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The Dentist, the Diary, and the Death Sentence: Inside the Mansoura Murder That Shattered a Perfect Life · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Imagine this. You're stepping out onto a quiet, pretty upscale
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  Speaker 1: street in Mansura, Egypt. It's the pre dawn hours, third
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  Speaker 1: day of id A Lada twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Right, everything should be still, peaceful, holiday time exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But as you look up second floor of this stately
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  Speaker 1: family home, that stillness is just shattered. Inside there's arguing
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  Speaker 1: so loud, so high pitched, it just cuts right through
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  Speaker 1: the air. It's two thirty AM.
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  Speaker 2: Two thirty and this hasn't just started.
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  Speaker 1: No, apparently it had been raging for two hours. And
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  Speaker 1: the people inside, two highly successful, highly educated doctors, people
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  Speaker 1: who I mean, on paper, should have had this absolute
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  Speaker 1: perfect life.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the core of it, isn't it. What we're
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  Speaker 2: hearing in that moment is the total collapse of a
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  Speaker 2: carefully constructed image. It's not just noise now, it's the
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  Speaker 2: breaking point. Doctor Yasmin, the victim, had apparently just spent
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  Speaker 2: two solid hours finally confronting your husband, doctor Mahmoud, laying
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  Speaker 2: it all out, every single truth. She'd bottled it for years,
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  Speaker 2: the abuse, the control, his well, his profound failings as
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  Speaker 2: a person.
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  Speaker 1: And when that pressure cooker finally blew, it wasn't gradual.
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  Speaker 1: It went from words to fatal action instantly.
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  Speaker 2: Right Doctor Mamood, his ego presumably just shattered, leaves the room,
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  Speaker 2: goes to the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: It comes back with a knife, not a solution, not
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  Speaker 1: an apology, a knife, and.
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  Speaker 2: The most horrific detail, the one that just stains everything,
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  Speaker 2: the attack itself. Seventeen stab wounds. It happened right in
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  Speaker 2: front of their three young children, in front of the kids.
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  Speaker 1: A level of violence that had been somehow perfectly hidden
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  Speaker 1: behind this flawless public image.
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  Speaker 2: Our deep dive today is really into the anatomy of
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  Speaker 2: that deception. How does that happen?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, we want to trace the sequence the choices that
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  Speaker 1: let a respected dental surgeon and academic become will become this.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking for that chilling truth behind the education, the wealth,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe asking you to think about how easily success
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  Speaker 2: can mask something truly awful.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with that facade. Mahmoud Muge's public image was
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  Speaker 1: honestly impeccable. Graduated dental school twenty fourteen Withintia's.
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  Speaker 2: Top honors exceptional best in his class. Basically, he immediately
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  Speaker 2: got a job as a demonstrator a lecturer at a
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  Speaker 2: private university, climbing the ladder.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and his family.
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  Speaker 2: Stable, proud, financially comfortable, very keen to show off their
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  Speaker 2: brilliant son.
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  Speaker 1: But that outward image of strength, it wasn't the whole story,
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  Speaker 1: not even close.
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  Speaker 2: Our sources suggest that despite all that professional success, Mahmood
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  Speaker 2: was completely under his family's thumb. He apparently didn't even
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  Speaker 2: want to get married. Really yeah, but the family insisted,
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  Speaker 2: and in that kind of context, for the eldest son especially,
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  Speaker 2: you just you don't refuse. His life was dictated, even
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  Speaker 2: while he was being praised as this big success.
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  Speaker 1: So the marriage was arranged two in sixteen right.
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  Speaker 2: Reigns with doctor Yasmin. She was also studying dentistry, a
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  Speaker 2: bit younger. Crucially, the families knew each.
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  Speaker 1: Other, the perfect match socially, financially, she was the.
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  Speaker 2: Only daughter in this highly respected family of doctors, and
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  Speaker 2: Yasmin well, she was genuinely impressed by his academic record
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  Speaker 2: his career. She agreed to the Salon marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, seems standard enough for the context. But then the
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  Speaker 1: first issue.
