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Five Hours of Hell: Inside the Meth-Fueled Murder-Suicide That Shattered a 20-Year Love Story · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Today we're diving into a story that well, it starts
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  Speaker 1: with love, intense, enduring love. Actually a partnership that was ambitious, devoted,
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  Speaker 1: but when it finally shattered the records was just absolute.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at a bond twenty years long that went
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  Speaker 1: from something people admired to a violent, really unimaginable tragedy,
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  Speaker 1: and it all came to a head on January sixth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Let's set that scene, not the crime itself,
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  Speaker 1: but later that afternoon. Think about the thick, just suffocating,
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  Speaker 1: dread Yasmin. She was thirty six, hyh them forty three.
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  Speaker 1: They'd last been heard around one am, a huge argument,
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  Speaker 1: really furious, but then it just stopped abruptly after maybe
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, very unsettling. Yasmin's mother. She was staying there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for support. She spent that whole morning with
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  Speaker 1: this growing panic. The apartment was just too quiet. By
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  Speaker 1: five pm. That silence wasn't peaceful. It felt heavy, like
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  Speaker 1: a like a disaster signal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's silence. That lack of any normal life sounds.
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  Speaker 2: That was the final straw for her. She knew something
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  Speaker 2: was terribly wrong, and the bedroom door was locked from
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  Speaker 2: the inside. She couldn't get.
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  Speaker 1: In, so she had to call a relative exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Had a call for help, and together, well, they broke
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  Speaker 2: down that door.
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  Speaker 1: And what they found, I mean, it just stopped time
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  Speaker 1: for everyone especially And this is just heartbreaking. The two
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  Speaker 1: young children who saw it happen, saw them break in.
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  Speaker 1: The image was devastating. Yasmin on the bed covered in
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  Speaker 1: blood and hide them suspended from the ceiling by a rope.
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  Speaker 2: Just a complete violent end to this life they had,
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  Speaker 2: by all accounts, built so fiercely together. Yeah, and the
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  Speaker 2: comunity's reaction was, as you'd expect, just pure disbelief. How
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  Speaker 2: could this couple, defined by such a powerful love end
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  Speaker 2: up like this? So our mission really in this deep
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  Speaker 2: dive is to trace that history, find the initial cracks
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  Speaker 2: in the foundation, understand what toxic makes of internal struggle
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  Speaker 2: and maybe external pressure led to this murder suicide.
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  Speaker 1: Right to understand the end, we have to go back
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  Speaker 1: way back to the beginning, around two thousand and five.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Them was young, only twenty three, but already known
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  Speaker 1: for his drive. He wasn't interested in a normal job,
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  Speaker 1: not really, He's a talented trader, wanted to make his
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  Speaker 1: own way sort of obsessed with controlling his own destiny.
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  Speaker 2: But his personal life was catching up to him. I
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  Speaker 2: suppose he gotten into a first marriage quite quickly, rushed maybe,
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  Speaker 2: and realized it lacked that intensity he wanted. What was interesting, though,
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  Speaker 2: is how decisively he acted. He divorced his first wife
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  Speaker 2: because he'd met Yasmin. He saw her as his true love,
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  Speaker 2: his destined partner.
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  Speaker 1: And she felt that same intensity back. She insisted they
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  Speaker 1: get married. Her family looked at hythem, ambitious, respectable, athletic,
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  Speaker 1: and they approved. But right from the start there was
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  Speaker 1: friction from his side.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, his family objected to Yasmin. The reasons never really
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  Speaker 2: spelled out clearly. Maybe simple jealousy, jealous of how intense
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  Speaker 2: their connection was, how devoted they were just to each other.
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  Speaker 2: But whatever the reason, that opposition, that external pressure, it
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  Speaker 2: was there from day one.
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  Speaker 1: So hie them and Yasmin. They sort of doubled down
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  Speaker 1: on each other in response.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly built a fortress, you could say, moved to a
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  Speaker 2: nice part of New Cairo, and they made this promise,
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  Speaker 2: prioritize each other's happiness, each other's dreams above all else.
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  Speaker 1: And he did well, didn't He achieved his goals opened,
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  Speaker 1: a successful car wash stated the art apparently, and.
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  Speaker 2: They had two children, the dream, you know, the successful,
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  Speaker 2: loving family. It looked complete. They seemed to be thriving,
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  Speaker 2: not just surviving.
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  Speaker 1: Such a strong foundation, and yet we know how it ends.
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  Speaker 2: It crumbled and the shift, the dramatic turning point, seems
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  Speaker 2: to start when Hidam's success brought more money and with
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  Speaker 2: that came access to well damaging associates, and that led
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  Speaker 2: him down a very dark path severe drug use, specifically
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  Speaker 2: the stimulant they call ice methanphetamine.
