Nada Huranieh // 537

Summary

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Going West: True Crime – Episode 537: The Murder of Nada Huranieh

Hosts: Daphne Woolsoncroft & Heath Merryman
Release Date: September 12, 2025
Case: Nada Huranieh (Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2017)

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Daphne and Heath unravel the chilling murder of Nada Huranieh, a 35-year-old mother found dead outside her affluent Michigan home in 2017. What initially appeared to be a tragic cleaning accident quickly evolved into a disturbing mystery involving domestic abuse, complex family dynamics, and a twist unseen in any other case the hosts have covered. Through detailed examination of the evidence, including shocking home surveillance footage, they trace how the investigation turned inward—not toward a stranger, but to a shocking perpetrator within the family.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Background: The Huranieh Family and "The Dream Life"

• Nada's Early Life: Born in Syria, Nada met and married Basel Altan Tawi at 17 (he was 29) before moving to Michigan, USA.
• Family & Success: The couple had three children—Muhammad, Aya, and Sidra—and lived in a 10,000 sq. ft. estate in affluent Farmington Hills. Basel owned a successful urgent care clinic.
• Cracks Beneath the Surface: Despite outward appearances, the family's life unraveled due to cultural differences, strained marriage, and Basel's controlling behavior.

2. The Marriage's Collapse and Domestic Abuse

• Violence & Divorce: In 2016, a violent argument on Valentine's Day led to Basel assaulting Nada, witnessed by their daughter. He was arrested and pled guilty to spousal abuse (06:54).
  • Heath (06:54): "It was February 14th ... and an argument in the home exploded into a violent episode."
• Legal Fallout: Basel moved out, was restrained from the home, and only allowed supervised visits.

3. Control, Career Ruin, and Family Tension

• Finding Herself: Nada, now independent, shed some traditions, becoming a personal trainer—causing further friction with Basel, who felt their kids were becoming "too Americanized" (09:48).
• Basel’s Fraud Charges: Basel was exposed for large-scale Medicaid and health insurance fraud, pleaded guilty, lost his medical license, and was ordered to pay $278,000 restitution (11:52).
  • Daphne (12:53): "He is being exposed left and right."

4. The Morning of the “Accident” (August 21, 2017)

• Discovery: Nada's daughter Aya, age 14, found her mother’s body outside below a guest room window. A stepladder and cleaning supplies were nearby, suggesting an accidental fall (17:17).
• Initial Scene: Surveillance cameras, the isolated setting, and early morning time all painted a puzzling picture for first responders and detectives.

5. Early Investigation & Suspicion

• Basel’s Alibi: Despite suspicion due to his history, Basel's court-ordered ankle tether showed he was nowhere near the house that morning (23:47).
• Autopsy Bombshell: Nada's injuries were not severe enough for a 29-ft fall. The cause of death was asphyxia (smothering), not blunt force trauma—a major red flag (25:20).
• CCTV Revelation: Surveillance footage captured not just Nada’s fall, but the shadow of a figure lingering in the lit guest room window immediately after her body dropped, indicating someone else was there (26:50).
  • Daphne (27:45): "You see the lifeless body being disposed over the windowsill… the footage shows the shadow in the guest room moving the ladder near the window… proving to police that someone had murdered Nada and staged the scene."

6. Suspect Within: Muhammad Altan Tawi, the Teenage Son

• Family Dynamics: Muhammad had resented Nada, sided with Basel, and began acting as an informant for his father, even sending photos of the house and its contents (34:36; 46:57).
• Surveillance & Interrogation:
  • Muhammad's attempts at CPR were "half-hearted and lame" (Court testimony, 43:03).
  • During questioning, Muhammad shifted his story: initially denying being present, then admitting he handed Nada window cleaner and was holding the ladder, finally claiming she simply fell (39:14).
  • His explanations and demeanor were increasingly emotionless and inconsistent:
    • Daphne (39:50): "She stood on it, she leaned over, I came over, she fell. I looked over, and that's it."
    • Heath (39:50): "Wow, that seems very… just right to the point, you know, there's almost like no emotion."
  • He then bizarrely claimed he may have been dreaming and went back to sleep after witnessing the fall (41:47).

7. The Digital Trail: Communication with Basel

• Phone Records: Muhammad’s phone showed nearly 50 calls to Basel (saved in his contacts as “Love”) starting at 4:30 a.m. on the day of Nada’s death, many before her body was found (44:13; 45:01).
• The Window Photo: Muhammad had sent Basel a photo of the specific window weeks prior to the murder—interpreted as possibly scouting the location for the crime (46:25).
  • Daphne (46:25): "That's Muhammad saying, we could do it here."
• Text Evidence: Nada had confided to Muhammad about "criminal things that will send your dad to prison if I said anything," pointing to further hidden tensions and threats about the upcoming divorce deposition (47:29).

8. The Trial and Aftermath

• Arrest & Charge: Muhammad, 16, was arrested and tried as an adult, though the trial was delayed until 2022 due to legal processes and COVID (42:55).
• Incriminating Evidence: Surveillance footage, testimony about half-hearted CPR, phone and text records, and the photo of the window all pointed to Muhammad’s involvement.
• Prosecution's Theory: Motive centered on broken family loyalty and an imminent deposition where Nada planned to reveal more about Basel, possibly jeopardizing Muhammad’s chance to live with his father (48:28).
• Aya’s Testimony: Daughter Aya, who remained loyal to her mother, bravely testified about the household’s escalating toxicity:
  • Aya (read by Daphne, 50:21): "My brother sided with my dad… He kind of just saw the divorce as a way of my mom trying to take my father's money… He said that my father was still the man of the house, and we should still be following what he was saying."
• Basel’s Courtroom Behavior: During his victim impact statement, Basel tried to praise his son rather than honoring Nada; the judge cut him off and reminded him of the statement’s purpose (51:22).
• Verdict: Muhammad was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and sentenced to 35–60 years in prison. Basel was never charged for involvement due to lack of evidence (54:44).
• Aftermath for Aya and Sidra: Aya cut all ties with her father, entered foster care by choice, and plans to attend law school to help children in similar situations.
  • Aya (paraphrased by Daphne, 53:09): "You are absolutely nothing to me. Get the fuck out."

