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The Murder Motive That Wasn't Real: The Afreet of Noura and the Beni Suef Taxi Killing · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, picture this Benny suef Egypt, twenty thirteen. It's about
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  Speaker 1: eight thirty at night. You're on a road between village's
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  Speaker 1: long dark, really lonely.
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  Speaker 2: Utter darkness, flanked by farms, and there's this irrigation canal
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  Speaker 2: that tear out nearby. The sounds are just emptiness, isolation exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Then you've got these two young guys on a motorcycle,
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  Speaker 1: their single headlight just slicing through this pitch black.
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  Speaker 2: And suddenly they spot something, someone emerging right from the
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  Speaker 2: area near the canal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Figure, and get this soaking wet, covered in mud and
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  Speaker 1: spotted with blood, fresh blood.
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  Speaker 2: That's I mean, that's a sight, and their first instate,
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  Speaker 2: maybe yours two is basic human decency. They stop, They
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  Speaker 2: have to help, right, they stop.
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  Speaker 1: But the person they find isn't just some poor soul
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  Speaker 1: who had an accident. This was well, it was something
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  Speaker 1: else entirely.
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  Speaker 2: The performance a trap totally. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The man stumbles over, claims he's incredibly sick, severe stomach
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  Speaker 1: problems as he slipped near the water while vomiting, hurt himself.
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  Speaker 1: That explains the mud, the blood, you see.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, plausible story, right, just enough detail. He asks them
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  Speaker 2: for help getting back to his taxi, which is parked nearby.
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  Speaker 2: But the taxi is completely dark, silent.
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  Speaker 1: And just as they get near the taxi, thinking they're
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  Speaker 1: helping this poor sick guy, another person just melts out
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  Speaker 1: of the shadow.
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  Speaker 2: Right now there are two of them, and the second
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  Speaker 2: guy jumps right into the ac he does.
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  Speaker 1: He ramps up the urgency, so the first guy isn't
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  Speaker 1: just sick, he's suffering from low blood sugar, maybe collapsing
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  Speaker 1: from it.
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  Speaker 2: And then comes the ask, the crucial misdirection.
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  Speaker 1: Please, They say, ride to the village fast. You need
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  Speaker 1: water with sugar for him right now before he passes out.
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  Speaker 2: It's genius in a chilling way. They're weaponizing basic kindness,
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  Speaker 2: creating this life or death scenario, and.
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  Speaker 1: It works perfectly. The two young men on the bike,
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  Speaker 1: convinced they're on a rescue mission, they just speed off.
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  Speaker 2: The second their motorcycle sound fades room the taxi engine starts,
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  Speaker 2: not gently, it roars to life.
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  Speaker 1: And it just tears off into the night. Gone. The
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  Speaker 1: witnesses heading the other way. They probably felt good, thinking
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  Speaker 1: they helped rush someone to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Little did they know they'd just been expertly manipulated by
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  Speaker 2: two murderers who needed.
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  Speaker 1: To clear the scene exactly, and that brings us to
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  Speaker 1: our deep dive today. This is a case where the
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  Speaker 1: violence was just staggering, but the motive it was so
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  Speaker 1: tangled up and maybe delusion. Police really struggled to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what was real and what wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't just about who did it, but this fundamental why,
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  Speaker 2: why such excessive almost personal rage.
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  Speaker 1: So the night covers for them, Morning comes.
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  Speaker 2: And sun reveals what the darkness hid. Farmers starting their
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  Speaker 2: day find the taxi just sitting there by the.
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  Speaker 1: Road, doors locked empty, but inside well, the driver's seat particularly,
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  Speaker 1: just soaked in blood. They knew immediately this wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: abandon No.
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  Speaker 2: This is violence. They called the police right away.
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  Speaker 1: And then maybe ten minutes later, barely half a kilometer down.
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  Speaker 2: The road, another grim discovery. Residents find a body in
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  Speaker 2: the shallow water of that same canal.
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  Speaker 1: The Terria police arrive and it clicks immediately, the bloody taxi,
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  Speaker 1: the body in the canal, and they're connected.
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  Speaker 2: The scene gets processed. The victim, a young man, turns
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  Speaker 2: out he's Mamod twenty six years old, a taxi driver.
