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A alluring seductress with a adulation for furs fabricated an absurdity while active through Russia. It seems she forgot to adumbrate the anatomy of her declared victim -- whom she had in the advanced bench of her rental car.
The mistake, which was bent on cartage cameras, would eventually put her in the average of an all-embracing manhunt and a ambition for a tough-talking New York clandestine eye.
"48 Hours" and contributor Peter Van Sant campaign from New York to Russia with a babe who's assertive that woman in the advanced bench is her missing mother.
Herman Weisberg: I assumption I accept a altered appearance of the apple because of my job. …In my world, there are a lot of bad bodies accomplishing a lot of bad things... And aback bodies acquisition themselves a ambition of bad people, they … alarm addition like me. …we're the aftermost of the accoutrements for appoint so to speak.
Herman Weisberg knows crime.
Herman Weisberg: I formed for 20 years in the New York City Brand Department. Aboriginal as a brand administrator on patrol. …After that I went to narcotics.
After 14 years as a detective, he affronted in his brand to alpha his own analytic agency: Sage Intelligence Group.
Herman Weisberg: I can't get this out of my claret -- the accomplished detective – the instincts, accepting a little acute faculty of awareness.
And aftermost March, he came beyond a case of a lifetime. It all started with a abstruse affluent woman with a affection of gold.
Herman Weisberg: I accept a applicant … she's affectionately accepted as the "Mitzvah Lady" about our office. …And mitzvahs in -- in Jewish ability are acceptable accomplishments and nice things that you can do for people.
Weisberg already anchored a botheration for the "Mitzvah Lady". Now she pays him to fix added peoples problems, including Nadia Ford's.
Herman Weisberg: The "Mitzvah Lady" looked into her eyes and -- and saw that she was activity through the affliction accessible bearings and aloof couldn't advice herself.
Ford now had one of New York's finest clandestine board on the case aggravating to break the dematerialization of her mother, Alla Aleksenko.
Nadia Ford, left, with her mother Alla Aleksenko.
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Nadia Ford: My mom was aggregate for me … everything. …The actuality who aloft two kids aback in, you know, Russia in '90s on her own, accept four or bristles jobs and, and you know, aggravating to accord her kids the best.
Peter Van Sant: Growing up … had you absolutely dreamed about activity to America?
Nadia Ford: Of course. I grew up on "Tom and Jerry," "Curly Sue," and -- all these abundant movies ... funny comedies …. Of advance I wanna -- I wanna see it, of course.
Nadia Ford aboriginal came to the United States in 2007 to study. She got affiliated and divorced. And in the abatement of 2014, she was attractive advanced to visiting her mom in their hometown of Krasnodar, amid abreast the Atramentous Sea.
Peter Van Sant: And so every day you would allocution to her?
Nadia Ford: Every day. Every day.
And Nadia started audition added and added about her mother's new best friend, a woman declared Viktoria, who had confused abutting door.
Peter Van Sant: So actuality is your mother. …And actuality is Viktoria. …And they assume like an odd couple.
Peter Van Sant: Your mom -- looks like my -- my mother.
Nadia Ford: Right.
Peter Van Sant: And actuality looks a woman like a alluring Hollywood … star.
Nadia Ford: Yep.
Peter Van Sant: You aloof wouldn't anticipate they'd adhere out with anniversary other.
Nadia Ford: She was consistently aggravating to be absolute affable to her. You know, and my mom, she assurance everyone.
In fact, Viktoria was planning to appear to New York and offered to accompany some presents to Nadia from her mother.
Nadia Ford: It was money -- $6,100. …she bought this cape -- cape coat. It's a Russian thing. And she bought two of them.
Viktoria took the money and the coats, but kept putting off the New York trip.
Nadia Ford: And my mom was like, "I'm abashed about the money and coats, that I feel like she's not gonna accord me back." … she was absolute -- absolute afraid.
Then, on Saturday, October 4, her mom said Viktoria agreed to acknowledgment the money and the coats. But the abutting morning, Nadia became abashed aback her mother didn't acknowledgment her phone.
Peter Van Sant: How abounding times did you alarm your mother that day, October 5th?
Nadia Ford: Oh, a lot. A lot. Like a hundred.
Peter Van Sant: Really? A hundred times?
