May 26, 2013
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I'm updating the Deanna Ballman coverage here on the Case to Case blog because this is where Part 1 of the mystery was posted back in August of 2012. Here it is eight months later and the details that have come out in the woman's case are numerous -- many of them complimenting my previous speculation. When her lifeless body was found in the backseat of her own car last year, I immediately speculated that toxicology results would show drugs as the culprit. However, I also wondered (aloud) if the speculated drugs were put in her body by someone else against her will. This was naturally met with negative feedback by people who claimed to know Deanna, people who claimed that she'd never prostitute herself, and that it was preposterous to speculate murder in her tragic mysterious death.
Now it's being revealed that Dr. Ali Salim has been charged with her murder -- that he injected her with heroin and raped her, and "abused her corpse." There are also other details in the case that don't sit well with me. While Ali Salim's lawyer claims that the woman was prostituting herself to pay for her heroin habit, there is also something that stands out in the story. You see, there's the issue with the mystery woman that Deanna's mom mentioned when she was initially reported missing -- before her body was found.
The last time Deanna spoke to her family before her body was found, her mother could hear a foreign-sounding woman in the background after the girl complained about not feeling well. This has been the only ever mention of the woman throughout the course of the case, and police have never been able to find her. Doesn't that strike anyone as odd?
The more details that are revealed in this case the more it's starting to seem that there is far more to this than merely a perverted doctor from Pakistan.
I'm updating the Deanna Ballman coverage here on the Case to Case blog because this is where Part 1 of the mystery was posted back in August of 2012. Here it is eight months later and the details that have come out in the woman's case are numerous -- many of them complimenting my previous speculation. When her lifeless body was found in the backseat of her own car last year, I immediately speculated that toxicology results would show drugs as the culprit. However, I also wondered (aloud) if the speculated drugs were put in her body by someone else against her will. This was naturally met with negative feedback by people who claimed to know Deanna, people who claimed that she'd never prostitute herself, and that it was preposterous to speculate murder in her tragic mysterious death.
Now it's being revealed that Dr. Ali Salim has been charged with her murder -- that he injected her with heroin and raped her, and "abused her corpse." There are also other details in the case that don't sit well with me. While Ali Salim's lawyer claims that the woman was prostituting herself to pay for her heroin habit, there is also something that stands out in the story. You see, there's the issue with the mystery woman that Deanna's mom mentioned when she was initially reported missing -- before her body was found.
The last time Deanna spoke to her family before her body was found, her mother could hear a foreign-sounding woman in the background after the girl complained about not feeling well. This has been the only ever mention of the woman throughout the course of the case, and police have never been able to find her. Doesn't that strike anyone as odd?
The more details that are revealed in this case the more it's starting to seem that there is far more to this than merely a perverted doctor from Pakistan.