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Crimelines True Crime

The Shafia Family Part 2

Crimelines True Crime

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In June of 2009, a Nissan Sentra with four bodies in it was pulled from a canal near Kingston, Ontario. In part 1, we discussed the backstory of the family at the center of this case and now, in part 2, we’ll discuss the crime scene, the timeline, the changing stories, and the final resolution. 


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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:13.0

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0:18.7

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0:46.5

In June of 2009, a Nissan center with four bodies in it was pulled from a canal near Kingston, Ontario.

0:51.7

In part one, we discussed the backstory of the family at the center of this case, and now in part two,

0:54.3

we are going to discuss the crime scene, the timeline,

0:59.2

the changing stories, and the final resolution. I'm Charlie, and welcome to crime lines.

1:13.5

Hello and welcome back to Crimelines, just to catch us up to where we left off with part one,

1:17.2

three of the Shafia's seven children were found drowned in a car,

1:21.5

19-year-old Zanab, 17-year-old Sahar, and 13-year-old Gide.

1:27.4

Alongside them was their father's first wife from his polygamous marriage, Rona Amir Muhammad.

1:29.6

Though Rona was not the biological mother of any of the children, she did help raise all of them,

1:35.9

and she was the primary caretaker for Sahar, so I would characterize her as a mother figure to

1:42.8

most of them, but to Sahar, she was her mother.

1:46.8

The biological parents of the girls, Mohamed and Tubah, along with their 18-year-old son,

1:52.2

Hamid, tried to say that this was a joy ride gone wrong.

1:57.9

They claimed that Zainab had asked for the keys to the Nissan under the guise of getting

2:02.9

her clothes out of the trunk, and then she took off in the car with the others. But the investigators

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