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The Pious Pharmacist's Double Life: 20 Years of Deception and the Laptop That Crumbled an Empire · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Imagine stepping into your local pharmacy. You're there for help,
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  Speaker 1: maybe feeling a bit vulnerable, and the person behind the counter,
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  Speaker 1: he's not just a pharmacist, he's well, he's seen as
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  Speaker 1: a pillar of the community. Doctor Collin, everyone respected.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a role model, some even called him chic, a
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  Speaker 2: virtuous educator. For two decades. That was the image, the
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  Speaker 2: trusted face.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, But okay, let's unpack this because that image,
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  Speaker 1: that absolute trust, it was apparently a complete construct, a mask.
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  Speaker 2: A meticulously crafted one.
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  Speaker 1: Right. So our mission today is to trace how someone
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  Speaker 1: could maintain this double life for twenty years, completely calculated,
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  Speaker 1: and how it all came crashing down, really by chance,
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  Speaker 1: on October twenty second, twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: And it's more than just, you know, the crime itself,
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  Speaker 2: it's about the psychology behind it, the cynical use of well,
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  Speaker 2: what you might call a hundred faces, using virtue piety
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  Speaker 2: as a tool purely for self interest, a weapon, almost precisely.
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  Speaker 2: To really get it, we have to go back way back,
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  Speaker 2: twenty years back to win the blueprint for this whole
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  Speaker 2: deception was first drawn up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that takes this to two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: Kalid's finishing pharmacy school, and by all accounts, he was smart, ambitious.
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  Speaker 2: Even ambitious in a very specific way. It seems his
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  Speaker 2: driving force wasn't professional achievement or serving the community. It
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  Speaker 2: was pure self interest, transactional.
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  Speaker 1: And the transaction needed capital.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly he did the math basically, opening a pharmacy costs
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  Speaker 2: a lot a graduate starting salary. Lo He saw a
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  Speaker 2: long road ahead and decided nope. He needed a.
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  Speaker 1: Shortcut, a quicker path to wealth, and.
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  Speaker 2: That shortcut involved finding someone to exploit, preferably a wealthy
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  Speaker 2: female classmate Internadia.
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  Speaker 1: She fit the bill perfectly, didn't she High achieving yes,
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  Speaker 1: but crucially very wealthy family and deeply religious conservative.
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  Speaker 2: Values, the perfect target profile for his plan.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't just about money, It was about crafting
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  Speaker 1: the right approach, the right script. He couldn't just be charming,
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  Speaker 1: He had to be pious.
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  Speaker 2: Instantly, he adopted this whole persona devout, committed, the exemplary
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  Speaker 2: religious young man, completely counter to his real nature.
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  Speaker 1: It seems he knew that piety was the key right
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  Speaker 1: for her, for her family, that religious performance guaranteed trust
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  Speaker 1: much faster than just being a good pharmacist.
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  Speaker 2: Ever could, and the engagement period, it's really telling he
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  Speaker 2: was testing boundaries. Nadia apparently recalled moments later things she
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  Speaker 2: called oversteps.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of oversteps?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, maybe excessive closeness, things that felt a bit off
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  Speaker 2: given the pious image she was projecting.
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  Speaker 1: But she didn't bolt if she noticed things were off.
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  Speaker 2: That's the power of the mask. He built this image
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  Speaker 2: of virtue so effectively that when she felt doubt, she
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  Speaker 2: didn't question him. She rationalized it.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, so she thought it was maybe just youthful exuberance
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  Speaker 1: m or you know, intense feelings exactly.
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  Speaker 2: She explained it away, and Khalid learned from this. He
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  Speaker 2: realized he had to maintain that pious persona constantly reinforce
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  Speaker 2: it to secure the marriage and well the financial benefits
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  Speaker 2: that came with it.
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  Speaker 1: So the marriage happens. The mask worked. What's next in
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  Speaker 1: the plan?
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  Speaker 2: Phase two kicks in immediately He pressures Nadia, use your
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  Speaker 2: family's money by a pharmacy now.
