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The Baker's Deadly Secret: A Family Annihilation by Poison · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Imagine this scene. It's July twenty twenty five. You're inside
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  Speaker 1: the Deer Mouse Specialized Hospital. The air it's thick, not
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  Speaker 1: just with that usual hospital smell anti septics. You know
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  Speaker 1: there's something else underneath, almost a metallic tang fear. The
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  Speaker 1: lights are buzzing overhead, really harsh fluorescent lights. Everything feels frantic.
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  Speaker 1: You hear hurried footsteps, echoing, doctors talking in low, urgent voices,
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  Speaker 1: and then the sounds of children crying, whimpering. Is just
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  Speaker 1: sheer chaos. Three children have just been brought in. They're convulsing,
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  Speaker 1: their temperatures are dangerously high. They're in terrible pain, stomach pain,
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  Speaker 1: and there's this strange white fluid coming from their mouths.
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  Speaker 1: They're unconscious. The doctors, the nurses, they're moving fast, desperately,
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  Speaker 1: but you can see the confusion on their faces. This
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  Speaker 1: isn't like anything they usually see. It's unprecedented, baffling, a
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  Speaker 1: complete medical nightmare unfolding right there. But what nobody realized
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  Speaker 1: in that moment this was just the beginning, the start
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  Speaker 1: of a really complex criminal puzzle, a mystery that would
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  Speaker 1: hold everyone's attention, challenge seasoned investigators for the next fifty days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, from the get go this was an extraordinary challenge.
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  Speaker 2: But the medical teams absolutely, but also for security, those
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  Speaker 2: symptoms were so unique, so specific, it immediately raised flags.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't just confusing, It felt intentional, sinister. They weren't
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  Speaker 2: just fighting an illness. They were up against something hidden,
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  Speaker 2: something deeply malevolent.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's untack this, because it's a lot. To really
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  Speaker 3: understand the horror, the depth of what happened, we need
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  Speaker 3: to go back, way back to where it started, actually,
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  Speaker 3: with a love story, one that for a long time
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  Speaker 3: seemed like it would have a happy ending. Fifteen years
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  Speaker 3: before that awful hospital scene, back in twenty ten, there's Naser,
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  Speaker 3: he's a free trader from Minya and he meets Hushem,
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  Speaker 3: she's from Beni suef. Their work brought them together and
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  Speaker 3: Naser traveled quite a bit right.
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  Speaker 2: And Hushem she was known for being kind, rooted in
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  Speaker 2: her community.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, and apparently the connection was immediate. They both wanted
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  Speaker 3: the same things, you know, a stable home family, so
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  Speaker 3: the mirror. That same year, Husham moves to Manya. They
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  Speaker 3: start their life together and for years things were good,
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  Speaker 3: really stable, deep love, harmonious, home. Even their families got
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  Speaker 3: along well, which becomes important later. They had six children
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  Speaker 3: over those years. Nasa was seen as a good father,
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  Speaker 3: Hushim completely devoted.
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  Speaker 2: To the kids, seemingly solid foundation.
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  Speaker 3: But totally yeah. But then someone else enters the picture. Hagar.
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  Speaker 3: She meets Nasar and she's instantly well fascinated by him
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  Speaker 3: and her presence. It starts to change things, slowly at first,
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  Speaker 3: but noticeably Nasar's behavior towards Husham, towards the kids, it shifts.
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  Speaker 3: He gets caught in this, this internal conflict right torn
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  Speaker 3: between Hagar and the family he's built, the family, his
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  Speaker 3: own family loves. Husham feels it, She gets uneasy. Eventually
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  Speaker 3: she confronts Nasa about it, and that conversation that that's
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  Speaker 3: what really sets everything in motion.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where you see that destabilization happens so quickly.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost a textbook case. In some ways, Hagar identified
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  Speaker 2: a perceived weakness or maybe just an opportunity, and she
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  Speaker 2: inserted herself. It looks like classic manipulation, especially if there's
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  Speaker 2: an underlying motive like financial interest. What's really striking though,
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  Speaker 2: is Naser pushing for divorce despite you know, fifteen years,
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  Speaker 2: six kids, the family bonds. It shows how potent that
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  Speaker 2: external influence became. He promised to support Hushem and the kids,
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  Speaker 2: set them up in a separate apartment. But still the
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  Speaker 2: break was decisive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, decisive is the word. And here's where it gets
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  Speaker 3: well really dark. Hushem moves out Hagar. She doesn't waste
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  Speaker 3: a second Mary's Nasa moves right into the family home,
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  Speaker 3: takes Hushem's place, and outwardly she puts on this big show,
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  Speaker 3: promises to care for the kids like their her own affection, tenderness,
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  Speaker 3: all of it. But underneath seems her motives were very different. Greed,
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  Speaker 3: it's self.
