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Decapitation, Blackmail, and a Baby: The Toxic Triangle That Led to Triple Murder in 1989 Giza · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the deep Dive. Today. We're going straight into
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  Speaker 1: a case that's well, it's less a single event and
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  Speaker 1: more like a terrible chain reaction. We're tracing how things
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  Speaker 1: fell apart, really all centering around one woman, gemmel At.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and what's really striking about this deep dive is
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  Speaker 2: how every time investigators thought they had an answer, it
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  Speaker 2: just opened up another darker question. It's a story where
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  Speaker 2: the crime didn't just end with one murder. It started
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  Speaker 2: with one and then it just it built from there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's set the scene. It's Giza, Egypt, August
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, near the Marietia Canal. There's this horrifying discovery.
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  Speaker 1: Police find a woman's body, badly mutilated, multiple stab wounds. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but the detail it really jumps out. The chilling thing.
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  Speaker 1: The head was completely separated from the body.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that level of violence, it's vesceral. It immediately
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  Speaker 2: suggests incredible rage, but also maybe a cold desire to
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  Speaker 2: prevent identification. So the police their first job was finding
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  Speaker 2: that head, and they did. Nearby it was sealed in
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  Speaker 2: a black bag. They confirmed the victim was a young woman,
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  Speaker 2: probably in her twenties. This wasn't random, you know, this
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  Speaker 2: felt planned, brutal. Who was she and who could do
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  Speaker 2: something like this?
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  Speaker 1: They started checking missing person reports and that's how they
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  Speaker 1: got a name, Gamelot. She was married to a man
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  Speaker 1: named Rita.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And here's where it immediately gets complicated, really complicated.
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  Speaker 2: Gamelot wasn't just missing. She had vanished with her baby
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  Speaker 2: son six months old. So that's two people gone right there.
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  Speaker 1: But then the factor that really throws everything into chaos
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  Speaker 1: her husband, Rita. He was already missing. He disappeared two
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  Speaker 1: months earlier, June nineteen eighty nine. And get this, Rita's
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  Speaker 1: family had already been to the police, not just reporting
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  Speaker 1: and missing, they were actually accusing Gamelot of being involved
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  Speaker 1: in his disappearance.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa Okay, So suddenly you've got what three massive tangled
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  Speaker 2: mysteries all at once. One who killed Gamelot and why
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  Speaker 2: the decapitation? Two? Where is the baby? The infant? Last
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  Speaker 2: scene with her? And three the original question, what actually
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  Speaker 2: happened been to Rita, the husband whose disappearance kicked this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like investigators had to almost hit pause on
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  Speaker 1: the horror by the canal and rewind back to June
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  Speaker 1: to look at Gamalott's behavior right after Rita disappeared, and
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  Speaker 1: her behavior was well, erratic, doesn't quite cover it.
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  Speaker 2: Erratic, yes, but also deeply manipulative. It seems okay, So
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  Speaker 2: she files a missing person report for Rita. That looks
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  Speaker 2: normal enough, right, But then she goes to read his
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  Speaker 2: family with this story that, I mean, it should have
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  Speaker 2: set up alarm bells everywhere. She claimed Rita got hit
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  Speaker 2: by a car and before she could even react, a
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  Speaker 2: second car pulled up, grabbed him and just drove off.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a story designed to be impossible to verify,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: And what's interesting is the family apparently didn't buy the
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  Speaker 1: story at all. It sounded ridiculous, but their biggest suspicion
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even the crazy car scenario. It was the guy
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  Speaker 1: who was constantly with Gamelot during this supposed search, Alie
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  Speaker 1: her landlord. That closeness right away seemed wrong to read.
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  Speaker 2: His family exactly. It just confirmed their existing worries about her,
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  Speaker 2: and her behavior kept getting stranger. At one point, the
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  Speaker 2: police asked her to come identify a body they thought
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  Speaker 2: might be Rita. Gamelott takes one look at this body.
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  Speaker 2: It's a seventeen year old kid, and she starts like
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  Speaker 2: hysterically insisting it's him, it's Rita. Her husband was twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: Rita's family had to step in and say, no, absolutely not,
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  Speaker 2: that's not him.
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  Speaker 1: You have to wonder, right, was she trying to mislead
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  Speaker 1: the police or just desperate to make everyone believe he
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  Speaker 1: was dead.
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  Speaker 2: And then the last act in this performance, a telegram arrives,
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  Speaker 2: supposedly from Rita saying he's in Libya. He just left
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  Speaker 2: for work. Didn't tell anyone. Given everything else, I can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine anyone believe that for a second. No way, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: But her ability to spin these tales to stall things,
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  Speaker 2: it says a lot about the kind of power she wielded.
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  Speaker 2: Remember we know Rita had actually divorced her once before
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  Speaker 2: because of her poor conduct affairs basically, but he went
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  Speaker 2: back to her, which suggests she had this, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: incredible manipulative hold over him. So the moment Redda vanished,
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  Speaker 2: his family knew. They pointed the finger at her, connecting
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  Speaker 2: her control over Rita with this new closeness to Ali,
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  Speaker 2: they figured it meant trouble.