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  Speaker 1: And he was insistent, wasn't he that the pharmacy legally
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  Speaker 1: had to be in her name?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, which, on the surface he could spin plausible deniability,
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  Speaker 2: maybe avoiding suspicion about where the money came from. But
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  Speaker 2: it was strategic how so, well, think about it. The
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  Speaker 2: pharmacy presented as their shared dream, their foundation. It instantly
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  Speaker 2: became his domain. He controlled it from day one, and
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  Speaker 2: then the power dynamic shifted completely when their daughter was born.
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  Speaker 2: Nadia naturally stepped back, focused on the baby on childcare.
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  Speaker 1: Leaving him in total control of the business day in,
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  Speaker 1: day out.
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  Speaker 2: Full uninterrupted control. The kingdom was established.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, okay, so he's got the pharmacy, the respectable image.
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  Speaker 1: But keeping that mask on perfectly for twenty years, that
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  Speaker 1: must take it toll. Did cracks start to show?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, Maintaining that level of deception is exhausting. And
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  Speaker 2: the cracks interestingly started appearing around the ownership of the
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  Speaker 2: pharmacy itself.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted it in his name.
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  Speaker 2: Years later, yes, he started pressuring Naughia repeatedly transfer the deed,
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  Speaker 2: and his tactics became well, pretty cynical, weaponizing their relationship
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  Speaker 2: even fear.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of excuses did he use?
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  Speaker 2: Two main lines of argument, both quite manipulative. First, the
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  Speaker 2: protector angle.
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  Speaker 1: How did that work?
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  Speaker 2: He'd say things like, if the business stays in your name,
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  Speaker 2: you could face tax problems, legal issues. Let me take
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  Speaker 2: the risk. I'll put it in my name to protect you,
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  Speaker 2: protect the family, framing it as his noble sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And the second tactic, the trust angle, basically arguing, you
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  Speaker 2: trust me with yourself, you trust me with our daughter.
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  Speaker 2: How can you not trust me with the pharmacy. It's illogical,
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  Speaker 2: it's insulting. Using trust his leverage precisely. But here's a
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  Speaker 2: crucial point. Despite all this pressure, despite twenty years of
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  Speaker 2: him seemingly being this perfect husband and father, Nadia refused.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't transfer it.
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  Speaker 2: Why not her into something just didn't feel right. There
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  Speaker 2: were these small things over the years, moments of odd behavior,
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  Speaker 2: maybe unnecessary coldness, inconsistencies he'd quickly smooth over, little flashes
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  Speaker 2: behind the mask.
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  Speaker 1: Not enough to expose him, but enough to make her
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  Speaker 1: hesitate on signing everything over exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Those little cracks, however, small, were enough to save her
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  Speaker 2: from giving him complete legal ownership.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So fast forward twenty years into this charade. The
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  Speaker 1: pressure is building internally, perhaps, and his behavior starts getting.
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  Speaker 2: Stranger, increasingly strange. Yes, the main thing was this new routine.
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  Speaker 2: He'd come home from the pharmacy and immediately lock himself
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  Speaker 2: in a specific room for hours sometimes and his reason
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  Speaker 2: he needed deep intense concentration to memorize the Qur'an.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the virtuous educator, doubling down on his piety
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  Speaker 1: in the evening, perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Cover until it wasn't what happened. The breaking point wasn't
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  Speaker 2: about the locked room. It was their daughter, now a
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  Speaker 2: young woman, she said, only had a complete breakdown, refusing
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  Speaker 2: to go to school, refusing to eat, just shut down.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, what triggered it?
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  Speaker 2: When Naughty finally gently pressed her, the daughter confessed something horrific.
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  Speaker 2: Her father, doctor Khaled, had come into her room late
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  Speaker 2: at night, demanded she removed her clothes. He looked strange,
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  Speaker 2: she said, terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: My god, how did Naughty react?
