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The Psychology Teacher, the Sleeping Pills, and the $120 Murder Plot: The Calculated Killing of Hanan in Assiut · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's dive in. We're taking you to a suit Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Picture it early morning, twenty thirteen. It's quiet, almost too quiet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and inside this large ground floor apartment, part home,
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  Speaker 2: part tutoring center for a successful teacher, something is definitely wrong.
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  Speaker 1: His daughter, Sarah, she's nine. She wakes up, maybe expecting
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  Speaker 1: the usual morning sounds, you know, parents getting ready for work,
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  Speaker 1: Wheal and Haynaen, both.
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  Speaker 2: Teachers, but there's just silence. And then she sees it
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  Speaker 2: the first like really chilling detail. Her mom, Hannah's key.
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  Speaker 2: It's still in the lock, but on the inside of
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  Speaker 2: the apartment door, which.
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  Speaker 1: Means Hannah never left. She couldn't have locked it from
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  Speaker 1: the inside and then left exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So Sarah she pushes open the bedroom door and the
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  Speaker 2: scene is just chaotic, furniture knocked over, things disturbed, and.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother, Hannah is in bed still but there's this, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this wet piece of clock stuffed in her.
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  Speaker 2: Mouth, horrifying, and Sarah notices these these blue marks on
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  Speaker 2: her mother's body. She tries shaking her, calling her name,
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  Speaker 2: trying to wake her.
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  Speaker 1: Up frantically, but then comes that awful realization, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's stillness. It's final.
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  Speaker 2: She panics, grabs the phone, calls her dad, while he
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  Speaker 2: supposedly already at the school where he teaches.
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  Speaker 1: He answers, sounds completely shocked, devastated by what Sarah's trying
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  Speaker 1: to tell him through her tears. He tells her call
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  Speaker 1: your grandmother. I'm rushing home right now.
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  Speaker 2: But here's where it gets really strange, almost immediately, like
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  Speaker 2: just minutes later, before While even gets back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, get this. The grandmother gets a call, an anonymous call.
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  Speaker 1: This weird voice on the line says he killed Hanan
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  Speaker 1: and demands fifty thousand Egyptian pounds.
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  Speaker 2: And threatens While and the kids if the money isn't paid,
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  Speaker 2: then click line goes dead.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got this scene looks like maybe a robbery
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  Speaker 1: gone wrong, maybe something else. You've got the grieving family
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  Speaker 1: and then this bizarre, out of the blue ransom demand.
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  Speaker 2: It screams misdirection, doesn't it like it's almost too theatrical.
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  Speaker 2: It seems designed to point away from the obvious.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it sets up this narrative of external danger, kidnapping, ransom,
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  Speaker 1: but the evidence, even the early stuff, it starts telling
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  Speaker 1: a very different story, a much colder story.
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  Speaker 2: And it points towards someone who knew exactly how to
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  Speaker 2: manipulate appearances, someone who wasn't just reacting but orchestrating the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So when the police and the forensic teams arrive, they
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  Speaker 1: start piecing together what actually happened at the scene.
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  Speaker 2: And the first big thing, as you said, zero signs
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  Speaker 2: of forced entry, no broken windows, no Jimmy Dores confirms
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  Speaker 2: the key thing.
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  Speaker 1: Hannan almost certainly knew her attacker let them in willingly.
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  Speaker 2: Right. They also confirm the cause of death, strangulation, clear
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  Speaker 2: marks on her neck, and that wet cloth stuffed in
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  Speaker 2: her mouth, probably to keep her quiet crucial, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in a ground floor apartment where neighbors might hear.
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  Speaker 1: And they note the missing items, some gold jewelry about
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  Speaker 1: one thousand EGP and cash. Seems consistent with a robbery, right,
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  Speaker 1: especially since Wyle is known to be pretty well off.
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  Speaker 2: It fits the narrative while once but then there's this
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  Speaker 2: other piece of physical Eviden's a single unusual fingerprint found
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  Speaker 2: in multiple spots around the apartment, not immediately identified, but
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  Speaker 2: definitely noted.
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  Speaker 1: And while the investigators are working the scene, wayl is
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  Speaker 1: there playing the part of the devastated husband. But he's
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  Speaker 1: also subtly guiding.
