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The Coast Doctor: The Full Story of the Murder · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's set the scene. It's Cairo, Sunday, June fourth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. The heat of the day is just
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  Speaker 1: starting to break and inside the NASA Institute Hospital, everything
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  Speaker 1: is humming along as usual.
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  Speaker 2: Right, the typical evening buzz of a busy hospital exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And in the middle of all that is doctor Osamitalfik.
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  Speaker 1: He's thirty years old, a really successful orthopedic surgeon by
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  Speaker 1: all accounts, he's well liked, good at his job, and
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  Speaker 1: he's just getting ready for a normal week.
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  Speaker 2: A week I was supposed to end with him at
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  Speaker 2: a friend's wedding.
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  Speaker 1: But then at seven point zero pm, his phone.
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  Speaker 2: Rings an unknown number, and that call, that single moment,
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  Speaker 2: it's the point where everything just completely derail.
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  Speaker 1: He takes it, has a quick conversation, and then tells
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  Speaker 1: a callage. He has to step out. It's a house call,
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  Speaker 1: he says.
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  Speaker 2: Urgent, and he even gives a timeframe, right, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I'll be back in thirty minutes to finish
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  Speaker 1: his shift. He walks out of the hospital into the
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  Speaker 1: Cairo night, and that that is last time anyone saw
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  Speaker 1: doctor Osamaitaffik walk anywhere on.
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  Speaker 2: His own for his family. Those first few days must
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  Speaker 2: have been just agonizing. He wasn't the kind of person
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  Speaker 2: to just, you know, disappear, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: His phone goes silent, then it's just off. A friend
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  Speaker 1: shows up for the wedding a few days later and
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  Speaker 1: his home is just empty.
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  Speaker 2: Eight full days of that silence. That's when they had
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  Speaker 2: to face it. He was officially missing, and.
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  Speaker 1: That void of information is what makes these cases so terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: But this wasn't a case that stayed cold. Today we're
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  Speaker 1: doing a deep dive into the story of the Sahel doctor.
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  Speaker 1: It's a case defined by well by an almost unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: level of betrayal and some of the most chilling premeditation
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  Speaker 1: you'll ever come across.
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  Speaker 2: So the official investigation kicks off on Monday, June twelfth,
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  Speaker 2: eight days after he vanished.
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  Speaker 1: And police goes straight to the most obvious place, surveillance cameras.
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  Speaker 2: Near the hospital, which pays off almost immediately. They see
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  Speaker 2: doctor Osama leaving just as his colleague said. They see
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  Speaker 2: him meet one person on the street.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and then they see him enter a residential building
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  Speaker 1: with that person. So at first it looks like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe this is just the house.
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  Speaker 2: Call he meant, but the police they keep watching. They
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  Speaker 2: scrub through hours and hours of footage from later that night,
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  Speaker 2: and this is where.
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  Speaker 1: The story just takes this dark, unbelievable turn. Near dawn
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  Speaker 1: hours later, doctor Osama is seen on camera again, but
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  Speaker 1: he's not walking, No, he's he's slumped at a wheelchair,
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  Speaker 1: completely incapacitated, and he's being pushed down the street by
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  Speaker 1: two men.
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  Speaker 2: That image just changes everything. This is no longer a
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  Speaker 2: missing person. It's a violent crime in progress.
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  Speaker 1: And the police they quickly identify that second man, the
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  Speaker 1: other person pushing the wheelchair.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a bombshell. It's doctor Ahmed Shahata, doctor Osama's
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  Speaker 2: close colleague, his business partner.
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  Speaker 1: The moment that idea has made the entire investigation pivots
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  Speaker 1: straight to the private clinic they own together in the
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  Speaker 1: Sahell area.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So police head there to question Shahata, but they're
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  Speaker 2: met by another doctor who's covering for him. Says he's
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  Speaker 2: on leave.
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  Speaker 1: The convenient leave of absence. But the clinic itself, it
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  Speaker 1: couldn't hide the truth.
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  Speaker 2: No, the scene itself was screaming that something was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing that hit the investigators was just this
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  Speaker 2: awful smell, a powerful, sickening odor.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just the smell. They see signs of
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  Speaker 1: recent renovation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, fresh plaster on the walls, digging tools
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  Speaker 2: just left lying around, bags of dirt and debris. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't look like maintenance. It looked like a cover up.
