Snapped: Women Who Murder - Alisha Noel-Murray

Episode Date: February 6, 2022

After a man is shot in his home, the ensuing investigation brings to light a murder-for-hire plot.Season 25, Episode 04Originally aired: March 31, 2019Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WsLCJWqmIebSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal. Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse, in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable. Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. They were a Caribbean couple making a new life for themselves, far from home. When Alicia and her mom moved to Bonta, their life was good. Very happy.

But the couple's happy life comes crashing down in a storm of gunfire. She hears the three poppin' sounds. And then she hears her mom saying something like, mama, mama, mama. You see blood on the walls. You see blood on the floor. And as the investigation unfolds, detectives uncover a scheme built on lies, conspiracy, and revenge.

He was going to take care of it himself. He wasn't going to go to the police. It just seemed in all accounts according to the police that this was a hit. To be honest, they were the biggest backstab ever. It's not long before they come to understand that this is a very different kind of crime than the usual in Brown's film.

I've been a detective 15 years and this is something that I've never dealt with. [♪ music playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in Brooklyn, New York. Just before 1 p.m., NYPD dispatchers receive a call of shots fired in the troubled Brownsville neighborhood. The caller is 25-year-old Alicia Noelle Murray. During the 911 call, you hear Alicia. She sounds distraught. She sounds upset. She's telling the police that somebody

shooting downstairs in my home. She was scared. She ran into her bedroom, locked the door with her baby. So at that point, detectives sent an old and I along with other members of the police department respond to the scene. The police aren't going to show up to the home and rush in and start searching the home immediately.

They're going to treat the situation as if it's a hostage situation. They were going to send the door again to clear the house. We needed the apartment to be cleared. We didn't know we had a night to shoot in there. With the canine unit still minutes out, officers talk to Alicia over the phone to keep her calm. But the young mother is terrified that the victim of the shooting is her husband,

37-year-old Omar Murray. There's certain instances where you can hear her, speaking, and she's begging and pleading for them to come and get her. I did tell her, don't leave the room. Well, they finally were able to get in. In the foyer of the home, investigators find a middle-aged man bleeding heavily.

His wallet identifies him as Omar Murray. At the time, please get there. Omar is in bad shape. He's been shot three times in the chest. I don't know if he's breathing or he's not breathing. I don't know if he's alive or not. Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, So he was living with his biological grandparents when I migrated to Canada. We all lived with different family members,

but we still always spent a lot of time together. Amara was our protector. Whenever anything happened, Amara was the first one to do something about it. In 1995, Omar's mother summoned her children to Crown Heights, New York, a thriving and vibrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. Omar started working as an iron worker. Omar, a friend, recommend him for the job. He didn't really go to trade school. And I think he just learned from, you know,

just working basically and learn to trade. I think it was maybe 21 at the time when he did the job. That was good money for him. And so, you know, that was good money for him. And so, you know, he was able to do what he wanted. With a large paycheck coming in, Omar wanted to settle down with a wife, but over the next few years,

Omar bounced from woman to woman, fathering two sons. He was always about family, and that's what, I think that's what Omar always wanted, a family. After his latest relationship ended, Omar moved back home with family, next door to Alicia Noel. Like Omar, Alicia's family hailed from the Caribbean.

Born in 1987 in Brooklyn, Alicia was a quiet and studious person by nature, who focused on grades rather than boys. She's always been reserved, and it takes a bit of getting past, you know, like peeling her onion, if you will. But once you get to know her, she's a good person. After high school, Alicia became a certified nursing assistant and made good money as a home health aide. She is a registered nurse.

That's something that she loved since her mother was also registered nurse. That's where she got the bug to help, if you will. She was working very hard to pay bills off and purchase a home and have a good life. It was in 2007, while Alicia was recovering from minor surgery, that she struck up a conversation with her neighbor, Omar Murray, who was 12 years older than her. She was having operation and you just check on her how you're doing, how is it going?

And so that's how they started speaking to each other. Omar and Alicia be in both West Indian. They definitely blended better than other cultures. So it wasn't a hard match for the two of them to get together. Friends for over a year Omar and Alicia started dating in 2009. Their relationship rapidly progressed and within six months Omar popped the question. For them to all of a sudden be engaged all within a year time frame some people look that it as they're moving too fast. That's Omar's life. And if he's happy, I'm happy. It's my son, and I love him. Alicia and her parents, we get along.

