EXTRA: The Murder/Suicide of David Afuta and Anat Elimelech | Israel

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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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On the morning of 2 December 1997, family and friends grew concerned when 23-year-old actress Anat Elimelech and her ex-boyfriend, celebrity hairdresser David Afuta did not respond to phone calls. David’s brother broke into the apartment the lovers used to share and found both of them deceased. A battle ensued for years: who shot whom before ending their own life?

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0:00.0	Everyone leaves a legacy.
0:02.0	But a legacy can change over time as new generations re-examine old reputations.
0:08.0	From Wundery and Goalhanger Podcasts, I'm Afu Hirsch.
0:11.0	I'm Peter Frankepan, and in a brand new series we're exploring the lives of some of the biggest
0:16.3	characters in history from Napoleon to Picasso.
0:19.2	And asking what does their past tell us about our present? This is legacy.
0:24.8	Follow now, wherever you get your podcasts. You are listening to, the evidence locker.
0:38.8	Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials.
0:42.5	It deals with true crimes and real people.
0:45.2	Each episode is produced with the utmost respect
0:47.4	to the victims, their families, and loved ones. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, uh, uh, uh,
1:17.0	a... Anat Alemaleck was born in Jerusalem on the 8th of March 1974 to parents Billy and Avi.
1:32.3	Anat attended high school in Gilo.
1:34.0	She was bright and ambitious and from a young age it was clear she would grow up to be successful.
1:39.0	In 1991, when she was 16 years old, a not one Miss Kenyan, a local beauty pageant.
1:45.9	From there she was contracted as a model for an agency called Look.
1:49.8	But it wasn't her career that brought her fame.
1:52.1	She started making the entertainment and gossip
1:53.8	columns because of her love life. At the Miss Kenyan pageant she met Celebrity Hairdresser
1:58.4	David Afuta. He was 14 years older than her, 30 when they met.
2:03.0	But the age difference was no issue. He was married, but as his affair with the knot grew serious, he walked out on his wife Smatar and their two children.
2:12.0	After the separation, David moved in with Anat in an apartment in Jerusalem.
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