Alarm Bells (Ammar Al-Yasari)

Summary

Anatomy of Murder: Alarm Bells (Ammar Al-Yasari)

Host/Author: audiochuck
Release Date: May 27, 2025

In this gripping episode of Anatomy of Murder, hosts Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger delve deep into the tragic murder case of Ammar Al-Yasari, unraveling the intricate layers of the victim’s life, the brutal crime, and the meticulous investigation that followed. Through expert analysis and compelling storytelling, they shed light on how a seemingly stable family life can harbor dark secrets leading to unimaginable violence.

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1. The Calm Before the Storm

The episode opens by painting a picture of Holt, Michigan—a peaceful suburban town where the Al-Yasari family settled after immigrating from Iraq. In 2019, Ammar, a 35-year-old employee at the Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, lived a content life with his wife, Badoora, who worked at the Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine, and their two daughters.

2. Discovery of the Crime

On February 4, 2019, the facade of this idyllic family shattered when Badoora called 911, reporting that she returned home to find her husband lying lifeless on the floor.

Anna Sega Nicolasi [03:55]: "If you were to ask their friends and neighbors, they would tell you that the Al-Yasari were a stable, happy family living a typical suburban life."

The authorities arrived swiftly to a scene of horror—blood splattered in the hallway, Ammar with multiple deep lacerations, and a pervasive smell of bleach that hinted at recent attempts to tamper with the crime scene.

3. Initial Investigation and Suspicion

Paramedics and deputies responded to the emergency call from Badoora, who expressed fear that an intruder might still be inside.

Nicole Matusco [04:26]: "I did not go back inside the house because I'm scared someone's still in there."

As detectives began their investigation, the absence of forced entry and the disabling of the security alarm raised immediate red flags.

Scott Weinberger [10:03]: "The use of bleach at a crime scene is usually an indication that the perpetrator had tried to either clean up or destroy evidence."

4. Unveiling the Affair

Further scrutiny revealed that Badoora had an affair with Jacob Fisher, a 27-year-old former infantryman. Text messages extracted from her phone exposed a troubling dynamic:

Nicole Matusco [25:02]: "Jacob Fisher was someone that she had met months prior, that she had started a relationship with."

These communications suggested that Badoora was deeply unhappy in her marriage, describing Ammar as abusive—a claim that, upon investigation, lacked verification from close associates.

Nicole Matusco [36:36]: "We knew that this would be a difficult case to prove... but nothing beats a hard investigation."

5. The Hunt for Evidence

Investigators meticulously pieced together timelines and digital footprints. The disabling of the alarm system at 5:32 PM was traced back to Badoora, coinciding with Ammar’s expected return home. Additionally, a Kroger receipt showed Jacob purchasing a camping ax just days before the murder—a weapon consistent with the injuries inflicted on Ammar.

Anna Sega Nicolasi [28:15]: "A chop wound is a unique injury in a homicide case. And now you have someone associated with the wife of the victim purchasing this just days before Amar was murdered."

Surveillance footage placed Jacob at the scene, further implicating him in the brutal act. His subsequent behavior—boasting about the murder in a local bar—sealed his fate in the eyes of the jury.

Nicole Matusco [41:31]: "Jacob Fisher was willing to take the stand in his own defense... he chose not to make any statements to police."

6. The Trials and Convictions

Jacob Fisher was first brought to trial, pleading not guilty. Despite his claims of self-defense and denying premeditation, the jury found him guilty of both murder and conspiracy to commit murder, leading to a life sentence without parole.

In April 2022, Badoora faced similar charges. The prosecution presented a strong case, emphasizing the digital evidence and surveillance footage that tied her to the premeditated attack. Her defense struggled to counter the circumstantial evidence, and she was ultimately convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.

Anna Sega Nicolasi [45:56]: "She was found guilty of both first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder."

7. Reflections and Aftermath

The hosts poignantly reflect on the profound loss experienced by Ammar’s family, particularly his daughters who were left without their father. They also highlight the relentless dedication of law enforcement and prosecutors in securing convictions based on circumstantial evidence, underscoring the importance of digital forensics in modern investigations.

Nicole Matusco [46:07]: "We had to make sure that the evidence that we had would be able to sustain that burden of proof, to prove beyond a reasonable doubt and to convince the jury that this did happen."

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Notable Quotes:

• Nicole Matusco [42:20]: "They had indicators through the text messages of her talking to Jacob Fisher about how much she didn't like Amar Al Yassari. And there was text messages back and forth about how she like believed that he should die."
• Scott Weinberger [34:17]: "Our theory was that Amar had indicated to Padour that he had left work and that he was driving home. We then had her at a stoplight turning off the alarm remotely."

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Conclusion

Alarm Bells (Ammar Al-Yasari) serves as a haunting reminder of how digital footprints and circumstantial evidence can unravel the most twisted of crimes. Through diligent investigation and unwavering commitment, the truth was brought to light, delivering justice for Ammar and his family. This episode not only chronicles a harrowing murder case but also underscores the complexities and challenges faced by those seeking truth in the fog of deceit.

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Stay tuned for next week's episode of Anatomy of Murder, where Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger continue to dissect another chilling case, revealing the dark undercurrents that lie beneath the surface of tragic events.