I like Alicia. We like her. Go family, also I get to know her, and we accept her. On August 28, 2010, the couple married. It wasn't a small wedding. They had color coordination. They seemed happy. They walked into the hall together.

It seemed like it was a festive occasion. When Omar and Alicia got together, it wasn't just Alicia coming into our family. It was one family. Alicia was like a sister. Alicia and Omar moved into a home in Brownsville and with their two salaries combined, they were soon living the life they had always dreamed of. When Alicia and Omar moved to Brownsville,

their life was good. I was always over, you know, go to their house and we watched TV, we cooked together. It was a very, you know, happy time. Then, in the spring of 2012, the couple welcomed a daughter. Now, more than ever, Omar and Alicia were dedicated to providing

a happy and stable childhood for their little girl. Omar has already two boys before. So I'm gonna open that to be given a girl, which he did. So he was very happy. It seemed like it was the picture perfect kind of situation. Then on February 24th, 2013, tragedy strikes the family. When Omar Murray is shot three times in the family's foyer. Paramedics rush in, render aid to the individual that's behind the door.

They rush that they put them on a gurney. They rush into the hospital. Officers find Alicia hiding with her 10-month-old daughter in an upstairs bedroom. As they escort the mother and baby down to an ambulance, they tell her that Omar's condition is very serious. Alicia was distraught. She was screaming. She was crying.

She was upset. Now, as Omar's life hangs in the balance, can investigators solve this crime before their shooter gets away? We don't know what really occurred. We don't know if it was a home invasion or robbery. We have no clue. Coming up, will the crime scene give detectives

their first clue? As you walk in, you see blood on the walls. You see blood on the floor. Was it a random robbery? Or had their shooter struck once before? We found out two weeks prior. Omar was shot at in front of his house. On February 24, 2013, just minutes after 37-year-old Omar Murray is rushed to the hospital with three gunshot wounds to the chest, NYPD officers speak to their only witness,

Omar's wife, 25-year-old Alicia Noelle Murray. They escort Alicia outside of her home. She has a blank stare, no emotion. People, you know, sometimes they do act like that, you know, like, because they're in a little bit of shot. I began to speak with her, and I'm trying to find out more detail that she hear anybody break into her house, but what she doing before Omar was shot.

Before 1 o'clock, at Sunday, Alicia wasn't feeling well, so she sent Omar out to the store to get some ginger ale. She was recovering still from surgery, and they had a young child at the time that she gave in birth to not too long before that. She's at the second floor window. She sees Omar returning from the grocery store. She sees him park his car in front of her house.

She sees him exit his car and walk in towards the home. She hears him come in to her house. That's when she hears the three popping sounds. She's telling me after she hears the three popping sounds, that she calls Omar's phone. His phone is just ringing. There's no answer. And then she hears Omar saying something like,

mom, mom, mom, mom. Alicia says that's when she dialed 911. She and her daughter are transferred to the same hospital where Omar was taken to get checked out. With the family and the care of doctors, investigators take a second look at the crime scene. As you walk in, you see blood on the walls. You see blood on the floor.

We realize that there's some type of struggle, because the car keys that are dropped, the hat, and the bottle of ginger ale that's out of those shopping bags. We're thinking that Omar might have walked into a robbery. We're thinking that Omar might have walked into a robbery. Detectives quickly rule out this theory when they discover that nothing appears to be missing. Omar's keys to the house, his keys to the car, his ID.

Wally is all still on him and, you know, it just showed these signs of something else happened here. They saw that there were cameras in the front of the home, so they were like, great, got to leave. The surveillance videos. We went back to the apartment, you know, to recover the video, and the video were a box, and it was disconnected.

The wires were pulled out from the back. We were shocked and surprised that the cameras were not recording at the time that they were disconnected. Why would anyone pull those wires and not have it recording? At 1.58 PM, investigators get an update on Omar's condition from Brookdale Hospital. The news isn't good. They let us know that he was deceased. Alicia called me, and all she said,

Omar's gone. I screamed and I threw the phone down. My mother called and told me that Omar was dead and I just froze. Without any footage from the security camera at the scene, investigators must canvas the neighborhood for their next lead. We knock on doors to see we find any witnesses and you know most of the time, you get in there, then nobody's throwing that one. Nobody sees anyone.

