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The Washing Machine Corpse and the Widow's Secret Double Life · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back today. We're heading to Alexandria, Egypt. Back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Picture this a police station and the air
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  Speaker 1: just crackles with well suspicion. Really, a thirty four year
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  Speaker 1: old man, Ibrahim.
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  Speaker 2: Walks in, right, and he's there for something serious, reporting
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  Speaker 2: his mother missing, Haja Ailah, fifty three years old.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing that immediately throws up a massive
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  Speaker 1: red flag for the officers taking the report.
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  Speaker 2: It's the timeline, isn't it. It wasn't just that she was missing,
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  Speaker 2: it was how long she'd apparently been missing before he
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  Speaker 2: reported it.
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  Speaker 1: A full two weeks, fourteen days. Can you imagine.
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  Speaker 2: It's staggering. And when they pushed him on why the delay,
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  Speaker 2: his explanation was stark.
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  Speaker 1: He said their relationship was broken, had been for years,
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  Speaker 1: basically non existent, he claimed, and that.
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  Speaker 2: He'd been searching for her himself first before deciding to
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  Speaker 2: involve the police.
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  Speaker 1: Now that explanation, strained as it sounds, it immediately suggests
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  Speaker 1: a couple things to the investigators.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Definitely, either this son is frankly negligent to an
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  Speaker 2: extreme degree, or maybe just maybe the victim herself lived
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  Speaker 2: a life that meant disappearing for two weeks could actually
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  Speaker 2: go unnoticed.
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  Speaker 1: And that second possibility, that's the chilling.
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  Speaker 2: Part, it really is, because even before they knew anything else,
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  Speaker 2: that lack of an immediate outcry, it told them something vital.
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  Speaker 1: That the killer, assuming there was one, had a huge.
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  Speaker 2: Window, a massive window of opportunity gifted to them. And
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the person who eventually noticed was this
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  Speaker 2: estranged sun It just hammered home how incredibly isolated Hoja
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  Speaker 2: Islam must have been. So.
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  Speaker 1: Iberhem takes the officers to his mother's apartment and the
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  Speaker 1: scene right there outside the door, it just confirms everyone's
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  Speaker 1: worst fears.
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  Speaker 2: The door's lock bolted, apparently from the outside. Neighbors haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen her for a long time, they say.
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  Speaker 1: But standing there on the landing, Iberhem the officers, they're
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  Speaker 1: hit by this, this overpowering sensation.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the smell, heavy foul, unmistakable coming from inside
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  Speaker 2: the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: That changes everything.
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  Speaker 2: No more waiting, No, that stench means immediate action. They
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  Speaker 2: have to break down the door, and.
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  Speaker 1: What they find inside is confusing at first, yeah, almost contradictory.
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  Speaker 2: It is the apartment's sparsely furnished. It looks like she
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been there long, maybe just a few months. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff is still packed up in cardboard moving boxes.
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  Speaker 1: But the smell, and it isn't coming from the boxes,
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  Speaker 1: is it.
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  Speaker 2: No, It pulls them deeper in past the main living space,
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  Speaker 2: toward the back, near the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: And there it is a large washing machine cartan.
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  Speaker 2: Sealed up, just sitting there, awkwardly placed, obviously trying to
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  Speaker 2: conceal something they knew. Right then they'd found it.
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  Speaker 1: The source opening that box, well, that delivered the forensic shock.
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  Speaker 2: Inside wrapt heavily. Multiple layers of plastic bags then rolled
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  Speaker 2: up in a rug, the body of haja Aila.
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  Speaker 1: Already showing advanced decomposition.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the initial assessment was grimly clear. She'd been dead
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  Speaker 2: a long time. And it wasn't peaceful. Visible signs of
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  Speaker 2: knife wounds, blows, just brutal.
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  Speaker 1: Caartment itself told a story of incredible violence.
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  Speaker 2: The forensic team starts mapping it all out, and the
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  Speaker 2: evidence paints this picture of absolute fury.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't some quick surprise attack. The sources actually call
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  Speaker 1: it a battle, not a simple murder.
