{"id":13224,"date":"2023-03-10T08:16:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13224"},"modified":"2023-03-10T08:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:16:34","slug":"a-russian-woman-fed-poisoned-cheesecake-to-her-american-doppelganger-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13224","title":{"rendered":"A Russian Woman Fed Poisoned Cheesecake To Her American Doppelganger. Here&#x27;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, a US court convicted a Russian-born woman of trying to kill her American lookalike with poisoned cheesecake and then stealing her identity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-image-wrapper\">\n                        Representational Image<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old woman, Viktoria Nasyrova, was booked for attempted murder by a jury in New York, per a statement by the district attorney for the city&#8217;s borough of Queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block-header-title x-medium\">Jump To<\/h2>\n<nav class='mt-10 jumplink-nav'>Incident from 2016Victim&#8217;s\u00a0passport, employment card stolenNasyrova faces 25 years of imprisonment<\/nav>\n<h2 id=Incident_from_2016>Incident from 2016<\/h2>\n<p>In August 2016, Nasyrova went to the home of her then-35-year-old victim, carrying the cheesecake as a gift.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, it was revealed that the pair resembled one another at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They both spoke Russian, had dark hair, the same skin complexion and shared other physical traits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim began to feel sick and passed out eventually after eating the dessert brought by Nasyrova.\u00a0She was discovered unconscious by a friend the following day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-image-wrapper\">\n                        Unsplash<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors told the court that pills were scattered around her to make it look like she had tried to kill herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 id=Victims_passport_employment_card_stolen>Victim&#8217;s\u00a0passport, employment card stolen\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>When the victim returned home after treatment in hospital, she discovered her passport and employment authorisation card were missing, along with jewellery and other valuables.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-image-wrapper\">\n                        Unsplash<\/p>\n<p>According to the DA&#8217;s office, law enforcement agents tested the cheesecake and found it was laced with Phenazepam, a highly potent sedative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 id=Nasyrova_faces_25_years_of_imprisonment>Nasyrova faces 25 years of imprisonment<\/h2>\n<p>Nasyrova, who lives in Brooklyn, was also convicted of assault, unlawful imprisonment and theft.\u00a0She is due to be sentenced on March 21 and faces up to 25 years in prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nasyrova has also been accused of fatally drugging a neighbour in her native Russia in 2014. She denied killing the woman, Alla Alekseenko, in a 2017 interview with CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from AFP)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For more on news and current affairs from around the world, please visit\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Indiatimes News.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.igaashop.com\/gaa.html' title='gaa jerseys'>gaa jerseys<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, a US court convicted a Russian-born woman of trying to kill her American lookalike with poisoned cheesecake and then stealing her identity.\u00a0 Representational Image The 47-year-old woman, Viktoria Nasyrova, was booked for attempted murder by a jury in New York, per a statement by the district attorney for the city&#8217;s borough of Queens.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13224\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Russian Woman Fed Poisoned Cheesecake To Her American Doppelganger. Here&#x27;s Why&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}