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[Nicole Matusco]

Guarantee911 what is the address of emergency? I just came home from work and my husband's on the ground.

[Scott Weinberger]

I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy Sheriff.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

I'm Anna Sega Nicolasi, former New York City Homicide prosecutor and host of Investigation Discovery's True Conviction.

[Scott Weinberger]

And this is Anatomy of Murder. Whether we're aware of it or not, it's a fact of life in today's interconnected world that just about everything we do and everywhere we go is being traced, tracked or recorded.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Whether it's the digital shadow we cast when using our phones, the purchases logged by the use of an ATM card, or the video images captured by a surveillance camera, we all leave behind a traceable trail of our actions and whereabouts.

[Scott Weinberger]

In most situations, these digital breadcrumbs, if you will, have no significant bearing on our lives. But. But as a married couple with two children from Holt, Michigan will discover, that's far from the case when the situation is murder.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Holt, Michigan is a residential suburb of Lansing with a population of about 25,000 people. And it was here that Amar and Bedoor Al Yassari, recent immigrants from Iraq, decided to settle down and raise their two kids.

[Scott Weinberger]

In 2019, 35 year old Amar was working for the Michigan State University Federal credit union. His wife of nine and a half years, Bador, was employed by Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine, and their two daughters were enrolled in local schools.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

If you were to ask their friends and neighbors, they would tell you that the Alari were a stable, happy family living a typical suburban life. But on February 4, 2019 at 8:05pm that facade would come crashing down with a fresh air. Frantic called to 911911.

[Nicole Matusco]

What is the address of your emergency? 4558 Glenberry Drive, Hulk, Michigan. Okay, what's going on there? I just came home from work and my husband's on the ground. Okay, are you with the patient now? No, I'm outside.

[Ashley Flowers]

I'm scared to go in.

[Nicole Matusco]

Okay. How. How old is he? I'm scared of someone's inside. So the initial 911 call was from Badoora El Yasari. And she, during that 911 call, had told dispatchers that she walked into her home, she didn't know what had happened, that her husband was down.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Okay, is he awake?

[Nicole Matusco]

No, I don't know. I just saw him on the ground.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Okay. Is he breathing?

[Nicole Matusco]

I was never outside.

[Scott Weinberger]

Nicole Matusco is a prosecutor with the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office in Lansing, Michigan.

[Nicole Matusco]

So some of the first questions they had for the 911 caller was, how did this happen? What did you see? Did you hear anything? You think somebody broke into the house and harmed your husband? I think so.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

But door told the operator that when she walked in and saw her husband laying lifeless on the floor. Floor. She immediately fled the home, fearful the attacker might still be inside.

[Nicole Matusco]

I did not go back inside the house because I'm scared someone's still in there.

[Scott Weinberger]

Within minutes, paramedics and deputies from the Ingham County Sheriff's Office responded to the location, the lights and sirens shattering the tranquility of the suburban street where every house has an attached garage and a tree in the Front yard.

[Nicole Matusco]

So Holt is a residential area. It was a very quiet neighborhood. It was a dead end street. If you were to drive by the homes, you could see kids playing outside. It's just your average neighborhood community. We do have pockets of high crime, but I wouldn't call Holt one of those pockets of crimes.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Arriving deputies found Beador crying hysterically in their front driveway.

[Nicole Matusco]

She was frantic. She ran up to the deputies telling them that she someone could still be in her house and that her husband was down, her friend had come over to pick up her children.

[Scott Weinberger]

When deputies entered the home, they encountered a unsettling scene. And from someone who has handled these panicked 911 calls, I can tell you while your training kicks in, in the back of your mind, you do wonder what you're walking into. Of course, we're only human, and there are so many cases that even the most seasoned officer is, can be shocked by what they find. And this was one of those cases.

[Nicole Matusco]

When first responders came to that scene, I don't believe they knew what to really expect, and they definitely didn't expect what they saw inside the home. It was a pretty violent murder. So there was blood everywhere in the hallway where Amar was located, and there was a single light on over where his body was found.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Amara was clearly deceased, with multiple deep lacerations visible on his head, face, and neck. He was still wearing a coat, but no shoes, as if he may have just entered the house. Deputies also noticed a very strong chemical odor hanging in the air.

[Nicole Matusco]

All of the first responders, what they were unanimous about was when they walked into the house, they were hit with a wall of the scent of bleach, which was not common in what we expect to see in these types of cases.

[Scott Weinberger]

Just from the look of his injuries, it was clear that Amar had been violently murdered. What wasn't immediately clear was whether his killer was still close by.

[Nicole Matusco]

Their initial goal was to clear the house to make sure no one else was present inside the house.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Once that was done, deputies sealed off the home. When homicide detectives soon arrived on scene, it was evident they would have their work cut out for them.

[Scott Weinberger]

Typically, when there is no murder weapon found at the scene, as the case was here, a cursory inspection of the victim's wounds can provide a clue as to what kind of weapon the killer may have used. Not so in this case.

[Nicole Matusco]

They weren't sure what type of instrument was used to kill Amar. But what first responders had noticed is many of the wounds were actually in Amar's head and neck area. So that was where the majority of.