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the case's uniqueness:
  • Daphne (01:47): "There is an element of this case that is so creepy and unnerving… like a movie element. It's so bizarre."
• On fallout for Basel:
  • Daphne (12:53): "He is being exposed left and right."
• On the shocking CCTV evidence:
  • Daphne (27:45): "You see the lifeless body being disposed over the windowsill… the footage shows the shadow in the guest room moving the ladder near the window…"
• On Muhammad's attitude:
  • Heath (39:50): "Wow, that seems very… just right to the point, you know, there's almost like no emotion in that response."
• Aya confronting Basel in court:
  • Daphne (53:09): "You are absolutely nothing to me. Get the fuck out."

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:12 | Nada’s life, marriage to Basel, and family background | | 06:54 | Valentine's Day incident: domestic violence, Basel’s arrest | | 09:02 | Divorce, child custody, Nada's newfound independence | | 11:52 | Basel’s exposure for healthcare fraud | | 13:24 | The morning of Nada's death and discovery of her body | | 17:17 | Aya discovers an open window, cleaning supplies, and her mother | | 23:47 | Basel's alibi (ankle tether), autopsy results (asphyxiation) | | 26:50 | Surveillance footage reveals shadow in guest room | | 32:56 | Police review family dynamics, surveillance reveals everything | | 36:02 | Interrogation of Muhammad, shifting and inconsistent stories | | 39:50 | Muhammad’s emotionless confession ("I came over, she fell...") | | 41:47 | Muhammad’s claim: thought he was "dreaming or whatever" | | 44:13 | Trial evidence: phone call records, communication with Basel | | 46:25 | The window photo: possible premeditation | | 50:21 | Aya’s court testimony highlights family rift | | 51:22 | Basel’s victim statement and judge interference | | 52:44 | Crime scene trajectory analysis | | 53:09 | Verdict, sentencing, family aftermath | | 54:07 | Host reflections, justice and the chilling aftermath |

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Tone and Language

The hosts maintain a conversational but deeply empathetic tone, emphasizing the emotional toll on the victims’ children and expressing their horror and sadness at the twisted, manipulative family dynamics. They are unflinching about the disturbing twists, especially the role of Muhammad—just 16 at the time—and the likely manipulation by his father, Basel, who escapes legal consequences but loses all relationships with his surviving children.

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Conclusion

This episode of Going West offers a harrowing and in-depth look at the murder of Nada Huranieh, blending methodical breakdown of evidence with sensitive exploration of the family's unraveling. It stands out for its unsettling surveillance revelations and the haunting picture it paints of familial manipulation, resentment, and loss—leaving listeners questioning justice, and feeling for the survivors caught in its wake.

Transcript

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[Heath]

What is going on? True crime fans, I'm your host, Heath.

[Daphne]

And I'm your host, Daphne.

[Heath]

And you're listening to Going West.

[Daphne]

Hello everybody. Hope you're doing well. Thank you so much for tuning into this episode of Going West. There is. I mean, first of all, this story is just unreal, honestly. But there is an element of this case that is so creepy and unnerving and it's an element that we have never seen in any other case. Like almost like a. Like a movie element. It's so bizarre.

[Heath]

Yeah. And there's definitely a very strange twist in this case as well that I really did not see coming when we first started looking into this.

[Daphne]

Oh yeah. So without further ado, let's just dive right in.

[Heath]

All right guys, this is episode 537, Heaven of Going West. So let's get into it.

[Daphne]

In August of 2017, a 35 year old woman was found dead outside her Michigan home. Discovered by her daughter near an open second story window. When police arrived to their affluent, affluent neighborhood, a crime originally didn't appear to have taken place. It looked like she had simply and tragically fallen while cleaning an Upstairs window. But when they reviewed footage from the home surveillance cameras, police would make a bombshell revelation when they found something eerie in the window. This is the murder of Nada Hirania. Nada Harania was born on January 25, 1982, in Seattle, Syria. And while very little is publicly known about her early life, we know that she lived there in Syria until her teenage years. Because also in her teens, Nada met a man named Basil Altan Tawi, who was born in 1970. So he was 12 years older than her, and both of them were devout Muslims. So the two began a relationship. And in 1999, when Nada was 17 and he was 29, they wed in their home country. Shortly after they got married, Nada and Basel took a leap and decided to move halfway across the globe, relocating to the United States. And as the new millennium began, they set their sights on building a family after settling in the state of Michigan. So in 2001, Nada, who is 19 years old, welcomed their first child into the world, a son who Nada and Basel named Muhammad. Then a few years later, they welcomed their daughter Aya into the world. And then, to complete their growing family, their youngest daughter, Sidra, was born. Now, Basel was a doctor. So after arriving in the US he began his practice and opened an urgent care clinic right there in Michigan. In the early 2000s, Basel really worked hard to build his medical facility, while, of course, Nada ran the household and raised their three young kids. And over the years, his business was proven to be very successful. So they bought a massive 10,000 square foot estate in the affluent neighborhood of Farmington Hills, which is an upper middle class northwestern suburb of Detroit. It's very, very nice. It's quaint, it's manicured. And the clinic that Basel operated was called Canton Urgent Care. And this was not in Farmington Hills. It was actually in Canton, Michigan. You know, Canton Urgent Care. So it was about a 40 minute drive from their house. So, you know, from the outside, everything is seeming fabulous. This family of five looked like they were living the dream. They really had the markings of this modern American success story. You know, love, kids, and a booming business. But behind the scenes, cracks were starting to form, and a life that seemed like a fairy tale was slowly unraveling inside the walls of their Michigan home.

