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good evening I'm Antony Robart this is crime beat the stories behind some of
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Canada's most high-profile homicides told by the reporters who walk the beat
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every day we reveal the shocking evidence as it was uncovered by
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investigators in their quest for justice. Tonight a child's remains are found but
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nobody has been reported missing. You got a call? Yes. You know there are body parts?
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Yes. The left hand and forearm it's an obvious shock
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it's scary how people can just do something like that. The most difficult
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one to deal with is that of a child lease officer came here this morning and
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just asked us to make a list of students who had been absent. Here's Alan Carter
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with a story of a city's lost child. Walking the rugged shoreline of Colonel
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Samuel Smith park it's a picture postcard beautiful. How long has it been
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since you've been back here Rolf? This will be the first time since January
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2000 I haven't come here since. This is also my first trip back. The area that
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police are interested in looks a lot like this section of the park giant
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rocks with very deep crevices in between areas where it's possible more human
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remains might be hidden. Rolf Prisor is still haunted by what happened here.
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So this is the area here. So this is where right down in here is where the
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initial bag memory serves me correct was just found right in here. My name is
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Rolf Prisor 20 years ago I was a member of the Toronto Police Service
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attached to the homicide squad at the time. And this is where Mary Smith
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would have seen just what she thought yeah she would have been walking her dog
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right up that path there towards that tower on December 7th 1999 Mary Smith
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took her dog Cody for their usual walk along the western tip of this park and
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she has observed this couple and they actually as a matter of fact said
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something to her about her dog
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and initially her thought was you know the bearing drugs or something because
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they appeared to be dropping rocks on an area and she watched them for a little
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while sort of took note of the descriptions
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and they watched her as well when the couple leave Smith goes to see what
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they've buried so Mary eventually approached the bag and it was warm
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She recalled that there's a green garbage bag double wrapped so two bags
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one inside the other and she opened the bag thinking that maybe you know was a
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dead dog or a cat or some animal because of the warmth of the bag her initial
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thought of it being drugs was sort of you know gone by the wayside at this
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point so she opened it up and immediately she saw the hand and the forearm.
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So she closed it it was horrific for her to see that no doubt
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something that she would never have thought she would live to see and she
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ran
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Smith runs to get help
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and Prisor gets a call that will change his career.
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You got a call. Yes. You know there are body parts. Yes.
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Do you know that when you first get the call that they are child's body parts
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no we don't know that they are child body parts we just know that they are body
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parts and as is with any homicide investigation you starting to go through
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a lot of the processes in your mind as you're driving to the scene trying to
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anticipate what you might expect to see
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As we find the right hand the right forearm the right thigh and the
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right upper arm and initially to us they appear to be those of a child between
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the ages of 4 to 12 and there's obvious indications that the body parts were
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obviously dismembered and it appears that they were not they were done with
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some precision the cuts looked clean there was still blood in the bag so they
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were very very fun
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it's an obvious shock I mean even to a seasoned homicide investigator or any
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first responders I mean we deal with tragedy on a day-to-day basis but the
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most difficult one to deal with is that of a child
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the question on everyone's mind who is this child
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coming up more grisly discoveries provide critical clues it's the first
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time former homicide detective Rolf prize or has been back to the spot where
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two decades before a child's partial remains were discovered now back to Alan
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Carter with a city's lost child it would have been the bag would have been right
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in here yeah right in here the bag would have been found in the opening crevices
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of the rocks so you can see how deep the crevices are after that first bag with
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body parts was found Toronto police and detective Rolf Preiser would get to know
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this area intimately literally turning over every stone so you could stash
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something down there and easily and then just throw a couple of rocks on it and
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then it's hidden from view
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the next day a second bag is found and it's another gruesome discovery he left
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and an forearm the left upper arm and the left thigh
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then a third bag but still no way to identify the young victim
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that's a horrific crime and even you know saved that there might be some
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explanation for to dismember a child like that is just beyond what anybody
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can imagine
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and as you remembered we have the Marine unit out in the waters here searching
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the shoreline and this is the roughly the area where Marion would have last
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seen them walking away and they were walking out of the park
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out of the park correct when she sees them that's right and there was no
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indication from her at the time that there was any vehicle involved
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because we kept having the cadaver dogs come in Andrey you know canvass in and
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around here and look for search points and hiddens
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you didn't have any surveillance video you didn't have no we didn't know we
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tried the satellite imaging as well and that's why we ended up getting global to
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come out and do the the aerial footage for us because we just didn't have it
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we canvassed that whole area
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he had our team go out to the various schools check Catholic schools public
