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Another time, Bahar came home drunk. “Lots of boys” were calling her cellphone, her mother said. She started staying out late and “giving me a hard time,” Ms. Kaleki said. “She was not honest.”

On the morning of the attack, a Sunday, Ms. Kaleki heard a car door slam and ran downstairs to see her husband asking Bahar where she had been. “She said, ‘I just went clubbing,’” she recounted. “I said to my husband, ‘Leave it to me.’”

Bahar was not interested in talking, but Ms. Kaleki said she had an idea what her daughter had been up to. “I think she was out there just for a stupid reason, just to go without permission and have fun. That’s all,” she said.

Sgt.-Det. Bertrand said later, “Is it that something snapped and you lost control?” She replied, “Yes, I did.”

At times during the interrogation, Ms. Kaleki broke down in sobs, begging to see her husband and children. She declared her love for Bahar, but it was more than an hour into the interrogation when she inquired about her condition: “She speaks? She talks? She’s going to be OK?” Sgt.-Det. Bertrand said Bahar was lucky to have been taken to a hospital where they “do miracles,” and she was going to survive.

“The only thing I regret is I’m going to be away from my three other children, who need me the most

Ms. Kaleki then explained why she decided to tell the detective her story. “What I don’t hide from my God, my Creator, why should I hide from you?” she said. “When I go to jail, when I spend the rest of my life in jail for this crime, I want to go as a proud, honest person, not as a coward.” She added, “The only thing I regret is I’m going to be away from my three other children, who need me the most.”