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Osama: A Criminal Mastermind and Serial Killer · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Deep Dive. Today, we're looking into the
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  Speaker 1: mind of someone truly disturbing, a man named Osama, a manipulator,
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  Speaker 1: a killer, a con artist, and the way his world unraveled.
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  Speaker 1: It started small, almost ridiculously small picture this It's two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and four kawfre El Shaik a car dealership, pretty
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  Speaker 1: standard scene. Then a guy Majdy shows up. He's trying
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  Speaker 1: to sell this really nice two thousand and two model car,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fully.
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  Speaker 2: Loaded, right, the kind of car that usually goes quickly.
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  Speaker 2: But the price that was the immediate hook. Majdi wanted
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  Speaker 2: just eighteen thousand Egyptian pounds. Now this car should have
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  Speaker 2: fetch what sixty thousand maybe more?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, easily three four times that. So the dealer's radar
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  Speaker 1: goes off instantly.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, It's fascinating, isn't it. Not some complex detective work,
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  Speaker 2: but just basic market sense. So that low price was
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  Speaker 2: the first tiny thread.
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  Speaker 1: Majdi gives the story, says, oh, it's not mine, it
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  Speaker 1: belongs to my friend Osama, playing the middleman exactly. The
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  Speaker 1: dealer sort of plays along, says, okay, fine, but I
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  Speaker 1: need the real registration papers all your friend Osama have
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  Speaker 1: him bring them over.
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  Speaker 2: But he's already thinking this isn't right. He needs time,
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  Speaker 2: needs those papers because you know, stolen good seemed pretty likely.
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  Speaker 2: He was basically stalling while getting law enforcement involved.
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  Speaker 1: Right, He needed proof. That price was just too unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Totally off, screaming problem.
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  Speaker 1: So Osama shows up, and here's where the first crack
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  Speaker 1: really appears. He doesn't have the original car license, just
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  Speaker 1: a photocopy.
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  Speaker 2: A photocopy. Alarm bells again.
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  Speaker 1: And the dealer looks at this copy and bam, another issue.
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  Speaker 1: The owner's name on the license, not Osama, not even close.
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  Speaker 2: That's small detail, it's everything.
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  Speaker 1: So the dealer, he's clever, says something like, let me
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  Speaker 1: just check the car's condition one more time, steps away, and.
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  Speaker 2: Sends that photocopy image straight to the police he'd already contacted.
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  Speaker 1: The confirmation comes back fast. The car reported stolen.
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  Speaker 2: And not just stolen, but stolen from Almacquottum. That's quite
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  Speaker 2: a distance from Capital.
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  Speaker 1: Shake exactly different area entirely. So the low price, the
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  Speaker 1: photocopy of the wrong the location mismatch, it.
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  Speaker 2: All lines up. The police arrived quickly.
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  Speaker 1: They arrest both of them, Marjdi and Osama Margedi craps
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  Speaker 1: almost immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he spills it. Okay, I knew it was stolen.
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  Speaker 2: I was just helping Osama sell it.
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  Speaker 1: Simple enough, but Osama totally different approach.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he launches into this incredibly detailed story, very
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  Speaker 2: plausible sounding, but you know, deceptive. He claims it was
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  Speaker 2: a one time thing, driven by difficult circumstances. Doesn't deny
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  Speaker 2: stealing it, actually right.
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  Speaker 1: He admits it. Says he rented the exact car from
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  Speaker 1: an office in al Mucottam.
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  Speaker 2: Made a copy of the key during the rental, watched
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  Speaker 2: where they parked it.
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  Speaker 1: For a month, a whole month, then snuck back at night,
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  Speaker 1: used the duplicate key and drove off.
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  Speaker 2: It's elaborate, almost too elaborate for just simple car theft,
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  Speaker 2: spurred by desperation.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the police thought, too, didn't they. They felt
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  Speaker 1: he was putting.
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  Speaker 2: On a show exactly an ingenious actor. As they put it,
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  Speaker 2: the story was too neat, too perfectly explained. It felt rehearsed,
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  Speaker 2: like he.
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  Speaker 1: Was trying too hard to seem like a desperate amateur thief.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And that performance paradoxically made them suspect something deeper.
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  Speaker 2: This probably wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: His first rodeo, so they decided to dig a bit
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  Speaker 1: check for similar patterns, maybe other thefts in the Kaffarel
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  Speaker 1: Chic area.
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  Speaker 2: And that hunch paid off pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: They get a tip about a microbus just abandoned on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the road, also in Kafferel's Shake, been.
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  Speaker 2: There a while, apparently covered up.