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  Speaker 1: The smell of decay mixed with the smell of new plaster,
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  Speaker 1: what a horrifying combination. Forensics comes in and they find
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  Speaker 1: blood traces.
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  Speaker 2: And then they noticed it. A small section of tile
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  Speaker 2: that looks just a little too new. Where was it
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  Speaker 2: underneath the refrigerator? A huge heavy appliance. They move it
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  Speaker 2: and it's obvious the tile has been recently laid.
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  Speaker 1: It was a perfect hiding spot. Really, no one would
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  Speaker 1: just casually look under a fridge exactly.
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  Speaker 2: They knew they had found it. They start digging, and
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  Speaker 2: right there, buried beneath the floor of his own clinic,
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  Speaker 2: they discover the body of doctor Osamatophic.
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  Speaker 1: The discovery leads to Shihata's arrest. He'd fled to Upper
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  Speaker 1: Egypt trying to hide. The second man for the footage
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  Speaker 1: is also.
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  Speaker 2: But the interrogations rate is something even darker. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just two of them. It was a trio. There was
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  Speaker 2: a female accomplice involved.
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  Speaker 1: This is where we get into this, just this triangle
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  Speaker 1: of betrayal. So at the top you have the mastermind,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Ahmed Shahada.
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  Speaker 2: His motive was pure corrosive jealousy and greed. Doctor Osama
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  Speaker 2: was successful, he was well liked, his family was wealthy.
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  Speaker 2: She hat a saul of that.
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  Speaker 1: And the real threat was the future, wasn't it. Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Osama was planning to open a new clinic with his
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  Speaker 1: brother from Saudi Arabia backing him financially.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, she had to saw himself being left behind. He
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  Speaker 2: saw his friend's success as his own personal failure.
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  Speaker 1: And you have the second person, Eman Muhammad. She's a
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight year old lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: She was the lure and her connection to Shahata was
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  Speaker 2: a secret. They had a common law marriage, had been
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  Speaker 2: together for years since she was his receptionist in college, and.
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  Speaker 1: He promised her a formal wedding financial security, basically a
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  Speaker 1: cut of the loot.
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  Speaker 2: Her role was purely transactional. And the third conspirator.
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  Speaker 1: Ahmed Farrag the muscle, a twenty seven year old nurse
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  Speaker 1: who worked at another of shodas clinics.
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  Speaker 2: And Shahadas sold this to him not just on greed,
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  Speaker 2: but as an act of revenge. He framed doctor Osama
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  Speaker 2: as someone who deserved this promising frog a percentage of
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  Speaker 2: the ransom they expected to get.
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  Speaker 1: What's so disturbing here is the planning. This wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: crime of passion, it was a project. The plan was
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  Speaker 1: hatched in May of twenty twenty three, a whole month before.
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  Speaker 2: The goal was simple on the surface, lure him out,
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  Speaker 2: rob him, and then extort a massive ransom from his
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  Speaker 2: very wealthy family.
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  Speaker 1: But the preparations, yeah, they are just bone chilling. Get this.
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  Speaker 1: Shihata and Farrog go to old local shop and buy
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  Speaker 1: digging tools, shovels.
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  Speaker 2: Picks, and nitric acid.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, nitric acid, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nitric acid. That tells you everything. That's not something you
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  Speaker 2: buy for a simple robbery. That's for destroying evidence or
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  Speaker 2: a body.
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  Speaker 1: So from the very beginning they were planning for his death.
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  Speaker 2: It seems so. At the same time, I'man goes and
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  Speaker 2: gets anesthetic drug rugs and syringes, using a prescription from
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  Speaker 2: Shihata to make it look legitimate.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the part that is just beyond comprehension.
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  Speaker 1: They go to the clinic, the one he co owned,
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  Speaker 1: and they dig a grave in advance.
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  Speaker 2: A month before the crime. They dug the grave in
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  Speaker 2: the clinic floor, hid the tools, hid the drugs, and
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  Speaker 2: then just went back to work.
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  Speaker 1: Can you even imagine that seeing patients interacting with doctor
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  Speaker 1: Osama every day knowing his grave is waiting just a
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  Speaker 1: few feet below them.
