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Hamdia and Hamada: The Lethal Illusion of Love · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Imagine at six am, the sun is just coming up
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  Speaker 1: in Minya, Egypt, and it's quiet.
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  Speaker 2: And then a phone call, frantic, insistent.
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  Speaker 1: It's Ali's sister, who answers on the line. She hears
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  Speaker 1: the voice of her sister in law, Hamdia, and she's panicking.
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  Speaker 2: The story Hamdia tells is just it's a nightmare. She says,
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  Speaker 2: they've been violently attacked in their new apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Robbers broke in. Ali was beaten, beaten severely, and
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  Speaker 1: they took everything.
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  Speaker 2: Everything, cash, gold, their mobile phones. It's the classic terrifying
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  Speaker 2: home invasion story.
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  Speaker 1: So Ali's sister, she doesn't hesitate, she rushes over, finds
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  Speaker 1: the scene, gets Ali to the nearest hospital, but it's
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  Speaker 1: too late.
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  Speaker 2: It's already too late. The doctors pronounce him dead on arrival.
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  Speaker 2: The police are.
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  Speaker 1: There in minutes, and at first glance, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: a straightforward, if tragic robbery homicide.
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  Speaker 2: But as we dig in here, we find that this
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  Speaker 2: case is it's a facade. Today our deep dive is
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  Speaker 2: about uncovering the calculated timeline of deception that was hiding
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  Speaker 2: just beneath the surface of this brand new forced marriage.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about an obsession that spiraled into a meticulously
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  Speaker 1: planned murder.
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  Speaker 2: And to really understand that calculation, you have to go
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  Speaker 2: back to the very beginning. Let's go back to twenty ten.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So what's happening then.
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  Speaker 2: Hamdia is just seventeen years old and she meets a
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  Speaker 2: man named Hamada.
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  Speaker 1: And he wasn't a stranger to her family, was he.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. He was known in their village,
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  Speaker 2: even friends with their brothers. But their connection was immediate.
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  Speaker 2: It's described as love at first sight.
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  Speaker 1: An intense connection. She saw him as the man of
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  Speaker 1: her dreams and he felt the same way exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And for two years they kept this relationship going in secret.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, in a.
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  Speaker 1: Small village, secrets don't stay secret for long, right.
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  Speaker 2: It eventually becomes public knowledge, and that creates huge problems,
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  Speaker 2: especially between Hamada and Humdia's brothers.
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  Speaker 1: And Hamada's situation wasn't exactly ideal for marriage, was it.
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  Speaker 2: No, he worked in the quarries, so his financial situation
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  Speaker 2: was difficult. He promised her he'd marry her, but he
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  Speaker 2: just he couldn't do it right.
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  Speaker 1: Away, and her family was not willing to wait.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. The second she turns nineteen, they make
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  Speaker 2: the decision for her. She is going to marry a
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  Speaker 2: man named Ali Ali who was he a relative. He
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  Speaker 2: had been working in Jordan. He was coming back to
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  Speaker 2: Egypt to settle down, and he accepted the marriage based
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  Speaker 2: on his family's choice. He trusted them.
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  Speaker 1: So this was an arranged marriage, pure and simple and Humdia.
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  Speaker 1: She must have fought it.
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  Speaker 2: She did. She tried to refuse repeatedly, but her family
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  Speaker 2: just overrode her. The decision was made and they moved fast.
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  Speaker 1: How fast are we talking.
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  Speaker 2: From Ali's first visit to the wedding day just fifteen days.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's no time at all. They were clearly trying
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  Speaker 1: to lock it down before she had any other choice.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly it. And this leads to a really critical moment.
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  Speaker 2: On the day of the wedding, Hamada finds her where
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  Speaker 2: the hairdressers. He tracks her down and makes this dramatic
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  Speaker 2: final vow. He tells her, look, I can't stop this
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  Speaker 2: from happening, but I will always be devoted to you
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  Speaker 2: even if you're married.
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  Speaker 1: And that promise that had to have cemented something in
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  Speaker 1: her mind that this marriage to Ali was just temporary.
