Efforts at extradition Īccording to the New York Times, "the victim's family and high-ranking American officials, including President Clinton, had used every available diplomatic channel to persuade Jordan to extradite him to the United States" to stand trial. Perpetrator, who had served as a mechanic in the Royal Jordanian Army, was a naturalized United States citizen. Gussal filed for divorce stating that Abequa had hit and choked her, had broken the telephone to prevent her from calling the police, had repeatedly beaten the children with a belt and that he had threatened to kidnap the children and take them to live in Jordan. The couple were married in 1986 and had two children. ![]() She worked as an insurance claims adjuster and had an additional, early morning job delivering newspapers to make ends meet. She was a naturalized citizen and served for four years in the United States Army. Nihal Gussal, known as Nina to her friends, immigrated with her family to the United States from Turkey as a young child. The murderer and the couple's children became the subjects of an international manhunt. Abequa fled soon after the murder, taking the couple's six year-old daughter Lisa and three year-old son Sami with him. ![]() Her body was discovered when her sister, who had not heard from her, went to the apartment and, not finding her, called the police. Nihal Gussal Abequa was murdered by her husband after the couple had separated and she had filed for divorce. He avoided the efforts of government prosecutor Michael Murphy to extradite and try him due to the lack of an extradition treaty between Jordan and the United States. ![]() Abequa became the subject of an international manhunt when the murder was discovered. Mohammed Abequa is a Jordanian citizen and naturalized American citizen who murdered his estranged wife in July 1994 in Parsippany, New Jersey, kidnapped their two children, and fled to his country of origin.
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