MURDERED: Sasha Samsudean
When a friend is MIA after a night out, loved ones worry that she didn’t make it home safely. When police do a wellness check, they see that she did make it to her apartment…but surprisingly, she was far from safe.
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Security footage captured the security guard, Stephen, following Sasha through the apartment.
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Episode Source Material
- Discovery Plus: Lies, Crimes & Video: Horror in Apartment 345 (episode).
- Investigation Discovery: See No Evil: No Place Like Home (docuseries episode). Directed by Fergus Colville and Lucie Richards.
- Oxygen: Murdered By Morning: Under a Watchful Eye (episode). Directed by Ruth Du.
- WFTV 9 (Orlando, FL): Police investigate woman’s suspicious death in downtown Orlando apartment.
- WFTV 9 (Orlando, FL): Death of Orlando woman, 27, a homicide, police say.
- WESH (Winter Park, FL): New photo released in search for Orlando woman’s killer by Greg Fox.
- Spectrum News 13 (Orlando, FL): Police: Woman’s death inside downtown Orlando apartment a homicide.
- The Daytona Beach News-Journal (Daytona Beach, FL): Port Orange man arrested in Orlando woman’s killing by Lyda Longa and Katie Kustura.
- WDBO Orlando’s News & Talk (Orlando, FL): Security guard arrested in connection with downtown Orlando woman’s death.
- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL): Cops: Orlando woman strangled by apartment security guard after sex attack by Tiffany Walden.
- WFTV 9 (Orlando, FL): Judge denies bond for man accused in slaying of Orlando woman.
- WFTV 9 (Orlando, FL): Police: Suspect’s DNA found on victim’s body in Uptown apartment killing.
- Click Orlando (Orlando, FL): Documents reveal evidence against Duxbury in homicide case by Shaun Chaiyabhat.
- Fox 35 Orlando (Orlando, FL): New Documents released in murder of Orlando woman.
- Click Orlando/WKMG-TV (Orlando, FL): Orlando apartment security guard indicted in murder, sex battery of resident by Erik Sandoval.
- WFTV 9 (Orlando, FL): New report outlines how accused killer broke into woman’s downtown Orlando apartment.
- CNN (National): Primetime Justice With Ashleigh Banfield: Woman Raped, Murdered by Condo Security Guard.
- WFTV 9 (Orlando, FL): Defense wants suspect’s shoes barred from trial in Orlando woman’s death.
- Click Orlando/WKMG-TV (Orlando, FL): Trial begins for security guard accused of killing Orlando woman by Emilee Speck.
- Spectrum News 13 (Orlando, FL): In court, witnesses recount final moments of Sasha Samsudean’s life.
- WESH (Winter Park, FL): 2 women testify in trial of security guard accused of murder by Michelle Meredith.
- Click Orlando/WKMG-TV (Orlando, FL): Sasha Samsudean murder trial jury hears from former boyfriends, witnesses by Emilee Speck.
- Spectrum News 13 (Orlando, FL): Murder trial continues for security guard accused of raping, killing woman.
- Click Orlando/WKMG-TV (Orlando, FL): Sasha Samsudean: Jury hears from medical examiner, Orlando police by Emilee Speck.
- WESH (Winter Park, FL): Duxbury’s Google search history takes center stage in Samsudean murder trial by Michelle Meredith.
- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL): Woman killed in downtown apartment suffered ‘severe’ injuries, medical examiner testifies by Caitlin Doornbos.
- WFTV 9 (Orlando, FL): DNA expert testifies in downtown Orlando security guard’s murder trial by Jason Kelly.
- Click Orlando/WKMG-TV (Orlando, FL): Orlando security guard found guilty in murder of 27-year-old woman by Emilee Speck.
- State of Florida: District Court of Appeals (Tallahassee, FL): Stephen Duxbury v. State of Florida.
- Florida Inmate Search.
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