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Rayyan Mukhtar: The Devil Doctor · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the deep dive. Today, we're looking at a
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  Speaker 1: case from Omdurman, Sudan, back in twenty eighteen, the Alsheriff.
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  Speaker 2: Murder, a really fascinating one. We've got the initial police reports,
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  Speaker 2: forensic summaries, interrogation notes, all of it.
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  Speaker 1: And our mission today is, well, it's to piece together
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  Speaker 1: this incredibly detailed.
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  Speaker 2: Plot, a plot that was hatched by someone inside the
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  Speaker 2: family home exactly.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to unpack all the layers of misdirection and
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  Speaker 1: then find that one tiny, almost trivial mistake that brought
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing down.
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  Speaker 2: So where do we start.
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  Speaker 1: Let's set the scene. It's evening a wealthy family villa.
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  Speaker 1: Prominent businessman Mighty Alscherif is just coming home from evening
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  Speaker 1: prayer group.
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  Speaker 2: So the day is winding down. The house is quiet,
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  Speaker 2: or it should be right, and that quiet is it's
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  Speaker 2: immediately broken. He gets to his own door, the one
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  Speaker 2: to his apartment on the ground floor, and the handle turns.
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  Speaker 1: It's unlocked.
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  Speaker 2: It's unlocked, and that's the very first sign, the first
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  Speaker 2: little crack in the normal routine that tells him something
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  Speaker 2: is deeply wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You go straight to the master bedroom. He's looking for
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  Speaker 1: his wife, Amna.
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  Speaker 2: And he finds her. She's on the.
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  Speaker 1: Bed, but it's not right. The reports note this specifically,
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  Speaker 1: it's not her habit to be there like that. And
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  Speaker 1: then there's the image that must have just burned into
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  Speaker 1: his mind. The pillows, a huge number of pillows just
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  Speaker 1: covering her, almost hiding her.
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  Speaker 2: He pulls them away and it's clear Amna is dead.
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  Speaker 1: The police arrive. It's immediately a high profile case, and
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  Speaker 1: they see the second layer of the crime scene right away.
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  Speaker 2: The cabinet, the dull eb. It's wide open and a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of money is gone, confirmed stolen.
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  Speaker 2: So the immediate theory, the obvious one, is a robbery
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  Speaker 2: gone horribly wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But wait, the door was unlocked, no forced entry. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that a massive red flag pointing inward from the very start,
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  Speaker 1: a huge one.
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  Speaker 2: And the police, to their credit, they knew this wasn't
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  Speaker 2: some random burglar.
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  Speaker 1: How could they be so sure?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not only the unlocked door, but that specific cabinet,
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  Speaker 2: the dilla lab. Only the immediate family knew that Maddy
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  Speaker 2: kept the large amounts of cash hidden.
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  Speaker 1: Right there, So this wasn't a smashing grab.
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  Speaker 2: No, this was someone who knew the house, knew the
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  Speaker 2: routine and meticulously staged a robbery to cover their tracks.
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  Speaker 1: The suspicion had to immediately circle the family.
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  Speaker 2: It did, but you still have to clear the outsiders,
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  Speaker 2: you know, do your due diligence right.
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  Speaker 1: And this house, it was a big three story villa.
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  Speaker 1: Maddi and Omna on the ground floor, but their sons,
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  Speaker 1: their wives, their kids, they all lived on the floors above, a.
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  Speaker 2: Big, multi generational household. But the focus first fell on
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  Speaker 2: two people who weren't family, the maids, the two long
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  Speaker 2: term trusted maids, and almost too conveniently, they had taken.
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  Speaker 1: A rare day off the day of the murder, the.
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  Speaker 2: Day of the murder. That looks terrible, right, It looks
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  Speaker 2: like they used the day off to create a perfect alibi.
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  Speaker 1: So they're brought in, interrogated separately.
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  Speaker 2: Oh extensively. But it fell apart pretty fast.
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  Speaker 1: What happened.
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  Speaker 2: Their albis were rock solid. They were fifty miles away
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  Speaker 2: in their home village, and multiple witnesses confirmed it. There
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  Speaker 2: was just no way they were involved.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the maids are cleared, But there was someone else,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: There was the carpenter.
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  Speaker 1: Ah right, he'd been in the house just the day before.
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  Speaker 2: Working right near Amna's bedroom, he would have had a
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  Speaker 2: clear view of the cabinet, the layout, everything. He looks
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  Speaker 2: like a perfect suspect for an opportunistic crime.
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  Speaker 1: So they bring him in too, of course.
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  Speaker 2: But again his alibi holds up company work logs, his
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  Speaker 2: phone's GPS data. It all proved he was somewhere else entirely.
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  Speaker 1: So the easy answers the obvious external suspects they're all gone.