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  Speaker 1: So fast forward two months Gamala's body turns up near
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  Speaker 1: the canal. All eyes immediately turned to Ali. The landlord.
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  Speaker 1: Police go to find him, and what happens. He's got
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  Speaker 1: an alibi, a very convenient.
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  Speaker 2: One, almost too convenient. He was checked into alhamaat Fever Hospital,
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  Speaker 2: but it didn't take much for investigators to figure out
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  Speaker 2: it was fake. He wasn't sick at all. He'd used wasta,
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  Speaker 2: you know, connections influence to get himself admitted, just to
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  Speaker 2: create an alibi for the time Gamalot was killed.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pretty big move for someone who seemed on
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  Speaker 1: the surface pretty stable. I think it was what twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: He'd inherited land, was wealthy, married, had a steady job
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  Speaker 1: soft drinks industry, so one minting snap or well get
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  Speaker 1: involved in all this.
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  Speaker 2: His confessionally is at all bare. The depth of the
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  Speaker 2: toxicity is just staggering. He admitted everything. The affair with
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  Speaker 2: Gamalot started about eight months after she and Rita moved in.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the really shocking part. The environment it happened
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  Speaker 2: in The affair wasn't exactly secret. It happened openly at
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  Speaker 2: Ali's remote house and his own mother and his sister
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  Speaker 2: Karima they knew about it, and apparently they just accepted it.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, it sound like the whole atmosphere around Gamalot just
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  Speaker 1: normalized really bad behavior. Ali confessed Gamelott was pushing him right, driving.
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  Speaker 2: The whole thing absolutely, He said. She convinced him they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't be together as long as Rito was around, that
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  Speaker 2: Rada had to be eliminated. This is where it takes
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  Speaker 2: that incredibly dark turn. Gamalot persuades this seemingly stable, wealthy
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  Speaker 2: man that murder is the only option.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's go back again. June. The night Rita was killed.
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  Speaker 1: Gamalad planned it meticulously. She gets Rida Ali and this
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  Speaker 1: is crucial to six month old baby into a car
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  Speaker 1: late at night, eleven pm Tuesday, June twenty second. They
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  Speaker 1: drive out to this deserted road. The excuse she gave
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  Speaker 1: it was bizarre, something about reconciling Ali with his estrange.
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  Speaker 2: Wife right out in the middle of nowhere. Then comes
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  Speaker 2: the betrayal. Gamalot asks Ali to hold the baby, says
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  Speaker 2: she needs to get some food from a bag. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: she pulls out a knife and just starts attacking Rita viciously, and.
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  Speaker 1: Ali holding the baby in this desolate place. He's already trapped.
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  Speaker 1: He joins in. Together they stab Rita until he's dead.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the staging afterwards, what game Loot insisted they do.
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  Speaker 1: That really shows you her mindset, cold.
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  Speaker 2: Calculating, Yeah, it's chillingly psychological. After Rita's dead, she places
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  Speaker 2: items next to his body, a brand new woman's handbag,
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  Speaker 2: a fresh tube of lipstick. She's literally planting evidence, trying
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  Speaker 2: to make it look like Rita was killed by a
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  Speaker 2: jealous lover during some secret meeting. She wasn't just killing him,
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  Speaker 2: she was trying to destroy his reputation too, make his
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  Speaker 2: death seem like his own fault.
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  Speaker 1: And for two months, incredibly, her whole act worked. The
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  Speaker 1: fake search, the crazy car story, misidentifying the body, the
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  Speaker 1: fake telegram it held. But murder creates secrets, and secrets well,
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  Speaker 1: they often come with a price tag.
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  Speaker 2: They definitely did here. This is where Gamalot's control shifts.
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  Speaker 2: It goes from emotional manipulation to straight up financial blackmail.
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  Speaker 2: She starts demanding money for ali huge amount.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking thousands and thousands of pounds right which in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine Egypt a fortune. She claims she needed it.
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  Speaker 1: To open a shop, but the threat was obvious. Pay
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  Speaker 1: up or I'd tell everyone you killed Rita.
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  Speaker 2: And the effect on Ali was catastrophic. His seemingly stable
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  Speaker 2: life just fell apart as marriage ended. And then there's
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  Speaker 2: this detail that's almost impossible to comprehend. Our sources indicate
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  Speaker 2: that Ali's own young child died died from severe neglect.
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  Speaker 2: Because Ali was so consumed with meeting Gamlet's endless demands
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  Speaker 2: for money, he completely abandoned his own family's needs didn't
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  Speaker 2: get his child medical care. It's hard to process that
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  Speaker 2: level of moral collapse. He essentially let his own child
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  Speaker 2: die through neglect, all for this woman who is bleeding
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  Speaker 2: him dry.