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  Speaker 2: Interest, a complete facade, seems like it.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, you have Hushem. She gets proposals, apparently other offers
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  Speaker 3: of marriage, but turns them down. Her focus is entirely
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  Speaker 3: on her children, and she keeps things respectful with Nasar
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  Speaker 3: with his family, doesn't bad mouth anyone. But this dignity,
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  Speaker 3: this continued connection, especially the bond with the kids, it
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  Speaker 3: infuriates are she sees Hushem as a threat, a constant reminder, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: A reminder of what she displaced perhaps and maybe a
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  Speaker 2: threat to her own security in that position, right.
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  Speaker 3: And then Nasar starts having second thoughts. He's unhappy with Hagar.
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  Speaker 3: He realizes what he gave up the connection he had
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  Speaker 3: with Hushem. He actually starts seriously thinking about reconciling getting
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  Speaker 3: back together with his first wife. He talks to Hagar
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  Speaker 3: about it, and she plays along feign's acceptance, says, oh, yes,
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  Speaker 3: maybe it is best for the children if their mother
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  Speaker 3: comes back.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, so pretending to be understanding.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, but secretly she's plotting. She needs to secure her position,
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  Speaker 3: and her focus shifts to having a child with Naser
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  Speaker 3: for inheritance to lock down her financial future. No matter
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  Speaker 3: what Nasar decides about hush Em.
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  Speaker 2: A calculated move to secure her own interests, regardless of
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  Speaker 2: the emotional cost to others, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then comes this offer. Hushem's new place is basic, no fridge,
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  Speaker 3: no oven. So Hagar comes forward all generosity. Oh, let
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  Speaker 3: me store your food for you on my fridge. Let
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  Speaker 3: me bake bread for you on my oven. On the surface,
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  Speaker 3: it looks kindness right, helping out, but in Hagar's mind
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  Speaker 3: it's a crucial part of her plan. It gives her access.
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  Speaker 2: Control, access to their daily food.
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  Speaker 3: But starts feeling uneasy again. The food. Hagar brings it,
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  Speaker 3: tastes strange, sometimes looks a bit off, but her mind
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  Speaker 3: doesn't go to poison, not at all. She suspects black magic.
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  Speaker 3: She thinks Hagar is trying to cast spells to keep
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  Speaker 3: her in Nasa apart permanently. She even begs Nasa please
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  Speaker 3: just buy me a fridge and oven, so I don't
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  Speaker 3: need her help. But he just brushes it off. Women's jealousy,
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  Speaker 3: he calls it. He has no idea, And.
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  Speaker 2: That's the insidious nature of this kind of manipulation. Hagar
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  Speaker 2: weaponizes an act of charity, offering help with food, something
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  Speaker 2: so fundamental, becomes the delivery system for her plan. She
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  Speaker 2: gains intimate access control over their sustenance. It's psychological warfare,
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  Speaker 2: really hidden behind this mask of helpfulness, dismissed as just
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  Speaker 2: you know, domestic friction, chillingly.
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  Speaker 3: Effective, absolutely chilling. Knowing what she was planning, yeah, makes
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  Speaker 3: that offer Grote. So the stage is set. Hagar has
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  Speaker 3: the means, the motive, the access. She moves forward with
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  Speaker 3: the plan. The day it happens, she goes to the market,
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  Speaker 3: buys vegetables, goes home, bakes bread. Then she takes the
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  Speaker 3: fresh bread and the vegetables over to Hushem's apartment, delivers
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  Speaker 3: them herself.
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  Speaker 2: Just a normal delivery, seemingly completely normal.
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  Speaker 3: Hashem takes the food, no reason to suspect anything beyond
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  Speaker 3: maybe some bad feelings or like she thought, magic. She
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  Speaker 3: prepares lunch, cooks the vegetables, some meat, rice, and she
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  Speaker 3: serves it with the bread Hagar brought. But then something
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  Speaker 3: stops her, just a feeling, call it intuition. Whatever she
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  Speaker 3: does meet the bread herself. That feeling saved her life.