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schools for anyone that was absent from school that might fit the description
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police officer came here this morning and just asked us to make a list of
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students who had been absent counting from last Friday until today students
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from junior kindergarten up to grade 5 but police come up empty and now with
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the remains taken away to be tested by forensic experts a terrible fear begins
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to gnaw away at Preiser police have parts of a child's body but they just
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don't have enough to identify the victim
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but detectives have one thing they have a witness
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once the composites were released that generated a whole new slew of tips it's
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huge right and she believed at the time that the language they were speaking
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with Spanish and the description that she provided to constable tent at the
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time was that of people of sort of Hispanic background so anyone or any
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couple that looked vaguely like the compasses was sort of detained by
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investigators Preiser it's a team together they reach out to police
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agencies across Canada across the United States they tap into the missing
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children's registry they interview over 900 people and again at that point we
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don't know whether we're dealing with a male or female child
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as news spreads people come together to try and console each other and to vow
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that this unknown child will not be forgotten then new information the only
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searching today at Colonel Samuel Smith Park was on the water as the Marine unit
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combed the shoreline looking for green garbage bags like the ones found in the
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park last week containing the remains of a four to six year old girl we were able
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to release the fact that the body parts were that of a female how we could
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exclude any male child
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we never gave up the search until we had exhausted every every opportunity we had
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- to make sure that we've covered all the bases that we somebody can cover
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there were some very dark days I remember you know medium in the media
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just out here and and sort of you know in very sort of dejected way saying you
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know again we're not successful today we haven't found anything
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the police hotline on the case has received more than one hundred four
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weeks we air the composite on TV the image of a mysterious copy of all of us
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thinking we're looking for a family of Hispanic origins but the investigation
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is about to turn in a whole new direction this is the right floor arm
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it's been dismembered through the elbow joint a press conference of police
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headquarters Ontario's Deputy Chief Coroner has a horrifying image to share
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the x-ray doesn't actually add any information in terms of your release but
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it was an extraordinary visual yes what was your reaction when dr. Karron
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suggested doing that I was in total agreement with him i I thought that it
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was an excellent idea because it really generated that focus to the public into
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the media that you know we have to collectively as a community solve this
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investigation and it's just not the x-ray the four to six year old girl and
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maybe a South Asian origin it's like these caregivers are the
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parents of this child who have done this horrendous deed so you're looking at
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countries like India Pakistan Bangladesh and we had prior to the press
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conference we had discussions with members of the Muslim community to make
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sure that there wasn't going to be any backlash for the community and to make
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sure that we were using the appropriate terminology as well so this is the
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actual prayer hall omar farooq is head of the IMO the International Muslims
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organisation he's been the president here and an imam for the past 20 years I
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saw oh my god it's an innocent child belonging to our community when we heard
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that is the child from South Asian belonging it placed us in the position
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where we as community leaders we had to be more responsible in a sense that we
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had to do whatever it takes for something like this not to happen again
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it was too sad was too touching and it did not only
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affect us as leaders of the community but every household every parent every
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mother every father every child as well you know and so the entire can be to his
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heart we were tuning in regularly to see the
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outcome of it the coroner had taken an unusual approach but it struck a chord
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for me it was a first to do it like that but I think it was an excellent example
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of coordinated efforts and it really does solve the case it does because Omar
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Farook and his congregation were not the only ones paying attention to the news
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coming up a teacher comes forward and police finally have a name
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police revealed the victim is a little girl of South Asian descent they're
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about to get the breakthrough they've been hoping for as soon as that press
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conference occurred which was about 10 o'clock in the morning it was at 12:39
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while at the office that I got a call from old iike prati Olli and Ric rafa's
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partner were at 2nd Street public school on a totally unrelated matter when they
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were approached by senior kindergarten teacher Heather Cartwright and Olli was
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made aware of certain information specifically that a young child his name
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was Farah Khan had been a student of the senior kindergarten class and that her
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last day in school was the second of December that she was technically
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supposed to attend school on the afternoon of the 3rd of December but she
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was absolutely and that her mother had attended the school and indicated that
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the mother's mother so Farrah's grandmother was gravely ill
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in Pakistan and that the family was going to be flying back to Pakistan on
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December the 8th to care for the grandmother and there
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was no indication at that time of the family's return and because of the press
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conference and because of the fact that we had identified the child's South
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Asian child and the height and the weight that prompted had a Cartwright to
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think about that and to disclose that to Olli
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this is the first solid lead you have first solid lead now police have names