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  Speaker 1: With something, and crucially, all the identifying marks were gone,
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  Speaker 1: license plates ripped off, any numbers on the doors, scraped
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  Speaker 1: away clean.
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  Speaker 2: Now that suggests something more than just ditching a stolen car.
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  Speaker 2: That's deliberate evidence removal, much more calculated.
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  Speaker 1: The police follow this lead. It takes them to a
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  Speaker 1: local dealer, a woman who handles trucks, taxis that sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing, and.
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  Speaker 2: She remembers him, confirms it. About two months earlier, a
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  Speaker 2: guy calling himself Osama tried to sell her that exact Microbis.
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  Speaker 1: But she turned him down.
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  Speaker 2: Why no papers, he had zero proof of ownership. She
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  Speaker 2: wasn't touching it.
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  Speaker 1: Show her photos of the Osama they just arrested, and.
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  Speaker 2: She says, that's him. That's the guy insinn identification.
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  Speaker 1: So they confront Osama again. No, it's not just one
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  Speaker 1: stolen car. It's two and this second one involved tampering
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  Speaker 1: with evidence.
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  Speaker 2: He confesses to the microbus theft too. Admits he tried
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  Speaker 2: to sell it, failed and then just covered it up
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  Speaker 2: by the road.
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  Speaker 1: But the police they're pushing harder.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just that he stole it. The critical question becomes.
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  Speaker 2: Whose microbus was it? Who did you steal it from? Osama?
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  Speaker 1: And that pressure that's what finally broke him.
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  Speaker 2: He admits the truth. It wasn't just theft, it was murder.
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  Speaker 1: He confesses he found the owner through an ad The
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  Speaker 1: owner was a driver actually needed to sell the microbus
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  Speaker 1: fairly new because of money problems.
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  Speaker 2: Osama pretended to be an interested buyer, set up a meeting, and.
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  Speaker 1: The details here are just chilling. He meets the driver,
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  Speaker 1: puts on this incredibly convincing act, gains his complete.
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  Speaker 2: Trust, total confidence trick.
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  Speaker 1: Then he invites the driver back to his apartment back
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  Speaker 1: in Alma. Cottam says, come over, I'll give you the
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  Speaker 1: money tonight, we'll sort the paperwork tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Makes the driver feel comfortable safe inside the apartment. Osama says,
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  Speaker 2: I'll make some tea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this mundane everyday gesture.
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  Speaker 2: But instead of getting tea. He goes and gets his weapon,
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  Speaker 2: comes back.
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  Speaker 1: And shoots the driver just like that, and.
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  Speaker 2: The premeditation is stark. He didn't just kill him impulsively.
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  Speaker 1: No, he apparently had everything ready, plastic bags, tools, specifically
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  Speaker 1: for dismemberment.
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  Speaker 2: He'd planned this whole sequence, the murder, the disposal.
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  Speaker 1: After killing him, he cuts up the body, puts the
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  Speaker 1: pieces in bags.
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  Speaker 2: And buries them not just anywhere, but in an abandoned,
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  Speaker 2: unused apartment on the ground floor of his building that
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  Speaker 2: he was apparently using for storage, dedicated dumping grounds.
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  Speaker 1: Horrifying. So murder for the micro boss, purely for profit,
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  Speaker 1: calculated cold.
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  Speaker 2: But even then the police sends this wasn't the whole story.
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  Speaker 2: The level of brutality, the planning, the dismemberment, that clinical
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  Speaker 2: approach suggested practice. It felt like he might have done something.
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  Speaker 1: Like this before, so they had to go further back,
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  Speaker 1: look into his past, his life before Almaquaddum. This guy
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  Speaker 1: seemed to move around, and.
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  Speaker 2: That's when they found it. A missing person report five
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  Speaker 2: years old.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out before al mcquadam, Osama lived in Hendique el
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  Speaker 1: Kuhoba for nine years. He was married, had two daughters.
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  Speaker 2: He owned a shop selling women's clothing, ready to wear stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And this shot was apparently a huge source of conflict.
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  Speaker 1: His wife was intensely jealous, constant arguments about him interacting
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  Speaker 1: with female customers all day.
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  Speaker 2: She wanted a divorce, repeatedly asked.
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  Speaker 1: For one, but he refused, said he wanted to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: keep the family together, which.
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  Speaker 2: In hindsight sounds more like control than concern for the family.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want her to leave him.
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  Speaker 1: Then one day she's just gone Danish.
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  Speaker 2: And Osama files a missing person report, but.
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  Speaker 1: He does more than that. He crafts this narrative convinces everyone, neighbors, relatives,
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  Speaker 1: even her own family, that she just walked out, abandoned
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  Speaker 1: him and the kids because of their constant fighting, and.
