popular, a straight a student and wanted to attend college and become an airline pilot. >> tina wanted to be american. tina wanted to be independent. she wanted to have a career. she wanted to travel. she wanted to be her own person. >> her mother and father, zein and maria isa, were immigrants from palestine and ran a small grocery store in downtown st. louis. >> like most immigrants, the palestinians went into the food business. that's a tradition in america. food service is one of the easiest types of business to operate. what was especially appealing to the isas and their relatives is it was another way to rip off america. they could avoid paying taxes. they would play little games with food stamp fraud, grocery coupons. i mean, zein even said he loved america because there were so many ways to rip it off. >> on november 6, 1989, tina was