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The Clean Cut Murder: How an Electric Saw and a Dream Job Lured Mina Moussa into a Sophisticated Trap · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's dive in picture this September twenty sixth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. It's about ten o'clock in the morning. We're
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  Speaker 1: in Zaya Ahamra, just outside Cairo, near the Aliyah Canal.
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  Speaker 1: It's relatively quiet. Someone's just taking a walk along the bank.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just a normal morning walk until it absolutely isn't.
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  Speaker 2: They spot something strange.
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  Speaker 1: In the water, something off, and as they get closer
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  Speaker 1: the shape becomes clearer. It's human like, and then the
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  Speaker 1: horror hits. It's a leg, a human leg.
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  Speaker 2: The scream must have been piercing. People gather, police are
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  Speaker 2: called and very quickly they find a second leg nearby,
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  Speaker 2: just submerge there.
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  Speaker 1: So right away this isn't just a tragic discovery. It
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  Speaker 1: signals something methodical, something really disturbing about how this person
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  Speaker 1: died and was disposed of.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely and the forensic teams on scene picked up on
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  Speaker 2: crucial details almost immediately. The legs that were decomposed, they
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  Speaker 2: looked well clean, almost too clean.
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  Speaker 1: Meaning they hadn't been in the water along exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The estimate was maybe six hours maximum, so this victim
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  Speaker 2: was likely alive or only recently deceased. Around dawn that
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  Speaker 2: same day.
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  Speaker 1: This crime just happened, and there was more, wasn't there
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  Speaker 1: Something about the way the legs were separated.
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  Speaker 2: That's the detail that really shifts the investigation into high
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  Speaker 2: gear from the start. The medical examiner confirmed the victim
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  Speaker 2: was a young man, probably in his twenties. But the
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  Speaker 2: cuts they were described as uniform, clean, not.
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  Speaker 1: Ragged or torn like you might expect from I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: a frantic attack.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, this wasn't crude violence. The precision strongly suggested a machine. Specifically,
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  Speaker 2: they suspected an electric saw in the estimate the dismemberment
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  Speaker 2: likely happened about an hour after death.
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  Speaker 1: An electric saw. Wow? Okay, that single detail just paints
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  Speaker 1: a chilling picture, doesn't it? Cold intent, preparation. This wasn't impulsive,
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  Speaker 1: not at all.
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  Speaker 2: It points towards someone who knew what they were doing,
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  Speaker 2: or at least planned to do it.
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  Speaker 1: So who was this young man? How did he end
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  Speaker 1: up here? We need to step back from the canal
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  Speaker 1: for a moment and understand who Mina Musa was.
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  Speaker 2: Mina Musa he was twenty years old, originally from Minya,
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  Speaker 2: and by all accounts, just a really dedicated, respected young man.
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  Speaker 2: The oldest child.
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  Speaker 1: In his family, and that family context is key, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: He had four younger sisters.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and his father was preparing them for marriage, which,
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  Speaker 2: as you can imagine, created a significant financial pressure on
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  Speaker 2: the family. Mina felt that weight deeply. He worked relentlessly
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  Speaker 2: to help support them.
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  Speaker 1: He sounds incredibly responsible. What was his background?
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  Speaker 2: He was smart, really capable. He'd actually graduated with an
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  Speaker 2: electrical diploma, but his passion was elsewhere. He chose to
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  Speaker 2: go onto nursing, attended a nursing institute. He loved the
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  Speaker 2: medical field, the idea of service.
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  Speaker 1: And he was good at it, exceptionally good.
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  Speaker 2: He worked in a very specialized area infant nurseries at
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  Speaker 2: a major hospital in his village. Doctors colleagues, they really
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  Speaker 2: relied on his skills. And beyond his paid work, he
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  Speaker 2: volunteered for years unpaid in charitable services, just driven by
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  Speaker 2: a sense of duty.
