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Alexandria's Thirteen Bags Of Remains · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Alexandria, Egypt. The year is twenty thirteen, and in the
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  Speaker 1: district of moharm Beck you have this constant, churning hum
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  Speaker 1: of life, street vendors, traffic.
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  Speaker 2: Just chaotic normal sounds of the city exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But on one particular day that hum was just gone,
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  Speaker 1: replaced by this chilling silence as locals found something a
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  Speaker 1: black plastic bag.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't just discarded trash.
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  Speaker 1: No, when they looked inside, it was instantly clear this
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  Speaker 1: was something else entirely. This was the start of one
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  Speaker 1: of the most gruesome and calculated murder investigations in recent memory.
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  Speaker 2: And that first discovery it triggered a massive response. Police
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  Speaker 2: arrived and they immediately realized what the killer's plan was.
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  Speaker 1: To make sure that one bag could never be connected
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  Speaker 1: to an identity.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But their search, it quickly expanded, and what they
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  Speaker 2: uncovered over the next few hours and days was just daggering.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't one bag. They found thirteen separate black plastic
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  Speaker 2: bags scattered across totally different parts of Alexandria.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen bags, and inside a grim total thirty five separate
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  Speaker 1: fragments of human remains. So this wasn't panic. This was
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  Speaker 1: a plan, a calculated effort to completely conceal the victim,
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  Speaker 1: destroy any kind of evidence chain.
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  Speaker 2: The challenge for investigators was immense. I mean, how do
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  Speaker 2: you even start, How do you identify a person from that?
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  Speaker 2: How do you prove those thirty five pieces even belong
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  Speaker 2: to the same person.
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  Speaker 1: It's an impossible puzzle.
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  Speaker 2: But the forensics team gave them their first solid breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: The analysis confirmed that all thirty five parts did belong
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  Speaker 2: to one person, a male probably in his forties.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that narrows it down.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit. But here was the key, the real
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  Speaker 2: red flag for them, the chemical analysis. The victim had
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  Speaker 2: been exposed to a powerful sedative, a knockout.
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  Speaker 1: Agent, and that one detail the sedation that changes the
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  Speaker 1: entire profile of the crime.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't it, oh completely, It suggests a level of premeditation
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  Speaker 2: that is just It's far beyond a spontine crime of rage.
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  Speaker 1: So this wasn't a fight that got out of.
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  Speaker 2: Hand, Absolutely not. This immediately shifted the police's focus. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: sedation points to a planned execution. It told them the
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  Speaker 2: person responsible probably knew the victim well enough to give
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  Speaker 2: them the drug without raising any suspicion. And the time
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  Speaker 2: of death about two days before the discovery. It just
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  Speaker 2: confirmed the timing was all part of the plant.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a victim mid forties, sedated, dismembered, and
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  Speaker 1: then scattered across thirteen locations. The first logical step for
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  Speaker 1: police checking missing person's reports was well, a dead end, a.
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  Speaker 2: Complete blind alley. The killer had done their job well.
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  Speaker 2: The victim's head was found in its own bag, so
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  Speaker 2: there was no way to do a quick visual idea.
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  Speaker 1: They were working in the dark.
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  Speaker 2: Totally in the dark, yeh. But the killer didn't account
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  Speaker 2: for well, a bit of luck and just really meticulous
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  Speaker 2: police work. They decided to focus on the most high
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  Speaker 2: integrity evidence. They had fingerprints. They managed to lift a
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  Speaker 2: clear set from a dismembered hand found in one of
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  Speaker 2: the bags.
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  Speaker 1: And fingerprints are definitive, right. They bypassed the knee for
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  Speaker 1: say DNA, which can take.
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  Speaker 2: Time exactly, it's faster, yeah, but they still had no
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  Speaker 2: match until three days actually the first bag was found,
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  Speaker 2: and that three day gap is crucial. A woman named
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  Speaker 2: Mona walks into the moharam Beck police station and what
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  Speaker 2: does she want? She's there to file a missing person
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  Speaker 2: report for her husband, sayed Mercy. He's forty five, a
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  Speaker 2: glass factory worker, and he's been gone for you guessed
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  Speaker 2: it exactly three days.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And her description of him. It was a strong match
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  Speaker 2: for the facial features they were trying to reconstruct.
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  Speaker 1: So they needed to confirm it right.
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  Speaker 2: To finalize the report, they needed documents. They asked for,
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  Speaker 2: Sayaed's merriage certificate. Mona went and got it, brought it back,
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  Speaker 2: and that document, that piece of paper became the lynchpin
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  Speaker 2: for the entire case.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell me they they did.
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  Speaker 2: They ran a rapid forensic test comparing the prints from
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  Speaker 2: the severed hand to the fingerprints on his official marriage certificate.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect match, the victim was, sayed Mercy.
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  Speaker 1: That is just staggering in investigative work to think to
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  Speaker 1: match prints from a crime scene to a civil document
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 2: It really is. But here's where the story pivots from
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  Speaker 2: forensics to psychology. Mona and her mother are brought to
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  Speaker 2: the morgue for the formal identification.
