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Murder for Two Hundred Egyptian Pounds · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: The day is winding down. You know that quiet that
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  Speaker 1: settles over a city like Giza after the evening traffic
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  Speaker 1: finally gives up. That's the scene.
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  Speaker 2: It's around eight pm in the sixth of October.
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  Speaker 1: Area exactly, and inside one home, that quiet isn't peaceful,
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  Speaker 1: it's terrifying. It's the silence of a phone that should
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  Speaker 1: have rung hours ago but hasn't.
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  Speaker 2: And this wasn't just any guy who was late. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about engineer Yusuf thirty three years old, a successful
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  Speaker 2: entrepreneur and a man who lived by.
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  Speaker 1: The clock, a total creature of habit.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, his routine was well. He was the anchor for
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  Speaker 2: his whole family in his business. Out the door at
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  Speaker 2: eight am, sharp site, visits office by five pm. And
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  Speaker 2: the crucial part, he was always always in contact with
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  Speaker 2: his wife. Yeah, multiple times a day.
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  Speaker 1: So on this particular evening, that stability just shatters. His
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  Speaker 1: wife has been calling him since the afternoon, both his
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  Speaker 1: phones straight to dead air by five.
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  Speaker 2: She's trying to stay calm. She calls his office and
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  Speaker 2: the staff says, oh, yeah, he was here. He grabs
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  Speaker 2: something from the safe and left around noon. They figure
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  Speaker 2: he's just in a long meeting.
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  Speaker 1: But eight pm rolls around, still nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Now the staff starts making their own calls, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what you can just feel the floor drop out from
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  Speaker 2: under them. They call every client Yusuf was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: meet that afternoon. Every single one says the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: He never showed up.
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  Speaker 1: This is where the alarm bells are just screaming. We're
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  Speaker 1: not talking about someone just being like a successful stable man.
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  Speaker 1: A family man has vanished along with his very expensive car. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's unpack this. This is the case of engineer Yusuf.
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  Speaker 2: To really get why the police were so stumped at first,
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  Speaker 2: you have to understand the sheer scale of Yusuf's world. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he was successful, but his success was complicated. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: one business.
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  Speaker 1: He had multiple streams of income, right three to be exact.
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  Speaker 2: He did high end design and architectural finishes, which was
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  Speaker 2: his main company. Then he did project management for big jobs.
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  Speaker 2: But the real money, the part that built his network,
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  Speaker 2: was special real estate prokerage.
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  Speaker 1: And not just flipping houses.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, we're talking high end villas, luxury apartments in
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  Speaker 2: places like Shake's Aid. These are deals with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of cash, a lot of complicated paperwork.
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  Speaker 1: And he was the guy who could get it done.
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  Speaker 2: He was the guy. He had this reputation as a
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  Speaker 2: totally honest middleman in a market where things can get messy.
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  Speaker 2: He was the one who could officially fix the paperwork,
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  Speaker 2: make sure everything was clean with the municipality. It made
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  Speaker 2: him indispensable. His network was huge.
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  Speaker 1: So when he disappears, police are looking at this massive
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  Speaker 1: web of contacts, hundreds of people, and the first most
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  Speaker 1: obvious motive is the car.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, an expensive car goes missing with its owner,
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  Speaker 2: it screams carjacking gone wrong, a robbery. That was the
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  Speaker 2: initial theory.
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  Speaker 1: But not everyone was convinced.
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  Speaker 2: The senior investigators, Yeah, they felt something was off. The
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  Speaker 2: sources we have call it a strong security sense, just
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  Speaker 2: a gut feeling that this was too clean, too quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Well wait, hold on, a gut feeling in a case
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  Speaker 1: like this, you're telling me they bypassed the most low
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  Speaker 1: logical motive, car theft, because of a hunch.
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  Speaker 2: It's more than a hunch. It's about pattern recognition. A
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  Speaker 2: random robbery is chaotic. This was efficient. Yusuf vanishes mid day,
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of a rigid schedule, and everything just stops. Instantly.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of precision told them they were dealing with
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  Speaker 2: someone who didn't just see an opportunity. They were dealing
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  Speaker 2: with someone.
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  Speaker 1: Who knew him, someone who knew his routine.
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  Speaker 2: Knew his routine, knew his finances. So with no physical evidence,
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  Speaker 2: they pivot. They go straight for his digital life, his
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  Speaker 2: phone records.
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  Speaker 1: Looking for that last point of contact.
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  Speaker 2: And his call logue is as you'd expect a mess clients, contractors,
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of calls, but one one stands out, an incoming
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  Speaker 2: call at eleven thirty am.
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  Speaker 1: What was different about it.
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  Speaker 2: Is from a landline.
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  Speaker 1: A landline, Okay, that's old school. That's a fixed location exactly.
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  Speaker 2: They traced it immediately. It came from a cafe in
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  Speaker 2: the sixth of October area, a place you have used
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  Speaker 2: all the time for meetings, and that led them to
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  Speaker 2: an employee there.
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  Speaker 1: Named Ta And what's Tamor's story.
