June 7, 2024 • 47 mins
In the early morning hours of July 19, 2020, Aliyah Wilson was found hanging from the balcony of her Houston, Texas Apartment. Authorities were quick to rule her death a suicide, even though every thing points to this being a homicide. For the last 4 years, Aliyah's mom, Denise, has tried to get someone to listen to her and look at the mountains of evidence pointing in the direction of someone doing this to her daughter...but no one has listened....
I have posted a link to a change.org petition that Denise has created that you will find below..
I have also started a gofundme to raise enough funds to hire a private investigator to look into Aliyah's case...I will post the link below and you can also find it on The Victims Voice Facebook Page and on the "Justice for Aliyah Wilson" Facebook Page.
Thank you for helping to get Aliyah the justice she deserves!!!
https://www.change.org/p/human-rights-campaign-justice-for-aliyah-dc9f9fb0-5153-4269-82b4-7011b854b378?source_location=search
https://www.spotfund.com/story/413c4662-a14c-48cb-8b19-b9e1b9ba465d
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Hello everyone, welcome back to The Victim's Voice.
This week's case is out of Houston, TX and it's one that
needs a lot of exposure. The family is trying to get the
case reopened, so I will includea link in the show notes for a
GoFundMe I'm starting for a private detective and a link to
a petition that you can sign. With that being said, let's go
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ahead and jump right in. None.
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On the morning of July 23rd, 2020, Denise McClendon woke up
to some unread messages on her phone that had been sent to her
late the night before after she had gone to sleep.
She thought it was probably her 22 year old daughter Aaliyah who
was having troubles with her ex-girlfriend and some of her
friends since they had broken uprecently.
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She was planning on moving from where she was currently living
in Houston, TX back to Michigan,which is where she had grown up
and where her mom currently lived.
Denise and Aaliyah had been talking a lot lately about
everything that was going on andmaking plans for her big move.
However, when Denise picked up the phone that morning and read
what was on the screen, she was in utter shock.
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All she could think was that this had to be a cruel joke.
The messages weren't from Aaliyah, they were from
Aaliyah's ex-girlfriend Courtneyand were very brief and lacked
any kind of empathy or emotion. They read quote, Bro, you need
to call me ASAP. They told me that your daughter
has died, End Quote. Then a couple minutes later
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there was a call from Courtney that of course Denise had missed
since she was sleeping. Then more messages that read
quote. Please call me back as soon as
possible. Miss Denise, please call back.
It's about Aaliyah, End Quote. Denise didn't respond back to
Courtney right then. All she could do was try to
scream for her husband, who was upstairs getting dressed, but
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nothing would come out. So she ran upstairs and showed
him the messages. He immediately grabbed his phone
and called the Houston Police Department.
Before they did anything, they wanted to see if Courtney was
lying. They hoped she was lying, but
she wasn't. It was true.
And Aaliyah hadn't just died. Like Courtney had said in her
message. The Houston Police Department
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had ruled it a suicide. They told Denise's husband that
Aaliyah had been found hanging from the balcony of her
apartment on July 19th, 4 days before Denise received that
message from Courtney. Authorities had never bothered
calling her that night, or at all for that matter, to tell her
that her daughter was dead. Aaliyah and her mom had not
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always had the best relationship.
When Aaliyah was a teenager, shewent through the typical
rebellious phase, but her rebellious phase was a little
more than Denise could handle. Aaliyah wasn't a bad kid, she
was just strong willed and sassyand wanted to do her own thing.
Like most kids, she thought she knew everything and didn't want
to listen to anyone, and this included her own mother.
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Aaliyah wanted to come and go asshe pleased and not have someone
watching over every move she made, which was hard to do while
living with her mom. Her mom was disabled, therefore
didn't work outside the home, giving her plenty of time to
monitor everything Aaliyah did, which caused the two to bicker
often because of her behavior. Aaliyah had been in foster homes
off and on from the time she was13 until she was 17.
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It was determined by a doctor when she was around age 13 that
she was bipolar, which explaineda lot of her behavior.
When she was happy, she was really happy, but when she was
down, she was really, really down.
But after she started managing her bipolar with meds, she did a
lot better and she was trying tobe the best version of herself.
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By the time she was 17, things were going good for Aliyah and
her and her mom had grown closer.
Aliyah had been born in Flint, MI but had moved with her mom to
the Houston, TX area when she was around nine years old.
After living there for around 10years, Denise decided she wanted
to move back to Michigan. However, 19 year old Aliyah
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loved all that Houston had to offer.
She loved the big city, the places to party, and just the
excitement of it all, along withthe friends that she had made.
So when Denise made the move back to Michigan, Aaliyah
decided to stay in Texas. Another reason Aaliyah may have
stayed in Texas was because she had met someone that she really
liked. She had made a profile on the
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dating app POF, which stands forPlenty of Fish, and on February
25th of 2018 had started talkingto and exchanged phone numbers
with a woman named Courtney Brown, who also went by Chris
Brown. Before Courtney would officially
ask Aaliyah out though, she turned to Facebook for some
advice. Aaliyah had contracted an STD
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from someone she had been with in the past.
She was on medication to manage it and kept it under control,
but she was always open about itand always told anyone that she
was thinking of getting involvedwith about her medical condition
from the beginning, just as she did with Courtney.
Yet Courtney still needed to turn to Facebook.
Her exact words were quote, goodmorning Facebook.
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So I have a question for all of my friends and more.
What would you do if you liked someone and they liked you back
as well? And y'all both find each other
attractive but they tell you that they have an STD that's
curable or whatever, but you really like that person.
How would you go about the situation?
How would you feel? Would you take that risk to be
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with them or treat them as if they weren't a human being?
I need answers. Drop comments below.
End Quote. The first commenter asked if it
was curable then why does she still have it to which Courtney
explained that it's maintained with meds.
The 2nd commenter said why wouldn't you treat them like a
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person anyway? And that's my question, Why
would you treat them as any lessof a human being?
That doesn't make any sense. Aliyah didn't hide it from her.
She was upfront and honest when a lot of people probably
wouldn't have been. Even if she chose not to be with
Aliyah, why treat her as any less of a human being?
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That shows how much Courtney values another person's life.
Another person's life means nothing to her.
And when she and Aliyah would fight, she would use Aliyah's
medical condition against her and treat her just as she said
in her post. Less of a human being because of
it. On April 27th, 2018, Courtney
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asked Aaliyah out for the first time.
If only Aaliyah would have said no.
The relationship between Courtney and Aaliyah moved
quickly and after only seeing each other for a couple of
months, they made a huge leap and moved in together.
Well, Aaliyah actually moved in with Courtney and Courtney's
mom. Courtney introduced Aliyah to
her group of friends. Mainly there were three that
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hung out all of the time, going to clubs and having fun
together. There was Michael Blue, who
sometimes went by Shay and Cirocfrom post.
In the dynamics of it all, it seemed that Ciroc was the leader
of the group and called the shots with Courtney referring to
her in a lot of her post as quote UN quote boss.
Blue and Aliyah became close calling each other the other's
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twin because they looked so muchalike and a lot of the selfies
they took you could barely tell one from the other.
They always wanted to go out andhave fun which is normal as they
were young adults and just learning to spread their wings.
Things went downhill fast between Courtney and Aaliyah.
Aaliyah would call her mom alongwith her friends and tell them
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that Courtney was abusing her. This went on non-stop during
their 2 1/2 year relationship. Denise would tell Aaliyah to
just come back home to Michigan,but she always went back to
Courtney. I'm sure like every other
narcissistic abuser, Courtney promised things would be
different and she would change, but she never did.
And finally Aaliyah had had enough and left Courtney.
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She went to a shelter at least two different times to stay, but
according to one of the friends that Aaliyah had made while at
the shelter, Courtney would findout where Aaliyah was and go
there and force her to leave at gunpoint.
And of course, Aaliyah would go with her so that no one would
get hurt. The last time she went to the
shelter, she told the director that she didn't feel safe
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staying there any longer becauseshe knew it was a matter of time
before Courtney would find her again.
So the shelter helped her to getan apartment.
They paid the security deposit and one year's worth of rent for
Aaliyah to help her get on her feet.
The apartment was at the villageof Piney Point, which is where
she would eventually be found dead.
Courtney and Aaliyah made-up once again, and Courtney
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eventually started staying at Aaliyah's apartment.
Things never didn't get better though.
They were still fighting all thetime, and Courtney was still
being abusive both physically and verbally.
And the year before Aaliyah died, the police had been
dispatched to Aaliyah's apt 10 different times because of
domestic abuse. But because Aaliyah would fight
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back to defend herself, the police would do nothing.
They came to the conclusion thatCourtney and Aaliyah were
abusive to each other. However, there are plenty of
posts that Courtney made on social media where she proudly
admitted to beating Aaliyah and posts made by Aaliyah saying she
was being harassed and abused byCourtney, which I will post
those on the Victim's Voice Facebook page.
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Around June in 2020, Aaliyah hadput up with enough of Courtney's
shit and she was done. She wanted to start over and
start fresh. She wasn't taken her back this
time. She had met someone else already
who lived in Detroit, MI and shecouldn't wait to get back there
and see where the relationship would go.