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Mohammed Khan and canoes Fatima what investigators discover is that the
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couple had come to Canada from Pakistan with a young child in April of 1999 the
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name of the child Farah Khan but most importantly police find items that
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belong to the little girl including a red plastic sippy cup a cup that Farah
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that had Pharaoh's name on it that she had used in school in some artwork
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including a finger-painting
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so I got a pager message from the Forensic Identification so I called her
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and she gave me probably the greatest news that ever had fact that we had
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identified Farrakhan because the prints that were found on the artwork matched
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the fingerprints of the remains that we had found and specifically the left
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middle finger so now this was a huge huge break for us because now we
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identified it finally although we didn't have all our remains at least we had
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focus and I gotta tell you I think it back that was an emotional moment that
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phone call because up into that point you have no name you don't know nothing
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who's in murder you're trying to solve that's right it was like you know like a
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huge pressure coming off your back right so I immediately call the other members
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the team echidna do this right because this was significant beyond words
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so you've said before now you have everything we have everything now we
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have to find that and you but you don't know where they are
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that's right we don't police are able to trace the family to a West End apartment
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building but the couple is gone
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never heard anything they were very very quiet which was really weird slipped my
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wife through just before all this happened that we never hear anything did
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you ever see a little girl come on the apartment next to you no ladies did you
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ever hear any noises when the apartment next to you no they left 135 eighth
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Street sometime around December the 24th and left no forwarding address and
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indicated to the landlord that they had purchased the house police discovered
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that Muhammad Khan and Cadiz Fatima Faro's father and stepmother had taken
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off so quickly they didn't even pick up their rental deposit they could have
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taken off gone back to Pakistan or gone to the United States so we had the
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airport squad checking on that
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so in the meantime I contacted bill and there was an unlisted number
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using a child's game of hot and cold Preiser is able to get the information
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he needs so we were able to you know simply by saying okay does the street
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begin with any letter between a page to identify the street that they actually
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lived on and then the game continued with well what number what house number
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is it one two fifty fifty to a hundred and all she had to say was yesterday so
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it worked and we conducted surveillance on cop for a number of days
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two adults were arrested and charged with first-degree murder
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relation to the body parts found of December the 7th 1999 i arrested calm
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the same time a woman approached Cadiz Fatima she was arrested
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the garbage bags were seized from this place of work as well which
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coincidentally turned out to be you know your generic green garbage bag that we
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found the body parts in and warrants were executed on both addresses and
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property seized coming up how will far as father and stepmother explain their
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daughter's death
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welcome back to crime beat forest father and stepmother have been arrested for
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their daughter's murder investigators now hope to get answers as to what
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happened to this little girl now back to Alan Carter with Farrakhan a city's lost
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child we took both Kahn and Fatima down to 22
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division conducted our interviews during the course of the day and during the
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course of the interview with Mohammed Khan he proffered what had happened to
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fair and basically said that he had canoes have gone out to the grocery
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store and then upon their arrival home they found fair on the floor as she had
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cut her throat we conducted approximately about a four hour
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interview and Kahn agreed to show us where he had planted the Pharaohs torso
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but you had a problem we had a problem I was outside you were excited amongst
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many other yeah multitude of media
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Preiser decides on a ruse to detectives dress up as the suspects and get into a
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car as it drives away we in the media follow in that video which we played
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over and over of what we thought were suspects in the right of cars were
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actually police officers they were and I apologized you know to the media
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afterwards but that was the only way for us to do that Alan Preiser and the rest
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of his team go with far his father back to Colonel Samuel Smith Park just around
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the rides in the ground
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we're in Colonel Samuel Smith Park at Lake Ontario in 21 division and it is
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still Wednesday January 19th he's indicated that these particular rocks
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over here to my left are where his wife was sitting as he deposited the parcel
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remains of Farrakhan in a deep crevasse in this particular rock platform against
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my rear and left is somewhat west of this rock is dropping as a large antenna
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I would have to meet possibly 60 75 feet tall it's directly to the south and east
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of that particular antenna and he is certain this is the one
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because he sure did fun because it's been worth the rock big rock there
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biking then far his father takes police to another location north of the
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waterfront where during the course of the interview with him he had indicated
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that he had buried ferry's head in the ravine it was further detailed enough to
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say that he had actually placed her head in the knapsack gotten on a TTC bus and
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taken it up there and buried it beneath a rock face down he pointed out the rock
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on the ground and there was pharaoh's head yesterday near the Humber River
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less than 20 kilometers from Samuel Smith park police found the little
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girl's head an autopsy was performed this afternoon we have decided that
