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Killed for Filming Her Husband’s Affair · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I want you to just picture this. We're
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  Speaker 1: in the Egyptian Delta. It's a humid night in the
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  Speaker 1: Sharkia Governorate. The year is twenty twenty one. And usually
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  Speaker 1: if you're standing out there, all you'd hear is, you know, crickets,
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  Speaker 1: a wall of.
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  Speaker 2: Sound win through the palm trees, maybe exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But tonight the air is just vibrating. There's this deep,
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  Speaker 1: thumping bass.
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  Speaker 2: It's a wedding, and in rural Egypt, a wedding isn't
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  Speaker 2: just some party. It's a seismic event. The music is
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  Speaker 2: so loud it rattles windows for streets around. It takes
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  Speaker 2: over everything.
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  Speaker 1: It's a collective heartbeat for the whole village. Everyone is there,
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  Speaker 1: drawn to the light, to the noise. The streets are empty.
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  Speaker 1: But while all this joy is happening, one person is
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  Speaker 1: walking away from it into the shadow. A young woman,
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  Speaker 1: and she's supposedly just going out to buy some fruit
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  Speaker 1: for her husband.
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  Speaker 2: That contrast is just it's so stark, isn't it. You
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  Speaker 2: have this explosion of community and sound and then just isolation.
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  Speaker 2: A woman walking toward a silent canal.
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  Speaker 1: Her name is Azahamada, and as she walks toward that water,
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  Speaker 1: she's walking out of her life. She never comes back
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  Speaker 1: with that fruit, and when the music finally stops, this
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  Speaker 1: village is going to wake up to an absolute nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: And what makes this case so haunting really isn't just
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  Speaker 2: the what. It's the who. We're all taught to fear,
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  Speaker 2: the stranger in the dark, but Oza's story is about
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  Speaker 2: the terror that's already inside, the kind that has a
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  Speaker 2: key to your front door.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're deep diving into the case of the Angel
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  Speaker 1: of Sharkia, and this is more than a murder mystery.
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  Speaker 1: It's a dissection of a so called perfect family and
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  Speaker 1: a house that was hiding secrets dark enough to kill for.
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  Speaker 2: It's such a paradox a village where everyone knows everyone's business,
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  Speaker 2: where there's almost no privacy, and yet no one saw
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  Speaker 2: this coming.
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  Speaker 1: So let's unpack who Oza was, because to understand the crime,
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  Speaker 1: you have to understand her. She wasn't just some random person.
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  Speaker 1: She was a Koran teacher for the children in the village,
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  Speaker 1: which is a huge.
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  Speaker 2: Deal in this context. It puts her on a pedestal
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  Speaker 2: to be a hafisa, someone who teaches the Holy Book.
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  Speaker 2: It gives you this immediate, deep seated respect.
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  Speaker 1: People trust to her with their kid's moral compass.
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  Speaker 2: She was seen as innocence itself, quiet, respectful, the ideal.
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  Speaker 1: And about three years before this night, she gets married
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  Speaker 1: and it looks perfect. She marries a neighbor, a man named.
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  Speaker 2: Islam, and again on paper, Islam checks all the boxes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's a knackwash, a painter of a decorator. It's a
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  Speaker 2: good trade. He's known as a hard worker.
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  Speaker 1: Right. He travels for work, which is seen as a
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  Speaker 1: good thing. Ambitious. Oz's family absolutely adored him, and she
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  Speaker 1: seems so happy. She would tell her friends how much
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  Speaker 1: he loved her. They have a son, Ahmed. It's the
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  Speaker 1: picture perfect life.
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  Speaker 2: But where they lived that's central to this whole story.
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  Speaker 1: The family house, right, explain that because it's not like
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  Speaker 1: just you know, living with your parents in the west.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. This is a multi story building. The
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  Speaker 2: parents live on one floor. When the oldest son marries,
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  Speaker 2: he gets the floor above them. The second son gets
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  Speaker 2: the one above that. Oz and Islam were in an apartment, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but in a building with his mother, his brother, and
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  Speaker 2: his brother's wife.
