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The Calculated Cruelty of Greed: IVF Dreams Stolen, Body Burned—The Dunya Al-Jubeili Tragedy · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's set the scene. It's three third thirds in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, al Konka, al Kalubia, October twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine the street. It's dark, pre dawn quiet, but it's
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  Speaker 1: the kind of quiet that feels, I don't know, a
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  Speaker 1: bit tense. People knew there was often fighting in that apartment.
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  Speaker 2: But this noise, the one that breaks the silence tonight,
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  Speaker 2: it's different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not shouting this time. No.
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  Speaker 2: It's described as this deep, really frantic, rattling cough. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the little kid just struggling for breath.
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  Speaker 1: And then the smell hits smoke. You know, that really acrid, unmistakable.
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  Speaker 2: Smell right steins, your eyes, your throat. It's dense.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbors hear it, smell it. Now. They knew this couple foughts,
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  Speaker 1: so maybe they hesitated for a second.
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  Speaker 2: Probably, but the smoke was too thick, and that coughing
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  Speaker 2: it sounded desperate, So they moved fast.
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  Speaker 1: Retched the door, broke it down inside, just thick, blinding smoke.
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  Speaker 2: And it turns out that little cough was critical. It
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  Speaker 2: was Dounia's nephew, just a small child who was staying
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  Speaker 2: over just by chance. Wow, he was coughing so hard
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  Speaker 2: is basically what led the neighbors through the fumes and
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  Speaker 2: what they found it was horrific. The fire was centered
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  Speaker 2: right on the bed, and.
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  Speaker 1: Dunia was there on the bed. The flames had already well.
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  Speaker 1: The reports say her body was severely charred.
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  Speaker 2: A truly terrible end. But the man she'd been married
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  Speaker 2: to for two years, Ali Othman al Jubili, he was
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  Speaker 2: nowhere to be found, vanished.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the story we're diving into Dunya. Some
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  Speaker 1: people who knew her literally said she had the worst
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  Speaker 1: luck in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this was her fifth marriage. Didn't just end badly,
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  Speaker 2: it ended in this incredibly calculated, brutal way. It's a
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  Speaker 2: story about betrayal, exploitation really taken to an absolute extreme.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's go back back to twenty twenty one. How
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  Speaker 1: did this all start?
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  Speaker 2: Danie was twenty seven, she'd been through four divorces already,
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  Speaker 2: and the core issue, it seems, was her difficulty having
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  Speaker 2: children naturally.
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  Speaker 1: But she sounds like she was a fighter, independent, always working.
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  Speaker 2: How tor own money, definitely fiercely independent. Then she meets Sally.
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  Speaker 2: He's forty four, a driver, already married, has kids, with
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  Speaker 2: his first.
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  Speaker 1: Wife, and what was the impression of him.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty damning from the start. Actually, sources described him
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  Speaker 2: using terms like well, lacking conscience, lacking chivalry, basically lacking
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  Speaker 2: basic manliness or decency. It sounds like he wasn't looking for.
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  Speaker 1: A partner, more like an opportunity exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He was looking for an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: And trouble started immediately, like day one.
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  Speaker 2: Day one in el Konka. His family, especially the first wife,
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  Speaker 2: they started in on doing you right away, abuse, insults
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  Speaker 2: and Ali.
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  Speaker 1: Did he step in protect her?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's the chilling part. He didn't just not protect her.
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  Speaker 2: He apparently joined in. If she tried to defend herself,
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  Speaker 2: even just talk back, he'd hit her.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. And the money situation, how did that develop?
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  Speaker 2: Very quickly? Ali just stopped working completely, became totally reliant
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  Speaker 2: on doing you.
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  Speaker 1: So she was supporting him everything.
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  Speaker 2: She worked relentlessly day night, any job she could get,
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  Speaker 2: cleaning houses, factory work, learning new skills on the fly.
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  Speaker 2: She paid for the household for him, even his personal
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  Speaker 2: spending money. She covered it all.
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  Speaker 1: Why why put up with that for two years? The abuse,
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  Speaker 1: the financial drain because.
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  Speaker 2: She had this one dream, this powerful, driving goal. She
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  Speaker 2: desperately wanted a child. She knew would be difficult, naturally,
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  Speaker 2: so she poured everything, every bit of energy, every pound
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  Speaker 2: she earned into saving for IVF in vitro fertilization.
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  Speaker 1: It costs a lot, and Ollie knew this was her goal.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, he knew she was saving for IVF, and
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  Speaker 2: he let her keep working, let her endure all of it,
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  Speaker 2: because well, she was funding his life. He was benefiting constantly,
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  Speaker 2: and apparently he never let on that secretly he didn't
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  Speaker 2: actually want any more kids.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So fast forward, she works, she saves, she endures.
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  Speaker 1: Does she reach her goal?
