MORRISTOWN — Kashif Parvaiz, who is accused of conspiring to shoot his wife to death on a Boonton street in 2011, had previously contacted two black magic companies in an attempt to make his wife disappear, according to testimony by a detective on Thursday.

In 2009 and 2010, Parvaiz sent emails to the companies Ancient Black Magic and Extreme Black Magic, saying he wanted them to make his wife, Nazish Noorani, either "leave," "disappear" or "commit suicide," Detective Supervisor Christopher Vanadia of the Morris County Prosecutor's Office testified.

Vanadia, who works in the prosecutor's high-tech crimes unit, found the emails after performing searches on computers seized from Parvaiz, of Brooklyn, and from his alleged co-conspirator and then-girlfriend, Antionette Stephen of Billerica, Mass.

Parvaiz, on trial for murder and conspiracy to commit murder, allegedly arranged for Stephen to shoot his wife to death and wound him to make it look like a bias attack. The couple was in Boonton on Aug. 16, 2011 to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Ramadan with her family.

Stephen pleaded guilty to murder in 2013 and testified in the trial this week, admitting she was the shooter but saying she carried out orders from Parvaiz.

Under direct examination from Morris County Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Troiano, Vanadia read Parvaiz's letters to the black magic companies, drawing quizzical looks from a few jurors.

The letters indicated that Parvaiz made several attempts to contact the companies and grew impatient and frustrated after he made payments but achieved no results.

In an initial letter sent on May 26, 2009 to Kuma Hassan at the website ancientblackmagic.com, Parvaiz said, "I would like to have my wife leave me and my two kids. I don't want to look like the one who ended the relationship."

Then, on June 7, he wrote again, asking, "What exactly will you do? When will it happen? As long as there is a guarantee, I will go on. ... I would like my wife to leave, move on or disappear. Tell me a time frame and I will send payment."

Vanadia produced a PayPal receipt dated June 16, 2009 for $287 from Ancient Black Magic, with "custom spells" listed as the subject.

Parvaiz sent another letter to the company on July 15, 2009, asking for a progress report and asking the company to "make my wife commit suicide."

In another 2009 letter, Parvaiz added, "I am very attractive to this girl and I would like to marry her once I get rid of my wife."

Then in May 2010, Parvaiz wrote to Michael Jenkins at a Florida company, Extreme Black Magic, requesting "anything you can do to get rid" of Noorani, "such as accidental death or something."

Parvaiz said he was "still skeptical," but offered to pay the company $2,500 and said he would pay the balance "if results are guaranteed."

After that, Parvaiz wrote several more letters seeking updates. On June 10, 2010, he complained to Extreme Black Magic that there had been "no results" after three weeks, saying he had paid $4,500.

"Please let me know how things are going," he added. "So far, nothing has happened. Am I being scammed here, or will I be seeing results?"

Parvaiz's attorney, John Latoracca, noted that Jenkins' company has two physical addresses in Florida and asked Vanadia if anyone in the prosecutor's office had contacted Jenkins.

"That would have been the case detective," Vanadia replied, saying he wasn't sure.

Earlier in the day, Stephen's sister, Sandra, who was also friends with Parvaiz, testified that four months before the killing, Parvaiz was seeking a substance that would make his wife's heart stop and would be "untraceable."

Sandra Stephen, of Somerville, Mass., confirmed that Parvaiz, of Brooklyn, made the request for the fatal substance during a Facebook chat while she was visiting India on April 2, 2011 and Parvaiz was in the United States.

Under direct examination from Troiano, Stephen read the chat exchange.

Parvaiz asked if a substance was available in India, which, "if you ingest it, will stop your heart and it will be undetectable."

Stephen replied, "Don't think like that, you will never forgive yourself," but Parvaiz asked her to look and talked about problems he was having with his wife.

Parvaiz said his two children, then 2 and 5, had turned against him because of their mother and thought it was "okay to say, 'Papa, shut up.'"

Stephen then asked if the children would be "okay without their mother," and Parvaiz replied, "Without Naz, definitely."

"She's a thorn in my life and a bad influence on my children," Parvaiz said. "If you find something, let me know."

Stephen said she would try, but added that when she returned to the U.S., Parvaiz asked her if she "brought anything," and she replied, "No, and he was insane."

Stephen also testified that Parvaiz had said he hoped to take a trip to Pakistan, where his wife would be detained due to her immigration status and wouldn't be able to return to the United States.

The prosecution completed its case on Thursday in a trial that started on Feb. 4.

The defense will begin presenting its witnesses when the trial resumes on Monday morning.

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