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  Speaker 1: So you're all stacked on top of each other.
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  Speaker 2: It's a vertical village. There are no real boundaries. You
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  Speaker 2: share stairwells, business life, and if the trust in that
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  Speaker 2: system breaks, it stops being a home and starts feeling
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  Speaker 2: like a cage.
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  Speaker 1: And that is exactly what happened three years in. The
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  Speaker 1: facade cracks as a suddenly packs bag and goes back
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  Speaker 1: to her mother's house.
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  Speaker 2: It's a move called hardana. The wife leaves to signal
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  Speaker 2: something is seriously wrong. It's a way to force a negotiation.
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  Speaker 1: But when her mom asks her what happened, what's wrong
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  Speaker 1: as us? She downplays it. She says it's just normal
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  Speaker 1: in law stuff. She hides how bad it really is.
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  Speaker 2: That's the tragic part. She was probably trying to protect him,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe she was just too ashamed to say the
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  Speaker 2: real reason out loud.
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  Speaker 1: So the families get involved. They do what they're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do. Islam's mother and sister come over, They apologize,
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  Speaker 1: smooth things over. You know, we're good people. You're good people.
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  Speaker 1: Let's fix this, and Asa agrees.
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  Speaker 2: She goes back and this this is where the story
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  Speaker 2: changes genre. It goes from a family drama to a
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  Speaker 2: cycle logical thriller.
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  Speaker 1: The second she walks back in that house, Islam changes.
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  Speaker 1: He's not the loving husband anymore. He demands her phone.
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  Speaker 2: A massive, massive red flag.
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  Speaker 1: He takes the phone and he doesn't just put it
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  Speaker 1: in a drawer. He smashes it, physically destroys the device,
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  Speaker 1: pulls out her SIM card and puts it in his
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  Speaker 1: own phone.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just pause on that. That is not a fit
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  Speaker 2: of anger. That is a calculated move.
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  Speaker 1: It's an isolation tactic.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent. He intercepts every single call, every text.
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  Speaker 2: If her mother calls to check on her, gi Islam answers.
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  Speaker 2: He becomes the sole gatekeeper to her entire world.
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  Speaker 1: And people in the village they kind of know this happened,
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  Speaker 1: but they interpret it as, oh, you know, he's just
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  Speaker 1: being a husband disciplining her. It's a family dispute.
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  Speaker 2: It's the shield of private family matters. It allows this
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  Speaker 2: kind of coercive control to happen in plain sight. He
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  Speaker 2: was cutting her off from the herd before the final attack.
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  Speaker 1: So Asa is now a prisoner in her own home
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  Speaker 1: for two months, two months of this silent terror, which
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  Speaker 1: that brings us back to the night of the wedding.
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  Speaker 2: The timing is just it's perfect for him. He knows
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  Speaker 2: everyone will be gone. The streets are empty, the music
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  Speaker 2: is loud. It's a perfect window.
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  Speaker 1: As Al's family is at the wedding and they're waiting
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  Speaker 1: for her. The aois tick by. Where's Aza.
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  Speaker 2: No one's seen her, and that's not like her. She's
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  Speaker 2: the angel. She doesn't just not show up. Panic starts
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  Speaker 2: to set in.
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  Speaker 1: Her father can't take it anymore. He leaves the party
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  Speaker 1: and goes to her house and he finds chaos. Islam
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  Speaker 1: is outside with a group of friends and they're all
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  Speaker 1: frantically searching for her.
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  Speaker 2: It's a perfect performance. If you're the one leading the
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  Speaker 2: search party, who's going to suspect you.
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  Speaker 1: Islam spins this whole story on the spot. He tells
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  Speaker 1: her dad, I don't know where she is. She went
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  Speaker 1: out around eight o'clock to buy some fruit. I was
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  Speaker 1: at the coffee shop with friends waiting for her.