[Scott Weinberger]

The injury was, you know, Anasega, There's a reason why that this observation is so significant because it tells us a lot about what may have happened and who may have been involved.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

And look, we've obviously talked about things like this many times before in aom, but these type of injuries often prove to be personal, right? Some sort of like deep seated anger or rage. However, again, always looking at the flip side, too, which investigators and prosecutors must do. While not as likely, we've definitely also seen cases where something like this, even this severe, is completely random with someone with a deep seated anger and even maybe mental health issues on display. But, you know, Scott, obviously there are signs of this not only being deliberate, but also thought out in advance with the heavy smell that they determined to be bleach in the air.

[Nicole Matusco]

When they actually got into the scene and started looking at it, There was evidence that the bleach had been poured on top of Amar because he had dark clothing. And when bleach is poured, it creates the bleach pattern that many individuals are familiar with when they're doing their own laundry. There was also evidence that the bleach had been poured on the walls and someone had tried to potentially wash down some of the blood spatter that was on the wall. They had found bleach at the seam, but they weren't able to determine if that was the bleach used to pour on top of Amar or on the walls of the location where he was killed.

[Scott Weinberger]

The use of bleach at a crime scene is usually an indication that the perpetrator had tried to either clean up or destroy evidence, as the chemicals in household bleach are typically strong enough to remove blood stains, footprints, DNA and other clues that might help identify a killer. Whether the killer brought the bleach to the scene or found it in the house, it definitely indicated that this was likely not a chance encounter or B.O. botched home invasion. This killer came prepared with a plan.

[Nicole Matusco]

So there was no sign of forced entry. The door didn't have damage to it. There was no signs that anyone had to break into the house. The house was also not ransacked, so everything appeared to be in the place where it was expected to be.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Detectives theorized that Amar likely walked in from the garage and had been attacked by someone lying in wait who was already inside the house. A truly terrifying thought, Even more terrifying.

[Scott Weinberger]

At a Sega is when you think about what the medical examiner believed the killer may have used as a weapon.

[Nicole Matusco]

The manner of death was homicide, and the cause of death was from chop wounds. So that would be different from, for example, a stabbing wound or something where a knife would have been stabbed into someone. And we know that it wasn't a gunshot wound because it didn't have the characteristics consistent with that. So he had indicated that a chop wound would be consistent with an ax, and the characteristics would be consistent with the front portion of that ax.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

And of those 24 ax wounds, 17 of them were deep enough to be fatal, leaving no doubt about this killer's intention.

[Scott Weinberger]

According to Amara's wife, Bedor, she had left work at 4:40pm and as she usually did, picked up her daughters from school, ran some errands, and then arrived home at 7:50pm and she had no reason to suspect anything was wrong.

[Nicole Matusco]

The children were with her when she arrived home. They were in the car. She couldn't get into the garage door. The garage door wasn't opening, so she went in through the front door. And she actually left her two children in the car.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

After discovering her husband on the floor, she retreated from the house, fearing that the intruder might still be inside. She then called a neighbor to collect her kids before finally dialing 911, which.

[Scott Weinberger]

Considering the high stress of the moment, is understandable. Her priority would have definitely been the children's safety. But the fact that she did not enter the house to check on her husband and that short delay in calling 91 1, those were small abnormalities that investigators made note of.

[Nicole Matusco]

They asked normal questions. Did Amar have any enemies? Is there anybody you could have expected to do this? They're just trying to gather as much information as they possibly can to figure out who might be a suspect.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

But Dorr was adamant that she had no idea who may have wanted to kill her husband. She described him as well liked and respected at work. Amar was also a private person who rarely socialized and not the type to engage in at risk or criminal behavior that might put him in any kind of danger.

[Scott Weinberger]

But detectives could not shake the suspicion that he was killed by somebody he knew. And if the killer was indeed lying in wait inside the home, they also wonder how the perpetrator could have gained entry into the house, especially since there's a sign on the front door indicating the home is protected by an alarm system.

[Nicole Matusco]

So this would have alerted anyone coming into the house that, you know, hey, this house is protected by an alarm. But also, the alarm hadn't gone off. So for this to be a home invasion, there was no sign that someone broke in, and the alarm company hadn't notified law enforcement or done anything that indicated that the alarm was triggered.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

So the alarm was turned off and the front door was unlocked. You can imagine how that would start to raise suspicion about the only other person who had that kind of access to this house, Amar's wife, Beador.

[Scott Weinberger]

So detectives, as you imagine, wasted no time in asking her to sit down for a formal interview at the sheriff's office. And if some of our listeners are thinking that this sounds a little premature, remember that in any investigation, it is in the detective's interest to clear a spouse or domestic partner as quick as possible.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

It's also important to remember that 54% of homicides are committed by someone the victim knows. The majority of those by the person closest to them.

[Nicole Matusco]

And that's what they started with, is how was the marriage? How were things going? You know, was anybody involved in any extramarital affairs? She denied any of that.

[Scott Weinberger]

But detectives got the impression that Beador was not being completely forthcoming. She seemed evasive about possible troubles at home, and after additional questioning, she began to change her story.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

According to Beador, her marriage to Amar was far from perfect. She claimed he was often verbally abusive and, despite her education and employment, expected her to be just a wife.