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  Speaker 1: Which is insidious right, because he kept up appearances, looked fit, athletic,
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  Speaker 1: fooled everyone outside the home. He was functional to a.
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  Speaker 2: Degree, but you can't hide that from your spouse, not
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  Speaker 2: after twenty years, Yasmin, because they were so deeply connected,
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  Speaker 2: she saw the signs, the cracks, what's sort of saying,
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  Speaker 2: more fights, ladder fights, demanding to be alone, long absences,
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  Speaker 2: completely unexplained and strange.
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  Speaker 1: Behavior, and she knew she saw the threat immediately right.
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  Speaker 2: And her reaction wasn't anger. Initially, it was pleading, begging
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  Speaker 2: him to quit, to save him, to save their family,
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  Speaker 2: And at first Heidem seemed to understand he knew her
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  Speaker 2: pleas came from love, from deep concern.
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  Speaker 1: But then things changed. The drug itself, the chemistry, combined
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  Speaker 1: with that external pressure. Remember his family, the ones who.
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  Speaker 2: Never liked her, still there, still feeding him negativity, criticizing Yasmin,
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  Speaker 2: apparently without real cause, saying she was too concerned with herself.
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  Speaker 2: Just constant toxic input, amplifying the chaos the drug was
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  Speaker 2: already causing inside.
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  Speaker 1: Him, and that combination it led somewhere truly dark.
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  Speaker 2: It did. This is the critical psychological turn. The addiction,
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  Speaker 2: fueled by his family's whispers, It created this intense, unfounded paranoia.
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  Speaker 2: Hien became obsessed, convinced Yasmin was cheating on him based
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  Speaker 2: on a dream.
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  Speaker 1: A dream that's terrifying. How could that intense love just
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  Speaker 1: flip into suspicion like that? Was there any basis for it?
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  Speaker 2: That's the frightening thing about methamphetamine induced paranoia. It creates
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  Speaker 2: its own reality. He started stalking her, constantly checking her phone.
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  Speaker 2: Did he find anything, absolutely nothing, zero evidence, But his mind,
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  Speaker 2: warped by the drug, had an answer for that too.
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  Speaker 2: She wasn't innocent, she was just clever eh deleting the evidence.
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  Speaker 2: So the fighting got worse, completely inexplicable, based entirely on
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  Speaker 2: these delusions he was generating himself.
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  Speaker 1: And Yasmin she stayed through all of this twenty years
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  Speaker 1: of marriage, dealing with the abuse, the stalking, the accusations.
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  Speaker 2: She did believing it seems that this behavior was outside
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  Speaker 2: his will, that the real item, the man she loved,
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  Speaker 2: was trapped inside by the substance.
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  Speaker 1: Was that hope or maybe denial, cultural pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Probably a mix of all those things. Yeah, the hope
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  Speaker 2: of saving it must have been huge, But eventually even
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  Speaker 2: that loyalty, that belief was shattered by his final act
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  Speaker 2: of cruelty before the very end, you mean, yes, driven
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  Speaker 2: by the paranoia, likely amplified by his family's input and
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  Speaker 2: the drug itself, he filed a lawsuit to deny he
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  Speaker 2: was the father of his own children inkar almnasab.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's more than just.
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  Speaker 2: A legal fight, Oh absolutely, Oh. Culturally socially challenging the
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  Speaker 2: paternity of your children like that, it's the ultimate attack
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  Speaker 2: on a woman's honor, on the family's legitimacy, the deepest
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  Speaker 2: betrayal imaginable.
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  Speaker 1: Did the court accept it?
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  Speaker 2: No, it was refused. There was absolutely no evidence, but
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  Speaker 2: for Yasmin, that was it. The line had been irrevocably crossed.
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  Speaker 2: The marriage was truly over for her. She left, went
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  Speaker 2: back to her parents' house.
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  Speaker 1: And only then, faced with losing everything, did hythem seem
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  Speaker 1: to wake up?
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  Speaker 2: It appears so. That seemed to be the rock bottom moment.
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  Speaker 2: He recognized the destruction, finally committed to recovery, entered an
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  Speaker 2: addiction treatment center, and his apology.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't quiet, was it? No?
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  Speaker 2: It was dramatic, powerful, and very public. While he was
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  Speaker 2: in rehab, he posted this video apology on social media,
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  Speaker 2: aimed right at Yasmin. He admitted everything, said he was sick, addicted,
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  Speaker 2: apologized for quote the most heinous accusations against.
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  Speaker 1: Her honor, called her the love of my life, mentioned
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  Speaker 1: their thirty one years of history, way back before they
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  Speaker 1: even married.