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  Speaker 2: Utter disbelief, cognitive dissonance. Really, her immediate reaction was no,
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  Speaker 2: you must have misunderstood that. It's impossible. How could this man,
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  Speaker 2: this community ideal, do something like that, especially to his
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  Speaker 2: own daughter.
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  Speaker 1: The image was still too powerful.
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  Speaker 2: Initially, yes, but she confronted him, and Khalid first denial,
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  Speaker 2: straight out of his usual script. Yeah, then something shifted.
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  Speaker 2: He just confirmed it, admitted it. He feels like that,
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  Speaker 2: with complete chilling calmness. No course, no explanation, just a
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  Speaker 2: cold promise right there in front of their terrified dogt Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I won't do it again.
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  Speaker 1: That level of coldness, it's not just lack of remorse
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  Speaker 1: as it's control.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely is. It left Nadia totally paralyzed. How do
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  Speaker 2: you even begin to process that? How do you tell anyone?
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  Speaker 2: The shame, the fear, the sheer impossibility of explaining this collapse? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she was trapped in silence.
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  Speaker 1: But the silence couldn't last. Something had to give.
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  Speaker 2: A simple mistake, the kind that unravels everything. One day,
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  Speaker 2: Khalid rushed out to work and forgot his work laptop,
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  Speaker 2: his essential laptop, and not. Her trust was gone, completely evaporated.
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  Speaker 2: She felt she had to look officially. Maybe she told
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  Speaker 2: herself she was checking pharmacy accounts, something justifiable, but she
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  Speaker 2: needed evidence answers.
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  Speaker 1: So she opens the laptop. What does she find?
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  Speaker 2: She's looking for financial files, maybe emails, but she finds
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  Speaker 2: this folder, strangely named, suspiciously named, and inside inside fifty
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  Speaker 2: five video.
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  Speaker 1: Clips, fifty five of what.
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  Speaker 2: Not just random files, raw surveillance footage from a camera
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  Speaker 2: he had secretly installed inside the pharmacy. In one of
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  Speaker 2: the interior rooms. True, the private one, you know, where
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  Speaker 2: injections are given, where sensitive medications might be administered, where
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  Speaker 2: patients are most vulnerable.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good, the videos show.
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  Speaker 2: They showed doctor Kretit harassing and assaulting girls, women, even
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  Speaker 2: small children, people who had come to him for medical help.
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  Speaker 2: It was sickeningly clear the victims were non consenting. They
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  Speaker 2: looked scared, confused, unlikely to report him. He was the
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  Speaker 2: trusted authority figure. After all, This was how he was
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  Speaker 2: fulfilling his needs. This was the reality behind the pious mask.
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  Speaker 1: And that wasn't all she found, was it. No?
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  Speaker 2: She also discovered a huge hidden collection of pornographic films
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  Speaker 2: on the same laptop.
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  Speaker 1: So the locked room, the Koran memorization.
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  Speaker 2: A complete lie, a cover story for his secret life.
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  Speaker 2: In that moment, Nadia realized the horrifying truth. The man
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  Speaker 2: she'd been married to for twenty years was a total stranger,
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  Speaker 2: a predator.
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  Speaker 1: What did she do? She must have been terrified he'd
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  Speaker 1: come back.
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  Speaker 2: She acted incredibly fast. She copied all fifty five videos
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  Speaker 2: onto a separate hard drive, then methodically she deleted every
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  Speaker 2: single one from his laptop, secured the evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, the presence of mind.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely critical because when Cold came home he saw the laptop,
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  Speaker 2: maybe saw it had been moved or accessed. He knew instantly,
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  Speaker 2: he understood his world had just ended.
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  Speaker 1: Final confrontation.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and when Nadia confronted him, now armed with undeniable proof,
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  Speaker 2: his response wasn't remorse. It was well brazen arrogance.
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  Speaker 1: He confessed again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he confessed with this sense of utter entitlement, claiming
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  Speaker 2: it was just you know, satisfying a desire like it
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  Speaker 2: was nothing unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: And then he tried one last manipulation.
