Hi, Crime Jenkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And the story I have for you today is about a young woman who was trying to break free

of an abusive relationship when she disappeared, only to be found dead in a car.

And while her family and many others are sure that one person is responsible for her death,

the mysterious circumstances around her case have made finding justice elusive.

This is the story of Nadia Malik.

It's Saturday, February 8, 2014.

And in the Philadelphia suburb of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, a man named Thomas is getting

increasingly worried about his friend, 22-year-old Nadia Malik.

You see, she's in this on-again, off-again relationship with this guy named Boopender Singh.

And things between the two have been rocky to like downright physically abusive over the course

of their seven-year relationship. But recently, things between the two had even escalated.

A couple of days ago, Nadia had called Thomas like, in tears.

And she explained that Boopender, who everyone calls Guggun, wasn't letting her go home.

He'd picked her up from her parents' house where she was saying so that they could,

like, quote unquote, talk. But in the days since the two of them have just been like driving

around, sleeping at various rest stops along the New Jersey turnpike.

She said that he kept promising to drop her back off at her parents' house,

or even at Thomas' apartment, but he just never followed through.

And so she was just trapped riding around with him for days.

But here's the thing, Nadia was adamant that she doesn't want the police involved.

Instead, she asked Thomas to call her father, who was in Chicago on business,

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