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  Speaker 2: You can see why. There's blood spatter on the living
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  Speaker 2: room table, traces of blood leading into the bedroom. She
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  Speaker 2: clearly fought back hard and the weapon they found it
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  Speaker 2: a knife covered in blood, just discarded in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: The sheer amount of blood scattered across different rooms. It
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  Speaker 2: confirms that fierce resistance.
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  Speaker 1: But here's another layer. Amidst all this violence, this apparent battle,
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  Speaker 1: the killer also stopped to steal.
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  Speaker 2: Things, right, It's not just a frenzy. Drawers, closets clearly
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  Speaker 2: ransacked looking for valuables.
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  Speaker 1: The television was taken, just ripped from the wall. You
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  Speaker 1: could still see the cut wires dangling there.
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  Speaker 2: That detail, the cut wires, it speaks to either haste
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  Speaker 2: or maybe just sheer audacity, like they weren't worried about
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  Speaker 2: leaving clues exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where the investigation starts to pivot. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: it away from just a random break in gone wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely? Because remember the apartment was locked securely from.
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  Speaker 1: The outside, no forced entry.
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  Speaker 2: None, which means the killer either had a key already
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  Speaker 2: or they stole Ila's.
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  Speaker 1: Key during the struggle, so someone she knew.
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  Speaker 2: Had to be. It points towards a domestic situation followed
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  Speaker 2: by a robbery to perhaps cover tracks or just for gain.
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  Speaker 1: The initial scenario the police started putting together suggests this
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  Speaker 1: chilling calmness from the killer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like attack starts in the living room, the body
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  Speaker 2: gets moved maybe to the bedroom first, and only later
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  Speaker 2: it's put into that washing machine box.
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  Speaker 1: It suggests the killer felt incredibly confident believe that because
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  Speaker 1: Ila lived such an isolated life, they had days, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even weeks before anyone would even realize she was gone.
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  Speaker 2: So their first logical step is relationships who was close
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  Speaker 2: to her or who had been close to her.
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  Speaker 1: And they find something almost immediately in a bag left
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  Speaker 1: the the living room.
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  Speaker 2: A customary marriage certificate, an.
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  Speaker 1: Irfi marriage bearing the name of Medhetz.
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  Speaker 2: Instantly, he becomes the prime suspect until they start digging
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  Speaker 2: into who Hajailah actually was in.
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  Speaker 1: This next part of the story. This is where our
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  Speaker 1: deep dive really begins, because the background on Ila was
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  Speaker 1: apparently so unexpected it shocked even her own son Ibrahim.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with her reputation.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So after Isisla's first husband died she was only
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight, she began this very specific pattern. She started
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  Speaker 2: marrying younger men frequently but.
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  Speaker 1: Always using this customary marriage the Earfi not a formal civil.
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  Speaker 2: Marriage, and there was a very calculated reason for that.
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  Speaker 2: It was specifically to protect her late husband's pension. A
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  Speaker 2: formal marriage would have cut off that income stream.
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  Speaker 1: That's wow, that's some serious strategic thinking. But it came
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  Speaker 1: at a huge personal price.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't it monumental. Her two sons grew up deeply ashamed
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  Speaker 2: of her lifestyle, the constant rotation of younger men, and we.
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  Speaker 1: Learned something truly tragic. Ibrahim's brother had actually committed suicide
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  Speaker 1: just two years before this, reportedly because he couldn't handle
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  Speaker 1: the damage to the family's reputation from their mother's.
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  Speaker 2: Choices, which explains why Ibrahim had cut ties so completely.
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  Speaker 2: The stigma was intense, and it seems she operated outside
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  Speaker 2: of it, but her sons couldn't escape it.
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  Speaker 1: There's a sort of tragic symmetry there and their isolation
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  Speaker 1: there is.
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  Speaker 2: And Isla had these strict rules for her relationships, showing
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  Speaker 2: incredible control. She insists, absolutely insisted that all meetings happen
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  Speaker 2: in her apartment. She wouldn't move in with anyone, and
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  Speaker 2: she moved all the time, constantly every four months or so. Apparently,
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  Speaker 2: why because neighbors would complain about the stream of younger
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  Speaker 2: men coming and going, so she'd just pack up.
