Post by HeadMarshal on Jul 20, 2013 19:38:26 GMT -5
Nazira Cross is wanted by the FBI in Sacramento for the murder of her ex-husband. She was aired on AMW four times between 2009 and 2012.
Nazira Ugalde married Mike Cross in 2000, weeks after Mike met her in Nazira's native Costa Rica. They divorced in 2008 after Mike learned that Nazira had been embezzling money from him. She moved back in with him soon after. On Jul 31, 2008, Nazira poisoned Mike in his Reno, Nevada home but claimed that Mike had a stroke and buried him on his California property. On the day Mike died, Nazira wrote off three checks from Mike's account. It was also learned that when Nazira returned to Costa Rica after being divorced, she faked her own death to collect fraudulent insurance death benefits in the United States.
Before the toxicology reports came in on Mike's death, Nazira fled sometime in September 2008. A murder warrant in Plemas County, California was issued in March 2009. Authorities say Nazira's two children were involved in the fake death scheme. Authorities believe her nephew impersonated Mike Cross on the phone before his family learned that he died. In March 2010, Nazira's dauther Natasha was arrested in Miami after coming off a plane from Costa Rica.
In November 2012, a Reno judge ruled that Mike's daughter Lindsay was the rightful owner of property once owned by Nazira and Mike.
Thoughts? According to one article I read. Costa Rica does not allow it's own citizens wanted for crimes in other nations to be extradited, which means they aren't going to feel like bringing Cross back to the US. Complicating things even further is that she may have had plastic surgery and works as a professor. So now not only could she be teaching anywhere in Latin America, but with a fake I.D. she wouldn't likely be recognized after having plastic surgery.
blogs.rgj.com/crime/2012/11/27/new-details-emerge-about-reno-black-widowfbis-most-wanted/
www.fbi.gov/wanted/murders/nazira-maria-cross
amcostaricaarchives.com/2012/02/black-widow-suspect-may-be-living-in-costa-rica-fbi-says/
