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The Betrayal of Giza: How Rat Poison and a Thread Unmasked a Brother and Wife's Deadly Conspiracy · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's set the scene. We're in Giza, Egypt, Elsas City.
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  Speaker 1: It's about nine zero zero pm sometime in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Picture this Ahmed rush Ed. He's just settled back in
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  Speaker 1: Egypt after working away, and tonight he's actually doing something different.
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  Speaker 1: He's kicking back at a local cafe, you know, relaxing
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  Speaker 1: with some friends he doesn't get to see very often,
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  Speaker 1: just a normal evening.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly a bit of decompression. He lives in the family building, right,
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed's on the second floor, his younger brother Kareem, and
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  Speaker 2: Kareem's wife, bosh Erer, they're downstairs on.
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  Speaker 1: The first so very close proximity, very but that.
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  Speaker 2: Quiet evening, that a normal family picture. It just gets
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  Speaker 2: completely shattered around nine thirty pm.
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  Speaker 1: Right the phone call.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ahmed's phone rings. It's bash H, his sister in law,
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  Speaker 2: and she sounds well, completely frantic. She tells him Kareem
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  Speaker 2: is incredibly sick, like critically ill.
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  Speaker 1: So Ahmed and his friends they don't hesitate, They drop
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  Speaker 1: everything instantly.
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  Speaker 2: It's a short trip, less than ten minutes back to
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  Speaker 2: the house, but Sherah lets omit in. He just vanishes
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  Speaker 2: inside and.
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  Speaker 1: The friends are just left waiting out, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Waiting, probably imagining the worst. And then maybe ten minutes later,
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  Speaker 2: the door flies open again, and this is where it
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  Speaker 2: really shifts. Oh so I'm it reappears, but he's struggling.
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  Speaker 2: He's got Kareem his brothers slung over his shoulder. Kareem
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  Speaker 2: is just completely limp, unconscious. Oh wow, Okay, now I
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  Speaker 2: made Yales a bush harrier. Tells her to stay put,
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  Speaker 2: you know, watch the kids. They're tiny, just one in
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  Speaker 2: three years old, and he tells his friend's hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Now they race their get to the nearest r pretty quickly,
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  Speaker 1: very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's too late. The doctors they take one look.
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  Speaker 2: Kareem is declared dead on arrival.
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  Speaker 1: Devastating. But then things take another turn right at the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: They do because of the medical team. They're sharp. They
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  Speaker 2: start noticing things that just don't add up for a
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  Speaker 2: sudden medical death, like what did they see? Well, first,
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  Speaker 2: there's vomit on Kareem's trousers, because they could suggest maybe poisoning,
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  Speaker 2: some kind of acute illness. But then they look closer,
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  Speaker 2: his t shirt spotless, perfectly clean and stranger. Still, his
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  Speaker 2: face seems like it had been recently washed. They could
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  Speaker 2: actually smell soap.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, soap in that kind of emergency, who stops to
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  Speaker 1: wash someone's face exactly?
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  Speaker 2: That's the red flag, It screams staging. It suggests someone
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  Speaker 2: tried to clean up to alter the scene before getting
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  Speaker 2: him to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: So the doctors knew right away this wasn't straightforward.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately they suspected it was an unnatural death. They did
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  Speaker 2: the right thing, alerted security forces straight away.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the police get involved. Now they examine Kareem's
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  Speaker 1: body more closely. What do they find?
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  Speaker 2: At first glance, there were maybe some faint, vague marks
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  Speaker 2: on his neck, nothing definitive. But then during a much
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  Speaker 2: closer look they find it find what something tiny almost missed,
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  Speaker 2: a very thin thread right near his throat.
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  Speaker 1: A thread like from clothing.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly, But that tiny piece of fiber, combined with the
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  Speaker 2: washed face, the clean shirt, it solidified the doctor's suspicions.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't just unnatural, this was homicide. Someone had strangled Kareem.
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  Speaker 1: So the investigation immediately focuses on Ahmed, the brother who
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  Speaker 1: brought him in.
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  Speaker 2: Naturally, he gives his story. He was at the cafe,
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  Speaker 2: got the frantic call rushed home, found Kareem desperately ill,
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  Speaker 2: raced him to the hospital. He even explains why Bashar
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  Speaker 2: stayed behind the young kids. It sounds plausible, right, if
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  Speaker 2: you assume a natural illness.
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  Speaker 1: It holds together on the surface.
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  Speaker 2: But then comes the moment that changes everything for the investigators.