[Scott Weinberger]

She also said Amara had been especially distant and cold to her since she suffered a miscarriage five months earlier, adding to the growing tension in their marriage.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

If true, these marital troubles were, of course, unfortunate, but it hardly seems like any sort of sufficient motive for murder. What she revealed next, however, that was potentially a different story.

[Nicole Matusco]

Eventually, she did admit she had had an affair with someone, but she wouldn't provide any information. She wouldn't provide the name, that person, or anything as it relates to who the person would be.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

So, Scott, this is interesting to me because, of course, you know, this isn't the only person to have an extramarital relationship outside of the marriage. But at this point, if she's telling that much to investigators, why not just give up the name of the person she's having the relationship with? Right. I mean, of course, there could be innocent reasons, but it does make you raise an eyebrow.

[Scott Weinberger]

Absolutely. You know, a relationship outside of your marriage. Embarrassing, I'm sure, to admit to a detective, but this is a murder investigation looking into the person who killed your husband and the father of your children. So, brf, Big red flag. Absolutely. Now, if I was working this case, I would want to know right there and then, who is this person? And if you're protecting him, tell us why. Because a potential love triangle meant a potential suspect knowing there's a good chance her boyfriend friend's name would be revealed in text messages. Detectives asked Beador to allow them to download the contents of her phone, but she refused.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

But police weren't going to leave it there, so they went about at that point obtaining a search warrant and confiscated her phone. And while a digital forensics team extracted the phone's data, which would include a full history of calls, texts and locations, investigators followed up on another mystery from the crime scene, how a Mars killer gained access to the home without triggering their alarm system.

[Nicole Matusco]

They reached out to the alarm company. They did search warrants to get records as to why it wasn't triggered or why it wasn't alerted. If this was in fact someone that broke into the hole. They learned that the alarm had been turned off on the day of the homicide.

[Scott Weinberger]

And here is a really important thread. The alarm had been remotely disabled at 5:32pm shortly before Amar was expected home from work.

[Nicole Matusco]

They were able to determine by further investigation that Badour was actually the individual who turned off that alarm system. I think that's when it started to raise a red flag that this may be an inside job.

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[Scott Weinberger]

In February of 2019, husband and father of two Amar Al Usari was found brutally murdered in his Holt, Michigan home. The perpetrator appeared to be a killer lying in wait even though the home had a security system.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

But detectives had turned up evidence that Amar's wife Beador, who had discovered her husband's body, had also remotely disabled the security alarm at 5:32pm on the day of the murder.

[Nicole Matusco]

I know that they really began to get suspicious when they got the records that showed that it was turned off remotely when she was not home. And it would have been consistent with the time or right around the time when Ammar would have been coming home.

[Scott Weinberger]

Investigators also began to uncover inconsistencies in Beador's statements and actions. On the day of the crime.

[Nicole Matusco]

She had indicated that she couldn't get the garage door to open, but then when the first responders arrived on scene, her car was actually parked inside the garage. So at some point she was able to open that garage door and then pull her car inside.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

There was also the fact that Beador had called a friend to come pick up her daughters before calling 911. And not only that, when police interviewed that friend, they made a disturbing discovery.

[Nicole Matusco]

When her friend came to pick up her children, she was not hysterical, she was calm and she put her children in the car. And she didn't mention that Amar was murdered brutally inside that home. And then she called 911 and then.

[Scott Weinberger]

She called 91 1. I think Anasinga that's pretty significant. So Beador goes into the home, witnesses something so horrific, walks out calmly and makes sure that her children are looked after before even calling 911. So another huge red flag for me.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

You know, it's interesting and I've been like kind of swirling these things around in my mind because yeah, like that strange behavior again, taking the flip side, like is it that she's just being strong for the sake of her kids, you know, protecting them by not letting them see her break down? Like she clearly doesn't want them either to go inside and Also not to be there. So why she hands them off to the friend, But I don't know. Even going into the house without her kids initially, like, that's kind of odd. Unless, I don't know, maybe they're very young and she's taking groceries in and so she likes to get the door open before taking them out. But it definitely is all things that I think, even the fact that we're debating them back and forth right now to each other, it's going to make detectives need to look deeper and question at least the order of the way she did things. On top of, to your point, Scott, her demeanor, like, how calm she appeared.

[Scott Weinberger]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to lean into what you said. Cause I totally agree with that. I mean, how many families with children come home and they leave the kids in the car at their own home just to walk in, unless they're just coming back out to leave. But they were coming home for the night. So that is completely out of character. I'm sure. Then you have the situation where the alarm is being disabled from outside of the home. That again, is telling us that something here is, is definitely pointing towards people who had access to that system. And who else would have access besides her husband?

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Unless it's someone who has access to their laptops or their apps, like it is the cyber crime generation. But again, all questions that investigators are going to want to figure out.

[Scott Weinberger]

So with suspicion swirling around Beador's involvement in her husband's murder, the Digital Forensics and Cybercrime Unit of the Michigan State University Police Department turned over the data extracted from from Beador's phone from text.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Messages to her husband. They learned that he arrived home that day at about 6:50pm giving investigators a good indicator of his time of death. But it also confirmed to them that Beador at the time was still several miles from home.