[Heath]

Well, let's talk a little bit more about Nada and her marriage. So Nada was an extrovert at her core, and she had an infectious personality and just loved going to events and experiencing life to the fullest. I mean, she was just a happy people person. But by contrast, her husband Basil, was not nearly as social. And according to their middle child, Aya, her dad was the kind of guy that had to be dragged out of the house. So they definitely had their differences. But after nearly two decades together, it was pretty clear that Nada and Basel were pretty much growing apart. And a scary incident in 2016 seemed to change everything. It was February 14th, which is, of course, Valentine's Day, and an argument in the home exploded into a violent episode. During a fight, 34 year old nada was pushing her hand through a door that Basel was trying to aggressively close. So when the door slammed shut, it smashed her wrist and hand, seriously injuring it in the process. Bozel also reportedly pushed her down a flight of stairs in their house. But they weren't home alone. Their daughter Aya, who was only a tween at this point, heard this commotion and actually called the police due to how violent it was. So, 46 year old Basel was arrested for the dispute and was charged with spousal abuse. And he pled no contest to the domestic violence charges, but he did plead guilty to the charges of spousal abuse. So it's safe to say that this was pretty much the end of their marriage because Basel moved out of the family home, even receiving a tether tracking device, which basically forbade him from going anywhere near the house.

[Daphne]

And obviously this was going to be the beginning of its own messy situation. Basel bought the house, he wants his kids. But while this spousal abuse charge didn't get him any prison time, that electronic tether and supervised visits with his kids were his punishments. And he was not happy about either of them.

[Heath]

Right. And I'm sure, especially with it ending in violence, Nada was completely afraid. But she remained living there with her three kids. And in March of 2016, she did file for divorce. Now, like you just said, Daphne, Basel was only allowed to see his kids if the visit was officially supervised as ordered by the court. But he also was restricted from having contact with his estranged wife for two years. And because the charges were brought upon him for his horrific violence that night, naturally, Nada was granted full custody of the children.

[Daphne]

So that's good news for her, but she's got a lot going on right now. Remember when she married Basel in 1999, she was still a teenager. She was 17 to his 29.

[Heath]

Which, by the way, I do want to mention weird, obviously.

[Daphne]

I know. I wonder if it's kind of more of a cultural thing. So it's like, I feel Like, I can't really comment on it, but she. I mean, yeah, she's incredibly young. He's a lot older. She's never had any independence in her life. She's never been able to be an independent woman or adult. So now she kind of has this new lease on life with this impending divorce. Now, of course, her number one priority in life was her kids, and she was a very caring and loving mother. But still, gaining independence as a newly single woman was still incredibly liberating. And she was so excited about being the best version of herself for her kids and for her. Like, for the first time, Nada was able to make decisions for herself. So she got a job at a gym where she worked as a personal trainer. And with the minor changes that she was making, Basel somehow felt that Nada was abandoning their Syrian and Muslim roots and feared that their kids were becoming too Americanized. He especially hated when Nada stopped wearing her hijab. So here's Nada finding herself. She's kind of starting to thrive a little bit. And this means that Basel is losing control of his marriage, of his wife. His personal life is falling apart, of course, due to his own actions. Because in the months following the divorce filing, a professional mishap was exposed. In May of 2016, the Canton Township Police Department received a tip recording some or regarding some bad business practices at his clinic, Canton Urgent Care. The police contacted the Attorney General Healthcare Fraud Division, and an investigation revealed that Basel had been billing Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield illegally.

[Heath]

Oh, no. So now he's in some big trouble.

[Daphne]

Yeah, like, basically, he had been billing the companies for medical services that he did not perform on patients. And there was no record, there was really no record of him performing them on these patients. They were proved to not be real. So these are massive cases of healthcare fraud. So with this, Basel was facing 22 fraud charges, including nine counts of Medicaid fraud, 12 counts of healthcare fraud, and one count of continuing criminal enterprise. So similarly to how he did with the spousal abuse charge, Basel pled guilty to several of these charges, which did help him avoid going to trial. But of course, it destroyed his business and his entire career.

[Heath]

Yeah. So now he's left without his wife, he's left without his business. I mean, things are just really not going good for Basel.

[Daphne]

Yeah, again, of course, his. His fault.

[Heath]

Oh, yeah, no, definitely.

[Daphne]

But, yeah, like, they're really, really crumbling. So he's in a really bad way, you know, and with this, particularly as a result, his medical license was suspended and he was ordered to pay $278,000 in restitution, which is a little bit under what he took away with his salary. So putting it lightly, shit is crashing down for this man. He is being exposed left and right.

[Heath]

Well, let's jump forward to the next year of 2017. So Monday, August 21, 2017 was supposed to be like any normal Monday. It was actually the night of the first solar eclipse since World War I. So many people had their eyes peeled on that later that evening.

[Daphne]

Love it. Fun fact.