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  Speaker 1: But despite all this hard work and skill, he was
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  Speaker 1: still sting financially.
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  Speaker 2: His income was described as medium enough to get by maybe,
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  Speaker 2: but not enough to really build the future. He wanted
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  Speaker 2: for himself and his family, or to continue his studies,
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  Speaker 2: so he was always looking, always searching for better opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: especially in Cairo.
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  Speaker 1: That ambition, that drive. It's heartbreaking because it seems like
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  Speaker 1: that's what the perpetrators exploited.
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  Speaker 2: It is his best qualities, his diligence, his desire to provide,
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  Speaker 2: his inherent trust perhaps made him tragically the perfect target
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  Speaker 2: for what came next.
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  Speaker 1: And that came in the form of what seemed like
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  Speaker 1: a dream job offer.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly presented by a friend and colleague, a guy named
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  Speaker 2: me Lad. Meh Lad told Mina about this fantastic opportunity
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  Speaker 2: in Cairo, a home nursing job looking after an elderly
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  Speaker 2: man with Alzheimer's.
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  Speaker 1: High pay, right and accommodation included, yes, high.
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  Speaker 2: Pay and free accommodation. It ticked all the boxes for Mina.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed like the perfect solution, solving his financial worries
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  Speaker 2: and getting him to Cairo for his studies.
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  Speaker 1: But how did Melad know about it?
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  Speaker 2: Me Lad claimed he'd be offered the job himself months prior,
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  Speaker 2: but had to turn it down because of his mandatory
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  Speaker 2: military service, so he said he was offering it to
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  Speaker 2: Mina as a friend. It sounded completely plausible.
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  Speaker 1: Did Mina's family buy it?
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  Speaker 2: His parents were uneasy. They actually asked him to refuse
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  Speaker 2: the job. They had a bad feeling, but Mina he
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  Speaker 2: was so excited he saw this as his one big chance,
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  Speaker 2: his pathway. His enthusiasm eventually convinced his father to agree.
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  Speaker 1: And this wasn't some quick, shady offer. The setup was sophisticated.
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  Speaker 2: Incredibly sophisticated. This is Keith. They didn't just send a
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  Speaker 2: dodgy text message. They created a whole facade, a professional
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  Speaker 2: sounding agency, proper application forms that even simulated background checks.
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  Speaker 1: So it felt completely legitimate, totally.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't about vetting Mina. It was about building his confidence,
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  Speaker 2: making him feel secure. It was psychological bait, designed to
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  Speaker 2: attract someone exactly like him, honest, ambitious, trustworthy.
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  Speaker 1: So Mina heads to Cairo, stays with his sister briefly,
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  Speaker 1: then makes his way to Zaya Alhamra for the job phil.
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  Speaker 2: Of Hope, completely unaware he's walking straight into a trap.
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  Speaker 2: Around eleven am on that day, he sends a message
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  Speaker 2: to his family.
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  Speaker 1: The last message they'd get from him, sounding normal.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it just said I have arrived at the job
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  Speaker 2: and started work. Simple reassuring and that his phone went
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  Speaker 2: dead immediately after sending the message. At first The family
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  Speaker 2: might have brushed it off, maybe thought it was his
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  Speaker 2: old phone acting up, you know. But the silence stretched on.
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  Speaker 1: Until the next day, when the real nightmare began.
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  Speaker 2: The family receives this absolutely chilling voice message. It's Mena's voice,
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  Speaker 2: but he sounds wrong, strained under duress. What it say basically,
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  Speaker 2: I am fine, but don't involve the police. Pay the
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  Speaker 2: money so I can return. These are their instructions, terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: You can only imagine their panic.
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  Speaker 1: And then the demand came.
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  Speaker 2: Less than an hour later, a call comes through A
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  Speaker 2: woman identifying herself as Gurges demands one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: thousand Egyptian pounds, a huge sum for them. She claims
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  Speaker 2: Mina is fine, but he's being held far away in Fayoum.