Nadia Ford: At least. At least. I approved everything.
Peter Van Sant: And she would not answer.
Nadia Ford: No.
Peter Van Sant: So what are you thinking?
Nadia Ford: I got afraid, because for eight years she never happened that she didn't acknowledgment the phone. Never.
Frantic, Nadia declared Viktoria with a simple question.
Nadia Ford: "Where's my mom? You're declared to accommodated her … you were the aftermost actuality who saw her. Where's my mom?" And she goes, "I went to her apartment. We had a tea and afresh I left." And I'm like, "OK. Where's my mom?"
Viktoria claimed that Alla was on a cruise with a friend, and that her buzz had apparently died. But Nadia didn't accept it.
Peter Van Sant: So what aloft suspicion about Viktoria for you?
Nadia Ford: Unfortunately that happened on Monday aback I came to assignment and I -- book out my mom's buzz log -- buzz alarm log, and I saw the aftermost actuality who declared her. It was Viktoria.
Viktoria aftermost batten with Alla at 11 p.m. The annal showed no added calls afterwards that.
Nadia Ford: And that's it. And afresh my affection dropped. …I aloof cried. I aloof larboard everything.
She headed appropriate for the airport.
Peter Van Sant: There's a coursing adjoin time here, right?
Nadia Ford: Yeah. …And you consistently apperceive you accept your mom. Doesn't amount what's happened in your life. …I aloof started to accept this activity that article happened.
Peter Van Sant: Article terrible.
Nadia Ford: Article abhorrent happened.
Nadia Ford: I achievement this cruise will accompany me some array of closure.
"48 Hours" brought Nadia Ford from her home in New York City to Russia to appearance us absolutely how she advised her mother's dematerialization and searched for her analgesic for six months aback in 2014.
Nadia Ford: "I'm aggravating to clue bottomward the analgesic of my mother."
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Nadia Ford: It became my life…to acquisition the actuality who did this to my mom.
Nadia's hometown of Krasnodar is a accepted day-tripper boondocks about 750 afar south of Moscow, abreast the Atramentous Sea. It is additionally breadth her mother, Alla Aleksenko, mysteriously abolished in October of 2014.
It had been abandoned three canicule aback Nadia aftermost heard from her mom. She declared Viktoria and asked her to accommodated out in advanced of the accommodation building.
Nadia Ford: Aback she basically airing bottomward the stairs, I move appear her. And I hug her like buck hug.
Peter Van Sant: A Russian buck hug … And what are you communicating to her with this asperous hug of yours?
Nadia Ford: That I will asphyxiate you to afterlife if you don't acquaint me breadth is my mother. …So she pushed me abroad and she's starts babble that, "Your mother is alive! She's alive!"
At that moment, Nadia was assertive Viktoria had done article to her mother.
Nadia Ford: And afresh she ran up the stairs and afresh I'm like, "Where are you going? Why are you running?"
Peter Van Sant: And she runs up here, are you block her?
Nadia Ford: Exactly, yeah.
Viktoria aloof to her apartment, not animate that Nadia had declared the brand who were lying in wait.
Nadia Ford: And afresh the brand are activity afterwards her.
Nadia Ford: She can feel it. That I'm so affronted and I'm so, like, I'm accessible to freakin' annihilate her.
Cops briefly questioned Viktoria in her accommodation – amid appropriate abutting aperture to Alla's -- afresh larboard the scene. It appeared she assertive them she'd done annihilation wrong.
Peter Van Sant [inside Alla's apartment]: This accommodation has been larboard absolutely as it was from three years ago, correct?
Nadia Ford: That's correct.
Peter Van Sant: You haven't affected anything?
Nadia Ford: No.
It's a addictive time capsule. The aliment Alla bought is still in the refrigerator. And in about every account anatomy is Nadia.
Peter Van Sant: What addled you about this allowance aback you came in?
Nadia Ford: Aggregate was spotless apple-pie and it's a kitchen.
Nadia Ford [motioning appear the refrigerator]: There is no fingerprints on the metal handles.
Peter Van Sant: Do you anticipate it was wiped down?
Nadia Ford: Absolutely.
The home had been looted. Ancestors heirlooms, big-ticket adornment – all gone. And whoever did this additionally blanket best of her mother's life's savings: $50,000 that Alla kept in a abstruse hideaway. It was gone.
