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The Fire, the Fake Tears, and the Brothel Under the Roof: How a Daughter-in-Law Murdered Her Elderly Mother-in-Law for Profit · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Imagine the scene, a small, really quiet village in Sohag.
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  Speaker 2: Egypt, deep respectability tradition.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. It's late evening, that kind of deep, dry quiet
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  Speaker 1: you get in the desert almost feels safe.
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  Speaker 2: You know, secure, like nothing bad could happen there.
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  Speaker 1: And then suddenly, just complete chaos, a huge crash like
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  Speaker 1: an explosion, glass shattering everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And that smell hits you almost immediately, heavy smoke but
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  Speaker 2: also fuel, unmistakable.
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  Speaker 1: People just pour out of their houses, running towards this
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  Speaker 1: one two story home belongs to hajasiaa eighty five years old,
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  Speaker 1: deeply respected.
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  Speaker 2: And the upper floor her floor, her sanctuary for decades.
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  Speaker 2: It's just engulfed in flames, raging.
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  Speaker 1: But down in the street, amidst all the panic, there's
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  Speaker 1: a mall Soay's daughter in law.
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  Speaker 2: She's fifty, and she's putting on an absolute masterclass in
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  Speaker 2: shock and grief, just devastatingly convincing.
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  Speaker 1: Her story, simple tragic. Poor Soireya must have left the
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  Speaker 1: stove on an accident.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone buys it. Why wouldn't they a heartbreaking accent.
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  Speaker 1: But what we're diving into today is the truth behind
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  Speaker 1: that performance, because this wasn't an accident. It was the
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  Speaker 1: climax really of five years of calculated greed, betrayal.
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  Speaker 2: And murder. It's a story about how one woman took
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  Speaker 2: a home built on integrity and twisted it into something truly.
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  Speaker 1: Sinister, and how she systematically destroyed a family, primarily by
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  Speaker 1: manipulating the victim's own son, the man who called her wife.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the physical crime, the fire, the strangulation, that's almost
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  Speaker 2: the epilogue, right, the real violence here, The core of
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  Speaker 2: it was psychological. You absolutely have to understand how Amal
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  Speaker 2: dismantled the family's trust. First.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go back then, five years before the fire,
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. Tell us about the family before them. All.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you have Haja Soirea around eighty at this point,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, beloved religious woman. Her husband died back
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand.
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  Speaker 1: And three, and her son's Saber.
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  Speaker 2: Saber was forty seven, very devoted son apparently dedicated his
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  Speaker 2: life to caring for her. He hadn't married, partly because
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't have children, and his focus was Sorea. Any
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  Speaker 2: other two other sons, but they were working abroad, so
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  Speaker 2: Saber was the one there, the primary caregiver day to day.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So that devotion, that responsibility, Saber felt that becomes
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  Speaker 1: the weak spot.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely in twenty thirteen, Saber gets this business opportunity in Cairo,
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  Speaker 2: good chance for him financially, but he can't leave.
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  Speaker 1: His mother alone. She's elderly, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He needs someone reliable and critically, he needs a wife
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  Speaker 2: who understands his situation, you know, specifically that there won't
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  Speaker 2: be children.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where Amal comes in.
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  Speaker 2: And to Ramal, she's forty five, divorced, no children of
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  Speaker 2: her own. On paper, she seems like the perfect solution, and.
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  Speaker 1: She agrees immediately, instantly.
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  Speaker 2: Promises Saber she'll take wonderful care of Sorea. And you
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  Speaker 2: see right there, she's not just offering marriage. She's offering
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  Speaker 2: Saber relief, relief from his guilt, his worry. She solved
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  Speaker 2: his biggest problem. That's potent, incredibly, But Sorea she felt
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  Speaker 2: something was off right from the start, like an instinct. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this unsettling feeling, but she couldn't quite put her finger
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  Speaker 2: on why, so she kept quiet. She wanted her son
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  Speaker 2: to be happy, didn't want to rock the boat, potentially
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  Speaker 2: ruin his marriage before it even started. A fateful decision really, so.
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  Speaker 1: What was the living arrangement.