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  Speaker 2: Incredible, a mother's instinct, perhaps.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe the children, though they eat the bread, they mentioned
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  Speaker 3: it tastes a bit funny, but hush Em, still thinking
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  Speaker 3: it's maybe just a harmless spell or something Hagar did
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  Speaker 3: to the dough, dismisses it. And then less than an
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  Speaker 3: hour later, it begins catastrophe. The fever spikes, the stomach
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  Speaker 3: pain becomes unbearable, convulsions start. They lose consciousness, one after another,
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  Speaker 3: incredibly rapids. It's a frantic rush to the hospital. The
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  Speaker 3: doctors are baffled, multiple hospitals, different specialists. Nobody can figure
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  Speaker 3: it out. The symptoms are so severe, temperatures over forty
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  Speaker 3: three celsius, which is just extreme, violent seizures coma. First
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  Speaker 3: three the kids are admitted Omar, Reem, Mohammed. Then the
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  Speaker 3: next day the other three Ahmed, Farha and Rama. They
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  Speaker 3: get sick too, same symptoms, rush to the hospital, and
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  Speaker 3: then the news gets even worse. Nasair the father he did,
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  Speaker 3: alls the exact same symptoms severe, He's admitted to a
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  Speaker 3: different hospital.
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  Speaker 2: The way this poison worked its ability to mimic severe illness,
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  Speaker 2: that's what caused so much confusion. Standard tests for bacteria, viruses,
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  Speaker 2: common toxins, they all came back negative. Doctors were looking
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  Speaker 2: for infections, maybe food poisoning, but this was different. This
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  Speaker 2: was likely an organic phosphate pesticide. These are neurotoxins. They
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  Speaker 2: attack the nervous system, shut down vital functions. They don't
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  Speaker 2: show up on basic talk screens. It creates symptoms like
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  Speaker 2: high fever, convulsions, respiratory failure, mimicking severe natural disease. States.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it stumped everyone initially.
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  Speaker 3: That explains the medical mystery side of Yeah. Just terrifyingly effective. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and the tragedy just kept unfolding. Hour by hour of
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  Speaker 3: the children's conditions worsened, and the question hangs heavy in
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  Speaker 3: the air, Who did this? Who could do something so horrific? Naturally,
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  Speaker 3: suspicion first falls on hush Em. She cooked the meal,
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  Speaker 3: she served the food, and crucially, she didn't get sick.
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  Speaker 3: So she's arrested. But the shock, the trauma. She collapses,
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  Speaker 3: has convulsions herself and ends up being admitted to a
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  Speaker 3: psychiatric hospital, which complicates.
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  Speaker 2: Things right and muddies the water significantly from an investigative standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: Then the first death, nine year old Muhammed, he said,
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  Speaker 3: comes the poisoning. Then the other three who were admitted first,
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  Speaker 3: they pass away too, one by one. The authorities order
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  Speaker 3: immediate autopsies. The need answer. Samples are taken from the
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  Speaker 3: stomach linings, any leftover food traces.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to find the substance, the cause exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And as the other children are fading rama, she's the eldest, fourteen,
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  Speaker 3: She's the only one still conscious enough to speak, just barely,
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  Speaker 3: and she tells the doctor something crucial. She says, we
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  Speaker 3: ate vegetables, rice, meat, and bread. And then she adds
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  Speaker 3: mom cooked it and she ate with us. This throws
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  Speaker 3: the investigators for a loop. If the mother ate too,
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  Speaker 3: how is she okay? If she cooked it? How did
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  Speaker 3: the poison only get to the kids? It doesn't add up.
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  Speaker 2: That detail is the pivot point. It challenges the initial
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  Speaker 2: theory completely, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Forenstic teams swarm a schem's home, collecting samples from everything, dishes,
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  Speaker 3: the sink, any food scraps, looking for that missing piece.
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  Speaker 3: But then the remaining three children die. All six children
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  Speaker 3: are gone. The community is gripped by fear. Panic sets in,
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  Speaker 3: Rumors fly everywhere. It's an epidemic. It's black magic. No,
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  Speaker 3: the mother did do it. It gets so bad the
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  Speaker 3: Ministry of Health has to issue a public statement trying
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  Speaker 3: to calm people down, denying there's any infectious disease spreading.
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  Speaker 2: And Rama's statement that's seemingly small detail about the bread
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  Speaker 2: and the mother eating with them but not getting sick.