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  Speaker 2: But woven into that plea for forgiveness was well an ultimatum,
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  Speaker 2: a terrifying one. He kept saying, I will kill myself,
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  Speaker 2: I will commit suicide if you don't forgive me, repeatedly.
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  Speaker 1: Putting her in an impossible position.
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  Speaker 2: Completely She was moved deeply by his admission of guilt,
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  Speaker 2: his sickness, but she also had the children to think about.
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  Speaker 2: They were still bonded with their father, who, addiction aside,
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  Speaker 2: was apparently a good dad. So she made this heartbreaking
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  Speaker 2: choice to go back home, but she took her mother
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  Speaker 2: with her for supervision, a precaution, but that hope.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't last.
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  Speaker 2: Long, tragically, no mere days. He swore he was clean,
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  Speaker 2: but Yasmin suspected almost immediately he'd.
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  Speaker 1: Relapsed, and the argument started again.
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  Speaker 2: Right away, loud, so frequent, so normal in a way
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  Speaker 2: that the neighbors they just got used to. It normalized
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  Speaker 2: the noise in the background, sound of this family falling.
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  Speaker 1: Apart, which brings us back to that final night, January sixth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, around one am, children asleep, the couple
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  Speaker 1: go into their bedroom to talk, and.
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  Speaker 2: The final fight erupts, that intense noise the neighbors had
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  Speaker 2: heard so many times, and then after maybe fifteen minutes, silence, heavy,
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  Speaker 2: ominous silence.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic analysis it confirmed the worst, didn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, murder suicide, no signs of anyone else involved. Yasimin's
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  Speaker 2: cause of death strangulation, but the post mortem details they're chilling.
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  Speaker 2: She'd also been stabbed multiple times, her throat was cut.
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  Speaker 2: They found the knife nearby.
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  Speaker 1: That level of violence, it suggests more than just strangulation
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  Speaker 1: in a fight.
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  Speaker 2: It speaks volumes about his state, his level of intoxication.
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  Speaker 2: Hyam's body analysis confirmed suicide by strangulation using plastic strips
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  Speaker 2: like maintenance ties and a rope, and crucially, his system
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  Speaker 2: showed a massive concentration of ice. Confirmed the relapse, confirmed
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  Speaker 2: the frenzy.
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  Speaker 1: So he strangled her, but then used the knife, almost
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  Speaker 1: like you had to make sure a complete psychological break
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  Speaker 1: fueled by.
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  Speaker 2: The drug exactly in that frenzied paranoid state. Maybe he
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  Speaker 2: didn't even trust that the strangulation was enough. He needed
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  Speaker 2: the knife to guarantee it. But here's the most agonizing detail,
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  Speaker 2: the critical piece from the forensic reports, the timeline. He
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  Speaker 2: has been died first, okay, but hie them died of
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  Speaker 2: five hours later, five long hours.
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  Speaker 1: Five out. That's an eternity in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: It is It means this wasn't one simultaneous act of
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  Speaker 2: passion or rage. The drug fueled delusion led to the murder. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: But that five hour gap, it suggests the drug might
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  Speaker 2: have started to wear off or the shock of the
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  Speaker 2: act itself broke through the high hi them coming down,
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  Speaker 2: maybe realized what he'd done. He'd murdered the love of
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  Speaker 2: his life, and he spent five hours sitting there, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: beside her body.
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  Speaker 1: That time frame, It's a horrific window into what must
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  Speaker 1: have been post murder clarity, facing what he'd done, haunted
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  Speaker 1: by the promises, the life they built, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he destroyed it, and then he.
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  Speaker 2: Would filled the exact threat he'd made to winner back
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  Speaker 2: the suicide threat he killed himself. Wow, it just forces
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  Speaker 2: you to confront this lethal mix, doesn't it. Severe diction, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but also that persistent toxic external influence. His judgment, impaired
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  Speaker 2: by the drugs, was likely worsened by his family feeding
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  Speaker 2: his paranoia, giving him this false justification to attack her.
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  Speaker 1: It's the ultimate devastating picture of dream completely dismantled by
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  Speaker 1: self destruction, and the community left trying to reconcile the
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  Speaker 1: loving man they thought they knew what the violent perpetrator
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  Speaker 1: the evidence points to.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about the destructive forces, but the heaviest cost
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  Speaker 2: it always falls somewhere else, doesn't it. Here it fell
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  Speaker 2: squarely on those two children. They lost both parents, not
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  Speaker 2: to illness, not to an accident, but to this extreme violence,
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  Speaker 2: and they were the ones who had to discover it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the lesson for life without trial here, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: The psychological damage, the enduring trauma for those children witnessing
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  Speaker 1: that scene, that's the heaviest price. That's the tragedy that
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  Speaker 1: echoes long after the headlines are gone.