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we've got everything humanly possible with respect to finding the remains of
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firing a handgun and at this time we're going to blow the scene up far as full
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remains would never be found but the search was now over at the International
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Muslims organization in Rexdale a shudder goes through the congregation
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even though she was a child what she still came you know with your parents
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then whenever members of this committee look at her picture all the members
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recall her seniors recalled senior here that I'm Oh joining us for a meal
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breaking the fast we have seen her and so we got involved
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one person still did not know about forest murder shahida Joe bean far as
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birth mother living in Pakistan it took some time to actually locate her we as a
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police organization facilitated that with immigration
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there was actually you know the community stepped forward and provided
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the airfare accommodations so there's a real outpouring by the community for
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shahida get some water please get some water me with cameras rolling Shahidah
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Joe beam far his mother arrives in Toronto with her brother what has
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happened I am really saddened and devastated that should not have happened
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we had one objective that we have this child has to bury him in Toronto even
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though he's charged with her murder Farrah's father has custody rights and
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he wants her buried in Pakistan he cannot return the body in full but my
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request is whatever it is however pieces there are just give them back to me so
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that I can bury her order honorably and here we are collectively putting our
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heads and hearts together to see how best we can bring comfort and relief to
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everyone at all especially to this child it reached a point where we had to
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prepare a letter and send it directly the forest father
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who was in jail at a time and that's when the the legal process to please
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it's been 20 years Khalid 20 years can you believe it
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I can't for more than 20 years Kalidas Minh has been a Markham city councilor
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after Farah was murdered he and others fought to keep her remains here I think
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we're gonna utilize all the moral persuasive powers that we have to talk
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to him and we will pray that he's persuaded the persuasion and the prayer
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pays off Mohammed Khan relents Farrakhan will be laid to rest in Toronto why was
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it important to very far here well because we wanted to get make sure that
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the mother gets justice here you see because he had gone to Pakistan nobody
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would have cared she would have never got her justice Long's here and that's
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where she should be what do you remember of meeting shahida when she came well
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when she came she came right from the airport when she was abroad she came to
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my house she met my family we had a hard time actually speaking to her because
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she was in such despair like you know the world is very strong what I'm using
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but she was jolted with this with this tragedy
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so what happened in this room this is the room which we have really
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had the the coffin for and we allow her mom to spend some quiet moments ago
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finally on this Sutra that's Oscar then it's a cry and cry
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suicide we believe that Farah is Shaheed that she is pure and that she has a
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place in paradise with Allah as permission it was a fiery congressional
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prayer and we had about 3,000 people here in attendance
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detective Prosser a mirror I had the mirrors and police chief and he more the
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permanent we've been involved with her noise since December and really we felt
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as much that she was part of our family as she was to the greater community and
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of course until she was identified she we were her only family he try not to
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become personally involved or emotionally attached but sometimes that
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happens and this is the first time that Mary Smith the woman who in December was
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walking her dog and helped solve this case meets far as Mother we connected
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very well yeah we connected very low
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Farook is especially struck by the outpouring of support as they make their
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way from the mosque to the cemetery I can recall seeing passers-by stood forum
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and showing respect the Farah so many it was like the day the moment that moment
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the Toronto Stood Still whenever there is a final service there a bit of
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symmetry we always make an effort to go face it far enough especially or
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you'd like to say a prayer I'd like to offer a prayer for a little fara I was
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able ahem initiatory Jim bismillah to honor him the handle I had a banana
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mineral mother him basically it is for the prayer for forgiveness of the dead
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and that's normally how we say father so it is for their blessings may Allah
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bless her may Allah bless you for remembering her
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next investigators grapple with motive as the trial gets underway
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far as father and stepmother are preparing to go on trial for her murder
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but the question of motive troubles investigators and the defense team
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suddenly presents a new version of events now the conclusion of Farrakhan a
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city's lost child months after she discovered the body parts of a child
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Mary Smith comes to court to see the couple accused of killing Farrakhan
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uncomfortable was showing her face Smith speaks to the media for the first
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time over the last couple of months been for you since December 7 horrifying
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absolutely horrifying I can't I can't believe it you know I can't sleep I go
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see a psychiatrist I mean like a lot of things have been happening my life has
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totally changed with this you know more months passed before the preliminary
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hearing starts then years of delays until the trial it's now 2004 five years
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since far as murder we needed interpreters that were court certified
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to translate these statements that we had taken from various individuals but a
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lot of the information they gathered would be inadmissible
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we had Muhammad Cobb attending a butcher shop
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on numerous occasions watching how meat was cut we had information that the
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motive for the crime might have been an insurance policy of Pakistan
