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The $5,000 Murder Pact: Betrayal, Blackmail, and the Incinerated Tuk-Tuk · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, picture this Minya Governorate, Egypt. It's dawn, maybe six am,
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  Speaker 1: back in twenty twelve, quiet farmland, field stretching out. But
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  Speaker 1: that early morning stillness is about to be broken. Some
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  Speaker 1: local farmers they stumble upon something horrific. It took one
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  Speaker 1: of those three wheeled utility vehicles, just smoldering in a
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  Speaker 1: ditch off the road. It's been burned badly, and inside
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  Speaker 1: there's a body. It's almost completely incinerated. You can barely
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  Speaker 1: tell it's human except for well, maybe some small features
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  Speaker 1: on the face just enough. The police arrive, forensics get
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  Speaker 1: to work, and right away two things are crystal clear. First,
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  Speaker 1: this fire was no accident. Gasoline was used a deliberate
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  Speaker 1: attempt to destroy evidence. Second, and this is crucial, the
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  Speaker 1: person inside didn't die from the fire. No, the autopsy
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  Speaker 1: showed a massive fatal blow to the head. They were
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  Speaker 1: killed before the fire was even set.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and that shifts everything, doesn't it. This isn't some
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  Speaker 2: tragic accident. It's a targeted killing and execution. It didn't
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  Speaker 2: take long for neighbors to identify the victim. It was Samir,
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  Speaker 2: a local man who owned a chicken farm.
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  Speaker 1: Ah Samir Okay, but.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation, it started peeling back layers. This wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: crime of passion, not random violence. What unfolded was a
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  Speaker 2: story stretching back a decade full of resentment, financial betrayal,
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  Speaker 2: and just cold hard calculation.
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  Speaker 1: Decade.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, this deep dive. It's really about how that
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  Speaker 2: simmering resentment turned into a kind of deadly entitlement, and
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  Speaker 2: how desperation for money could turn a neighbor into well,
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  Speaker 2: a willing accomplice. It's pure transactional treachery.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this then, because to really understand that
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  Speaker 1: horrific scene that burned out Tuck took, we need to
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  Speaker 1: go back ten years earlier, back to when Samir's dream
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  Speaker 1: first started. So it's two thousand and two, Samir's and Minya.
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  Speaker 1: Like a lot of young men there, he has one
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  Speaker 1: big goal, get abroad, work, save money. He heads to Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: His plan, save every single penny he could, to come
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  Speaker 1: back and buy land or specifically start his own chicken farm.
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  Speaker 1: That was the dream, and apparently he was good at it.
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  Speaker 1: Reliable worker sent money home consistently. Then two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: three year old around He's been away maybe a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half comes back for a two month.
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  Speaker 2: Vacation and the family pressure starts.
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  Speaker 1: Instantly get married. The choice lands on his cousin, Sabrien.
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  Speaker 1: She was divorced, already had a child, and happens fast
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  Speaker 1: like within two weeks they're married. He wants to spend
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  Speaker 1: the rest of his short leave with his new wife
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  Speaker 1: before heading back to Jordan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can already see the cracks forming, can't you.
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  Speaker 2: The foundation of this relationship wasn't really built on a motion.
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  Speaker 2: Was it more like pragmatism, fulfilling an obligation. Maybe for him,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps fulfilling that social duty. But for Sebreen, she felt
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  Speaker 2: it almost immediately regret She felt rushed, that instantly abandoned
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  Speaker 2: when he left again, just left questioning the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Why marry someone who's just gonna leave?
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  Speaker 1: And that distance, it definitely didn't help the next three years,
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  Speaker 1: it's a long distance marriage. He's working in Jordan, sending
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  Speaker 1: money back. They have two children together now, but whenever
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  Speaker 1: he visits Egypt, there's this recurring problem. The money he sent,
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  Speaker 1: it's just gone vanished.