Aaliyah's only downfall though, was that she liked to post what
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was going on in her life on social media, which meant
Courtney knew that this time Aaliyah was serious about moving
on from her and going back home.She also knew that Aaliyah was
interested in someone else, which didn't set well with
Courtney. A little over a month before she
died, the two had gotten in a fight and Aaliyah had told her
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that they were done for good andthat she didn't want anything to
do with her anymore. Courtney showed up at Aaliyah's
with two people, a man and a woman.
In a joke of an interview that Courtney did, which we will
discuss later, she said that these people have been friends
of Aaliyah's from the homeless shelter that Courtney had went
to and told them that Aaliyah had said some things about them.
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However, in the police report, it names the two individuals and
they were in fact Courtney's friends, not Aaliyah's.
Either way, Courtney was mad that Aaliyah had broken up with
her and brought these two individuals over to Aaliyah's
apartment and have them assault her.
While Courtney stood there and watched.
They ganged up on her and beat Aaliyah pretty badly.
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I'm going to play the voicemail that Aaliyah left her mom
shortly after this happened. And just to warn you, it will
crush your soul when. I freeze.
I want to come home and Chester,it's like I hang up banging like
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I want to come home. I don't care about that stuff.
I I just want to know why everybody hate me.
I just want to go home. I want to go home again.
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I'm scared before outer gave me like I should never feel like.
That Aliyah was scared. Courtney and her friends were
definitely dangerous, and Aliyahknew it.
A couple of weeks before she died, she asked one of her
friends if she knew where she could buy a gun.
She just didn't feel safe. Aliyah desperately wanted to
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start a new life away from Houston, but she also wanted to
be responsible. She had a court case that she
had to finish up in Houston thatinvolved one of her and
Courtney's many altercations. And she didn't want to break her
lease on her apartment and have it on her record.
So she decided she would stick it out until July 31st of 2020.
That's when her lease would be up, and then she could make the
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move back home. In fact, in a Facebook post
Aaliyah had made on July 14th, she said, quote, yeah, I'm going
back to Michigan. Ain't shit in Texas.
Yeah, fuck this apartment, too. End Quote.
But that day would never come because Aliyah would be found
dead just five days later. So let's go over what happened
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on that morning that Aliyah was found in the days, weeks and
even years that followed. Some of the facts of the case
are different depending on if you are reading the police
report or the coroner's investigative report.
There is contradicting information in both of them, as
I will point out as we go along.On July 19th, 2020, at 4:47 AM,
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Officer Rashed from the Houston Police Department was dispatched
to what was said to be a quote UN quote suicide call.
How dispatch knew it was a suicide, I have no clue.
They weren't trained medical staff, they weren't law
enforcement, and they weren't even at the scene.
But yet they dispatched it as a quote UN quote suicide call.
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And that's all it took. After that, law enforcement, the
coroner and everyone else ran with that narrative.
The first emergency personnel toarrive on the scene was the
Houston Fire Department. When they arrived at the
apartment at 24 O1 Lacey Hollow Drive in the Village of Piney
Point apartment complex, they found 22 year old Aliyah Wilson
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hanging from a second floor railing by part of a black bed
sheet in front of Apt 131 A, which was her apartment.
However, in the coroner's report, it is stated that Aliyah
was found in the courtyard a couple of doors down from her
apartment near 132A and 1:33 A. This would be the first of many
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discrepancies and the EMS report.
They described Elia's skin as being modeled and also stated
that rigor mortis has started setting into her extremities.
It was reported that the HoustonFire Department, who arrived on
the scene at 4:53 AM, called herdeath at 4:43 AM.
How did they do this 10 minutes before they got there?
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When Denise confronted them withthis, they said it must have
been a typo. She also confronted them with
the fact that they said she was already exhibiting rigor mortis,
her body was cold and she was modeled.
And the EMS doctor actually toldDenise that Aaliyah must have
been dead longer than what they said.
If this is true, then Aaliyah was dead before she was hung
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from the balcony, which we will talk about a little bit more
later. When Officer Riched arrived on
the scene at 5 O 3:00 AM, he noticed mail scattered on the
ground at the base of the stairsnear where Aliyah's body was
suspended from the upstairs railing by the piece of black
fitted sheet that came from her bed.
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The sheet had been cut in half. Her name was on some of the
mail, while two other people's names were on other pieces of
the mail that were on the ground.
The officer also stated that he noticed Aliyah's black Nike
sliders on the ground and her backpack on the second level
balcony near where the sheet hadbeen tied.
However, in the coroner's investigative report, it is
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stated that the backpack and allof its contents were found near
the bottom three steps that Aliyah had to walk up to to get
to the balcony. Aliyah's apartment was on the
bottom floor and they say that she walked barefoot up the
outdoor stairs to get to the balcony, yet the bottoms of her
feet were clean. Those stairs were dirty and her
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feet would have been dirty also,but not if she never walked up
those stairs. If someone lifted her up and
hung her after she was already dead, then of course her feet
would be clean. Keys were found that went to
Aliyah's apartment. Where they were found also
depends on if you're looking at the police or the coroner
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report. According to the police report,
officers found a set of keys in the backpack.
The coroner's report says they were hanging from her door.
Either way, Officer Rashid and another officer on scene used
them to unlock Aliyah's apartment to look around.
They wrote in the report that they found the apartment to be
quote UN quote neat and tidy. There was no suicide note found,
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no drugs and no alcohol inside the apartment.
The officers noted there were tables and couches in the
apartment along with a full or queen sized mattress with no
frame and no sheets. Yet while they were inside the
apartment, they didn't bother tolook for the other part of the
black sheet that Aaliyah was suspended with.
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If he had looked, they would have known that it was nowhere.
Insight and to this day has never been found who disposed of
this piece of sheet after Aaliyah was dead.
Officer Rashid also stated that there was no signs of that
violence or any criminal act hadtaken place inside of the
apartment and that he did not observe any apparent defense
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injuries to Aaliyah's hands, arms or face.
This will be important later. After checking the apartment,
Officer Rishad contacted OfficerMcDonald of the Homicide
Division and gave him the details of the scene so far.
McDonald told Rishad that no onefrom Homicide would be reporting
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to the scene at that time, and that because Aaliyah had a
previous case of a suicide attempt where she had taken
pills, this would also be ruled as a suicide very quickly with
no investigation done at all. Aaliyah did take a bunch of
ibuprofen at one time when she and Courtney were fighting, but
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that was more so for attention. She had even said that she
wasn't trying to kill herself atthat time.
Studies even say that most instances of self harm are not
really attempts at suicide, so Idon't think it's right to
automatically assume suicide because of a past occurrence.
Each should be looked at separately.
After this, Officer Rashid contacted the medical Examiner's
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office, who arrived on the sceneat 6:18 AM.
That's when Officer Rashid gave Aliyah's emergency contact
information to the coroner. Yet no one called Denise ever.
It was four days later, the morning of the 23rd, when Denise
found out about Aliyah from the messages that Courtney had sent
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her. No one from law enforcement or
the Emmys office ever contacted Aaliyah's family.
At 6:27 AM, Officer Libby arrived on scene to relieve
Officer Rashid. Officer Libby's body Cam
witnessed EMS and law enforcement quickly lowering
Aaliyah's body. No crime scene photos were
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taken. And of course, we know that no
one from Homicide showed up. They were moving right along
with their suicide theory, and we're trying to get things
wrapped up as quickly as possible.
They gathered Aliyah's belongings, including her
sliders backpack and all the contents of the backpack, and
tagged them before taking them to the evidence room at the
station. Inside Aliyah's backpack there
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were her keys, her Texas ID, a pair of Apple Earpods, and a
pack of Newport cigarettes. For some reason, the cigarettes
were tagged as individual piecesof evidence.
Which Denise never found out why.
There were also two tubes of lipstick in the front pocket of
the backpack that Denise later found that authorities never did
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find because they never opened the front pocket.
So let's back up a little and talk about the person who found
Aliyah and called 911 to begin with.
According to police reports, at around 3:20 AM that morning, a
24 year old security guard namedAbdullah Muhammad was doing his
rounds at the village of Piney Point Apartments.
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Everything was quiet and had been a rather uneventful night.
That is until he did his rounds just an hour later.
It was then, at 4:20 AM that Muhammad would discover the
lifeless body of Aaliyah hangingfrom the 2nd floor balcony of
her apartment building. The coroner's report lists the
times as 3:40 AM when he did hisfirst round and 4:30 AM for his
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second round. No matter which times are
correct, it still means that Aaliyah couldn't have been
hanging from the balcony for no more than an hour.
If she had, he would have seen her on the first round.
According to the police report, Muhammad came around the corner
near Building 24 O1 and saw the feet of someone hanging from the
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railing on the apartment building.
This doesn't make any sense as her feet were only three feet
off the ground. He would have seen her whole
body when he came around the corner, unless of course he was
only 12 inches tall. But anyway, that's when he ran
to go call the police. Or at least that's what he told
the officer that he did and that's what was put in the
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police report. But what Muhammad neglected to
tell law enforcement was that hedidn't have to run anywhere and
call them because he had his ownpersonal cell phone in his hand.
