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Nile Body Leads to Honor Killing · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: The sun is just coming up over Cairo's Mahdi district.
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  Speaker 1: It's about ten zero zero am, a quiet morning in
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  Speaker 1: April twenty twenty five. For the local fishermen on the Nile,
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  Speaker 1: it's just another day, a routine they've known for well
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  Speaker 1: for decades. But today their gaze catches something completely out
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  Speaker 1: of place. It's far out in the deep channel of
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  Speaker 1: the river where the current is strongest. They spot this sack.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just any sack. It's bulky, it's water logged,
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  Speaker 2: but it's floating in a strange way, almost like it's
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  Speaker 2: full of air, but also carrying something incredibly heavy.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's not near the shore where you'd expect trash
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  Speaker 1: to collect, it's right there in the middle. As they
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  Speaker 1: get their boat closer, the first thing that hits them
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  Speaker 1: is the smell. I mean, it's just this foul, overwhelming odor.
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  Speaker 1: One of the fishermen, out of a mix of I
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  Speaker 1: guess duty and fear, hooks the sack to pull it alongside.
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  Speaker 1: It's heavy, so heavy he tears a small hole in
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  Speaker 1: it just to see what's inside, and that's the moment
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  Speaker 1: he sees it unmistakable human remains. They seal the tear,
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  Speaker 1: get back to the bank as fast as they can
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  Speaker 1: and call the authorities. And just like that, the police
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  Speaker 1: are faced with this colossal puzzle, a body tightly bound
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  Speaker 1: and deliberately thrown into the deepest part of the nile.
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  Speaker 2: It's a clear attempt to make sure this person is
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  Speaker 2: never ever found.
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  Speaker 1: Today, we're going to walk through how investigators took this
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  Speaker 1: one single clue, an unrecognizable body, and followed the river's
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  Speaker 1: path right back to the killers.
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  Speaker 2: When the police and the dive teams arrived. The first
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  Speaker 2: challenge was just retrieval. I mean, this was not a
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  Speaker 2: quick operation. That was so water logged exactly. The body
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  Speaker 2: was so saturated it took specialized equipment just to get
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  Speaker 2: it to shore. And once it was out, the physical
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  Speaker 2: evidence immediately told the story about time. There was extreme bloating,
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  Speaker 2: advanced decomposition. The forensic team knew instantly this victim had
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  Speaker 2: been in the water for a long time, so not
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  Speaker 2: just a couple of days, not even close. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: at least a full week, maybe even longer. Yeah, which meant,
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  Speaker 2: you know, visual identification was completely.
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  Speaker 1: Impossible, and the way it was packaged that tells you
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  Speaker 1: something about the killer's mindset, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It tells you everything. The outer sack was tied securely
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  Speaker 2: at the top and the bottom, but inside that the
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  Speaker 2: body was wrapped again, this time in a large, thick
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  Speaker 2: black plastic bag.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, double wrapped.
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  Speaker 2: It's a profound effort to not just hide the body,
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  Speaker 2: but to contain it to mask the odor. This wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a crime of passion. This was premeditated.
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  Speaker 1: And when they finally extracted the.
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  Speaker 2: Body, it was a woman fully clothed, but like we said,
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  Speaker 2: no facial features left, no id, no documents, nothing. Her
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  Speaker 2: hands and feet were bound and medical tape like plaster
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  Speaker 2: from a pharmacy was wrapped over her mouth.
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  Speaker 1: The binding, though, that was the first big.
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  Speaker 2: Clue, right, That was the clue that shifted this from
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  Speaker 2: a murder to something much, much darker. The impressions from
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  Speaker 2: the restraints on her wrists and ankles were they were deep.
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  Speaker 1: Embedded, suggestion she was tied up for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: For a very long time, and well before she was killed.
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't for convenience of dumping the body. This was torture.
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  Speaker 1: So the police have an unrecognizable, tortured woman found in
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  Speaker 1: place that makes no sense. The middle of the river precisely.
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  Speaker 2: Usually a body is found near a riverbank, it's easy access.
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  Speaker 2: Finding her in the deep center meant one of two things.
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  Speaker 1: Either she traveled a huge distance.
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  Speaker 2: Or the killer used a boat, sailed right out to
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  Speaker 2: the deepest channel and dropped her in. And that suggests
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  Speaker 2: local knowledge, specialized equipment, a whole different level of planning.
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  Speaker 1: And at this point they're at a complete stalemate. They
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  Speaker 1: check missing person reports for Mahdi Old Cairo, nothing, no
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  Speaker 1: matches for a woman in her early thirties.
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  Speaker 2: They had to rely entirely on the body itself, and that's.
