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Sief and Ansam: The 485-Day Disappearance · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: March twenty seventeen. Is it's five zero am, pitch black, cold,
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  Speaker 1: and then this sound just shatters the quiet. A frantic,
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  Speaker 1: just relentless hammering on a door in El Monterrea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Safe's father opens it and standing there is Ansome,
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  Speaker 2: his son's wife. She's hysterical, it can barely speak, and
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  Speaker 2: then she.
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  Speaker 1: Gets the words out, Yeah, Safe never came home.
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  Speaker 2: And that was it, the start of this absolutely terrifying
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  Speaker 2: four hundred and eighty five day Search Safe. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this was a successful young guy, good career.
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  Speaker 1: Just vanished, right. And in those first hours you just
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  Speaker 1: see pure panic. Save's father Andsem they're in the car,
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  Speaker 1: driving the ring road.
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  Speaker 2: Again and again, checking hospitals, calling anyone they could think of,
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  Speaker 2: looking for an accident.
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  Speaker 1: Victim exactly, and Ansome she's posting on Facebook, begging for information,
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  Speaker 1: looking completely inconsolable. Honestly, she sold that role perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: She really did. The police naturally, their first thought is okay, accident,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a robbery gone wrong. Her performance just completely convinced everyone.
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  Speaker 1: But this deep dive it shows you that performance. It's
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  Speaker 1: just the last move in a really dark, calculated game
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  Speaker 1: that had been playing out for years.
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  Speaker 2: Years, to really get it, you have to go back
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  Speaker 2: rewind to twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 1: That's when it starts. Safe. He's educated, comes from a
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  Speaker 1: good family, and you know, respectable. He's got his whole
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  Speaker 1: life ahead of him.
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  Speaker 2: And then he meets Ansem. A mutual friend introduces them. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Sources to say she was beautiful, striking.
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  Speaker 1: But their backgrounds chalk and cheese, right, financially, socially, just
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  Speaker 1: very different worlds.
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  Speaker 2: Very different, and this is maybe the first big red flag.
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  Speaker 2: Safe introduces Ansem and her family to his parents and the.
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  Speaker 1: Reaction is immediate and strong. His parents are dead set
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  Speaker 1: against it. They found ansome and her parents quote unsettling,
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  Speaker 1: begged him not to go through with it.
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  Speaker 2: But he didn't listen, did he. He just completely ignored
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  Speaker 2: these really clear warnings from the people closest to him.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, I don't know, like he was under
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  Speaker 2: her spell somehow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, The sources suggest this really intense influence she had.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed almost fixated, acting without thinking it through, and that.
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  Speaker 2: Led to immediate isolation. His father had this apartment ready
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  Speaker 2: for them, fully set up in El mattarea the family area.
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  Speaker 1: Safe turned it down, said no, chose a rented place
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  Speaker 1: instead in hadaeat Elcava why to be nearer to her.
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  Speaker 2: Family, So right away, he's distancing himself, even though he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't really visiting his own family much anymore. His father's
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  Speaker 2: still trying to keep in touch, quietly offering help.
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  Speaker 1: Then comes the pressure point. Two years in their first
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  Speaker 1: child is born, Money.
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  Speaker 2: Gets tight with the rent, and Say finally gives in.
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  Speaker 2: He agrees to move into his father's apartment in El
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  Speaker 2: Matherrea Dan Sam.
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  Speaker 1: She hadn't forgotten that initial rejection by his parents, not
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  Speaker 1: at all. The moment they moved Dan Apparently, her resentment
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  Speaker 1: just flared up, treated them.
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  Speaker 2: Terribly, And this is where Safe makes his next just
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  Speaker 2: catastrophic mistake. Over the next three years, they have another child.
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  Speaker 2: He's working hard, saving every single penny, converting.
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  Speaker 1: It all into gold and actual cash. He wanted to
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  Speaker 1: buy a car, secure their future, you know, a.
