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The Betrayal of Iman Adel: A Story of Injustice · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: So let's set the scene. It's a quiet afternoon in
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  Speaker 1: mid Ontar village. The air is just thick with heat,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Totally still.
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  Speaker 2: It's that part of the day where everything just stops
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  Speaker 2: exactly yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But then you hear it a sound that pierces right
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  Speaker 1: through that silence.
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  Speaker 3: It's the kind of sound that immediately puts you on edge.
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  Speaker 1: It's a baby crying, but not just a fuss, right,
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  Speaker 1: this was insistent, drawn out, a cry.
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  Speaker 3: Of genuine distress.
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  Speaker 1: This was nine month old, a'll e And it went
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  Speaker 1: on for so long that a relative who lived in
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  Speaker 1: the same building finally got concerned.
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  Speaker 2: Right, They go upstairs to check on the family, and
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  Speaker 2: the first sign that something is terribly wrong is.
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  Speaker 3: The apartment door.
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  Speaker 2: It's unlocked, unlocked, and when they step inside they find
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  Speaker 2: the source of the distress and well, the reason for
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  Speaker 2: the silence that followed.
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  Speaker 1: The victim was Imon Uzzel. And to understand this case,
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  Speaker 1: you really have to understand who she was. She was
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  Speaker 1: a respected university student in her final.
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  Speaker 2: Year, a beautiful young woman raising her son, married to
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  Speaker 2: sant Abdullah, who was by all accounts a very successful
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  Speaker 2: local businessman.
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  Speaker 1: He owned a clothing store at family money. So on
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  Speaker 1: the surface, this looks like a perfect life, didn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It did, But the scene in that apartment, it was
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  Speaker 2: staged to look like an affair gone wrong, and that
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  Speaker 2: scene unlocked a plot of betrayal so twisted it just
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  Speaker 2: shocked the entire community.
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  Speaker 1: So for this deep dive, we're going to unravel the
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  Speaker 1: source material behind that plot. It's a story about a
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  Speaker 1: husband who decided that his social standing was worth more
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  Speaker 1: than his wife's life.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't just about a murder. It's a blueprint for
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate betrayal.
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  Speaker 1: When we look at the sources describing Aimand's life, the
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  Speaker 1: picture that's painted is one of just complete propriety.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, she was the model of respectability, devout, modest, focused
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  Speaker 2: on her studies, on her son.
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  Speaker 1: It's crucial to note even her husband's family, Hussein's family,
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  Speaker 1: they held her in really high esteem.
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  Speaker 3: Oh completely.
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  Speaker 2: They saw her as this stabilizing, respectable force in his life.
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  Speaker 2: The marriage itself was true to a family agreement. It
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  Speaker 2: looks solid from the outside.
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  Speaker 1: So you have Iman, this pillar of the community, and
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  Speaker 1: then you have Hussain. What do we know about the
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  Speaker 1: other side of his life.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's where the rot starts.
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  Speaker 2: See, despite being a husband and a new father, Hussain
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  Speaker 2: was apparently known around town for having multiple relationships with other.
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  Speaker 1: Women, and his business, the women's clothing store, that kind
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  Speaker 1: of facilitated it.
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  Speaker 2: It seems so his wealth and the business gave him
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  Speaker 2: the means and the opportunity to lead this secret life.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of dual existence must have caused problems in
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  Speaker 1: the marriage pretty quickly, it did.
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  Speaker 2: The sources say. Problems started only a year in, and
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  Speaker 2: they were all centered on his infidelity and Iimon.
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  Speaker 1: She kept it private for.
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  Speaker 3: The most part.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she was trying to protect her home, her family.
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  Speaker 2: But Husain he got tired of the pretense. He decided
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  Speaker 2: he wanted a divorce.
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  Speaker 1: And his reasoning was just exceptionally cold.
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  Speaker 3: He was incredibly shallow, he told people.
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  Speaker 2: Imon was too modest, you know, too religious for the
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  Speaker 2: life style he wanted to lead.