Somebody gets killed or shot. Another day in Brownsville. You know, it happens so much. With no witnesses on the street, investigators return the next day, February 25th, with a different tactic. Myself and detective Luke, do a video canvas and realize that this video diagonal

across from the residence. Review the video and we see Omar Leif, a black sedan pull-up across the street. As the black sedan pulls up, I see a short-melt black exit the vehicle and walk into a delicious house. A short guy enters the apartment, like without knocking, you know,

it like, the door's open, he just walks in, like he lived there. I see that same short individual, leaving the house five minutes later, entering the Blacks of Dan and leaving. Later on, the Blacks of Dan returns. That's when I observe a taller male, exit the vehicle, different from the short

man that I saw early in the video. Same car, different individual exit in the vehicle, and enters a few minutes later, we see Omar returning home, Omar Pox is car in front of his house, and then walks into his house. It'd be two minutes later, two or three minutes later, you see the same individual who left the blacks of them exit the house. As we're watching the video, we believe now it was down at home invasion. Who are the two men caught on camera? Investigators hope that Alicia might know, So they call her in for a second interview.

When the incident happened, she was a widow. She was heartbroken. She was distraught. I'm trying to find out more detail if Omar had any problems in the neighborhood. And we found out two weeks prior, Omar was shot at in front of his house. Omar went to the store, which was not too far away from their home,

to pick up groceries. And as he was making his way, he parked his car and another car pulled up. A person came out and they fired a few shots at him. And I believe the back window was broken. And Omar ducked and he ran into the house, screamed for Alicia, helped. Somebody's trying to shoot at me.

And the person whoever this shooter was ran away. Alicia asked Omar whether or not look. Do you want to call the cops? Let them know what's going on. But he says he was going to take care of it himself. He wasn't going to go to the police. In fact, Alicia says that her husband was so determined to handle the situation himself

that he took what she considered an extreme risk. I asked Alicia if I wasn't near a camera's recording. She said that Omar had disconnected him early in a month. He went and got himself his own fire arm after the first murder attempt on February 6. He told Alicia that he needed to protect himself. Alicia suggests that Omar intentionally disconnected the security cameras in the event he might have to fire that weapon,

in which case, he wouldn't want his actions caught on camera. But what or who was Omar so afraid of? Brothers were consistent with a lot of gangs. So because there's gang violence, a lot of our students are either gang motivated or gang related. We look at all the avenues, it could have been, it could have been gang related. Had Omar gotten mixed up with some dangerous people?

And was he afraid of putting himself in more danger by going to the police? Alicia's telling me, Omar is a hard worker, Omar has no problems in an neighborhood, Omar's a family man. Investigators show Alicia the surveillance footage taken from the store across the street from her house, hoping she can ID the suspects. I ask it, who's the other individual who enters the house before Omar arrives?

Alicia just, she grabs her chest and I go, my God, someone else was in my house, who's in my house? When investigators ask about the first man, though, Alicia goes quiet. She tells me that's my boyfriend, Damien. MUSIC Coming up, investigators discover cracks in the Murray's marriage. Malisha starts here in his room,

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And this is Will Arnett, I'm telling you, you really should listen. Do it, do it, do it. Less than 24 hours after the death of 37-year-old Omar Murray, his widow, Alicia Noel Murray, confesses that she has been hiding a terrible secret. After I give her her rights, she tells me that she's having an affair with Damia Label. My mouth drops. Like, do you have a boyfriend and a husband?

She tells me yes. Alicia tells investigators that the problems in her marriage began just months before her wedding day. They got engaged really fast and they planned the wedding really fast and during the planning preparations, Alicia finds out that Omar was having an affair with another woman and got the woman pregnant and the child was born before the wedding day. She still went through with the wedding, which was like, okay, you're going into a marriage with the infidelity already.

Alicia tells police that she hoped Omar would put his wandering ways behind him once they settled into marriage. However, Alicia says that shortly after the birth of her daughter in the summer of 2012, the problems started again. The pregnancy kind of put a little strain on the relationship, Alicia, had a really horrible pregnancy in which she didn't feel that she got the support that she needed from him.