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  Speaker 2: There was a placeholder and their real life would resume later.
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  Speaker 1: So after the wedding, Hamdia and Ali move into a
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  Speaker 1: new apartment.
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  Speaker 2: And the location here is really key. It was significantly
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  Speaker 2: far away from their home village, far from family.
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  Speaker 1: Which gave her a sense of relief, right a private
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  Speaker 1: space to manage this imposed life, A huge.
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  Speaker 2: Sense of relief. Yeah, and that first week things were strained.
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  Speaker 2: Ali seemed unhappy. They slept in separate rooms, and.
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  Speaker 1: For Hamdia this was perfect.
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  Speaker 2: She was delighted. She was absolutely determined that no one
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  Speaker 2: but Hamada would ever touch her.
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  Speaker 1: But that couldn't last forever.
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  Speaker 2: No. Eventually Ali sought, you know, conjugal relations. Hamdia consented.
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  Speaker 2: The source says she felt she had no other solution.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where her obsession really kicks into high gear.
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  Speaker 1: The very next morning, the.
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  Speaker 2: Very next morning, she's on the phone with Hamada telling
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  Speaker 2: him what happened and asking him point blank, how do
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  Speaker 2: I stop Ali from every touching me again?
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  Speaker 1: And Hamana's answer is what escalates this from a secret
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  Speaker 1: love affair to something much much darker.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pivotal moment, his suggestion sleeping pills. Just like that,
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  Speaker 2: Just like that, the plan was simple. She would mix
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  Speaker 2: sleeping pills into Alli's food, into his drinks. Every time
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  Speaker 2: he was home, He'd fall into a deep sleep and
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  Speaker 2: he'd remain distant. She agreed, immediately, let's just pause on that.
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  Speaker 1: There's no hesitation. They just jumped straight from emotional avoidance
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  Speaker 1: to chemical incapacitation.
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  Speaker 2: Zero hesitation from either of them. It shows you how
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  Speaker 2: quickly their moral boundaries were breaking down. Yeh. The priority
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  Speaker 2: was protecting their connection, no matter the cost.
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  Speaker 1: So this deception becomes their new reality. And Allie's work
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  Speaker 1: schedule actually made it easier.
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  Speaker 2: It really did. For the next three months, he had
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  Speaker 2: this grueling routine. He'd work for twenty days straight in Cairo.
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  Speaker 1: And then get just five days off at home in Mina.
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  Speaker 2: And during those five days home, Ali was always exhausted,
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  Speaker 2: sleeping really deeply assumed it was from his job.
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  Speaker 1: He had no idea he was being heavily drugged every
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  Speaker 1: single day he was home, completely.
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  Speaker 2: In the dark. But the deception went even deeper.
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  Speaker 1: What happened when he was away in Cairo.
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  Speaker 2: For those entire twenty day stretches. Hamado wasn't just visiting.
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  Speaker 2: He was living in Ali's apartment with.
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  Speaker 1: Humdia living there, You're kidding.
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  Speaker 2: The source is explicit. They were acting exactly like a
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  Speaker 2: married couple, and because the apartment was so isolated, any
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  Speaker 2: neighbors who saw Hamada just assumed he was the husband.
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  Speaker 1: So for three months this system worked perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: Flawlessly, but it all hinged on one thing, Ali being.
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  Speaker 1: Gone, and then in the fourth month that all changes.
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  Speaker 2: Ali comes home and drops a bombshell. He tells her
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  Speaker 2: he's moving his work to Minya, He's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be traveling to Cairo anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They're twenty days of freedom gone, just like that over.
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  Speaker 1: So Humdia's reaction is predictable. She demands a divorce.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately, but Ali refuses flat out. He tells her he
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  Speaker 2: will never leave her and he will never let her
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  Speaker 2: go back to Hamadas.
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  Speaker 1: So he knew he suspected something.
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  Speaker 2: He did. Humdia found out that he'd been hearing rumors
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  Speaker 2: from friends back home that she was still in love
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  Speaker 2: with Hamada.
