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The Fatal Flaw: Oman's Al Buraimi Double Homicide and the Killer's Boastful Betrayal · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the deep dive. Today, we're taking you into
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  Speaker 1: a really dark story from Oman. It's about ambition, money,
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  Speaker 1: and a shocking betrayal in alba Ami.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a case that really shows how sometimes the
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  Speaker 2: most dangerous threats aren't strangers, you know, they could be incredibly.
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  Speaker 1: Close, exactly fueled by greed, hidden by trust.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: So our mission today is to follow the investigators step
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  Speaker 1: by step as they piece this together. It starts with
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  Speaker 1: the missing person's report, well actually just a missphone call.
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  Speaker 2: And ends with this truly horrifying discovery and the killer
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  Speaker 2: revealed almost by accident.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start right there at the scene, alba AMI's commercial market.
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  Speaker 1: It's busy, noisy, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, picture the heat, the crowds, all the usual market smells, spices, food, dust,
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  Speaker 2: a total sensorymix.
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  Speaker 1: But then a sanitation worker, someone used toll that notices something.
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  Speaker 2: Off, something really wrong. There's this red car parked. It
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  Speaker 2: looks out of place, so was covered in dust like
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  Speaker 2: it has moved in days, which is odd for such
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  Speaker 2: a high traffic spot. But the real kicker is the smell.
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  Speaker 2: He smells this awful pervasive odor coming from the trunk.
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  Speaker 2: Something rotten.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not all, is it.
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  Speaker 2: No, If you look really closely, there's also this faint
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  Speaker 2: residue dried blood along the edge of the trunk the bumper.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So he calls the police.
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  Speaker 2: He does, and that call based on those small details,
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  Speaker 2: the dust, the smell, the blood. That's really the first
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  Speaker 2: thread they pull in this whole investigation. It tells them
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  Speaker 2: something terrible has likely already happened to the missing women.
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  Speaker 1: So let's back up a bit. Who were these women.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about Molik who was forty two, and her
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  Speaker 2: daughter Rose in her mid twenties, both originally from Syria,
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  Speaker 2: living in Albirami.
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  Speaker 1: And they weren't just living there. They were business owners, right,
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  Speaker 1: successful ones.
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  Speaker 2: Very successful. They ran this high end clothing boutique near
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  Speaker 2: the market. They were known for being really ambitious, very driven.
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  Speaker 1: And this success wasn't accidental, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: They were sharp. Apparently they'd lived in the UAE before
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  Speaker 2: and used previous relationships marriages to secure the capital they
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  Speaker 2: needed to launch this boutique in Oman. Is a calculated move.
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  Speaker 1: So high flyers making good.
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  Speaker 2: Money, definitely very visible in the community.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so things seem fine on the surface, but The
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  Speaker 1: first sign of trouble doesn't actually come from Albaremi No.
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  Speaker 2: Interestingly, the alarm first goes off far away in Syria.
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  Speaker 2: That's where Malik's son Foddy lives.
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  Speaker 1: What tipped him off routine?
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  Speaker 2: Just to break in routine, Molie called him every single
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  Speaker 2: morning like clockwork.
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  Speaker 1: And one morning she didn't call.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, So Fiddi tries calling her back, and her main
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  Speaker 2: business phone, the one she always had on her, the
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  Speaker 2: one essential for her trade, it's off.
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  Speaker 1: That's definitely a red flag for him.
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  Speaker 2: A huge one. He knows this phone is her lifeline.
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  Speaker 2: Then he tries Rose's phone also off, tries the apartment,
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  Speaker 2: the boutique landlines.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, so he starts to panic.
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  Speaker 2: Understandably, he reaches out to the person he trusts most there,
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  Speaker 2: their closest friend and neighbor, a woman named.
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  Speaker 1: Phalak Falak Okay, the friend and neighbor. What does she
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  Speaker 1: do well?
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  Speaker 2: Follock seems helpful at first. She checks the apartment, knocks,
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  Speaker 2: no answer, reports back everything's locked up tight and the
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  Speaker 2: car ah yes. Crucially, Phalac tells Faddy that Malik's red
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  Speaker 2: car isn't there, it's missing, okay, and she suggests, you
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  Speaker 2: know maybe they took one of their rare quick trips
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  Speaker 2: over the border, maybe a three day buying trip for merchandise,
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  Speaker 2: and just forgot to tell him this time.