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  Speaker 1: And the scene is what you'd expect, is, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Pure grief. They both collapse, totally distraught. I mean, on
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  Speaker 2: the surface, you have a heartbroken widow and a grieving
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  Speaker 2: mother in law. But experience officers have this thing they
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  Speaker 2: call the security sense in Arabics Alis al Ami. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just a hunch, it's this practiced intuition. They spot
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  Speaker 2: tiny behavioral things that are just off.
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  Speaker 1: And they saw something in Mona.
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  Speaker 2: They did, despite the tears, the collapse, something felt theatrical
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  Speaker 2: a performance. It was convincing, but it was still a performance.
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  Speaker 2: And that feeling prompted them to look past the grief
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  Speaker 2: and dig a little deeper into her story.
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  Speaker 1: So they turned their attention to the victim himself, said, Mercy,
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  Speaker 1: who was you?
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  Speaker 2: A pretty ordinary guy? Forty five, as we said, a
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  Speaker 2: factory worker. His job, I meant he was off and
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  Speaker 2: away from home for two or three days at a time,
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  Speaker 2: just working hard to provide. He and Mona had been
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  Speaker 2: married over ten years.
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  Speaker 1: Did to kids and his routine, his job. That became
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  Speaker 1: the perfect cover exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The relationship seemed normal on the outside, but Mona apparently
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  Speaker 2: resented his absences, the modest income, and that resentment it
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  Speaker 2: created a window of opportunity, a.
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  Speaker 1: Window that, as it turns out, had been opened for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time, for two full years.
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  Speaker 2: The break in the case came when a witness finally
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  Speaker 2: came forward. They revealed that there was a frequent visitor
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  Speaker 2: to the house whenever say Ed was away at work.
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  Speaker 1: Let me guess Ibrahim Ramadan.
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  Speaker 2: Ibrahim Ramadan forty three years old, a man with his
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  Speaker 2: own money, working in free trade. He was essentially Sayid's replacement,
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  Speaker 2: offering the money and attention Mona felt.
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  Speaker 1: She wasn't getting, so the police zieriried in on him.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine the phone records told a story.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, a very clear story. Constant communication between Mona and Ibrahim.
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  Speaker 2: It just it completely dismantled her denials. She couldn't her
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  Speaker 2: way out of that. So Ibrahim is arrested and he
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  Speaker 2: confesses immediately to the two year affair. Yes, and he
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  Speaker 2: details this this chilling routine. It proves the premeditation the
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  Speaker 2: police suspected from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 1: What was the routine?
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  Speaker 2: It was methodical. Mona would wait for Saya to come
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  Speaker 2: home from work. She'd give him a drink with a
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  Speaker 2: powerful sedative in it, and once he was completely passed out,
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  Speaker 2: often for a full day, Ibrahim would come over. He'd
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  Speaker 2: spend the day, leave the next morning, all before sayaied
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  Speaker 2: even woke up.
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  Speaker 1: They played this game repeatedly.
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  Speaker 2: Over and over. But when Ibrahim confessed to the murder,
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  Speaker 2: he added a twist oh lie. He claimed Mona was
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  Speaker 2: the one who actually killed Sayed out of her overwhelming
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  Speaker 2: love for him, and that he Ibraim only helped her
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  Speaker 2: get rid of the pieces.
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  Speaker 1: So he's immediately trying to minimize his role, shifting the
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  Speaker 1: blame for the act itself.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But Mona wasn't having it. When police confronted her
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  Speaker 2: with his story, she admitted to the affair, sure, but
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  Speaker 2: she pointed the finger right back at Ibraham. She insisted
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  Speaker 2: he was the killer, that she refused to go along
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  Speaker 2: with the idea.
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  Speaker 1: Of murder, and she had a defense ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: She did an ironclad alibi. She told police that on
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  Speaker 2: the day of the murder, she, her mother, and the
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  Speaker 2: children were all at a big public wedding. If that
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  Speaker 2: was true, she couldn't have been.
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  Speaker 1: There and did it check out?
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  Speaker 2: It did? Police spoke to multiple witnesses. They all confirmed
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  Speaker 2: Mona was at the wedding.
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  Speaker 1: But this goes back to that security sense, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: The alibi is real, but her behavior was not.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly it. Witnesses all mentioned this one really odd detail.
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  Speaker 2: They said, Mona was being dramatic, overly seeking attention, making
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  Speaker 2: a huge spectacle of herself. It's almost like she's trying
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  Speaker 2: to make sure every single person there saw her, remembered
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  Speaker 2: her being there.
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  Speaker 1: So she wasn't just at the wedding. She was performing
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  Speaker 1: her alibi at the wedding precisely.
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  Speaker 2: And that suspicious stagecraft it just reinforced what the officers
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  Speaker 2: felt from the start. But the real motive, the tipping point,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't just the affair, It was discovery.
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  Speaker 1: See I had found out he did.
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  Speaker 2: He found a photograph of Moda and Ibrahim together on
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  Speaker 2: her phone. He threatened to expose them. He promised a
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  Speaker 2: massive public scandal of fight.
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  Speaker 1: And that term fight it carries so much weight. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just embarrassment, it's public ruin, dishonor.