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  Speaker 1: And he'd already found someone else.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, another woman, described as more beautiful, who agreed to
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  Speaker 2: marry him, but.
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  Speaker 1: It was a condition, a big one.
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  Speaker 2: She would only marry him if he divorced Emon first.
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  Speaker 1: But just asking for a divorce wasn't that simple for him,
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  Speaker 1: was it? It would have cost him something he valued
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  Speaker 1: more than.
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  Speaker 2: Anything his social standing exactly, a straightforward divorce would have
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  Speaker 2: caused a huge family fallout.
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  Speaker 3: His own family was dead set against.
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  Speaker 1: It because of Emin's reputation and of course because of
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  Speaker 1: their baby son Ali.
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  Speaker 2: Right, if he divorced her just because he was bored,
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  Speaker 2: he'd face shame, condemnation from his own family, from the
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  Speaker 2: whole community.
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  Speaker 1: So he'd figured that the cost of admitting he was
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  Speaker 1: the problem was just too high. He needed a weigh
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  Speaker 1: out where he was the victim.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he needed to manufacture a reason for divorce that
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  Speaker 2: would make everyone pity him and condemn her. So he
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  Speaker 2: settled on the most despicable idea possible stage and.
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  Speaker 1: Affair, ruin her reputation completely.
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  Speaker 2: If he could prove she was unfaithful, he could divorce
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  Speaker 2: her easily and everyone would see him as the honorable
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  Speaker 2: man who was wronged. He could restore his family's honor.
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  Speaker 2: It's that social pressure that fueled this entire horrific plot.
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  Speaker 1: To pull this off, he needed an accomplice. So when
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  Speaker 1: he could trust to do the unthinkable.
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  Speaker 2: And he knew exactly who to turn to, A man
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  Speaker 2: named Ahmed Rada el Shahat or Ahmed Elaglotti. He was
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  Speaker 2: an employee at Hussein's clothing store.
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  Speaker 1: What made him the perfect target.
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  Speaker 2: He was poor, he was in a lot of debt,
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  Speaker 2: and he was completely subservient to Hussain. He saw him
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  Speaker 2: as this wealthy boss who could solve all his problems.
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  Speaker 1: So this became a transaction, a disgusting trade of honor
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  Speaker 1: for cash.
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  Speaker 2: It was Hussein offered Ahmed two hundred thousand Egyptian pounds.
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  Speaker 2: I mean for a man in Ahmed's position, that was
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  Speaker 2: a life changing amount of money. And what was the
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  Speaker 2: money for to break into the apartment and assault Imon?
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  Speaker 2: The sources say Ahmed was initially shocked, but his financial
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  Speaker 2: desperation it just won out. He took a small down,
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  Speaker 2: a thousand pounds right away.
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  Speaker 1: The planning phase here it reads like something out of
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  Speaker 1: terrible movie.
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  Speaker 2: He was so theatrical, meticulously planned. First, Hussain told Ahmed
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  Speaker 2: to go buy a knee coob, the full face covering
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  Speaker 2: to disguise himself as a.
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  Speaker 1: Woman, so no one would recognize him coming.
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  Speaker 2: Or going exactly, and to make sure the entry was clean.
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  Speaker 2: Husain gave him a spare key, no fourth entry.
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  Speaker 1: And then the most damning detail.
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  Speaker 2: He personally disabled all the internal surveillance cameras in their home.
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  Speaker 2: He was cleaning the crime scene before the crime even.
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  Speaker 1: Happened, and the timing was all part of this elaborate
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  Speaker 1: stage play.
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  Speaker 2: It was perfect. Husain would leave at twelve thirty pm,
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  Speaker 2: making a big show of heading to another city, Mansura
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  Speaker 2: for work. Ahmed would go in just a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Later, and the plan was for Hussain to then return unexpectedly.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely claim he forgot something, stumble upon the stage scene,
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  Speaker 2: and then immediately call the neighbors the community to witness
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  Speaker 2: Iman's supposed dishonor he'd be the hero, the victim, and
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  Speaker 2: free to.
