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Brother and Wife Betrayal and Murder · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's set the scene for this deep dive.
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  Speaker 1: It's late, it's eleven thirty at night, very late, and
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  Speaker 1: the emergency room at the ali At General Hospital is
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  Speaker 1: suddenly plunged into just pure.
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  Speaker 2: Chaos, complete chaos.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you have a woman, Fadia, she's twenty seven, and
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  Speaker 1: she is literally struggling dragging her thirty three year old husband,
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  Speaker 1: Mustafa through the doors.
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  Speaker 2: And she's frantic. She's shouting that it's poison, acute poisoning,
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  Speaker 2: right after dinner.
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  Speaker 1: But the moment the medical team actually lays eyes on Mustafa,
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  Speaker 1: you can just feel that panic in the air.
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  Speaker 2: Just freeze right, because this wasn't a race against time anymore.
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  Speaker 2: This was something else entirely. It felt like a crime
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  Speaker 2: scene disguised as a medical call.
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  Speaker 1: So as an er team, they see everything. What was
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  Speaker 1: it that immediately told them the story wasn't right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they have this instinct, you know, the physical reality
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  Speaker 2: just didn't match the story she was telling. Mustapha was
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  Speaker 2: clearly deceased, that was obvious. But the poisoning claim, the
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  Speaker 2: poisoning claim was the first problem because of his clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean think about it, if you collapse from
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  Speaker 2: food praising at your dinner table. What are you.
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  Speaker 1: Wearing something comfortable, pajamas, lounge wear, whatever you wear at
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  Speaker 1: home exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But Mustapha was in his full going out attire, clothes
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  Speaker 2: he'd wear to see friends, to go to the coffee shop.
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  Speaker 2: It just didn't fit the quiet dinner at home narrative.
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  Speaker 1: That alone feels like a huge red flag.
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  Speaker 2: It is, but then it gets even stranger. The team
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  Speaker 2: noticed two other things. First, he seemed to have recently showered.
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  Speaker 2: His hair was still a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Damp after being poisoned.
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  Speaker 2: Bizarre right. And then the most critical detail. They saw
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  Speaker 2: small faint bloodstains on his outer clothes and well, you
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  Speaker 2: don't bleed from food.
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  Speaker 1: Poisoning, well, poisoned man dressed to go out, who somehow
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  Speaker 1: just showered and he's bleeding exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a medical case anymore, it's a forensic one.
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  Speaker 1: So when the doctor's officially confirmed his death, what did
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  Speaker 1: they find?
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  Speaker 2: The external exam confirmed all their suspicions this was not poisoning.
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  Speaker 2: They found some all puncture wounds on his back and abdomen,
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  Speaker 2: and the final piece of the puzzle, a clear, unmistakable
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  Speaker 2: blow mark on the back of his head. Homicide, no question.
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  Speaker 2: The medical staff, they didn't even hesitate, They just called security.
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  Speaker 1: So security arrives and the investigation kicks off right there
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  Speaker 1: in the er waiting room. Fadia is, I imagine, incredibly tense.
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  Speaker 2: Visibly, they get the basics. Mustafa thirty three, laborer, good reputation,
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  Speaker 2: Fadia twenty seven, also seemed well like they'd been married
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  Speaker 2: five years, two kids, looked normal on the surface.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when Fadia launches into her first story.
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  Speaker 2: Right, her first narrative, the toxin. She says, Mustafa came
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  Speaker 2: home late, he brought some food with him from outside,
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  Speaker 2: She served it, he ate, and then bam, sudden intense
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  Speaker 2: stomach pains, sweating collapse.
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  Speaker 1: The classic tainted street food story.
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  Speaker 2: The perfect story if you don't have a body full
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  Speaker 2: of other evidence.
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  Speaker 1: How fast did the police pick that apart instantly?
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  Speaker 2: For two really simple reasons. First, as we said, the clothes,
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  Speaker 2: it just made no sense, and his friends confirmed, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was his routine, coming home late from the coffee shop.
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  Speaker 1: And the second reason logistical, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Her very simple question, where did he buy the food?
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  Speaker 2: And she said, I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: How convenient. Just completely dead ends that line of inquiry exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But it was already irrelevant. The moment the autopsy was
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  Speaker 2: going to confirm a blow to the head, the poisoning
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  Speaker 2: story was toasted anyway. Mustapha's body was sent for a
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  Speaker 2: full forensic workup.
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  Speaker 1: And Fatio was detained.
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  Speaker 2: She was and the reports say that the second she
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  Speaker 2: heard the words criminal suspicion, her entire demeanor changed.
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  Speaker 1: She knew line number one had failed. She couldn't explain
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  Speaker 1: away the violence.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so she has to pivot. She needs a story
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  Speaker 2: that includes violence, but crucially removes her from being responsible for.