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  Speaker 2: People bought it. He was apparently incredibly convincing, painting himself
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  Speaker 2: as the wronged husband.
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  Speaker 1: For five years, that was the story until the police
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  Speaker 1: investigating the murders uncovered something staggering.
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  Speaker 2: About a year after his wife disappeared, Osama packed up,
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  Speaker 2: left hadik El Kuaba, moved to Almaquadam.
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  Speaker 1: And ferried again, married a woman named Sahar, and.
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  Speaker 2: Sahar was, wait for it, his first wife's friend unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: The sheer nerve.
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  Speaker 2: That changes everything, doesn't it. Marrying your supposedly vanished wife's friend.
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  Speaker 2: That screen's foul play. It's just dripping with suspicion.
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  Speaker 1: It was the final piece for the police. They reopened
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  Speaker 1: that five year old missing person case, now viewing it
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  Speaker 1: through the lens of a double homicide.
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  Speaker 2: They knew they were dealing with someone capable of extreme
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  Speaker 2: deception and violence.
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  Speaker 1: They confront Osama again, forget the Karthi fact, They push
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  Speaker 1: him on his wife.
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  Speaker 2: And finally the last confession comes out. He admits he
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  Speaker 2: murdered her too.
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  Speaker 1: The motive a huge fight after she discovered his affair
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  Speaker 1: with Sahar the friend.
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  Speaker 2: So the jealousy wasn't just on her side. He was
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  Speaker 2: cheating she found out.
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  Speaker 1: But the timing, the premeditation for this murder is possibly
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  Speaker 1: even more chilling than the drivers.
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  Speaker 2: It's horrifying. He chose their wedding anniversary to kill her.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that, the symbolism, the cruelty.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't just kill her on that day, He staged
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  Speaker 2: a whole event through.
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  Speaker 1: A big anniversary party the day before, invited people, the
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  Speaker 1: kids were there, made sure everyone saw them as a
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  Speaker 1: happy couple.
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  Speaker 2: Celebrating, creating the perfect alibi, the perfect image.
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  Speaker 1: Then the next morning, he deliberately starts a massive fight,
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  Speaker 1: provokes her, gets her.
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  Speaker 2: Yelling so neighbors might hear, laying the groundwork for his
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  Speaker 2: story that she stormed out in anger.
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  Speaker 1: And then around eleven am the day after the party,
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  Speaker 1: he kills her.
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  Speaker 2: Just like with the driver, he was prepared, bags, tools,
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  Speaker 2: ready for dismemberment.
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  Speaker 1: He cuts up her body, mutilates the parts, trying to
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  Speaker 1: make identification impossib.
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  Speaker 2: Takes the remains and dumpson in the elm Mariutiya Canal
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  Speaker 2: far away.
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  Speaker 1: And he goes back, tells the children, tells the neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: we had a terrible fight. She left, left me, left
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  Speaker 1: the kids. She's gone for good.
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  Speaker 2: And because of the staged fight, because of his convincing performance,
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  Speaker 2: everyone believed him again.
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  Speaker 1: Even Sahar, the second wife, the friend she bought the
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  Speaker 1: story too, believed her friend had just abandoned her family.
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  Speaker 2: The level of manipulation is just staggering. He fooled everyone
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  Speaker 2: for five years.
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  Speaker 1: So in the end, Osama was sentenced to execution. The
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  Speaker 1: scale of his crimes, the cold blooded nature of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a truly dark case and what does it
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  Speaker 2: tell us? Yeah? I think it's a terrifying reminder about appearances.
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  Speaker 2: How the most dangerous people can be masters of performance,
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  Speaker 2: while Sama could plan and execute murders, dismember bodies, maintain
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  Speaker 2: lies for years.
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  Speaker 1: But the whole thing collapsed because he misjudged the price
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  Speaker 1: of a used car exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the complex crimes, it was the simple, stupid mistake.
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  Speaker 2: The ridiculously low price on that first dolen car was
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  Speaker 2: the only chink in his armor. That's what brought the
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  Speaker 2: whole facade down.
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  Speaker 1: It really makes you think, doesn't it. How much do
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  Speaker 1: we rely on someone just seeming trustworthy. How easily can
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  Speaker 1: a really good actor hide the most awful truths right
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  Speaker 1: in front.
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  Speaker 2: Of us, That convincing smile, that plausible story.
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  Speaker 1: Something definitely to keep in mind as you go about
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  Speaker 1: your wit. How often are we taken in by the
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  Speaker 1: performance