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Women and Crime

Noura Jackson

Women and Crime

Cloud10

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, True Crime, Science

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ep 06: In the early morning hours of June 5, 2005, 18 year old Noura Jackson discovered her mother naked and brutally stabbed in their Memphis home. Just three months into the investigation Noura was arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder. Was this a case of cold-blooded murder of a mother by her daughter or was this a case of wrongful conviction?  Sources Cited for this episode: Charged by Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine The Daily Memphian 20/20: Season 40, Episode 29  Support Our Work: The easiest way you can support us is by leaving a review, telling your friends, sharing on social media or by sending us a note. We love to hear from our audience!  You can also support the show through the following ways:  Patron - If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to hear ad-free shows, have access to exclusive AMAs with the hosts, or just want support what we are doing in general, please checkout our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/womenandcrime Merchandise - For T-shirts, Hoodies, notebooks, stickers and mugs check out https://www.womenandcrimepodcast.com/merch Credits: Written and Hosted by Amy Shlosberg and Meghan Sacks Produced and Edited by James Varga Music by Dessert Media Social Links: Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Reddit | Twitter Keywords: Jennifer Jackson, Matricide, Tennessee, Shelby County, Nazmi Hassanieh, overturned, Alford plea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast may contain content that is graphic and disturbing in nature.

0:03.9

Listener discretion is advised.

0:09.9

This is episode 6, the Nora Jackson story.

0:30.0

Hi Megan.

0:42.8

Hi Amy. How are you? I'm excited. I got a good one for you today.

0:47.4

Don't we say that every time? I know. It's true though.

0:50.7

Do you know the Nora Jackson story? So I have heard of it and I know a little bit but as usual

0:58.6

I don't know the deep dive, the details. I don't even think I know the outcome.

1:02.1

So that's a beautiful thing because I'm about to school you.

1:05.5

All right let's do it. All right well Nora Jackson born in 1987 to Jennifer Jackson who we will come

1:11.8

to find out is the victim in this case and Nazmi Haseni. Her mother was a successful bond

1:17.6

trader and her father a former Lebanese army captain owned several small businesses in the Memphis

1:23.3

area. Unfortunately the marriage did not last long. Actually they ended up getting married

1:28.5

just four months before Nora was born and they separated just six months after.

1:33.7

So they got divorced when Nora was a baby. The father did stay in the life until Nora was about

1:39.3

eight years old. However at age eight Jennifer filed for full custody. Nazmi found himself in

1:46.6

a bit of legal battle. He got charged with child molestation. A lot of was it endangerment of a

1:54.0

young person giving alcohol to a minor and then sexual assault case. This didn't involve Nora did

2:00.4

it. It did not but as any mother would the mom said not around my child and there was also a

2:05.5

history of abuse with Nazmi and Jennifer. So he would not reenter Nora's life until she was 16

2:12.6

but it's a very interesting way that they became reacquainted. So Nora just walked into a convenience

2:17.6

store one day and she saw a man who looked really familiar to her working in the store. So you

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