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The European Countryside Massacre: A Full Story · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: So for this deep dive, we're heading back to May
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. And this setting isn't you know, some
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  Speaker 1: busy city street. It's this quiet kind of isolated area.
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  Speaker 2: Right think, newly developed farmland desert really, people call it
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  Speaker 2: the European countryside area near Shiksay. It outside Cairo, mostly.
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  Speaker 1: Farms, maybe some villa's still being built, pretty remote, especially.
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  Speaker 2: At night exactly. And that's where Amadel worked as a
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  Speaker 2: farm guard. He wasn't alone, though, no, No, he lived
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  Speaker 2: there during the week with family, his two daughters and
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  Speaker 2: his two little grandchildren, whole family unit out there, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for the work week. But they had a routine, you know,
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  Speaker 2: every weekend they were expected back home.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So this particular weekend, they don't arrive.
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  Speaker 2: They don't show, and Amadel's son, Mohammed, he starts calling. First,
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  Speaker 2: his dad phones.
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  Speaker 1: Off straight away. That feels wrong, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Then he trades his sisters nothing, no answer, and that
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  Speaker 2: little worries starts nagging him and.
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  Speaker 1: It escalates fast. I imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because Mohammed knows his own son, just five
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  Speaker 2: years old, Marwan, he's out there too, on that farm
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  Speaker 2: with them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh god, So it's not just his dad and sisters.
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  Speaker 1: It's his little boy. The panic must have been.
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  Speaker 2: Intense, absolutely and out there. You can't just call a
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  Speaker 2: neighbor easily. It's spread out. He knew he had to
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  Speaker 2: go himself.
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  Speaker 1: So he drives out there as it's getting dark.
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  Speaker 2: He arrives and it's not quiet. It's chaos. The first
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  Speaker 2: thing he sees, the thing that hits him immediately is
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  Speaker 2: blood just everywhere. He finds him quickly, his father, Emma Dell,
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  Speaker 2: and his two sisters, yeah, almost right away, murdered, stabbed
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  Speaker 2: multiple times. It's clearly overkill, you know, pure rage.
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  Speaker 1: And the weapon.
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  Speaker 2: There's a bloody knife just lying there near them. But
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  Speaker 2: his search, it wasn't over. The children were.
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  Speaker 1: Still missing, Marwan and his niece.
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  Speaker 2: His five year old son, Maran, and his seven year
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  Speaker 2: old niece, Shod. And this is where it gets almost unbearable.
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  Speaker 1: How did he find them?
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  Speaker 2: He finds them. The evidence suggests they ran, they tried
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  Speaker 2: to hide. Marjuan was found well. He was found near
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  Speaker 2: a tree, suggesting he was trying to escape. Shod found
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  Speaker 2: among the crops. Both slaughtered.
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  Speaker 1: The killer hunted them down.
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  Speaker 2: Children, five members of one family wiped out. It's staggering, unimaginable.
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  Speaker 2: So the police arrive, what do they make of this?
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  Speaker 2: It's not a robbery gone wrong? No, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: The security forces get their fast. I mean, the report
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  Speaker 2: itself is so bizarre. Five people killed like this, It
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  Speaker 2: demands a massive response.
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  Speaker 1: And the location immediately presents problems, right.
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  Speaker 2: Big problems, Like you said, isolated desert area, no witnesses nearby,
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  Speaker 2: and crucially no CCTV, no cameras anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So forensics are everything at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Everything they knew right away this case would hang on
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  Speaker 2: what the criminal investigation team could find at the scene,
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  Speaker 2: on the bodies themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that initial forensic work. What did they find.
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  Speaker 1: What was the immediate direction.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the team was thorough, fingerprints, physical evidence collection, the usual,
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  Speaker 2: but the nature of the attack, that sheer, brutality.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple stab wounds, the way they were killed.
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  Speaker 2: The consensus was immediate. This wasn't random violence, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: about theF This was personal, deeply personal. It felt like revenge.
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  Speaker 1: And then they found something specific.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, on Hannah, the elder daughter, she was twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: The medical examiner found signs she'd been assaulted or there
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  Speaker 2: was an attempt her clothes were torn, but she fought
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  Speaker 2: back fiercely, and this is the key. Under her fingernails
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  Speaker 2: skin traces DNA.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, So she scratched her attacker exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Which tells the police two critical things. One, she fought
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  Speaker 2: hard to the killer didn't walk away clean. He would
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  Speaker 2: have injuries visible ones.
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  Speaker 1: That's huge. They know it's revenge, and they know the
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  Speaker 1: killer is likely wounded, probably scratched on the face.
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  Speaker 2: Or hands precisely. It gives them a very specific thing
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  Speaker 2: to look for. So that massive initial sweep, interviewing over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty people, it suddenly got much much narrower.
