They had it all, power, privilege, lifestyle so rich and famous they demanded the world's attention.

But behind it all, it was scandal, secrets and chaos.

I'm Mark Randall and this is Dead Famous, the podcast that digs into the lives

and deaths of the world's most iconic stars. Every week I'll take you inside their story, their rise

to fame, the build-up to their final days, and the truth about their death. Subscribe now wherever

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At 6.30am on a quiet August morning in Farmington Hills, Michigan, a teenage girl walked towards her mother's bedroom expecting the familiar sounds of routine, jaws opening, footsteps moving, the low hum of a house waking up.

Instead, she found a window open, not cracked a jar, not just a little

bit open, fully open. And as she went to look outside of that window and down to the concrete

floor below, her whole world shattered. And at first, everyone believed the same thing. This had just been a tragic accident.

There were cleaning materials near the window inside. There was a small step ladder. This woman,

this mother, had just accidentally fallen outside of this window. But within hours, police

would realize that something was seriously wrong.

This scene had been staged.

We weren't looking at an accident.

We were looking at a murder.

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The woman we start this case with, the woman who was found on the floor outside of that

window, her name was Nadia Ulton Tolly.

She was originally from Syria, but by the time she was 18 in 1999, she met and married a man called

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