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  Speaker 1: When the forensic medical report comes in. This is where
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  Speaker 1: the case just breaks wide open.
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  Speaker 2: The report confirmed everything they suspected and added so much
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  Speaker 2: more female early thirties, extensive bruising, confirming the prolonged beating
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  Speaker 2: and torture.
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  Speaker 1: But then they found something really unusual. An injection site.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, The analysis shows she'd been inject did with
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  Speaker 2: an air bubble in air embolism. It's a method you
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  Speaker 2: see in movies, but it's clumsy, rarely effective.
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  Speaker 1: And there was something else in her.
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  Speaker 2: System, significant traces of powerful sedatives arcotics, So she was drugged.
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  Speaker 2: She was beaten, and then they tried this clumsy execution
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  Speaker 2: method on her.
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  Speaker 1: And now we get to the two twists that changed everything. First,
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  Speaker 1: the air injection. It wasn't fatal, it failed, right.
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  Speaker 2: The actual cause of death was drowning, which means I
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  Speaker 2: mean she was thrown into the nile while she was
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  Speaker 2: still alive. That's why she was tied, That's why she
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  Speaker 2: was so heavily sedated. All that torture was just the
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  Speaker 2: prelude to the final act of drowning her just devastating.
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  Speaker 1: And then the second twist, the one that completely reshaped
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  Speaker 1: the motive.
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  Speaker 2: The woman was pregnant, how far along, approximately four months.
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  Speaker 2: Suddenly the police weren't just looking for a killer. They
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  Speaker 2: were looking for someone who had a violent, profound reason
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  Speaker 2: to destroy not just this woman, but the child she
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  Speaker 2: was carrying. The brutality, it screamed of something deeper than revenge.
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  Speaker 2: It's screamed of shame.
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  Speaker 1: So the question becomes, how do you trace a body
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  Speaker 1: that's been floating down a massive river for a week.
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  Speaker 2: This is where the science gets really impressive. They took
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  Speaker 2: the time of death one week and calculated the speed
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  Speaker 2: of the river current and the wind direction for that
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  Speaker 2: entire period.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, really they can do that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, They use hydrological data models to essentially reverse
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  Speaker 2: engineer at the crime scene. They knew where she was
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  Speaker 2: found under the Ring Road bridge in Maladi. The models
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  Speaker 2: told them where she was likely dumped and it wasn't Maudi,
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  Speaker 2: not even close. The calculations pointed significantly further south, maybe
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  Speaker 2: fifteen twenty kilometers upstream. The launch site was likely in
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  Speaker 2: or around Helwan.
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  Speaker 1: So the entire investigation just shifts focus instantly.
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  Speaker 2: They moved the whole operation to Hellon, started questioning local
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  Speaker 2: fishermen in that area, and that's when they got their
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  Speaker 2: first real human lead. The eyewitness a fisherman. He reported
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  Speaker 2: that about a week before, late at night, he saw
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  Speaker 2: a boat with two or three men on it moving
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  Speaker 2: down the center of the nile, very unusual for that
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  Speaker 2: time in.
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  Speaker 1: That area, and the timing match perfectly spot on.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't identify them, but the location and the time
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  Speaker 2: were perfect. It was the confirmation they.
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  Speaker 1: Needed, and soon after that they found it. The missing
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  Speaker 1: person report.
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  Speaker 2: An elderly mother in Helwan had reported her daughter missing,
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  Speaker 2: a woman in her early thirties named a Beer. The
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  Speaker 2: report was filed three days after she disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: They show the mother photos of the clothing and.
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  Speaker 2: She recognizes them instantly. Is a Beer. They finally have
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  Speaker 2: their victim.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so now they dig into a Beer's life, and
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  Speaker 1: this is where things get complicated. She's thirty two, divorce
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  Speaker 1: for two years, lives with her mother. But there's that
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  Speaker 1: immediate contradiction.
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  Speaker 2: Divorce for two years, but four months pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother explained that a Beer's work often took her
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  Speaker 1: away for long stretches, sometimes months at a time, but
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  Speaker 1: she always called. This time, she just went silent.
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  Speaker 2: But that was the story of Beer, told her mother.
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  Speaker 2: The reality is security investigations soon uncovered was very different.
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  Speaker 2: Her marriage ended because of her husband's anger over her
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  Speaker 2: multiple strange relationships.
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  Speaker 1: A pattern she continued after the divorce.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she was engaged in multiple relationships, often for financial compensation,
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  Speaker 2: a life she hid completely from her mother, using the
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  Speaker 2: traveling for work excuse.
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  Speaker 1: So the immediate theory is that the pregnancy is the
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  Speaker 1: motive one of the partners. But again, that brutality just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't quite fit a simple revenge plot.