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  Speaker 2: Solid plan, except for one thing. He trusted Anselm with
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  Speaker 2: all of it, the entire nest egg for safekeeping. He
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  Speaker 2: literally handed her the keys to his entire financial world.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, and right around then, the facade just starts to
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  Speaker 1: crumble completely. Two years before Safe even disappears, Andsm starts
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  Speaker 1: a secret affair with.
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  Speaker 2: Mohammed Kamal, a distant relative. They knew each other vaguely online,
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  Speaker 2: but then they meet properly at a family funeral.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't just an affair, was it. It escalated quickly.
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  Speaker 1: They're both complaining about their marriages.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Kamal had his own issues at home, but it
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  Speaker 2: went beyond complaining. It became a conspiracy. Kamal wasn't just
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  Speaker 2: a lover. He was basically the architect of the plan.
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  Speaker 1: What was the plan exactly?
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  Speaker 2: Kama's advice was chillingly practical in a dark way. He
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  Speaker 2: told Anselm, Look, you need to get total legal control
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  Speaker 2: over suff's assets before you divorce him.
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  Speaker 1: So it was never just about leaving. It was about
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  Speaker 1: taking everything.
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  Speaker 2: Asset liquidation, absolutely and and some. She executes this perfectly,
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  Speaker 2: starts manufacturing fights, constant conflict, argument over nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Designed to just wear safe down y psychologically.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly exhaust him, make him compliant until he agrees to
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  Speaker 2: sign this document. The general power of Attorney's the one
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  Speaker 2: and this wasn't just some minor paperwork. This was the
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  Speaker 2: weapon she needed. It gave her complete unilateral power.
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  Speaker 1: Meaning she could sell, manage, transfer everything he owned to
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  Speaker 1: herself or anyone else without him even needing to know precisely.
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  Speaker 2: It stripped him of all financial protection and the timing wow.
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  Speaker 2: Two months before he vanished, she filed the legal paperwork
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  Speaker 2: no paperwork, a KULA lawsuit that's a type of no
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  Speaker 2: fault divorce initiated by the wife, and an embezzlement of
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  Speaker 2: property lawsuit against him.
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  Speaker 1: So she's legally positioning herself to take everything while setting
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  Speaker 1: up a narrative that he agreed to the divorce later.
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  Speaker 1: Because kula can look like a mutual separation.
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  Speaker 2: If spun right, that seems to be the angle, making
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  Speaker 2: it look like he just wanted out and Saife he
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  Speaker 2: had no clue about any of this. He was keeping
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  Speaker 2: all attention at home secret from his parents, probably out
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  Speaker 2: of shame.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the legal traps are all set. Fast forward
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  Speaker 1: to that day, March twenty seventeen. Safe leaves his father's
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  Speaker 1: place around five.
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  Speaker 2: Pm, says he's taking the kids to Ansom's parents' house
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  Speaker 2: she was supposedly staying there after one of these manufactured fights.
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  Speaker 1: Then he's heading to Al Mahdi to look at a
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  Speaker 1: car he wants to buy, and crucially he's carrying the
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  Speaker 1: cash for the down payment.
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  Speaker 2: Two hours later, his phone goes completely dead, off.
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  Speaker 1: The network, and that night the next morning, as puts
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  Speaker 1: on that award winning performance, the frantic wife, the desperate.
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  Speaker 2: Searcher, totally convincing, fool the family, fooled the initial police
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  Speaker 2: investigators completely, But the.
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  Speaker 1: Act couldn't last, couldn't. Just two weeks later, the mask slips. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: she stops searching, stops playing.
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  Speaker 2: The victim, and starts a whole new narrative, publicly accusing
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  Speaker 2: Sep of abandoning her, running off with another woman.
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  Speaker 1: And blaming his parents, saying they helped him escape because
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  Speaker 1: they never liked her in the first place. It's audacious,
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  Speaker 1: it's the.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect cover story, though shifts all blame, explains the disappearance,
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  Speaker 2: and for.
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  Speaker 1: A while it works until the procedural details start catching up.
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  Speaker 1: Six months after Sief disappeared, his father finds out about the.