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  Speaker 1: Move on, which brings us to that Thursday in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Hussain leaves at twelve thirty. Imon is home studying for
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  Speaker 1: her college finals with little Ali.
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  Speaker 2: Nearby, and just fifteen minutes later, Ahmed, hidden completely by
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  Speaker 2: the nikub, lets himself in with the.
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  Speaker 1: Key, and Emon realizes immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Instantly, she knows this isn't a woman. She knows this
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  Speaker 2: is a male intruder, and she understands the threat is
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  Speaker 2: to her honor, the very thing Husain was trying to steal.
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  Speaker 1: And she didn't just submit. The sources are clear she
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  Speaker 1: fought back.
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  Speaker 2: She fought back violently, and that resistance that was the
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  Speaker 2: one thing Whussain's script didn't account for.
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  Speaker 1: It changed everything it did.
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed was just supposed to stage an assault, but Iman
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  Speaker 2: was fighting so hard, screaming. He knew he couldn't complete
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  Speaker 2: the act without being exposed. So he made a decision.
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  Speaker 1: He decided his silence her permanently.
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  Speaker 2: The assault became a murder. He covered her mouth and
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  Speaker 2: with his other hand he strangled her, and.
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  Speaker 1: The autopsy later confirmed she died very very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And then, in a detail that is just chilling,
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  Speaker 2: after she was already dead, he completed the assault twice.
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  Speaker 1: He then stripped her, left her body exposed to complete
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  Speaker 1: the horrible staging, and fled still in the nikab.
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  Speaker 2: The second he was out, he called Hussain. He told
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  Speaker 2: him the planet change Himan was dead.
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  Speaker 1: Murder wasn't the plan, but Hussein adapted quickly, didn't he
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  Speaker 1: He did.
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  Speaker 2: He realized returning home now would look incredibly suspicious, so
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  Speaker 2: he stuck to his alibi, pretending to be hours away
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  Speaker 2: in Mansura. It was the relative drawn by Ali's crying
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  Speaker 2: who found her.
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  Speaker 1: And Hussein's eventual return. Yeah, that was pure theater.
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  Speaker 2: A masterful performance. He came back, collapsed in this dramatic
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  Speaker 2: show of grief, weeping, wailing. He convinced everyone he was
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  Speaker 2: the devastated, innocent husband.
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  Speaker 1: The whole village mourned with him.
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  Speaker 2: They did. There was a massive funeral, and Hussein actually
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  Speaker 2: fainted from his supposed grief for days. No one, not
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  Speaker 2: even his own family, suspected a thing.
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  Speaker 1: But a plot that complex, it always leaves a trace.
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  Speaker 1: When security forces arrived, what were the red floss that
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  Speaker 1: told them this wasn't what it seemed?
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  Speaker 2: The forensics team noticed three things right away. One, no
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  Speaker 2: forced entry, the door was opened with a key. Two,
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  Speaker 2: nothing was stolen, so it wasn't a robbery right and
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  Speaker 2: three the internal cameras. They weren't broken. They had been
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  Speaker 2: deliberately unplugged just before the crime. This was planned, but.
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  Speaker 1: Hussain kept pushing his story right secret lover a fight
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  Speaker 1: gone wrong.
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  Speaker 3: He did.
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  Speaker 2: But the autopsy completely destroyed that narrative. It confirmed she
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  Speaker 2: died from strangulation, a clear intent to kill, and even
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  Speaker 2: more critically.
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  Speaker 1: The assault happened after she was dead.
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  Speaker 2: Post mortem exactly that's not a crime of passion. That
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  Speaker 2: points to a calculated desecration of a body.
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  Speaker 1: So with the internal cameras out, the investigation had to
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  Speaker 1: look outside and.
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  Speaker 2: That's where they got their breakthrough the street cameras. They
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  Speaker 2: confirmed Hussain left at twelve thirty, but a few minutes
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  Speaker 2: later they saw it.
