ON “48 HOURS”: A BROOKLYN WOMAN TURNS TO A NEW YORK PRIVATE EYE FOR HELP TRACKING DOWN A BEAUTIFUL RUSSIAN SHE BELIEVES ROBBED AND KILLED HER MOTHER
(L-R) Nadia Ford, Alla Aleksenko, Herman Weisberg and Viktoria Nasyrova
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A glamorous seductress with a love for furs made a tactical error while driving through Russia. She forgot to hide the body of her alleged victim – whom she had in the front seat of her rental car. The mistake, which was caught on traffic cams, eventually would put her in the middle of an international manhunt and make her a target for a tough-talking New York private eye.
Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS investigate the search for a fugitive, the man who hunted her down and a daughter’s desperate search for answers to her mother’s disappearance, in an encore of 48 HOURS: “Red Notice for Murder” to be broadcast Saturday, July 7 (10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. It is a story of intrigue, betrayal and vengeance – with a plot Hollywood couldn’t make up.
“There’s a lot going on in New York City,” says private investigator Herman Weisberg. “Not all of it is good. People pay me money to find out sometimes the not-so-good things.”
In 2014 Nadia Ford lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., and spoke to her mother, Alla Aleksenko, back in Russia daily, until one day her mother didn’t pick up the phone. And Viktoria Nasyrova, who had befriended Ford’s mother, was believed to be the last person to see her alive.
“It seemed like she just vanished,” Ford tells Van Sant.
Determined to find her mother, Ford gave up her life in New York City and flew to Russia, where she spent several months unraveling the mystery of what had happened to her mother.
In April of 2015, Ford’s fears were confirmed when authorities discovered her mother’s burned remains in a remote area 100 miles from her apartment. Ford was convinced Nasyrova was behind her mother’s murder and sought the help of Russian authorities, but they didn’t act fast enough. Nasyrova had already fled the country and soon found herself on Interpol’s list of most-wanted fugitives.
“It’s called a Red Notice...for murder,” says Weisberg.
To Ford’s shock, she discovered Nasyrova was posting tales of her good life on Facebook. But she wasn’t in Russia; she was living in Brooklyn. Ford notified the New York authorities, but they couldn’t find Nasyrova. That’s when she turned to Weisberg for help.
“She’s pure evil – pure evil,” Ford says.
Separately, and in a stunning twist, Nasyrova was charged with attempted murder in March 2018 after police say she tried to poison a friend, Olga Tsvyk, and steal her identity. Nasyrova visited Tsvyk at her Brooklyn home and brought along a cheesecake, according to police. A day later, a friend found Tsvyk unconscious and surrounded by pills. Turns out the cheesecake was laced with a tranquilizer called phenazepam. Police say Nasyrova was trying to make it look as if Tsvyk attempted suicide.
48 HOURS: “Red Notice for Murder” takes viewers inside Weisberg’s hunt for Nasyrova and the streetwise know-how the former NYPD detective used – including closely examining Facebook selfies to find key clues – to track an alleged killer.
48 HOURS: “Red Notice for Murder” is produced by Chris O’Connell and Jonathan Leach. Murray Weiss is the development producer. Greg McLaughlin is the producer-editor. George Baluzy, Atticus Brady, Grayce Arlotta-Berner and David Spungen are the editors. Peter Schweitzer is the senior producer. Nancy Kramer is the executive story editor. Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer.
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