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Azza: The First Wife's Crime of Jealousy · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: So picture this so Hag Egypt. The day's wrapping up,
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  Speaker 1: everything's calming down, and a dulmonem He's a local electrician,
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  Speaker 1: pretty successful. He's heading back to this second apartment he.
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  Speaker 2: Keeps, yeah, separate place for his well, his much younger wife, Fatma.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and he gets there, probably tired, you know, But
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  Speaker 1: that feeling vanishes instantly. When he puts his key in
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  Speaker 1: the lock.
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  Speaker 2: It catches, it turns a little bit, but then stops.
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  Speaker 2: Something's blocking it from the inside.
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  Speaker 1: He tries again, jiggles it, pushes on the door. It's heavy,
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  Speaker 1: solid wood, but nope, it won't give. And this is
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  Speaker 1: where it gets really weird, chilling. Actually, the door is
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  Speaker 1: bolted from the inside, which.
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  Speaker 2: Makes no sense. I mean, if Fatma was home, she'd
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  Speaker 2: open it exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And if she'd gone out, how could she possibly bolt
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  Speaker 1: it from the inside on her way out. It's just impossible.
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  Speaker 2: So the panic hits him hard. He finds the building
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  Speaker 2: doorman tells him they need to break the lock. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The moment that door bursts open, the smell it hits
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  Speaker 1: them first, thick, italic, just that awful stench of blood.
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  Speaker 1: It's everywhere in the air, and.
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  Speaker 2: The scene inside, just pure chaos, furniture overturn, things smashed,
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  Speaker 2: and then they see her Fetma. She's only seventeen years old. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: and she's been murdered violently.
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  Speaker 1: Police are called. The investigation starts right away. But what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing here for you is digging deeper. This wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just one horrific act. It was the final awful result
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  Speaker 1: of what you could call a criminal cocktail.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good way to put it. It's a
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  Speaker 2: whole chain reaction, really a mix of deceit, desperation, jealousy,
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  Speaker 2: all fueled by some intense societal pressures. The murder itself
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  Speaker 2: was just kind of the explosive endpoint.
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  Speaker 1: So let's trace it back. Where did this leafal mix
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  Speaker 1: even start. We need to look at the root cause,
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  Speaker 1: this incredible burden of needing a male heir.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so rewind. We need to talk about Aza. She's
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  Speaker 2: abdulah Modem's first wife, a high school teacher there in Sohai.
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  Speaker 2: They married back in nineteen ninety eight. He was quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit older, but sources say she loved him. They
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  Speaker 2: had a daughter, a Mira.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds okay, so but then comes the.
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  Speaker 2: Big issue, the huge issue for fifteen years as I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't conceive again, specifically, she couldn't give him a son.
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  Speaker 1: And in that place, at that time, a son wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just you know, nice to have, It was everything legacy status.
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  Speaker 1: Abdul Monem pressured her constantly for what fifteen years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, over a decade, And that constant pressure, that feeling
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  Speaker 2: of failure in his eyes, it must have worn her down.
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  Speaker 2: It created this deep vulnerability.
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  Speaker 1: The vulnerability he then exploited. So twenty twelve, he goes
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  Speaker 1: to Alexandria for work and there he meets Fatmah.
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  Speaker 2: And here's where it gets really disturbing. Fatima is just fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: a child almost thirty years younger than him, but abdul
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  Speaker 2: Monem sees an opportunity. He's wealthy, her family's core.
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  Speaker 1: He basically bought her. He leverages his money against their
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  Speaker 1: poverty and frankly, their ignorance, and arranges to marry this child.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't about love, not even closer. It was a
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  Speaker 2: calculated move, a transaction purely to get a son.
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  Speaker 1: So when he comes back to Sohagen tells Oza, his
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  Speaker 1: educated first wife, Hey, I've married a teenager. How does
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  Speaker 1: she react?
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  Speaker 2: Initially, exactly how you'd expect, total outrage. She demanded a
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  Speaker 2: divorce right then and there.
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  Speaker 1: He knew how to play her, Oh absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: He was a master manipulator. He zeroed in on her
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  Speaker 2: biggest fear, losing everything, her marriage, her standing, because she
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  Speaker 2: couldn't provide an error.