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  Speaker 1: So Alli eventually runs out of money. He can't pay anymore,
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  Speaker 1: and Gamalot makes her final threat. She tells him she's
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  Speaker 1: going to the police, but she's good to swiss the
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  Speaker 1: story one last time. She'll claim Ali killed Rita after
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  Speaker 1: Rita caught them having an affair, and that Ali is
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  Speaker 1: now threatening her life, basically framing him as the aggressor,
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  Speaker 1: the killer, trying to silence the only witness.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Ali finally realized it. This wasn't going to stop.
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  Speaker 2: Gamalat held all the cards. She knew about the first murder,
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  Speaker 2: and she had the power to destroy him completely with
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  Speaker 2: this news story, he decided.
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  Speaker 1: Mirror image of the first. He hires a friend, a
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  Speaker 1: driver for just one hundred and fifty Egyptian pounds, I
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  Speaker 1: mean the price of a human soul. It's shocking. He
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  Speaker 1: lures Gamalatt back to his mother's remote house, same place
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  Speaker 1: the affair haden. She probably thought it was just another meeting, right.
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  Speaker 2: Gamalat arrives and like usual, she leaves her baby, the
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  Speaker 2: six month old, downstairs with Ali's sister Karima. That was
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  Speaker 2: apparently normal for them.
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  Speaker 1: Upstairs, Allie attacks Gamalot, tries to strangle her. She fights back,
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  Speaker 1: cries out, The driver friend rushes in. Together they managed
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  Speaker 1: to choke her until she's dead, and then Ollie does
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  Speaker 1: to her what they had apparently planned for Rita but
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  Speaker 1: maybe didn't carry out fully.
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  Speaker 2: He decapitated her, took the knife and separated her head
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  Speaker 2: from her body. The symmetry is just bone chilling, even
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  Speaker 2: the timing. Kamala was killed on Tuesday, August twenty second,
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  Speaker 2: at eleven pm, exactly two months after Rita was killed,
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  Speaker 2: same day of the week, same time of night, it
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  Speaker 2: feels almost ritualistic.
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  Speaker 1: But the absolute lowest point, it hadn't even been reached yet. Downstairs,
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  Speaker 1: Ali's sister, Karima, she saw what happened. She witnessed the
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  Speaker 1: murder and then the baby, Gamelot's baby, the only innocent
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  Speaker 1: person left in this whole mess, started crying. Ollie gave
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  Speaker 1: his sister one final unthinkable order.
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  Speaker 2: He told Karima to kill the baby, strangle the six
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  Speaker 2: month old child, to eliminate the last witness, and Karima
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  Speaker 2: she did it, just followed the order.
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  Speaker 1: Gamala's body and head were dumped near the Marutia Canal,
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  Speaker 1: which is where the police found her, starting the whole investigation. Karima, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: she wrapped the tiny body the infant, took a train
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  Speaker 1: and left the baby's corpse in a train bathroom near
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  Speaker 1: Baby Swift. Police records later confirmed they found the infant's
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  Speaker 1: body there.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation wrapped up pretty quickly after Allie's confession, Ali,
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  Speaker 2: the driver accomplice, and Ali's sister Karima all arrested. They
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  Speaker 2: all faced trial for what was ultimately a triple mar When.
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  Speaker 1: You look back at this whole, this whole sequence of events,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just the number of crimes. That's staggering. It's
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  Speaker 1: the complicity. How many people got pulled into this vortex.
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  Speaker 1: It really feels like that saying, as you so so,
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  Speaker 1: shall you reap? But the harvest involves so many.
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  Speaker 2: People Exactly you look at Rito, right, he went back
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  Speaker 2: into a relationship he knew was damaging, knew she was unfaithful.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's Ali, a man who seemingly had it all, wealth, stability,
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  Speaker 2: but he threw it all away, even let his own
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  Speaker 2: child suffer and die due to neglect, all for this affair.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe the biggest puzzle is the family Ali's mother
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  Speaker 1: and especially Kareema, his sister. They didn't just know about
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  Speaker 1: the affair, they seemed to enable it, and Kareema, she
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  Speaker 1: became an active participant in murder, the cold blooded killing
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  Speaker 1: of baby. And let's not forget the accomplice selling his
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  Speaker 1: conscience for one hundred and fifty pounds.
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  Speaker 2: It just shows how how quickly things can unravel, how
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  Speaker 2: moral lines blur and then vanish when a really toxic
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  Speaker 2: relationship takes hold. It's like a psychological sickness that's pulling
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  Speaker 2: people in until perfectly ordinary individuals are capable of well
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  Speaker 2: unimaginable brutality.
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  Speaker 1: So the final thought, maybe the question this deep dive
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  Speaker 1: leaves you with, is this, when one person's toxic demands
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  Speaker 1: start to escalate, how far does that poison spread? How
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  Speaker 1: many lives have to be ruined, how many people have
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  Speaker 1: to become accomplices before that destructive cycle finally burns itself
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  Speaker 1: out