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  Speaker 2: To keep the clinic clean. Farrog also rented a temporary
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  Speaker 2: apartment that was going to be the ambush site.
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  Speaker 1: So June fourth arrives, Iman makes the call. She invents
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  Speaker 1: this story about her elderly bedridden mother needing an urgent
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  Speaker 1: house call.
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  Speaker 2: A story perfectly designed to appeal to a dedicated doctor
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  Speaker 2: like Osama.
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  Speaker 1: He falls for it completely. He leaves the hospital, meets Farrog,
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  Speaker 1: who's posing as the woman's brother, and follows him to
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  Speaker 1: the rental apartment.
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  Speaker 2: The second he walks through that door, the trap is sprung.
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  Speaker 2: Shi Hatta and Farrog attack him. They hit him on
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  Speaker 2: the head, They shock him with an electric device until
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  Speaker 2: he's unconscious.
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  Speaker 1: Then they cie him up and give him the first
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  Speaker 1: shot of anesthetic.
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  Speaker 2: They grab his wallet, and this is their first disappointment.
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  Speaker 2: There's some cash, but nowhere near what they were expecting.
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  Speaker 1: They smash his phone, take out the SIM card, but
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  Speaker 1: the plan is still ransom. So for two full days
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  Speaker 1: they keep him tied up in that apartment, and.
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  Speaker 2: It's just systematic torture. Every single time he starts to
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  Speaker 2: regain consciousness, they inject him with more anesthetic. They're just
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  Speaker 2: keeping him in this medically induced state.
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  Speaker 1: It's so cruel. Yeah, But after two days they get paranoid.
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  Speaker 1: They're worried about being discovered in the rental apartment.
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  Speaker 2: So they decide to move him. They give him a
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  Speaker 2: third dose of anesthetic to make sure he's completely out
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  Speaker 2: for the transport, and.
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  Speaker 1: That brings us back to that horrifying wheelchair footage pushing
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  Speaker 1: their victim through the streets at dawn like he's just cargo.
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  Speaker 2: They take him to the one place they prepared, back
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  Speaker 2: to his own clinic.
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  Speaker 1: He's kept there for two more days, yeah, tied up, drugged,
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  Speaker 1: no food, no water, four days in total, and when.
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  Speaker 2: He starts to wake up again in the clinic, that's
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  Speaker 2: when they panic. That's the final moment.
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  Speaker 1: They give him a fourth injection and that dose it
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  Speaker 1: kills him instantly.
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  Speaker 2: The choice to use. The clinic was just so cold
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  Speaker 2: and pragmatic. It was on the ground floor, so it
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  Speaker 2: was easy to use the predug grave, and they hoped
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  Speaker 2: it would draw any police attention away from the apartment
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  Speaker 2: where the real crime happened.
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  Speaker 1: So they planned every single detail, the luring, the ambush,
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  Speaker 1: the grave, but they were undone by basic biology.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing they couldn't control the smell. That was
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  Speaker 2: the fatal flaw in their otherwise meticulous plan.
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  Speaker 1: After he's caught, Shahada even tries to spin these wild stories, right,
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  Speaker 1: blaming it on organ traffickers or currency deal.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a desperate attempt to create confusion, to point
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  Speaker 2: the finger at some big, shadowy organization instead of what
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  Speaker 2: it really was simple ugly personal greed.
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  Speaker 1: But the evidence was just overwhelming. The timeline, the drugs,
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  Speaker 1: the grave, it all pointed directly.
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  Speaker 2: At them, and on October eighth, twenty twenty three, just
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  Speaker 2: a few months later, justice was delivered. All three of them, Shihada,
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  Speaker 2: Iman and Frog were referred to the Grand Muffti for
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  Speaker 2: the death penalty.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a devastating end to a story about how
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  Speaker 1: trust can be webonized, where a so called friend and
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  Speaker 1: colleague planned every single step to not just rob, but
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  Speaker 1: to completely erase someone from the world.
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  Speaker 2: And it really leaves you with a chilling question, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: What level of envy has to fester inside a person,
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  Speaker 2: not just to want what their friend has, but to
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  Speaker 2: go out by a shovel and predig their grave. Is
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  Speaker 2: true evil found in a spontaneous act or is it
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  Speaker 2: found in the cold, logistical planning of death itself.