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  Speaker 2: Is zeroed in quickly, very quickly on two men. Both
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  Speaker 2: were known to be in the area around the time
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  Speaker 2: of the murders, and both disappeared right after.
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  Speaker 1: Who were they?
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  Speaker 2: First, Hannah's ex husband, remember his own daughter, seven year
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  Speaker 2: old Shad was one of the victims.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's complex. And the second a man.
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  Speaker 2: Named Atuf mahmoud Assdi. He was actually the tenant renting
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  Speaker 2: the farm, and more importantly, he was considered a close
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  Speaker 2: friend of am Adel, the grandfather, So.
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  Speaker 1: The ex husband first, they must have questioned him intensely.
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  Speaker 2: They did but it quickly felt like a dead end,
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  Speaker 2: a red herring. Almost. Yes, he and Hannah had issues,
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  Speaker 2: typical divorced stuff, but he denied everything.
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  Speaker 1: And killing his own daughter in such a brutal.
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  Speaker 2: Way it just didn't track. People confirmed. He loved shod
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  Speaker 2: the sheer scale and brutality of killing everyone, including his child.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't think the profile of a custody dispute gone bad, right.
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  Speaker 1: It feels different if it was just about Hannah maybe,
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  Speaker 1: but everyone, even.
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  Speaker 2: The kids, exactly. The police were looking for a different
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  Speaker 2: kind of motive, something deeper than spousal anger. They needed
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  Speaker 2: someone with access, maybe a powerful sense of being wronged,
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  Speaker 2: and someone who vanished.
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  Speaker 1: Which leads them squarely to auntef l Side the tenant
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  Speaker 1: eheh the friend.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. They tracked him down pretty fast, back to his hometown.
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  Speaker 1: In Sohak, and when they found him, the.
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  Speaker 2: Suspicion solidified instantly. He had injuries, a clear wound on
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  Speaker 2: his neck, scratches, cuts on his face. He looked like
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  Speaker 2: he'd just been in a fight.
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  Speaker 1: The scratches Hannah left.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly looked that way, and you can bet the
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  Speaker 2: investigators use that during the interrogation.
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  Speaker 1: How do they approach it masterfully.
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  Speaker 2: It seems they didn't just ask how'd you get those scratches?
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  Speaker 2: They went straight at him. They likely said, we know
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  Speaker 2: Hannah fought back, we have DNA from under her nails.
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  Speaker 1: It's yours, applying direct pressure with the forensic.
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  Speaker 2: Evidence, exactly, confronting him with proof they believed was irrefutable,
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  Speaker 2: and apparently it worked. Faced with that, atf confessed he
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  Speaker 2: told them everything.
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  Speaker 1: And the truth is just devastating, isn't it? This aightflsaidy
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  Speaker 1: he's sixty years old, a fruit merchant.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and not just some random tenant. He was, by
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  Speaker 2: all accounts, a very close friend of Amadel. He had
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  Speaker 2: rented the farm just five months before.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, he rented the farm and brought the family there.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it looked like an act of friendship, helping Amadel out,
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  Speaker 2: giving the family a place to live and work. That closeness,
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  Speaker 2: that trust, that's what made it all possible.
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  Speaker 1: So what was his motive then? Why betray them like this?
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  Speaker 2: Over those months he developed feelings and infatuation for Hannah,
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  Speaker 2: the elder daughter. He knew she was divorced, She made advances,
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  Speaker 2: and she rejected him, repeatedly, clearly, unequivocally. No, means no.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't stop there.
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  Speaker 2: No, he actually proposed marriage to her.
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  Speaker 1: At sixty, to his friend's twenty five year old daughter
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  Speaker 1: who'd already rejected him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and Amadel the father was furious. He refused point blank,
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  Speaker 2: not just the age gap, but because Hanna herself had
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  Speaker 2: made it crystal clear she did not consent, She didn't
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  Speaker 2: want this.
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  Speaker 1: How did Adaf take that rejection?
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  Speaker 2: Catastrophically? For him, it wasn't just no, It was a
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  Speaker 2: public humiliation delivered by his friend, his employee. He felt
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  Speaker 2: his honor, his prie cromta each your a thought, as
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  Speaker 2: they say, was shattered.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't about love or even lust anymore. It
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  Speaker 1: was wounded, pride, revenge.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, the plan shifted. It wasn't just about forcing himself
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  Speaker 2: on Hannah anymore. It was about destroying Amedel's honor by
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  Speaker 2: assaulting his daughter. And because they all knew him, he
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  Speaker 2: couldn't leave witnesses. Anyone who could point the finger at
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  Speaker 2: him had to die. The plan became total elimination.