Peter Van Sant: Who would apperceive of this abstruse space?
Nadia Ford: Viktoria.
Remember, Viktoria and Alla had become abutting friends.
As we inspected the apartment, Nadia showed "48 Hours" a abstruse analysis she fabricated in her mother's closet.
Nadia Ford: My mother larboard me a message.
The message? She had cacographic article on the wall.
Nadia Ford: [Inside the closet with a flashlight]: In Russian—den'gi—it agency money.
Peter Van Sant: And it tells you what?
Nadia Ford:It tells me that the aftermost person, the actuality who kidnapped her, the actuality who she was with at that moment -- that's Viktoria.
Nadia took her affirmation to the cops. Again, she says, they absolved her aphotic tale.
Peter Van Sant: What are the brand and the commune advocate and what are these bodies adage to you?
Nadia Ford: Aloof wait. She's gonna appear back.
She hounded the brand so much, Nadia says they gave her a nickname.
Nadia Ford: "Crazy American babe who's attractive for her mother."
Peter Van Sant: You may accept been a little crazy, but you had a purpose.
Nadia Ford: 'Cause I knew, I knew from the start.
Undaunted, Nadia agitated on her coursing -- announcement flyers and active bags of afar beyond Russia analytic for clues. One night she collection six hours afterwards accepting a tip that her mother was in a hospital.
Nadia Ford: I went to the allowance and there was a adult from the aback and the anatomy appearance looked like my mom [cries] and aback she affronted it wasn't her. I was devastated.
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Nadia Ford retraces the accomplish she took in her citizenry of Russia to acquisition her mother, Alla Aleksenko, who abolished in October 2014.
In an act of desperation, she alike pleaded with Viktoria in a text.
Nadia Ford: Listen, I accord you everything. My apartment, money, you name it. Please aloof accord me my mom back.
Then, Nadia had a hunch.
Nadia Ford: We're on a artery that Viktoria had my mom.
What if cartage cameras photographed Viktoria the night Nadia's mother went missing?
Peter Van Sant: But you gotta get admission to these photographs. How do you do that?
Nadia Ford: It's Russia. You buy things. You accept money. You buy things.
She arrested every camera about boondocks and circled outward. And about 100 afar from Alla's apartment, Nadia hits pay dirt.
Nadia Ford [Pointing to the cartage camera]: There's the camera, appropriate there. That's the dispatch camera that showed that my mom was with Viktoria.
Pictures from that cartage camera afflicted everything. Ford is assertive that is Viktoria Nasyrova abaft the wheel. And she knows who benumbed in the commuter seat.
Peter Van Sant: There's no agnosticism in your mind.
Nadia Ford: No.
Peter Van Sant: And what's the date that this account was taken?
Nadia Ford: October 5th in the morning. Ten o'clock.
Peter Van Sant: October 5th. The day that you absent all advice with your own mother.
Looking at the picture, Ford anticipation her mom was still alive.
Nadia Ford: Aback in 2014, this camera gave me hope.
Nadia assuredly had solid affidavit that Viktoria knew what happened to her mom. She declared the advance detective.
Peter Van Sant: What does the detective say?
Nadia Ford: He said, "I know. I accept these pictures."
Ford was abashed to apprentice that board had apparent the pictures too, and were aggressively animate the case. They had accepted Viktoria busy the car with plates analogous what was apparent on the cartage camera. So they brought her in for analytic and afresh they gave her a lie detector test.
Nadia Ford: So the catechism was about the car, if she was active and she was abandoned in the car. And she said, "Yes. I was alone," which was a lie. "Do you apperceive breadth is the anatomy of Aleksenko?" She said, "No." It was a lie. And so on and so on.
Peter Van Sant: Every distinct catechism she's asked she fails.
Nadia Ford: Yeah.
Peter Van Sant: Do they arrest her appropriate there?
Nadia Ford: No.
Peter Van Sant: She was accustomed to leave until they got the after-effects aback from account the graph.
Nadia Ford: Exactly. Yes.
After demography that lie detector test, Viktoria absitively not to stick about for the official results. Instead she fled to Moscow, and bent the aboriginal flight out of Russia.
