Seattle Escorts: Shafia quadruple murder trial hears final witness
Prosecutors allege the deaths were the result of a planned honour killing, staged to look like a car crash after Zainab allegedly took the car without permission.
Prosecutors claim Shafia planned the murders to cleanse the shame he felt from the conduct of his daughters, who were wearing revealing clothes and secretly dating men. Zainab had a failed marriage to a young man who was not approved by the family. The trial also heard that Rona Mohammad wanted a divorce from Shafia and was supportive of the daughters who were dating.
Jurors heard secret police recordings made after the deaths in which Shafia curses his dead children, calling them “whores,” “prostitutes,” and “filthy, rotten children” who were “treacherous” and who betrayed him. In one wiretap, he says: “May the devil sh– on their graves.”
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