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  Speaker 2: Them, oh completely. He drops these hints about strange romantic
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  Speaker 2: messages Hanan had supposedly been receiving from some unknown number
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  Speaker 2: that was disconnected.
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  Speaker 1: Planting the seed suggesting she was having an affair, that
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's why she was killed, a crime of passion
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  Speaker 1: by a secret lover.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where his background just sends chills down
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  Speaker 2: your spine. He taught psychology, He knew how to manipulate.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't just grieving, he was actively psychologically managing the
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  Speaker 2: investigation from the get go.
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  Speaker 1: Deflecting suspicion by making the victim seem suspicious.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's textbook manipulation, create doubt about her, cloud the issue,
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  Speaker 2: distract from the physical evidence, like the key that points
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  Speaker 2: towards someone known to her, someone like him.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so to really get why he'd do this, we
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  Speaker 1: need to rewind a bit, go back to maybe two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and four.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Whale was this like super popular psychology teacher, really successful, ambitious,
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  Speaker 2: even working on his master's degree, married to Hannahan, who
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  Speaker 2: is also a respected teacher, a colleague.
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  Speaker 1: Seemed like a power couple. Maybe, but Whale's private tutoring
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  Speaker 1: business absolutely exploded.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and with the money came while greed, serious greed.
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  Speaker 2: He started earning way more, but he was also home
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  Speaker 2: way less, putting a huge strain on the marriage, especially
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  Speaker 2: after they had two kids.
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  Speaker 1: And then around two thousand and eight, Hannan finds out
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  Speaker 1: he's not just busy, he's having affairs, multiple affairs. She
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  Speaker 1: apparently had solid proof.
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  Speaker 2: Now you'd think that's the end, right, but no, Whale
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  Speaker 2: uses his psychology skills again, but this time on Hannan directly.
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  Speaker 2: He twists it all around.
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  Speaker 1: Gaslighting her basically totally.
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  Speaker 2: He convinces her that his cheating is somehow her fault,
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  Speaker 2: that she was neglecting him, focusing too much on the kids,
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  Speaker 2: and somehow she starts feeling guilty.
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  Speaker 1: That's incredible manipulation. So Hannan, trying to save them marriage,
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  Speaker 1: comes up with this plan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a desperate move really. She suggests they move into
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  Speaker 2: this big ground floor apartment. Why so they could convert
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  Speaker 2: part of it into Wyle's tutoring center. Her thinking was,
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  Speaker 2: if his work is at home, she can supervise him,
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  Speaker 2: keep the family unit together.
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  Speaker 1: Keep an eye on him, basically.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, and Whale. He agrees immediately, almost too quickly, you
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  Speaker 2: might think, in hindsight.
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  Speaker 1: So they move. The business is right there, and then
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  Speaker 1: he hires a secretary. Yeah, beautiful young woman to handle schedules, money,
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  Speaker 1: and she lives there too, in the apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, right there. Hannan naturally is intensely jealous sees her
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  Speaker 2: as you know, typical competition, another woman too close to
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  Speaker 2: her husband.
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  Speaker 1: But it was way more than that, wasn't it. This
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just some new hire, No.
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  Speaker 2: This was the secret the seven year secret. The secretary
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  Speaker 2: was Wale's long term mistress.
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  Speaker 1: Seven years while married to Hennan.
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  Speaker 2: Living under the same roof. Eventually, it's audacious, and apparently
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  Speaker 2: this relationship reached an ultimatum point. The secretary demanded he
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  Speaker 2: choose her or her nun.
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  Speaker 1: But Whale, being Christian in Egypt, faced hurdles with divorce
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  Speaker 1: right and marrying his mistress wouldn't be simple, either culturally
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  Speaker 1: or socially correct.
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  Speaker 2: Divorce wasn't an easy option, especially if he wanted to
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  Speaker 2: maintain his reputation and crucially, his finances. So faced with
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  Speaker 2: losing his mistress or potentially a messy, costly divorce, he
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  Speaker 2: saw a third.
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  Speaker 1: Option, murder disguised as something else, entirely.
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  Speaker 2: The cleanest option in his warped view. It preserved his image,
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  Speaker 2: his money, and theoretically got rid of the problem.
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  Speaker 1: And this wasn't a snap decision, you said, This was
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  Speaker 1: planned for months.
