New York
Viktoria wants to be younger and poisons her double Olga with cheesecake
Viktoria Nasyrova hoped for a future as a younger woman. Therefore, she poisoned Olga Tsyyk, who looks quite similar to her. Now she faces a long prison sentence.
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Viktoria Nasyrova (left) faces 25 years in prison. She was found guilty of attempting to poison her look-alike Olga Tsvyk (right) with a cheesecake.
Viktoria Nasyrova is said to have brought the cake with the powerful sedative to the woman’s home in Queens. Their goal was to later assume the identity of the victim.
Olga Tsvyk survived the crime. After she was discharged from the hospital, she found her passport, a gold ring and other valuables missing.
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In New York, a woman has been found guilty of attempted murder, assault and false imprisonment.
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Viktoria Nasyrova planned to assume the identity of the very similar looking Olga Tsvyk, so she tried to poison the 35-year-old with a cheesecake.
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The victim survived the crime, and the perpetrator might face up to 25 years in prison.
In New York, a woman has been found guilty of poisoned cheesecake kill her doppelganger wanted. The public prosecutor announced on Thursday that the 47-year-old wanted to steal the woman’s passport and her valuables. For this, she added a strong sedative to a cheesecake. The jury found them guilty of attempted murder.
Prosecutor Melinda Katz said the suspect looked very similar to her 35-year-old victim. Both had dark hair and a similar skin color. The older one hoped to be able to pretend to be the younger one following the crime in August 2016. Fortunately, the victim survived and the poison led investigators to the perpetrator.
A quarter of a century imprisonment threatened
According to the indictment, the perpetrator brought the cake to the woman’s home in Queens. The recipient then lost consciousness, but a friend later found her in bed and she was taken to the hospital for treatment. After her discharge from the hospital, she noticed that her passport, a gold ring and other valuables were missing. Investigators tested the remains of the cake and found a strong sedative in it. The suspect was arrested and found guilty of charges including attempted murder, assault and false imprisonment. The sentence will be announced on March 21; she faces up to 25 years in prison.
The woman has previously been accused of drugging a woman. In 2014 it hit her in Russia neighbor who died. In an interview with the US broadcaster CBS, the accused denied having killed her neighbor.
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