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The 85-Day Deception: Poison, Sabotage, and the Fatal Affair of the Angel Bride · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Imagine this scene. It's quiet in Abu Roh Wash, Giza,
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  Speaker 1: early morning, maybe eight zero am. The day's just starting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the sun's probably coming up. You hear maybe distant traffic.
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  Speaker 2: But right there, at this specific family home, there's this ah,
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  Speaker 2: this awful stillness.
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  Speaker 1: You look up second floor apartment. Mostafa's microbus, the one
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  Speaker 1: he works so hard in. It's parked right outside.
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  Speaker 2: Like always, but something's immediately wrong. The door to his apartment,
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  Speaker 2: his and his new wife, Nora's place, it's not closed right,
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  Speaker 2: it's open, just a crack.
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  Speaker 1: And downstairs on the first floor his parents. They've been
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  Speaker 1: feeling this dread since about two point am red.
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  Speaker 2: They heard the sound really loud, sharp, like something heavy,
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  Speaker 2: just bang hit the floor upstairs, and then silence.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't shake it. So the father, he goes up,
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  Speaker 1: calls his son's name, nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And inside it's chaos, not just messy, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: every day clutter, looks like it's been torn apart, ransacked.
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  Speaker 1: He goes into the bedroom and there's Mostafa. He's only
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, covered completely by sheet on the bed.
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  Speaker 2: The fodder reaches out, pulls back that sheet and just horror,
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  Speaker 2: you see blood bruises, the strange fluid around his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: That cry, that raw sound of a parent finding their
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  Speaker 1: child like that, that's what pulls us into this story,
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  Speaker 1: the eighty five day deception that ended most of his life.
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  Speaker 2: So today we're diving deep into this. How does a
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  Speaker 2: marriage that lasts what less than three months end like
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  Speaker 2: this with such brutality.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with Mustaf himself. He sounds like a decent guy, right.
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  Speaker 2: Fardworking, diligent. His dad helped him get the microbus. He
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  Speaker 2: lied right there in the family building, second floor, parents below,
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  Speaker 2: solid setup.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't even keen on marriage initially, was he not?
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  Speaker 2: Really no? But then he saw Nora Norhan. Actually she
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  Speaker 2: was eighteen, a distant relative, apparently just stunningly beautiful. People
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  Speaker 2: called her an angel, and that was it.
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  Speaker 1: He was hooked.
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  Speaker 2: Seems like it totally changed his mind. And because the
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  Speaker 2: apartment was already to go, everything move fast, engagement wedding
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  Speaker 2: plans very But his mother she.
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  Speaker 1: Pick up on something early on, didn't she?
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  Speaker 2: During the engagement she did, That's a really key detail.
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  Speaker 2: She sensed Nora wasn't comfortable, something felt off unnatural about her.
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  Speaker 2: She actually said something yes, and very respectfully too. She
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  Speaker 2: went to Nora privately and basically offered her a way out, said, look,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not happy, we can stop this now, no shame,
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  Speaker 2: no embarrassment.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, an escape patch right there exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But Nora refused, insisted she was happy that Mostapha was
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  Speaker 2: responsible and she wanted to go through with it. Rejected
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  Speaker 2: that first chance to get out.
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  Speaker 1: So fast forward seven months from the engagement, they get married,
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  Speaker 1: and the happiness lasted how long?
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  Speaker 2: About five days? Maybe not even that. Mostafa said right
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  Speaker 2: from day one Nora seemed incredibly tense, just not natural,
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  Speaker 2: and then on day five she just snapped, almost gathered
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  Speaker 2: her clothes, her makeup, moved into the spare children's room.
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  Speaker 1: The one with the window. That detail becomes important later,
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  Speaker 1: right crucial.
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  Speaker 2: She moved in there, locked the door from the inside,
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  Speaker 2: and that was it. Refuse to come back to the
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  Speaker 2: main bedroom. Total isolation. Just five days.
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  Speaker 1: In five days, that's not just adjusting, that feels planned.