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  Speaker 2: They inform Ahmed that because of the suspicious circumstances, Kareem's
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  Speaker 2: body is being sent for a full autopsy.
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  Speaker 1: And how does Ahmed react.
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  Speaker 2: His whole demeanor just collapses. The report says he looked
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  Speaker 2: utterly confused, profoundly shocked, like the idea of forensic scrutiny
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  Speaker 2: had never even crossed his mind.
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  Speaker 1: That reaction must have pinged huge warning signals for the investigator.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, that shock, especially after his seemingly coherent story, made
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  Speaker 2: them dig much deeper into his alibi, into why he
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  Speaker 2: was at that cafe in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: He talked to the friends he was with, yes, and.
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  Speaker 2: The friends confirmed the timeline to call the rush everything.
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  Speaker 2: But they add this one really unusual detail. Ahmed had
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  Speaker 2: specifically invited them out that night, and he insisted they
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  Speaker 2: stay out late, which they said was completely out of
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  Speaker 2: character for him. His routine was always work, then straight
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  Speaker 2: home by six or seven pm.
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  Speaker 1: So him being out late at the cafe wasn't spontaneous,
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  Speaker 1: it was planned.
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  Speaker 2: It suggests it was pre planned, a deliberate deviation from
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  Speaker 2: his norm. It started looking less like a casual night
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  Speaker 2: out and more like well constructing an alibi.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the unusual night out, his shock about the autopsy.
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  Speaker 1: It paints a picture. But the autopsy itself must have
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  Speaker 1: been the key.
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  Speaker 2: It was the key that unlocked the entire horrific truth.
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  Speaker 2: The medical examiner's report was devastating.
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  Speaker 1: What did it confirm?
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  Speaker 2: First, Kaream did have a significant amount of poison in
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  Speaker 2: his system rat poison. Specifically, they found it in food residue,
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  Speaker 2: something like ghetteau or cake.
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  Speaker 1: So Basher's story about him being sick was technically true.
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  Speaker 1: He was poisoned.
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  Speaker 2: He was. But here's the dark, almost unbelievable twist. That
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  Speaker 2: poison he wasn't what killed it?
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  Speaker 1: Wait? What he was poisoned but died of something else?
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  Speaker 2: Correct, The poison hadn't worked fast enough, or maybe it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a lethal enough dose on its own. The actual
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  Speaker 2: definitive cause of death was strangulation.
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  Speaker 1: So the thread they found exactly, and.
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  Speaker 2: The EMMY determined it wasn't done by hand that usually
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  Speaker 2: leaves much clearer bruising. This was strangulation, using something like
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  Speaker 2: a piece of cloth pulled hard from both sides. It
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  Speaker 2: minimizes the marks, makes it harder to.
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  Speaker 1: Spot wells from both sides.
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  Speaker 2: That implies It implies more than one person. This is
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  Speaker 2: a premeditated murder carried out inside the home, and the
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  Speaker 2: strangulation suggests a desperate, perhaps unplanned escalation when the poison failed.
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  Speaker 1: So now the focus has to swing sharply towards Basha Eir,
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  Speaker 1: the wife, and her connection to Ahmed.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, investigators pull surveillance footage from around the family home
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  Speaker 2: and it starts connecting the dots.
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  Speaker 1: What does the footage show?
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  Speaker 2: Two pm, hours before Kareem even got home from work,
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  Speaker 2: Bascher is seen buying gatteau from a local bakery.
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  Speaker 1: The delivery system for the poison seems likely.
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  Speaker 2: But then the really crucial footage. It shows Ahmed, the
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  Speaker 2: older brother, arriving at the house at five yearo.
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  Speaker 1: PM, when he was supposed to be heading home from
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  Speaker 1: work or getting ready to.
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  Speaker 2: Go out exactly. He goes inside, stays for only about
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  Speaker 2: fifteen minutes, leaves at five to fifteen pm, and then
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  Speaker 2: heads to the cafe, arriving around six zero zero pm
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  Speaker 2: to meet his friends and start building that alibi.
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  Speaker 1: That five point zero pm visit is completely outside his
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  Speaker 1: normal routine. It's the missing link.
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  Speaker 2: It's critical places him at the scene shortly after the
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  Speaker 2: cake was bought. What was he doing there? Delivering something coordinating?
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  Speaker 2: While Bachier is brought in and the note. She's eerily composed,
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  Speaker 2: but her eyes keep darting around. They check her.
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  Speaker 1: Phone, and the phone reveals the motive.