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  Speaker 2: They're all gone. The police have to reset, the focus
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  Speaker 2: has to snap right back inside that house.
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  Speaker 1: And the case stalls until that is the forensic report
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  Speaker 1: lands on.
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  Speaker 2: Their desk, and that report changes everything. The whole robbery
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  Speaker 2: narrative just whoa It evaporates.
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  Speaker 1: What did the science say that the crime scene didn't?
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  Speaker 2: Well, for one, the cause of death. It wasn't just
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  Speaker 2: smothering with pillows, It was calculated strength and a broken neck.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's personal and violence.
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  Speaker 2: Extremely and there was more clear evidence of a struggle,
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  Speaker 2: the bite mark, the bitemark on ema el Scherif's hand.
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  Speaker 2: She fought her attacker fiercely.
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  Speaker 1: But the real game changer was the timing, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: That was the nail in the coffin for the robbery
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  Speaker 2: theory the time of death. She'd been dead for at
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  Speaker 2: least eight hours before her husband found her.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hours so the murder.
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  Speaker 2: Happened early in the morning, shortly after the family all
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  Speaker 2: left for work. This wasn't a nighttime feef. This was
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  Speaker 2: a targeted execution carried out in broad daylight inside the
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  Speaker 2: family home.
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  Speaker 1: Which means the police had to reinterrogate everyone, every single
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  Speaker 1: family member, looking for cracks in their stories.
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  Speaker 2: And they find one, a really troubling one from the
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  Speaker 2: victim's older son.
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  Speaker 1: He's an engineer, yeah, married to doctor Ryan Muktar.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one. He admits. He came back to the
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  Speaker 2: house that afternoon around three km forgot something for work.
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  Speaker 1: And he went into his mother's room.
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  Speaker 2: He did. He saw her on the bed and he
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  Speaker 2: just he thought she was sleeping deeply, so he left quietly,
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  Speaker 2: not wanting to wake her.
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  Speaker 1: But she was already dead.
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  Speaker 2: She was already dead. He had no idea. But what
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  Speaker 2: he did was inadvertently confirm the timeline. The body had
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  Speaker 2: been staged with the pillows by three pm at the latest,
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  Speaker 2: pushing the time of the murder firmly into those morning
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  Speaker 2: hours and.
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  Speaker 1: The police start looking very very closely at his wife,
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  Speaker 1: at doctor Ryan exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about her, Doctor Ryan Muktar. She's an obgyn,
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  Speaker 2: she's successful, educated, comes from a wealthy background herself.
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  Speaker 1: She is the last person you would suspect. Her alibi
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  Speaker 1: seemed okay.
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  Speaker 2: At first, right, He's so fine, left the house like normal,
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  Speaker 2: went to the hospital, then spent the afternoon at her
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  Speaker 2: parents' house until she heard the news.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the question here? I mean, why would a
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  Speaker 1: woman like that, with a great career, three kids, why
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  Speaker 1: would she do something so violent to her mother in law?
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  Speaker 2: That is the core question, And the answer started to
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  Speaker 2: reveal itself because of a tiny, unintentional tell what was it.
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  Speaker 2: An officer was taking her statement and as she was
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  Speaker 2: signing the paper, he noticed something scratches on her hand,
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  Speaker 2: which she was subtly trying to hide with her sleeve.
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  Speaker 1: That's not proof, but it's enough to raise serious questions.
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  Speaker 2: It's enough to bring Mahdi and his sons back in
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  Speaker 2: and ask some very specific, very pointed questions about the dynamics.
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  Speaker 1: In that house and what did they find.
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  Speaker 2: They found The motive a deep, six month long conflict
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  Speaker 2: between doctor Ryan and Amna. What was it about interference?
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  Speaker 2: Amna was aggressively interfering in the couple's life, and it
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  Speaker 2: had escalated, it had become open warfare.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of threats were talking about?
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  Speaker 2: The ultimate threat in that kind of patriarchal family structure.
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  Speaker 2: Amna had repeatedly threatened to force her son to divorce
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Ryani would mean she'd be cast out, She could
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  Speaker 2: lose her home, her status, even her children. For her,
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  Speaker 2: it was the threat of complete social ruin a desperate situation.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the motive, This paralyzing fear, that's the motive.
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  Speaker 2: And with that, the police go back and check her
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  Speaker 2: alibi again, and this time it just crumbles.
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  Speaker 1: She wasn't at the hospit all morning.
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  Speaker 2: Not even close. She was there for maybe thirty minute,
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  Speaker 2: and hospital staff remembered her. They said she seemed extremely nervous,
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  Speaker 2: on edge.
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  Speaker 1: So you have the motive, the scratches that account for
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  Speaker 1: a struggle and a broken alibi.
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  Speaker 2: The pressure was immense, the interrogation intensified, and she broke.
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  Speaker 1: She confessed to everything.