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  Speaker 1: What does Mostafa do?
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  Speaker 2: He was likely devastated, confused, ashamed. Probably. Then about two
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  Speaker 2: weeks later, there's a big fight, loud enough for his
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  Speaker 2: mother downstairs to hear.
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  Speaker 1: So she steps in again.
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  Speaker 2: She does second time goes up, there, sees her son's
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  Speaker 2: clearly miserable and offers them both an honorable divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Again, let me guess.
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  Speaker 2: Nor refused, same excuse, just stressed, overwhelmed by married life.
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  Speaker 2: And so this bizarre routine sets in.
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  Speaker 1: Most It works all day, comes home exhausted, she makes dinner,
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  Speaker 1: he eats it, presumably alone, then sleeps alone. She stays
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  Speaker 1: locked in a room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for a whole month, this was their life, separate
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  Speaker 2: lives under the same roof.
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  Speaker 1: But then things got even stranger, right the pregnancy.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly suddenly they find out Nor's pregnant, which is well
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  Speaker 2: odd considering Mostafa said they'd only been intimate that one
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  Speaker 2: time on the wedding night.
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  Speaker 1: The timeline definitely raises questions, but her reaction was immediate.
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  Speaker 2: Instantly demanded an abortion. Her reason, the marriage was unstable.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't want to bring a child into this mess.
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  Speaker 1: And Mazova agreed.
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  Speaker 2: He and his mother, Yeah, they seemed worn down by
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  Speaker 2: it all. Reluctantly they agreed. So after the abortion, Nora
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  Speaker 2: went to her parents' house for about fifteen days. So
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  Speaker 2: now we're what forty five days into the marriage, not
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  Speaker 2: a single happy one. According to Mustafa, and.
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  Speaker 1: She comes back and goes right back to the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately, same routine, but this is when things shift from
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  Speaker 2: just marital misery to something well actively sinister.
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  Speaker 1: The accidents start happening right.
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  Speaker 2: Over the next couple of weeks. First incident, Mustafa drinks
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  Speaker 2: some juice before work, suddenly gets hit with crippling.
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  Speaker 1: Stomach pain, needs a stomach pump.
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  Speaker 2: So poisoning looks like it serious enough for an emergency
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  Speaker 2: stomach pump, but at the time maybe dismissed as just
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  Speaker 2: bad food or something.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what next?
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  Speaker 2: His microbus The brakes completely fail while he's driving. He
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  Speaker 2: manages to survive, gets a checked out. The mechanic finds
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  Speaker 2: the brake fluid line was deliberately messed with, the fluid
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  Speaker 2: was drained drained.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's not accidental, that's attempt.
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  Speaker 2: To murder clearly. And then just days later another issue
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  Speaker 2: with the bus. The engine oiled drain plug is found loosened,
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  Speaker 2: all the oil drained out again right after it had
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  Speaker 2: been serviced.
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  Speaker 1: Poison, brake failure, engine sabotage, all within about two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, it's a pattern. Calculated attempts to make his death
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  Speaker 2: look like an accident or illness.
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  Speaker 1: It's chilling. But hold on, did anyone connect these did
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  Speaker 1: Mustava suspect her?
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  Speaker 2: It seems like they were trying hard not to connect
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  Speaker 2: the dots. Maybe the shame, the desire for things to
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  Speaker 2: just work out. Denials powerful, powerful.
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  Speaker 1: Enough to ignore someone tampering with the vehicle. Didn't anyone
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  Speaker 1: see anything?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, yes, Mustafa's father he saw some young guy hanging
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  Speaker 2: around the microbus one morning, someone he didn't recognize, not
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  Speaker 2: from the area.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what happened?