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  Speaker 2: It reveals the relationship. Text messages, lots of them. The
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  Speaker 2: uncover what the reports call an unnatural relationship between Bashier
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  Speaker 2: and Ahmed. Yeah, way beyond normal brother in law sister
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  Speaker 2: in law interactions fair. The message is strongly indicated an affair.
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  Speaker 2: So now you have motive, opportunity, the suspicious meeting that failed, poisoning,
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  Speaker 2: the strangulation. All the pieces are falling into place.
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  Speaker 1: But Bashire is still denying everything, despite the evidence piling up.
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  Speaker 2: She is she has no prior criminal record. She's maintaining
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  Speaker 2: her composure, however, fragile. So the investigators decided to take
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  Speaker 2: a gamble, a big one.
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  Speaker 1: What do they do?
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  Speaker 2: They bluff? They tell Boshi are flat out. Ahmed confessed,
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  Speaker 2: he told us everything risky.
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  Speaker 1: What if she called their bluff.
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  Speaker 2: It was high risk? Yeah, but they must have sensed
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  Speaker 2: the dynamic from the texts and it worked instantly. Her
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  Speaker 2: composure just shattered, break completely, she confesses, But she tries
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  Speaker 2: to shift the ultimate blame. She admits, yes, I put
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  Speaker 2: the poison in his food, but then she adds the
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  Speaker 2: one who actually killed him, the one who strangled him,
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  Speaker 2: that was Ahmed.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So she admits her part, but throws him under
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  Speaker 1: the bus for the final act.
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  Speaker 2: And crucially, she confirms Ahmed brought her the rat poison
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  Speaker 2: during that five zero BM visit. Her confession lines up
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  Speaker 2: perfectly with the surveillance footage.
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  Speaker 1: This is just staggering betrayal. Why go this far? What murder?
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  Speaker 1: To understand that we probably need to go back further,
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  Speaker 1: right I do.
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  Speaker 2: Let's rewind about five years to twenty nineteen. That's when
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  Speaker 2: Kareem marries bosch Air. Even back then there were whispers
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  Speaker 2: apparently that she could be troublesome. Kareem goes to work
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  Speaker 2: a bread standard practice for many, visiting home maybe once
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  Speaker 2: a year. He's working hard, sending money back.
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  Speaker 1: But while he's away.
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  Speaker 2: Bascher's attention starts shifting towards Ahmed, the brother who stayed home,
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  Speaker 2: who was building businesses, who seemed wealthier, more successful, more
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  Speaker 2: powerful within the family structure.
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  Speaker 1: So she saw Ahmed as the better prospect, it appears so.
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  Speaker 2: Then, about eight months before the murder, both brothers are
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  Speaker 2: back living in Egypt full time. Ahmed is seen as entrepreneurial, ambitious,
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  Speaker 2: Kareem is described as more cautious. Bashara clearly starts comparing
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  Speaker 2: them and cream come up short.
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  Speaker 1: In her eyes, and the affair starts soon after.
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  Speaker 2: About six months before the murder, Basharla apparently initiates it.
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  Speaker 2: The report suggests she llures Ahmed in, maybe pretending she
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  Speaker 2: needs advice about her marriage problems.
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  Speaker 1: With Kareem, But it quickly becomes more than just talking.
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  Speaker 2: Much more. It escalates into a foreblown physical affair. And
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  Speaker 2: the detail here is just chillingly audacious. It often happened
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  Speaker 2: in Kareem's own bed while he was out working. It
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  Speaker 2: became like a daily thing.
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  Speaker 1: For them, unbelievable, and then the talk turns to murder.
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  Speaker 2: After about two months of the affair, bashar decides Kareem
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  Speaker 2: has to go her goal, get rid of Kareem, marry
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed the successful uncle.
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  Speaker 1: Did Ahmed resist or was he complicit from the start?
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  Speaker 2: He was deeply complicit. About three months into the affair,
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  Speaker 2: he apparently confess his own feelings to Bashar, deep jealousy
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  Speaker 2: of Kareem, desire for her. He apparently said things like
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  Speaker 2: he wished Kareem wasn't around. It wasn't just her idea
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  Speaker 2: became a mutual conspiracy.
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  Speaker 1: Fueled by her greed and his resentment jealousy masked as brotherly.
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  Speaker 2: Concern, precisely a toxic combination that festered for months.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's piece together that final night knowing all
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  Speaker 1: this backstory right.
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  Speaker 2: The initial plan was relatively simple, relying entirely on the poison.