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  Speaker 2: And this leads to huge arguments.
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  Speaker 1: Massive fights. Apparently family had to step in sometimes just
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  Speaker 1: to keep the peace.
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  Speaker 2: And this financial strain, it's really important. It seems to
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  Speaker 2: be where her feeling of let's say, entitlement begins to
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  Speaker 2: creep in. She starts seeing his money not as their
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  Speaker 2: money for future farm, but maybe as compensation for her
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  Speaker 2: time alone. Her sacrifices compensation for waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Then around two thousand and seven, things get even
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  Speaker 1: more tense. Samir's brother, who is also Sabrine's cousin, remember,
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  Speaker 1: contacts Samir and Jordan. He says he's seeing strange men
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  Speaker 1: visiting Samir's house while he's away. Unknown men.
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  Speaker 2: That's alarming, very so.
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  Speaker 1: Samir confronts Sabrine about it. Her reaction pure defense. She
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  Speaker 1: cuts off contact with the brother, completely accuses him of
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  Speaker 1: stirring up trouble. And her explanation for the visitors she
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  Speaker 1: claims they were just her brothers, also cousins, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but given the existing tension, this explanation that makes Samir
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  Speaker 1: even more suspicious, more paranoid. Right. Let's jump forward now
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  Speaker 1: to twenty ten. This is a big year. Samir comes
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  Speaker 1: back to Egypt for.
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  Speaker 2: Good, ready to start the dream exactly.
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  Speaker 1: He cashes out everything he earned in Jordan, every last
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  Speaker 1: bit and invests it all in a partnership for the
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  Speaker 1: chicken farm project. He tells Sabrine, Okay, we're done waiting,
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  Speaker 1: we're settling down.
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  Speaker 2: And her reaction it tells you everything. She explodes, pure.
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  Speaker 1: Anger, but not about the risk of the farm failing.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's the twist. Yeah, she wasn't angry about the
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  Speaker 2: investment risk. She was furious because he put all the
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  Speaker 2: money into the business instead of giving her a direct
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  Speaker 2: personal cut, a lump sum. She felt she was owed
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  Speaker 2: that cash for her years of sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, the entitlement really solidified then, it seems so, and
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  Speaker 1: then disaster strikes the farm project itself. Just four months
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  Speaker 1: after launching his lifelong dream. It completely collapses.
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  Speaker 2: He loses everything, everything gotten.
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  Speaker 1: The financial ruin triggers the final blow up fight with Sabrine.
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  Speaker 1: She leaves him, just packs up and moves back to
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  Speaker 1: her parents' house.
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  Speaker 2: So he's lost his dream, his money, and now his
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  Speaker 2: wife has left.
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  Speaker 1: Him rock bottom pretty much. Amidst all that chaos, while
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to figure out what went wrong, he finds
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  Speaker 1: something documents relating to accounts Sabrine held at the Egyptian.
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  Speaker 2: Post Ah, and he discovers he.
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  Speaker 1: Discovers she'd been hiding money, a lot of money. The
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  Speaker 1: money he'd been sending home for years, the money he
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  Speaker 1: thought had just disappeared. She'd been hoarding it all along.
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  Speaker 2: The ultimate betrayal. Financial betrayal on top of everything else.
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  Speaker 1: He's enraged, goes straight to her parents' house to confront her.
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  Speaker 1: It turns violent. A huge argument breaks out. During the fight,
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  Speaker 1: Sabrine's mother tries to step in to break it up,
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  Speaker 1: and Samir, in his rage, strikes her. He breaks her arm.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, that changes everything, hitting the mother.
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  Speaker 1: It's crossed the line, a big one.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. This is no longer just about money or resentment overwaiting.
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  Speaker 2: It's about family, honor, perceived deep insults. For Sabrine, that
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  Speaker 2: injury to her mother that seems to be the point
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  Speaker 2: of no return. Divorce isn't enough anymore.