[Heath]

Yeah. But actually hours before that would even happen. Early in the morning, the kids had their alarms set for 6am in order to be out the door by 6:30 to head to school, which had just started for the year. Nada was naturally an early riser and would wake up between 4:30 and 5am to clean the house before the kids woke up for school. Now usually a little after 6am, NADA would go to each kid's bedroom to make sure they hadn't slept through their alarms and just get her kids going for the day. But when her 14 year old daughter Aya woke up that morning, she got ready for the day and noticed that the house seemed eerily quiet. Quiet. The usual buzz of a busy Monday morning was absent and she realized that her mom hadn't come into her room as usual. A little before 6.30am, Aya went to her younger sister Sedra's room and she was pretty shocked to find that she was still asleep. Remember they were supposed to be out the door by that time. So this was definitely weird. Aya then wandered around the big open hallways of their large home to look for her mom. And we will post some photos of the outside of the house to give you guys a little bit of a better visual. We also have some indoor photos as well as the street view. But this again is a very big house. It's up a long private driveway surrounded by trees and it's a five bed, ten bath, 10,000 square foot house. It kind of looks like a modern day like castle style.

[Daphne]

Yeah, it looks like that on the outside and the inside. Like you said, there are some photos of the inside of the house. I mean it's, it's quite, quite stately.

[Heath]

Oh yeah, definitely. And it's also nestled right along a river and there's only one other house somewhat near it. So with a river and you know, all these lush trees, it just feels quite rural. Even though it's up the road from a freeway, which is the I696 freeway.

[Daphne]

Yeah. And because it has this. Even though it is in like a community where there's a bunch of houses like somewhat nearby, like you said, there's only one that's really right next to it and then there's just more so property and land and trees and little wooded spots.

[Heath]

Yeah, it's not like a, like a cul de sac where everybody kind of sees what everybody else is doing. Like my parents neighborhood.

[Daphne]

Yeah, exactly. But that's what's kind of interesting about this too is it is an upper middle class area. So this is not an area that sees a lot of crime. Which is just good to know going into this.

[Heath]

Right. It is affluent.

[Daphne]

So Aya's walking around this house, she's calling out to her mom and she's really looking into almost every room. She's looking to see what her mom's doing. If she's cleaning, you know, that's why she's checking all the different rooms. Her mom's bedroom, the, the guest room, the kitchen, the living room and even the garage. Now the guest room was located on the second story or one of the guest rooms. And after searching both floors, it dawned on Aya that the window in that guest room was wide open. And she thought that was a little bizarre. So she walked back upstairs to see what that was all about. When she entered the guest room she realized that next to the wide open window there was a stepladder accompanied by a bottle of Tilex cleaning spray. So she walks across the room, she approaches the window and looks down and outside and releases a scream because lying on the ground outside was her mom and she wasn't moving. 14 year old Aya spiraled into a panic and she tried to figure out what could have happened. Like it almost looked like her mom fell out of the window while she was cleaning. That is how the scene was painted.

[Heath]

Right? There's that stepladder there, there's the, the cleaning spray that's there. So it almost feels like, yeah, she was maybe cleaning a window and took a very unfortunate tumble.

[Daphne]

But it's still so weird, you know, she, she doesn't know if her mom's alive. She doesn't know how long ago this happened because nobody heard anything. Aya didn't hear this happen. So she rushes down the hall to get her older brother, 16 year old Muhammad, who is in his bedroom completely unaware of what had happened. So Aya told him what she saw and they both fled downstairs. Aya was calling 911 and Muhammad rushes to Nada's side. They're both at her side outside, out on that platform, Nada was lying motionless, face up and still dressed in her pajamas from the night before. So it would on its face make sense that she had, like you said, Heath, gotten up, cleaned in her pajamas before getting ready for the day and that a tragic accident occurred before she could do so. So on the 911 call, Aya told the dispatcher that. That exactly that, you know, that her mom had fallen out the window and that she wasn't sure if she was breathing. Muhammad then took the phone from his sister as the 911 operator instructed him on how to do while the police rushed to the scene. And actually it's crazy because there is CCTV footage of the scene because they had these high quality security cameras at the time and there are a bunch of different clips that have been released of this. So we will post some of those on our socials to give you guys a better idea of what this really looked like, especially with what's to come. Obviously nothing disrespectful or graphic, but you can see this kind of brick, maybe brick platform that she would have fallen onto as well as Muhammad giving her cpr. And obviously these cameras are going to be extremely important here. So just before 6.50am, a Farmington Hills police car drove up the long driveway to the home with an ambulance in tow. And poor Aya was frantic. She met officers in front of the house who found that her mother's body was still warm, but she had no pulse. And Nada Harania was tragically pronounced dead after falling 29ft from the window above. The morning of the incident, police called the kid's father, Basel, and told him to come to the house immediately. Now, he did show some hesitancy because, you know, he wasn't allowed to go to the house, he wasn't allowed to be around the kids without a supervisor, wasn't allowed to talk to his ex wife.

[Heath]

Yeah, you guys will remember that he had a court order, so he was really not supposed to be anywhere near them.

[Daphne]

Yeah, at this point also, he hasn't lived there in over a year and a half. But of course, based on the circumstances, the police at the scene gave him permission because all the kids are minors as well. They're between the ages of 12 and 16. And with NADA now suddenly dead, police instructed Basel to pick up the kids from the house while the crime scene was evaluated. Or at this point they didn't know it was a crime scene, but they were just trying to figure out exactly what did happen.