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  Speaker 1: A plausible explanation, I suppose. Did Faddy buy it?
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  Speaker 2: It seems like it gave him enough plause, enough hope
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  Speaker 2: that he waited. He waited two more days before officially
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  Speaker 2: reporting the missing to the Omani.
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  Speaker 1: Police, two critical days.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely critical because, as the police would soon discover, Malik
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  Speaker 2: and Rose were already dead by the time Follick was
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  Speaker 2: giving Faddy that reassuring story.
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  Speaker 1: So the Omani police finally get the official report, what's
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  Speaker 1: their first move?
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  Speaker 2: They move pretty quickly to rule things out. Checked immigration, Nope,
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  Speaker 2: Malik and Rose hadn't left.
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  Speaker 1: Oman, so flax buy trip theory.
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  Speaker 2: Was out immediately. They also checked surveillance on the main
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  Speaker 2: roads out of the city. Their red car hadn't passed
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  Speaker 2: any checkpoints, okay, so.
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  Speaker 1: They knew the women and the car had to still
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  Speaker 1: be somewhere in or around Alberemi.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly the net Titans.
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  Speaker 1: What about those ex husbands in the UAE given the
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  Speaker 1: financial background, surely they looked into that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, that was an early line of inquiry, But
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  Speaker 2: it seems those connections, any financial disputes from the divorces
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  Speaker 2: were pretty old, long severed. They were cleared quickly.
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  Speaker 1: So leads drying up until they connect the dots back
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  Speaker 1: to that sanitation workers report.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely two days after Faddy's official report. They zero in
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  Speaker 2: on that dusty red car parked in.
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  Speaker 1: The commercial area, and when they arrived.
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  Speaker 2: They secure the scene, coordinate off, and then well then
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  Speaker 2: they opened the trump.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where everything changes completely.
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  Speaker 2: It goes from missing persons to a horrific homicide scene
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  Speaker 2: in an instant.
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  Speaker 1: What did they find?
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  Speaker 2: Not merchandise? They found two bodies, female, badly dismembered and
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  Speaker 2: partially burned.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the documents found right there in the car,
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  Speaker 2: residency of papers, a driver's license, confirmed the identities almost immediately.
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  Speaker 2: It was Malick and Rose.
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  Speaker 1: Just awful. So the initial thoughts must be robbery gone wrong,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe rage.
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  Speaker 2: That would be the typical assumption with such violence. But
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  Speaker 2: here's the first major puzzle. What's that all their valuables
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  Speaker 2: were still there, money, personal belongings, even those cell phones,
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  Speaker 2: The dead ones still with the bodies, So not a robbery.
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  Speaker 1: The motive wasn't theft.
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  Speaker 2: Right, It points to something else, something more personal perhaps.
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  Speaker 1: And the medical examiner's report did that clarify things.
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  Speaker 2: It added another layer of well chilling detail. The cause
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  Speaker 2: of death wasn't a stabbing or shooting. It was manual strangulation.
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  Speaker 1: Strangulation this is intimate.
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  Speaker 2: Close up, extremely it takes sustained force. It suggests the
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  Speaker 2: killer knew them, was physically close to them during the act.
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  Speaker 2: It implies a personal connection or maybe intense hatred and them.
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  Speaker 2: The emmy confirmed that happened after they were already dead,
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  Speaker 2: done with something like a cleaver, a sadder, a common
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  Speaker 2: heavy knife.
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  Speaker 1: So not a crime of passion. Then the dismemberment was planned.
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  Speaker 2: It looks that way. It suggests an effort to dispose
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  Speaker 2: of the bodies to destroy evidence. This wasn't a frenzied
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  Speaker 2: attack followed by panic.
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  Speaker 1: It was methodical, planned, calculated.
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  Speaker 2: And the EMMI estimated they both died around the same time,
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  Speaker 2: about two days before the car was found, consistent with
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  Speaker 2: the timeline.
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  Speaker 1: But this meticulous planning created a huge problem for the
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  Speaker 1: investigators right the crime.
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  Speaker 2: Scene, massive problem, Where did the actual murders happen? The
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  Speaker 2: car was clean, inside a poulsry wipe down. That wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the primary scene.
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  Speaker 1: What about the apartment, the boutite, both.
