On today's edition of Current Affairs, two stories of murder/attempted murder based on identity theft. First, Andie covers news out of Germany in the story of a woman who used Instagram to lure a beauty blogger who looked like her to her brutal end in an apparent attempt to fake her own death. Second, Jessie covers the just-started trial of Viktoria Nasyrova for the attempted murder of Olga Tsyvk as well as the wild backstory that led Viktoria to the US in the first place.

Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong making the news right now. 

Sources:

https://nypost.com/2023/02/07/nyc-dominatrix-viktoria-nasyrova-tried-to-poison-victim-on-date/

https://people.com/crime/ny-woman-allegedly-tried-poison-lookalike-cheesecake/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poison-cheesecake-lookalike-friend-trial-viktoria-nasyrova-olga-syvk/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viktoria-nasyrova-manhunt-international-search-russian-murder-suspect-fugitive/

https://people.com/crime/woman-allegedly-tried-kill-lookalike-poisoning-cheesecake-steal-id/

https://www.bild.de/regional/muenchen/news-inland/doppelgaengerinnen-mord-von-ingolstadt-neue-haftbefehle-gegen-taeter-duo-82726602.bild.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/murderer-tracked-down-doppelgaenger-to-fake-her-own-death-j26hrl7m6

https://people.com/crime/woman-allegedly-used-social-media-find-kill-doppelganger-fake-death/

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