Viktoriya Nasyrova
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It takes a lot to surprise the seasoned police of the NYPD. But in 2016, a perplexing case leaves New York City detectives and the city itself in utter shock. The media coverage for this case was off the charts. People were obsessed. It's as bizarre a case as you'll ever see. You have this beautiful woman just basically comatose in lingerie.
There were pills laying around. She staged the scene to make it look like it was a suicide.
As police delve in, the evidence quickly leads to more mysteries than answers. The last thing she remembered was someone brought her pieces of cheesecake. And investigators uncover a disturbing pattern. She prepared fish and I took two bites. That's all I remember. The tox screen comes back as negative. It doesn't pick up on any toxin. But a new challenge surfaces when investigators find their suspect, a notorious international seductress who's been targeting victims in at least two countries.
How did Olga Svik’s mysterious collapse in Queens first come to police attention?
It wasn't just a poisoning, it was a stolen identity. There was a dominatrix aspect. We found out that the person who committed this crime was wanted for murder. And at that point, she got some fake documents and tried to blackmail her into working for them. To locate their killer, multiple investigations unite. She was trying to change her identity to hide who she actually was. She said the Russian government tried to blackmail her. She needed to do all of this so that she could never go back to Russia.
New York City is home to immigrants from every corner of the world, including several large Russian-speaking communities. The Russian community in Brooklyn, I mean, it's very large and very varied. The majority of the people that live there are just regular people. You know, they work, they do their best, have a good life, you know, live the American dream. Automatically, there's this, like, you know, kinship, I guess, because you're from the same place. On August 29th, 2016, one of these neighborhoods becomes the scene of an unusual emergency. 911 gets a panicked phone call that there is an unconscious woman at her home in Queens. On the line, a panicked landlord explains he found his tenant, 35-year-old Olga Svik, in dire condition.
First responders rush to the scene, assess the scene. Everything looks a little off. She's found in her bedroom in really rough shape. She's not responsive. She's really not moving. She's pale white. The landlord tells paramedics after not seeing Olga for two days, he checked on her and found her completely out of it. This was quite bad. The landlord sees pills all over the room. The heat was up extensively. They look around, and they draw the only conclusion that this is probably a troubled woman. She killed herself. Not a lot of people who commit suicide through pills throw the pills all over the room. Doesn't make sense. The fact that the heat was on extremely high, it was some 80-some-plus degrees in the room, that was odd, too.
You have this beautiful woman just basically comatose in lingerie. It almost looks like if you picture what a soap opera scene would look like if you staged a dramatic end of life scene. First responders immediately rush Olga to the hospital. Thankfully, emergency room doctors are able to stabilize her. Olga was extremely lucky that she had somebody come down and check on her. She was extremely close to death and could have been dead within the next hour. Olga displays weakness, fatigue, memory loss, disorientation. So they do a physical exam, try to figure out what's going on. One of the diagnostic tools that they use in the hospital is a urine screen. The test tries to figure out whether or not there's an amount of toxin within a particular range.
The test should reveal what kind of pills are in Olga's system. But the results are unexpected. Her tox screen comes back as negative. It doesn't pick up on any toxin. When nothing was raised in these test results, that was really curious. When medical staff approach Olga with questions about what happened, she doesn't seem to remember anything, but insists this was no suicide attempt.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–1:23
2
How did Olga Svik’s mysterious collapse in Queens first come to police attention?
1:23–18:51
3
What odd details at Olga’s apartment made first responders suspect foul play?
18:51–27:03
4
What did initial medical tests reveal about Olga’s alleged poisoning?
27:03–1:10:00
5
Who was Victoria (Anna/Mara) and how did victims identify her across New York?
1:10:00–1:23:14