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  Speaker 2: And there's the Alibi public place, witnesses. He's already built
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  Speaker 2: his defense. It sounds so mundane, so believable. I was
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  Speaker 2: just drinking tea waiting for my wife.
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  Speaker 1: The search goes on all night, then for three days,
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  Speaker 1: the whole village is out looking for Aza.
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  Speaker 2: And for all three of those days, Islam is right
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  Speaker 2: there crying, asking people if they've seen her. It's an
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  Speaker 2: absolute shilling performance.
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  Speaker 1: On day three, the police show up. An officer asks
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  Speaker 1: her family a very specific question. He doesn't say we
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  Speaker 1: found a body. He asks what exactly was she wearing?
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  Speaker 2: And that's the moment your stomach just drops to the floor.
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  Speaker 2: They only ask that to identify a body.
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  Speaker 1: The rumor just rips through the village. They found someone
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  Speaker 1: in the canal. A relative goes to the station and
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  Speaker 1: it's uzza.
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  Speaker 2: The initial report says drowning. Yeah, but when the family
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  Speaker 2: sees her, the accident theory just falls apart completely.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't an accident. Her body told a story of
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  Speaker 1: pure violence. Her nose was broken. But the detail that
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  Speaker 1: sent the village into a rage, the thing that made
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  Speaker 1: a mob form outside the police station, was her ears.
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  Speaker 1: They were torn, ripped open, Yeah, because her gold earrings
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  Speaker 1: were gone.
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  Speaker 2: So now the official theory shifts. This looks like a
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  Speaker 2: robbery gone wrong, a mugging that ended.
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  Speaker 1: In It's a plausible story for a dark rural road.
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  Speaker 1: It explains the violence, the missing gold. It all fits.
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  Speaker 1: But the police they're watching.
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  Speaker 2: Islam right, And this is where good old fashioned police
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  Speaker 2: work comes in. Islam is at the funeral, he's weeping,
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  Speaker 2: he's falling apart. But to the detectives, something is just off.
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  Speaker 2: It's too much, the performance is too loud, doesn't feel
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  Speaker 2: like real grief. He's selling it too hard.
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  Speaker 1: So ten days later they bring him in. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: they don't buy the robbery story. They zero in on
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  Speaker 1: one thing, that broken phone.
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  Speaker 2: It's the one thread that doesn't fit the robbery narrative.
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  Speaker 2: And why destroy your wife's phone? It suggests the danger
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  Speaker 2: wasn't from outside the house, it was something on that phone.
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  Speaker 1: So the police they lay a trap for him. They
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  Speaker 1: play on the local culture. They say, look, Islam, we
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  Speaker 1: get it. Did she cheat on you? Was she talking
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  Speaker 1: to another man? Is that why you broke the phone.
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  Speaker 2: They're giving him an out, an honor defense, a crime
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  Speaker 2: of passion. It's a wait for him to save face
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  Speaker 2: while confessing she wronged me first.
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  Speaker 1: And he takes the bait. He cracks. He says, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I killed her, But then.
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  Speaker 2: He drops the bombshell the real motive. It wasn't that
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  Speaker 2: Ozza was unfaithful. It was the complete opposite.
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  Speaker 1: This is where the story becomes a true house of horrors.
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  Speaker 1: The secret she died for. Ozza had walked in on
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  Speaker 1: Islam in their family home, in bed with his brother's wife.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, the sister in law in a community
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  Speaker 2: like that, that is a nuclear level taboo.
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  Speaker 1: And it gets so much worse. Islam's mother she knew
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  Speaker 1: about it. Wait, the mother knew about the affair. She
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  Speaker 1: married Islam off to Asa specifically to hide it, to
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  Speaker 1: give him a cover. She used as a as a
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  Speaker 1: human shield to protect the family's reputation.