[Scott Weinberger]

But investigators also discovered that just six minutes before she arrived home, in the midst of driving her kids home and running errands, she had deleted an app from her phone. An app that potentially held a treasure trove of incriminating data.

[Nicole Matusco]

So they had learned through her phone that she utilized a social media app called Text.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Now, what Bedor didn't know, and I don't know, maybe perhaps few people do, is that even when you delete a text app from your phone, that texting data still lives on the company's servers. So investigators were able to get a search warrant for. For the TextNow app and recovered that stored data.

[Nicole Matusco]

They started reading through the TextNow information and that's really when they started to learn about the affair with Jacob Fisher.

[Scott Weinberger]

It became clear that 27 year old Jacob Fisher was the man Beador was having an affair with. The man that she had refused to.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Id Fisher was a local community college student originally from California and a former infantryman in the U.S. army. And Bedor's text data revealed the entire chronology of their seven month relationship.

[Nicole Matusco]

So Jacob Fisher was someone that she had met months prior, that she had started a relationship with. They learned through those communications that she had called off the relationship months prior and then had reignited the relationship and got back together with him. And that she was in constant communication with him throughout the days leading up to February 4th.

[Scott Weinberger]

In her interview, Beador had hinted to detectives that her husband had been emotionally distant. But her texts to Fisher revealed her marriage to Amar was plagued by far more troubling issues.

[Nicole Matusco]

So there was indication through the text messages of her talking to Jacob Fisher about how much she didn't like Amar Al Yassari. And there was text messages back and forth about how she like believed that he should die. She had been telling Jacob Fisher that it was an abusive relationship with Amar. And we didn't take that lightly because that does happen here as well.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

While Beador's phone data didn't turn up any texts making direct mention of a plan to kill her husband, it did reveal text that seemed to set the stage.

[Nicole Matusco]

We were able to locate a conversation where they were talking about the children and Jacob Fisher actually said, said, why the do I care more about these children than he does? Meaning a bar that mother needs to die. So I mean that led us to believe that they're talking about killing the person that three weeks later is found murdered in his home.

[Scott Weinberger]

A six foot tall, 240 pound trained soldier, Jacob Fisher was more than capable of inflicting the brutal injuries that killed Amara. And his relationship with Beador gave him the motive.

[Nicole Matusco]

They knew Beador was not the one that swung the ax or the the weapon at Amar because we knew where she was when he was murdered. So they started investigating Jacob Fisher and they learned that he lived here in the Lansing area.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Police chose not to re interview Beador regarding her relationship with Fisher. And there was a sound procedural reason for this tactic.

[Nicole Matusco]

Given the nature of how she wasn't forthcoming with his information in the initial interview, they were concerned that if they were to bring her in that she would either destroy evidence, tip him off or potentially run.

[Scott Weinberger]

So the next steps was to find evidence that would directly tie Fisher to the murder on Top of that list was the murder weapon itself. And it didn't take long.

[Nicole Matusco]

When they conducted the search warrant at his residence, they located a Kroger receipt that had indicated that just a few days before the murder, the person had purchased a Camp Ax, bleach, and some other minor items that were not associated with the crime.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

The Receipt was dated January 31, just four days prior to the murder.

[Nicole Matusco]

A chop wound is a unique injury in a homicide case. And now you have someone associated with the wife of the victim purchasing this just days before Amar was murdered.

[Scott Weinberger]

This is significant for two reasons. Obviously, it would be great finding the actual murder weapon with DNA on it. This, however, does give investigators an opportunity to take one more step. These days, these types of receipts are so specific, not only do they tell you the items, they tell you the time, even what checkout counter that person used. And also, as we all know, big box stores have great surveillance cameras. So this made this opportunity a really great find.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

It was looking likely that Fisher was the man that killed Amar. What investigators still did not know was whether he acted alone or was assisted in his plan by Beador.

[Nicole Matusco]

Something that was in the back of law enforcement's mind is maybe she's not involved. But they really tried to investigate to determine what her involvement, if any, would be be without bringing her in because they didn't want him, Jacob Fiser tipped off, or if she was involved again, we have her turning off the alarm shortly before Amar got there. They didn't want evidence to become destroyed.

[Scott Weinberger]

Armed with a subpoena, investigators showed up at the store where Fisher bought the axe and bleach.

[Nicole Matusco]

And Kroger had great surveillance. They were actually able to get pretty clear surveillance footage of Jacob Fisher purchasing the Camp Ax and then a bottle of bleach.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

But that wasn't all investigators got. They also left the store with strong evidence suggesting Fisher had an accomplice.

[Nicole Matusco]

They also were able to get surveillance footage from the outside of the store, which showed the parking lot area. And they were able to show that Jacob Fisher arrived in the passenger side of a red truck, a truck consistent with the truck that Badua Aya said was known to drive. This was confirmation. The turning off of the alarm. And now we have her or someone driving a truck consistent with what she was able to drive. With Jacob Fisher buying the murder weapon was a really big indication that she was involved in the crime.

