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Which then commands a higher dowery. a girl who has been violated does not command a dowery. in fact, may not be able to find a husband. tina s death may have been part of an old tradition the honor killing. she stained the family s honor. and blood, zein would say, blood must cleanse blood. in societies where honor killings are common, it is generally a killing done by a male member of a family, presumably to avenge a dishonor on the honor of the female member of the family. she had a black boyfriend. this was enough to cause the anger of her family and her father to arise to the boiling point, where indeed he felt the family had been so shamed by her indiscretion that the only way to avenge it was to kill her. ....
Execution could be carried out. maria s death sentence was later reversed on a technicality. but she will spend the rest of her life in prison without parole. had it not been for zein isa s suspected ties to terrorism, the prosecutor s theory about what happened to tina isa would have been just that. but the audio tape proved what many jurists would have found difficult to accept you can hear in her voice, her parents were murdering her. there s not a whole lot you can say. it s, as i said, earlier the most horrifying thing i ever hope to hear. and it s just it s incomprehensible. the medical examiner did not hear the audiotape until some time after the trial. ....
Many ways to rip it off. on november 6, 1989, tina was working the night shift at a fast-food restaurant. according to the isas, tina arrived home at midnight and there was an argument. tina said she wanted to live on her own and demanded her parents give her $5,000 to support herself. when they refused, they say tina pulled a knife from her backpack and threatened them. in the tussle, zein said he turned the knife on his daughter in self-defense. the father was saying it was self-defense. the wife was saying, yes, it was self-defense. i was standing there watching it. so the only two witnesses to the crime had their stories kind of get together that their daughter had attacked them and then in defending themselves, the father killed her. news of tina isa s death stunned her friends and classmates. ....
Mother, can t you make him stop ? and then he said, die my daughter, die, when she was dying. maria held tina while zein stabbed her to death. and the telltale sign was the mother s response. what help? no. shut up. nowhere on the tape did tina demand $5,000. and there was no reference to tina having a knife. the tape also reveals the isas waited for close to 30 minutes to call police after the murder. zein and maria isa were both charged with first-degree murder. authorities speculated that the isas were afraid of what tina might reveal to others had there ....
prosecutors were convinced she had been murdered in cold blood by her own parents. but they knew a conviction would be difficult. it would be the isas story of self-defense against the opinion of the medical examiner. but soon, investigators got an unexpected break. the fbi admitted they had wire tapped the isas home because of zein s suspected ties to known terrorists. wiretaps were put in under the foreign intelligence surveillance act, known as fisa. fisa allows the fbi to tap you, wiretaps, that run reel to reel, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. isa was not considered important enough to monitor these wiretaps 24 hours a day, so the fbi wasn t sure what was on them. ....