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  Speaker 2: Almost immediately, and it was about money. Just before the wedding,
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  Speaker 2: Mahmood tells Yasmine's family. Basically, I've spent all my money
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  Speaker 2: in the apartment. I can't pay for the wedding ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, okay, how did they react?
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  Speaker 2: Her family stepped in, They paid for the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: They saw it as you know, temporary hardship, a young
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  Speaker 2: professional setting up shop.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't just temporary trouble.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was the first major warning sign, a sign
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  Speaker 2: of this this deep, almost pathological stinginess greed.
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  Speaker 1: Really, So they get married and they move into an
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  Speaker 1: apartment inside Mahmud's family home.
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  Speaker 2: Correct in Mansurah, and Yasmin apparently realized the reality of
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  Speaker 2: that situation incredibly fast. How fast within one week she
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  Speaker 2: saw the constant family interference and maybe more worryingly, ma
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  Speaker 2: Mood's complete lack of any independent opinion. He just deferred
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  Speaker 2: to them on everything.
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  Speaker 1: Successful doctor, but still acting like a child, following orders
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  Speaker 1: pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: She tried initially to adapt. She thought, maybe over time
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  Speaker 2: she could influence him, Maybe they can negotiate a way
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  Speaker 2: out of living right there with his family. We reasonable hope,
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  Speaker 2: maybe perhaps, But the sources suggest living under that roof
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  Speaker 2: made any kind of independent action almost impossible for them.
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  Speaker 1: As a couple, and things didn't get better.
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  Speaker 2: They got worse, much worse, especially after their first child
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  Speaker 2: was born. Within that first year, that's when mom moods
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  Speaker 2: hidden anger. His violence. The sources use the term un
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  Speaker 2: which implies sustained cruelty really came out.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't just family meddling anymore.
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  Speaker 2: No, it escalated into regular physical and emotional abuse, amplified
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  Speaker 2: probably by the stress of a new baby.
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  Speaker 1: This is grim. Did she try to change the situation.
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  Speaker 2: She did Entyby the second year, she made the big
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  Speaker 2: request they needed to move out, get their own place,
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  Speaker 2: away from his family, a clear boundary. And his response
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  Speaker 2: he didn't give her one, not directly. He immediately went
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  Speaker 2: to his family, oh boy, and they predictably rejected the
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  Speaker 2: idea fiercely. They accused Yasmin of trying to control him,
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  Speaker 2: completely ignoring the abuse she was actually facing.
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  Speaker 1: So she's trapped, and this is where the secrecy really
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  Speaker 1: starts to build.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she started telling her own mother about some of
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  Speaker 2: the fights, some of the physical violence, but there was
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  Speaker 2: one thing she kept hidden, something she found too too humiliating,
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  Speaker 2: which was Mamod's extreme stinginess is vocal, not just general thriftiness,
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  Speaker 2: but real, deep seated greed towards her and their children.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting. Why was that the secret she guarded most
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  Speaker 1: more than the violence.
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  Speaker 2: It's cultural partly in that social circle. Admitting to physical abuse,
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  Speaker 2: while awful, might be kept as a house secret. But
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  Speaker 2: admitting your wealthy, educated doctor husband refuses to provide basic
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  Speaker 2: necessities when he clearly can that carries a huge social shame.
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  Speaker 2: It can feel like a personal failing.
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  Speaker 1: Like she had failed somehow by being.
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  Speaker 2: With him exactly, and the worst example of this financial
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  Speaker 2: cruelty came with their second child. What happened. The baby
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  Speaker 2: was born with a health issue needed significant time in
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  Speaker 2: an incubator, a hydena.
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  Speaker 1: It was expensive, but they were both doctors or in
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  Speaker 1: good money.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but Mahmood refused to pay the medical bills. Again,
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  Speaker 2: he claimed financial.
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  Speaker 1: Strain, unbelievable. So what did Yasmin do?
