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Rehab's Dream Reveals a Murder · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: So I want you to picture this scene. The year's
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty. We're in the an Ivenare, which is a
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  Speaker 1: pretty rural part of northern Egypt, and we're inside a
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  Speaker 1: house where you know, there should be a celebration, a
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  Speaker 1: wedding is just two days away. But the air it's
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  Speaker 1: not filled with joy.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's just thick with this awful, quiet tension. The
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  Speaker 2: family of the groom, a young man named Nohmud, just
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  Speaker 2: twenty two years old. They're caught in this this mounting
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  Speaker 2: icy dread.
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  Speaker 1: Because a Mod is gone. And this is where our
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  Speaker 1: story really begins. What was he supposed to be doing
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  Speaker 1: that day?
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  Speaker 2: It was such a simple task. He left at eight
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  Speaker 2: am to drive into Cairo. All he had to do
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  Speaker 2: was pick up the wedding dress for his fiance rehab.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, a simple errand a very.
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  Speaker 2: Simple errand but by one o'clock in the afternoon, his
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  Speaker 2: phone was off. No one could reach him.
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  Speaker 1: And the first, you know, really chilling clue comes when
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  Speaker 1: they finally call the dress shop.
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  Speaker 2: In Cairo exactly. The shop tells the family something that
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  Speaker 2: just turns their blood cold. Yeah, Mod never arrived. He
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  Speaker 2: just vanished somewhere on that road. Between his village and
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  Speaker 2: the capitol.
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  Speaker 1: So the trail goes cold, almost from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Instantly, for four agonizing days, his family, his friends, they
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  Speaker 2: search nothing. The police get involved, but I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: can they do in a rural area like this. There's
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  Speaker 2: almost no useful CCTV.
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  Speaker 1: The evidence just wasn't there. It had evaporated, it had and.
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  Speaker 2: All the while you have this this very powerful, very
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  Speaker 2: distracting scene playing out back in the village.
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  Speaker 1: You mean the fiance, Rehab.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Rehab is in a state of just complete collapse, weeping,
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  Speaker 2: surrounded by friends and family. Everyone is trying to comfort
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  Speaker 2: this poor heartbroken bride to be whose life has just
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  Speaker 2: been shattered.
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  Speaker 1: A perfect public performance of grief.
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  Speaker 2: It turns out it really was, because on the fifth day,
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  Speaker 2: this entire case just it fractures. It breaks wide open,
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  Speaker 2: and not because forensics.
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  Speaker 1: Or police working, but because someone just walks into the
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  Speaker 1: police station.
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  Speaker 2: Someone walks right in. His name is mah Mood, and
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  Speaker 2: he's Rehab's cousin. More than that, he was the.
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  Speaker 1: Former former fiance. And he doesn't have a tip for them,
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  Speaker 1: does he?
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  Speaker 2: No, he has a demand. Yeah, he walks in and
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  Speaker 2: tells the police he needs to confess to the murder
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  Speaker 2: of a mod.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, So the police didn't break him the guilt, did
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what was it that was forcing him to
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  Speaker 1: come forward. It wasn't fear of getting caught, was it not.
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  Speaker 2: By the law? I know? It was something something much stranger. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he told investigators he was being haunted, haunted quite literally.
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  Speaker 2: Mahmoud claimed that a mod was appearing to him every
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  Speaker 2: single night in his dreams, nightmares so vivid, he said
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  Speaker 2: that they felt absolutely real. And in these nightmares, Ahmad
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  Speaker 2: kept demanding to know one thing, why why was he killed?
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  Speaker 1: So he wasn't physically broken by an interrogation, He was
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  Speaker 1: spiritually shattered exactly.
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  Speaker 2: His conscience was just, it was relentless. It completely consumed him.
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  Speaker 2: And that detail right there, that's our first big clue
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  Speaker 2: that this isn't some hardened criminal. The victim himself is
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  Speaker 2: pointing the way.
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  Speaker 1: We have to go back. Then we have to understand
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  Speaker 1: the history here. What was the relationship between Mahmoud and
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  Speaker 1: Rehab before Ahmud was ever in the picture.
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  Speaker 2: They were well, they were everything to each other, cousins, childhood, sweethearts,
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  Speaker 2: deeply in love.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone expected them to marry.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, the whole family, the whole community. And Mahmoud
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  Speaker 2: was doing everything right, you know, he was working around
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  Speaker 2: the clock, saving every single penny he could to make
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  Speaker 2: it happen.
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  Speaker 1: So what on earth could have been powerful enough to
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  Speaker 1: just to blow that all up?
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  Speaker 2: A family feud, a really really bitter one. There was
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  Speaker 2: a huge dispute between Rehab's father and.
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  Speaker 1: Mahmoud's mother, and they were siblings.