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  Speaker 2: She does. After two long years, she scraped together the
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  Speaker 2: four hundred thousand Egyptian pounds needed for the IVF, a
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  Speaker 2: huge sum her entire savings.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that must have felt like a massive achievement, immense.
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  Speaker 2: And all she asked Ali was, you know, just come
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  Speaker 2: with me to the doctor's appointment.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So they go to the clinic.
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  Speaker 2: They go, The doctor explains the whole procedure, the instructions,
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  Speaker 2: and then comes the crucial part which the doctor stressed
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  Speaker 2: that for the pregnancy to have the best chance, Dounia
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  Speaker 2: needed total bed rest for three months right after the procedure.
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  Speaker 1: Three months no work.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly three months of no income from her.
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  Speaker 1: And all he's reaction, let me guess it wasn't about
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  Speaker 1: her health.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. His immediate singular thought, according to reports,
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  Speaker 2: was who's going to pay my expenses for three months?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? My god? His meal ticket was about to be unavailable.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, so he immediately starts working on her, convincing her
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  Speaker 2: to postpone. He claims he needs time to sort out
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  Speaker 2: his finances so he can support them during her bed rest.
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  Speaker 1: Playing the concerned husband.
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  Speaker 2: Acting the part perfectly bought himself some time. But then,
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  Speaker 2: not long after they loved the clinic, Dounia found out
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  Speaker 2: the truth.
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  Speaker 1: What happened.
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  Speaker 2: He'd stolen it, all of it, the entire four hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand EGP she'd saved, wiped out her dream just like that,
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  Speaker 2: and apparently spend it all on himself.
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  Speaker 1: He stole her entire life savings after she told him
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't work.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the timing is just sickeningly calculated.
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  Speaker 1: That must have been the breaking point.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it triggered this huge final fight. Dinia demanded a divorce.
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  Speaker 2: She saw her future was just destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: With him and his response more violence.
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  Speaker 2: Vicious violence, beat her badly, and his reasoning, reportedly shouted
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  Speaker 2: during the assault, wasn't about love or loss. It was
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  Speaker 2: purely if you leave, who supports me?
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  Speaker 1: It's just ice cold, purely transactional.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. The second she stopped being a source of income
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  Speaker 2: and actually needed his support, she became a problem to
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  Speaker 2: be eliminated.
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  Speaker 1: So things were obviously terrible between them. How did it
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  Speaker 1: escalate to the night of the murder in October twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the tension had been high for months, clearly, but
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  Speaker 2: on that specific night, another massive fight broke out, so
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  Speaker 2: big that Dounia's mother actually.
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  Speaker 1: Came over to mediate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she tried to calm things down, broke her some peace,
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  Speaker 2: and she thought she had. She left, believing they'd settled
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  Speaker 2: down for the.
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  Speaker 1: Night, but they hadn't, not even close.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as the mother walked out the door, it
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  Speaker 2: exploded again. Dounia again demanded a divorce. Ali stormed out
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  Speaker 2: of the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't actually leave.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is where it gets really chilling. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: leave the area. He went down and sat outside on
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  Speaker 2: the street right near the building. For how long for
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  Speaker 2: four hours, four solid hours, just sitting there leading up
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  Speaker 2: to about three am, doing what people saw him said.
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  Speaker 2: He was just sitting there, smoking, apparently taking drugs. He
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  Speaker 2: seemed weirdly calm, which confused the locals who saw him.
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  Speaker 1: But he wasn't calm inside. He was planning.
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  Speaker 2: He was calculating. We know this from his later confession.
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  Speaker 2: During those four hours, he was figuring out exactly how
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  Speaker 2: to kill Dounia, how to get rid of.
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  Speaker 1: Her permanently and steal the rest of her money.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she'd somehow managed to save another forty thousand EGP,
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  Speaker 2: maybe for a second IVF attempt down the line. He
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  Speaker 2: planned to steal that too and figure out where he'd
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  Speaker 2: run afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Hits his plan is ready.
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  Speaker 2: Plan ready. He goes back inside. The little nephew is
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  Speaker 2: asleep in a different room, thankfully all. He goes straight
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  Speaker 2: to Dounia and attacks her. Starts the attack with a knife.
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  Speaker 2: She screamed, And when she screamed, any semblance of calm
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  Speaker 2: planning just vanished. He descended into a frenzy stabbing, hitting.
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  Speaker 1: Did anyone hear the scream?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this is another awful part. Neighbors heard her scream
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  Speaker 2: rushed to the door, started knocking frantically, and male Ali, somehow,
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  Speaker 2: regaining composure, opened the door just a crack or spoke
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  Speaker 2: through it and calmly told them it was just family disputes,
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  Speaker 2: nothing to worry about, and they left reluctantly. Yes, they
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  Speaker 2: were used to hearing fights from that apartment, sadly, so
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  Speaker 2: they backed.
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  Speaker 1: Off, leaving him alone with her, leaving.