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  Speaker 1: She wants more than just separate.
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  Speaker 2: She wants total revenge for the lost years, the hidden money,
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  Speaker 2: and now for the violence against her mother. She needs
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  Speaker 2: to wipe the slate clean in her mind.
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  Speaker 1: So she needs help to get this revenge. She needs
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  Speaker 1: someone to carry it out right.
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  Speaker 2: She needs an accompliceh the killer basically, and she finds
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  Speaker 2: one a neighbor named Side.
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  Speaker 1: He's married, has seven kids, and is absolutely drowning in debt, desperate.
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  Speaker 2: For cash, the perfect target for her manipulation.
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  Speaker 1: It seems, so. She starts targeting him subtle encounters at
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  Speaker 1: the market, flirting. Eventually they exchange phone numbers. It's all
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  Speaker 1: very calculated and.
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  Speaker 2: Importantly their connection. It's purely transactional from the start, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: He needs money, she needs him to do something, no
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  Speaker 2: real emotion involved beyond those needs exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Then opportunity knocks. Samir gets a short term job offer
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  Speaker 1: in Cairo and leaves Minya.
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  Speaker 2: For a bit, creating an opening.
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  Speaker 1: The very next day after he leaves, Sabrine invites Side
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  Speaker 1: over to the house and they begin an intimate relationship, but.
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  Speaker 2: Again it feels less like an affair and more like groundwork.
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  Speaker 1: Precisely, after a few meetings, she lays her cards on
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  Speaker 1: the table. She tells Side what she really wants. She
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  Speaker 1: wants him to kill.
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  Speaker 2: Samir straight to business and his price.
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  Speaker 1: He immediately demands five thousand Egyptian pounds. Sabrine tries to
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  Speaker 1: haggle get him down to three thousand, but Side won't
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  Speaker 1: budge five thousand or nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Now five thousand, EGP, We need to put that in
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  Speaker 2: context for you listening in rural Egypt. Back then, that
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  Speaker 2: was a significant amount of money, like several months wages
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  Speaker 2: for many people.
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  Speaker 1: Right, not just pocket money.
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  Speaker 2: No, and crucially, it seems this was the exact amounts
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  Speaker 2: I had needed to deal with some major debt that
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  Speaker 2: was threatening his family. This wasn't just greed. It was
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  Speaker 2: perceived as a lifeline, a lifeline he was apparently considering
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  Speaker 2: trading a life for.
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  Speaker 1: They agree on the five thousand, but Sabrine insists he
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  Speaker 1: only gets paid after the job is done, though eventually
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  Speaker 1: she agrees to give him a partial payment upfront.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but here's a fascinating wrinkle side. He apparently had
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  Speaker 2: his own calculation going on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what was that?
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  Speaker 2: His plan, it seems, was just take that upfront money
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  Speaker 2: and run disappear. He never actually intended to kill Samir.
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  Speaker 2: He was trying to scam her.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so much deception on all sides.
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  Speaker 2: It's layers of betrayal.
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  Speaker 1: This leads to the first attempt, right, which fails spectacularly.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. About a month later, Samir comes back from Cairo
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  Speaker 2: for a short break. Sabrine puts heavy sleeping pills into
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  Speaker 2: his evening juice knocks him out completely unconscious.
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  Speaker 1: Then she calls Sayad, tells him come now, he's helpless.
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  Speaker 2: Sayd shows up, goes into the bedroom see Samir lying there,
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  Speaker 2: totally incapacitated, and he just freezes. He panics, says he
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  Speaker 2: can't do it, can't kill a man like that asleep.
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  Speaker 2: He loses his nerve.
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  Speaker 1: He balks, but Sabrine doesn't give up.
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  Speaker 2: No, and this next part, Yeah, it's incredibly disturbing. She
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  Speaker 2: makes her request. She asks Sayad to be intimate with
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  Speaker 2: her right there in the room next to her unconscious husband.
