nbc's valerie castro has more. >> reporter: a poisoned cheesecake at the center of an attempted murdernew york jury finding the woman who served it guilty. she was convicted of trying to kill olga sick who at the time in 2016 looked a lot like nasarova. she stole from her victim including a gold ring, according to the queens district attorney. but prosecutors say her real motive was to steal, quote, her most valuable possession -- her identity, and took her passport. the pastry plot failed when sick survived. investigators testified the dessert finding it laced with the powerful sedative. she was arrested, pleading not guilty in court to no avail. the conviction coming on the heels of another similar high-profile case in germany where a woman is accused of killing an instagram lookalike to fake her own death. back in 2017 the nypd telling nbc new york that nasarova was an international fugitive wanted for allegedly murdering a woman in her native russia before fleeing to brooklyn. >> couldn't be determined where -- how she was murdered because her body was set ablazeablaze. >> reporter

hearing from a bay area woman deliberately hit by a driver in the parking lot of a church in castro. valerie anna kate leland. she's being treated at a skilled nursing center. you see her? she's confined to a wheelchair. she can't walk on the night of february. 11th surveillance cameras at the parking lot of the first. first presbyterian church showed the driver and a white nissan ultima almost backing into her as she was on her way to the church to eat dinner. some words exchanged between the driver and the woman and the driver hit her. she ended up on the hood of his car and fell off the hood of the car. i've been working on forgiving him. i'm not quite there yet. i think that the most appropriate lesson for him would be would be anger management. learning to control himself. self control better. and now she considers herself very lucky that there were people who work at the church who saw the hit and run and came to her rescue. alameda county sheriff's office says so far no arrests have been made happening today. it's ash wednesday, one of the holiest days of the catholic faith. millions