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  Speaker 2: Her family paid. They covered the costs until quite literally
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  Speaker 2: their money ran out. And then then Mamood did something
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  Speaker 2: truly staggering. He pulled the child out of the incubator
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  Speaker 2: prematurely before the treatment was completed. No yes, and as
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  Speaker 2: a direct result, the child suffered a permanent disability.
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  Speaker 1: He chose money over his own child's lifelong health.
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  Speaker 2: It's yeah, it speaks volumes about his priorities. His moral
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  Speaker 2: compass was just gone.
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  Speaker 1: And the physical abuse continued alongside this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, there's one specific incident mentioned where he hit
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  Speaker 2: her so hard at a deep cut on her lip. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and here's the really chilling part. He stitched it up himself.
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  Speaker 1: Wait he stitched it as a doctor.
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  Speaker 2: As a dental surgeon. Yes, he inflicted the injury, then
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  Speaker 2: used his medical skill to hide the evidence, turning his
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  Speaker 2: profession into a tool of control.
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  Speaker 1: That's deeply disturbing. Did she try to leave.
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  Speaker 2: Then she asked for a divorce after that incident. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: But then their third child arrived and she chose to stay, terrified,
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  Speaker 2: probably of what leaving would mean for the.
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  Speaker 1: Children, feeling completely trapped, unable to confide fully in anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So she found another outlet, her only one, it seems.
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  Speaker 2: She started writing everything down.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, the journal.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, a private journal, an agenda documenting her daily life,
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  Speaker 2: the fights, his stinginess, his family's interference. It was her
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  Speaker 2: quiet rebellion, her only space for honesty.
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  Speaker 1: Just writing it down to get it out, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: A release valve, But that private journal tragically became the
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  Speaker 2: catalyst for her murder.
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  Speaker 1: How did that happen?
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  Speaker 2: The day of id A Lada twenty twenty one, Yasmin
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  Speaker 2: had been writing in it. She then apparently just absent
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  Speaker 2: mindedly left it on a table before taking the kids out.
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  Speaker 2: Okay Ma Mood came home found she was out without
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  Speaker 2: his explicit permission, even though she tried calling him and
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  Speaker 2: he hadn't answered. He immediately started an argument with her
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  Speaker 2: over the phone about it. Control again, always control, But
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  Speaker 2: the journal. That's when he saw it sitting there, and
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  Speaker 2: he didn't hesitate. He read it.
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  Speaker 1: Her private thoughts, everything, everything.
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  Speaker 2: He discovered, the complete, unvarnished record of his violence, his
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  Speaker 2: family's meddling, and crucially, his vocal the thing he was
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  Speaker 2: perhaps most sensitive about.
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  Speaker 1: So when she got back, he.
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  Speaker 2: Confronted her immediately holding the journal, demanding they debate her
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  Speaker 2: private thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Debate her journal.
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  Speaker 2: That's bizarre. It speaks to his mindset, doesn't it. He
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  Speaker 2: needed to ractionalize to argue against her documented reality, and
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  Speaker 2: that argument it went on for two hours.
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  Speaker 1: Two hours driven by his need to refute what she'd written.
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  Speaker 2: Until Yasmin just exploded years of suppression just burst out.
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  Speaker 2: She stopped trying to debate and just told him everything
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  Speaker 2: she'd written. She said it to his face loudly. Apparently
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  Speaker 2: their voices were echoing through the whole family building.
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  Speaker 1: The final confrontation.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And at two thirty am, realizing how intense and
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  Speaker 2: unnatural the aggression had become, Yasmin called her mother. She
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  Speaker 2: was terrified.
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  Speaker 1: What did her mother say?
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  Speaker 2: She tried to calm her down, said it was probably
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  Speaker 2: just a normal holiday argument between spouse's, you know, stress,
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  Speaker 2: dismissed her fear tragically. Yes, yeah, that was the last
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  Speaker 2: time Yasmin ever spoke.
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  Speaker 1: To her mother because moments later.
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  Speaker 2: Moments after that call ended my mood. Feeling utterly exposed
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  Speaker 2: and humiliated by the journal by her words.
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  Speaker 1: He went to the kitchen, got the knife.