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  Speaker 1: And move control in the venue, the terms, the type
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  Speaker 1: of marriage. But where did the power to do all
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  Speaker 1: that come from? The money?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly? The money she had couldn't possibly be explained by
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  Speaker 2: just a widow's pension. It pointed to something else, entirely
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  Speaker 2: a hidden life, and the truth.
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  Speaker 1: The police uncovered was well, it was stunning. Hadja Eisler
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  Speaker 1: was a professional beggar.
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  Speaker 2: At Tasawel or shaht as it's known, Highly organized, very professional.
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  Speaker 2: She'd work this job daily, apparently earning quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Then she'd change clothes, which explains those odd shabby clothes
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  Speaker 1: found at the crime scene.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and she'd return to her apartment to live her
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  Speaker 2: other life, the financially independent woman who controlled these younger
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  Speaker 2: men through her resources.
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  Speaker 1: What a double life built entirely on compartmentalization, her independence,
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  Speaker 1: her control moving constantly. It all stemmed from this secret,
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  Speaker 1: profitable profession.
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  Speaker 2: She controlled the money and that let her dictate the
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  Speaker 2: terms of these irfi marriages.
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  Speaker 1: So, with this new understanding of the victim, the investigation
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  Speaker 1: circles back to Midhat, the name on that certificate.
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  Speaker 2: Mannot's twenty six, works in a coffee shop. He confirms
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  Speaker 2: he'd only been married to Aila for about two months
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  Speaker 2: before she died, and pretty quickly he's cleared.
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  Speaker 1: But he gives them the next crucial piece of the puzzle.
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  Speaker 2: He does. But before we get to that, let's jump
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  Speaker 2: back to the forensic team, because they dropped a couple
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  Speaker 2: of bombshells that completely changed the understanding of how she
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  Speaker 2: died and the timeline.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what did they find first?
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  Speaker 2: The final cause of death wasn't the stabbing or the blows.
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  Speaker 2: It was determined to be strangulation, suffocation.
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  Speaker 1: After the head blow, and the knife was.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly that sequence. Blow, stab, then strangulation. It suggests the
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  Speaker 2: killer was absolutely determined to finish it, and maybe specifically
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  Speaker 2: to silence her screams.
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  Speaker 1: But the timing detail was even more revealing. Wasn't it
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  Speaker 1: about when the body was put in the box?
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  Speaker 2: That was the real shocker. The analysis indicated the body
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  Speaker 2: was placed in that cart in at least two days
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  Speaker 2: after she died.
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  Speaker 1: Two days. That's ye, that's not panic, that's planning.
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  Speaker 2: Cold calculated planning. It speaks volumes about the killer's mindset,
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  Speaker 2: exceptional calmness, a degree of premeditation, certainly in the cover up,
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  Speaker 2: how can they tell analysis of blood settling lividity, It
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  Speaker 2: suggested the body had been lying flat on its back
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  Speaker 2: for a long time after death, probably in the bedroom,
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  Speaker 2: before the killer wrapped it and put it in the cart.
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  Speaker 1: So they took their time, secured their escape first, then
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  Speaker 1: dealt with the body chilling and.
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  Speaker 2: One more confusing piece from forensics the knife, the one
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  Speaker 2: in the bathroom. It had two distinct blood types on it,
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  Speaker 2: not just Ila's.
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  Speaker 1: Two types, so maybe the killer.
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  Speaker 2: Was wounded, possibly a defensive wound on the killer, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe Eila got a cut on him. But strangely, the
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  Speaker 2: only fingerprints found on the knife handle itself belonged to Isla,
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  Speaker 2: so maybe.
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  Speaker 1: She grabbed it first, tried to defend herself.
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  Speaker 2: It's a strong possibility, adds to that picture of a
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  Speaker 2: fierce struggle. But while forensics is dealing with this complex
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  Speaker 2: physical evidence, the detectives get their next big lead from
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  Speaker 2: the human side from Medhat.