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  Speaker 2: The guy saw Maustafa's dad looking at him and just
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  Speaker 2: took off, fled immediately. That sounds incredibly suspicious, it does,
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  Speaker 2: But the father unbelievably talked himself out of it, dismissed
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  Speaker 2: his own gut feeling as quote unreal delusions. Just couldn't
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  Speaker 2: accept the possibility.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that denial. It's heartbreaking, which leads us to the
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  Speaker 1: next weird event around day eighty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just before the end, another big argument, and then
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  Speaker 2: Nora just vanishes from the apartment. She's found later out
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  Speaker 2: in the street somewhere. Her story it was incredible, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's hear it. She claims she opened the window in
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  Speaker 2: her locker room remember the window, climbed out onto the
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  Speaker 2: roof of the next building and then used their internal
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  Speaker 2: stairs to get down to the street.
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  Speaker 1: That is quite the acrobatic escape and specific, extremely specific,
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  Speaker 1: and physically quite risky. But again, in the chaos, nobody
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  Speaker 1: really questioned how she knew that route or why she'd
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  Speaker 1: do something so drastic, chalked it up to panic.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they just accepted it. Five more days pass, we're
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  Speaker 2: at day eighty five, the final night.
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  Speaker 1: Mostofa gets home around seven pm. Later that night, about
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  Speaker 1: eleven pm, his mother goes upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: What does she find?
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  Speaker 1: The apartment door is slightly open again. As she walks in,
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  Speaker 1: she sees Nora quickly shutting the bedroom door, saying Mostafa's
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  Speaker 1: inside asleep, exhausted from wark. Okay. Then Nora does something odd.
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  Speaker 1: She offers the mother a glass.
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  Speaker 2: Of juice, which, given the previous juice.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, the mother refuses the juice, feels uneasy about the
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  Speaker 1: whole situation, but she leaves.
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  Speaker 2: And then three hours later, two point oh am that's
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  Speaker 2: when the parents hear it. The loud crash from upstairs,
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  Speaker 2: the sound of something heavy falling, then total silence again.
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward to eight am. The father goes up, finds
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  Speaker 1: Mustafa the horror we started.
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  Speaker 2: With, and soon after Nora returns plays the part of
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  Speaker 2: the hysterical widow perfectly claims she left Mustafa sleeping, went
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  Speaker 2: to the market, then her parents' house.
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  Speaker 1: The initial police saw it with the mess was robbery.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, robbery gone wrong. It looks stage that way. But
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  Speaker 2: the forensics team they saw through it prety quickly.
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  Speaker 1: What did they find.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first, nothing was actually stolen, big red flag for
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  Speaker 2: a robbery. The mess was just mess staged.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what else?
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  Speaker 2: They found a fingerprint belonging to neither Mustafa nor Nora.
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  Speaker 2: A third person was in that apartment, yeh.
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  Speaker 1: And the autopsy that was.
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  Speaker 2: The nail in the coffin for the robbery theory. Massive
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  Speaker 2: doses of sleeping pills plus insecticide or pesticide, significant.
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  Speaker 1: Amount insecticide on top of the pills.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And that wasn't all. There were wounds on his
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  Speaker 2: face consistent with being hit by a sharp instrument, and
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  Speaker 2: widespread bruising all over.
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  Speaker 1: His body, so poisoning, drugging and a physical attack. This
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  Speaker 1: was personal.
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  Speaker 2: Ruly, absolutely, this wasn't a robbery gone wrong. It was
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  Speaker 2: a planned murder followed by a violin assault.
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  Speaker 1: So the police go back to Nora.
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  Speaker 2: They did, armed with the autopsy, the fingerprint, the stage scene.
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  Speaker 2: They arrested her and apparently she confessed fairly quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And revealed the partner, the owner of the third fingerprint.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, his name was Om, he was twenty two. Turned
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  Speaker 2: out he was Nora's long term boyfriend from before Mustafa
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  Speaker 2: her boyfriend.
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  Speaker 1: So why did she marry Mustafa?
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  Speaker 2: Family pressure? Her father had rejected Amor, called him useless,
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  Speaker 2: basically forced her into the marriage with Mustafa who seemed
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  Speaker 2: like a better prospect.
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  Speaker 1: So the whole marriage was a sham from her side
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  Speaker 1: right from.
