Nov 15, 2007 5:13 pm US/Eastern
Wife Of Slain Dentist Speaks To CBS 2 HD
Dr. Mazeltuv Borukhova Says She Was Not Involved
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
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Mazeltuv Borukhova wipes away tears while speaking about the shooting that left her estranged husband, Dr. Daniel Malakov, dead in a Queens park. Borukhova said she had nothing to do with the murder.
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It was the cold-blooded crime that stunned the city. A Queens dentist was gunned down on a playground in front of his wife and baby daughter. Now she's telling the story of her troubled marriage and desperate fight to regain custody of her little girl only to CBS 2 HD.
"We were holding each other and kissing each other, I just wished it would never end," said Dr. Mazeltuv Borukhova, clutching her daughter Michelle's favorite toy.
"This is worse than a nightmare, because you wakeup, and that nightmare is your reality," Borukhova told CBS 2.
The nightmare she is referring to surfaced in the normally safe section of Rego Park, when her ex-husband, Dr. Daniel Malakov was killed in cold blood while next to his daughter at a Queens playground.
Since then, after a long tug of war custody battle in which a judge ruled against Borukhova, she has had to live with the external suspicion that she was involved with her ex-husband's murder.
Borukhova, 34, said the nightmare began several years ago, after her marriage to the dentist fell apart.
"He wasn't the man I married, he wasn't the man I loved," she said.
But a usually private family affair turned tragically public after Daniel Malakov was gunned down. Ironically, on the day of his murder Malakov had offered his wife an opportunity for all three to spend time together as a family, despite him having full custody, they agreed to meeting at a Queens park.
Seconds later, that changed forever.
"I was holding Michelle in my arms and I was swinging with her and he was just next to me," Borukhova said.
Without warning, a man dressed in black walked up to the dentist and pumped two bullets into his chest. Borukhova, a doctor herself, told CBS 2 she whisked Michelle to safety and then tried in vain to saver Malakov. "I went back to help Daniel, I incubated him, I did chest compressions before EMS arrived and tried to help him," said Borukhova.
But the family of the slain dentist says Borukhova and her family have blood on their hands.
The deceased dentist's sister-in-law said she is afraid for herself, her kids and her husband. "She threatened to kill the family," said Natalie Malakov.
Borukhova calls the charge and any responsibility she may have or share outlandish. "Believe it or not, I do understand my in-law's anger. They just lost a son who was 34-years-old and they have to blame somebody and I'm the easy target.
When asked straight out if she had anything to do with Malakov's death, Borukhova said, "No, not at all."
Police questioned Borukhova for nine hours and tell CBS 2 HD she is not considered a suspect.
"She is my daughter," Borukhova said. "She is everything I have"
She now she vows to get her daughter back, who as of Wednesday night remains in foster care.
"I will, if have to, people listen to me, to the truth, to refuse to eat and drink. ... I will. ... I will," Borukhova said.
Borukhova is still allowed supervised visits with Michelle twice a week. Recently it was revealed that even though the 4-year-old witnessed the murder of her father, it was weeks before the city agency overseeing the child's welfare got her into any type of therapy, something both families agree should have been done.
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