[Heath]

Now, when investigators arrived at the home. They entered the upstairs guest bedroom and took note of the three step ladder by the open window that we were talking about. Like Aya had seen, on the top shelf of the ladder was a bottle of Tilex window spray. Investigators also noted a bucket of water nearby and saw a visible fluid or like a streak mark on the outside of the window. So it did appear that Nada had been standing on that ladder, leaning out of that window, spraying the glass, and then tumbled below. There was also a small rag beside her body, which made it appear even more so that she was in the middle of cleaning the moment before she fell. Now, despite the scene looking like a true accident, Nada's friends were immediately suspicious that Bozel may have been involved. Because, you know, obviously the past domestic violence, the pending divorce and financial issues during the divorce proceedings just felt really impossible to ignore here. Cause before the divorce and the healthcare fraud played out, Basel, as we know, was doing pretty well for himself. So he went from making $350,000 annually to being nearly broke in 2017 after getting his medical license suspended in 2016, he wasn't working and couldn't make the court ordered child support payments. Obviously, the cost to maintain the 10,000 square foot mansion his kids and estranged wife were living in was pretty excessive. And he failed to make those payments as well, resulting in frequent shutoffs of cell phones, Internet and other home utilities. Autopay for their health insurance was also suspended due to Basel's lack of funds, leading to situations where Nada and the kids were being turned away from scheduled dental and medical appointments. On top of this, Nada and Basel had each withdrawn large sums from their joint bank account, resulting in over $1 million. So there was just a ton of financial turmoil going on here. After 35 year old NADA's death, one of her friends filed a petition to prove whether or not the death was truly an accident. Wondering if someone was possibly involved. You know, it did seem kind of like the perfect recipe here. But there was one piece that made Basel's involvement impossible. That tracking device that he had on him. Police checked with the company that the court mandated Tether was registered with, and it proved that Basel was nowhere near the Farmington Hills home the morning that Nada died.

[Daphne]

Obviously, the original story of Nada's death was beyond tragic, as it was a 35 year old mother was innocently cleaning a window before accidentally falling while her kids were sleeping down the hall. But to trace back to the scene where Nada was found, as we mentioned, she was discovered on her back, facing up in her pajamas, but under her head, there was a small amount of blood that had transferred to the concrete. And external injuries were otherwise very minor, which was really shocking. Again, due to the fact that she fell 29ft, like you would imagine that she would. There would be a lot more or a lot more blood, honestly.

[Heath]

Yeah, definitely. Especially if you hit your head first.

[Daphne]

Yes. And there was a bruise on her lower hip and some blood on her cheek, but it's actually believed that that could have been a result of the intubation efforts from first responders. So it's kind of raising some red flags off the bat that she's not more injured from that fall. So an autopsy, of course, was performed, and it was clear that blunt force trauma had occurred. But it was only secondary to the real cause of death because the autopsy results concluded that Nada did not die as a result of a fall from the second story window, which really would be the only thing that would make sense if this was an accidental fall that she felt fell or so that she died from falling.

[Heath]

Right, Right. Yeah. So this is obviously very puzzling.

[Daphne]

Instead, there was evidence in her lungs suggesting that she had died from a nasal oral blockage. Based on this finding, the medical examiner suggested that she had been smothered with either, like a pillow or a cloth prior to the fall from that window. Now, after investigating the scene, police found no evidence of forced entry. And keep in mind, the family usually entered the house through the garage, opposed to using a key to, like, open the front door. But there was no evidence that somebody broke into the garage or that anybody had broken into any of the doors or any of the windows. There was no proof of somebody, some stranger entering the house. And then, of course, that was also proven that because of the cameras. We have six cameras around this house, all of which were working and recording on the morning of Nada's death. When the footage was pulled and reviewed by investigators, it proved that Nada's body fell from the window at 5:55am on Aug. 21, just minutes before her daughter Aya awoke for the day, and about 35 minutes or so before Aya found her. Now, in Detroit, Michigan, on this day, the sun didn't rise until 6:45am so it was still dark when her body fell from that window. And this is. I mean, this is what I was talking about earlier when I said that there is a really eerie element to this story that we haven't seen in any other case. It has to do with the fact that it was still dark outside because. Okay, so we know that Nada often cleaned the house prior to the kids waking up at 6am, right? So again, it would make sense that she had the light on in the guest room during this routine cleaning because it's still freaking dark outside and she's trying to get some stuff done. But other than Nada's body coming out of that window, because that is on camera, by the way, something else came up on camera that made investigators jaws drop. The light from the guest room on the second floor cast a moving shadow onto the grass outside and the shadow appeared to be in the guest room upstairs. This was after Nada landed on the ground outside, proving that someone was in the room with her. And this is crazy. There is release video. Heath and I both watched it. We'll post it on our socials. Her body falls from the window and on the ground past her body, like on the little hillside beyond it, you can see the shadow of a person. You can see it looks like they have short hair. So it was assumed to be a male. And even before Nada fell, it appeared that this figure lifted her to the window. So after reviewing all this footage, the medical examiner said, God, this cannot be. You see the lifeless body being disposed over the windowsill after her plummet. The footage shows the shadow in the guest room moving the ladder near the window, proving to police that someone had murdered Nada and staged the the scene.

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[Heath]

Now thanks to those six cameras outside their rural Farmington Hills home, police knew that no one had come upon the house, that no one broke in there, which would lead them to believe that whoever killed Nada was already inside the home. As we know, Basel was not allowed to see his kids outside of supervised visits, which he actually violated on circumstances several occasions in the year before Nada's death. Basel and their Teenage son Muhammad had met up several times after he moved out. And, I mean, it must have been, you know, clear to both parents that Muhammad was unhappy having to live with his mother full time due to his close relationship with his dad. Because even prior to Nada's death, she and Basel came to a conclusion that Muhammad would move in with his dad, but the two girls, Aya and Sidra, would remain living with their mom. This update in the custody agreement occurred the week before her untimely passing, and the motion was filed with the court, but not yet signed. The divorce process began in 2016, but was no doubt stressful for the entire family. But Muhammad was particularly affected. He struggled being forced to live away from his father and. And began to resent his mother because Muhammad was very similar to his dad, and he sided with Basel's kind of traditional Muslim views. Muhammad also didn't like the more Americanized changes that she was making inside the home.