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  Speaker 2: POA and realizes Ansom is already using it her very
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  Speaker 2: first move, transferring Stef's old car into her own name.
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  Speaker 2: Just like that.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine the father's shock. Then eight months in, it gets worse.
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  Speaker 1: He discovers and some changed the locks on the el
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  Speaker 1: matarea apartment his apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Technically, and then he finds out why she used the
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  Speaker 2: POA to sell the apartment to herself.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable, and the gold the cash saving Safe had entrusted to.
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  Speaker 2: Her gone all gone systematically liquidated while her husband is
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  Speaker 2: a missing person.
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  Speaker 1: How did the police miss this?
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  Speaker 2: Initially because on paper, thanks to the POA and the
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  Speaker 2: earlier KOLA filing she'd initiated, it could all be framed
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  Speaker 2: as a marital settlement. It looked legally sound, even if
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  Speaker 2: deeply suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: Right nine months after Safe vanished, his father even gets
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  Speaker 1: a court note as finalizing the divorce and property settlement
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  Speaker 1: stuff Safe supposedly agreed to while he was missing.
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  Speaker 2: That's when the father goes back to the authorities with
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  Speaker 2: the POA, the evidence of the sales, everything, and.
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  Speaker 1: They finally reopened the case, focusing squarely on Ansome, but
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  Speaker 1: quietly this time, very quietly. They wanted her to act naturally,
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  Speaker 1: not get spooked. They put her under surveillance, and that
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  Speaker 1: surveillance turns up something huge. One year after the disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: police discover and Sem is getting ready to marry Mohammed Kamal.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the tricky part. The initial surveillance showed no
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  Speaker 2: dodgy contact between them during that year he was missing.
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  Speaker 2: They were being careful.
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  Speaker 1: So the police dig deeper backwards in time, and.
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  Speaker 2: They hit gold, or rather digital evidence, Facebook messages between
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  Speaker 2: Ansom and Kamal from four months before Safe even disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: AH, proving the long term affair, the planning, and crucially
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  Speaker 1: the financial motive that was missed the first time around.
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  Speaker 2: The net closes fast. Now Kamal is called in for
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  Speaker 2: questioning just two days before his plan wedding to an.
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  Speaker 1: Sam, and the police notice he's incredibly distressed, agitated, way
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  Speaker 1: more than someone supposedly unconnected to the disappearance should be.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly his reaction raises huge red flags, so they bring
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  Speaker 2: Ansem in immediately after him.
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  Speaker 1: What did they ask her?
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  Speaker 2: Just presented her with the basic fact we know about
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  Speaker 2: your relationship with Mohammed Kamal. She just collapsed. The whole charade,
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  Speaker 2: the whole carefully built structure, It just disintegrated. She buckled
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  Speaker 2: immediately and confessed everything.
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  Speaker 1: Just like that. After holding it together for so.
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  Speaker 2: Long, the pressure, the evidence, it was too much and
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  Speaker 2: the confession chilling tell us. As admitted, she explicitly told
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  Speaker 2: Kamal to kill Safe. She gave him safe exact plans
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  Speaker 2: for that day, including the fact he'd be carrying the
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  Speaker 2: cash down.
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  Speaker 1: Payment, and she had one condition.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the body had to disappear no trace, to make
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  Speaker 2: it look like a robbery or even better, like he
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  Speaker 2: really did just run off. Maintain the cover story at
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  Speaker 2: all costs.
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  Speaker 1: So how did Kamal do it?
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  Speaker 2: He got help, enlisted a friend and accomplice with a
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  Speaker 2: car they found Safe on the Ring Road that evening.
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  Speaker 1: Pretended they were heading the same way towards el Maddy.
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  Speaker 2: Offered him a ride casual. Safe probably didn't suspect a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Kamal was ready completely.
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  Speaker 2: Days before, he'd gone out to a quiet, secluded spot
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  Speaker 2: along the Ring Road and pre dug a grave. So
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  Speaker 2: they get to the spot, Kamal tells the driver to
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  Speaker 2: pull over, asks Safe to get out, says he wants.