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  Speaker 1: Right men had pointed them somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: He told them about Isla's previous husband, a guy named Redda,
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight years old, an upholster amonged.
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  Speaker 1: And Redda was still sometimes coming to the apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently to finish some upholstery work on her furniture.
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  Speaker 2: And Ritta, well, he fit a certain profilele He had
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  Speaker 2: a reputation specifically for seeking out older women who would
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  Speaker 2: support him financially. It was apparently a pattern he'd learned
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  Speaker 2: from his older brother.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, alarm bells are definitely ringing, now you bet.
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  Speaker 2: Police go check Rada's workshop, which he shared with his brother.
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  Speaker 2: It's locked up tight. Both brothers are gone missing.
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  Speaker 1: Suspicion skyrockets.
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  Speaker 2: Then they get a crucial tip. Confidential informant reports seeing
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  Speaker 2: Ridda actually lurking around the neighborhood after the crime scene
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  Speaker 2: was discovered by police checking things.
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  Speaker 1: Out, try and see if the body.
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  Speaker 2: Had been found exactly. It confirms their suspicion. He knew
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  Speaker 2: what happened. He was worried, but he still felt confident.
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  Speaker 2: She bought himself enough time.
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  Speaker 1: The net Titans fast after that, I assaient, very fast.
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  Speaker 2: They track Rita and his brother down. They're hiding out
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  Speaker 2: in a relative's apartment and the arrest. The moment Rita
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  Speaker 2: saw the police officers approaching him, he just confessed immediately everything.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, no denial, just confession.
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  Speaker 2: Laid it all there, and his confession really exposed the
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  Speaker 2: raw transactional nature of his marriage to Aila.
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  Speaker 1: He knew about her money from begging.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he married her knowing she had this secret
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  Speaker 2: wealth and knowing her habit of using money to control
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  Speaker 2: younger men. He saw her as an opportunity, a guaranteed income.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't enough for him.
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  Speaker 2: Was it not even close? After just one month of
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  Speaker 2: this arrangement, Rita started demanding more. He wanted Isla to
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  Speaker 2: let him quit his upholstery job and join her begging
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  Speaker 2: business share the profits, but she refused, absolutely refused. That
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  Speaker 2: was her secret, her source of power. She wasn't sharing
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  Speaker 2: the secret of the profession, as he put it. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: her rules still stood. He lives with his parents, only
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  Speaker 2: visits when called.
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  Speaker 1: Did he follow the rules not at all?
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  Speaker 2: He ignored them, started basically extorting money from her daily,
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  Speaker 2: even had the nerve to charge her for the upholstery
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  Speaker 2: work he was doing in her own apartment.
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  Speaker 1: So the relationship soured fast.
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  Speaker 2: Very fast. Isaa was getting tired of it, tired of
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  Speaker 2: the constant expt flotation. She was planning to end things
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  Speaker 2: with him, which brings us to the day it all happened,
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  Speaker 2: Rada shows up, supposedly to do more upholstery work. Isla
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  Speaker 2: goes into the bathroom for a moment, and he immediately
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  Speaker 2: goes for her bag, looking for cigarette money, he claimed,
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  Speaker 2: but instead he finds something else, the earthy certificate from
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  Speaker 2: Medhat Bingo, and the rage that explodes in him. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't jealousy and not heartbreak. It was purely financial.
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  Speaker 1: He realized his meal ticket was ending.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly Menatt was going to replace him, his source of
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  Speaker 2: daily cash, his means of exploitation right gone.
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  Speaker 1: So when Isa came out of the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: He confronted her, waving the certificate, and her response just
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  Speaker 2: poured gasoline on the fire.
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  Speaker 1: What did she say?
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  Speaker 2: According to Rada, she basically told him that Hat was younger,
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  Speaker 2: bothered her less, and was better than him.
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  Speaker 1: Ouch then was to push him over the edge.
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  Speaker 2: Instantly, Isla apparently saw the look in his eyes, the godar,
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  Speaker 2: he called it, the malicious intent. She knew she was
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  Speaker 2: in danger.