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  Speaker 1: The figure in the backup.
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  Speaker 2: A figure in a nicub entering the building and then
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  Speaker 2: leaving shortly after the time of death.
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  Speaker 1: But seeing a woman in a nigab isn't unusual there,
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  Speaker 1: how do they know that was the killer?
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  Speaker 2: This is where the police work was just brilliant. They
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  Speaker 2: sent the footage to specialists for gate analysis. They studied
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  Speaker 2: the way the person walked, the stride, the shoulders, the posture.
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  Speaker 2: They concluded with certainty that the person in the veil
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  Speaker 2: was a man. The disguise hid the face, but it
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  Speaker 2: couldn't hide the skeleton.
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  Speaker 1: So now they were hunting for a man who bought
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  Speaker 1: any cap.
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  Speaker 2: A separate team started canvassing local shops and it paid off.
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  Speaker 2: One store owner remembered a man buying that exact outfit.
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  Speaker 1: And he remembered a key detail.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't he a crucial detail?
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  Speaker 2: The man claimed it was for his wife, but he
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  Speaker 2: specifically asked for a size that would fit him, and the.
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  Speaker 1: Store's security camera gave him a face.
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  Speaker 2: It did the face of Ahmed Elaglotti Hussein, his employee.
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  Speaker 3: The pieces all clicked into place.
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  Speaker 1: They arrested him, and the physical evidence must have been overwhelming.
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  Speaker 2: It was fingerprints on Emon's neck, DNA from the assault.
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  Speaker 3: It all pointed to him.
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  Speaker 1: He must have confessed pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Instantly he laid out the entire plot, implicating Husain as
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  Speaker 2: the mastermind, from start to finish. The police then went
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  Speaker 2: and arrested Husain.
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  Speaker 1: And confronted with all that, what did he do?
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  Speaker 2: He confessed just as quickly. The only thing he disputed,
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  Speaker 2: The only detail he argued was that he claimed he
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  Speaker 2: only wanted Ahmed to assault.
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  Speaker 1: Her, not kill her, as if that somehow made it better.
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  Speaker 1: The shock in the community, in his own family must
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  Speaker 1: have been just immense.
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  Speaker 3: They couldn't comprehend the level of malice.
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  Speaker 2: It was a betrayal on every possible level.
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  Speaker 1: That denial that he only wanted assault, not murder. It
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  Speaker 1: just speaks volumes, doesn't it. This case became a massive
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  Speaker 1: public interest case known as kadiat Iman.
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  Speaker 2: Adol It's a case that really forces you to look
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  Speaker 2: at the depths of human selfishness. He was willing to
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  Speaker 2: pay a desperate man to destroy his wife all to
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  Speaker 2: protect his own image. He literally used the concept of
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  Speaker 2: honor as a weapon to commit the most dishonorable act imaginable.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, the legal system was conclusive. Both Hussain
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  Speaker 1: and Ahmed were found guilty sentence to execution.
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  Speaker 2: And during that sentencing, the judge gave this incredibly powerful
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  Speaker 2: statement about the premeditated cruelty of the crime. He wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make it clear to everyone this wasn't an accident.
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  Speaker 3: This was a.
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  Speaker 2: Meticulous plan born from pure malice.
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  Speaker 1: This whole deep dive just reveals the terrible lengths people
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  Speaker 1: will go when they put their reputation above a human life.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you think about the moral calculation at play here.
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  Speaker 2: It really does. What is the price of social standing?
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  Speaker 2: What does it say about the value of a life
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  Speaker 2: when someone is willing to outsource its destruction for a price.
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  Speaker 1: That specific number, two hundred thousand pounds paid to shatter
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  Speaker 1: a life just to clear the way for a new marriage.
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  Speaker 3: It's a truly chilling thought.
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  Speaker 2: To end on a chilling lens through which to view
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  Speaker 2: human motivation.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing these sources with us today,