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  Speaker 1: So he didn't know Hamada had been living in his
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  Speaker 1: own house, but he knew the emotional connection was still
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  Speaker 1: there exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He thought the divorce was just a way for them
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  Speaker 2: to get back together, so he decided to move home
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  Speaker 2: permanently to block it. He was trying to save his.
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  Speaker 1: Marriage, fighting a threat he couldn't even fully see.
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  Speaker 2: And once that door did divorce with slam shut the
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  Speaker 2: lovers they took a much darker turn.
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  Speaker 1: This is where the source mentions demonic ideas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they decide they have to keep their relationship going,
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  Speaker 2: even with Ali in the apartment permanently, so.
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  Speaker 1: They come up with a new routine, one that requires
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  Speaker 1: just an unbelievable level of audacity.
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  Speaker 2: It's chillingly precise. Humdia keeps giving him the sleeping pills,
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  Speaker 2: even more of them now. Ali gets home from work
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  Speaker 2: at five pm. He eats, drinks his tea.
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  Speaker 1: And by seven pm he's in a deep drug induced sleep.
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  Speaker 2: A coma like sleep. And then at ten pm Hamada arrives.
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  Speaker 1: He comes to the apartment while the husband is asleep inside.
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  Speaker 2: He spends the entire night there in the same apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Then he leaves at exactly four am. Why four am,
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  Speaker 2: it's time to the Phaeder prayer. It's the moment the
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  Speaker 2: day begins when people start to stir, so it provides
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  Speaker 2: the perfect cover for him to slip out unnoticed.
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  Speaker 1: And Ali just wakes up at six am, feeling terrible,
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  Speaker 1: thinking it's just.
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  Speaker 2: Work, stress, feeling his body broken, as the phrase used.
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  Speaker 1: And they pulled this out how many times?
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  Speaker 2: Four times, four separate nights. This routine worked. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even wrap my head around that.
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  Speaker 2: The sheer nerve, But on the fifth attempt, the whole
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  Speaker 2: scheme falls apart.
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  Speaker 1: Ali comes home, he eats, he falls asleep. Hamada arrives
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  Speaker 1: at ten pm. Everything is going according.
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  Speaker 2: To plan until two am.
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  Speaker 1: What happens at two am?
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  Speaker 2: Ollie starts to wake up. He's stirring, fighting through the.
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  Speaker 1: Drugs, and they know discovery is seconds away.
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  Speaker 2: They know, and Humdia acts instantly. She doesn't hesitate. She
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  Speaker 2: grabs a piece of cloth, a long piece of fabric,
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  Speaker 2: and wraps it around Ali's neck.
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  Speaker 1: Hamada grabs the other.
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  Speaker 2: End and they both pull as hard as they.
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  Speaker 1: Can until he's dead.
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  Speaker 2: The deception is over, replaced by.
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  Speaker 1: Murder, and then the cover up begins. They have to
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  Speaker 1: stage the robbery.
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  Speaker 2: Hamdia gives Hamada the cash, the gold, jewelry, the phones,
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  Speaker 2: everything she's going to report stolen. It has to look
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  Speaker 2: like a random, violent break.
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  Speaker 1: In, and Hamada leaves at his usual time four.
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  Speaker 2: Am, same time as always. Then Humptya waits for two
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  Speaker 2: very long, very crucial hours.
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  Speaker 1: Until six am when she makes that panicked phone call
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  Speaker 1: to Ali's sister, telling her the story they've concocted.
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  Speaker 2: But when law enforcement gets there, they are skeptical almost immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Why what tiped them off? First?
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  Speaker 2: The forensics. The examination of Ali's body shows no signs
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  Speaker 2: of a general beating like she described. What it does
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  Speaker 2: show are clear laceration marks on.
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  Speaker 1: His neck, consistent with strangulation.
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  Speaker 2: Manual strangulation, and the crime scene itself it doesn't match
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  Speaker 2: the story. They're no signs of forced entry.
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  Speaker 1: Of these supposed robbers get in good question.