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  Speaker 1: So he makes this unbelievably twisted deal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he spins this story, says he still loves Aza,
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  Speaker 2: only her. He promises he's marrying Fatma only to have
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  Speaker 2: a son. The moment that baby boy is born, he
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  Speaker 2: swears he'll take the child, register him legally as as
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  Speaker 2: a son, and divorce Fatma immediately center packing.
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  Speaker 1: It's just monstrous, and azza. She agrees.
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  Speaker 2: She agrees, And this tells you so much about the
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  Speaker 2: crushing weight of that cultural pressure. Here's an educated woman,
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  Speaker 2: a teacher, who feels she has no choice but to
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  Speaker 2: go along with this exploitation and fraud rather than face
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  Speaker 2: the shame of being divorced and childless, specifically sonless.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just about losing him, it was about losing
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  Speaker 1: her place in society.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, so, the marriage happens, but it has to be
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  Speaker 2: an alay.
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  Speaker 1: Which is like a common law marriage, right because she's
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  Speaker 1: legally still a minor, so it's not officially registered with
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  Speaker 1: the state. It bypasses protections.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, and he sets Fatma up in that separate apartment nearby,
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  Speaker 2: close but hidden.
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  Speaker 1: And the deception just deepens. Oza starts visiting Fatma, especially
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  Speaker 1: during the pregnancy, acting concerned, bringing things.
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  Speaker 2: But it's all a facade. She's not worried about Fatima's
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  Speaker 2: well being. She's monitoring the vessel, making sure the child
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  Speaker 2: she plans to take is healthy. It's chillingly calculated.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So fast forward to twenty thirteen. The baby is born,
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  Speaker 1: it's a boy.
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  Speaker 2: And Abdomonum doesn't waste any time. He moves straight to
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  Speaker 2: the next step, the forgery.
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  Speaker 1: How does he manage that Fatma is the mother?
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  Speaker 2: He lies to her. Remember she's still a minor, probably
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  Speaker 2: barely understands the legal system. He tells her. Look, because
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  Speaker 2: you're under age, we can't legally register the baby in
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  Speaker 2: your name. It'll cause problems, he says. The only way
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  Speaker 2: to register the baby under Oza's name, just to avoid
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  Speaker 2: you know, legal trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, And he actually falsifies documents.
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  Speaker 2: He does. He forges Fatma's ID details, making the match
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  Speaker 2: Oza's information.
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  Speaker 1: And he succeeds.
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  Speaker 2: The newborn boy is officially legally registered as the son
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  Speaker 2: of Aza and Abdulmonem. Fatma's identity as the mother is
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  Speaker 2: erased from the record. It's identity, theft, lineage, theft, unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: So now Oza has her son. She immediately tells Abdulmonem, okay,
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  Speaker 1: time to keep your promise, divorce Fatma, right, the deal.
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  Speaker 2: Is clear, but he refused. I've gotten what he wanted,
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  Speaker 2: the son. But now he's apparently become attached to Fatma,
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  Speaker 2: the young wife. He likes having her around, so he
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  Speaker 2: breaks his promise to Aza flat out refuses to divorce Fatma.
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  Speaker 1: This must have been the breaking point for Oza.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Think about it from her perspective. She's the educated,
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  Speaker 2: respected first wife, and this young girl, his child she
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  Speaker 2: probably looks down on, has not only given Abdulmonem the
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  Speaker 2: son Ozza couldn't, but is now also keeping his attention,
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  Speaker 2: his affection.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the jealousy must have been eating her alive, mixed
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  Speaker 1: with this feeling of being utterly worthless, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Completely, and it combines with this this pathological need to
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  Speaker 2: keep the child who is now legally hers. The focus shifts.
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  Speaker 2: The problem isn't just the situation anymore. It's Fatma herself.
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  Speaker 2: Fatima's the obstacle to her having the child and the husband.
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  Speaker 1: So Oza moves from being a reluctant participant in fraud
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  Speaker 1: to while planning something much much worse.
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  Speaker 2: She becomes meticulous. This isn't a sudden rage thing. She
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  Speaker 2: plans Fatma's removal, every single detail, Like.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of planning are we talking about?
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  Speaker 2: First, the timing. She chooses seven point zero am on
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  Speaker 2: a workday. Why Abdomen m will be at his job,
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  Speaker 2: Her own daughter, Amirah will be at school. No witnesses
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  Speaker 2: at her home when she leaves or returns.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect, Okay, that's calculated. What else?