[Daphne]

It just feels so toxic, like, the men don't like the changes she's making as a now independent woman.

[Heath]

Yeah, it's. It's very strange because, you know, his sisters got along great with their mom, and they didn't have these same issues or strict views against her. But Muhammad constantly shared details with his dad on Nada's faults, including her occasional spending sprees of Basel's money from their joint account. Muhammad would also take photos inside the home and detail items that his mother purchased, acting as, like, some sort of mole in the house for his father.

[Daphne]

So creepy, honestly.

[Heath]

I mean, even Nada's friends were able to confirm the contention between Nada and Muhammad and told detectives that he blamed his mother for the divorce. As for the home surveillance the morning of Nada's death, aside from that shadow being cast from the guest room after her fall, additional footage was reviewed in the hours after that. That was quite concerning to investigators. So when Aya and Muhammad made that 911 call after finding Nada's body, Muhammad was being instructed on how to do cpr, like Daphne said. And this was caught on video. And we do have a still from that video on our socials. And in this still, you can't see Nada's body. You can just see Muhammad. But the video shows how little effort he put into the CPR using one arm instead of two. And it was pretty clear that he was not behaving as someone, you know, who was actively trying to resuscitate a victim. You know, his mom at that.

[Daphne]

So police formally interviewed Muhammad to get his account from the early hours of that morning. You know, of course they spoke to him the day of his mother's death. When Muhammad told police that he woke up around 6am and then took a shower before his sister Aya came into the room and notified him that their mother had fallen out the window. Muhammad also said that he actually wasn't surprised that his mom fell out the window, mentioning that she had been involved in several car accidents in the months leading up to her death. So he's like essentially saying that she was kind of clumsy and careless, which just feels like a really. Why? Why would you do that?

[Heath]

It seems like a little bit of a narrative is being put together here.

[Daphne]

Yeah, very true. But when they interviewed him for a second time on August 22, so the day after Nada was found dead, things changed a bit. So since Muhammad, of course, was still a minor at 16, detectives asked his father Basil to bring him in. But he pushed back on this, asking them why they wanted to even talk to Muhammad. When the detectives told him it was simply standard procedure, Basil agreed to let them talk to Muhammad. But at the Farmington Hills home, he did not want his son to have to go down to the station. So detectives sat down with 16 year old Muhammad in his house with this whole new angle because now they've seen that security footage. And while this was happening, by the way, Basel left the house to pick up Aya from the bus stop. So Muhammad's alone with them and he is originally keeping to his first story. He told detectives, quote, I didn't see anything until after everything happened. Which is his way of saying, I had nothing to do with this.

[Heath]

Yeah, I don't know what the hell happened here.

[Daphne]

So police told Muhammad that they saw the footage from the home that suggested another, another person was in the guest room with Nada that morning during and after the fall. They're laying their cards on the table. Over the 40 minute interrogation, detectives told Muhammad their belief that he was the other person present. And they kept probing and even suggested that he killed his mother on accident. They're trying to approach her from there, like, we know you wouldn't have done this on purpose.

[Heath]

Yeah, they kind of, it's kind of one of those things that detectives really like to pull. They're like, listen, hey, even if it was an accident, like, you know, you, you, you killed her. Right. But it was probably an accident. Right?

[Daphne]

Yeah. Because, yeah, they want to bring it out in some way.

[Heath]

Fashion.

[Daphne]

Yeah. And then be like, no, it wasn't like they're trying, they're Using all of their, all their tools in the tool belt. So they're saying this or like, you know, you did this, it was an accident. Like you just said, Heath. And Muhammad isn't fallen for it. He's repeatedly telling them that he doesn't know what happened and he was not there, that he was sleeping and then he was in the shower, you know, like, this is Legally Blonde or something. So then he said that he saw his mom cleaning in the guest room. So he's, he's saying, actually, you know, I did see her cleaning and she asked me to hand her the bottle of window cleaner.

[Heath]

So now he's basically saying, hey, I was in that room. But here's why.

[Daphne]

Yeah, he's like slowly giving some details. Okay. Yeah, I did see her cleaning and I helped her. I handed her something. And they're, they're like, okay, what else? So he says that, okay, I was holding the ladder. It's a three step ladder, by the way, While she was standing out the window and cleaning. He's acting like he's trying to help her. And that's when he releases a whole new story. Muhammad said, quote, she stood on it, she leaned over, I came over, she fell. I looked over, and that's it.

[Heath]

Wow, that seems very like, just like right to the point, you know, there's almost like no emotion in that response.

[Daphne]

Yeah, I mean, quite literally, I came over, she fell, I looked over, and that's it.

[Heath]

That's all that happened.

[Daphne]

So he then suggested that his mother had only one foot on the ladder and the other foot on the ledge of the window and said he, quote, which, by the way, this isn't like a hot. This is a regular bedroom. There's no reason that you need to, to clean the window, that you need to be on the top of a step ladder with one foot, one foot on the windowsill. Like, you're not cleaning the roof, you're not cleaning the wall outside the house. All you need to do is put your arm outside. You know, so this already doesn't really make any sense at all.