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  Speaker 1: She screamed, tried to get him out, Yeah, she.
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  Speaker 2: Screamed, tried to push him out of the apartment. He
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  Speaker 2: shoves her hard, she falls, hits her head on the
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  Speaker 2: salon table. That initial blow from the outline stunder maybe
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  Speaker 2: must have. But she scrambles up, desperate, runs to the
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  Speaker 2: kitchen and grabs.
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  Speaker 1: The knife, the one they found later with her prints right.
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  Speaker 2: She threatens him with it, trying to defend herself.
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  Speaker 1: The Rita wasn't scared of the knife as much.
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  Speaker 2: As her screams. He was terrified the neighbors would hear.
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  Speaker 2: That was his main fear. So he overpowers her, disarms her,
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  Speaker 2: stabs her in the abdomen, but she keeps screaming, so
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  Speaker 2: finally to silence her, to end the struggle, he strangles.
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  Speaker 1: Her, silence her, horrifying.
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  Speaker 2: And the calculation kicks in immediately the moment she's dead,
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  Speaker 2: Rita said he just sat there next to her body
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  Speaker 2: for two.
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  Speaker 1: Full hours, two hours doing what.
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  Speaker 2: Planning, meticulously planning the cover up. He knew he couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do it alone. He needed help, so.
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  Speaker 1: He called his brother.
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  Speaker 2: He called his brother, explained what happened, and the brother's
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  Speaker 2: advice was brutally practical.
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  Speaker 1: What did he say?
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  Speaker 2: Steal everything valuable, TV, gold, cash and sell it immediately
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  Speaker 2: before the crime gets discovered and descriptions of the stolen
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  Speaker 2: items start circulating.
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of it fast, and the brother helped.
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  Speaker 2: Without hesitation, arrived two hours later, took all the stolen goods,
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  Speaker 2: went off sold them, and came back with the cash for.
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  Speaker 1: Rita wow complicit immediately totally.
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  Speaker 2: That same night, Rita moves AILA's body into the bedroom,
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  Speaker 2: lets it lie there. Then the following day that's when
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  Speaker 2: he does the wrapping, wraps it in the plastic and
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  Speaker 2: the rug, seals it inside that washing machine carton, and
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  Speaker 2: then just calmly walks out of the apartment, absolutely certain,
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  Speaker 2: utterly certain that because of her isolation, her estranged family,
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  Speaker 2: her secret life, nobody would notice, nobody would investigate for weeks,
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  Speaker 2: maybe longer.
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  Speaker 1: And he was almost right.
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  Speaker 2: He was, his confidence held. He even went back to
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  Speaker 2: check the neighborhood days later, saw no police activity. Felt
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  Speaker 2: safe until Ibrahim finally filed that missing person report and
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  Speaker 2: the uh the smell gave the whole thing away.
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  Speaker 1: So Rita and his brother both arrested. Both confessed, facing
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  Speaker 1: premeditated murder charges and assisting with the theft.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's a case just steeped in this dark symmetry,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: It really is. You have Ilah defined by her secret
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  Speaker 1: profession using her money to try and control younger men.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have Rita, defined by his reputation for
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  Speaker 2: exploiting older women financially, their compromise, lives, their secrets. They
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  Speaker 2: collided directly over.
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  Speaker 1: Money and that calculation, that coldness, especially the two day
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  Speaker 1: delay before disposing of the body. It just underscores the
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  Speaker 1: premeditation involved in the cover up.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, this specific murder, this cover up, it was only
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  Speaker 2: really possible because of Isla's unique lifestyle, her secrecy, her
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  Speaker 2: deliberate cutting off of family ties. It gave the killer
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  Speaker 2: the time.
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  Speaker 1: He needed and the certainty, the absolute certainty he could
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  Speaker 1: act without immediate.
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  Speaker 2: Consequence, precisely, which leaves you with a really sobering thought,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It does. When you build a life centered on control
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  Speaker 1: and secrecy, deliberately isolating yourself from maybe accountability or even
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  Speaker 1: just connection, how much does that very isolation empower someone
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  Speaker 1: who wants to harm you? Something to think about.