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  Speaker 1: It, which brings us to her second, far more dramatic story,
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  Speaker 1: the home invasion.
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  Speaker 2: This one is uh theatrical. She claims three masked armed
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  Speaker 2: men burst into their apartment. They savagely beat Mustafa and
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  Speaker 2: threatened to kill her and the children if she made
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  Speaker 2: a single sound. It's territory, a terrifying story that creates
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  Speaker 2: a very messy crime scene, and when the forensics team
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  Speaker 2: went to the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: There was no mess none.
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  Speaker 2: The apartment was pristine, no signs of forced entry, no
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  Speaker 2: furniture overturned, no scuff marks, nothing broken. In fact, the
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  Speaker 2: dinner area was almost weirdly neat and tidy.
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  Speaker 1: The titans itself is suspicious, isn't it a cover up? Sterile?
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  Speaker 1: A real home invasion is chaos.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, and in a quiet area like that, someone would
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  Speaker 2: have heard or seen something three armed men of violent fight.
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  Speaker 2: The neighbors heard nothing, saw nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So now she's told two completely contradictory, verifiable lies.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and the forensics team did find one small thing,
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  Speaker 2: just one tiny piece of physical evidence.
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  Speaker 1: What was it?
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  Speaker 2: In the bathroom they found a pair of pajama bottoms
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  Speaker 2: and on them a small but very distinct spot of blood.
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  Speaker 1: Which points to a cleanup, not a home invasion.
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  Speaker 2: It's everything. It changes the question from who attacked them
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  Speaker 2: to who cleaned up afterward? And then the police candasing
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  Speaker 2: the neighborhood. They get another critical piece.
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  Speaker 1: Of information from the neighbors about the trip to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they all saw Fadia taking Musta for the hospital,
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  Speaker 2: but she wasn't alone.
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  Speaker 1: Who is with her a.
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  Speaker 2: Man named Hassan Mustafa's younger brother, a detail Fadia had
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  Speaker 2: conveniently left out of.
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  Speaker 1: Her story, A massive omission. I mean, why would you
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  Speaker 1: hide the fact that the victim's own brother was there
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  Speaker 1: helping you?
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't unless he was involved. So when they confront
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  Speaker 2: her about Hassan, she has to pivot again line number three.
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  Speaker 1: The antiquities trade.
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  Speaker 2: Right, suddenly, Mustafa was involved in some secret illegal trade
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  Speaker 2: antiquities maybe, She claims the fight was with a business associate,
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  Speaker 2: and crucially, she says Mustapha was still alive after but
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  Speaker 2: he forbade her from calling for help.
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  Speaker 1: To avoid getting arrested for his illegal dealings.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, she was just, you know, honoring his wishes until
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  Speaker 2: he died.
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  Speaker 1: So tocsin home invasions, secret trade, Each story more complex,
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  Speaker 1: each one designed to blain away a piece of evidence.
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  Speaker 2: They confront her with the police know at this point
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  Speaker 2: she's not just hiding something. She is orchestrating a cover up.
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  Speaker 2: And the man she tried to hide, Hassan, he becomes
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  Speaker 2: the absolute focus.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Hassan. He was twenty five, just back
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  Speaker 1: from working in Libyer.
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  Speaker 2: And Mustafa trusted him completely. He treated him almost like
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  Speaker 2: his son. Hassan ran errands, helped around the house. He
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  Speaker 2: had total access, total trust. That's the key here.
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  Speaker 1: So when police bring Hassan in, they must be expecting
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  Speaker 1: him to back up Foddya's story I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they thought, but that expectation was just shattered instantly.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't offer a defense, he didn't try to protect her.
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  Speaker 2: He offered a full confession. Wow, he accused Podia directly
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  Speaker 2: of the murder. He said she manipulated him, pressured him,
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  Speaker 2: and that he agreed to help her kill his own brother.
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  Speaker 1: He just gave her up immediately. How did Fedo react
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  Speaker 1: to that, I mean, her own partner in crime, turning
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  Speaker 1: on her in a second.
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  Speaker 2: That was the final straw, That was her breaking point.
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  Speaker 2: With Hassan's confession out in the open, she finally broke
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  Speaker 2: down completely and told them what investigators called the most
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  Speaker 2: vile story.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the intimacy of it, all, the betrayal, the.
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  Speaker 2: Sheer depth of it. It all started with neglect. They
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  Speaker 2: had been married five years, but after the first few months,
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  Speaker 2: Mustapha was just absent. He worked, and then he spent
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  Speaker 2: every night with his friends, coming home very.
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  Speaker 1: Late, leaving Fadia completely.
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  Speaker 2: Alone, isolated, lonely, and feeling neglected. And then in twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: Hassan returns from Libya and.
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  Speaker 1: He walks right into that emotional vacuum.
