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TikTok Star Murder Trial
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. Jurors learned more about what may have motivated this TikTok star to plot and carry out the murders of his wife and her friend. According to his cousin, Ali got jealous that his wife was hanging out with another man after they separated. This was after Ali himself had sex with another woman in the couple's apartment.
S1, EP61 "From Military Discharge To Behavioral Counseling"
Cross-examination continued on the defendant who was trying to appeal to jurors that he's no mastermind Killer. Prosecutors challenged Ali Abulaban's credibility in his actions leading up to the shooting deaths of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. The lead prosecutor had Ali walk the jury again through his troubled relationship with Ana back when they first dated overseas.
S1, EP62 "Double Standard"
Prosecutors questioned the credibility of the defendant on the witness stand. In the months before the double murders, Ali claimed he was a victim of emotional manipulation and sexual confusion which prompted him to kill out of heated passion. The State alluded to a double standard Ali had for his marriage. According to the defendant when he was separated from his wife, Ana, he cheated on her with another woman but grew upset when Ana was friendly with a male friend.
S1, EP63 "Emotional Manipulation, Sexual Frustration"
The defendant, Ali Abulaban, told jurors there was a million reasons his wife did not want to be with him days before she and her friend, Rayburn Barron, were killed. They included: Ali cheating on her with another woman in their home, the physical abuse, and his growing cocaine addiction. Jurors heard the allegations that Ana was the emotional manipulator, the neglectful wife, and the verbal abuser, according to her estranged husband.
S1, EP64 "Defendant Lashes Out On The Stand"
While on the stand in his own murder trial, the State portrayed Ali Abulaban as a controlling, abusive husband whose jealousy led him to plot and carry out the murders of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. Despite Ana telling him she didn't want to be with him anymore, and she was getting ready to file a restraining order, Ali testified that his marriage was not over. Jurors watched the defendant throw a fit at the lead prosecutor's probing questions.