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  Speaker 2: Tamer had apparently become quite close with Yusuf recently. When
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  Speaker 2: they bring him in, he's calm, he confirms the call
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  Speaker 2: at eleven thirty. His story is perfectly logical.
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  Speaker 1: What did you say?
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  Speaker 2: Their relationship was a kind of business synergy. Tamer worked
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  Speaker 2: at the cafe all day, so he'd spot properties about
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  Speaker 2: to go on the market, you know, discreetly, he'd tip
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  Speaker 2: off Yusuf, and if Yusuf closed the deal, Tamer got
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  Speaker 2: a cut of the commission.
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  Speaker 1: Makes sense. So what was the eleven thirty call about?
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  Speaker 2: Tamor says they were scheduled to meet that day. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to visit a half finished building in a place
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  Speaker 2: called Bolac l D'Cruz for a potential renovation job. But
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  Speaker 2: Tamer insists Yusuf never showed up for the.
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  Speaker 1: Meeting, and the police bought this.
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  Speaker 2: He was incredibly convincing, calm, organized, expressed the right amount
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  Speaker 2: of shock. He seemed like just another worried associate. But
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  Speaker 2: that security sense was still nagging at the investigators.
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  Speaker 1: So they didn't let him go.
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  Speaker 2: They dug into his day. They checked the cafe's records
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  Speaker 2: around the time of that phone call, and that's where
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  Speaker 2: his story just completely falls apart.
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  Speaker 1: What did they find at.
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  Speaker 2: Eleven thirty am, the exact moment he called Yusef, Tamer
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  Speaker 2: suddenly told his boss he had a personal emergency and
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  Speaker 2: had leave right then, which was something he apparently never did,
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  Speaker 2: so he.
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  Speaker 1: Lied he wasn't at the cafe waiting. He left immediately
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  Speaker 1: after making the call.
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  Speaker 2: He was on the move, and that gave the police
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  Speaker 2: a whole new direction. They went back to Use's phone.
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  Speaker 2: It's dead, sure, but the network still has a record
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  Speaker 2: of its last living moments.
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  Speaker 1: The last tower it connected to right and at.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve forty five pm, just over an hour after Tamer's call,
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  Speaker 2: USI's phone pinged to cell tower in one very specific place.
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  Speaker 1: Let me guess bull lack El dacorroor.
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  Speaker 2: The exact location of the meeting. The data proved two things.
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  Speaker 2: One Yusef did make it to the site, and two
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  Speaker 2: Tamer was lying About thirty minutes after that, Pang the
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  Speaker 2: phone went dead for good.
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  Speaker 1: They had their crime scene, or at least.
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  Speaker 2: The location of one. They converge on this nine story
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  Speaker 2: construs ruction site. It's mostly a concrete shell. Only the
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  Speaker 2: bottom three floors have people living in them. The rest
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  Speaker 2: is just empty.
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  Speaker 1: How do you even search a place like that?
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  Speaker 2: You start by talking to the people who live there,
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  Speaker 2: and a resident on one of the lower floors gives
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  Speaker 2: them their next big break. He remembers seeing Yusef arrive,
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  Speaker 2: but he wasn't alone.
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  Speaker 1: He was with someone.
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  Speaker 2: He was with two other men, and the resident immediately
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  Speaker 2: recognized one of them, a man named Mohammed.
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  Speaker 1: And who is Mohammed.
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  Speaker 2: Mohammed is the son of the man who owns the building.
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  Speaker 2: He's also a contractor himself, and you guessed it, a
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  Speaker 2: business associate of Yusif's for over two years.
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  Speaker 1: So the circle just got very, very small. It's Tamer,
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  Speaker 1: the spotter from the cafe, and Mohammad, the contractor associate.
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  Speaker 2: Mohammed is brought in for questioning, and just like Tamer,
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  Speaker 2: he's unnaturally calm. He admits he knows Yusuf, they've worked
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  Speaker 2: together for years. But then he offers up something really strange.
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  Speaker 2: He admits he's been driving USA's expensive car, but he
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  Speaker 2: claims he bought it from him legally with the SOMN
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  Speaker 2: contract the day before he disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds convenient, a little too convenient. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: immediately start driving the car of a man who just
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  Speaker 1: went missing. It's like waving a giant red flag.
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  Speaker 2: It's an incredibly clumsy cover story. The police knew that
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  Speaker 2: contract had to be a fake, but now they have
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  Speaker 2: them contradicting each other. Tamer is still insisting he never
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  Speaker 2: went to the site Mohammad admits they met Yusef there,
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  Speaker 2: but claims he just left on his own.
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  Speaker 1: Afterwards, the coordinated lies are breaking down, and that's when.
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  Speaker 2: They put all the pressure on Muhammad. The forged contract,
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  Speaker 2: the cell data. Yep, it was too much. He broke.
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  Speaker 2: He confessed to everything in the motive money and revenge.