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  Speaker 2: Searched top to bottom, completely clean, pristine, no blood, no
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  Speaker 2: signs of a struggle, nothing disturbed. The killer or killers
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  Speaker 2: had done an incredible job erasing the location.
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  Speaker 1: So the police have a brutal double homicide, dismemberment foreign nationals.
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  Speaker 2: This is sensitive, extremely sensitive, So they make a decision
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  Speaker 2: tight lockdown on the details, especially the really gruesome part.
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  Speaker 2: So the dismemberment, the fact they were found in the trunk,
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  Speaker 2: keep it strictly internal.
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't that feel rumors?
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  Speaker 2: It's a risk. Yeah, but they probably figured the killer
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  Speaker 2: was this careful, detail oriented type. So maybe, just maybe,
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  Speaker 2: if they held back those very specific, unique details.
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  Speaker 1: They could use the secret itself as a trap. If
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  Speaker 1: someone somehow knew those unreleased facts.
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  Speaker 2: They had to be involved, either the killer or someone
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  Speaker 2: very close to the killer.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, so they set this information trap and does
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  Speaker 1: it work.
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  Speaker 2: It works almost immediately, but not because of some clever
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  Speaker 2: police sting. It's pure coincidence or maybe arrogance. Right, is
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  Speaker 2: the police are processing the car scene, who happens to
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  Speaker 2: walk by? Don't tell me Fullack, the neighbor, the friend
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  Speaker 2: who reported the car missing in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: No way.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. She sees the police activity, asks some bystanders what's
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  Speaker 2: going on on. They tell her it's a crime scene,
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  Speaker 2: a bad.
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  Speaker 1: One, and what does she do?
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  Speaker 2: She immediately gets on the phone, calls Foddy back in
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  Speaker 2: Syria and tells him and tells him everything, the exact
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  Speaker 2: details the police were holding back. She tells him his
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  Speaker 2: mother and sister were just killed. She tells them they
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  Speaker 2: were dismembered, and she tells them they were found in
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  Speaker 2: the trunk of the car.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, falag, that's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: It's the fatal mistake, the moment of self sabotage.
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  Speaker 1: So Faddy, obviously distraught, calls the police back in Oman,
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  Speaker 1: trying to confirm this.
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  Speaker 2: Horror exactly, and the police hear this detailed account from him,
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  Speaker 2: and the alarm bells go off instantly. They ask him
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  Speaker 2: the crucial question, how did you know? How did you
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  Speaker 2: know about the dismemberment, about the trunk.
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  Speaker 1: And Foddy tells them Falock told.
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  Speaker 2: Him he does, and just like that, the entire focus
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  Speaker 2: of the investigation snaps onto Falac. She knew things only
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  Speaker 2: the police and the killer could know, so they.
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  Speaker 1: Start watching her, checking her background.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately they pull communication records, yeah, call messages between Fallock.
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  Speaker 1: And Malac, and what do they find? A hidden motive?
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  Speaker 2: They find the money trail. It turns out Malak had
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  Speaker 2: loaned Falac a significant amount of money. Uh And crucially,
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  Speaker 2: Malik wasn't just trusting her friend. She had collateral signed
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  Speaker 2: bank checks from Phlac.
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  Speaker 1: So leverage. Malik could cash those checks if Philac didn't pay.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, and the message you showed that's exactly what was happening.
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  Speaker 2: Malid was demanding repayment, Fallock was refusing.
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  Speaker 1: Or stalling, and Malik threatened to use the check.
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  Speaker 2: She threatened legal action with those checks. The pressure was building, so.
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  Speaker 1: The motive becomes crystal clear. Get rid of Malik, get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the debt, and most importantly, get those checks back.
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  Speaker 2: That's the theory. And there's physical evidence, or rather a
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  Speaker 2: lack of it, that supports this. What's that when they
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  Speaker 2: re examine everything, the car, the initial searches of the
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  Speaker 2: apartment and boutique, they realize those specific bank checks are missing, gone.
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  Speaker 1: The missing link the checks themselves.
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  Speaker 2: It solidifies the motive. The checks were worth killing for it.
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  Speaker 1: Seems, so they bring Phallic in for questioning.
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  Speaker 2: They do, and she denies everything at first, plays the
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  Speaker 2: grieving friend.
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  Speaker 1: But they have the messages, the phone call leak.