[Scott Weinberger]

Investigators were convinced Bador Alassari conspired with her lover to murder her husband. But gathering enough evidence to convince a tri would be another matter. Altogether.

[Nicole Matusco]

We knew that this would be a difficult case to prove. We knew that it would be very evidence based and technical.

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[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

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[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

The wealth of circumstantial evidence convinced authorities in Lansing, Michigan that Bador Aliasari and her boyfriend, Jacob Fisher conspired to murder Beador's husband and father of their children, Amar.

[Scott Weinberger]

The manner of the brutal murder, 24 swings of a camping axe, was an indication not just of intent, but aggression and merciless rage.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Another indication of Fisher's lack of remorse, the revelation that shortly after he was identified as the prime suspect after the murder, Jacob Fisher had showed up at a local watering hole boasting that he had killed someone and needed money to get out of town.

[Scott Weinberger]

But instead of helping him flee, patrons notified police. Police and within minutes, officers from the Michigan State police, they were swarming the bar.

[Nicole Matusco]

So Jacob Fiser was actually arrested first. He did not provide a statement.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Okay, Scott, can we just talk about the fact that someone goes to a bar and starts boasting about murdering someone and needs help to get out of town? Like, does that even make sense that someone thinks that that's going to work out and that somebody's not going to tip off somebody else, I. E. Equaling the police.

[Scott Weinberger]

It is surprising. But how many times have we heard this before where somebody just goes into a place, has a couple of drinks and just decides to use that for creds? The fact that you know whether it's true or not, I'm sure they don't know. But just hearing a story like that about a camping ax being swung 24 times and committing murder in that type of rage, that's worth at least checking out.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

And I think to your point, Scott, and I think it is a good point that as we know, people say all sorts of things and many people may have just taken it as like, oh, he's boasting and really not thought much about it. But, you know, it's also interesting that as much as he talked in the bar when he was arrested, he chose not to make any statements to police.

[Scott Weinberger]

Yeah, there's many things that you could tell people in the bar and a bartender and order a drink, but one of them seems to be off the wall to tell him a story like this. And one week after Fisher's arrest, Bedora Alassari was also taken into custody. And like Fisher, she gave no additional statement to investigators. So here he was, Anasega, talking to bartenders, talking to bar patrons, but not talking to investigators.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

And so, based on the evidence that law enforcement has collected at this point, which included footage from a dash cam that Beador had operating in her truck, investigators formed a theory as to how the pair had worked together to commit murder.

[Nicole Matusco]

Our theory was that Amar had indicated to Padour that he had left work and that he was driving home. We then had her at a stoplight turning off the alarm remotely. It was our theory that she had communication with Jacob. He knew that alarm was going to be off. She had turned it off, and she had let Jacob Fisher inside the home just moments before Amar Al Yassari would have arrived.

[Scott Weinberger]

Police. Police suspected Bedor Alassari had left the front door unlocked to allow Fisher access and then theorized the ex soldier waited in the dark for Amar to pull into the garage and enter the home.

[Nicole Matusco]

Amar likely didn't get far from the door. He had removed his shoes, but then he was murdered right where he would have entered the home. Right behind where he was murdered, there was a roof which was like a laundry room. We believed that it was likely that Jacob Fisher was hiding in that room, and he ambushed Amar and then struck him with the camp ax that he had purchased just days before. There was a back door that was unlocked to the back of the house. So we believe that that's likely where he left the home after he murdered Amar.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Investigators were certain that Bador Aliasari had conspired with Fisher to kill her husband. But it was prosecutors who would need to present a compelling case, making the strength of the circumstantial evidence clear enough to hopefully prove it in court.

[Nicole Matusco]

Our biggest concern was really making the evidence into a timeline that made sense that couldn't have a lot of holes poked into it.

[Scott Weinberger]

So, Ana Ciga, while it may seem obvious that Beadora was, at the very least, an accessory to this murder, that is not the same thing as proving the guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in a courtroom, 100%.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

But as we all know, Like, I like circumstantial evidence cases. And to me, it is like the truck that he's in when he's purchasing the ax and that alarm, like, of course, that is pretty strong evidence. It's exactly how I'm starting not only my opening, but my closing.

[Nicole Matusco]

Badoor Al Yasari was instrumental, and she was working along with her boyfriend to brutally murder her husband. So we needed to make sure that the evidence that we had would be able to sustain that burden of proof, to prove beyond a reasonable doubt and to convince the jury that this did happen.

[Scott Weinberger]

To help prove Alassari's guilt, investigators were determined to know what was really going on inside her marriage. Texts pulled from her phone offered key insights showing that she had told Fisher her husband had been abusive to her her.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

And while domestic abuse can definitely be a precursor to more extreme violence, including murder, there was no actual evidence that she was telling the truth. There were no complaints ever filed, no visits from police, and more importantly, most importantly, I should say, no one close to Beador Aliasari who could verify her claims.

[Scott Weinberger]

In preparing the cases against Alassari and Fisher, Nicole spoke numerous times to Amar's sister, and she disputed that Amar was ever physically abusive.