And before he decided to call 911, he had stopped and snapped
a picture. A picture that not only Denise
would eventually get a copy of, but it would turn out to be one
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of the biggest pieces of evidence in this case that shows
there's no way that Aliyah did this to herself.
The photo showed Aliyah's lifeless body suspended in the
air by nothing but the piece of a black fitted sheet and a cell
phone in her right hand. Yes, or to believe that Aaliyah
tied the double military style knot, put it around her neck,
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hoisted herself over the railing, which in itself is
impossible, but we will get to that later.
And jumped, yet never dropped her cell phone.
Denise reached out to the security guard two years after
Aaliyah's death and asked him why he felt compelled to stop
and take a picture of her daughter hanging from the
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balcony. He told her he took it to send
it to his boss. Yet if this was true, why did he
leave this information out when he gave the police a statement?
If he did it as part of his job,then he would have no reason to
hide that he did it. And this security guard, he was
the only person that law enforcement talked to and that
was to get a very short statement from him.
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Courtney was never talked to. None of Aaliyah or Courtney's
friends were talked to. The police said the reason for
this was because there was no one else on the scene when they
got there except for the security guard.
But at least in my opinion, I don't think that someone who had
just committed a murder and staged it as a hanging would be
just standing around waiting to talk to the cops if and when
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they arrived. It's obvious that from the
beginning with dispatch and moving on from there, that this
case had already jumped on the suicide bandwagon and everyone
was moving full force with it. So before we dig in any further
in Elia's case, I want to read an article I found that
describes what happened in this case and many other cases that
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are automatically rolled a suicide to AT.
This article is called The SevenMajor Mistakes in Suicide
Investigation and it was writtenby Vernon J Gerberth, MSNPS, who
is a homicide and forensic consultant.
If the case is reported as a quote UN quote suicide, the
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police officers who respond as well as the investigators
automatically tend to treat the call as a suicide.
It is a critical error in thinking to handle the call
based on the initial report, butthis is exactly what happened in
Aliyah's case. The immediate problem is that
psychologically one is assuming the death to be a suicide case
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when in fact this is a basic death investigation which could
very well turn out to be a homicide.
The investigator cannot assume anything as a professional law
enforcement officer. Any preconceived theories or
notions are dangerous in professional death
investigation. In addition to errors of
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assuming a suicide or natural death, other preconceived
notions may include deaths whichappear to be drug related and or
domestic violence. One must keep an open mind and
not be influenced either by the initial reports or the
presentation in the crime scene.Then they discussed the case
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history of a case that is similar to Elias.
Here is the case history. As a homicide commander, I
recommended that a detective respond to every unattended
death scene, whether it was reported as a homicide, suicide,
accident, or natural, to assure that any potential crime scene
and or evidence surrounding the event was not disturbed.
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I recall responding to a reported suicide at a
construction facility and arriving as the uniformed
officers were removing the victim's wallet from his pants
pocket as the body hung from an electrical appliance with a
cord. I asked them what they were
doing and they replied that theywere getting his identification
so they could write the suicide report.
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I asked them how they knew it was a suicide.
They told me they got the call of a suicide and when they
arrived they saw the man hangingby his neck and assumed he had
hung himself. I advised the two officers that
they were not in a position to assume anything and that a
request for detectives to respond in fact meant that this
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was a crime scene. The following is the protocol
for the initiation of an effective crime scene
investigation. First, there's rapid response to
the homicide crime scene by patrol officers.
This is imperative in order to protect evidentiary materials
before they are destroyed, altered, or lost.
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Two, anything and everything should be considered as
evidence. Whether this evidence is
physical or testimonial, it mustbe preserved, noted, and brought
to the attention of the investigators.
The only evidence collected at this point of the investigation
is eyewitness accounts or spontaneous statements of a
suspect at the scene. 3 After the scene is secured, immediate
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and appropriate notification must be made to the homicide
investigators. My preliminary observations
indicated that the quote UN quote, suicide was actually a
homicide and that someone had effectively staged the scene to
make it appear to be a suicide. I saw a piece of vegetation
caught in the man's hair that did not come from the location.
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I also noted dirt on his pants, which later analysts revealed
that it did not come from the area.
The man had been strangled to death at another outdoor
location and then transported tothe construction site where he
was, quote UN quote, strung up with the electrical cord to make
it appear to be a suicide. The initial responding officers
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as well as the ambulance crew atthe scene.
We're ready to declare the deathof a the death of suicide and
we're preparing to transport thebody to the morgue.
It has been my experience that when police officers or
detectives hear the word suicide, they go into what I
describe as the suicide position.
Suicides are not amendable offenses that are not recorded
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in the UCR and therefore are considered less important than
other events. Without a doubt, investigators
take shortcuts when they hear the word suicide.
I have reviewed many suicide cases where it was apparent that
the investigators did not take each point to its ultimate
conclusion. Sufficient photographs were not
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taken and certain tests were notconducted.
In some instances, the deaths were suicides, but the
incomplete and insufficient preliminary investigation raised
legitimate concerns. The next paragraph sums it up in
a nutshell. According to Practical Homicide
Investigation, all death inquiries should be conducted as
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homicide investigations until the facts prove differently.
The resolution of the mode of death, a suicide is based on a
series of factors which eliminate homicide, accidental
and natural causes of death. So there you go.
The ball was dropped in Aliyah'scase from the beginning when
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everyone involved labeled her death a suicide and did
absolutely no investigation. They took no photos at the crime
scene. They didn't check under Aliyah's
fingernails. They didn't check her clothing
for fluids or DNA. They conducted no interviews.
They did nothing. The only person they talked to
was the security guard. They didn't even talk to
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Courtney, who had been reportedly physically and
emotionally abusing Aaliyah overthe course of the prior 2 1/2
years. Then there's the contradictions
between the police report and the coroner's report, some of
which we have already discussed.We're going to go over the
coroner's report a bit more, butfirst let's talk about the phone
that sent Aliyah's hand in the photo.
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Since this is not mentioned in the coroner's report, I have
seen the photo of Aliyah that the security guard took, and she
is definitely holding her phone in her right hand.
You can even see that it's a kind of a pink or rose gold
color, which is what Aliyah's phone was.
It's plain as day and not hard to see it all.
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However, this is the only picture there is since no one in
law enforcement or the medical examiner took pictures at the
scene. Even though it was wrong of the
security guard to snap a pictureof Aaliyah, in a way it's a good
thing he did or Denise would have never known that she had
her phone in her hand because when she questioned law
enforcement about it, they said Aaliyah did not have a phone in
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her hand when they arrived. If that's so, then who took the
phone out of her hand between when the security guard took the
photo and the first responders arrived, which according to the
reports, was about a 20 minute window.
And what did the coroner and lawenforcement say about the photo,
about the phone in her hand whenDenise showed them the picture?
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Well, they said that they couldn't see a phone in her
hand, which is absolutely crazy because it's right there plain
as day. Myself along with 44,000 other
people have seen it yet law enforcement in the coroner
couldn't see it. It makes no sense except for the
fact if they admitted to seeing that the phone was in her hand
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then that would mean they would have to investigate her death as
being something other than suicide and they have made it
clear to Denise that that will never be changed.
I will post a picture on the victim's voice Facebook page of
just the phone in her hand so you can all see it for yourself.
And most importantly, how is thephone staying in Aaliyah's hand?
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If she did hang herself, her body would have gone limp as
soon as she was rendered unconscious, causing the phone
to fall from her hand, right? Which means the phone had to
have been placed in her hand after rigor mortis started
setting in. And let's talk about rigor
mortis and the EMS report. It states that when they
arrived, there was already rigormortis starting in her
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extremities and the coroner's report stated it was easy to
break. According to medicinenet.com,
the sequence of appearance and disappearance of rigor mortis is
as follows. Muscles of the face and head,
neck, chest, upper appendage, abdomen and lower appendage is
the order that rigor mortis goesin.
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Rigor mortis runs a span of 3/12hour blocks.
The 1st 12 hours is when the body starts to go into rigor
mortis, which normally doesn't start happening until around 2
hours after death and works its way from top of the body to the
lower parts of the body. The 2nd 12 hour block the block
the body is in full rigor and stays that way until the last 12
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hour block. When the body starts coming out
of rigor, the muscles release inthe same order as they went into
rigor, so starting with the faceand head and working downward.
So we know that according to thesecurity guard, he came through
at 3:20 AM or 3:40 AM, dependingon what report you look at, and
Aaliyah was not there at that point.
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But at 4:20 to 4:30 AM, which iswhen Muhammad says he came back
through, she was there. This is when he took the
picture. So Aaliyah had been hanging
there less than an hour at that point, yet we are supposed to
believe that rigor mortis had sent into her hands enough to be
able to hold on to the cell phone?
That's not possible. And the only way it would be
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possible was if as soon as she jumped from the railing, her
hands went into rigor mortis immediately, because otherwise
she would have dropped the phonewhen her body went limp, and
that's just not how it works. There's just absolutely no way
she would still be holding the phone unless she had already
been dead for some time when shewas hung from the railing.