As time was going by, Alicia starts her and his room was about Omar sleeping around. She approaches him about it and he denies it, saying that he's working. Alicia says that after a few fights, Omar finally admitted that the rumors were true. So here that the man is supposed to be the love of your life is just consistently having a wandering eye and not aiming at you. It's definitely a hurt ego no matter what. She decided she's going to move him upstairs and she's going to stay in the family, you

have mass to bed. So it was very, very tense. According to Alicia, that's when Damien Lavel came into the picture. Alicia says that she initially met Damien at the baptism of a friend's child in early 2012. She says, look, I didn't know him at that point. He was the Godfather, I was a Godmother. Then in January 2013, she ran into Damien again at a local barber shop.

They would see each other here and there and Alicia started having a friendship with him more deeper. They were hanging out a lot, talking on the phone, texting, and the relationship started to progress to actually having sex in the home. Alicia says that after just a few weeks, Damien began begging her to leave Omar. Damien believed that him and Alicia were going to

be happy, live happily ever after. He was in love, he thought she was divorcing her husband or leaving her husband for him. But Alicia tells police that there was no chance of her leaving her iron worker husband. She was going to pick up with Damien who was might have been making $25,000 a year. This is not somebody who she's leaving her husband with. I don't think Alicia saw any type of long-term goal with Damien. She was just going to use him for what the moment called for.

In fact, Alicia tells police that by the time of Omar's death, her passionate affair with Damien had already started to fizzle out. Omar was trying to work his way back into her good grace. She had just had a operation about that time, so she wasn't feeling the best, so he made sure that the baby was taking care of. He did everything, where the house was concerned. They were moving towards some sort of reconciliation.

Alicia admits that she invited Damian over to the house after Omar went out on February 24, 2013. But she says she has no idea who Damien's passenger is. Could Alicia's lover be the mastermind behind Omar's murder? Damien didn't have a home in his own, and you know, she's driving a car. Her husband had his own car. Maybe he could have his own car. The only person who stands to gain out of this was Damien.

Alicia gives me information about Damien. She tells me where he works and where he lives. So we have detectives go to his house. You know, I kind of door. I asked Mr. Levelle, can you come back to the precinct? He said, yes, without a problem. We escort him back to the precinct, and I read Mr. Leavelle, his rights.

He agrees to talk to me. Investigators ask Damien if he knows anything about Omar Murray's death. His demeanor was calm. He started speaking and given bits and pieces at the beginning, and then he finally, you know, opened up. That's when Damian admits to police that he is responsible for Omar Murray's death. When Damian tells me that it's a murder for hire, I'm shot. I've been at the 70th or a prison. I've been in detective for 15 years, and this is something that we don't investigate.

This is something that I've never dealt with. There's a big weight lifted off the shoulders, and now they can, you know, just move forward and basically tell you the whole story. Damien says that February 24th wasn't the first time Omar's life had been in danger. There was a first attempt that failed on February 6th. A hitman arrives while Omar's outside his house

and shoots at him. He misses, and so the gunman runs away. Whoever it was escapes. After the failed attempt, Damien says that he decided to call in a professional. A local Crips gang member named Kirk Portius. Kirk hung out at the Barbershop and where that Barbershop is,

is a heavy zone for where gang members hang out. And Damien hung out there very often as well. Kirk was the strong muscle if you had an issue. So everybody knew to go to him if you wanted somebody to like make a statement for a situation. Damien asked Kirk to do this for him, and he promised him some money.

Kirk agrees to kill Omar, because he's promised $3,500. Damien had given him $500 as a down payment and was promised to get paid. The rest of the money after the job was done. Damien says that on February 24, 2013, he and Kirk watched Omar leave his house just after noon. As Omar was heading to the store, Damien was supposed to, along with Kirk,

complete the job at the parking lot of the grocery store. But then Damien and Kirk, they decided that it was too many people at the store parking lot. It was daytime. It was a Sunday. So according to Damien, they decided to take it to another location. On February 24th, Kirk Portius shows up at this house on Mott Avenue, goes inside. Omar gets up to the house with his groceries in the hand,

and Kirk holds the gun out and shot Omar. The shoot's Omar Murray three times. He runs out of the building, gets in a car and drives away. That's when Damian tells investigators that even though he carried out the crime, the murder wasn't his idea. It's not long before they come to understand that this is a very different kind of crime than the usual in Brown's film. Coming up, Damian tells all. These criminals, there's no loyalty.