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  Speaker 1: But something felt off about that call too.
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  Speaker 2: Mina's uncle took over the negotiation. He was sharp. He
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  Speaker 2: insisted on hearing Mina's voice again, proof of life. Gurges refused.
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  Speaker 2: That refusal, plus the whole tone made the uncle suspicious.
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  Speaker 2: He recorded the rest of the call and rushed straight
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  Speaker 2: to the police in Elmark, where.
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  Speaker 1: They lived, and the police found something crucial in that recording.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately, law enforcement listened to the tape, the woman's voice
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  Speaker 2: gurges It was clearly definitively a man imitating a woman's voice,
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  Speaker 2: probably using some kind of voice modulation or just skillful omentation.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, okay, so not a typical kidnapping gang. This smells
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  Speaker 1: like fraud from the start, but obviously escalated terribly.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly that faked voice was the first major red flag
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  Speaker 2: that the people behind this weren't who or what they seemed.
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  Speaker 2: It suggested deception layered on top of whatever violent plan
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  Speaker 2: was unfolding.
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  Speaker 1: But back in zayl Hamra, the police had the body parts,
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  Speaker 1: but no local missing person report matched.
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  Speaker 2: Right. That was the initial hurdle. The victim had to
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  Speaker 2: be a stranger to that area. It took some coordination,
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  Speaker 2: but eventually they connected the horrific discovery at the canal
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  Speaker 2: to the missing person report filed by Mina's uncle beck.
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  Speaker 1: In Elmark and then kem another awful discovery.
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  Speaker 2: While the DNA tests were being rushed using samples from
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  Speaker 2: Mina's father and uncle, police got another call a human
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  Speaker 2: arm found in a trash bin in the same general
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  Speaker 2: area near the canal. Oh no, so the family, Mina's
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  Speaker 2: father and uncle raced to the Morgue. They didn't even
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  Speaker 2: need to wait for DNA confirmation for the arm.
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  Speaker 1: Why not.
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  Speaker 2: There was a distinctive tattoo on the arm. They recognized
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  Speaker 2: it instantly it was Mina's. The father just collapsed right there,
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  Speaker 2: uttered devastation, reportedly screaming, you know, why kill him? I
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  Speaker 2: would have paid anything. Just gut wrenching grief.
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  Speaker 1: So now they knew for sure it was Mina. The
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  Speaker 1: investigation must have zeroed in on that Zaya Alhamer location.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely all focus shifted there. They started meticulously reviewing security
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  Speaker 2: camera footage from around the canal where the lakes were found.
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  Speaker 2: They find footage of.
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  Speaker 1: Mina meeting someone, yes, meeting a man.
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  Speaker 2: Frustratingly, the man's features were obscured, hard to make out clearly.
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  Speaker 2: But the crucial part was where this man led Mina.
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  Speaker 2: Where he led him down a specific street, deliberately chosen,
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  Speaker 2: it seemed, because it had no surveillance cameras, a blind spot.
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  Speaker 2: These perpetrators knew the area, they planned the route.
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  Speaker 1: Incredible planning. They're closing in, but they need that final.
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  Speaker 2: Piece and it comes from an unexpected source, a local
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  Speaker 2: shop owner.
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  Speaker 1: What did they know?
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  Speaker 2: This shop owner running an electrical supply store nearby contacted
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  Speaker 2: the police. He remembered something specific. Five days earlier, he'd
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  Speaker 2: sold an electric saw two to a man fitting the
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  Speaker 2: description of a male nurse named Mustafa, and this Mustafolad
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  Speaker 2: nearby supposedly in an apartment caring for an elderly Alzheimer's patient.
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  Speaker 1: The electric saw. It matches the forensic report perfectly. That's
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  Speaker 1: the lenk.
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  Speaker 2: It's a final piece of the puzzle, clicking into place method,
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  Speaker 2: victim location, and now a potential suspect linked directly to
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  Speaker 2: the probable murder weapon.