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  Speaker 1: To talk talk about what.
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  Speaker 2: He starts lecturing Seff about his marriage problems, about Ansem
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  Speaker 2: trying to provoke him maybe.
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  Speaker 1: And Sish reacts angrily, I mean, who wouldn't exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He explodes, furious that Kamal is sticking his nose into
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  Speaker 2: his private life, and that's when Kamal drops the.
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  Speaker 1: Bomb, reveals the affair, reveals.
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  Speaker 2: The affair, and tells Safe he's going to.
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  Speaker 1: Marry, and some oh my god, and scythe.
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  Speaker 2: Lunges at him, pure rage and shock. And in that
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  Speaker 2: instant Kamal acts how there was a large rock there,
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  Speaker 2: pre positioned. Apparently he grabbed it, struck Safe hard on
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  Speaker 2: the head, one fatal.
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  Speaker 1: Blow, and that was it.
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  Speaker 2: That was it. They put the body in the grave.
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  Speaker 2: Kamal had already dug covered it with dirt.
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  Speaker 1: How long did it take the whole thing?
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  Speaker 2: Less than ten minutes?
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  Speaker 1: Ten minutes to end the life and bury.
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  Speaker 2: It ten minutes. Kamal called Anselm right after confirmed it
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  Speaker 2: was done. And then four hundred and eighty five days
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  Speaker 2: of deception began.
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  Speaker 1: Just incredible, And there was one final awful piece to
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  Speaker 1: the cover up, involving Ansom's mother.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, on the very day Seife disappeared, Anselm's mother called
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  Speaker 2: Scife's father, pleading with him, asking him to calm his
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  Speaker 2: son down so Seif wouldn't divorce Ansem, trying.
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  Speaker 1: To reinforce the idea that Safe was just angry, maybe
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  Speaker 1: planning to leave, bolstering the elopement story.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly looks like she was actively helping build that
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  Speaker 2: initial cover story. Whether she knew the full extent of
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  Speaker 2: the plan the murder part, we don't know for sure,
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  Speaker 2: but she was definitely involved in the deception.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened to them? All the perpetrators?
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  Speaker 2: The justice system was decisive ANSM. Mohammed Kamal, and the
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  Speaker 2: accomplice who drove the car.
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  Speaker 1: All three were sentenced to death and Safe his remains.
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  Speaker 2: They were recovered from that spot on the Ring road.
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  Speaker 2: Forensic medicine confirmed the identity, confirmed Kamal's account of the murder. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: after four hundred and eighty five agonizing days, his father
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  Speaker 2: had well, not closure maybe, but the horrifying truth.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a devastating story. What do you think is
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  Speaker 1: the main lesson here?
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  Speaker 2: For me, it comes back to those initial warnings. Safe's
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  Speaker 2: fate is just a brutal reminder of the danger of
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  Speaker 2: ignoring clear, visceral red flags about someone's character, especially when
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  Speaker 2: your own family is raising.
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  Speaker 1: Them, and the power of attorney.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely allowing that extreme emotional manipulation, letting himself be pressured
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  Speaker 2: into signing that document. It wasn't just signing away his money.
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  Speaker 2: It turned out to be the legal tool used to
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  Speaker 2: mask his murder.
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  Speaker 1: A marriage that started because he ignored his family's rejection,
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  Speaker 1: ended with the betrayal, so calculated, so cold blooded, driven
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  Speaker 1: purely by greed.
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  Speaker 2: Four hundred and eighty five days everyone spent looking for
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  Speaker 2: a missing man, searching Rhades Hospital while his body lay
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  Speaker 2: buried just minutes from where he was killed, all while
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  Speaker 2: the prime suspect methodically stole everything he'd ever worked for.
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  Speaker 1: It really makes you think, so we'll leave you with
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  Speaker 1: this question, how often does that happen? Ignoring what you
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  Speaker 1: perhaps know deep down about someone's character, maybe for love
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  Speaker 1: or maybe something else, and having that denial lead to
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  Speaker 1: your own undoing