[Nicole Matusco]

We kept in close contact and we had talked through what the relationship was like with her so that we could know going into this, was it a healthy marriage, was there abuse, that type of information? She basically had told us that that didn't take place, that Amar was a loving husband, was a loving father. They had arguments like any married couple, but there was no evidence that it was an abusive relationship.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

In fact, Amar's sister had her own suspicions that her sister in law was the one who had actually harbored dangerous resentments about her marriage.

[Nicole Matusco]

His sister wasn't surprised that she had been arrested. She had a sneaking suspicion that somehow Badour was involved.

[Scott Weinberger]

Prosecutors argued that Badoor Al Asari played the role of the mastermind, feeding Fisher lies in a ploy to get him to kill her husband.

[Nicole Matusco]

That was our theory of the case, is that she was fueling him, that she knew Jacob Fisher, being from the military, would have the ability to commit the crime, but she had to ignite that fire and give him a reason to do it. She manipulated him and told him what she wanted him to hear.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

But Dora Alyosari had claimed from the start that she had no knowledge of the murder. If this had been true, it was only logical that she would have been enraged at Jacob Fisher for killing Amar, her husband and the father of her children. However, her actions post arrest and prior to trial, seemed to contradict her denials.

[Nicole Matusco]

I think what stuck out to me was, even after Jacob Fisher and Beador were charged with murdering Amar, they kept in contact while they were in custody in our jail. And that never made sense to me with her trying to say that she wasn't involved in this.

[Scott Weinberger]

Prosecutors decided to try each defendant separately.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

In November 2019, Jason Fisher was the first to face a jury charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He entered a plea of not guilty.

[Nicole Matusco]

Circumstantially, we had to prove that Jacob Fisher was the individual inside that home that day.

[Scott Weinberger]

Prosecutors introduced evidence that Fisher had bought a camp ax and bleach just prior to the murder and that bador Alisari had driven him to the store and then later disabled the alarm to aid him. Which, let's be honest, really doesn't look very good.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

It definitely doesn't. But again, still, technically, on its face, it's all circumstantial and under cross. The defense tried to convince the jury that prosecutors couldn't definitively place Fisher in the Aliasari home on the day of the murder.

[Nicole Matusco]

So for his trial, a lot of the defense was based on the identification of Jacob Fisher as the person inside the house wielding the axe and murdering Amar Al Yassari. We had neighbors that saw a figure walking down the road, but didn't see a face, for example.

[Scott Weinberger]

It would ultimately be up to a jury to decide. But before that, Fisher's defense shocked the court when they announced that Fisher would not only take the stand, he would be the only witness they were going to call.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

As we've discussed before, it's always risky for a defendant to put themselves on the stand and open themselves up to cross examination. And even Nicole was surprised by the defense's decision, but she was even more surprised by what Fisher said when he testified.

[Nicole Matusco]

I was shocked that Jacob Fisher was willing to take the stand in his own defense. I was more shocked that he had more or less admitted that it was him inside the home, but had just indicated to the jury that he was there to confront Amar because he was in love with badour, and he and badour were going to be together, so he needed to basically allow a peaceful divorce. And then Amar had assaulted him. And Jacob Fisher, because of his training in the military, had just responded, and he happened to have a camp ax in his hand. So that's how amar got the 24 chop wounds.

[Scott Weinberger]

On the stand. Fisher claimed Amar had abused Beador physically, emotionally, and sexually, and that he brought the ax only to intimidate him. He even went so far as to quote an old military plan platitude that soldiers don't fight because they hate what's in front of them, but because they love what's behind them.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Fisher went on to testify that they had plans for Beador to file for divorce, then take the children with him to the west coast where he'd grown up. But most importantly, that Beador Al Yasari had nothing to do with the murder.

[Nicole Matusco]

In that moment, we were also in a bit of a disbelief that it was happening the way that it was happening. But he stuck to his ground and he actually testified that Badour was not involved or didn't know that the murder was going to happen.

[Scott Weinberger]

According to Fisher, he sent Bedour al Asari a text message telling her he had killed Amar and warned her not to allow the children inside the home. And that's how she knew to keep.

[Nicole Matusco]

Them in the car during the cross. We were just trying to poke holes into many parts of his statement as possible.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

But was this the truth or was it merely an effort to protect this woman he seemed to love? A woman that had potentially manipulated him into committing murder. And now, taking all the blame, the.

[Scott Weinberger]

Jury was left to deliberate his fate.

[Nicole Matusco]

Ultimately, he was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder as well as murder. So from that conviction, it's pretty apparent that the jury didn't believe that testimony.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

In January 2020, Jacob Fisher was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. While Fisher admitted he killed Amar, the jury rejected his assertion that he didn't intend to kill Damar, that it was self defense, that Amar had first attacked him, and that the attack wasn't premeditated.

[Scott Weinberger]

And prosecutors were also intent to prove that he didn't act alone. In April 2022, Bedar Alassari faced the same charges as Fisher. Murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

In her opening statement, Nicole told the jury that the pair not only plotted, planned and worked together, but that Badour Al Yasari knew how to fuel Jacob Fisher's hatred to manipulate him into killing her husband.