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  Speaker 2: What why it's chilling. It doesn't seem to be about
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  Speaker 2: passion at all. It reads like a desperate, twisted psychological tactic.
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  Speaker 2: Ye Like she thought this shared act of profound transgression
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  Speaker 2: right next to the intended victim might somehow break down
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  Speaker 2: his remaining moral barriers, bind him to her plan through
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  Speaker 2: shared depravity.
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  Speaker 1: That's incredible dark. Did it work?
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  Speaker 2: They apparently go through with the act, but afterwards said
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  Speaker 2: still refuses to kill Samir. He gets dressed and leaves,
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  Speaker 2: still fixated on getting the full five thousand pounds eventually,
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  Speaker 2: but unwilling to commit the murder, at least not yet.
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  Speaker 1: It's just unbelievable. Okay. So four more months pass. Samir
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  Speaker 1: comes back to Minya again, this time seemingly for good.
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  Speaker 1: He's got new financing. He wants to restart the farm project,
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  Speaker 1: tells Sabrine he's learned his lesson things will be different.
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  Speaker 2: He's completely unaware of how close he came to death
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  Speaker 2: or the depths of his wife's plotting.
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  Speaker 1: Totally oblivious. His brother warns him again, though, says Sayat
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  Speaker 1: is still visiting the house. This time Samir listens. He
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  Speaker 1: decides he needs to start watching his wife keep an
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  Speaker 1: eye on things.
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  Speaker 2: But it might be too late for surveillance.
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  Speaker 1: It is we arrive at the night of the murder itself.
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  Speaker 1: Samir leaves the house around eight pm, says he'll be
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  Speaker 1: back in an hour, maybe an hour.
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  Speaker 2: And a half, and Sabrine recognizes this is it her window.
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  Speaker 1: She contacts Side immediately tells him tonight's the night. Come now,
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  Speaker 1: finish the job. You'll get the rest of the money.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is ready and she prepares. While she's waiting for Sayed,
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  Speaker 2: she gathers the weapons and acts a heavy wooden club
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  Speaker 2: and a large sack for the body, like she's preparing
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  Speaker 2: tools for a task. Utterly cold.
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  Speaker 1: Say it arrives. They wait, but then maybe only fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, they hear it the sound of Samir's tuk
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  Speaker 1: took outside.
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  Speaker 2: He's home early, much earlier than expected.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly, Sayd is trapped, cornered. His escape plan, if he
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  Speaker 1: even still had one, is gone, and his first reaction
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  Speaker 1: says it all.
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  Speaker 2: What does he say?
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  Speaker 1: He demands the rest of the money right then, immediately,
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  Speaker 1: or he's going to try and escape over the roof.
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  Speaker 1: He's panicking, thinking only of the cash.
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  Speaker 2: But Sabrine holds her ground.
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  Speaker 1: She does payment after the job is done.
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  Speaker 2: No exceptions, and then Samir walks in.
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  Speaker 1: He walks in, sees said there in his house. Before
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  Speaker 1: anyone can even really speak, before confrontation canterrupt Sabrine acts.
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  Speaker 2: She strikes first.
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  Speaker 1: She grabs the axe and swings, hitting Samir hard in
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  Speaker 1: the head. That's the point of no return.
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  Speaker 2: The calculation becomes brutally physical.
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  Speaker 1: Say then takes the axe from her, delivers more blows.
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  Speaker 1: While he's doing that, Sabrine grabs the wooden club she
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  Speaker 1: prepared and joins in beating Samir until he collapses. Dead
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  Speaker 1: right there on the floor in a pool of blood.
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  Speaker 2: Just horrific. And the aftermath it speaks volumes about their
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  Speaker 2: state of mind, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: What do they do immediately after?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first they change out of their blood soak clothes,
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  Speaker 2: they clean up the stairs, But then before they deal
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  Speaker 2: with Samir's body, which is still lying there, they go
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  Speaker 2: to the bathroom and they are intimate again.