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  Speaker 1: But the injuries. I mean they were brutal, deep slid
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  Speaker 1: across the throat like a slaughter, and multiple stab wounds abdomen, chest, sigh,
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  Speaker 1: just everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: The forensics, the blood trails, they indicated the killing probably
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  Speaker 2: happened near where the body was found. Then the car
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  Speaker 2: was driven a bit further and ditched.
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  Speaker 1: The taxi registration confirms its local Benni suef but nobody
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  Speaker 1: nearby recognizes Ma Mood.
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  Speaker 2: So who was he? Police find out? He read to
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  Speaker 2: the taxi, seemed financially stable, people liked him, worked an
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  Speaker 2: I shift, which fits.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the puzzle. His phone and money were gone.
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  Speaker 1: Suggests robbery right.
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  Speaker 2: On the surface, yes, But that level of violence, slitting
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  Speaker 2: the throat, stabbing repeatedly, that's not typical for a simple robbery.
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  Speaker 2: It's personal.
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  Speaker 1: It's over and if it was just robbery, why leave
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  Speaker 1: the taxi? That's the valuable thing exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The violence felt like rage, like fury directed at him specifically,
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  Speaker 2: not just a means to an end. Something deeper was going.
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  Speaker 1: On than just theft, so not just about money. It
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  Speaker 1: felt profoundly personal.
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  Speaker 2: That's what investigators thought too. They zero did on that
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  Speaker 2: time window while Mood's last call came in at six
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  Speaker 2: zero zero pm, just a one minute call. By nine
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  Speaker 2: zero zero pm, his phone was off. The murder happened
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  Speaker 2: in those three hours, and then a breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: Remember those two young guys on the motorcycle.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the witnesses who were tricked.
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  Speaker 1: They hear about the murder, about the taxi found near
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  Speaker 1: the canal, and it clicks for them too. They go
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  Speaker 1: straight to the police and.
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  Speaker 2: They identify the taxi. They tell the whole story, the
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  Speaker 2: sick man, the mud, the blood, the plea for sugar.
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  Speaker 1: Water, which confirms the police suspicion. They weren't dealing with
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  Speaker 1: common thugs. These were calculated killers.
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  Speaker 2: Calculated as the word, using kindness as a shield, making
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  Speaker 2: sure their witnesses drove away before the worst of it,
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  Speaker 2: or at least before the body was discovered near the road.
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  Speaker 2: It's psychologically astute in the very dark way.
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  Speaker 1: So the police have the witnesses, the timeline, the method.
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  Speaker 1: The next piece is that six point zero pm phone call.
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  Speaker 1: Where did it come from?
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  Speaker 2: They traced it not to a mobile but to a landline,
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  Speaker 2: a general phone at a mobile repair shop. And this
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  Speaker 2: shop was located in a village quite far away, but
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  Speaker 2: crucially right next to a cafe popular with taxi drivers.
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  Speaker 1: Ah the setup a public phone hard to trace directly
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  Speaker 1: to one person, and the location makes it easy to find.
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  Speaker 2: A driver precisely. It's a classic lure call for a
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  Speaker 2: long distance fare, something a night shift driver would likely
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  Speaker 2: take to get him out onto that isolated road.
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  Speaker 1: Did they have visuals CCTV?
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  Speaker 2: They did, reviewed the footage from near the shop, and bingo,
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  Speaker 2: a single person enters the shop just before six pm,
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  Speaker 2: makes a call, leaves about five minutes later. Matches the time.
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  Speaker 1: Perfectly and they identified him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he was identified as Wally, twenty six years old,
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  Speaker 2: also a driver, and he had a prior.
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  Speaker 1: Criminal record, so they bring him in.
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  Speaker 2: They arrest Walid, and apparently he didn't hold out long.
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  Speaker 2: He confessed almost immediately admitted he was the second man,
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  Speaker 2: the one who appeared near the taxi when the witnesses
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  Speaker 2: stopped the assistant exactly, He insisted he only helped the
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  Speaker 2: main person, the one who planned it, the one who
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  Speaker 2: was supposedly sick that he said was his RELATIVEBB.
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  Speaker 1: So while Lead points the finger straight at.
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  Speaker 2: Him, he does and suddenly this isn't just about a
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  Speaker 2: robbery gone wrong anymore, it's shifting into something much stranger.