Finally, Russian authorities issued a accreditation for Viktoria Nasyrova's arrest; the charge, murder. Nadia had two objectives: acquisition her mom and coursing bottomward Viktoria.
Nadia Ford: She cannot get abroad with this.
With Viktoria Nasyrova on the run, Nadia Ford badly affiliated her coursing for her mother … acquisitive adjoin achievement to acquisition her alive.
Nadia Ford: I committed my activity to that. … I abdicate aggregate and everyone. I didn't accept … that my mom is not alive.
Nadia had spent six months in Russia. She was broke. Her bang-up had accustomed her time off afterwards pay. Then, added bad account -- this time from a Russian detective who had abominable capacity of how Viktoria escaped.
Peter Van Sant: A brand administrator who was complex with this case was accepting sex with Viktoria?
Nadia Ford: Yeah.
Peter Van Sant: You accept that that administrator put up a roadblock in this analysis -- to assure Viktoria?
Nadia Ford: Right. Yeah. They took him off the police. They kicked him out.
Frustrated, she catholic from Krasnodar to Moscow to accommodated the arch of the Russian civic police.
Peter Van Sant: Is it like the arch of the FBI in America?
Nadia Ford: Exactly. Yeah, yeah.
Peter Van Sant: And so this babe from Krasnodar comes and says what?
Nadia Ford: "Please advice me." … And he was able to advice me.
But advice anon affronted to affliction when, in April 2015, Nadia got a advancing buzz call. Charred animal charcoal were begin in a alien breadth -- a three-hour drive from her mother's apartment. Nadia was declared in to accomplish an identification.
Nadia Ford: I said, "No. That's not her. No. It's -- it's aloof remains. It aloof -- why you appearance me -- assuming me the bones?" …And afresh a few account later, I started attractive at her teeth.
Peter Van Sant: And you knew. You knew it was your mother.
Nadia Ford: Yeah. And yeah. So I basically accustomed my mom by her teeth.
The Russian boondocks of Armavir is about 110 afar from Krasnodar. It's important to this case because it's breadth Viktoria Nasyrova grew up – and breadth Alla's anatomy was dumped. Nadia took "48 Hours" to the alien breadth breadth her mother's anatomy was found.
Nadia Ford: She kidnapped her, asleep her, and austere the body. … That's it.
Interpol issued a red apprehension for Viktoria Nasyrova's arrest for murder. Nadia alternate to New York to aces up the pieces of her burst life.
Nadia Ford: I went aback home and I didn't do annihilation for three weeks … Viktoria took aggregate from me. My family, my life, my mom, my everything.
But Viktoria couldn't booty abroad Nadia's determination. On a whim, she affronted to Facebook. And you'll never assumption who she found.
Nadia Ford: Viktoria was announcement pictures … all over the Facebook. Checking in at this abode and that place. Beautiful life. …Somehow she acquired a affected authorization with a affected name …So she flew to Mexico.
Peter Van Sant: Accepting a abundant time.
Nadia Ford: Yeah. And from Mexico she flew to New York.
Nadia appear all this to brand and clearing officials. But they couldn't acquisition Viktoria. Enter clandestine investigator Herman Weisberg, who begin a acute clue -- not on the street, but online.
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Peter Van Sant: So some killers leave abaft DNA. …What did Viktoria leave behind?
Herman Weisberg: A Facebook profile. …I never attending at what bodies appetite me to see on these sites. I'm acclimated to attractive at aggregate except for what's declared to draw your absorption in.
Late at night, Weisberg obsessively circling through Viktoria's profile, attractive for clues and award them in absurd places.
Investigator Herman Weisberg begin an important clue in this photo of Viktoria Nasyrova. Added photos acquaint to her Facebook folio would acknowledge added clues.
Herman Weisberg [pointing to a photo of Viktoria]: This accurate account was the best beneficial. She's cutting the Ray-Ban sunglasses afresh that are mirrored, and she took a abundant account for us to see the dashboard of the car. You could see that altered configuration. But added importantly, the bond on that aback arch rest.
Peter Van Sant: This appropriate here?
Herman Weisberg : Yeah, the atramentous covering with the white-light gray bond on it -- it fabricated the car that abundant added altered to me.
Peter Van Sant: You accept this picture, this arresting clue of bond on this headrest. What do you do with it?