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  Speaker 2: And stabbed her seventeen times in front of their three children, And.
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  Speaker 1: Then he fled. What about his parents? They were in
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  Speaker 1: the same building.
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  Speaker 2: They heard the children screaming, terrified screams.
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  Speaker 1: They went upstairs to help call an ambulance.
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  Speaker 2: No, according to the sources, the first thing they did
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  Speaker 2: was start cleaning the blood off the apartment floor.
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  Speaker 1: They cleaned the crime scene instead.
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  Speaker 2: Of getting help, prioritizing removing evidence over potentially saving a
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  Speaker 2: life or at least respecting the body. They waited two
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  Speaker 2: full hours before taking Yasmin's body to the hospital. It
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  Speaker 2: was five am by then.
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  Speaker 1: Two hours. That's complicity.
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  Speaker 2: The hospital staff saw the obvious knife wounds, the delay
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  Speaker 2: and immediately called the authorities. My mood was caught a
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  Speaker 2: few days later hiding out in a summer place in Alexandria.
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  Speaker 1: And the initial legal outcome.
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  Speaker 2: Seems straightforward at first. In twenty twenty one, he was
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  Speaker 2: sentenced to death execution Ali Dam.
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  Speaker 1: But that wasn't the end of the legal story.
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  Speaker 2: No, here's the twist, the part that caused a huge
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  Speaker 2: public outcry. In twenty twenty four, his conviction was appealed.
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  Speaker 2: The process is called NAK and the sentence was overturned,
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  Speaker 2: reduced from execution to life imprisonment.
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  Speaker 1: Al Muhabad reduced after seventeen stab wounds in front of
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  Speaker 1: his children.
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  Speaker 2: Why it's deeply controversial implication is the appeal court might
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  Speaker 2: have considered mitigating factors, perhaps the intense provocation of the
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  Speaker 2: two hour argument, the discovery of the deeply personal and
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  Speaker 2: critical journal entries.
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  Speaker 1: So provocation could lessen the sentence for such a brutal,
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  Speaker 1: premeditated act.
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  Speaker 2: Legally, it seems it could be argued that way. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it forces a really difficult question about how much weight
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  Speaker 2: the justice system gives to emotional states, even when the
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  Speaker 2: outcome is this horrific.
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  Speaker 1: And the children, what happened to them.
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  Speaker 2: They witnessed everything. They're now being raised by Yasmin's family,
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  Speaker 2: a reputable family, a constant living reminder that this whole
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  Speaker 2: tragedy wasn't about lack of education or money.
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  Speaker 1: It was about a fundamental lack of morality.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, education, wealth, they mean nothing without basic human decency,
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  Speaker 2: without tarbia moral upbringing.
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  Speaker 1: So we've traced this devastating path, the perfect public image,
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  Speaker 1: the hidden abuse, and that awful financial cruelty, and then
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  Speaker 1: the private journal becoming somehow a death sentence.
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  Speaker 2: And what really stands out, hope you're thinking about, is
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  Speaker 2: how easily those external markers doctor academic, wealthy family can
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  Speaker 2: act as a shield, a perfect cover for deep moral sickness,
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  Speaker 2: for control, for violence.
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  Speaker 1: The world saw success, she saw a monster.
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  Speaker 2: Driven by greed and this pathological need for control.
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  Speaker 1: So think about that reduced sentence again, Think about how
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  Speaker 1: much weight we as a society tend to place on
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  Speaker 1: titles on status when we judge someone's character. Right, if
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime of academic achievement can somehow be used, even implicitly,
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  Speaker 1: to argue for mitigation in a crime this brutal, well,
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  Speaker 1: how can someone succeed so brilliantly on paper yet fail
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  Speaker 1: so catastrophically as a human being.
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  Speaker 2: It's a disturbing question.
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  Speaker 1: It is, and it's something to keep in mind as
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  Speaker 1: you look at the successful people around you. What masks
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  Speaker 1: are they wearing? What lies beneath the polished surface, That's
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  Speaker 1: something for you to consider.