Crime & Safety

Twin Raised Suspicions After Killing

A four-hour interview with police turned Wael Ali into a suspect in his brother's death.

Wael Ali wasn't a suspect in his twin brother's death when he sat down with two police detectives in early September 2007. Within four hours, police were repeatedly asking him, "Did you kill your brother."

Prosecutors played a tape of that interview Wednesday during Ali's murder trial in the death of Wasel Ali in Howard County, MD. They also had one of the detectives who interviewed Wael Ali, Cpl. Clay Davis, and a friend of the brothers', Jonathan LoFrisco, testify, according to the Howard County Times.

Wael Ali, now 24, and charged with first-degree murder in his brother's death. His .

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Four years earlier, according to the tape and the testimony, he frustrated police by failing to provide the information they needed to find whoever killed Wasel Ali and left his body near a wooded path in Columbia, MD, the Times said.

He wound up in tears during the interview and failed to resolve inconsistencies between the story he told about the night his brother disappeared and the one surveillance video showed.

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