Herman Weisberg: I absitively the abutting morning I was activity to be at a big parking lot at a alternation station.
He capital to attending at as abounding altered kinds of cars as accessible to acquisition the accomplish and archetypal that had that stitching.
Peter Van Sant: Hundreds of cars in here.
Herman Weisberg: Yeah. Apparently bags all over the place. So it's absolute accessible to attending into dashboards and to attending for the kinda detail I was attractive for.
Row afterwards row, car afterwards car, afresh a Chrysler bent his eye.
Peter Van Sant: So you attending central the car and what do you see?
Herman Weisberg: All right, it's got the aforementioned stitching
It was an important lead. The bond akin a Chrysler 300. Now for the adamantine part: acquisition the specific car Viktoria was driving.
Herman Weisberg: Again, this was such a agrarian goose coursing at this point.
But Weisberg saw that a alternation of brand on Viktoria's Facebook folio were amassed about Sheepshead Bay, a Russian adjacency in Brooklyn.
Peter Van Sant: So you beatific some of your board to attending for one of these Chrysler 300s. Did they accept any luck?
Herman Weisberg: Well, yeah. We begin a agglomeration of them. …And the abutting day I had somebody run the authorization plates and luckily we begin one that came aback to a Russian aural name.
Weisberg took "48 Hours" into the breadth he searched aftermost March. He declared Van Sant to the arena aback he already afresh begin the Chrysler 300 at the affection of this investigation.
Peter Van Sant: What did you find? What's activity on?
Herman Weisberg [leads Van Sant to the car anchored on the street]: I actually-- we spotted the-- I spotted the car. The absolute car that she took that account in.
Peter Van Sant: This is it. This is the car.
Herman Weisberg: Yeah.
Peter Van Sant: Booty a attending inside. You see the stitching?
Herman Weisberg: Yeah. Adamantine to absence now.
Peter Van Sant: There it is.
Herman Weisberg: Now you see how altered it is, right?
Peter Van Sant: This is abandoned an breadth of 8.5 actor people. And you begin the car.
Herman Weisberg: It wasn't a aggravate in a haystack. You had to acquisition the haystack first. And afresh to acquisition the aggravate and this was appealing abundant the blow of this. This was that moment.
And aback Weisberg went to the abode affiliated to that car, he could additionally see she took a selfie in advanced of that building.
Weisberg was able to acquisition the blast pole and manhole covers reflected Viktoria Nasyrova's sunglasses
Herman Weisberg [Referencing a photo of Viktoria]: But aback you attending at it and you see that -- that blast pole and the breadth of that manhole awning and that manhole awning … And if you attending over there [at the absolute location] you've got the blast pole and you've got the two manhole covers. …So afresh I started sayin', "The addle was starting to appear calm for us." You know?
Peter Van Sant: Herman, this is brilliant, through that absorption in her glasses, you amount out this is the accommodation architecture breadth the man who owns that Chrysler 300 lives. And with Viktoria in the picture, you cerebration she ability be active with this guy?
Herman Weisberg: … it looks like she took a selfie there. And it -- and it all starts to accomplish sense.
It appeared Viktoria was now active in Nadia's own backyard.
Peter Van Sant: How far abroad does she end up active from breadth you animate in Brooklyn?
Nadia Ford: A few blocks away. Like, I don't know, four or bristles blocks away.
Peter Van Sant: You gotta be badinage me. …Did you try to go acquisition her?
Nadia Ford: No.
Peter Van Sant: Why?
Nadia Ford: 'Cause I would annihilate her.
Peter Van Sant: Now, if you're a internationally capital fugitive, is it a acceptable abstraction to abrasion cogitating sunglasses for photographs?
Herman Weisberg: I would say that's apparently assignment 101 in the all-embracing avoiding academy of ambuscade that you should not do.
Viktoria's new activity in America additionally mirrored her declared agitated accomplished in Russia. Weisberg abstruse she was a doubtable in a alternation of crimes in New York City.
Herman Weisberg: Viktoria Nasyrova absolutely had to be stopped. She was gonna abide drugging and contagion bodies to get what she wanted.
Two years afterwards abstention a abominable annihilation allegation in Russia, Viktoria Nasyrova was active the aerial life. Little did she know, Weisberg was hot on her trail.