[Heath]

Yeah, it's very strange. Like, why? Especially like, you know, it's first thing in the morning, you're leaning out of a window, cleaning the window. That seems a little odd to me.

[Daphne]

Yeah. Why? Why would this happen? So then he's suggesting, after saying that she had one foot in, one foot out, essentially he said, quote, that he assumes that something with her pants got caught possibly on the windows turning handle and that she fell out the window. Now, obviously police know something Else that he doesn't. That she died from asphyxia.

[Heath]

Yeah. That's one little piece that they still have in their tool belt that they're about to use.

[Daphne]

Yeah. So now. Now they know as well. Okay. We know he's still lying because there's a huge piece of this that's missing. They know that she died before she left that window. So. But, you know, they are trying to finagle that out of him. So first they asked him if he did anything to help her after her fall. And he immediately got emotional because, of course, if this was true and he saw her fall, he would have called the police, ran outside, made sure that she was alive. But his original story says that he just went to take a shower after he woke up. So it's like, there's a lot going on here.

[Heath]

Yeah. And that Aya was actually the one to go notify him of the situation.

[Daphne]

Yeah. Almost 40 minutes after the fact, so. So if he was really innocent and had nothing to do with this, then he would have helped her. So he recounted to detectives that he went back to his room and said, I thought I was dreaming or whatever. I wanted something else to happen. I just wanted to forget about it because I just saw my mom fall. So he's like, ah, I'm just gonna go back to sleep.

[Heath]

I was hoping it was a dream. I was actually sleepwalking. And that's what happened. Yeah, it's like, like, likely story, buddy.

[Daphne]

Yeah. And like, that's gonna make it go away. Like he can just dream it away. So at this point in the interview, Basel reentered the home after being gone again for about 40 minutes and told detectives that the interview was over and that he wanted to get his son an attorney. So they listened. But less than a half an hour later, a police officer came back to the family home to arrest 16 year old Muhammad Altan Tawi for murder.

[Heath]

Now, Muhammad was taken into custody by the Farmington Hills police and was held at a local juvenile detention center, which is called Oakland county children's Village. But due to several factors like pretrial motions, legal procedures, and the eventual COVID 19 pandemic, the trial was delayed by 4, 5 years. So it didn't begin until the summer of 2022. Although Muhammad was 16 at the time of the killing, he was tried as an adult. During the trial, a mountain of evidence was brought forward incriminating Muhammad. Of course, the inconsistency of his statements to police was brought up regarding his whereabouts on the morning of his mother's Death. Several images of the surveillance footage were presented as well, like the shadow in the upstairs window and the footage of the CPR efforts before first responders arrived, which, you know, there obviously was very little effort. A detective from the case testified during the trial, calling Muhammad's resuscitation attempts, quote, half hearted and lame. Those are definitely some words to use, but true words. Muhammad's phone records also came into question because they revealed a slew of communication the morning of Nada's death.

[Daphne]

Here we go.

[Heath]

As well as the months leading up to it. And one particular phone number came up nearly 50 times the day that Nada died, starting at 4:30am on Aug. 21 and continuing throughout the entire day, proving that Muhammad was up far earlier than he claimed in both interviews. And I'm sure you guys are probably gonna guess, but that phone number that Muhammad had been communicating with all day long was listed under the name Love, but it belonged to none other than his father, Basil. Most of the calls were very brief, lasting mere seconds. But the amount of communication that morning was unlike any other day, especially because.

[Daphne]

So much of it was so early, before Nada even died. So it's like that's already painting a picture. And unfortunately, these are text messages, so we don't know what's being sent. Said. But why are you and your dad having short phone calls multiple times between 4:30 and 5 and 5:30 and 6, etc. Like, why would that happen?

[Heath]

Well, obviously, that sounds very, very specific. Sorry. Suspicious.

[Daphne]

Yeah. And of course, being smart to make phone calls and not make text messages when you're planning to do murder.

[Heath]

But get this. So Basel was listed in his phone as Love. Right.

[Daphne]

Weird.

[Heath]

Well, Nada's phone number was listed in Muhammad's phone as dog. Like, why his own mother is listed in his phone as dog.

[Daphne]

Like, I don't even know what to make of that.

[Heath]

You know, it's just. It's. It's really sad.

[Daphne]

Yeah, it's just weird and rude.

[Heath]

Well, phone calls and text messages displayed in court show that Muhammad was almost acting as a spy after the separation, sending his father photos of the inside of the home regularly. Obviously, like I said earlier, but one photo in particular seemed very incriminating. It was a picture of the very window where Nada was thrown from, and the picture was taken and sent to Basel weeks prior to Nada's death.

[Daphne]

I mean, there's no other reason for that. That's. To me, that's Muhammad saying, we could do it here.

[Heath]

Yeah. Does this work for you?

[Daphne]

Yeah, I Mean, there's that. Why? When have you ever sent your dad a picture of a window?

[Heath]

I mean, I don't think I ever have, because it's. That's just a weird thing to do. It wasn't broken unless there's, you know, a motive behind it, which there.

[Daphne]

There wouldn't be. Like, this is insane. And I love that all of this is being uncovered and displayed just to show the kind of communication that they had and how it really seemed like they were plotting something. But again, it was proven via the tether that Basel was nowhere near the Farmington Hills home that morning. But clearly, with all these texts and these calls, it is really feeling like he and Muhammad had planned this together, even if he wasn't physically there, because he couldn't be. Which also makes it more horrific if this was potentially Basil's, you know, if he was masterminding this whole thing and puppeteering it. Because this is your son.

[Heath]

Yeah. In my mind, that is what I believe. I believe that there was some sort of, like, hey, this is gonna benefit both of us, buddy, if you. If you do this for me, like, we can be close together again or whatever.