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  Speaker 1: So they arrest for gob does he confess too instantly?
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  Speaker 2: But his reason it floored everyone. He didn't mention money.
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  Speaker 2: He said he killed Mohmud for a completely different reason,
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  Speaker 2: which was to and I quote save people's daughters, specifically
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  Speaker 2: one woman, Nourra.
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  Speaker 1: Save people's daughters. What does that even mean? Who is Nour?
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  Speaker 2: That's what investigators had to unravel Where God was twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: also a driver. About three months before the murder, he
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  Speaker 2: picks up a customer named Nora. Apparently she was very beautiful, captivating.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, a customer relationship starts.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to have escalated quickly. He drove around for
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  Speaker 2: about two weeks, but she was mysterious, always changing pickup spots,
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  Speaker 2: never revealing where she actually lived, kept him at arm's
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  Speaker 2: length physically.
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  Speaker 1: At least red flags maybe, but he was smitten.
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  Speaker 2: Completely infatuated, it seems averter. Just a month of knowing
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  Speaker 2: her driving her around, Regod proposed marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Wow that's fast. What does she say?
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  Speaker 2: She accepted, But there was a condition, a terrible secret
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  Speaker 2: she needed to reveal first.
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  Speaker 1: Uh oh, here it comes.
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  Speaker 2: She told regab this story six months earlier, Mahmood, the
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  Speaker 2: man re Gob would later kill, had allegedly drugged her
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  Speaker 2: with juice, taken her to his apartment, assaulted her, and
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  Speaker 2: filmed the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's horrific if true.
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  Speaker 2: If true, Nora claimed my Mood had been blackmailing her
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  Speaker 2: ever since with these videos and photos. Her life was ruined.
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  Speaker 2: She said she was desperate. She needed Regab, her new fiance,
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  Speaker 2: her hero, to get those recordings back from Mamood.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, she accepts his proposal and then drops
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  Speaker 1: this bombshell that requires him to basically confront, possibly violently,
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  Speaker 1: another man.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, and this is where Ragab's perception of reality seems
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  Speaker 2: to just break. Any logical person might ask, why didn't
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  Speaker 2: you go to the police. Where's the proof of this blackmail?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Did he ask any of that?
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  Speaker 2: Apparently not. According to the investigation, Nora played heavily on
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  Speaker 2: his feelings for her, his desire to be her protector,
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  Speaker 2: maybe his fear she'd leave him if he didn't help.
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  Speaker 2: He bought the story completely, hook line and sinker.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't just buy it. He decided on a course
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  Speaker 1: of action based on it.
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  Speaker 2: He did. His mission became clear eliminate ma Mood and
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  Speaker 2: the threat he supposedly posed. He first contacted Mahmood seemingly
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  Speaker 2: about these alleged videos, which led to some kind of
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  Speaker 2: argument or fight.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so there was contact before the.
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  Speaker 2: Murder, yes, but initiated Byragab based on Nora's story fight,
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  Speaker 2: Regob decided Mamod couldn't just be confronted. He had to
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  Speaker 2: be killed. That's when he involved Walid.
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  Speaker 1: To make the phone call lure him out exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Walid makes the call, sets up the fake long distance fare,
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  Speaker 2: They get Mamod out onto that deserted road, and then
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  Speaker 2: once the three of them were there in the darkness,
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  Speaker 2: Ragob pulls out a knife. He tells Mahmod why he's
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  Speaker 2: doing this because of Nora reports suggests Mahmoud was completely confused,
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  Speaker 2: didn't seem to understand the accusation.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't even know what Regob was talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It seems not. Then, with Walid helping restrain ma Mood,
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  Speaker 2: Regob attacked him, the throats, slitting, their repeating stabbings, the
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  Speaker 2: extreme violence we talked about. He killed him right there
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  Speaker 2: near the canal.
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  Speaker 1: Just brutal. Based entirely on this story, Nora told him.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the twist, the final chilling piece of the puzzle.
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  Speaker 2: What is it Nora, the woman he was supposedly saving
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  Speaker 2: the reason for this entire horrific act. She had disappeared
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  Speaker 2: two days before the murder. Regob couldn't contact her.
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  Speaker 1: Which she vanished before he killed Mamod.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he carried out this murder, this supposed rescue mission
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  Speaker 2: for someone who wasn't even there. He killed Mamod for
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  Speaker 2: a ghost and afried, as some might say in this context,
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  Speaker 2: a phantom.