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  Speaker 2: Four months, a meticulous, chillingly detailed blueprint for murder and evasion.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, walk us through it. Phase one.
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  Speaker 2: Phase one, framing the victim. This is where those weird
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  Speaker 2: text messages come in. Whale bought a burner phone himself.
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  Speaker 2: He started sending those vague, romantic messages to Hannan's phone.
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  Speaker 1: So he created the other man narrative himself.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, he laid the foundation for the story he would
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  Speaker 2: later tell the police. Pure setup.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Phase two, securing the let's call it softening agent sedationan.
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  Speaker 2: He convinces Hannahs she's suffering from terrible insomnia. He pushes her,
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  Speaker 2: suggests she needs sleeping pills.
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  Speaker 1: And crucially gets her to buy them from the pharmacy herself.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly plausible deniability. Her pills, her problem. He just made
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  Speaker 2: a helpful suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: Phase three is where his own flaw comes in, right, Yeah, his.
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  Speaker 2: Cheapness, pathological stinginess. Yeah, he actually tries to hire professionals first,
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  Speaker 2: the Alamatarine Mountain Gang, apparently known for serious crimes. He
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  Speaker 2: wanted them to do the killing, but the fee he
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  Speaker 2: offered was insultingly low, like ridiculously cheap for a contract killing.
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  Speaker 2: They basically lacked him off and refused the job. His
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  Speaker 2: own greed potentially saved him from using truly dangerous criminals.
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  Speaker 1: Ironically, so the pros said no. He moves to phase four,
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  Speaker 1: finding an amateur.
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  Speaker 2: He finds Mohammed Kuloff, a local car mechanic. Guy's got
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  Speaker 2: a criminal record, deep in financial trouble, desperate while approach him,
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  Speaker 2: initially asking him to kill a friend's wife, trying to
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  Speaker 2: keep some distance.
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  Speaker 1: But Kalof wasn't stupid. He suspected while was talking about
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  Speaker 1: his own wives Hanan right, and.
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  Speaker 2: That suspicion led Kalof to do something while never ever
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  Speaker 2: counted on something purely for self preservation or maybe future leverage.
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  Speaker 2: What did you He secretly recorded all of his conversations
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  Speaker 2: with while about the plan, every single detail, not for justice,
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  Speaker 2: just insurance black mail material down the line.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, So Wyle confirms Handan is the target and the
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  Speaker 1: deal is struck. What was the price for kalof pathetic?
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  Speaker 2: Really? Just two thousand Egyptian pounds maybe one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty US at the time, plus whatever gold and cash
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  Speaker 2: Kloff could steal from Hannan's body afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. He valued his wife's life and avoiding inconvenience. I
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  Speaker 1: go practically nothing exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The greed is just staggering.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So the investigation progresses, the forensic reports land, what
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  Speaker 1: do they confirm?
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  Speaker 2: They confirmed the sedation sleeping pills were definitely in hanansis
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  Speaker 2: cause of death, strangulation violent enough to fracture bone in
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  Speaker 2: her neck, and that wet cloth placed after she was
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  Speaker 2: already dead post mortem to.
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  Speaker 1: Make it look like she was silenced during.
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  Speaker 2: The act, possibly or just part of the staging. But
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  Speaker 2: the most chilling forensic detail for me anyway was the
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  Speaker 2: soap residuce soap on her hands, on her hands, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the investigators concluded the killers used soap like regular hand
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  Speaker 2: soap to lubricate her fingers and wrists.
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  Speaker 1: Why could get the rins off easily?
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  Speaker 2: Her jewelry exactly to calmly slide off her gold jewelry
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  Speaker 2: after she was dead speaks volumes about their mindset. This
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a frantic struggle. This was cold calculated theft from
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  Speaker 2: a corpse of business transaction.
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  Speaker 1: Almost just gruesome. Meanwhile, the police are digging into Whale's
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  Speaker 1: story for that morning.
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  Speaker 2: His alibis, and it starts to look well too perfect,
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  Speaker 2: almost staged. Phone records confirm Whale called Cloth at seven
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  Speaker 2: fifteen am, likely the signal to go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Then wail Lee's for his day, but.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't just go to work. He makes stops, and
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  Speaker 2: at each stop he makes a He goes to a
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  Speaker 2: bakery and deliberately starts a huge argument about the bread quality.