And will a very public confrontation bring to light the family's dark secrets? And on my way, I said, what did you do to my son? On February 25, 2013, just one day after 37-year-old Omar Murray was gunned down, Damien Lavelle confessed to detectives that he was involved in the crime. Now, as Damien sits inside an interview room, he is ready to admit something else. Damian claims he hired Omar's killer,

but he wasn't the mastermind. Damian Lavelle says, I did this because the woman I'm seeing Alicia asked me to help her murder her husband. According to Damian, his relationship with 25-year-old Alicia Noel Murray, Omar's wife, had been fast and passionate. But after just a few weeks together, the relationship took a disturbing turn. Damian was being snuck into the home

and they're having sex, and she tells him, I need you to kill my husband. Damien thought it was a odd request. He had advised Alicia to get a divorce instead of going through what trying to kill Omar. But she was like, no, you gotta kill him, you gotta kill him. Alicia had about three separate life insurance policies out where the total would be close to $900,000.

I'm like, wow, this woman is orchestrating a husband's death, a newborn father to cash in on the insurance policy. Damien says that Alicia even offered him a cut of the payout if he would help her. But according to Damien, his real motivation was that after Omar was dead, he would get Alicia all to himself. He thought he was going to write off in the sunset with Alicia in the end if he completed the task

that she asked for. Damien says that after the failed attempt to kill Omar on February 6th, Alicia had taken a more active role on February 24th. After Omar left the house that Sunday to go to the store for his wife, Damien came to the house to obtain the gun from Alicia and then give it to Kirk to then use it against Omar to shoot and kill him. I have to speak with Damien Lavalle, he's placed on the arrest and charge him.

Now, detectives need to find the alleged gunman, Kirk Portius. In attempting to locate Kirk, we go to his house. There's no answer. The following day, he walks into the 70th-derb prison. I'm very surprised. Just the trigger man, he's walking into the prison. I introduce myself to Mr. Portias, and escort him to the interview room.

He was hired by Damian Levelle for $3,500. He said that he originally asked for $5,000, but he got barging down. When detectives ask about Alicia's involvement, though, Kirk says he has never met his victim's wife. This is not someone that Alicia is close to, the person that she's close to in this scenario is Damien. The only person who is speaking about this is Damien.

He's the only one who's telling this story, and he's the only one who knows all the players that are involved in this. As investigators place Kirk under arrest, they know they need more evidence against Alicia before they can move forward. Then, on March 10, 2013, investigators open up the New York newspapers and find a stunning

string of articles. It started to really become a page lead story because Omar's mother had accused Alicia of killing her son. At Omar's wake, Alicia just sat in the audience like a regular person. As if she was just getting ready to go to a party, eating her gum on her phone, no remorse, stone cold. I said to Alicia, what did it to my son? And she did not answer me. So I said to her, what did it to my son? And she did not answer me. So I said to her, you killed my son.

Alicia did not answer. I said, you bitch, you killed my son. Investigators reach out to Omar's family for interviews. Omar's family tells police that they are convinced that Alicia is behind Omar's murder. In fact, they believe this was the third attempt Alicia made on his life. I believe about six months or so before Omar was killed, there was an incident where Omar was having dinner, and he became gravely ill. Alicia called me and said it was actually Omar's in the hospital.

Doctors couldn't find a cause for Omar's illness, but in the following months, family members say that Omar's condition only worsened. He was just slim. He was just getting just slender. They'd never found out what happened. He just knew he felt ill. I would get a call and say, it's actually Omar's in the hospital.

And they said, again, why? What's going on? She don't know. And this was when I think things were strange. She don't know. And this was when I think things were strange. Omar's mom believed that Alicia poisoned him. Could Omar's family be right? Had Alicia been planning Omar's murder for months?

Investigators Sapina, Alicia and Omar's bank records. According to the account statements, Alicia's high-end lifestyle had finally caught up with her. She had credit card debts. She was in debt for hundreds of thousands of dollars. This almost $900,000 life insurance claim could have actually helped her relieve herself from the financial stress that she was under.

Investigators are determined to keep Alicia from receiving even one penny of her husband's policy. We reach out to the insurance company and request them to freeze the policy. A police detective called them up and said, don't make this payout. This woman is a suspect in her husband's death. The insurance company tells police that they have called just in time. They say that Alicia had already demanded her payout on February 26, 2013, just two days after Omar's death,

the insurance company says they will deny Alicia's claim. And although detectives have kept Alicia out of the money for now, they know they need to make an arrest. That's when police start digging start digging into, you know, the other kinds of evidence. They start looking at phone records. There's phone calls back and forth between Alicia and Damien on the data homicide.