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  Speaker 1: So the police moved in immediately.
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  Speaker 2: They used cell phone data triangulation combined with the shop
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  Speaker 2: owners information to pinpoint the exact apartment.
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  Speaker 1: And what did they find.
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  Speaker 2: They found Mustafa, the nurse who bought the saw, and
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  Speaker 2: another man, Ibrahim, who worked as a chef. The police
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  Speaker 2: arrested them on the spot.
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  Speaker 1: What was their motive just the money?
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  Speaker 2: Chillingly simple. Yes, they had apparently started with smaller online
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  Speaker 2: job scams, just fraud, but they decided they wanted to
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  Speaker 2: sort of level up to kidnapping for ransom. They saw
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  Speaker 2: Amina's picture, likely after Milad referred him and decided he
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  Speaker 2: looked like someone whose family could and would.
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  Speaker 1: Pay some Malad wasn't just a friend passing on an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: The implication seems to be that Meilad might have unwittingly
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  Speaker 2: or perhaps wittingly, pointed them towards Mina as a suitable target.
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  Speaker 2: Though the primary perpetrators caught were moosed off in Ibrahim.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened when Mina got to that apartment?
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  Speaker 2: Stuff and met him outside let him in? Mina himself
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  Speaker 2: apparently noted just before things turned violent that the apartment
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  Speaker 2: felt weirdly deserted, even frightening the elderly patient he was
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  Speaker 2: hired to care for nowhere in sight.
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  Speaker 1: That must have been his last moment of unease.
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  Speaker 2: It seems so. As Mustapha locked the apartment door behind them,
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  Speaker 2: Ibrahim emerged from another room. He was carrying a heavy iron.
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  Speaker 1: Pipe, and he attacked Mina, struck him hard on the head.
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  Speaker 2: Mina was knock unconscious instantly. They then robbed him, took
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  Speaker 2: his wallet, his phone, any money he had.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when they sent the message.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, Mina was unconscious. Mustafa used Mina's own phone
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  Speaker 2: to send that message, saying I've arrived and started work.
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  Speaker 2: It was a cold, calculated move to create a false timeline,
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  Speaker 2: to make the family think he was safe and working
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  Speaker 2: for hours after he was already attacked.
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  Speaker 1: Buying themselves time. But Mina eventually woke up.
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  Speaker 2: He did, and understandably, he started screaming for help. This
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  Speaker 2: panicked Mustafa and Ibrahim. They were worried the neighbors would hear.
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  Speaker 1: So they threatened him again.
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  Speaker 2: Staffa grabbed a larger iron pipe. This time they forced Mina,
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  Speaker 2: terrified to record that ransom voice message for his family.
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  Speaker 2: But even after they finished recording, Mina kept screaming desperate.
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  Speaker 1: And that led to the final fatal act.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Mustafa, fearing exposure, struck Mina again with the pipe,
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  Speaker 2: and as a trained nurse, Mustafa knew immediately that this
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  Speaker 2: second blow was different. It wasn't just incapacitating, it was fatal.
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  Speaker 2: He knew Mina was dead.
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  Speaker 1: The moment the crime shifted from kidnapping an extortion to murder.
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  Speaker 1: What did they do then?
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  Speaker 2: The panic seemed to have turned cold very quickly. Mustafa
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  Speaker 2: the nurse, the one who worked in infant nurseries. He
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  Speaker 2: asked Ibrahim to go out and bring back food and
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  Speaker 2: crucially large black trash bags.
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  Speaker 1: What Ibrahim was gone.
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  Speaker 2: Mustafa dragged Mina's body into the apartment bathroom. When Ibrahim
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  Speaker 2: returned with the food and bags, he found Ustafa using
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  Speaker 2: the electric saw.
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  Speaker 1: The saw he bought days earlier.