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  Speaker 2: Amal moved into the ground floor. It's quite spacious, four rooms,
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  Speaker 2: big hall, its own entrance. Sorea stayed upstairs in her
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  Speaker 2: familiar space, and Saber he was only there for about
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: ten days after the wedding before he had to leave
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  Speaker 2: for Cairo for his work.
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  Speaker 1: Ten days wow. And Amal starts her strategy immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much on the surface, she treated Soreya well enough, correctly,
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  Speaker 2: you might say, but it was very controlled. How So
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  Speaker 2: she set specific, very limited times for them to interact.
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  Speaker 2: Outside of those times, Sorea was essentially cut off. It
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  Speaker 2: immediately established this hierarchy, the sense of.
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  Speaker 1: Dependency, making Soreya feel like a guest or even a
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  Speaker 1: burden in her own home exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And when Saber came back for short visits during that
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  Speaker 2: first year, Soria actually lied to him.
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  Speaker 1: She told him everything was fine.
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  Speaker 2: She told him all was very good. She saw Saber
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  Speaker 2: seemed happy, pleased with his marriage, and she didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to cause conflict. She feared he might divorce am All
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  Speaker 2: if she complained.
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  Speaker 1: She was trying to protect his happiness.
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  Speaker 2: At her own expense. And this plate right into Amal's hands.
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  Speaker 2: What you need to grasp about Amal is what the
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  Speaker 2: sources call her experience of a different kind, meaning she
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  Speaker 2: knew how to manage men. How satisfied, Saber gained his
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  Speaker 2: complete trust very quickly. It wasn't just about caring for Soria.
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  Speaker 2: It was about making Saber feel like his life was
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  Speaker 2: finally sordid. His wife was happy, his mother was cared for.
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  Speaker 1: So he became emotionally reliant on a Mal's version of
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  Speaker 1: reality completely.
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  Speaker 2: She built this wall around him. He was essentially isolated
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  Speaker 2: from his mother's true experience from day one, and.
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  Speaker 1: With that foundation of control laid, things escalate rapidly.
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  Speaker 2: Within about a year, a mall starts hosting these late
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  Speaker 2: night gatherings neighbor women, initially how late, often going until
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  Speaker 2: three am. She do a quick check on Soreya upstairs beforehand,
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  Speaker 2: then basically ignore her for the rest of the night,
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  Speaker 2: and Srea hears this, oh yeah, upstairs, she starts hearing
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  Speaker 2: things that were just unthinkable in that house before. Loud laughter,
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  Speaker 2: coarse joking, what's described as indecent talk.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't just normal socializing.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly not. The tone shifted dramatically, this deeply religious respect
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  Speaker 2: at home. The sounds coming from downstairs were changing its
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  Speaker 2: character entirely.
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  Speaker 1: Did Sorea say anything?
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  Speaker 2: She did? She eventually confronted them, all pleaded with her,
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  Speaker 2: you know, think of the house's reputation, the family standing in.
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  Speaker 1: Amal's response ice cold.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, it's my house too, now stay out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Just shut her down completely.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. No attempt to reassure her.
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  Speaker 2: Anything, none. And then Amal does something even more insidious.
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  Speaker 2: She realizes Soreya might talk to Saber.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so she strikes.
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  Speaker 2: First, preemptively. She calls Saber and Cairo feeds him this
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  Speaker 2: story that his mother, who's now eighty three, is starting
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: to show signs of sinility. Oh no, yeah, claiming Soireya
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  Speaker 2: is causing trouble, imagining things getting confused, weaponizing her age
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  Speaker 2: against her.
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  Speaker 1: That's brutal because it gives Saber an out.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. It's easier for him to believe his elderly mother
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  Speaker 2: is confused than to believe his new wife is behaving badly.
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  Speaker 2: It protects his idea of a happy marriage.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened when Saber came back?
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  Speaker 2: He delivered the most devastating blow. He went to his mother, Sorea,
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  Speaker 2: and told her to avoid a mall to not annoy
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  Speaker 2: his wife.
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  Speaker 1: He cited completely with them all completely.