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  Speaker 2: They confront her with it, all the timelining consistencies, the
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  Speaker 2: leaked info of Fally, the financial conflict. But the moment
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  Speaker 2: she apparently breaks is when they hit her with the.
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  Speaker 1: Direct question where are the bank checks?
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  Speaker 2: Precisely? And then the confession comes.
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  Speaker 1: What did she say happen? How does she do it?
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  Speaker 2: It was a lure. She invited Malik and Rose over
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  Speaker 2: to her apartment. The pretense was that she was finally
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  Speaker 2: ready to pay back the money, settle the debt, give back.
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  Speaker 1: The checks, a peace offering that was actually an ambush.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly waiting inside wasn't just Fhlak, but her brother too.
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  Speaker 1: Her brother was involved.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, as soon Mullik and Rose were inside, the trap sprung.
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  Speaker 2: It turned violent. Malik apparently realized what was happening, struggled, tried.
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  Speaker 1: To screen, and they overpowered them.
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  Speaker 2: Flack and her brother attack them. The strangulation happened right
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  Speaker 2: there in philax apartment and the checks. Here's the chilling
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  Speaker 2: part that confirms the motive. According to the confession, the
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  Speaker 2: very first thing they did after the murders, before anything.
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  Speaker 1: Else, they searched Malik's handbag, found the checks, and secure them.
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  Speaker 2: Their financial problem was solved in their minds.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, the cold calculation is astounding.
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  Speaker 2: What about the disposal that happened in the apartment too,
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  Speaker 2: the dismemberment with the cleaver. They bagged the remains.
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  Speaker 1: And loaded them into Malik's own car.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and then the final act of deception, under the
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  Speaker 2: cover of darkness, they drove Malik's.
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  Speaker 1: Car and parked it near the victim's.
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  Speaker 2: Boutique, right to deliberately mislead the police, make them think
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  Speaker 2: the crime was connected to the business. Maybe a robbery
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  Speaker 2: gone wrong there, or a rival, anything to point suspicion
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  Speaker 2: away from Felac the friendly neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: An incredibly elaborate plan, ultimately undone by her own need
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  Speaker 1: to wa to boast seems like it. Her brother was
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  Speaker 1: arrested to. Of course, he tried to pin the actual
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  Speaker 1: murders solely on Phulak, saying he only helped with the
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  Speaker 1: disposal afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: Did that work?
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  Speaker 1: No, The evidence pointed to both participating in the ambush.
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  Speaker 1: They were both convicted sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 2: It really comes back to that betrayal, doesn't it. The
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  Speaker 2: closest friend.
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  Speaker 1: Deeply, the investigation painted a picture of Philek being consumed
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  Speaker 1: by envy, jealous of Melick's success, her wealth, feeling entitled
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  Speaker 1: to that money.
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  Speaker 2: She borrowed, and using that position of absolute trust to
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  Speaker 2: commit murder.
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  Speaker 1: Horrifyingly simple in a way.
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  Speaker 2: So we started this deep dive with what looked like
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  Speaker 2: a straightforward, if worrying, missing person's case.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a missphone call, a missing car, and it unraveled
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  Speaker 1: into this incredibly brutal crime, driven not by some shadowy figure,
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  Speaker 1: but by the person next door, driven by greed, pure
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  Speaker 1: and simple, disguised as friendship. Those missing bank checks were
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  Speaker 1: the key.
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  Speaker 2: The entire meticulous plan designed to frame the victim's business
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  Speaker 2: world just crumbled because the killer couldn't resist showing off,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't resist demonstrating her inside knowledge to Foddy, Which.
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  Speaker 1: Leaves us with that final thought for you, the listener.
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  Speaker 1: It's really quite profound when you think about it.
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  Speaker 2: What does it say about the psychology the ego of
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  Speaker 2: a killer like Folic, that the need to feel powerful,
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  Speaker 2: to be acknowledged as someone in the know about the
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  Speaker 2: crime's darkest.
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  Speaker 1: Secrets, that that need actually overrides the most basic instinct
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  Speaker 1: for self preservation, the need to stay silent, to stay free.
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  Speaker 2: That single phone call, that boast to the victim's sun.
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  Speaker 2: It was the fatal flaw in an otherwise chillingly effective plan.
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  Speaker 1: A truly devastating story about trust, greed, and ultimately self destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for diving up with us today,