Herman Weisberg: She walks about as if she belongs there in Brooklyn, and she posts about it. It's absolute unusual.
And aloof two weeks into the hunt, Weisberg not abandoned apparent the car Viktoria collection in that Facebook selfie, but he narrowed Viktoria's breadth to an accommodation architecture in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
Herman Weisberg: We got advantageous aboriginal on. And we spotted Viktoria and her admirer out here.
The admirer was the buyer of the Chrysler 300 and lived in that accommodation building.
Peter Van Sant: How did you confirm, yes, this is absolutely Viktoria?
Herman Weisberg: Mostly it came bottomward to her clothing.
After about 20 years as a New York City brand detective, Weisberg abstruse a admired assignment aback block bottomward a suspect.
Harold Weisberg: Aback bodies run, they bandy abroad a anorak or they about-face their shirt central out. …bottom band is, cipher anytime changes their shoes.
And it turns out that Viktoria had a admired brace of boots.
Herman Weisberg: The surveillance video that one of my bodies did, got a nice attempt of those shoes. Aback I was able to zoom in on one and attending at the Facebook photo, it was a absolute match.
Peter Van Sant:this exotic, sultry, adult woman...how you absolutely affirm it's her is not necessarily her face [laughs] , but her feet.
Herman Weisberg: Her shoes. Yep.
Investigator Herman Weisberg: "I haven't apparent somebody this adamant in a continued time. ...She is a alarming person. Viktoria Nasyrova had to be taken off these streets."
Weisberg anon apparent that Viktoria was a one woman walking abomination wave, scamming bodies in every accessible way.
Herman Weisberg: She eventually fell into the apple of actuality an escort. A dominatrix. She would beating out with knockout drugs, Rufenal, whatever she was using. And booty money, watches, jewelry, whatever she could get.
Herman Weisberg is assertive that Viktoria has dozens of victims who are afraid to address her to police.
Herman Weisberg: A lotta these victims aloof go abroad 'cause cipher wants to go into a belt and say, "My dominatrix aloof blanket my Rolex and $4,800 from me and I anticipate was drugged," because at the end of the day every distinct cop alert to that adventure and every distinct wife of these guys is gonna say, "What was that aboriginal allotment again? It was a dominatrix?"
Ruben Borukhov, who runs a dry cleaners in Queens, had no abstraction that Viktoria was an declared escort, dominatrix or analgesic aback they met on the Russian online dating site, "Mamba.ru."
Ruben Borukhov: I was distinct at the time. …We started chatting and we bureaucracy a date. She said she's a acceptable baker and I said I adulation to eat.
The two abiding to accommodated at Viktoria's accommodation for dinner, breadth she served up a basin to die for.
Ruben Borukhov: The abandoned affair I remember, I aloof took one chaw of angle and I was out of it in bristles minutes.
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Borukhov anesthetized out, and while he remained unconscious, Viktoria allegedly went on a arcade spree.
Ruben Borukhov: She took, like, $800 maybe $1,000 all calm in cash, $2,400 in American Express.
Peter Van Sant: So she's livin' aerial on the hog on your money.
Ruben Borukhov: Absolutely.
Two canicule later, Borukhov -- about acquainted -- was absolutely taken to the cleaners.
Ruben Borukhov: And she is walking actuality and there and authoritative some belief to my workers. "Oh, we had wine. He drank two canteen of wine." …I don't bethink nothing.
Ruben Borukhov [shows Van Sant the central of a safe]: I had some money in the basement, brace of hundred. She took the watch.
Video attempt by one of Borukhov advisers captures a glimpse of Viktoria sitting in the boss's chair.
FEMALE VOICE [VIDEO]: Maybe he booty bolus or something, right.
After charwoman out the banknote register, Viktoria fled the scene. The video additionally shows Borukhov actuality agitated by paramedics to the hospital.
Peter Van Sant: What was it like for you to watch that video?
Ruben Borukhov: I was surprised. It's like it's not me. It's not possible. For a anniversary I was in the hospital.
Peter Van Sant: Did you about die?
Ruben Borukhov: I anticipate so, that's how I was.
Despite it all, Borukhov, surprisingly, has some account for Viktoria.
Ruben Borukhov: I adulation her. …She's a professional. She needs an Academy Award.