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  Speaker 2: Sireya was crushed, utterly, heartbroken, and at that point she
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  Speaker 2: just shut down. She decided silence was the only way
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  Speaker 2: to protect Saber's marriage, believing she was now the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Amal had won that round decisively totally.
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  Speaker 2: Her position was secure, Saber's loyalty was locked down, and
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  Speaker 2: now the shift towards outright crime becomes well almost logical for.
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  Speaker 1: Her, from psychological control to running a business.
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  Speaker 2: A criminal enterprise. She starts by narrowing down her circle
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  Speaker 2: of friends, gets rid of most of them, settles on three.
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  Speaker 1: Women, and these women were confirmed.
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  Speaker 2: Later to be sex workers.
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  Speaker 1: A mall.
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  Speaker 2: Basically pitched them an idea which will use her house,
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  Speaker 2: Soreya's house as a venue the ground floor, four rooms,
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  Speaker 2: private entrance. It had this built in cover of respectability
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  Speaker 2: because of Soria's reputation.
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  Speaker 1: So the house's good name becomes the shield for a brothel.
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  Speaker 2: Decisely, she offered them a safe, respected place to operate,
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  Speaker 2: and naturally she'd take a cut of their earnings.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable, and this obviously requires some startup capital, maybe to
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  Speaker 1: furnish the place properly.
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  Speaker 2: It seems so, and am All knew exactly where to
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: find it. She'd notice something upstairs in Soreya's room. What
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  Speaker 2: was it about? Eight thousand Egyptian pounds in cash and
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  Speaker 2: also significantly, Soreya's burial shrouds the kafan.
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  Speaker 1: Money she'd save for her own funeral.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, a very traditional, important preparation, showing dignity even in
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  Speaker 2: planning for death.
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  Speaker 1: But Amal didn't see tradition.
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  Speaker 2: She saw capital. Eight pounds enough to upgrade the furnishings downstairs,
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  Speaker 2: make the business look more professional.
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  Speaker 1: So the money Soraya saved for her final dignity becomes
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  Speaker 1: the investment fund for Amlie brothel.
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  Speaker 2: That's the grim reality, and suddenly killing Sirea isn't just
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  Speaker 2: about silencing her anymore. It's about accessing that cash. It
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  Speaker 2: becomes a business decision.
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  Speaker 1: The speed of that escalation is terrifying. From caregiver to murder, planning,
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  Speaker 1: interior decorating.
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  Speaker 2: It shows how quickly things can spiral when that kind
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  Speaker 2: of manipulative personality gets a foothold.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so fast forward about a month. Soria is upstairs,
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  Speaker 1: isolated and.
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  Speaker 2: She starts hearing new sounds, distinct sounds this time men's voices,
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  Speaker 2: loud music, laughter, bit different from before.
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  Speaker 1: She realizes it's worse than just indecent talk among women.
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  Speaker 2: She knows something criminal is happening downstairs in her home.
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  Speaker 1: So when Saber comes back on leave again.
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  Speaker 2: She tries one last time. Yeah, Distraught, desperate, she tells
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  Speaker 2: him everything she's heard, everything.
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  Speaker 1: She's and sabers reaction. This time he must have been shocked.
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  Speaker 2: He was shocked, yes, but remember that psychological wall I'm
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  Speaker 2: all built, It was still standing strong.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't conceive, he couldn't make the leap to brothel.
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  Speaker 2: No, his mind went to something slightly more normal. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: he assumed I'm always just having an affair bad enough,
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  Speaker 2: but not this.
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  Speaker 1: So he confronts them.
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  Speaker 2: All he does, And this right here is Amal's moment
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  Speaker 2: of twisted genius. She doesn't panic, she doesn't get defensive
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  Speaker 2: in the usual way.
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  Speaker 1: What does she do?
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  Speaker 2: She stays calm, and then she just completely flips the script,
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  Speaker 2: turns on the waterworks, tears buckets, but not tears of guilt,
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  Speaker 2: tears of victimhood. She accuses Saber of neglect. She says
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  Speaker 2: she misses him so terribly, She's so lonely because he's
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: always away in Cairo.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so she makes him feel guilty exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And the noise is Oh, that was just her and
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  Speaker 2: a few friends watching explicit films, pornographic films on a
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  Speaker 2: mobile phone.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously, that was her explanation.