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  Speaker 2: The start completely. And now the locked room, the window,
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  Speaker 2: It all clicks into place, doesn't it. Nora confessed she
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  Speaker 2: was putting sleeping pills in Mustafa's dinner every.
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  Speaker 1: Single one every night, My god.
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  Speaker 2: Once Mustapha was unconscious, Amar would climb through that window
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  Speaker 2: into her room. They'd be together right there in the
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  Speaker 2: apartment while Mustafa slept drug just feet away, and Mustapha's
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  Speaker 2: parents downstairs.
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  Speaker 1: They had no idea Omer would leave before morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, usually before six foe am undetected. This went on well.
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  Speaker 1: For weeks, So audacity is just breathtaking so Omer was
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  Speaker 1: the guy the father saw near the microbus that's right.
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  Speaker 2: And the poison juice, the brake sabotage. Those were their
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  Speaker 2: earlier attempts to kill Mustafa and make it look like
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  Speaker 2: an accident, planned together.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings us back to that final night two pointy am.
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  Speaker 1: What really happened.
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  Speaker 2: The plan again was poison, a huge dose of pills
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  Speaker 2: and insecticide this time, then staged the robbery.
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  Speaker 1: It's something went wrong.
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  Speaker 2: The massive dose. It didn't just knock him out, it
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  Speaker 2: caused an agonizing reaction. Mustapha woke up in terrible pain,
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  Speaker 2: probably heading for the bathroom. When he came back from
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  Speaker 2: the bathroom, stumbling in agony, he found them, Nora and
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  Speaker 2: Emmer together in his bedroom. Caught them red handed, the.
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  Speaker 1: Ultimate betrayal discovered in the worst possible way, and chaos erupted.
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  Speaker 2: Nora apparently struck the first blow, hit him in the
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  Speaker 2: face with something a metal gas canister, key, a gas key,
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  Speaker 2: just whatever was at hand, seems like it a moment
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  Speaker 2: of pure panic and violence. Then a mayre joined in.
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  Speaker 2: They beat Mustafa, already weakened by the poison, until he collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: That was the sound the parents heard the fall.
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  Speaker 2: That was the sound. He died within minutes, the report said,
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  Speaker 2: the combination of the massive drug dose and the physical trauma.
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  Speaker 1: And after he was dead.
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  Speaker 2: They finished staging the scene to look like a robbery.
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  Speaker 2: Then at six a m. They left the apartment together
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  Speaker 2: walked away.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable and the outcome justice.
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  Speaker 2: Both Nora and Ahmer were tried, convicted, and ultimately sentenced
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  Speaker 2: to execution for the murder.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the level of sustained deception, the coldness required
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  Speaker 1: to drug your husband every night, carry on an affair
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  Speaker 1: in his helm under his parents' roof.
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  Speaker 2: It's extreme, almost psychopathic in its audacity, rejecting the life
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  Speaker 2: forced upon her in the most brutal way imaginable.
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  Speaker 1: He comes back to those missed opportunities, doesn't it? The
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  Speaker 1: pressure Staffa's mother offered Nora that dignified exit three times
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  Speaker 1: three times.
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  Speaker 2: But the fear of disappointing her father, the shame of
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  Speaker 2: a failed marriage, maybe the desire to protect her secret
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  Speaker 2: life with Amor it was stronger. She chose deception and
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  Speaker 2: ultimately murder over simply walking away.
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  Speaker 1: It really makes you think, doesn't it? What kind of
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  Speaker 1: societal or internal pressure makes someone feel trapped like that,
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  Speaker 1: trapped enough to commit such horrific acts rather than accept
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  Speaker 1: an out even when everything is clearly falling apart.
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  Speaker 2: It's a heady question, the weight of marrying someone you
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  Speaker 2: despise the consequences of prioritizing appearance over truth. In this case,
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  Speaker 2: it was
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  Speaker 1: Fatal, a truly chilling in to an eighty five day deception.