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  Speaker 2: They were siblings, yes, and in that kind of social context,
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  Speaker 2: family honor. These deep grudges, they can often completely override
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  Speaker 2: what individuals want.
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  Speaker 1: So her father just forbade it, absolutely forbid it.
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  Speaker 2: He demanded she cut all ties with Mamod, forget him completely.
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  Speaker 2: And that right there, that was the moment that changed everything.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly the doors opened for a new suitor for Aman.
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  Speaker 2: The perfect altern He was educated, he was financially ready
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  Speaker 2: for marriage. But Reheb's behavior during their engagement it tells
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  Speaker 2: you she never really let go.
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  Speaker 1: She agreed to marry him, but it sounds like she
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  Speaker 1: started making things difficult.
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  Speaker 2: That's putting it mildly. She started making these excessive financial demands,
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  Speaker 2: things that were, i mean just unheard of for a
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  Speaker 2: young bride in that area.
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  Speaker 1: She was trying to price herself out of the wedding,
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  Speaker 1: trying to make him quit.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like it. Yeah, it was his passive aggressive sabotage.
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  Speaker 2: But the problem was Ahmad was completely in love with her.
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  Speaker 2: He saw her as the most beautiful girl in the
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  Speaker 2: village and he was willing to do anything. He met
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  Speaker 2: every single demand. He got them an apartment in the
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  Speaker 2: village another one in Cairo. For six months, the engagement
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  Speaker 2: looked perfect from the outside, all because of his devotion.
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  Speaker 1: And all this time, Manoud had basically disappeared. He was
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  Speaker 1: respecting the family's wishes.
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  Speaker 2: He was, but the real danger, the thing that was
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  Speaker 2: happening in secret was that Rehab was the one who
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  Speaker 2: reached out to him.
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  Speaker 1: She initiated the contact, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Over and over again. During those six months. She kept
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  Speaker 2: telling him she still loved him, that she couldn't forget him,
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  Speaker 2: and that there was no way she could marry.
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  Speaker 1: A Mad and she wore him down.
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  Speaker 2: She did. Three days before the wedding. Ma mood is
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  Speaker 2: just He's at his breaking point, he's desperate, so he
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  Speaker 2: comes to her with a couple of last ditch ideas, and.
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  Speaker 1: Her responses to these ideas. They tell us everything, don't they.
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  Speaker 1: What was the first one?
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  Speaker 2: First, he suggests elopement, Let's just run away, get married
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  Speaker 2: and escape all of this, but she says no instantly,
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  Speaker 2: And the reason why is so so important. She said
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  Speaker 2: she was unwilling to bring shame on her family in
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  Speaker 2: the village.
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  Speaker 1: So her reputation, her family's honor, that was a higher
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  Speaker 1: priority for her than their love.
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  Speaker 2: It was everything, yeah, which is a really powerful insight
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  Speaker 2: into what's driving her.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So what was the second idea? The more compassionate one.
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  Speaker 2: He suggested just talking to Ahmud, you know, man and man,
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  Speaker 2: explain their history, their love, and just hope that a
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  Speaker 2: mom would be a good guy and back away.
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  Speaker 1: And she rejected that too.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, she insisted a Maud was too attached to in
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  Speaker 2: love that he would never ever leave her.
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  Speaker 1: So eloping was too shameful, honesty was too risky. The
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  Speaker 1: only option left in her mind was murder, precisely.
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  Speaker 2: And it was her idea. She's the one who proposed it.
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  Speaker 2: But she didn't just say kill him. Oh, she give
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  Speaker 2: him a plan, a meticulous plan. She specified exactly how
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  Speaker 2: it had to be done to make sure the case
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  Speaker 2: would be ruled against an unknown assailant. That legal phrase
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  Speaker 2: kadia de d'a mischul.
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  Speaker 1: That was her goal to make him an anonymous victim
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  Speaker 1: of a random crime so she could walk away clean
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  Speaker 1: with her reputation.
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  Speaker 2: Intact, it wasn't a crime of passion. It was a
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  Speaker 2: cold logistical exercise in self preservation.
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  Speaker 1: The level of coldness it would take to plan that
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  Speaker 1: just three days before your wedding, it's just astonishing. Let's
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  Speaker 1: walk through how they actually did it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so the preparation was methodical. Yeah, Mahmood rents a
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  Speaker 2: car and he gets a friend to help him. They
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  Speaker 2: find this remote spot under bridge on the Ring Road
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  Speaker 2: and they pre dig a grave.
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  Speaker 1: They dug the grave beforehand, a large one.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. The whole thing relied on catching a mod off
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  Speaker 2: guard using that family connection as a weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Right the morning he's supposed to go get the dress,
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  Speaker 1: that eight point zero am departure, My.
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  Speaker 2: Mood intercepts him right at the bus stop, the public
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  Speaker 2: transport stop. He pretends he's also heading to Cairo, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, offers him a.