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  Speaker 2: He does he sees her loneliness, and he sees an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the trust Mustapha placed in him, he could
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  Speaker 2: be in the apartment all the time alone with her.
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  Speaker 2: He started giving her the attention her husband.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't the sweet words.
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  Speaker 2: The first she resisted, you know you're my husband's brother,
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  Speaker 2: But that didn't last long.
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  Speaker 1: The loneliness was too much.
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  Speaker 2: It was, and eventually she started encouraging it, changing how
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  Speaker 2: she dressed when he was coming over, setting the scene.
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  Speaker 2: By late twenty fifteen, they were in a full blown affair.
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  Speaker 1: And this went on for a whole year.
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  Speaker 2: A full year right on Mustafa's nose. He never suspected a.
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  Speaker 1: Thing until twenty sixteen, when Fadia decided the affair wasn't enough.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted Mustafa gone for good, and she.
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  Speaker 2: Asked Hassan to help her kill him, his own brother.
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  Speaker 2: The most chilling detail here is how quickly he agreed.
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  Speaker 1: How long did it take him to decide?
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  Speaker 2: About thirty minutes. And he didn't just agree, He came
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  Speaker 2: up with the.
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  Speaker 1: Plan, the poisoning, to make it look like an accident.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect deniability. He went and got the poison, gave it
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  Speaker 2: to Fidia. They set the trap Fidia makes dinner, laces
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  Speaker 2: the food, and Mustafa eats it. But it didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: The dose wasn't strong enough.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't. It made him incredibly sick, in intense pain, sweating,
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  Speaker 2: just agony, but it didn't kill him. And this, this
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  Speaker 2: is the most horrifying part of the whole story.
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  Speaker 1: What did he do?
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  Speaker 2: He's writhing in pain, and he looks to his wife
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  Speaker 2: for help, and he asks her to call the one
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  Speaker 2: person in the world he knows he can count on. No,
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  Speaker 2: he asked Fadia to call Hassan for rest.
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  Speaker 1: He called his own killer to come and save him.
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  Speaker 2: That is the ultimate betrayal. Hassan arrives and Mustapha looks up,
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  Speaker 2: probably so relieved to see him. He's expecting his brother
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  Speaker 2: to rush him.
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  Speaker 1: To the hospital, but that's not what happened.
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  Speaker 2: No. Instead, Hassan grabbed a wooden stick, a cane, and
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  Speaker 2: he brought it down with full force on the back
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  Speaker 2: of his brother's.
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  Speaker 1: Head, which explains the head wound the doctor's found.
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  Speaker 2: It explains everything. But even then, he wasn't done. He
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  Speaker 2: wasn't sure the blow was fatal, so he took out
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  Speaker 2: a small knife to make sure, and he stabbed his
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  Speaker 2: unconscious brother multiple times in the back and abdomen. Those
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  Speaker 2: were the small wounds Fidier tried to pass off his
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  Speaker 2: poisoning symptoms, and.
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  Speaker 1: From there the calculated cover up begins.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the murder is done, now the staging. Hassan drags
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  Speaker 2: his brother's body to the bathroom. He washes off the.
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  Speaker 1: Blood, explain why he looked like he showered exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Then he changes Mustafa's clothes, putting him in going out attire, and.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the bloody pajama pants came from.
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  Speaker 2: They were discarded in the bathroom. Then he coached Fidia,
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  Speaker 2: told her to get the body to the hospital and
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  Speaker 2: stick to the poison story no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: And the whole elaborate plan, the staging, it all falls
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  Speaker 1: apart on arrival because the violence was just too obvious.
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  Speaker 2: It shows you how physical evidence will always always trump
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  Speaker 2: a story, especially a story that has to change three times.
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  Speaker 2: The investigators just followed the small details, the clothes, the shower,
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  Speaker 2: that single spot of blood, and it unraveled a conspiracy
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  Speaker 2: a year in the making.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, both Fadia and Hassan were convicted and
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to death. A truly horrific end to a story
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  Speaker 1: that began with simple neglect.
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  Speaker 2: It's a terrifying case study and how betrayal can escalate
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  Speaker 2: from something emotional into cold calculated violence.
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  Speaker 1: It is but the moment that truly defines this whole
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  Speaker 1: deep dive, the one you'll carry with you, is the
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  Speaker 1: crushing irony of Mustafa's final moments.
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  Speaker 2: Just brutal to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Can you just imagine you're in agony, You look up
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  Speaker 1: and see the two people you trust most in the
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  Speaker 1: entire world.
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  Speaker 2: A wife and your brother.
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  Speaker 1: Feel this wave of relief they're here, They're gonna save you,
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  Speaker 1: And then you realize they are the very reason you
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  Speaker 1: need saving, that they are the ones delivering that final
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  Speaker 1: fatal betrayal. That level of misplaced trust is just it's
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  Speaker 1: almost impossible to comprehend.