Tair Rada
Photo: Courtesy of Channel 8
Woman denies murdering 13-year-old girl a decade ago
In interview with Channel 10, woman whose ex-boyfriend alleged murdered Tair Rada says her former partners is trying to frame her; 'I called him every day and I certainly didn't tell him I murdered her,' she says.
A woman accused by her former boyfriend
of murdering 13-year-old Tair Rada a decade ago claimed she is innocent in an interview with Channel 10 on Friday.
The story returned to the headlines over the past two weeks after a Channel 8 docuseries aired an interview with the former boyfriend who said the woman confessed to him that she murdered the Israeli girl in a bathroom stall of a Katzrin high school in 2006.
The boyfriend's testimony was examined at the time by the judges of the Supreme Court, who decided not to accept his claims, while police found his version of events to be baseless. It was also claimed his testimony derived of his desire to frame his former girlfriend.
Tair Rada
"He's falsely accusing me," she told Channel 10. "He couldn't frame me with the police so he turned to the media."
The woman vehemently denied her involvement in the murder, claiming that "I did not tell him I murdered Tair Rada. From the beginning I've been saying he's trying to frame me. I guess people want to be on TV and want to get good ratings. I don't exactly know why (he's making the allegations), I guess."
She said that while she was in Katzrin at the time, "I wasn't at the school, I'm certain of that. I graduated from there a long time ago. I didn't tell him I murdered her. I called him all the time, every day, and I certainly didn't tell him something like that."
She went on to say she had been interrogated by police after the boyfriend made the allegations against her six years after the murder. "It completely shook me up and I was hospitalized for a long time afterwards. It wasn't easy. I have nothing to do with this murder, except for what he put together about it... someone said they found a draft of his version on his computer. I'm not aware of these things beyond what I hear in the press, because no one shared it with me."
Allegations
In an exclusive Ynet interview, T., another former boyfriend of the woman who allegedly confessed to the murder of the 13-year-old Israeli girl a decade ago, calls for an in-depth reexamination of the allegations.
She said she is receiving professional help. "I have four people treating me and monitoring me. A social worker, a guide, a psychiatrist, a psychologist.... I try to remain strong, not to crack, not to let the people who curse me and the children who didn't go to law school and didn't closely examine the case (get to me), the people who are judging me based on a specific show that is very specifically targeting me."
Despite rulings made by three different courts, dozens of lengthy hearings and hundreds of hours of investigation, some in the Israeli public - including Rada's family - are not convinced that convicted killer Roman Zadorov is in fact to blame for the murder.
The former boyfriend said his ex-girlfriend is mentally unstable, loves the sight of blood, and believes there's a "she-wolf" inside of her that makes her want to cut people and see their internal organs.
He recounted in great detail what he claims she told him of the gruesome murder and said she showed him her bag, which included the bloody clothes she wore during the murder and the alleged murder weapon.
The woman told Channel 10 that since the show aired, she has been receiving a lot of messages from people wishing her death.
"I'm a regular person, an inconsequential one. I have problems - that's true - but I'm not used to all of this exposure and I feel like I'm being put on display across the country and being pelted with tomatoes and cucumbers. Like I'm naked and I've been exposed in this manner. It's not nice," he said.