And the knot that was tied in the sheet was not a simple knot.
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It was a double knot and one that people who have been in the
military know how to make. So did Aaliyah tie this sheet
into this intricate knot one handed while holding her phone
in the other hand? That's not possible either.
And then there is the sheet. It had been cut and the piece
that was used measured 21 inches.
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The other piece, as I said earlier, was never found.
The railing only measured 33 inches and Aaliyah was 66 inches
tall. So explain how she was able to
hoist herself over the railing with the sheet around her neck.
There's no way it's impossible. Also, this railing was not
sturdy at all. If Aaliyah, who was around 160
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lbs jumped over that railing, itwould have most likely collapsed
under her weight. Now let's talk about the
autopsy. An autopsy was performed on
Aaliyah the next day, July 20th at One O 8:00 PM.
In the autopsy report, it statesthat there was no damage to
Aliyah's neck, not externally nor internally, no damage to her
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hyoid, boom, nothing. How does this happen?
Well, law enforcement seems to have an excuse for that also.
They seem to think that she lowered herself down.
How could she do that with this,short as the sheet was and with
a phone in her hand? Also, if she lowered herself
down, she would have been facinginward towards the rail that she
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used to lower herself, yet she was facing outward, away from
the building and railing. The ligature around Aliyah's
neck was not tight at all. The circumference was 12 and a
fourth inches. In the picture, her head is
tilted to her right and the sheet is up under her chin.
It is obvious that is extremely loose to where it is pulling up
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close to her hairline and behindher ears, then up in the back,
not touching the very front or back of her neck at all.
Yet in the autopsy diagrams it shows that the marks on her neck
went straight around the middle of her neck all the way to the
back. The diagram marks are not in any
way lined up with the way the ligature was found around her
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neck. Aaliyah had a contusion on her
knee, which was marked in the autopsy diagram.
However, in the photo that the security guard took, it was
obvious that Aliyah had bruisingon her left arm, around her left
wrist and blood on her hand nearone of her fingers.
It looked as if she had been in a fight.
However, the officer at the scene said there were no visible
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defensive wounds to her hands orarms.
The coroner's report said nothing about any of these
injuries. There are so many reasons to
believe that Aliyah did not do this to herself, yet Denise has
gotten the same results. Every time she has called law
enforcement, they tell her it's a suicide and will remain a
suicide and there is nothing that will ever change that.
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How can they say that? So no matter if someone comes in
and admits to killing Aaliyah, it still won't change.
The authorities have been just plain rude to a grieving mother
who just wants answers to what happened to her daughter, yet
they are cold and callous. Anytime they talk to her, which
has not been much. When she calls, they either
don't answer, they deny the call, or they put her on hold
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and just never come back to the phone.
There has not been one time in the last four years that they
have returned a phone call to her.
Denise requested some of Leah's file at one point and got a
letter back that shocked her. The letter said that this case
was an open homicide investigation and that they
could not release records to herat that time and to try to
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contact a different division. After all the times they told
her it was a suicide and didn't need to be investigated, why
would this say it was a homicide?
They have still never given her an answer for this.
Also, why is Aliyah's case marked confidential in the 1st
place? If it is a closed case then any
information should be available to the public.
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When Denise found out about Aliyah's death, she got to Texas
as fast as she could. It was about a week after
Aliyah's death, seeing as how she didn't find out about it
until four days after she died. When she walked into the medical
examiner's office, there was a police officer guarding the room
that Aliyah was in. When Denise stated she was there
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to identify her daughter, they refused to let her in.
She still to this day doesn't know why she wasn't allowed to
see her daughter. When Denise went to Aliyah's
apartment after getting to Texas, she found that one of
Aaliyah's windows had been busted out just 12 hours after
Aaliyah was found. A neighbor had identified
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Courtney as the one who had vandalized the apartment.
But when Denise contacted law enforcement, they said there was
nothing they could do unless theapartment complex wanted to
press charges, but they declinedto do so.
When Denise went inside the apartment, it was ransacked.
Remember the night Aaliyah was found?
The officer went into her apartment and said it was neat
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and tidy. Whoever had been there had taken
all of Aliyah's clothes and shoes.
Courtney and her friends had tried to say they were Aliyah's
siblings to gain access to her belongings, but when that didn't
work, they just broke in. One of the girls even took
Aliyah's journal and never wouldgive it back to Denise.
How could someone be so cold hearted as to not let a grieving
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mother have the last words her daughter wrote?
Or was there something in there that pointed to the person that
did this to her and they wanted to get rid of the evidence?
The only thing left in the apartment when Denise went
inside was some T-shirts and lounge lounge pants.
Aaliyah liked to dress nice and all of her good clothing, shoes
and makeup were gone. Also, something weird was that
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there was not a single piece of paper or receipt in the
apartment. Aaliyah had just been to court a
couple of days before her death.So where were those court
papers? There was nothing, no paper at
all. Someone made sure that there was
nothing left behind that might tell the story of what really
happened that night. What Denise did find was a trash
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bag full of wet towels sitting in a corner of the room.
She contacted law enforcement, thinking they might want them as
evidence. Their response was, quote, for
what? The next day when Denise went
back to the apartment, the bag of towels were gone.
Someone had once again gone intothe apartment and finished
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taking anything that was left. Denise has not stopped trying to
get someone to listen to her about Aliyah's death.
At one point she tried to get Courtney to go on the Steve
Wilko show so she could take a polygraph test and prove once
and for all if she was involved.At first she agreed to go, but
when she found out she wouldn't be getting paid for her
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appearance, she declined the offer.
Aaliyah was supposedly the love of her life at one time and she
was being accused of participating in her death.
Why wouldn't she want to take the opportunity to clear her
name if she could? Courtney did take the
opportunity to go on a YouTube platform called VS Icon, which
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in my opinion was nothing but a shit show.
She only went on there because the host paid her and flashed
her cash app handle on the screen for viewers to also
donate to her for giving her time to tell her so-called
truth. I could tell from the beginning
the three hosts on the show weregoing to be biased and they most
definitely were. They gave Courtney over 2 hours
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to spew her lies and let Denise come on at the very end and
timed her. They gave her a measly 5 minutes
to say what she wanted to say and when that 5 minutes was up,
they cut her off. They had the nerve to tell
Denise that she needed to face the fact that maybe she didn't
know her daughter as well as shethought she did and that they
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felt Courtney was being very truthful with everything she
said. What's ironic though is Denise
had receipts for everything she said about Aliyah's death and
about Courtney. Courtney had nothing but her
mouth. Yet the host treated Courtney as
the victim and Denise like she was a bully.
One of the hosts who calls herself Jules was really out of
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line. Apparently she wasn't even
listening to what was going on because Courtney would say
something and when Denise would say it wasn't true and that she
had proof, Jules would say quote.
Now Miss Denise, that's not whatCourtney said, End Quote when it
was exactly what Courtney had said.
All in all, it was nothing but ajoke and they charge you to even
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watch it on their page. However, if you go to the
Facebook page, just As for Aaliyah, Denise recorded it and
put it on there. It's interesting in the fact
that you catch Courtney in multiple eyes.
For example, the 1st 2 hours before Denise was allowed on,
the host asked Courtney point blank if she thought Aaliyah had
done this to herself and she said in her heart she didn't
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believe that Aaliyah did it, that foul play was involved.
She said that at least four different times.
Yet when Denise came out, Courtney said that Aliyah didn't
want to be here and that she gotwhat she wanted and that Denise
just needed to accept it. To this day, there has been no
investigation into Aliyah's death.
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Even with everything we just talked about, it is still being
ruled a suicide and an investigation has never been
done. Courtney and her friends have
not made it easy over the years with her Facebook and Instagram
post insinuating their involvement in Aliyah's death.
Courtney even had her screen name on an app called Stereo as
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a Leah killer. This girl thinks she is so above
the law that she can rub what she has done.
In my opinion, in the face of a grieving mother, the mother of
someone she claimed to have loved at one time.
She has made horrible comments to Denise such as quote UN quote
your daughter went out with a bang and then made a comment
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about her cremation saying that Denise quote UN quote, barbecued
her daughter till her meat fell off the bone.
She told Denise that she had not.
If she had not cremated Aaliyah then maybe she would know what
happened to her. That's a very telling comment if
you ask me. She has left voice messages on
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Denise's phone cursing her and basically bullying a grieving
mother. It seems funny that Courtney's
mom has ties with the DA. According to Courtney herself
and Siroc, the other girl that Denise feels is involved in
Aliyah's death. Her mom is a well known figure
in the community that has ties with many influential people.
Why is law enforcement adamant that no matter what evidence is
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ever produced that Aliyah's death will never be ruled
anything other than a suicide? Something doesn't add up.
Denise will continue being Aliyah's voice.
She would like to get a private investigator to look into the
case, but that costs money that she just doesn't have, so I'm
going to start a GoFundMe in hopes to raise enough money to
help her with that. I will post the link in the
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bottom of the show notes and share it on the Victim's Voice
Facebook page. She is planning on taking a trip
to Houston this summer, so hopefully something comes that
out that will change this case and get Aaliyah the justice that
she deserves. If anyone was at the Village of
Piney Point Apartments near 24 O1 Lazy Hollow Drive in Houston,
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TX during the early morning hours of July 19th, 2020 and saw
anything at all that looks suspicious, please get a hold of
Denise of the Justice for AliyahFacebook page.