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  Speaker 2: As the investigator suspected, it was personal, deeply personal. Yusef,
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  Speaker 2: the man whose entire reputation was built on being the
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  Speaker 2: honest intermediary, had been cheating his partners. He cheated both
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  Speaker 2: of them, both of them separately. Three months earlier, Tamer
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  Speaker 2: had brought Yusef a huge deal of Villa Sale, who
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  Speaker 2: has promised a commission of two hundred thousand Egyptian pounds,
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  Speaker 2: but after the deal closed, Yusuf gave him a tiny
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  Speaker 2: fraction of that and pocketed the rest. Wow and Malamet
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  Speaker 2: a very similar story, but with a land deal he
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  Speaker 2: got shorted on his cut. So you have these two
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  Speaker 2: men both feeling completely betrayed by.
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  Speaker 1: The same person, so they decided to team up.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Tamer, from his perch at the cafe, became the lookout.
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  Speaker 2: For three months. He just watched Yusef learned his routine,
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  Speaker 2: his finances, waiting for the right moment.
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  Speaker 1: And that moment was the day Yusef collected a big
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  Speaker 1: cash payment, the.
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  Speaker 2: Three hundred thousand EGP. Tamer knew he'd have it, he
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  Speaker 2: knew it would be in the office safe that afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: That was the trigger.
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  Speaker 1: The planning is just ice cold.
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  Speaker 2: Chillingly, So that eleven thirty am call wasn't just to
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  Speaker 2: set up a meeting. It was Tamer confirming you had
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  Speaker 2: the cash, It's in the safe. Then he lures him
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  Speaker 2: out to Mohammad's family's building.
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  Speaker 1: And the empty ninth floor.
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  Speaker 2: They get him up there and there's no discussion, no argument.
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  Speaker 2: Camer just pulls out a shotgun and shoots him in
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  Speaker 2: the head. Instant I got. And this is where you
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  Speaker 2: see the level of premeditation. They hadn't just planned to
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  Speaker 2: kill him, They had planned how to get rid of
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  Speaker 2: the body. They already had bricks, cement, and lime stockpiled
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  Speaker 2: on the ninth floor ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: So they were going to bury him right there in
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  Speaker 1: the building.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, But before they did that, the sources say they
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  Speaker 2: did something truly bizarre. They stopped for a full hour
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  Speaker 2: and they sat down and ate breakfast together.
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  Speaker 1: Wait what they had breakfast next to the body, feet away.
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  Speaker 2: From the body, an hour long breakfast. It speaks to
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  Speaker 2: a level of psychological detachment that is just hard to comprehend.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the murder was just a task on a checklist.
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  Speaker 2: Task done, Now, we eat.
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  Speaker 1: That is horrifying.
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  Speaker 2: Only after their meal did they get to work burying
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  Speaker 2: usef in the floor and sealing the spot perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: And then they just went about their day.
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  Speaker 2: Mohammad took the car armed with this fake contract and
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  Speaker 2: the key to Yusuf's off is safe. Tamer changed his
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  Speaker 2: clothes and went back to his life, but.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't finished. The safe was the real prize.
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  Speaker 2: They met up again that same night around nine pm.
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  Speaker 2: They were the two men seen watching the office building
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  Speaker 2: from the street. The plan was to use the key,
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  Speaker 2: get inside, and take the three hundred thousand EGP and
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  Speaker 2: whatever else was in there. They were hoping for over.
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  Speaker 1: A million, but something stopped them.
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  Speaker 2: The office lights were still on, Yusuf's employees were still
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  Speaker 2: there waiting for him. Worried, Tamor and Muhammad realized they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't go up without being seen. They waited until midnight
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  Speaker 2: and finally gave up.
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  Speaker 1: Which leads to the most unbelievable irony in this whole story.
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  Speaker 2: After all that planning, all that cold blooded calculation, the revenge,
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  Speaker 2: the murder, they never got to the safe. The only
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  Speaker 2: money they got from the entire crime was the cash
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  Speaker 2: they found in Yusuf's pocket when they killed him. How
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  Speaker 2: much two hundred Egyptian pounds two hundred.
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  Speaker 1: They destroyed three lives for what less than ten US dollars.
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  Speaker 2: The police took them back to the site and they
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  Speaker 2: pointed out the spot on the ninth floor. The whole case,
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  Speaker 2: from disappearing to confession was solved in under three days.
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  Speaker 2: Both Paymer and Mohammad were convicted and sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 1: So in the end, Us have built this empire on trust,
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  Speaker 1: but his own greed. His choice to betray that trust
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  Speaker 1: is what gave them the playbook to destroy him. They
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  Speaker 1: knew his every move because he let them in.
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  Speaker 2: And you see how that sense of being wrong, that
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  Speaker 2: greed just took over. It dictated every single horrifying step.
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  Speaker 2: It's a plan that led to a brutal murder, their
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  Speaker 2: own executions and for what practically nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you think about professional relationships, doesn't it. If
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  Speaker 1: trust is the currency you operate with, you have to
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  Speaker 1: wonder when does a shared history, especially when with a betrayal,
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  Speaker 1: stop being an asset and turn into a devastating liability.
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  Speaker 1: That's something for you to mall over.