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  Speaker 1: How did he actually plan to do it?
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  Speaker 2: It was chillingly premeditated. He went to the farm that
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  Speaker 2: day bringing drugs too kind too Yeah, a general sedative,
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  Speaker 2: probably mixed into food or drink for the whole family,
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  Speaker 2: just to knock them out, make them groggy. But for
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  Speaker 2: Hannah and her younger, seventeen year old sister, he had.
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  Speaker 1: Something else, stronger, much stronger.
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  Speaker 2: A high dose veterinary tranquilizer, the kind used for dogs,
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  Speaker 2: large animals. He mixed that specifically into juice for the
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  Speaker 2: two sisters, intending to make them completely unconscious.
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  Speaker 1: And the family they trusted him completely.
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  Speaker 2: He's their friend, the guy who helped them get set
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  Speaker 2: up there. They took the drinks the food without.
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  Speaker 1: A second thought, but it didn't go exactly to plan.
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  Speaker 2: No, Hannah, she didn't completely succumb to the tranquilizer. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: the dose wasn't quite right, maybe her body resisted, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know, but she wasn't fully unconscious. So when he
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  Speaker 2: made his move, when atef tried to assault her, she
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  Speaker 2: woke up. She screamed, and she fought back with everything
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  Speaker 2: she had. That's when she scratched.
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  Speaker 1: Him, and the screams woke up her father.
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  Speaker 2: Am Adol. Yeah, he was drugged, groggy from the general sedative,
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  Speaker 2: but hearing his daughter scream like that, instinct took over.
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  Speaker 1: He ran to help her, which signed his death warrant and.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone else's etef Realizing he's been seen that his plan
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  Speaker 2: is exposed, panics. He pulls out the knife he brought.
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  Speaker 1: He came prepared for violence.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely Amadel, weakened by the drug, didn't stand a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Af stabbed him chest and stomach, then killed him.
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  Speaker 1: And then turned back to Hannah, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: With absolute malice. She was the cause of his humiliation,
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  Speaker 2: the one who fought back. He stabbed her repeatedly, face stomach,
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  Speaker 2: horrific injuries before killing her too. Then he killed the
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  Speaker 2: younger sister the same way.
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  Speaker 1: But the children, Marwan and Shad, they weren't fully sedated either,
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  Speaker 1: it seems not.
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  Speaker 2: They hadn't finished their drinks. Perhaps the screaming, the commotion
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  Speaker 2: it woke them up. They saw it, They saw what
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  Speaker 2: he was doing, and they ran. They tried to run,
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  Speaker 2: tried to hide out on the farm property, but atep
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  Speaker 2: he was leaving no witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: He hunted down a five year old and a seven
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  Speaker 1: year old.
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  Speaker 2: He chased them, caught them, and murdered them just as
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  Speaker 2: brudely as the adults.
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  Speaker 1: Pure evil.
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  Speaker 2: In his confession, he even admitted going back to the bodies, afterwards,
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  Speaker 2: stabbing them again just to be sure they were dead,
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  Speaker 2: drop the knife, wipe the blood off himself as best
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  Speaker 2: he could, and immediately left, traveling straight back to his hometown.
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  Speaker 1: So hag did he show any remorse for the children,
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  Speaker 1: his friend's grandchildren.
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  Speaker 2: His reasoning was chillingly simple. They were witnesses, he said.
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  Speaker 2: If more people had been there, he would have killed
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  Speaker 2: them to anyone who could identify him, just.
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  Speaker 1: Cold calculated self preservation. After the initial plan failed.
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  Speaker 2: It seems so, the legal end came. In January twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, Attefelseiti was sentenced to death for the premeditated
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  Speaker 2: murder of all five family members.
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  Speaker 1: The core of this, it really is that betrayal, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't a random attack. This was someone they trusted,
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  Speaker 1: someone who put them in that isolated place, who used.
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  Speaker 2: That trust, that friendship, as a weapon. He facilitated their
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  Speaker 2: move to the very spot he planned to violate and
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  Speaker 2: ultimately kill them.
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  Speaker 1: It's a terrifying look at how closeness can be exploited,
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  Speaker 1: that wounded pride, that crumta ijarat.
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  Speaker 2: It makes you really think, doesn't it? About hidden rage?
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  Speaker 2: How a perceived slight, a deep narcissistic injury could fester
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  Speaker 2: into something so monstrous, The calculated destruction of a whole family,
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  Speaker 2: children included, just to cover up the shame of a
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  Speaker 2: planned humiliation that went wrong.
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  Speaker 1: That transformation from friend to destroyer, that level of betrayal
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  Speaker 1: rooted and wounded ego. It's profoundly disturbing, Lise, You wondering
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  Speaker 1: what darkness can hide behind a familiar face.