I'm also going to post the link of a petition.
I hope everyone will take the time to sign to help get
Aliyah's case reopened. For photos from this episode,
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check out the victim's voice on Facebook and Instagram and I'll
see you back here next week for a new case.
Until then, peace out.
Hello everyone, welcome back to The Victim's Voice.
This week's case is out of Houston, TX and it's one that
needs a lot of exposure. The family is trying to get the
case reopened, so I will includea link in the show notes for a
GoFundMe I'm starting for a private detective and a link to
a petition that you can sign. With that being said, let's go
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ahead and jump right in. None.
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On the morning of July 23rd, 2020, Denise McClendon woke up
to some unread messages on her phone that had been sent to her
late the night before after she had gone to sleep.
She thought it was probably her 22 year old daughter Aaliyah who
was having troubles with her ex-girlfriend and some of her
friends since they had broken uprecently.
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She was planning on moving from where she was currently living
in Houston, TX back to Michigan,which is where she had grown up
and where her mom currently lived.
Denise and Aaliyah had been talking a lot lately about
everything that was going on andmaking plans for her big move.
However, when Denise picked up the phone that morning and read
what was on the screen, she was in utter shock.
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All she could think was that this had to be a cruel joke.
The messages weren't from Aaliyah, they were from
Aaliyah's ex-girlfriend Courtneyand were very brief and lacked
any kind of empathy or emotion. They read quote, Bro, you need
to call me ASAP. They told me that your daughter
has died, End Quote. Then a couple minutes later
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there was a call from Courtney that of course Denise had missed
since she was sleeping. Then more messages that read
quote. Please call me back as soon as
possible. Miss Denise, please call back.
It's about Aaliyah, End Quote. Denise didn't respond back to
Courtney right then. All she could do was try to
scream for her husband, who was upstairs getting dressed, but
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nothing would come out. So she ran upstairs and showed
him the messages. He immediately grabbed his phone
and called the Houston Police Department.
Before they did anything, they wanted to see if Courtney was
lying. They hoped she was lying, but
she wasn't. It was true.
And Aaliyah hadn't just died. Like Courtney had said in her
message. The Houston Police Department
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had ruled it a suicide. They told Denise's husband that
Aaliyah had been found hanging from the balcony of her
apartment on July 19th, 4 days before Denise received that
message from Courtney. Authorities had never bothered
calling her that night, or at all for that matter, to tell her
that her daughter was dead. Aaliyah and her mom had not
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always had the best relationship.
When Aaliyah was a teenager, shewent through the typical
rebellious phase, but her rebellious phase was a little
more than Denise could handle. Aaliyah wasn't a bad kid, she
was just strong willed and sassyand wanted to do her own thing.
Like most kids, she thought she knew everything and didn't want
to listen to anyone, and this included her own mother.
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Aaliyah wanted to come and go asshe pleased and not have someone
watching over every move she made, which was hard to do while
living with her mom. Her mom was disabled, therefore
didn't work outside the home, giving her plenty of time to
monitor everything Aaliyah did, which caused the two to bicker
often because of her behavior. Aaliyah had been in foster homes
off and on from the time she was13 until she was 17.
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It was determined by a doctor when she was around age 13 that
she was bipolar, which explaineda lot of her behavior.
When she was happy, she was really happy, but when she was
down, she was really, really down.
But after she started managing her bipolar with meds, she did a
lot better and she was trying tobe the best version of herself.
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By the time she was 17, things were going good for Aliyah and
her and her mom had grown closer.
Aliyah had been born in Flint, MI but had moved with her mom to
the Houston, TX area when she was around nine years old.
After living there for around 10years, Denise decided she wanted
to move back to Michigan. However, 19 year old Aliyah
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loved all that Houston had to offer.
She loved the big city, the places to party, and just the
excitement of it all, along withthe friends that she had made.
So when Denise made the move back to Michigan, Aaliyah
decided to stay in Texas. Another reason Aaliyah may have
stayed in Texas was because she had met someone that she really
liked. She had made a profile on the
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dating app POF, which stands forPlenty of Fish, and on February
25th of 2018 had started talkingto and exchanged phone numbers
with a woman named Courtney Brown, who also went by Chris
Brown. Before Courtney would officially
ask Aaliyah out though, she turned to Facebook for some
advice. Aaliyah had contracted an STD
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from someone she had been with in the past.
She was on medication to manage it and kept it under control,
but she was always open about itand always told anyone that she
was thinking of getting involvedwith about her medical condition
from the beginning, just as she did with Courtney.
Yet Courtney still needed to turn to Facebook.
Her exact words were quote, goodmorning Facebook.
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So I have a question for all of my friends and more.
What would you do if you liked someone and they liked you back
as well? And y'all both find each other
attractive but they tell you that they have an STD that's
curable or whatever, but you really like that person.
How would you go about the situation?
How would you feel? Would you take that risk to be
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with them or treat them as if they weren't a human being?
I need answers. Drop comments below.
End Quote. The first commenter asked if it
was curable then why does she still have it to which Courtney
explained that it's maintained with meds.
The 2nd commenter said why wouldn't you treat them like a
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person anyway? And that's my question, Why
would you treat them as any lessof a human being?
That doesn't make any sense. Aliyah didn't hide it from her.
She was upfront and honest when a lot of people probably
wouldn't have been. Even if she chose not to be with
Aliyah, why treat her as any less of a human being?
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That shows how much Courtney values another person's life.
Another person's life means nothing to her.
And when she and Aliyah would fight, she would use Aliyah's
medical condition against her and treat her just as she said
in her post. Less of a human being because of
it. On April 27th, 2018, Courtney
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asked Aaliyah out for the first time.
If only Aaliyah would have said no.
The relationship between Courtney and Aaliyah moved
quickly and after only seeing each other for a couple of
months, they made a huge leap and moved in together.
Well, Aaliyah actually moved in with Courtney and Courtney's
mom. Courtney introduced Aliyah to
her group of friends. Mainly there were three that
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hung out all of the time, going to clubs and having fun
together. There was Michael Blue, who
sometimes went by Shay and Cirocfrom post.
In the dynamics of it all, it seemed that Ciroc was the leader
of the group and called the shots with Courtney referring to
her in a lot of her post as quote UN quote boss.
Blue and Aliyah became close calling each other the other's
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twin because they looked so muchalike and a lot of the selfies
they took you could barely tell one from the other.
They always wanted to go out andhave fun which is normal as they
were young adults and just learning to spread their wings.
Things went downhill fast between Courtney and Aaliyah.
Aaliyah would call her mom alongwith her friends and tell them
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that Courtney was abusing her. This went on non-stop during
their 2 1/2 year relationship. Denise would tell Aaliyah to
just come back home to Michigan,but she always went back to
Courtney. I'm sure like every other
narcissistic abuser, Courtney promised things would be
different and she would change, but she never did.
And finally Aaliyah had had enough and left Courtney.
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She went to a shelter at least two different times to stay, but
according to one of the friends that Aaliyah had made while at
the shelter, Courtney would findout where Aaliyah was and go
there and force her to leave at gunpoint.
And of course, Aaliyah would go with her so that no one would
get hurt. The last time she went to the
shelter, she told the director that she didn't feel safe
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staying there any longer becauseshe knew it was a matter of time
before Courtney would find her again.
So the shelter helped her to getan apartment.
They paid the security deposit and one year's worth of rent for
Aaliyah to help her get on her feet.
The apartment was at the villageof Piney Point, which is where
she would eventually be found dead.
Courtney and Aaliyah made-up once again, and Courtney
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eventually started staying at Aaliyah's apartment.
Things never didn't get better though.
They were still fighting all thetime, and Courtney was still
being abusive both physically and verbally.
And the year before Aaliyah died, the police had been
dispatched to Aaliyah's apt 10 different times because of
domestic abuse. But because Aaliyah would fight
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back to defend herself, the police would do nothing.
They came to the conclusion thatCourtney and Aaliyah were
abusive to each other. However, there are plenty of
posts that Courtney made on social media where she proudly
admitted to beating Aaliyah and posts made by Aaliyah saying she
was being harassed and abused byCourtney, which I will post
those on the Victim's Voice Facebook page.
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Around June in 2020, Aaliyah hadput up with enough of Courtney's
shit and she was done. She wanted to start over and
start fresh. She wasn't taken her back this
time. She had met someone else already
who lived in Detroit, MI and shecouldn't wait to get back there
and see where the relationship would go.
Aaliyah's only downfall though, was that she liked to post what
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was going on in her life on social media, which meant
Courtney knew that this time Aaliyah was serious about moving
on from her and going back home.She also knew that Aaliyah was
interested in someone else, which didn't set well with
Courtney. A little over a month before she
died, the two had gotten in a fight and Aaliyah had told her
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that they were done for good andthat she didn't want anything to
do with her anymore. Courtney showed up at Aaliyah's
with two people, a man and a woman.