[Nicole Matusco]

This is a very circumstantial case that we had to prove based on a lot of search warrants and putting a lot of pieces together. So the concern would be we believed that she was responsible, but we wouldn't be able to meet that burden of proof.

[Scott Weinberger]

The linchpin of the prosecution's case was using the digital data to prove that it was Badour Alassari who remotely deactivated the alarm, allowing Fisher to enter the home undetected.

[Nicole Matusco]

Badoor and Amar had dash cameras in their cars as well. So we actually had video of Beador's day that day and what she was doing. So we were able to piece together and actually show the jury that when she remotely disabled that alarm, she was still driving with her children in the car. So I think that made it easier to understand that it wasn't just she was turning off an alarm, but that something else was happening.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Prosecutors also presented evidence that a neighbor of the Aliasaris between 5:30 and 6 on the day of the murder, had said seen a man on their street in a dark hoodie fitting Fisher's build. They watched as he entered the Aliasari's front door, likely left unlocked by his accomplice.

[Scott Weinberger]

Bedor. Alisari's defense harped on the fact that she wasn't in the home at the time of the murder and tried to poke holes in the circumstantial evidence linking her to the murder weapon.

[Nicole Matusco]

For example, the surveillance footage from Kroger. You can't see who is driving. We had testimony that she spent a lot of time with Jacob Fisher that day and they carried in bags from Kroger, but we couldn't prove who was the driver. So it was circumstantial evidence that we were asking the jury to rely on in their own common sense as to what transpired. So their defense for Badour was really they didn't meet their burden of proof.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

The prosecution team did have the evidence to show that Badour Aliasari was guilty. But would they be able to convince a jury, a jury they feared might be sympathetic to the widowed mother of two young children?

[Scott Weinberger]

The short answer they did.

[Nicole Matusco]

She was found guilty of both first degree murder and conspiracy to commit first degree murder.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

In securing the two convictions, Nicole was quick to give credit where credit is due.

[Nicole Matusco]

What stuck out to me was just how much work the law enforcement agency had to put in to be able to hold both parties accountable. It would have been very easy for them once they identified Jacob Fisher as the police person who was inside the home that day, to stop the investigation there and not really ask the question of how he was given access to Amar to be able to do this crime. A lot of it came down to really great digital forensic work and going through all of the records and then piecing it together into a timeline.

[Scott Weinberger]

In the end, Badar Alsaris and Fisher's attempts to cover their tracks were both clumsy and futile.

[Nicole Matusco]

With a little bit of pre planning and post planning of I'm going to delete this. I'm not going to Be home. They try to get around the investigation, but nothing beats a hard investigation. And I think it's readily apparent that we leave footprints of what we do, you know, our cell phones and digital media in forensic evidence that you can't ever erase it.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Despite the dual courtroom victories, Nicole's thoughts on the case still center on Amar Alari. Son, brother, friend, and father, as well as those he left behind.

[Nicole Matusco]

His sister spoke at both sentencings about how this had impacted her and how Amar was her best friend and how she now has to navigate a life without her brother and her best friend. I got to know his sister pretty well. I felt her grief. But also through that relationship, you really get to know Ammar because Amar is someone, as prosecutors, we would never meet because he was murdered. We got to know a lot about him. We got to see videos of him with his children and how he was before that day. And I think that's important because I think that that allows you to be able to best advocate for the people that are harmed.

[Scott Weinberger]

Early into this investigation, once it became clear that Beador was directly linked to the murder plot, investigators quickly zeroed in on a crucial. What could possibly motivate Fisher to carry out such a cold blooded act? The first hint at an answer surfaced straight from Beador's own cell phone. Reviewing the trial's cell phone evidence, I came across a text exchange that I felt spoke volumes. Fisher asked her directly to remind him how Amar had hurt her. And her response painted a dark portrait claiming, quote, For 10 years, he has made me feel worthless. A slave. A prisoner alleging an ongoing emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her husband. The text exchange was shortly before the murder. But during the trial, Nicole did emphasize that not a single shred of evidence supported these accusations against Ammar. In fact, quite the opposite was true. Ultimately, the jury saw through her deception, recognizing her manipulation as the true weapon she wielded to end her husband's life.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Amar Alyasari walked in from work, likely thinking he'd have dinner and spend some time with his family before going to bed. Instead, he was met with a brutal death. How is it that someone who once either loved him or at least said that she did can so callously arrange for him to die? And how can the person in a relationship with her so violently murder another human being? Those are questions I've often asked myself about many cases over the years, but clearly, neither I nor anyone really has that answer. With his murder, Amar was taken from both his kids. Two young girls who will never again have the love they deserve to be shown from their dad. As we remember Amar, our thoughts are of course also with his daughters and we hope they are surrounded with kindness and with love. Tune in next week for another new episode of Anatomy of Murder.

[Scott Weinberger]

Anatomy of Murder is an audio Chuck.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Original, produced and created by Weinberger Media and Frasetti Media.

[Scott Weinberger]

Ashley Flowers is Executive Producer.

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

This episode was written and produced by David Rader, researched by Kate Cooper, edited by Ali Searwer and Phil Jean Grande.

[Ashley Flowers]

So what do you think Chuck?

[Anna Sega Nicolasi]

Do you approve?

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