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  Speaker 2: Did me, Yeah, his final most cynical move. Instead of
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  Speaker 2: begging for mercy, he tried to turn the tables. He
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  Speaker 2: reminded her, quite coldly, remember the pharmacy is legally in
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  Speaker 2: your name. If you report this, you're the one who
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  Speaker 2: faces the public disgrace, the ruin.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to silence her with shame and fear one last time.
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  Speaker 2: It was a desperate, disgusting attempt, but it didn't work.
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  Speaker 2: Nadia had the proof. She wasn't paralyzed anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Was her next step decisive?
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  Speaker 2: She demanded a divorce immediately, and then she took that
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  Speaker 2: hard drive, the one with the fifty five videos, and
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  Speaker 2: walked straight into the police station, met with investigators.
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  Speaker 1: And that date, that was October twenty second, twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: the day the official complaint was filed, the day the
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  Speaker 1: empire of lies finally crumbled.
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  Speaker 2: The legal process thankfully moved quite quickly after that. The
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  Speaker 2: surveillance footage was authenticated. The evidence was overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: Braving of the trial, did he maintain the facade right to.
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  Speaker 2: The bitter end inside the defendant's cage. He stuck to
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  Speaker 2: his script, denied everything. He actually claimed his wife and
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  Speaker 2: daughter were conspiring against him, maliciously trying to defame him,
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  Speaker 2: steal his property, the laptop, the hard drive, his phone.
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  Speaker 1: Blaming the victims. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: But his daughter was there in court. She actually stood
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  Speaker 2: up and confronted him directly, yelled at him for what
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  Speaker 2: he did to her and to all the others shown
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  Speaker 2: in those horrific videos. Powerful moment, incredibly powerful, and ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: despite his denials, the evidence was irrefutable. Doctor Khaled was convicted.
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  Speaker 2: What was a sentence ten years, ten years of rigorous imprisonment, ten.
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  Speaker 1: Years, and the community, the people who trusted him called him.
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  Speaker 2: Shake, profound shock, utter betrayal. How could the man they
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  Speaker 2: looked up to the virtuous role model, have been living
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  Speaker 2: such a monstrous double life right under their noses. It
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  Speaker 2: really forces you to question everything.
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  Speaker 1: It really does. So what's the takeaway here? What does
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  Speaker 1: this whole horrifying story mean?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a stark illustration, isn't it the dangerous power
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  Speaker 2: of a meticulously crafted public image, especially when that image
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  Speaker 2: is built on virtues like piety things society inherently trusts.
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  Speaker 2: He weaponized that.
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  Speaker 1: Trust, used it as a shield for two decades.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly for financial gain, for personal gratification, for exploitation. It
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  Speaker 2: highlights how someone can operate in plain sight, protected by
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  Speaker 2: the very values they pretend to uphold.
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  Speaker 1: And we have to mention the courage of Nadia and
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  Speaker 1: her daughter facing down that kind of betrayal, the threat
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  Speaker 1: of public shame to report him. That took immense strength.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, their actions didn't just bring him to justice for
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  Speaker 2: what he did to them. They potentially protected countless others.
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  Speaker 2: They ensured he was held accountable, and they were apparently
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  Speaker 2: understandably relieved to see that.
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  Speaker 1: Happen, a small measure of justice at least.
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  Speaker 2: Which brings us to a final thought, Really, something for
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  Speaker 2: you the listener to maybe moll over. How do we
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  Speaker 2: as individuals, as communities protect ourselves when the very persona
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  Speaker 2: of a trusted leader, a doctor, a teacher, a religious
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  Speaker 2: figure might be nothing more than a performance, a script
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  Speaker 2: written purely for exploitation.
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  Speaker 1: How do we see behind the mask when the mask
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  Speaker 1: is designed to be perfect?
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  Speaker 2: What checks, what balances? What level of healthy skepticism do
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  Speaker 2: we need, especially when someone seems almost too perfect, too virtuous.
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  Speaker 2: It's a difficult question, but one this case forces us
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  Speaker 2: to confront.