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  Speaker 2: It's the ultimate red line Formona and her family. That
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  Speaker 2: public shame was a threat far greater than prison. It
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  Speaker 2: meant being completely cut off from your community, your family.
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  Speaker 2: And there was another layer, another secret. What was it
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  Speaker 2: Mona was pregnant with Ibrahim's child.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, So the threat of the affair being exposed
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  Speaker 1: was also the threat of the child's illegitimacy being exposed.
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  Speaker 1: That explains the extreme escalation, and this is.
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  Speaker 2: Where the third conspirator comes in, the true architect of
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  Speaker 2: the plan, Mona's mother, her own mother, her own mother.
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  Speaker 2: The original source material uses incredibly strong language, calling her
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  Speaker 2: a devil as Shinana. It implies she wasn't just an accessory,
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  Speaker 2: she was a driving force. She knew about the affair
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  Speaker 2: for years. She even covered for them by taking the
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  Speaker 2: kids when Ibrahim visited.
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  Speaker 1: So her motive tion wasn't passion or jealousy. It was fear.
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  Speaker 1: Fear of the social stain, That's.
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  Speaker 2: All it was. She feared the Fatchas so much that
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  Speaker 2: she was the one who proposed murder. And she didn't
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  Speaker 2: just suggest it. She gave Mona one thousand Egyptian pounds
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  Speaker 2: as a contribution, a contribution to hire a professional killer.
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  Speaker 2: She was financing her son in law's assassination to avoid
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  Speaker 2: being embarrassed in her community.
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  Speaker 1: That is genuinely one of the coldest things I have
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  Speaker 1: ever heard.
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  Speaker 2: But Mona, ever the opportunist, she kept the money. Instead
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  Speaker 2: of hiring someone, she just convinced her lover Ibrahim, to
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  Speaker 2: do it for.
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  Speaker 1: Free, which brings us to the night of the murder,
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  Speaker 1: the night of the wedding, Yes say it.
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  Speaker 2: Makes a last minute decision. He's not feeling well. He
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  Speaker 2: says he's going to stay home instead of.
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  Speaker 1: Going to the wedding, and Mona sees her chance.
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  Speaker 2: Her perfect opportunity. She prepares his drink, but this time
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  Speaker 2: she puts a massive dose of the sedative in it,
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  Speaker 2: a legal dose. Then she calls Ibrahim and tells him
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  Speaker 2: the path is clear. Now is the time.
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  Speaker 1: Ibraheim arrives.
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  Speaker 2: He wris hides in a co completely unexpected place in
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  Speaker 2: the house and just waits. He watches side drink fall
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  Speaker 2: into that deep sleep, and once he's sure Saya is
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  Speaker 2: completely incapacitated.
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  Speaker 1: He kills him.
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  Speaker 2: He kills him right there on the bed. Then he
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  Speaker 2: drags the body to the bathroom, where Murma had already
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  Speaker 2: prepared everything he would need, the knives, the black plastic bags,
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  Speaker 2: and he begins the dismemberment thirty five pieces. It's not frenzy, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Logistics, a horrific choreographed cleanup.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Iberhem makes multiple trips all across Alexandria, scattering the
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  Speaker 2: thirteen bags. Then he comes back to the house and
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  Speaker 2: does a deep clean, removes every single trace of blood.
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  Speaker 1: And while all of this is happening, Mona is still
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  Speaker 1: at the wedding.
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  Speaker 2: Still at the wedding with her mother, cementing that alibi.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the detail that is just beyond chilling. While
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  Speaker 2: they're there, Ibrahem calls them. He tells them the job
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  Speaker 2: is done, and the source notes that both women rejoice greatly.
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  Speaker 1: They celebrated while surrounded by a wedding party. That image
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  Speaker 1: is haunted.
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  Speaker 2: Their final step was to wait exactly three days the
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  Speaker 2: time side was usually gone for work before Moto went
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  Speaker 2: to the police. They thought that delay that distance would
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  Speaker 2: divert all suspicion.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't work. The fingerprints, the phone records, the
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  Speaker 1: weird behavior at the wedding, it all created a trail
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  Speaker 1: that led right back to them.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a textbook example of a so called perfect
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  Speaker 2: crime that fails because of its own complexity. They were
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  Speaker 2: so meticulous about the big things like the alibi and
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  Speaker 2: the disposal, that they forgot that it's the small inconsistencies
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  Speaker 2: that investigators notice.
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  Speaker 1: It really reinforces that idea that no matter how hard
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  Speaker 1: criminals try to erase what they've done, they always leave
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  Speaker 1: some kind of trace and air, and that becomes the
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  Speaker 1: one thread investigators can pull to unravel the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: And if you think about it, the truly chilling part
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  Speaker 2: here is the mother. I mean, what does it say
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  Speaker 2: about the corrosive power of secrets when a mother is
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  Speaker 2: willing to finance the merger of her son in law
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  Speaker 2: not for money, not out of passion, but simply out
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  Speaker 2: of a crippling fear of social shame. The fact that
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  Speaker 2: reputation was more important than a human life. That's a
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  Speaker 2: chilling thought for you to consider on your own