Olga Tsvyk, a Queens stylist, is addition survivor of Viktoria's cooking. Viktoria was aloof addition chump until one day she showed up on Tsvyk's doorstep -- this time with dessert.
Olga Tsvyk: She came with cheesecake. Three baby pieces.
Peter Van Sant: Did you aces it up and booty a bite?
Olga Tsvyk: Yes. …After this allotment I don't bethink nothing.
When Tsvyk woke up, Viktoria was continuing at her bedside with a additional course: a basin of hot soup.
Olga Tsvyk: Probably, I ate the soup because I don't remember. …. I accept that she berserk soup too, because it was not abundant with cheesecake.
Two canicule later, Tsvyk was begin benumbed on the bedchamber floor. Her clothes had been afflicted into lacey lingerie. Lying abutting to her were some decree pills. It looked like an overdose.
Peter Van Sant: Why did she do that?
Olga Tsvyk: She appetite to accomplish like, suicide, you know?
Peter Van Sant: And why would she appetite you dead?
Olga Tsvyk: Because she wants use my I.D.
Peter Van Sant: Your identity?
Olga Tsvyk: Identity, yeah.
Olga Tsyvk,left, and Viktoria Nasyrova
Peter Van Sant: Because the two of you attending similar?
Olga Tsvyk: Yeah.
Peter Van Sant: For you, affair Viktoria Nasyrova about amount you your life?
Olga Tsvyk: Yeah. …Almost amount me my life.
Viktoria's binge had no limits. Her now ex-boyfriend told "48 Hours" that not abandoned did she allegedly abduct from him, but that she asleep his admired advocate Joey.
Herman Weisberg: I anticipate that dog was accepting a little too abundant absorption and Nasyrova didn't like that. So Nasyrova got rid of the dog. …allegedly, again, on the beagle's birthday. I'm a dog lover, so that's tough.
Joey the beagle's annihilation didn't sit able-bodied with Viktoria's neighbors, either.
Karen Hill |Neighbor: She asleep his dog, that bitch. She asleep his dog.
Herman Weisberg: Every time you apprentice article abroad about this woman, you apprehend that if she was larboard unarrested, this could of absolutely concluded ailing for Brooklyn [laughs].
From Facebook to the Chrysler 300 to the accommodation architecture in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Weisberg knew the coursing was over. On March 20, 2017, he alerted the NYPD that Viktoria was in her apartment.
Herman Weisberg: They declared me and said "one under," which is the radio alarm assurance amid cops to say that there's somebody beneath arrest.
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The Russian temptress, who generally placed her victims in restraints, aback begin herself in handcuffs.
Peter Van Sant: You attending at her in the eye?
Herman Weisberg: Yeah.
Peter Van Sant: Does she see you?
Herman Weisberg: Oh, yeah.
Peter Van Sant: What do you say?
Herman Weisberg: I said, "Good morning, Viktoria" [laughs].
Herman Weisberg: I acquainted acceptable for Nadia, you know? For me, it was-- it was a abundant day at work. For her, that's a activity changer.
Nadia Ford: I aloof cried. I -- I couldn't accept that it's absolutely happened [cries]. It's a miracle.
News of Viktoria Nasyrova's arrest fabricated account from New York to Moscow.
Though authorities may never apperceive the abounding admeasurement of Viktoria's declared crimes, one actuality does, and "48 Hours" went to Rikers Island bastille to accommodated her.
Three years afterwards Viktoria Nasyrova fled Russia and a annihilation charge, the already alluring seductress is now but a adumbration of her above cocky accepting traded in her big-ticket furs for a bastille jumpsuit.
"48 Hours" contributor Peter Van Sant with Viktoria Nasyrova at Riker's Island
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Peter Van Sant: How does a babe from a baby boondocks in Russia end up in Rikers bastille in New York City?
Viktoria Nasyrova [in English]: This is absurd story.
Peter Van Sant: A absurd story, you say—
Viktoria Nasyrova: Yes.
Peter Van Sant: Viktoria, bodies who don't affliction for you accept declared you a sociopath, a psychopath … a devil.
Viktoria Nasyrova: I am not a killer. …I'm woman. Abandoned woman.
Viktoria Nasyrova [Translated from Russian]: It sounds like a bad dream, and that I'm activity to deathwatch up, and all of this will be gone.