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  Speaker 2: That changes everything. It redirects the investigation. And then comes
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  Speaker 2: the forensic report, the breakthrough. It identifies the killer, a
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  Speaker 2: highly specialized agricultural pesticide and insecticide used for like unseen
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  Speaker 2: worms and soil, and the report highlights its characteristics tasteless, odorless,
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  Speaker 2: undetectable by standard hospital tests. You need advanced forensic toxicology
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  Speaker 2: labs to find it. Its effects are catastrophic, as we saw,
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  Speaker 2: paralyzes organs since temperature skyrocketing causes convulsions, coma death swiftly.
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  Speaker 2: The medical team stood no chance against something like this
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  Speaker 2: without knowing what it was.
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  Speaker 3: Finding the weapon that unlocks it, the puzzle pieces slam
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  Speaker 3: into place. Husham, she's recovering them from the shock. She's
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  Speaker 3: released from the psychiatric hospital and she can finally tell
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  Speaker 3: her side. She fills in those missing details, and her
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  Speaker 3: testimony is just bone chilling. She remembers Hagar bringing the
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  Speaker 3: bread that day, and she remembers Hagar seeing something so casually. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: some cough medicine accidentally fell in the dough. Don't worry,
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  Speaker 3: it's harmless.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. The audacity, a prepared law, a prepared deadly lie.
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  Speaker 3: And while Husham is giving her statement, more devastating news
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  Speaker 3: arrives Naser, the father. He's died too in his hospital
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  Speaker 3: bed for the same poisoning that makes seven victims, six
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  Speaker 3: children and their father. The focus immediately shifts laser like
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  Speaker 3: onto Hagar. Her home is searched and they find it
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  Speaker 3: baking tools. They test them traces of the exact same
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  Speaker 3: pesticide found in the victim's undeniable proof, the.
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  Speaker 2: Physical evidence linking her directly to the delivery method exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Hagar denies it at first, oh, but faced with the
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  Speaker 3: evidence the testimony, she breaks She confesses everything. Amidst She
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  Speaker 3: deliberately poisoned the bread. Her target was Hushem and the children.
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  Speaker 3: Her motive pure jealousy, fear that Nasa would leave her
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  Speaker 3: go back to Hushem. She wanted them all to herself.
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  Speaker 3: She eliminated the competition and the hypocrisy. It's staggering, she admits.
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  Speaker 3: She went to the hospital, pretended to be concerned, checking
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  Speaker 3: out the children she poisoned. She went to their funerals,
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  Speaker 3: wept hysterically, all while carrying this monstrous secret.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost impossible to comprehend that level of min pipulation
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  Speaker 2: and coldness to enact such violence and then perform grief
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  Speaker 2: so convincingly. It speaks to a profound lack of empathy,
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  Speaker 2: a detachment from reality that's truly terrifying. The calculation involved,
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  Speaker 2: the planning, the execution, and then the elaborate cover up
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  Speaker 2: through feigned emotion. It's deeply disturbing.
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  Speaker 3: It really is so fifty days, fifty days of fear, confusion,
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  Speaker 3: medical mystery, finally solved. Not an epidemic, not black magic,
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  Speaker 3: just an act of unimaginable cruelty born from jealousy, possessiveness, greed.
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  Speaker 3: The Ruvers died down, the truth came out. Hashem released,
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  Speaker 3: but facing this impossible grief, losing her entire family, Hagar arrested,
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  Speaker 3: awaiting trial.
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  Speaker 2: Justice, at least in the legal sense, is pending.
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  Speaker 3: Right, But this one last detail, a final, unsettling coda
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  Speaker 3: to this whole tragedy. Yeah, Hagar, she was nine months
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  Speaker 3: pregnant when she was arrested. She gave birth while she
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  Speaker 3: was in custody. Apparently she was later released to strict
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  Speaker 3: home confinement to care for the newborn, presumably under of supervision.
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  Speaker 2: And that that just leaves you speechless. It forces you
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  Speaker 2: to think about the ripples, doesn't it. Beyond the immediate horror,
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  Speaker 2: there's this innocent child born into the shadow of this
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  Speaker 2: unspeakable crime. What does the future hold for a child
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  Speaker 2: whose life begins under such circumstances, knowing their mother committed
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  Speaker 2: these acts, never knowing their father, their six siblings. It's
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  Speaker 2: a question that lingers a heavy, haunting reminder of the
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  Speaker 2: enduring legacy of such darkness, A bird in that child
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  Speaker 2: will carry through no fault of their own