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed needed that watertight alibi, hence the elaborate setup with
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  Speaker 2: his friends at the cafe.
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  Speaker 1: So Bashara buys the ghettau at four pm.
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed delivers the rat poison at five PM. During that secret.
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  Speaker 1: Visit, Kareem comes home around six pm completely unsuspecting. He
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  Speaker 1: even brings his own gettau, maybe for the family to share.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the tragic irony. Bashar takes both cakes into the kitchen,
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  Speaker 2: presumably mixes the poison into the portion meant for Kareem.
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  Speaker 1: Kareem eats it, goes to the bedroom, and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes later, the.
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  Speaker 2: Agony starts, intense stomach pains. Bashar, probably panicking but trying
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  Speaker 2: to stick to the plan, locks the two small children
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  Speaker 2: in their room, maybe to shield them, maybe just to
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  Speaker 2: keep them out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: But the poison isn't working as planned.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not fast enough, not lethal enough. Thirty minutes past,
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  Speaker 2: Kareem is still alive, suffering horribly. The plan is failing catastrophically.
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  Speaker 1: So Bashar makes the call.
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  Speaker 2: She calls Ahmed at the cafe he's nearby with his witnesses.
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  Speaker 2: He rushes back to the house, leaving his friends waiting downstairs.
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  Speaker 2: He goes inside seize the situation. Kareem alive, the poison plan.
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  Speaker 1: A disaster, and he makes a split second decision, a
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  Speaker 1: fatal one.
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  Speaker 2: He realizes they can't wait, They can't risk Kareem recovering
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  Speaker 2: or someone else discovering him like this. He has to
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  Speaker 2: end it now. He demands Bashar give him a piece
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  Speaker 2: of cloth.
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  Speaker 1: This is it, the point of no return.
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  Speaker 2: The absolute point of no return, he wraps the cloth
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  Speaker 2: around his own brother's neck. The report includes this detail.
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  Speaker 2: Kareem looks up at Ahmed, his older brother, confused, likely expecting.
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  Speaker 1: Help, Oh God, expecting help and instead instead, Ahmed and
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  Speaker 1: Bashar stand on opposite sides and pull.
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  Speaker 2: They tighten the cloth until Kareem stops breathing, until he's dead,
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  Speaker 2: right there at the hands of his wife and the
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  Speaker 2: brother he trusted.
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  Speaker 1: That image, Kareem looking up in Ahmed, that's horrifying.
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  Speaker 2: It's the core of the betrayal. Ahmed then immediately shifts gears.
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  Speaker 2: He has to salvage the situation, make it look like
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  Speaker 2: a desperate rush to save Kareem. He stages the scene,
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  Speaker 2: carries Kareem's body out to his waiting friends, plays the
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  Speaker 2: distraught brother all the way to the hospital. Also got
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  Speaker 2: away with it almost but the washed face, the thread,
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  Speaker 2: the autopsy, the surveillance, the texts, and ultimately Basharer's confession,
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  Speaker 2: it all came together. Ahmed denied it later during formal interrogation,
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  Speaker 2: but the evidence was overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to them?
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  Speaker 2: The court found both Ahmed and Bashire guilty of premeditated murder.
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  Speaker 2: Both were sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 1: Such a senseless waste. You look at Kareem, he clearly
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  Speaker 1: looked up to Ahmed, saw him as a role model,
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  Speaker 1: the successful older brother. He had absolutely no idea about
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  Speaker 1: the hatred, the jealousy brewing beneath.
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  Speaker 2: The surface, none at all, And Barsharar. She threw everything away,
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  Speaker 2: her husband's life, her own freedom, her children's future, all
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  Speaker 2: for what an illusion of wealth with Ahmed, money that
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  Speaker 2: became completely meaningless the moment they were caught.
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  Speaker 1: It's just worthless.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe that's the thing to really think about here
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  Speaker 2: as we wrap up this deep dive. The most chilling
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  Speaker 2: part isn't just the murder itself, but how quickly that
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  Speaker 2: switch flipped, How greed, jealousy, that toxic mix of resentment
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  Speaker 2: and misplaced desire, turned some unseen as a protective figure,
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  Speaker 2: an older brother, into a killer in that moment of panic. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: makes you wonder, doesn't it. How well can you ever
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  Speaker 2: truly know someone's heart, the secret resentments they might carry,
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  Speaker 2: especially those you trust the most. Well, it's something to
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  Speaker 2: really consider after hearing about this devastating betrayal.