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, just trying to distract themselves from their lonelinesses claimed
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: because he wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: There for her, and Saber, don't tell me he bought it.
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  Speaker 2: He bought it instantly. Surrey apparently watched this whole performance,
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  Speaker 2: saw the look of fake sorrow, this manufactured injustice on
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  Speaker 2: Amal's face, and saw her.
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  Speaker 1: Son just melt Why why would he believe that over
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: his own mother's desperate please?
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: Well, think about it from his perspective, however, warped i'm
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: all's story the porn films. It asks very little of him,
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: just pity, maybe some guilt. He can a suage, Okay,
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: Sorey's story that his wife is a criminal, his home
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  Speaker 2: is a brothel. That means his entire marriage, his judgment,
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  Speaker 2: everything is a catastrophic failure. It's too much to face.
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  Speaker 1: The lie was easier, more comfortable in a sick way.
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  Speaker 2: Tragically, Yes, yeah, Amal gave him the path of least
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  Speaker 2: resistance psychologically, and he took it.
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  Speaker 1: So what did Saber tell his mother?
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: He went back upstairs, told Siay, the noises were just
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: pornographic films, essentially, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: And Srea's reaction, she just gave up.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: Knew then that the truth had absolutely no power against
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: Demaal's manipulation. She decided to stay silent, even pretend to believe.
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  Speaker 1: Him that silence was her death sentence with it.
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  Speaker 2: Really was for a mall. This confirmed it. Srey knew
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  Speaker 2: too much and she couldn't be discredited anymore. She had
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: to be eliminated.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: So the plan crystallizes, kills sirea, steal the money in gold,
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: burn the house, destroy the evidence, destroy the body.
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: Meticulous. But she needed help, or wanted help. She approached
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  Speaker 2: her three partners, the sex workers.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: Did they agree?
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: Only one did? The other two apparently drew the line
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: at murder.
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  Speaker 1: What motivated the one who agreed greed?
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: Mainly Amal promised her to share the gold and the cash,
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  Speaker 2: and significantly the promise of expanding the business later more rooms,
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: higher profits. Wan Things cooled down after a couple.
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  Speaker 1: Of months, so murder as a strategic investment.
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: That's exactly how it was framed.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So the plan is set, the accomplices on board.
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  Speaker 1: How long until they act?
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  Speaker 2: Just one week? They waited until Saber went back to Cairo.
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  Speaker 2: Then one evening, around eight pm, a Meal and her accomplice.
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  Speaker 1: Met up and went upstairs, straight upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: Sorea was already asleep in her room.
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  Speaker 1: The details of the murder itself, they're brutal.
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  Speaker 2: The source of state. They strangled her manually, violently, enough
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  Speaker 2: force to actually fracture the bones in her.
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  Speaker 1: Neck, ensuring she was dead. No ambiguity none.
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  Speaker 2: Then a mall went straight to the closet, took the
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: eight thousand pounds, took the gold.
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  Speaker 1: Jewelry, secured the loot first.
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  Speaker 2: Then the cover up. A mall had gasoline ready. They
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: doused Soreya's room, set it ablaze, locked the door from
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  Speaker 2: the outside, and fled.
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  Speaker 1: Where did they take the stolen items?
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: They hid them at the accomplice's house.
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  Speaker 1: But the fire didn't destroy everything.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Ro firefighters got there relatively quickly and contained it before
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: it consumed the whole house. But they found the body charred.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: And the police arrived. Criminal investigation team.
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: They secure the scene. Amon is outside still playing the
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: grieving daughter in law perfectly. But the forensic lab that's
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: where her story begins to unravel fast.
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  Speaker 1: What did they find?
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  Speaker 2: Two absolutely crucial things. First, unmistakable traces of an accelerant
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  Speaker 2: gasoline concentrated in Soreya's room. This wasn't an accidental stove fire,
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  Speaker 2: it was arson.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's huge.
