Nicole M. Abusharif[1] (born September 14, 1980)[2] is an American woman, convicted of the 2007 Villa Park, Illinois murder of her domestic partner, Rebecca "Becky" Klein.
After being found guilty of first-degree murder in May 2009, Abusharif was sentenced to 50 years in prison at the Dwight Correctional Center in Nevada Township, Illinois.
Klein was found bound with duct tape, gagged with a bandana, blindfolded, and suffocated with a plastic bag over her head.
After Abusharif allegedly suffocated Klein to death, she went out with another woman, the 19-year-old Rose Sodaro, she met on the social networking site MySpace.
Prosecutors also uncovered a slew of lies that Abusharif allegedly told, including stating to Sodaro that she had been a New York City firefighter during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Villa Park police still believed he was not involved in Becky Klein's murder,[10] but he was convicted of the obstruction charges and was sentenced to 75 days at the DuPage County, Illinois work camp.
[6] While Abusharif's attorneys were skeptical of gaining an acquittal, they were able to prove that Klein's murder was not "cold, calculated and premeditated," as the prosecution requested.
[5] She is currently held at Logan Correctional Center[14] Abusharif's case has been covered on various true crime television documentary programs.