[Daphne]

Yeah, I completely agree. But there was no concrete evidence that Basil was involved in Nada's death, so he was never charged with anything. Also shown during the trial were texts sent by Nada to Muhammad, her son, of course, with one from her saying, quote, criminal things that will send your dad to prison if I said anything. So it almost seems like Nada had more dirt on Basel, and for whatever reason, she was talking about it with Muhammad. And we don't know exactly what information she was referring to that has not been disclosed. But of course, this message comes up in the discussion of motive, because two days after Nada died, she and Basel had a scheduled deposition in their divorce case. So some believe that Muhammad killed his mother in order to maybe even prevent her from sharing that potentially incriminating information against Basel during that upcoming deposition. Because, remember, Nada and Basel had come to the agreement that Muhammad would be living with Basil, his father. So maybe if certain information came forward, that could have landed Basel in jail or in prison or taken more custody away from him.

[Heath]

Yeah, that. That plan would have been completely messed up.

[Daphne]

Exactly. And we know how badly Muhammad wanted to live with his dad and wanted to get away from his mom. Because in my opinion, it was like Basel was trying to leverage Muhammad, like, turn him against his mother so that he could take his son back, which is horrible. Nobody should ever do that to their child.

[Heath]

Yeah, clearly, There was some manipulation going on there.

[Daphne]

Right? I completely agree. But Muhammad's defense team argued that since he was soon going to be living with his dad and moving in with his dad, he would have no reason to want his mother dead. So they're using this to try to dismantle the motive. Oh, well, if he's not going to live there anymore, then why does he care what happens to his mom? But then, well, because of what I just said, because maybe that was all gonna go away. Maybe he wasn't gonna be able to live with his dad after all, and he wanted to stop that from being messed with. Muhammad's sister, Aya, testified as well, actually, and her strength was commendable. Like, this must have been such a. A conflicting thing for her. She has her dad, who is very much on the side of his son, Mu Muhammad. This is her brother, but her mom is dead. She loved her mom so dearly. Like, she probably doesn't know what the hell to think.

[Heath]

Oh, it's just a complete and utter tragic mess.

[Daphne]

But she spoke her truth, and she remained very composed throughout the trial. You know, this was, of course, years after she lost her mom. She was 19 years old at this point. But this is part of what she said. Quote, my brother sided with my dad immediately. I, for most scenarios, in most cases, sided with my mother. He kind of just saw the divorce as a way of my mom trying to take my father's money and the house and ruin his life. It just started to deteriorate further. Whatever sort of relationship they had before became very strained in his eyes. She wasn't a good enough Muslim. He said that my father was still. Still the man of the house, and we should still be following what he was saying. Despite my father not being present in the house, since he was the only guy, he was now the man of the house. And we had to follow what he said.

[Heath]

Now, when Basel spoke at the trial and delivered his victim impact statement, he barely even mentioned his former wife and used the opportunity to talk about his son. He described Muhammad as loving, caring, and a role model who was never in trouble. And the judge actually interrupted Basel while he was speaking, reminding him that the purpose of the victim impact statement is to detail how the victim's death impacted you and said, it's not to glorify your son. So the judge didn't even allow him to finish and ordered him to return back to his seat. The Farmington Hills detective that was active on the scene, Richard Webby, highlighted during his testimony that if nada actually fell While trying to clean the window, she would have more likely fell face down and her feet facing the wall of the house instead of how she actually landed, which was face up with her head closer to the house wall. The detective, along with the medical examiner agreed that considering the fall and impact, if she died simply by the fall, there would have been much more blood. Like the fact that only a small amount of blood was below her head once she hit the ground suggested that her heart stopped pumping blood several minutes before the fall. Well, I shouldn't even call it a fall because she was actually thrown out of that window.

[Daphne]

Yeah, exactly.

[Heath]

During the trial, Muhammad maintained his innocence and denied killing his mother. However, the jury deliberated and they found him guilty of first degree premeditated murder for killing his mother, 35 year old Nada Haranyah. And soon after, he was sentenced to 35 to 60 years in prison.

[Daphne]

After the guilty verdict was read, Muhammad was handcuffed and escorted out of the courtroom. On his way out, he looked at his father in the hall of the court. Aya shouted at her dad, saying, you are absolutely nothing to me. Get the fuck out. Obviously, she was still a minor at the time of her mom's death. But Aya chose foster care over living with her dad. And she has since stated that she has no contact with him and actually has plans to go to law school to, quote, help vulnerable children in situations similar to what I went through. Thank you so much everybody for listening to this episode of Going West.

[Heath]

Yes, thank you guys for listening to the. This very twisted and very confusing case.

[Daphne]

Of Going west and so devastating. I feel so horribly for Aya and for Sidra, the fact that they essentially lost everybody but each other. Like they lost their brother, they lost their father, and ultimately they lost their mom. And it's just, it's so horrific. And I hate that we don't have a ton of justice because Muhammad never really admitted to what he did. And I feel like justice really wasn't served because Basel is free.

[Heath]

Yeah, he didn't get any sort of punishment for the text messages that he sent between him and his son. I mean, it's just, it's just fucked.

[Daphne]

Up all around, which I get. Like, it's like there's really not enough. And this, this really is one of those cases where you're like, we know, but we don't know and you can't get somebody on that. So please let us know what you guys think. Comment on our socials. We're on Instagram at Going west podcast. We're also on Tik Tok at Going west podcast and we are on Facebook.

[Heath]

So with that for everybody out there.

[Daphne]

In the world, don't be a stranger. Sam.

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