In a joke of an interview that Courtney did, which we will
discuss later, she said that these people have been friends
of Aaliyah's from the homeless shelter that Courtney had went
to and told them that Aaliyah had said some things about them.
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However, in the police report, it names the two individuals and
they were in fact Courtney's friends, not Aaliyah's.
Either way, Courtney was mad that Aaliyah had broken up with
her and brought these two individuals over to Aaliyah's
apartment and have them assault her.
While Courtney stood there and watched.
They ganged up on her and beat Aaliyah pretty badly.
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I'm going to play the voicemail that Aaliyah left her mom
shortly after this happened. And just to warn you, it will
crush your soul when. I freeze.
I want to come home and Chester,it's like I hang up banging like
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I want to come home. I don't care about that stuff.
I I just want to know why everybody hate me.
I just want to go home. I want to go home again.
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I'm scared before outer gave me like I should never feel like.
That Aliyah was scared. Courtney and her friends were
definitely dangerous, and Aliyahknew it.
A couple of weeks before she died, she asked one of her
friends if she knew where she could buy a gun.
She just didn't feel safe. Aliyah desperately wanted to
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start a new life away from Houston, but she also wanted to
be responsible. She had a court case that she
had to finish up in Houston thatinvolved one of her and
Courtney's many altercations. And she didn't want to break her
lease on her apartment and have it on her record.
So she decided she would stick it out until July 31st of 2020.
That's when her lease would be up, and then she could make the
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move back home. In fact, in a Facebook post
Aaliyah had made on July 14th, she said, quote, yeah, I'm going
back to Michigan. Ain't shit in Texas.
Yeah, fuck this apartment, too. End Quote.
But that day would never come because Aliyah would be found
dead just five days later. So let's go over what happened
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on that morning that Aliyah was found in the days, weeks and
even years that followed. Some of the facts of the case
are different depending on if you are reading the police
report or the coroner's investigative report.
There is contradicting information in both of them, as
I will point out as we go along.On July 19th, 2020, at 4:47 AM,
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Officer Rashed from the Houston Police Department was dispatched
to what was said to be a quote UN quote suicide call.
How dispatch knew it was a suicide, I have no clue.
They weren't trained medical staff, they weren't law
enforcement, and they weren't even at the scene.
But yet they dispatched it as a quote UN quote suicide call.
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And that's all it took. After that, law enforcement, the
coroner and everyone else ran with that narrative.
The first emergency personnel toarrive on the scene was the
Houston Fire Department. When they arrived at the
apartment at 24 O1 Lacey Hollow Drive in the Village of Piney
Point apartment complex, they found 22 year old Aliyah Wilson
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hanging from a second floor railing by part of a black bed
sheet in front of Apt 131 A, which was her apartment.
However, in the coroner's report, it is stated that Aliyah
was found in the courtyard a couple of doors down from her
apartment near 132A and 1:33 A. This would be the first of many
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discrepancies and the EMS report.
They described Elia's skin as being modeled and also stated
that rigor mortis has started setting into her extremities.
It was reported that the HoustonFire Department, who arrived on
the scene at 4:53 AM, called herdeath at 4:43 AM.
How did they do this 10 minutes before they got there?
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When Denise confronted them withthis, they said it must have
been a typo. She also confronted them with
the fact that they said she was already exhibiting rigor mortis,
her body was cold and she was modeled.
And the EMS doctor actually toldDenise that Aaliyah must have
been dead longer than what they said.
If this is true, then Aaliyah was dead before she was hung
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from the balcony, which we will talk about a little bit more
later. When Officer Riched arrived on
the scene at 5 O 3:00 AM, he noticed mail scattered on the
ground at the base of the stairsnear where Aliyah's body was
suspended from the upstairs railing by the piece of black
fitted sheet that came from her bed.
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The sheet had been cut in half. Her name was on some of the
mail, while two other people's names were on other pieces of
the mail that were on the ground.
The officer also stated that he noticed Aliyah's black Nike
sliders on the ground and her backpack on the second level
balcony near where the sheet hadbeen tied.
However, in the coroner's investigative report, it is
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stated that the backpack and allof its contents were found near
the bottom three steps that Aliyah had to walk up to to get
to the balcony. Aliyah's apartment was on the
bottom floor and they say that she walked barefoot up the
outdoor stairs to get to the balcony, yet the bottoms of her
feet were clean. Those stairs were dirty and her
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feet would have been dirty also,but not if she never walked up
those stairs. If someone lifted her up and
hung her after she was already dead, then of course her feet
would be clean. Keys were found that went to
Aliyah's apartment. Where they were found also
depends on if you're looking at the police or the coroner
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report. According to the police report,
officers found a set of keys in the backpack.
The coroner's report says they were hanging from her door.
Either way, Officer Rashid and another officer on scene used
them to unlock Aliyah's apartment to look around.
They wrote in the report that they found the apartment to be
quote UN quote neat and tidy. There was no suicide note found,
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no drugs and no alcohol inside the apartment.
The officers noted there were tables and couches in the
apartment along with a full or queen sized mattress with no
frame and no sheets. Yet while they were inside the
apartment, they didn't bother tolook for the other part of the
black sheet that Aaliyah was suspended with.
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If he had looked, they would have known that it was nowhere.
Insight and to this day has never been found who disposed of
this piece of sheet after Aaliyah was dead.
Officer Rashid also stated that there was no signs of that
violence or any criminal act hadtaken place inside of the
apartment and that he did not observe any apparent defense
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injuries to Aaliyah's hands, arms or face.
This will be important later. After checking the apartment,
Officer Rishad contacted OfficerMcDonald of the Homicide
Division and gave him the details of the scene so far.
McDonald told Rishad that no onefrom Homicide would be reporting
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to the scene at that time, and that because Aaliyah had a
previous case of a suicide attempt where she had taken
pills, this would also be ruled as a suicide very quickly with
no investigation done at all. Aaliyah did take a bunch of
ibuprofen at one time when she and Courtney were fighting, but
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that was more so for attention. She had even said that she
wasn't trying to kill herself atthat time.
Studies even say that most instances of self harm are not
really attempts at suicide, so Idon't think it's right to
automatically assume suicide because of a past occurrence.
Each should be looked at separately.
After this, Officer Rashid contacted the medical Examiner's
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office, who arrived on the sceneat 6:18 AM.
That's when Officer Rashid gave Aliyah's emergency contact
information to the coroner. Yet no one called Denise ever.
It was four days later, the morning of the 23rd, when Denise
found out about Aliyah from the messages that Courtney had sent
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her. No one from law enforcement or
the Emmys office ever contacted Aaliyah's family.
At 6:27 AM, Officer Libby arrived on scene to relieve
Officer Rashid. Officer Libby's body Cam
witnessed EMS and law enforcement quickly lowering
Aaliyah's body. No crime scene photos were
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taken. And of course, we know that no
one from Homicide showed up. They were moving right along
with their suicide theory, and we're trying to get things
wrapped up as quickly as possible.
They gathered Aliyah's belongings, including her
sliders backpack and all the contents of the backpack, and
tagged them before taking them to the evidence room at the
station. Inside Aliyah's backpack there
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were her keys, her Texas ID, a pair of Apple Earpods, and a
pack of Newport cigarettes. For some reason, the cigarettes
were tagged as individual piecesof evidence.
Which Denise never found out why.
There were also two tubes of lipstick in the front pocket of
the backpack that Denise later found that authorities never did
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find because they never opened the front pocket.
So let's back up a little and talk about the person who found
Aliyah and called 911 to begin with.
According to police reports, at around 3:20 AM that morning, a
24 year old security guard namedAbdullah Muhammad was doing his
rounds at the village of Piney Point Apartments.
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Everything was quiet and had been a rather uneventful night.
That is until he did his rounds just an hour later.
It was then, at 4:20 AM that Muhammad would discover the
lifeless body of Aaliyah hangingfrom the 2nd floor balcony of
her apartment building. The coroner's report lists the
times as 3:40 AM when he did hisfirst round and 4:30 AM for his
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second round. No matter which times are
correct, it still means that Aaliyah couldn't have been
hanging from the balcony for no more than an hour.
If she had, he would have seen her on the first round.
According to the police report, Muhammad came around the corner
near Building 24 O1 and saw the feet of someone hanging from the
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railing on the apartment building.
This doesn't make any sense as her feet were only three feet
off the ground. He would have seen her whole
body when he came around the corner, unless of course he was
only 12 inches tall. But anyway, that's when he ran
to go call the police. Or at least that's what he told
the officer that he did and that's what was put in the
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police report. But what Muhammad neglected to
tell law enforcement was that hedidn't have to run anywhere and
call them because he had his ownpersonal cell phone in his hand.
And before he decided to call 911, he had stopped and snapped
a picture. A picture that not only Denise
would eventually get a copy of, but it would turn out to be one
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of the biggest pieces of evidence in this case that shows
there's no way that Aliyah did this to herself.
The photo showed Aliyah's lifeless body suspended in the
air by nothing but the piece of a black fitted sheet and a cell
phone in her right hand. Yes, or to believe that Aaliyah
tied the double military style knot, put it around her neck,
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hoisted herself over the railing, which in itself is
impossible, but we will get to that later.