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  Speaker 1: Ride, and of course a mod accepts. Why wouldn't he
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  Speaker 1: This is his fiance's cousin.
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  Speaker 2: It's a natural gesture, a perfect way into the trap.
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  Speaker 2: Once they're in the car, the plan moves to the
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  Speaker 2: next stage. Drug Mamod offers a mod some juice which
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  Speaker 2: has been laced with a really powerful sleeping agent, a narcotic.
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  Speaker 1: Of some kind, and Ahmud drinks it.
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  Speaker 2: He drinks it and very quickly he's unconscious. Then they
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  Speaker 2: just they drive him straight to that pre dug site
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  Speaker 2: under the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: And the confession detailed. It detailed the brutality of what
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  Speaker 1: happened next it did.
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  Speaker 2: It was just cold. They pulled Ahmad's unconscious body from
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  Speaker 2: the car. They had an axe or maybe a pick
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  Speaker 2: axe in the trunk. They struck him multiple times on.
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  Speaker 1: Their head and that wasn't all.
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  Speaker 2: No Mamood then made sure he was dead. He stabbed
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  Speaker 2: him repeatedly with a knife. The disposal was just as
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  Speaker 2: calculated as.
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  Speaker 1: The murder into the hole they'd already dug exactly.
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  Speaker 2: They buried him, covered it up completely, and then to
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  Speaker 2: erase any digital footprint, they took his cell phones, smashed
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  Speaker 2: them into pieces and scattered the fragments out in the desert.
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  Speaker 1: A complete erasure, as complete as they.
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  Speaker 2: Could make it. And the final step. Mamood drives back
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  Speaker 2: to the village and contacts.
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  Speaker 1: Rehab to tell her it's done.
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  Speaker 2: To confirm that the plan was a success, and from
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  Speaker 2: that moment on she slips perfectly into the role of
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  Speaker 2: the devastated, grieving fiance.
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  Speaker 1: Right up until Mahmood's conscience finally broke him five days later.
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  Speaker 1: That brings us back to the police station.
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  Speaker 2: Mmm. He gives them everything, the entire blueprint. They take
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  Speaker 2: him straight to the.
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  Speaker 1: Burial site and the body is there.
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  Speaker 2: It's exactly where he said it would be under the bridge.
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  Speaker 2: The forensics team comes in and they're able to confirm
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  Speaker 2: that everything Mahmood told them it matches, the evidence on
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  Speaker 2: Ahmad's body, the cause of death, the brutality, all of it.
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  Speaker 1: The confession is completely verified. So the next stop for
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  Speaker 1: the police is Rehob's house.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and can you just imagine the shock for her family,
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  Speaker 2: for Ahmad's family when they realize that this beautiful, weeping girl,
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  Speaker 2: the one they've all been comforting, was the one.
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  Speaker 1: Who planned it all, the mastermind.
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  Speaker 2: The mastermind. The crime was officially labeled stop alas Raar
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  Speaker 2: Waltarasud premeditated murder with malice a forethought. But whats so
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  Speaker 2: striking is the contrast between the two of them in
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  Speaker 2: the aftermath.
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  Speaker 1: You have Mahmood, the executioner, who was supposedly driven by love,
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  Speaker 1: and he just completely collapses under the weight of his
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  Speaker 1: own guilt. He's literally haunted, right.
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  Speaker 2: But then you have Rehab, the mastermind, the one driven
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  Speaker 2: by vanity reputation. She remains composed enough to play the
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  Speaker 2: victim for five straight days, no breaks, no remorse.
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  Speaker 1: The investigators described her as a real life example of
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  Speaker 1: the devil whispering to a human.
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  Speaker 2: It's a horrifying portrait, isn't it When that refusal to
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  Speaker 2: accept your fate combined with this obsession over what other
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  Speaker 2: people think, where that completely overrides any sense of human empathy.
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  Speaker 2: A mod was just an obstacle to be removed.
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  Speaker 1: And the most chilling part is that her plan almost worked.
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  Speaker 1: It was designed to be a perfect crime to be
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  Speaker 1: ruled against an unknown assailant and just fade away.
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  Speaker 2: But justice didn't come from a detective's hunch. It came
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  Speaker 2: from well, from a supernatural force, you could say, a
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  Speaker 2: guilty conscience that became a ghost story, and that really leaves.
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  Speaker 1: You with a final unsettling question to think about. If
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  Speaker 1: the true punishment for an evil act like this is
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  Speaker 1: your own mind turning on you, haunting you, does justice
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  Speaker 1: actually begin long before the law ever gets
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  Speaker 2: Involved, And maybe more importantly, what does it say about
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  Speaker 2: a person's psychology when they are so cold, so empty inside,
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  Speaker 2: that they feel none of that torment at all?