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  Speaker 2: So she brought this innocent woman into a house knowing,
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  Speaker 2: knowing this was going on. Yeah, that's monstrous.
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  Speaker 1: As us sees this, and she knows it's her word
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  Speaker 1: against all of them, so she does something smart. She
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  Speaker 1: films them.
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  Speaker 2: She got evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Twice, she had video evidence. That was her leverage, her
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  Speaker 1: insurance policy.
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  Speaker 2: That's why she left the first time. That's why she
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  Speaker 2: went Hardana.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And when she came back, he had.
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  Speaker 2: To destroy the phone. He wasn't breaking it out of jealousy.
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  Speaker 2: He was destroying the evidence that could ruin his entire family.
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  Speaker 1: And once that phone was gone, her leverage was gone.
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  Speaker 1: She was defenseless, and he decided she had to die.
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  Speaker 2: The premeditation is just it's ice cold. He waited for
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  Speaker 2: the wedding, for the noise, the distraction.
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  Speaker 1: He sent her to buy fruit, knowing the path she'd
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  Speaker 1: take by the canal, he followed her into the dark.
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  Speaker 1: He beat her, broke her nose to knock her unconscious,
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  Speaker 1: and then threw her into the water.
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  Speaker 2: It was an execution planned from start to finish.
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  Speaker 1: But hang on the ear rings. If he killed her
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  Speaker 1: to keep a secret, why rip her ears open to
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  Speaker 1: stage a robbery.
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  Speaker 2: This is the final sickening twist in this story, and
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's pure random horror. Islam didn't take the earrings.
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  Speaker 2: What In his confession he denied touching her gold, and
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  Speaker 2: police confirmed it. After Islam threw her in the water
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  Speaker 2: and ran back to the cop if shaped to secure
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  Speaker 2: his alibi, some random thief just happened to be walking
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  Speaker 2: by the canal.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot be serious.
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  Speaker 2: A completely opportunistic criminal saw a body in the water,
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  Speaker 2: and instead of getting help, he went down, ripped the
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  Speaker 2: gold earrings from her ears, and just left that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even have words for that.
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  Speaker 2: I just layers upon layers of cruelty. Betrayed by her
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  Speaker 2: husband silenced by his mother, murdered and then desecrated by
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  Speaker 2: a total stranger.
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  Speaker 1: So the very thing that made the village think it
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  Speaker 1: was a robbery, the detail that almost let Islam get
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  Speaker 1: away with it, was a complete coincidence, a.
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  Speaker 2: Horrific coincidence that almost covered up the real crime. It
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  Speaker 2: just shows you how chaotic and dark reality can be.
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  Speaker 1: Islam is now awaiting judgment, and that village they're shattered.
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  Speaker 1: They thought they lost their angel to a stranger, but
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  Speaker 1: the rot was inside their own community all along.
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  Speaker 2: And it really makes you re examine that image of
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  Speaker 2: the perfect family. Yea, that mother's desire to protect a
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  Speaker 2: family reputation, to avoid scandal, it led directly to the
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice of an innocent woman.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping up appearances. Aza did everything she was supposed to do,
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  Speaker 1: and it still wasn't enough to save her.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the thought I want to leave everyone with.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about the bystander effect, you know, on a
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  Speaker 2: city street, but what about the familial bystander effect. A
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  Speaker 2: mother who sees her son's sin and chooses to enable it,
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  Speaker 2: A family that closes ranks to protect a predator in
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  Speaker 2: their midst Ozo wasn't just murdered by Islam. She was
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  Speaker 2: murdered by the family's collective deafening silence.
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  Speaker 1: A silence as deep and as dark as that canal
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  Speaker 1: on the night of the wedding. Exactly, that's our deep
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  Speaker 1: dive for today. Look after each other and always wonder
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  Speaker 1: what's really happening behind closed doors. We'll catch you next time.