Directed by Caroline Labrèche (Marry F*** Kill) and written by Catharine Park, this Tubi Original is based on the true story of Viktoria Nasyrova, who in 2016 visited her stylist, Olga Tsvyk and gave her a piece of poisoned cheesecake.
Tsvyk nearly died and came home to find that a lot of her belongings were stolen. She blamed Nasyrova before learning they weren’t the only people looking for her. Herman Weisberg, a former NYPD cop turned PI, had been searching for her online. He did find her by paying attention to her social media images, leading the police to her. When arrested, she had ID cards belonging to Tsvyk. As the women looked similar, they believed she planned to steal her identity.
Weisberg was working for Nadia Ford, a Russian woman who believed that Nasyrova had robbed and murdered her mother in Russia and came to the U.S. to stay on the run from Russian police. It took six years for the case to go to trial and just hours to convict her; Russia may still extradite her for crimes there.
This Tubi Original has Victoria Diamond as Nasyrova and Nastassia Markiewicz as Tsyvk. They don’t look much alike, while the real people could have been related. If you don’t know this story, it has been on several true crime shows, and this is a good way to catch up.
You can watch this on Tubi.