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  Speaker 2: The weapon? She's smart enough to know she can't use
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  Speaker 2: a knife from her own kitchen that could be traced,
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  Speaker 2: So she goes to the market buys a brand new knife,
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  Speaker 2: very sharp, specifically for this purpose.
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  Speaker 1: In a shopping for a murder weapon. And the alibi.
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  Speaker 1: She's a teacher, she should be at school at seven am.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, But she exploits a common practice. You know how
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  Speaker 2: sometimes colleagues cover for each other, maybe sign the attended
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  Speaker 2: sheet if someone's running late, Yes, sure, she arranges that
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  Speaker 2: with her colleagues, gets someone sign her in, so on
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  Speaker 2: paper it looks like she's at school teaching her class
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  Speaker 2: while she's actually on her way to Fatma's apartment, a
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  Speaker 2: seemingly solid alibi.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So the day arrives seven am, Ozza walks to
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  Speaker 1: the separate apartment. This is the first time she's ever
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  Speaker 1: gone there alone.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yes, and this is where Fatma makes a fatal mistake.
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  Speaker 2: Adulmonem had warned her very clearly, never open the door
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  Speaker 2: unless it's him, his sister or asah. So Fama looks
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  Speaker 2: to the people, sees Aza, the woman who visited her,
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  Speaker 2: brought her things, supposed to co mother figure, and she
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  Speaker 2: trusts her. She unlocks and opens the door.
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  Speaker 1: What happens then? Does Azza attack immediately?
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  Speaker 2: No, not right away? First the common frontation. Asa tells
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  Speaker 2: Fatima straight up, you need to leave, go back to Alexandria,
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  Speaker 2: forget out to Moanam, forget the baby, just disappear.
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  Speaker 1: And Fatma, she's just seventeen, holding onto her baby.
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  Speaker 2: She refuses. She says, no, she can't leave her child.
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  Speaker 1: And that refusal that's the trigger that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Ozza shows this terrifying calm. She actually pretends to agree,
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  Speaker 2: turns like she's gonna leave, but the moment Fatima turns
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  Speaker 2: her back, Aza pulls out the knife she bought and
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  Speaker 2: she attacks.
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  Speaker 1: The reports they said it was.
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  Speaker 2: Brutal, extremely Fatima didn't die instantly. She fought back hard.
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  Speaker 2: Remember she's young, but she fought for her life. Oza,
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  Speaker 2: though fueled by this rage and jealousy, overpowers her many
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  Speaker 2: times over twenty stab wounds all over her body, and
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  Speaker 2: then Oza does something truly horrific. The final act, she
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  Speaker 2: cuts Fatma's head completely off, just unimaginable, pure desecration. And
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  Speaker 2: after all that violence, she just calmly leaves the apartment,
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  Speaker 2: locks the door from the outside, leaving that internal bolt
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  Speaker 2: somehow still engaged, which baffled Abdulmonem later. Then she goes home,
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  Speaker 2: acts like nothing happened.
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  Speaker 1: Resumes her day until Abduomonem gets home that evening, finds
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  Speaker 1: the door bolted from the inside, breaks it down and
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  Speaker 1: discovers the scene. The police arrive. Who do they suspect
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  Speaker 1: first Oza?
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  Speaker 2: Immediately the motive is staring them in the face. The
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  Speaker 2: fight over the child, the rivalry with the younger wife.
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  Speaker 2: It's classic, and they start digging right away. They uncover
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  Speaker 2: the whole messy story pretty quickly. The Yaya marriage, the
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  Speaker 2: pressure for a son, the forgery of the birth certificate,
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  Speaker 2: the stolen identity, and Ozza's alibi. It falls apart almost instantly.
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  Speaker 1: Her colleagues at the school must have talked.
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  Speaker 2: They did. Under police questioning, they admitted they'd signed the
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  Speaker 2: attendant sheet for her. Ozza wasn't at school that morning.
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  Speaker 1: At all, so no alibi, clear motive. What does Aza say?
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  Speaker 2: She denies everything, completely maintains this incredible, chilling composure. She
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  Speaker 2: insists she knows nothing about the murder, nothing about the fraud,
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  Speaker 2: seems almost confident they can't pin it on her without
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  Speaker 2: a witness.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators know denials aren't everything. They look for physical clues always.