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  Speaker 2: No, the level of rage, the desperation, it felt personal,
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  Speaker 2: deeply personal.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when the investigation takes a turn toward home.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives noticed two things. First, the mother filed the report alone,
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  Speaker 1: and second, a Beer had two older brothers, Alla and.
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  Speaker 2: Salem, and neither of them had come forward, no calls,
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  Speaker 2: no sign of concern for their missing sister.
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  Speaker 1: That's a huge red flag.
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  Speaker 2: A massive one. The initial interview with them was disturbingly normal.
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  Speaker 2: No anxiety, no grief, just apathy.
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  Speaker 1: So they dig into the brother and the security checks
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  Speaker 1: revealed the one detail that just snaps everything into place.
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  Speaker 2: Salem he was a fisherman and he owned a boat.
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  Speaker 2: He owned a boat. Suddenly all the pieces connect. You
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  Speaker 2: need a boat to dump the body in the Midnile,
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  Speaker 2: and eyewitness ses two men on a boat near hell
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  Speaker 2: one at the right time. A Beer has two brothers
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  Speaker 2: and one of them owns that exact boat.
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  Speaker 1: And the detail about her disappearance. She told a mother
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  Speaker 1: she was leaving for an important errand and would be
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  Speaker 1: back soon.
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  Speaker 2: Suggesting she was meeting someone she knew, someone she trusted.
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  Speaker 1: So they bring the brothers Allah and Salem back in
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  Speaker 1: for a second round of questioning, and this time it's different.
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  Speaker 2: The calm is gone. They're extremely nervous and when the
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  Speaker 2: police lay out the evidence, the river currents, the eyewitness,
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  Speaker 2: the boat they break.
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  Speaker 1: They confess they knew about her lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: And most critically, they knew she was pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: So what was the story? They told?
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  Speaker 2: It was tragic, they said. They constantly argued with a
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  Speaker 2: Beer about her absences, about the rumors in the community.
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  Speaker 2: They felt she was bringing dishonour to the.
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  Speaker 1: Family, and when she came home after a three month absence,
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  Speaker 1: they confronted her.
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  Speaker 2: They saw she was pregnant. They demanded to know who
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  Speaker 2: the father was, and a Beer gave them the one
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  Speaker 2: answer that pushed them over the edge.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: She told him she truly didn't know, and for them,
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  Speaker 2: that was the final straw. They told police, they decided
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  Speaker 2: to wash the shame with their own hands.
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  Speaker 1: How did they do it?
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  Speaker 2: They asked her to meet them at Salem's house. It
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  Speaker 2: was empty. When she got there, they started beating her,
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  Speaker 2: intending to kill.
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  Speaker 1: Her, but she survived the beating.
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  Speaker 2: She survived, and in their panic, they improvised. They tried
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  Speaker 2: the air injection they'd seen in movies. When that failed
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  Speaker 2: and she was still alive, they just they completely lost it.
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  Speaker 1: He decided to make sure, they.
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  Speaker 2: Taped her mouth shut, They injected her with a heavy
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  Speaker 2: sedative so she couldn't struggle. They bound her hands and feet,
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  Speaker 2: and then they put her, still alive, into the plastic
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  Speaker 2: bag and then into the sack.
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  Speaker 1: And carried her to Salem's boat.
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  Speaker 2: Under the cover of darkness. They sailed out deep into
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  Speaker 2: the nile, and they dumped her into the water, knowing
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  Speaker 2: she would drown. Then they went home and acted as
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  Speaker 2: if nothing had happened.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable, a crime they thought was perfectly hidden, undone by
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  Speaker 1: river physics and a single fisherman's observation.
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  Speaker 2: It's an incredible synthesis of modern science and old fashioned
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  Speaker 2: detective work. The river almost erased the crime, but investigators
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  Speaker 2: used the river's own path to lead them right back
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  Speaker 2: to the killers.
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  Speaker 1: They started with nothing, an unrecognizable body, and connected it
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  Speaker 1: to this deep seated cultural motive, this pursuit of honor,
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  Speaker 1: and it leaves you with.
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  Speaker 2: This really sobering question to think about. In a world
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  Speaker 2: where forensics can track a river current down to the
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  Speaker 2: meter and detect a tiny air bubble in the vein,
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  Speaker 2: how often are these incredible tools being used to solve
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  Speaker 2: violence driven by these ancient societal pressures. What does it
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  Speaker 2: actually take for someone to sacrifice their entire future, their freedom,
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  Speaker 2: in the name of what they see as a necessary,
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  Speaker 2: honorable duty.