Beside the dead body of a ten-year-old girl with 71 fresh injuries and 25 separate bone fractures was a flimsy piece of torn notebook paper that said, “Love you Sara,” written in capital letters and the inconsistent handwriting of a kindergartener. It was a confession from her murderer — her father. “It’s me Urfan Sharif who killed my daughter by beating,” he wrote, continuing that “I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her, but I lost it.”
The police non-emergency phone number received a call from Pakistan at 2:47 a.m. on August 10, 2023, two days after Sara was murdered. Urfan Sharif began the eight-minute-and-34-second call by telling the operator to write down his address. He admitted, “I killed my daughter” and instructed the police to visit “No. 6 Hammond Road,” where keys were left under the door mat. “I’m a cruel father,” he stated, then pledged: “I promise I’ll come back . . . I’ll face the death sentence.”
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