But if it's a bad dream for Viktoria, it's a daydream for Nadia.
Nadia Ford: She's a psychopath and there is annihilation abroad you can apprehend from psychopath.
Viktoria claims that Russian brand are framing her and credibility to the cartage cam pictures as evidence.
Peter Van Sant [Holding the cartage cam photo]: Viktoria, this is a account of your rental car. There is a actuality sitting abutting to you in this car, and that abiding looks like Alla.
Viktoria Nasyrova (in English) ...This is fake.
Peter Van Sant: This is a affected picture.
Viktoria Nasyrova: Yes.
Peter Van Sant: …That is Alla sitting appropriate abutting to you.
Viktoria Nasyrova [Translated from Russian]: I apperceive absolute able-bodied how Russian brand assignment … and how it's accessible to accomplish it attending like a actuality is about … he never was.
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Watch excerpts of Peter Van Sant's account with declared assassin Viktoria Nasyrova at Rikers Island correctional ability in New York City.
Nadia Ford: Viktoria's dissection liar. …She use any words -- annihilation to aloof abide of accomplishing what she was doing.
Peter Van Sant: Your car is tracked with GPS to the breadth breadth Alla's anatomy was found….You flunked a lie detector test. You fled to Mexico. It is time now for you to acquaint the truth, yes?
Viktoria Nasyrova: No.
She told "48 Hours" there were two bodies who would affirm her story. So aback we were in Russia, we went to allege with them -- her parents:
Peter Van Sant: Valentina? Valentina?
Peter Van Sant: Are you Takir?
Takir | Viktoria's father: Dasvidaniya.
Peter Van Sant: Dasvidaniya.
Peter Van Sant [to cameraman] Appear here. You charge to allege Russian to him.
Cameraman: Tashir, Valentina, Viktoria -- CBS News.
Peter Van Sant: Viktoria wants me to allege to you. Please appear out of your abode and talk.
Cameraman: He alarm police.
Peter Van Sant: He said he'd alarm the police?
Cameraman: Yeah.
Peter Van Sant: Well, that's not absolute friendly. … I anticipate we're done here.
Peter Van Sant: Breadth does the case go from here?
Herman Weisberg: It stays in America for a while. …She's got abundant to accumulate her abaft confined for now.
Viktoria is currently answerable with eight felonies in New York City, including admirable burglary in Ruben Borukhov's case. As for Olga Tsvyk, authorities are because charging Viktoria with attempted murder.
Herman Weisberg: We charge to accomplish Viktoria pay for the crimes that she's committed here.
But with no displacement accord amid the U.S. and Russia, the catechism remains: will Viktoria angle balloon for murder? While "48 Hours" was in Krasnodar, Van Sant asked the top official in the investigation.
Peter Van Sant: And what he told me was "there is no catechism that Viktoria Nasyrova committed this murder." And their bulletin to American prosecutors is that they would like to see Viktoria extradited to Russia to face balloon here. One added affair that he had to say, was about Nadia. That her analysis was so outstanding, that if she anytime wants to be a detective he would appoint her.
Herman Weisberg: Nadia Ford is a absolute able person. … She did things that a lot of bodies wouldn't accept anticipation were possible. …And she basically apparent a homicide.
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In a cemetery not far from breadth her mother was abducted, Nadia was assuredly able to accord Alla a able funeral. There, categorical in bean is her mother's name -- but article is missing.
Nadia Ford: I don't apperceive the day, the minute, the additional aback she died.
Nadia Ford: ...And Viktoria knows the date. …if she's not gonna acquaint me how she killed, acquaint me the date, when.
Peter Van Sant: Does this in any way abutting a amphitheater for you?
Nadia Ford: It will be accessible til the moment she'll be abaft the confined the blow of her activity for what she did.
Today, the woman at the centermost of this case awaits her fate in jail. But the memories of Nadia's mother abide animate as ever.
Nadia Ford: My mom gave me the best important affair in activity … I apperceive what activity of ancestors means. …I apperceive what adulation means.
Viktoria Nasyrova has been in bastille for seven months. She will angle balloon in New York for her declared crimes.
Russia will afresh formally appeal Viktoria Nasyrova be beatific aback to angle balloon for the annihilation of Nadia's mother.
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