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  Speaker 2: And the second thing, the autopsy, This is the real
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  Speaker 2: nail on the coffin from All's story. The forensic pathologists
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  Speaker 2: confirmed the cause of death wasn't the fire or smoke inhalation,
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  Speaker 2: it was the sting manual strangulation. Those broken neck bones
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: told the story. Sorea was dead before the fire was even.
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  Speaker 1: Set, so the fire was definitely just a cover.
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  Speaker 2: Up, attempt, absolutely attempted murder concealment. And when Saber returned devastated,
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  Speaker 2: he confirmed the police that yes, the eight thousand pounds
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  Speaker 2: and his mother's gold were missing from that closet.
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  Speaker 1: So now it's murder, arson and theft. The picture is
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: becoming clear.
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  Speaker 2: Very clear. And then investigators started getting whispers, secret sources,
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: maybe neighbors who suspected something wasn't right.
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  Speaker 1: What did they reveal that this supposedly.
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  Speaker 2: Respectable house hadn't been so respectable lately that it had
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: in fact been operating as a brothel for some time.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Which points the finger directly at mus Amal.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: She immediately becomes the prime suspect, though interestingly police initially
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: considered Saber might be involved, or even that Sorea somehow
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: knew or participated. That shows you how well Amal had
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: maintained that facade.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: But Amal sticks to her story during questioning.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: Like glue calm, collected detailed alibi. She even named her accomplice,
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  Speaker 2: but only in the context of her innocent version of events,
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  Speaker 2: just as they'd pre agreed.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: So how did the police break her.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Classic interrogation tactic? Brilliant really? They brought in the accomplice
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: separately and told her they lied. They told the accomplice
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: that Amal had already cracked confessed everything, and it blamed
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: the accomplice for the whole thing, the murder, the theft.
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  Speaker 2: Claimed Amal was intimidated into.
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  Speaker 1: Helping, turning them against each other, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Putting all the pressure, all the blame onto the accomplice,
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  Speaker 2: and it worked. She broke instantly, completely confessed, told everything,
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: the plot, the murder, the theft, the motive, and crucially
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  Speaker 2: led them right to her house where the stolen gold
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: and money were hidden.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: So with the confession and the recovered evidence, Amal.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: Had nowhere left to go. Confronted with the accomplices confession
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  Speaker 2: and the physical evidence, she was forced to confess as well,
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  Speaker 2: and the outcome both were eventually tried, convicted, and sentenced
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  Speaker 2: to death.
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  Speaker 1: It's just an astonishing story of calculated cruelty. The core
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  Speaker 1: lesson really is how methodical the deception was.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Absolutely the isolation first, then the character assassination, making Soraya
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: seem senile, then building the criminal enterprise right under her roof,
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: and only then the final act of violence.
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  Speaker 1: And the irony is just gut wrenching saber. This son,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: who dedicated his life to his mother.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Was so thoroughly manipulated, so psychologically controlled by Amal, that
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: he refused to see the truth staring him in the face.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: He chose the comforting lie over the devastating reality his
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: mother presented.
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  Speaker 1: It really underscores the power of that kind of focused
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: predatory manipulation it does.
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  Speaker 2: And connecting this back to you the listener, this case
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: really forces you to think about how easily narratives can
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: be shaped right, especially when someone you trust is telling
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: you something that contradicts what another person you trust is saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all basically weaponized Saber's desire for a stable, happy
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: marriage against his bond with his.
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  Speaker 2: Own mother precisely, which leads to that final lingering question.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: The sources talk about a mother's instinct, Soiraya's initial unease about.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Them, all, that feeling she had right at the beginning.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So the provocative thought is this, if Soireya had
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: spoken up forcefully back then during Saber's first visit after
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the wedding, if she had risked his anger, risked the
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: marriage falling apart right at the start, Could.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: That confrontation, that temporary unhappiness have ultimately saved her life.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: It's impossible to know for sure, but it's something to
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: really mull over, isn't it. The cost of silence versus
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: the risk of speaking truth to someone who might not want.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: To hear it A chilling thought to end on. Thanks
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: for joining us for this deep dive