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  Speaker 2: The very same and Mustafa apparently admitted to Ibrahim that
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  Speaker 2: he'd originally bought the saw to scare Mina during the kidnapping,
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  Speaker 2: just as a threat. A prop A.
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  Speaker 1: Prop that became the tool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for that unbelievable, A horrific escalation borne from panic
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  Speaker 2: and a desire to cover up the murder.
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  Speaker 1: How long after Mina's death did this happen?
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  Speaker 2: They waited about three hours after Mina died. Then together
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  Speaker 2: they dismembered the body in the bathroom, placed the parts
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  Speaker 2: in the black.
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  Speaker 1: Trash bag, and then they just walked out.
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  Speaker 2: Waited until it was dark. Then, with what police described
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  Speaker 2: as astonishing composure, they calmly walked through.
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  Speaker 1: The neighborhood street, tearing the bags.
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  Speaker 2: Carrying the bags, they disposed of the legs in the
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  Speaker 2: canal first, then they scattered the arms and the other
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  Speaker 2: remaining parts in different trash bins and locations around the.
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  Speaker 1: Area, thinking that scattering the parts would make it impossible
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  Speaker 1: to connect everything.
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  Speaker 2: That seems to have been the plan, hiding the evidence
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  Speaker 2: and plain sight spread across a busy urban area, just
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  Speaker 2: walking among people carrying those bags. The coldness is hard
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  Speaker 2: to fathom.
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  Speaker 1: But their plan failed. The police found them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the cell phone data pitting them to the location,
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  Speaker 2: testimony about the saw, and the physical evidence found inside
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  Speaker 2: the apartment, the rope they likely used to restrain Mina,
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  Speaker 2: the blood stained iron pipe, and crucially, Mina's wallet and
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  Speaker 2: phone still in their possession. It was overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: The case must have caused a huge public.
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  Speaker 2: Reaction, massive outrage, the sheer brutality, that calculated deception, targeting
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  Speaker 2: a dedicated young man trying to help his family. It
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  Speaker 2: resonated deeply. Ultimately, both Mustapha and Ibraheim were convicted and
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  Speaker 2: their cases referred to the Grand Mufti, which in Egypt
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  Speaker 2: is the step before confirming a death sentence.
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  Speaker 1: When you step back and look at the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's the calculation that's so chilling, using Mina's own good nature,
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  Speaker 1: his ambition against him.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and the fact that the electric saw, this instrument
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  Speaker 2: of such horror, was initially just meant as a prop
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  Speaker 2: to scare him.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: It speaks volumes about how quickly things spiraled and the
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  Speaker 2: disconnect between their initial plan probably just extortion, and the
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  Speaker 2: monstrous reality of their actions.
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  Speaker 1: It really highlights how these kinds of online, seemingly professional
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  Speaker 1: setups can be fronts for something far darker.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, this case is a terrible illustration of how sophisticated scams,
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  Speaker 2: starting online or through seemingly legitimate channels can escalate into
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  Speaker 2: violent physical crimes. That professional job ad wasn't professional vetting.
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  Speaker 2: It was carefully crafted bait designed to lure in someone
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  Speaker 2: exactly like Nina, dependable, trusting, and desperate for a better chance.
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  Speaker 1: It leaves you thinking, doesn't it. They thought they were
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  Speaker 1: being so careful, covering their tracks, choosing camera blind spots,
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  Speaker 1: scattering the evidence.
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  Speaker 2: But in the end what brought them down tiny almost
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  Speaker 2: random details, A unique tattoo that a grieving father instantly recognized,
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  Speaker 2: a single purchase of an electric saw from a local shop,
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  Speaker 2: remembered by the owner. Things they probably thought were insignificant, untraceable.
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  Speaker 1: So here's something to really chew on. How often do
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  Speaker 1: these seemingly minder details, these everyday transactions or identifying marks,
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  Speaker 1: end up being the key that unlocks a major, complex crime.
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  Speaker 1: What small detail in this case stands out the most
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  Speaker 1: to you.