‘CHILLING’ details released in Arizona student murder case

[0:01] so now an indian national studying business at the university of arizona now accused of [0:07] murdering his girlfriend then fleeing the country the 20-year-old was arrested in germany now awaits [0:12] extradition to arizona on charges of murder and kidnapping senior correspondent claudia cowan [0:18] picks up the story from there and claudia what have we learned hello well good morning bill [0:25] according to her friends this young woman was so afraid of her boyfriend she was planning to break [0:29] up with him now she's dead and he's in custody halfway around the world after police say he [0:35] tried to escape to his native india 20-year-old varun bachagari was arrested in germany after he [0:42] allegedly strangled 19-year-old julisa salazar a student at the university of arizona according [0:48] to authorities she was found on the floor of her tucson apartment on thursday with obvious signs [0:52] of trauma on her neck detectives say that same day bachagari stole salazar's phone and credit cards [0:59] and sent a series of messages to her mother pretending to be her which led to a welfare [1:03] check request and the discovery of her body according to police bachagari traveled to the [1:09] tucson international airport where he boarded a flight to germany with plans to continue to his [1:15] home country of india at the berlin airport german authorities working with the fbi and tucson police [1:21] were waiting to take him in federal sources tell fox bachagari came to the u.s on a student visa [1:27] in january of 2024 and was studying business at the university of arizona but he was reportedly [1:33] kicked out after getting into a fight police say he had a history of domestic violence including [1:39] allegedly sexually assaulting julisa salazar in the past her family has now set up a gofundme saying [1:46] the 19-year-old leaves behind her parents and two younger sisters who love her and miss her more than [1:52] words can express bachagari is now awaiting extradition back to arizona where he will be [1:58] booked into the pima county jail on first-degree murder and kidnapping charges all right claudia thank [2:04] you for that uh martha's got more of this claudia cowen thanks martha so let's bring in the former [2:08] doj prosecutor jim trustee jim good morning to you always good to have you with us hi there good to see [2:17] you too i'm not seeing you yet but i hope i see you soon do we have jim okay all right so we have your [2:23] your audio one of the interesting things about this case i mean it's a terrible case and i hope he gets [2:28] extradited and i want you to tell us if you think he will he sent text messages on his former [2:34] girlfriend's phone pretending to be her and it sounds like that's how they picked him up he may have made [2:41] it clear out of the country if they if he hadn't done that yeah i mean that's a real chilling fact right [2:48] i mean it's a horrible case terrible situation beautiful young lady you know you can imagine the [2:52] parents and family the one thing you kind of expect is when you send off your daughter to college she's [2:57] going to be okay you know there might there might be a few parties that she shouldn't have gone to [3:02] but there's not going to be something as dramatic and traumatic as this so terrible moment for the [3:06] family i think the bottom line is you know when you go to a foreign country and face extradition if you're [3:13] not a citizen of that country you're on a little bit of a fast track so an indian citizen in germany [3:18] is not going to take long even if he can test the extradition hearing the bigger issue with germany [3:24] in particular is their anti-death penalty so if they're going to send him back to arizona to stand [3:31] trial they're going to ring a concession out of the american authorities to not pursue the death penalty [3:36] and again i'm not saying it was 100% of death penalty case but you know that's a starting precondition [3:41] for them to uh remove him from german soil whether he's a german citizen or an indian citizen so [3:48] yeah that's kind of an unfortunate in some ways an unfortunate component of this but i think once [3:52] they get that concession in place this will move within days or weeks not weeks or months yeah very [3:59] interesting switching gears for a moment we've seen some major fraud uh cases that have been very [4:06] very fruitful in a number of states through uh through the white house i want to just play this [4:12] uh comment from secretary from uh vice president vance in just a moment but we've seen what happened [4:18] in new york and flushing queens where you have just extraordinary amounts of fraud it seems like [4:23] the whole neighborhood in some cases was in on it um and we've seen it in minnesota california other [4:28] places as well uh here is vice president vance in an interview about this let's watch oh it's a quote [4:35] excuse me uh he said you definitely see patterns where certain communities it'll start as maybe one [4:42] somali person takes advantage of the system or realizes you don't even have to have children [4:47] to get money from these programs um he goes on to say you can just claim that you have children there's [4:53] no verification the word spreads like wildfire and that program gets tapped into by the same members [4:58] of that community i mean it's pretty stunning that we're seeing entire communities who seem to have [5:05] figured out how easy it is unfortunately to tap into government money and live off it yeah i mean [5:14] gaming the system seems to be kind of a uh a cultural phenomena sometimes i mean look when immigrants [5:20] come to the united states they do tend to cluster in particular communities they have family they have [5:25] friends they have friends they have businesses you know and i'm used to to dealing with ms 13 [5:29] prosecutions back in my days as a prosecutor where a whole bunch of salvadoran and central american [5:34] individuals might kind of congregate in particular friendly areas of say montgomery county maryland [5:40] and so yeah the victims can be there too but there's i think it's not that big a surprise that [5:46] there's kind of a cultural spread of these things because these are the folks you can trust if you're a [5:50] fraudster you're not going to go out to somebody else you're going to talk to somebody from within your [5:54] community yeah i mean you have to wonder you know in the past immigrants would lure their friends to [5:59] come to the country to work with them in a business or to get involved uh in something you know [6:04] together to improve their personal finances but i i have to wonder if some of these people are [6:10] being lured here hey we've got a great thing going we've got a great fraud scheme you should come [6:15] here and be part of it so jim always great to see you thank you and now we can see you which is even 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