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while Khan was in jail he made friends with a cellmate which added a whole
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other dynamic to the investigation mr. X as he became known
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so we had many many intercepts between Cobb and mr. X that some of them were
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allowed in evidence and again it was it was that insurance information that kept
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coming up the fact that Khan viewed Farah as a bastard child that he didn't
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believe she was his daughter that question of motive it bothered Preiser
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the first story was that Farah didn't want to go to school she didn't want to
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go out with them she wanted to watch cartoons so they had to go to the
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grocery store on one occasion and they left her alone at home and then when
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they arrived at home they found her on the floor with a knife beside her after
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having cut her own throat that was the first story
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but Khan's defense team now presents a new story
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we're not taking any issue that he caused the death of his daughter our
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point is he didn't mean to cause her death and he also will be accepting
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responsibility for having dismembered her dropping a story that fara had
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somehow killed herself she was mischievious he had to discipline her
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and that you know it was an accident that he didn't mean to kill her and that
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he couldn't explain because he was a newcomer to Canada how she would have
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died so they decided that they would just bury her cut her up and bury her
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because if they told the truth nobody would believe them so that was another
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version of events Fatima's version was that she did
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nothing that Khan came home he was angry with the child because she was stealing
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cookies and that he virtually beat her and stomped on her chest and then she
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died and that they had no other recourse but to cut her up in the bathroom and
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then place her body parts and garbage bags and buried them and then they take
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that to trial and the jury says no they don't believe that at all there's too
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many versions too many stories the precision cutting of the body parts the
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as I said they didn't know about the insurance but they just believed that
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because he felt she was a bastard child that was his motivation for killing her
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and that murder in the first degree that's murder in the first
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this jury has heard a lot of evidence they've been a challenging two and a
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half months for them and we're very gratified by their efforts and by the
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result they've reached obviously mr. Khan is disappointed in the verdict
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we've met with him he will be instructing counsel to appeal we have
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nothing further to say thank you it's some way has given to justice for Farah
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in ways that we could not have otherwise done
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the difficulty you know is that we were never able to really ascertain what part
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canniness she obviously didn't do enough to stop it but there was evidence of
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bruising 30 odd bruises you know slippers were used hair brushes were
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used a rolling pin was used to beat Farah Khan worked every day so you know
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one could speculate that not all these bruises were as a result of Mohammed
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Khan but in the manner in which the verdicts came down I think yes it was
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appropriate that the found guilty at first and she of second Mohammed Khan
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remains in custody konista Fatimah is out on parole we
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contacted Corrections Canada but they would provide no further information
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about their whereabouts will he ever get out he will never get out no he'll be
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he'll be locked up the rest of his life as for Shahidah Jobim foras birth mother
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after the funeral she went back to Pakistan officials in Canada worked to
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get her immigration papers and she moved back to Canada not long after she now
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resides in the Greater Toronto Area it placed us in the position where we as
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community leaders we had to be more responsible in a sense that that we had
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to do whatever it takes for something like this not to happen again
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she only lived to five yes but what do you know about far as life what kind of
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girl she was or what do you imagine she was like from the information that we
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had been able to obtain from some of the parents of children that she attended
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school with she was a very sweet child you know she she would often go and have
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lunch at some of the other kids homes she was never a difficult student in
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school at all she was quiet you know and sort of unassuming very pretty little
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girl by all accounts Ferris was a wonderful
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little child
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I don't believe that we ever prior to Farrakhan
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had a case that involved the dismembered body parts of a child and I think the
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citizens of Toronto when this came out its it really impacted them there's a
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sense of relief that we were able to identify fara and we were able to arrest
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those responsible for her murder and in some small way honor her memory because
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you know for homicide investigators when we're doing an investigation we speak
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for those that can't speak anymore and it's very important for us to be able to
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solve an investigation and especially one has as horrific as this one was
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involving an innocent child who for no reason unimaginable
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was brutally beaten killed and dismembered by her own father
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I can't even imagine
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when I talked to you earlier this summer you mean you knew one far as birthday
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house yes yes she was born on February the 4th but you just know that off the
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top I do I never forgotten it I celebrate her
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milestone birthdays just like personally so I mean during the trial she would
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have turned 10 her 19th birthday you know just out of thought 21st and 2050
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it's a case we'll never forget so the impact is lasting until our last days
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it'll always be there
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this case would never have been solved without the tireless efforts of
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investigators like Rolf Preiser and the support of the community leaders who
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came forward every one determined helped find justice for an unknown little girl
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her identity almost stolen along with her life I'm Anthony Robert thank you
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