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  Speaker 2: Everything, The entire chilling, meticulous plan.
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  Speaker 1: The level of planning here is what's so terrifying. She
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  Speaker 1: created layers of distractions.
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  Speaker 2: It's pure sophistication. She didn't just pick a day, She
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  Speaker 2: engineered a day full of plausible suspects.
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  Speaker 1: First, she convinces the maids to take that rare day off.
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  Speaker 1: That's layer one.
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  Speaker 2: Then she waits until the day after the carpenter has
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  Speaker 2: been working there. So now you have two perfect scapegoats
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  Speaker 2: lined up before she even does anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's diabolical.
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  Speaker 2: And the execution it's just so clinical. After everyone leaves,
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  Speaker 2: she waits. She waits for seventy year old Amna to
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  Speaker 2: go into her room to rest, and.
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  Speaker 1: When Amna's dozing, she goes in. She uses a headscarf
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  Speaker 1: a tarha to start strangling her.
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  Speaker 2: Amna fights back. That's where the struggle happens. Amna bites
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  Speaker 2: her hand.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Ryan gets scratched, but she overpowers her.
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  Speaker 2: She does. She continues until Amna is unconscious. But she
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  Speaker 2: wasn't done.
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  Speaker 1: This is where her mediaps knowledge comes in, isn't it,
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  Speaker 1: But in the most horrifying way.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. She uses her knowledge not to save a life,
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  Speaker 2: but to end one and hide the evidence. She puts
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  Speaker 2: a plastic bag around the neck area.
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  Speaker 1: To stop her fingerprints from being left behind.
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  Speaker 2: Correct and then she breaks the neck at a specific point,
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  Speaker 2: an expert break. Then the overkill, piling on all those pillows,
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  Speaker 2: as she said, to make sure it would be impossible
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  Speaker 2: for her to live.
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  Speaker 1: Just chilling. And after all that, she moves on to
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  Speaker 1: the staging.
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  Speaker 2: Opens the dull up, takes the cash to sell the
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  Speaker 2: robbery story, and immediately calls her sister.
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  Speaker 1: The sister was her accomplice, She was the alibi.
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  Speaker 2: The sister picked her up and helped her establish that
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  Speaker 2: she was away from the house for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the day.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the planning is brilliant, the frame, suspects, the
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  Speaker 1: stolen money, the medical precision. It seems like the perfect crime.
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  Speaker 1: So what went wrong?
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  Speaker 2: One tiny, tiny thing and oversay it. You wouldn't even
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  Speaker 2: think of the fingerprint.
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  Speaker 1: The fingerprint.
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  Speaker 2: For all her medical knowledge about hiding prints on the body,
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  Speaker 2: she forgot about the staging. She left one single clear
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  Speaker 2: fingerprint on the cabinet when she was stealing the money,
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  Speaker 2: and the.
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  Speaker 1: Police had initially just dismissed all the prints as belonging
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  Speaker 1: to the family, right, but.
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  Speaker 2: This one was fresh. It was smudged in a way
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  Speaker 2: that didn't match routine use. They ran it and it
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  Speaker 2: was a positive match for doctor Ryan. That one print
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  Speaker 2: sealed her fate.
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  Speaker 1: What happened in the aftermath, her.
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  Speaker 2: Sister was arrested too. She confessed to the cover up
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  Speaker 2: and got four years. Doctor Ryan Muktar was sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 1: And the family, her husband, her children.
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  Speaker 2: Related with them for mercy for a pardon, but her husband,
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  Speaker 2: her father in law, even her own children reportedly refused unanimously.
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  Speaker 1: So you have this massive, intricate plan, all this effort
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  Speaker 1: to frame innocent people to what's stands scrutiny, and it
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  Speaker 1: all comes crashing down because of one smudged print on
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  Speaker 1: a piece of furniture.
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  Speaker 2: It's the ultimate human error. The paradox of the whole
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  Speaker 2: case is right there. Here is a brilliant, successful doctor
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  Speaker 2: who used her incredible knowledge not to heal, but to
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  Speaker 2: kill and to cover her tracks, all because.
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  Speaker 1: Of this intense fear, the fear of what her mother
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  Speaker 1: in law could do to.
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  Speaker 2: Her life, Yes, the status anxiety, the fear of losing
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  Speaker 2: everything in that social structure. It hijacked her intellect and
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  Speaker 2: drove her to do something truly unthinkable.
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  Speaker 1: This crime was born from a deep, desperate fear of
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  Speaker 1: divorce and the social ruin that comes with It makes
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  Speaker 1: you consider how far society's pressures can push a person.
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  Speaker 1: What other perfect crimes have you heard of that were
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  Speaker 1: undone by something just as mundane, just as tiny. It's
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  Speaker 1: something for you to think about long after this deep
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  Speaker 1: dive is over.