And jumped, yet never dropped her cell phone.
Denise reached out to the security guard two years after
Aaliyah's death and asked him why he felt compelled to stop
and take a picture of her daughter hanging from the
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balcony. He told her he took it to send
it to his boss. Yet if this was true, why did he
leave this information out when he gave the police a statement?
If he did it as part of his job,then he would have no reason to
hide that he did it. And this security guard, he was
the only person that law enforcement talked to and that
was to get a very short statement from him.
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Courtney was never talked to. None of Aaliyah or Courtney's
friends were talked to. The police said the reason for
this was because there was no one else on the scene when they
got there except for the security guard.
But at least in my opinion, I don't think that someone who had
just committed a murder and staged it as a hanging would be
just standing around waiting to talk to the cops if and when
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they arrived. It's obvious that from the
beginning with dispatch and moving on from there, that this
case had already jumped on the suicide bandwagon and everyone
was moving full force with it. So before we dig in any further
in Elia's case, I want to read an article I found that
describes what happened in this case and many other cases that
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are automatically rolled a suicide to AT.
This article is called The SevenMajor Mistakes in Suicide
Investigation and it was writtenby Vernon J Gerberth, MSNPS, who
is a homicide and forensic consultant.
If the case is reported as a quote UN quote suicide, the
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police officers who respond as well as the investigators
automatically tend to treat the call as a suicide.
It is a critical error in thinking to handle the call
based on the initial report, butthis is exactly what happened in
Aliyah's case. The immediate problem is that
psychologically one is assuming the death to be a suicide case
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when in fact this is a basic death investigation which could
very well turn out to be a homicide.
The investigator cannot assume anything as a professional law
enforcement officer. Any preconceived theories or
notions are dangerous in professional death
investigation. In addition to errors of
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assuming a suicide or natural death, other preconceived
notions may include deaths whichappear to be drug related and or
domestic violence. One must keep an open mind and
not be influenced either by the initial reports or the
presentation in the crime scene.Then they discussed the case
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history of a case that is similar to Elias.
Here is the case history. As a homicide commander, I
recommended that a detective respond to every unattended
death scene, whether it was reported as a homicide, suicide,
accident, or natural, to assure that any potential crime scene
and or evidence surrounding the event was not disturbed.
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I recall responding to a reported suicide at a
construction facility and arriving as the uniformed
officers were removing the victim's wallet from his pants
pocket as the body hung from an electrical appliance with a
cord. I asked them what they were
doing and they replied that theywere getting his identification
so they could write the suicide report.
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I asked them how they knew it was a suicide.
They told me they got the call of a suicide and when they
arrived they saw the man hangingby his neck and assumed he had
hung himself. I advised the two officers that
they were not in a position to assume anything and that a
request for detectives to respond in fact meant that this
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was a crime scene. The following is the protocol
for the initiation of an effective crime scene
investigation. First, there's rapid response to
the homicide crime scene by patrol officers.
This is imperative in order to protect evidentiary materials
before they are destroyed, altered, or lost.
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Two, anything and everything should be considered as
evidence. Whether this evidence is
physical or testimonial, it mustbe preserved, noted, and brought
to the attention of the investigators.
The only evidence collected at this point of the investigation
is eyewitness accounts or spontaneous statements of a
suspect at the scene. 3 After the scene is secured, immediate
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and appropriate notification must be made to the homicide
investigators. My preliminary observations
indicated that the quote UN quote, suicide was actually a
homicide and that someone had effectively staged the scene to
make it appear to be a suicide. I saw a piece of vegetation
caught in the man's hair that did not come from the location.
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I also noted dirt on his pants, which later analysts revealed
that it did not come from the area.
The man had been strangled to death at another outdoor
location and then transported tothe construction site where he
was, quote UN quote, strung up with the electrical cord to make
it appear to be a suicide. The initial responding officers
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as well as the ambulance crew atthe scene.
We're ready to declare the deathof a the death of suicide and
we're preparing to transport thebody to the morgue.
It has been my experience that when police officers or
detectives hear the word suicide, they go into what I
describe as the suicide position.
Suicides are not amendable offenses that are not recorded
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in the UCR and therefore are considered less important than
other events. Without a doubt, investigators
take shortcuts when they hear the word suicide.
I have reviewed many suicide cases where it was apparent that
the investigators did not take each point to its ultimate
conclusion. Sufficient photographs were not
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taken and certain tests were notconducted.
In some instances, the deaths were suicides, but the
incomplete and insufficient preliminary investigation raised
legitimate concerns. The next paragraph sums it up in
a nutshell. According to Practical Homicide
Investigation, all death inquiries should be conducted as
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homicide investigations until the facts prove differently.
The resolution of the mode of death, a suicide is based on a
series of factors which eliminate homicide, accidental
and natural causes of death. So there you go.
The ball was dropped in Aliyah'scase from the beginning when
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everyone involved labeled her death a suicide and did
absolutely no investigation. They took no photos at the crime
scene. They didn't check under Aliyah's
fingernails. They didn't check her clothing
for fluids or DNA. They conducted no interviews.
They did nothing. The only person they talked to
was the security guard. They didn't even talk to
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Courtney, who had been reportedly physically and
emotionally abusing Aaliyah overthe course of the prior 2 1/2
years. Then there's the contradictions
between the police report and the coroner's report, some of
which we have already discussed.We're going to go over the
coroner's report a bit more, butfirst let's talk about the phone
that sent Aliyah's hand in the photo.
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Since this is not mentioned in the coroner's report, I have
seen the photo of Aliyah that the security guard took, and she
is definitely holding her phone in her right hand.
You can even see that it's a kind of a pink or rose gold
color, which is what Aliyah's phone was.
It's plain as day and not hard to see it all.
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However, this is the only picture there is since no one in
law enforcement or the medical examiner took pictures at the
scene. Even though it was wrong of the
security guard to snap a pictureof Aaliyah, in a way it's a good
thing he did or Denise would have never known that she had
her phone in her hand because when she questioned law
enforcement about it, they said Aaliyah did not have a phone in
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her hand when they arrived. If that's so, then who took the
phone out of her hand between when the security guard took the
photo and the first responders arrived, which according to the
reports, was about a 20 minute window.
And what did the coroner and lawenforcement say about the photo,
about the phone in her hand whenDenise showed them the picture?
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Well, they said that they couldn't see a phone in her
hand, which is absolutely crazy because it's right there plain
as day. Myself along with 44,000 other
people have seen it yet law enforcement in the coroner
couldn't see it. It makes no sense except for the
fact if they admitted to seeing that the phone was in her hand
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then that would mean they would have to investigate her death as
being something other than suicide and they have made it
clear to Denise that that will never be changed.
I will post a picture on the victim's voice Facebook page of
just the phone in her hand so you can all see it for yourself.
And most importantly, how is thephone staying in Aaliyah's hand?
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If she did hang herself, her body would have gone limp as
soon as she was rendered unconscious, causing the phone
to fall from her hand, right? Which means the phone had to
have been placed in her hand after rigor mortis started
setting in. And let's talk about rigor
mortis and the EMS report. It states that when they
arrived, there was already rigormortis starting in her
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extremities and the coroner's report stated it was easy to
break. According to medicinenet.com,
the sequence of appearance and disappearance of rigor mortis is
as follows. Muscles of the face and head,
neck, chest, upper appendage, abdomen and lower appendage is
the order that rigor mortis goesin.
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Rigor mortis runs a span of 3/12hour blocks.
The 1st 12 hours is when the body starts to go into rigor
mortis, which normally doesn't start happening until around 2
hours after death and works its way from top of the body to the
lower parts of the body. The 2nd 12 hour block the block
the body is in full rigor and stays that way until the last 12
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hour block. When the body starts coming out
of rigor, the muscles release inthe same order as they went into
rigor, so starting with the faceand head and working downward.
So we know that according to thesecurity guard, he came through
at 3:20 AM or 3:40 AM, dependingon what report you look at, and
Aaliyah was not there at that point.
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But at 4:20 to 4:30 AM, which iswhen Muhammad says he came back
through, she was there. This is when he took the
picture. So Aaliyah had been hanging
there less than an hour at that point, yet we are supposed to
believe that rigor mortis had sent into her hands enough to be
able to hold on to the cell phone?
That's not possible. And the only way it would be
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possible was if as soon as she jumped from the railing, her
hands went into rigor mortis immediately, because otherwise
she would have dropped the phonewhen her body went limp, and
that's just not how it works. There's just absolutely no way
she would still be holding the phone unless she had already
been dead for some time when shewas hung from the railing.
And the knot that was tied in the sheet was not a simple knot.
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It was a double knot and one that people who have been in the
military know how to make. So did Aaliyah tie this sheet
into this intricate knot one handed while holding her phone
in the other hand? That's not possible either.
And then there is the sheet. It had been cut and the piece
that was used measured 21 inches.
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The other piece, as I said earlier, was never found.
The railing only measured 33 inches and Aaliyah was 66 inches
tall. So explain how she was able to
hoist herself over the railing with the sheet around her neck.