There were also text messages. We got all the text messages about the times that he'll be leaving to go to the store and when he's coming back. Obviously, the police were able to provide physical documentation to show that this was a woman who had a vested interest in her husband's life ending. She left crumbs alone the way, you know, a trail. And what about that surveillance camera that just happened to be disconnected when Omar was shot? Why would you not want to have your recording device working? Somebody had it pulled those wires.

My feeling was that it could have been Alicia. That, along with the text messages, provides strong evidence against Alicia. But truth be told, Damian's confession is the single most important thread that ties this case together. Who is saying what happens on those calls? It's only Damian. He's the only one who's saying

this is what she's saying, this is what I'm doing. When it's a case of, he said, she said, I think that Jury's are loathed to hang a person's life on that kind of evidence. Without more evidence, detectives are hesitant to move forward with an arrest. As months pass, investigators desperately search for more evidence.

And less than a year after Omar's death, Alicia is already moving on. And in September 2014, she remarries. And our investigation, we realized that Alicia was remarried. She was remarried and also took a life insurance on her current husband. Maybe she was planning to catch them again. N-Y-P-D investigators have discovered that Alicia Noel Murray, the number one suspect in the murder of her husband Omar, had taken out an insurance policy on her new husband. Worried that they are running out of time, investigators offeracia's co-conspirator, Damian Levelle, a deal of 15 years to life in order to testify against Alicia.

Damian takes the deal. And in December 2015, investigators finally make their move. It took over a year an cooperation of Mr. Levelle with cell-side records. Also assisting, we finally arrested Alicia. It really hurt knowing that she was behind all of this and we trusted her.

No, and we didn't expect this. To be honest, with Alicia, it was the biggest backstaff ever. In May 2017, Alicia and the alleged gunman, former Cripp's gang member Kirk Portius, are tried together in Brooklyn Supreme Court. In opening statements, prosecutors argue that Alicia was at the very center of a plot to cash in on Omar's life insurance policy.

In the end, those bill collectors will not stop calling. You will not stop getting mail, saying you owe. She wanted to quickly get out of financial debt, and this was the only way she could think of to get out of it. He died because of a financial game for the pursuit of financial game. He died for money. How could you do to someone who he claimed to love?

There is no love in that. However, Alicia's defense argues that the real mastermind is the person who was smart enough to take a plea deal. The only person who has any chance of seeing daylight is Damien. She is guilty of making a bad decision regarding Damien, but she's not guilty of murdering her husband.

On Tuesday, June 6th, Alicia takes the stand to plead her case. She said, if I didn't bring this guy home, my husband would still be alive. But that's the decision she made, and unfortunately, something that she has to live with. And I'm like, OK, here we go. Waterworks. There was nothing from her.

Not even an eye roll. There was just nothing from her. Cold, very stone-faced. And I'm like, what? But there was nothing from her. Not even a eye roll. There was just nothing from her. Cold, very stone-faced. In a million years, I would not, I was not looking for that from her. It's like, it was a different person living in her, the same place, but different attitude.

On June 7th, 2017, the two separate juries announced that they have each reached the same verdict. Guilty. It just felt like Alicia went totally numb. And she didn't say anything when I actually did look over her expression. It was totally like she was done. On June 29, 2017, during Alicia's sentencing, Omar's family finally gets the chance to speak directly to Alicia.

Several members of Omar's family read letters. The quote that sort of made all of the papers was, you can serve 900,000 years in prison, one for every dollar in life insurance. I think they were able to communicate that to the judge because he gave her life in prison. I'm thankful for the judge that she got life, that's life without any possibility of parole.

And I pray that this really happened, that she'll live the rest of her life in prison. If you get divorced and you move on, but to kill somebody over something like that, that's evil. She's a black widow. I used to be angry. Well, that's not going to solve anything. You know, she is where she is, and I'm happy. You know, that she's doing the time for what she's done.

But, you know, we can never have our brother back. I forgave her. I forgave her. I forgave everyone that's involved in my son's murder. But I would never forget. They take him. It's funny, everybody's still here. They can't kill him.

It's spirit. It lives on. It still lives on. It still lives on. On June 29th, 2017, Kirk Portius was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Damian Lovall will be eligible for parole in 2032. Omar's mother, Yunis Ashley Henry, has filed for custody of Alicia and Omar's daughter. For more information on snapped, go to oxygen.com.