisher access and then theorized the ex-soldier waited in the dark for Amar to pull into the garage and enter the home.
Omar likely didn't get far from the door. He had removed his shoes, but then he was murdered right where he would have entered the home. Right behind where he was murdered, there was a room which was like a laundry room. We believed that it was likely that Jacob Fisher was hiding in that room and he ambushed Omar and then struck him with the camp axe that he had purchased just days before.
There was a back door that was unlocked to the back of the house. So we believe that that's likely where he left the home after he murdered Amar.
Investigators were certain that Badur Alyasari had conspired with Fisher to kill her husband. But it was prosecutors who would need to present a compelling case, making the strength of the circumstantial evidence clear enough to hopefully prove it in court.
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Chapter 8: How did the investigation conclude?
Prosecutors argued that Badur Al-Asari played the role of mastermind feeding Fisher lies in a ploy to get him to kill her husband.
That was our theory of the case is that she was fueling him, that she knew Jacob Fisher, being from the military, would have the ability to commit the crime, but she had to ignite that fire and give him a reason to do it. She manipulated him and told him what she wanted him to hear.
But Dora Ayasari had claimed from the start that she had no knowledge of the murder. If this had been true, it was only logical that she would have been enraged at Jacob Fisher for killing Amar, her husband, and the father of her children. However, her actions post-arrest and prior to trial seemed to contradict her denials.
I think what stuck out to me was even after Jacob Fisher and Bedora were charged with murdering Amar, they kept in contact while they were in custody in our jail. And that never made sense to me with her trying to say that she wasn't involved in this.
prosecutors decided to try each defendant separately.
In November 2019, Jason Fisher was the first to face a jury. Charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder, he entered a plea of not guilty.
Circumstantially, we had to prove that Jacob Fisher was the individual inside that home that day.
Prosecutors introduced evidence that Fisher had bought a camp axe and bleach just prior to the murder and that Badr Al-Isari had driven him to the store and then later disabled the alarm to aid him, which, let's be honest, really doesn't look very good.
It definitely doesn't. But again, still technically on its face, it's all circumstantial. And under Cross, the defense tried to convince the jury that prosecutors couldn't definitively place Fisher in the Al-Isari home on the day of the murder.
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