"LOVELY" NEIGHBOR WAS A WAR CRIMINAL

LOVELY?

SHE settled in rural Kentucky, taking a series of jobs bathing elderly patients and working in a sandwich family.
But the "lovely" lady they knew as Isabella, was Azra Basic a war criminal who as a Croatian Army soldier forced prisoners to drink human blood and gasoline.
The 52-year-old, who has evaded capture for more than 20 years is accused of committing crimes at three camps in the early 1990s near the majority-Serbian settlement of Cardak in Derventa in Bosnia in a complaint filed by U.S. Attorney James Arehar.
Court documents show she is charged  with a number of crimes including setting prisoners on fire, stabbing one to death, ripping fingernails out with pliers and craving crosses and the letter S into another man's flesh.
Her former neighbor in Stanton, KY, Brian Rice called the accusations were "very shocking."
He said:  "She's a pretty nice person. If I was standing here right now and she drove by, she would throw her hand up and if the window was down, she would speak and say 'hi' by my name."
It's not clear why she chose to settle in Stanton, a town about 45 miles east of Lexington known for its annual corn festival.
But Rice said that if she were looking for a place to get away from her past, she had found it.
No trial date has been set for Basic yet.