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  Speaker 2: And they noticed something subtle. Oza kept trying to hide
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  Speaker 2: her hands while they questioned her, casually but.
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  Speaker 1: Consistently interesting, So they push her on it.
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  Speaker 2: To make her show her hands, and there they are
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  Speaker 2: fresh cuts, deep scratches, the unmistakable marks of a violent
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  Speaker 2: physical struggle.
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  Speaker 1: Someone fought back against her, and the forensics from the
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  Speaker 1: scene must have corroborated that massively.
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  Speaker 2: The medical examiner's report was crucial. It confirmed Fatma hadn't
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  Speaker 2: died immediately, She'd resisted fiercely. And get this, Fatma's fingertips
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  Speaker 2: on her right hand were deeply cut, some almost severed,
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  Speaker 2: meaning she literally grabbed the blade of the knife during
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  Speaker 2: the attack, trying desperately to push it away or stop it.
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  Speaker 2: Direct proof of that struggle.
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  Speaker 1: But they still needed something to place Oza definitively in
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  Speaker 1: that room.
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  Speaker 2: They did, and they found it. Amidst all the blood
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  Speaker 2: at the scene, which mostly belonged to Fatma, forensics found
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  Speaker 2: one tiny spot of blood that was a different.
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  Speaker 1: Type, not fatmous blood exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So they get a warrant take a blood sample from Oza.
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  Speaker 2: It's a match, an absolute, undeniable match. The blood spot
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  Speaker 2: found at the scene belonged to Aza. Combined with the
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  Speaker 2: scratches on her hands, the collapsed alibi, the motive, it
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  Speaker 2: was overwhelming pace closed pretty much. Oza was convicted of murder,
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  Speaker 2: sentence to life in prison.
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  Speaker 1: So, going back to that idea of the criminal cocktail,
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  Speaker 1: Ozza pulled the trigger, or rather wielded the knife. But
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't the only guilty party in this whole chain
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  Speaker 1: of events.
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  Speaker 2: Not even close. The investigation laid bare multiple layers of culpability.
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  Speaker 2: It really was a shared destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So let's break down that cocktail. Who are the contributors?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first you have to look at Fatima's own family.
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  Speaker 2: They essentially sold their underage daughter to a much older,
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  Speaker 2: wealthy man. They prioritized money over her safety, her childhood.
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  Speaker 2: As perpetrator, Group one.
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  Speaker 1: Right, exploiting their own child's vulnerability.
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  Speaker 2: Group two abdul Monem himself guilty on so many counts
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  Speaker 2: marrying a minor, that's ill legal exploitation. Then the systematic deceit,
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  Speaker 2: the forgery to literally steal a child's legal identity from
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  Speaker 2: its birth mother, betraying both Oza's trust and Fatma's. His
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  Speaker 2: actions set the whole tragedy in motion.
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  Speaker 1: He created the conflict, fueled the jealousy. Okay, and group three.
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  Speaker 2: That's Ozza the murderer. Yes, but her crime stems from
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  Speaker 2: this toxic mix of jealousy, societal pressure, and what seems
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  Speaker 2: like a pathological attachment. She's educated. She had options, maybe divorced,
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  Speaker 2: maybe fighting for custody legally, but she chose violence. She
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  Speaker 2: let the pressure turn her into a killer, destroying Fatma's life,
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  Speaker 2: her own life, and severely impacting her daughter Amira's life too.
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  Speaker 1: And standing in the middle of all this, the real victim, without.
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  Speaker 2: A doubt Fetmah fifteen when she was married off, seventeen
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  Speaker 2: when she was murdered, a child victimized by her family's
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  Speaker 2: poverty and ignorance, her husband's greed and deceit, and her
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  Speaker 2: co wife's lethal jealousy, failed by absolutely everyone who should
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  Speaker 2: have protected her.
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  Speaker 1: It really makes you think, doesn't it, How powerful these
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  Speaker 1: cultural demands like meeting a male heir can be powerful
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  Speaker 1: enough to twist someone educated, someone who should know better,
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  Speaker 1: towards such monstrosity.
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  Speaker 2: It's a chilling question. How often does that kind of
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  Speaker 2: intense societal pressure create the perfect storm for crime, turning
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  Speaker 2: things like family love, legacy into justifications for the absolute
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  Speaker 2: worst actions. Something to really sit with after hearing this story.