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  Speaker 1: Loudly drawing attention to himself.
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  Speaker 2: Then he goes to a gas station and cuts the line,
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  Speaker 2: causing another commotion, ensuring people notice him, remember him being angry.
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  Speaker 1: Being there, creating witnesses not just being seen, but being
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  Speaker 1: remembered exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And then he gets to school and does something completely
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  Speaker 2: out of character. He buys juice for his friends, which
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  Speaker 2: sounds minor, but while was notoriously cheap, people would remembered
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  Speaker 2: that specifically because it was so unlike him.
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  Speaker 1: So the conclusion is obvious. He wasn't just establishing an alibi.
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  Speaker 1: He was aggressively imprinting himself on the memories of multiple
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  Speaker 1: people at specific times. The locations a manufacturing proof he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have been home.
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  Speaker 2: It was overkill, too deliberate, too staged, and it raised
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  Speaker 2: red flags for the investigators.
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  Speaker 1: So they bring Whale in detained and what happens with
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  Speaker 1: k Kaloff.
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  Speaker 2: Gets arrested too, and face with the evidence. Maybe seeing
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  Speaker 2: Wole wasn't going to protect him. He spills everything, immediately confesses.
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  Speaker 1: The whole plot and confirms the recordings of Goa.
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  Speaker 2: He confirms the recordings the ace of his sleeve, the
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: thing Whyle never knew about. Suddenly Wiles's elaborate plan, his
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  Speaker 2: psychological manipulation, his perfect alibi. It all collapses, neutralized by
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  Speaker 2: greed and a cheap Cape recorder, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then Kalof drops one last horrifying detail about the morning itself,
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  Speaker 1: about Wiles's own son.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is just the coldest part. Kaloff reviews that
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  Speaker 2: during the murder, Wiles's young son actually woke up came
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  Speaker 2: into the room.
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  Speaker 1: Wal Klough was there during or right after.
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  Speaker 2: The killing, right around the time, possibly just after. Instead
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  Speaker 2: of panicking, Will calmly hid Kalof probably pushed him into
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  Speaker 2: a closet or bathroom. Then he turned to his son,
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  Speaker 2: told him his mother was just asleep, and gently sent
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  Speaker 2: the little boy back to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Minutes after murdering the boy's mother, he just lied to
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  Speaker 1: his child's face and sent him away.
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  Speaker 2: The level of detachment is it's hard to comprehend.
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  Speaker 1: It really is using his understanding of the human mind
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  Speaker 1: of psychology not to heal or help, but to commit
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  Speaker 1: such a calculated, depraved act against his own family.
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  Speaker 2: You have to wonder was he just a meticulous planner
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  Speaker 2: who made a fatal error with Kalof, or was this
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  Speaker 2: the act of a true psychopath where the planning itself
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  Speaker 2: was part of the thrill, but empathy and consequence were
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  Speaker 2: just absent concepts.
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  Speaker 1: He thought he'd covered every angle, didn't he? The ransom
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  Speaker 1: called red herring, the fake affair narrative, the rock solid alibi.
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  Speaker 2: Every angle except the human element. He couldn't control Kaloff's
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  Speaker 2: desperation and suspicion, and the simple fact that technology, even
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  Speaker 2: just a basic audio recording.
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  Speaker 1: Could preserve the truth, so the outcome.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, both Whale and Ahamed Kalof were tried,
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  Speaker 2: convicted and sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 1: A chilling end to a chilling story.
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  Speaker 2: And you know when you boil it all down, the
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  Speaker 2: entire scheme, the murder, the terror inflicted on his children,
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  Speaker 2: the destruction of two families. It hinged on two thousand EGP,
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  Speaker 2: that tiny sum Colough was promised, plus some stolen gold.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you think about value, doesn't it. The value
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  Speaker 1: Whale put on his wife's life versus the cost of
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  Speaker 1: his own pathological stinginess.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely what if he hadn't been so cheap? What if
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  Speaker 2: he had paid the al mad Hereing gang their asking price?
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  Speaker 2: Would he have gotten away with it? It's a disturbing
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  Speaker 2: thought how sometimes the grandest, most evil plans can unravel
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  Speaker 2: because of the smallest, most mundane flaw, like being too
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  Speaker 2: greedy to pay for reliable help.