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  Speaker 2: And another thing that would raise a red flag for
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  Speaker 2: any seasoned detective is how specific Hamdia was about the
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  Speaker 2: stolen items.
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  Speaker 1: That's suspicious. I would think a victim would know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what was taken.
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  Speaker 2: You would, but in the chaos of a violent attack,
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  Speaker 2: most victims are focused on trauma, on survival. They're not
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  Speaker 2: usually able to give you a perfect inventory list right away,
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  Speaker 2: but she could a pristeem list. It suggests a pre
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  Speaker 2: planned narrative, not a random act of violence.
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  Speaker 1: And there was more a physical examination of Hamdia.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it confirmed she'd had recent relations but and this
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  Speaker 2: is the key, with absolutely no signs of violence or result.
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  Speaker 1: Which directly contradicts her story about being attacked by robbers.
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  Speaker 2: Flat out contradicts it. So the police they follow her
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  Speaker 2: initial leads about some enemies all he might have had
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  Speaker 2: in Cairo, but that all dries.
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  Speaker 1: Up fast, and that's when they get the tip, the
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  Speaker 1: piece of information that changes everything.
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  Speaker 2: Someone talks. The police learned that Hamdia had a previous,
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  Speaker 2: very intense relationship with a man named Hamada.
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  Speaker 1: And the whole investigation just pivots immediately.
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  Speaker 2: They put Hamada under surveillance, and the breakthrough comes exactly
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  Speaker 2: who you'd expect it to money money talks. They track
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  Speaker 2: into a gold.
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  Speaker 1: Shop and he's selling the jewelry.
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  Speaker 2: He's sold a very specific ring. The police recover it
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  Speaker 2: and they confirm it belongs Tomdia. Yeah, one are the
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  Speaker 2: exact items she reported stolen.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, that's the link.
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  Speaker 2: That's the whole case right there. They arrest Hamdia and
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  Speaker 2: she confesses everything.
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  Speaker 1: But her concession is it's not what you would expect.
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  Speaker 2: It's astonishing. Even as she's admitting to her role in
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  Speaker 2: the murder. She is fiercely defending Hamada. She says he's innocent,
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  Speaker 2: that she loves him. She refuses to call him a criminal.
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  Speaker 2: She's still protecting him even from justice.
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  Speaker 1: She chose him over everything, but did he choose her?
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  Speaker 2: And that is the final chilling twist. When the police
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  Speaker 2: arrest Hamada, he betrays her instantly. He denies it all,
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  Speaker 2: denies everything. He claims Hamdia acted completely alone and only
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  Speaker 2: called him after Ollie was already dead.
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  Speaker 1: He threw her right under the bus.
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  Speaker 2: Without a second thought. It was only after intense pressure
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  Speaker 2: from the police that he finally broke and confessed to
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  Speaker 2: his full role in the entire shared calculated scheme.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a terrifying progression. It starts with sleeping pills
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  Speaker 1: to avoid intimacy.
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  Speaker 2: Which evolves into this horrifying routine of carrying on an
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  Speaker 2: affair while her husband is unconscious just a few feet away.
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  Speaker 1: And the second that routine is threatened, it ends in murder,
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  Speaker 1: a coordinated brutal strangulation.
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  Speaker 2: The depth of the manipulation here is just is profound.
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  Speaker 2: You have Hondia so committed to this delusion that she's
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  Speaker 2: protecting her lover even as she's confessing. And then you
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  Speaker 2: have Hamada, whose loyalty lasted only until the moment he
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  Speaker 2: got caught.
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  Speaker 1: So when you look at all this, what's the takeaway?
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  Speaker 1: Their deception worked for months. They even pulled off that
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  Speaker 1: insane nightly routine four separate times. So think about this.
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  Speaker 1: Consider the psychological audacity it takes to turn your own
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  Speaker 1: home not into a refuge but into a carefully control
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  Speaker 1: fatal trap, and how quickly a promise of undying devotion
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  Speaker 1: can vanish when the consequences finally come knocking.