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  Speaker 1: Again, right after committing the murder with the body nearby.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's almost incomprehensible from a normal human perspective. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't passion, it wasn't shock induced intimacy. It reinforces yet
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  Speaker 2: again the purely transactional, dehumanized nature of their pack, sealing
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  Speaker 2: the deal, almost sealing the deal, yeah, confirming their partnership
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  Speaker 2: and the crime before moving to the final stage, disposal.
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  Speaker 2: Samir wasn't a person to them at that point. He
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  Speaker 2: was just the obstacle that needed removing the job they'd completed.
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  Speaker 1: So after that chilling act, they turned back to the
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  Speaker 1: task at hand.
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  Speaker 2: Right disposal. They put Samir's body into the large sack
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  Speaker 2: they'd prepare, they loaded into his own.
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  Speaker 1: Tuktook, and then to avoid making noise and alerting anyone,
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  Speaker 1: they don't start the engine. They actually pushed the tuktook
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  Speaker 1: with the body inside, down the road to a remote
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  Speaker 1: spot on the farmland.
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  Speaker 2: A final quiet act of calculation.
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  Speaker 1: Once they get it to that isolated area, they doused
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  Speaker 1: the tucktook in the body in gasoline and set it ablaze,
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  Speaker 1: hoping to destroy all evidence.
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  Speaker 2: Which brings us back to the beginning, the smoldering wreck
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  Speaker 2: found by the.
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  Speaker 1: Farmers exactly, But as we know, the cover up didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic evidence was too clear undeniable.
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  Speaker 2: The cause of death was the head trauma, not the fire.
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  Speaker 2: The arson was obviously an attempt to conceal the crime,
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  Speaker 2: and from there the police investigation quickly unraveled the whole story.
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  Speaker 1: They uncovered the relationship between Sabrine and Side.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the illicit relationship, the non romantic mercenary nature of it,
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  Speaker 2: connected the dots between the wife and the neighbor drowning debt.
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  Speaker 2: It all came out so the end result, both Sabrine
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  Speaker 2: and Side were arrested, they stood trial, and both were
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  Speaker 2: ultimately sentenced to execution for the premeditated murder of Samir.
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  Speaker 1: A truly horrifying sequence of events. All seemingly driven by
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  Speaker 1: Sabrine's calculated desire for revenge and Sayed's desperate need for
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  Speaker 1: that five thousand pounds.
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  Speaker 2: That really is the core of it, isn't it If
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  Speaker 2: you look at the motives. Sabrine was driven by revenge
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  Speaker 2: for her wasted youth, the financial deception, the injury to
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  Speaker 2: her mother. But she needed a weapon.
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  Speaker 1: A tool, and Side became that tool.
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  Speaker 2: He provided it, essentially selling his involvement for that specific
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  Speaker 2: sum of money to pay off his debts. It was
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: Sabrine's cold planning, combined with her knowledge of Sayaed's specific
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  Speaker 2: financial vulnerability, that created the lethal combination. There was no
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  Speaker 2: real passion here, no heed of the moment, just planning
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  Speaker 2: and transaction.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you think how easily someone's simple dream, like
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  Speaker 1: Samir just wanting that chicken farm, can be utterly destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: not by bad luck, but by the cold, deliberate actions
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  Speaker 1: of those closest to him, acting purely out of self interest.
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  Speaker 2: The ultimate betrayal rooted entirely in calculated self interest.
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  Speaker 1: And it leaves you with a chilling question, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: How thin is that line? How quickly can someone's desperation
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  Speaker 1: for money turn a negotiation into a pact to commit murder,
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  Speaker 1: And what is the real price of revenge when obtaining
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  Speaker 1: it means selling your own humanity for effectively a few
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  Speaker 1: months wages that calculation, that's something to really think about.