He was a Ukrainian contractor at the school, working under a questionable permit, against whom a pile of circumstantial evidence began to build up. Eventually, the gardener tip led police to Roman Zadorov – a man who resembled the gardener. ![]() From guilty-seeming hitchhikers, to an agitated school gardener and a psychic who claimed to have had a vision of blood on the banks of the River Jordan, every red herring had to be explored. The initial stages of the investigation took place, then, against a backdrop of national interest, it was ordered that every lead, no matter how unlikely, should be fully investigated. There was intense media interest, which began less than an hour after Tair’s body was discovered, to the great disgust of her father, Shmuel, who only learned details of the “brutal violence” of his daughter’s death from a news reporter. Kids were afraid to go to school, while their parents were scared to let them. Unsurprisingly, a girl murdered at school during the day became an enormous story and, as Shai explains, it had all the makings of a “public fiasco”. The first episode pieces together the day of Tair’s disappearance and the various avenues investigators initially pursued. Official photographs, thankfully shown sparingly, indicate a distressing and gruesome crime scene. But after a frantic search into the night, Tair’s body was found behind a locked cubicle door in the school toilets. Initially, the head of the investigation, retired commander Avi Shai, said there were “no particularly worrisome signs” – after all, children are sometimes late home after school. The documentary starts with a nightmarish interview with Tair’s mother, Ilana, who describes returning home and noticing her daughter’s backpack was not there. Tair Rada was 13 when she was found dead at school in Katzrin, a town of 8,000 people, in the Golan Heights area between Israel and Syria. What begins as a seemingly straightforward, if horrifying, true-crime documentary takes flight at the end of the first episode, where it transforms into a much wider story about corruption, conspiracy and justice in Israel. Now it arrives on the BBC, with the addition of a fifth and final episode to include new information and more recent events. I look forward to checking this out and hopefully it provides the Jordan family with some level of closure, if they haven’t been able to achieve that already.Shadow of Truth was first shown in 2016 in Israel, where the murder case it examines is notorious, before being bought a year later by Netflix for global streaming. ![]() Moment of Truth will also feature on-camera interviews with Green and his lawyer, Christine Mumma, the executive director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence exclusive archival footage that hasn’t been accessed since 1996 court documents evidence photos from the case and never-before-released trial audio.įor true crime junkies, this sounds like the perfect recipe for your next fix, and with every episode of Moment of Truth set to premiere on April 2-exclusively on IMDb TV-this could be the next big documentary to set social media on fire. The five-part series also unveils new details pertaining to the story behind the murder of the beloved husband and father, as well as the historical context of social injustice in Robeson County, N.C., where teenagers Larry Demery and Daniel Green were charged and convicted of the crime. Now it’s time to be unselfish with them.” ![]() I’ve been very selfish about centering things on my basketball career. “And I thought that there are times in one’s life when you have to put games aside. “It made me realize how short life is, how quickly things can end, how innocently,” Jordan said during his retirement announcement. ![]() Moment of Truth presents new compelling information on the Jmurder that shocked the nation, created a media frenzy, and served as a catalyst for Michael’s first retirement from the NBA months later. New Docuseries Moment of Truth Revisits Murder of Michael Jordan's Fatherįor years, the circumstances surrounding the death of James Jordan, father of NBA legend Michael Jordan, have been shrouded in mystery, but now, a new docuseries is on the way that seeks to uncover the truth behind the murder that disrupted the Chicago Bulls’ 1990s basketball dynasty.
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