There's no way it's impossible. Also, this railing was not
sturdy at all. If Aaliyah, who was around 160
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lbs jumped over that railing, itwould have most likely collapsed
under her weight. Now let's talk about the
autopsy. An autopsy was performed on
Aaliyah the next day, July 20th at One O 8:00 PM.
In the autopsy report, it statesthat there was no damage to
Aliyah's neck, not externally nor internally, no damage to her
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hyoid, boom, nothing. How does this happen?
Well, law enforcement seems to have an excuse for that also.
They seem to think that she lowered herself down.
How could she do that with this,short as the sheet was and with
a phone in her hand? Also, if she lowered herself
down, she would have been facinginward towards the rail that she
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used to lower herself, yet she was facing outward, away from
the building and railing. The ligature around Aliyah's
neck was not tight at all. The circumference was 12 and a
fourth inches. In the picture, her head is
tilted to her right and the sheet is up under her chin.
It is obvious that is extremely loose to where it is pulling up
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close to her hairline and behindher ears, then up in the back,
not touching the very front or back of her neck at all.
Yet in the autopsy diagrams it shows that the marks on her neck
went straight around the middle of her neck all the way to the
back. The diagram marks are not in any
way lined up with the way the ligature was found around her
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neck. Aaliyah had a contusion on her
knee, which was marked in the autopsy diagram.
However, in the photo that the security guard took, it was
obvious that Aliyah had bruisingon her left arm, around her left
wrist and blood on her hand nearone of her fingers.
It looked as if she had been in a fight.
However, the officer at the scene said there were no visible
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defensive wounds to her hands orarms.
The coroner's report said nothing about any of these
injuries. There are so many reasons to
believe that Aliyah did not do this to herself, yet Denise has
gotten the same results. Every time she has called law
enforcement, they tell her it's a suicide and will remain a
suicide and there is nothing that will ever change that.
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How can they say that? So no matter if someone comes in
and admits to killing Aaliyah, it still won't change.
The authorities have been just plain rude to a grieving mother
who just wants answers to what happened to her daughter, yet
they are cold and callous. Anytime they talk to her, which
has not been much. When she calls, they either
don't answer, they deny the call, or they put her on hold
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and just never come back to the phone.
There has not been one time in the last four years that they
have returned a phone call to her.
Denise requested some of Leah's file at one point and got a
letter back that shocked her. The letter said that this case
was an open homicide investigation and that they
could not release records to herat that time and to try to
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contact a different division. After all the times they told
her it was a suicide and didn't need to be investigated, why
would this say it was a homicide?
They have still never given her an answer for this.
Also, why is Aliyah's case marked confidential in the 1st
place? If it is a closed case then any
information should be available to the public.
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When Denise found out about Aliyah's death, she got to Texas
as fast as she could. It was about a week after
Aliyah's death, seeing as how she didn't find out about it
until four days after she died. When she walked into the medical
examiner's office, there was a police officer guarding the room
that Aliyah was in. When Denise stated she was there
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to identify her daughter, they refused to let her in.
She still to this day doesn't know why she wasn't allowed to
see her daughter. When Denise went to Aliyah's
apartment after getting to Texas, she found that one of
Aaliyah's windows had been busted out just 12 hours after
Aaliyah was found. A neighbor had identified
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Courtney as the one who had vandalized the apartment.
But when Denise contacted law enforcement, they said there was
nothing they could do unless theapartment complex wanted to
press charges, but they declinedto do so.
When Denise went inside the apartment, it was ransacked.
Remember the night Aaliyah was found?
The officer went into her apartment and said it was neat
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and tidy. Whoever had been there had taken
all of Aliyah's clothes and shoes.
Courtney and her friends had tried to say they were Aliyah's
siblings to gain access to her belongings, but when that didn't
work, they just broke in. One of the girls even took
Aliyah's journal and never wouldgive it back to Denise.
How could someone be so cold hearted as to not let a grieving
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mother have the last words her daughter wrote?
Or was there something in there that pointed to the person that
did this to her and they wanted to get rid of the evidence?
The only thing left in the apartment when Denise went
inside was some T-shirts and lounge lounge pants.
Aaliyah liked to dress nice and all of her good clothing, shoes
and makeup were gone. Also, something weird was that
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there was not a single piece of paper or receipt in the
apartment. Aaliyah had just been to court a
couple of days before her death.So where were those court
papers? There was nothing, no paper at
all. Someone made sure that there was
nothing left behind that might tell the story of what really
happened that night. What Denise did find was a trash
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bag full of wet towels sitting in a corner of the room.
She contacted law enforcement, thinking they might want them as
evidence. Their response was, quote, for
what? The next day when Denise went
back to the apartment, the bag of towels were gone.
Someone had once again gone intothe apartment and finished
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taking anything that was left. Denise has not stopped trying to
get someone to listen to her about Aliyah's death.
At one point she tried to get Courtney to go on the Steve
Wilko show so she could take a polygraph test and prove once
and for all if she was involved.At first she agreed to go, but
when she found out she wouldn't be getting paid for her
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appearance, she declined the offer.
Aaliyah was supposedly the love of her life at one time and she
was being accused of participating in her death.
Why wouldn't she want to take the opportunity to clear her
name if she could? Courtney did take the
opportunity to go on a YouTube platform called VS Icon, which
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in my opinion was nothing but a shit show.
She only went on there because the host paid her and flashed
her cash app handle on the screen for viewers to also
donate to her for giving her time to tell her so-called
truth. I could tell from the beginning
the three hosts on the show weregoing to be biased and they most
definitely were. They gave Courtney over 2 hours
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to spew her lies and let Denise come on at the very end and
timed her. They gave her a measly 5 minutes
to say what she wanted to say and when that 5 minutes was up,
they cut her off. They had the nerve to tell
Denise that she needed to face the fact that maybe she didn't
know her daughter as well as shethought she did and that they
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felt Courtney was being very truthful with everything she
said. What's ironic though is Denise
had receipts for everything she said about Aliyah's death and
about Courtney. Courtney had nothing but her
mouth. Yet the host treated Courtney as
the victim and Denise like she was a bully.
One of the hosts who calls herself Jules was really out of
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line. Apparently she wasn't even
listening to what was going on because Courtney would say
something and when Denise would say it wasn't true and that she
had proof, Jules would say quote.
Now Miss Denise, that's not whatCourtney said, End Quote when it
was exactly what Courtney had said.
All in all, it was nothing but ajoke and they charge you to even
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watch it on their page. However, if you go to the
Facebook page, just As for Aaliyah, Denise recorded it and
put it on there. It's interesting in the fact
that you catch Courtney in multiple eyes.
For example, the 1st 2 hours before Denise was allowed on,
the host asked Courtney point blank if she thought Aaliyah had
done this to herself and she said in her heart she didn't
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believe that Aaliyah did it, that foul play was involved.
She said that at least four different times.
Yet when Denise came out, Courtney said that Aliyah didn't
want to be here and that she gotwhat she wanted and that Denise
just needed to accept it. To this day, there has been no
investigation into Aliyah's death.
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Even with everything we just talked about, it is still being
ruled a suicide and an investigation has never been
done. Courtney and her friends have
not made it easy over the years with her Facebook and Instagram
post insinuating their involvement in Aliyah's death.
Courtney even had her screen name on an app called Stereo as
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a Leah killer. This girl thinks she is so above
the law that she can rub what she has done.
In my opinion, in the face of a grieving mother, the mother of
someone she claimed to have loved at one time.
She has made horrible comments to Denise such as quote UN quote
your daughter went out with a bang and then made a comment
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about her cremation saying that Denise quote UN quote, barbecued
her daughter till her meat fell off the bone.
She told Denise that she had not.
If she had not cremated Aaliyah then maybe she would know what
happened to her. That's a very telling comment if
you ask me. She has left voice messages on
(44:55):
Denise's phone cursing her and basically bullying a grieving
mother. It seems funny that Courtney's
mom has ties with the DA. According to Courtney herself
and Siroc, the other girl that Denise feels is involved in
Aliyah's death. Her mom is a well known figure
in the community that has ties with many influential people.
Why is law enforcement adamant that no matter what evidence is
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ever produced that Aliyah's death will never be ruled
anything other than a suicide? Something doesn't add up.
Denise will continue being Aliyah's voice.
She would like to get a private investigator to look into the
case, but that costs money that she just doesn't have, so I'm
going to start a GoFundMe in hopes to raise enough money to
help her with that. I will post the link in the
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bottom of the show notes and share it on the Victim's Voice
Facebook page. She is planning on taking a trip
to Houston this summer, so hopefully something comes that
out that will change this case and get Aaliyah the justice that
she deserves. If anyone was at the Village of
Piney Point Apartments near 24 O1 Lazy Hollow Drive in Houston,
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TX during the early morning hours of July 19th, 2020 and saw
anything at all that looks suspicious, please get a hold of
Denise of the Justice for AliyahFacebook page.
I'm also going to post the link of a petition.
I hope everyone will take the time to sign to help get
Aliyah's case reopened. For photos from this episode,
(46:21):
check out the victim's voice on Facebook and Instagram and I'll
see you back here next week for a new case.
Until then, peace out.
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