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  Speaker 2: Him alone to finish what he started. But his plan
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just the stabbing right there the fire. It was
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  Speaker 2: the smoke from the fire and the child's continuous coughing
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  Speaker 2: that finally brought the neighbors back maybe half an hour later.
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  Speaker 2: If it wasn't for that dense smoke and the sound
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  Speaker 2: of the child.
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  Speaker 1: The evidence might have been completely destroyed exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The fire was meant to obliterate everything, including her body.
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  Speaker 1: So the police arrived, secure the scene, the investigation begins.
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  Speaker 1: What oh the nephew he saw something he did?
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  Speaker 2: His testimony is just heartbreaking. Yeah, he said he woke
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  Speaker 2: up because of the smoke and the fire and he
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  Speaker 2: saw his aunt Dounia lying on the bed, her body
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  Speaker 2: and face lit up by the flames.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that poor child. And the forensics the autopsy must
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  Speaker 1: have revealed the true extent of the attack before the fire.
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  Speaker 2: It revealed a level of cruelty that's hard to comprehend.
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  Speaker 2: What did the medical examiner find?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the report confirms it wasn't just a quick attack. First,
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  Speaker 1: her body showed severe bruising all over, so the beating
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  Speaker 1: before or during the stabbing was significant pre fire trauma. Right. Second,
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't just stabbed randomly. Her throat was slit. The
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  Speaker 1: report used the term slaughtered, and there were multiple deep
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  Speaker 1: stab wounds elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Horrific, But there was more. Wasn't that something even more methodical?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? And this speaks directly to his intention to make
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  Speaker 1: absolutely sure she was dead before he set the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Her tendons in her hands and feet, they were deliberately cut, severed.
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  Speaker 2: To incapacitate her completely, to guarantee death. It wasn't rage anymore,
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  Speaker 2: it was execution.
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  Speaker 1: Methodical is the word. And then after all that, he
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  Speaker 1: went for overkill on destroying the evidence. He poured acid,
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  Speaker 1: specifically nitric acid may yet and onto her body in
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  Speaker 1: the bed. Then he poured gasoline on top of that.
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  Speaker 1: Then he set it on fire, acid.
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  Speaker 2: And gasoline, just trying to ensure total obliteration.
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  Speaker 1: And the money. Did he get it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the investigation confirmed he stole that remaining forty thousand
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  Speaker 2: EGP either during the act or right after the motive
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  Speaker 2: holds up. It was always about the money, so he flees.
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  Speaker 2: How long was he on the run only three days.
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  Speaker 2: He seemed to genuinely think he could just take the
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  Speaker 2: cash and disappear, but they caught him. Security forces tracked
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  Speaker 2: him using local CCTV footage. They found him relatively quickly
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  Speaker 2: and did he confess immediately? No hesitation, He laid it
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  Speaker 2: all out, the four hours he's been planning outside while
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  Speaker 2: doing drugs. The calculation. He specifically admitted to slitting her
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  Speaker 2: throat and cutting the tendons.
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  Speaker 1: Why did he say why he cut the tendency?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he stated clearly it was to make absolutely certain
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  Speaker 2: she was dead before he started the fire, no possibility
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  Speaker 2: of survival.
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  Speaker 1: So when you put it all together, what does this
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  Speaker 1: case really tell us for you listening to this?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a terrifyingly clear picture of how
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  Speaker 2: extreme domestic exploitation can become. Dounia wasn't seen as a
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  Speaker 2: person as a wife. She was an ATM and.
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  Speaker 1: The violence wasn't just random anger. It had a trigger exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The truly explosive violence the murder plot. It wasn't triggered
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  Speaker 2: when he was abusing her daily. It was triggered the
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  Speaker 2: moment she became a financial liability instead of an asset,
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  Speaker 2: The moment she couldn't work to support him.
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  Speaker 1: That's when she had to be eliminated. The malice, the planning,
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  Speaker 1: it was all rooted in greed, in silencing the per
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  Speaker 1: who paid his bills.
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  Speaker 2: And it's chilling to think that the only reason we
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  Speaker 2: even know the full extent of but the only reason
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  Speaker 2: her body wasn't completely consumed was the sound of her
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  Speaker 2: little nephew coughing that then margin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really highlights how close he came to getting
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  Speaker 1: away with obliterating all traces.
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  Speaker 2: It's a truly stark look at the depths someone can
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  Speaker 2: sink to when they view another human being purely as
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  Speaker 2: a resource to be drained and then discarded when empty.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation is ongoing, of course, and waiting for final justice.
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  Speaker 1: A deeply disturbing case. It makes you question just how
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  Speaker 1: far can that kind of calculated malice and greed actually go?
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  Speaker 1: What happens when empathy is completely absent, and a person
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  Speaker 1: is just seen as an obstacle to money, something to
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  Speaker 1: think about.