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| Missouri inmate dies while serving life sentence in stabbing |
| By semissourian.com- David A. Lieb |
| Published: 05/01/2014 |
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri woman died in prison Wednesday while serving a life sentence for the 1989 slaying of her teenage daughter in a crime that was chillingly captured on an FBI surveillance tape and apparently prompted by the girl's resistance to the family's Islamic traditions. Maria Isa, 70, died at a prison in Vandalia "of apparent natural causes," the Missouri Department of Corrections said in a written statement. Isa had been in prison since 1991. She was convicted along with her husband, Zein Isa, in the fatal stabbing of their 16-year-old daughter Palestina Isa in St. Louis. The killing was caught on a surveillance tape by the FBI, which had placed a microphone in the family's apartment because it suspected Zein Isa of being involved with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Read More. |
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