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  Speaker 1: So after the arrests, the police obviously try to find Nora.
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  Speaker 2: She's crucial, absolutely, but they couldn't find her anywhere. It
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  Speaker 2: was literally like she didn't exist, or at least the
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  Speaker 2: version Ragob described didn't. The air freed of the story's title.
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  Speaker 1: But they did eventually find the real woman Regob was
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  Speaker 1: referring to.
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  Speaker 2: They did after a lot of searching, and when they
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  Speaker 2: talked to her, Ragob's entire narrative just collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: What did the real Nora say?
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  Speaker 2: She confirmed she knew Regab, yes, as a taxi driver
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  Speaker 2: who drove her sometimes, but she denied everything else.
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  Speaker 1: No romantic relationship, no proposal, none.
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  Speaker 2: She denied any assault by Mamod, any drugging incident, any blackmail,
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  Speaker 2: any videos whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: So the whole story about Mamood blackmailing her was fabricated,
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  Speaker 1: according to her.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, completely fabricated Byragab. The only thing she recalled telling
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  Speaker 2: Regob about Mahmood, who was just another driver she'd encountered once,
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  Speaker 2: was that he had maybe tried to flirt with her
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  Speaker 2: or harass her slightly on one occasion.
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  Speaker 1: That was it a minor incident. Maybe inappropriate flirting gets
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  Speaker 1: twisted into drugging, assault, blackmail and murder.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the investigation concluded. There was no prior conflict
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  Speaker 2: between Regab and Mahmood apart from the one Regob initiated
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  Speaker 2: based on the false story. Mahmood wasn't the predator Regab
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  Speaker 2: painted him to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost unbelievable. So Regab invented this whole elaborate justification.
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  Speaker 2: It appears so both he and Wally were convicted of
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  Speaker 2: premeditated murder, sentenced to death. But the question lingers, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Why Why did Reggad commit such a savage killing based
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  Speaker 2: on a fiction and why did Walid go along with it?
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  Speaker 1: What does this tell us was Regab truly delusional? Did
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  Speaker 1: he genuinely believe this elaborate lie he constructed.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to say definitively without a full psychiatric profile,
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  Speaker 2: but the fact suggest a powerful delusion, or at least
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  Speaker 2: a profound self deception. He needed a justification for violence.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps Mamood hadn't actually wronged him in any significant way,
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  Speaker 2: so Regob created a narrative where Mahmood was a monster
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  Speaker 2: and he, Regob was the hero.
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  Speaker 1: The rescue of Nora wasn't the reason, it was the excuse.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, it provided the license, the permission slip in his
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  Speaker 2: own mind to enact extreme violence. He transformed a minor grievance,
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  Speaker 2: possibly based on a single comment from Nora, into a
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  Speaker 2: justification for murder. It highlights the difference between a reason
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  Speaker 2: for a crime and a justification created by the perpetrator.
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  Speaker 1: And Walid just assisted with no apparent benefit for himself.
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  Speaker 2: His motives remained murky, perhaps loyalty, perhaps coercion, perhaps his
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  Speaker 2: own issues, but he enabled Ragob's fantasy to become a
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  Speaker 2: deadly reality. The true Afrite, the real ghost in this
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  Speaker 2: story wasn't Nora. It was a phantom narrative inside Regob's head.
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  Speaker 1: So we're left with this incredibly disturbing picture, a brutal murder,
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  Speaker 1: meticulously planned, driven by a motive that simply wasn't real.
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  Speaker 2: And think about this. If the victim wasn't a monster,
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  Speaker 2: if the entire motive is conjured out of thin air
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  Speaker 2: to justify violence, what does that say about the potential
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  Speaker 2: for darkness lurking just beneath the surface. How easily can
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  Speaker 2: someone create a justification to do the unthinkable.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you wonder how many justifications people build for themselves,
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  Speaker 1: how firmly they believe them, even when they lead to
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  Speaker 1: destroying someone else.
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  Speaker 2: It's a chilling thought. The effort of Nora is a
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  Speaker 2: stark reminder of how reality can be twisted, how delusion
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  Speaker 2: can take hold, and how quickly it can all unravel
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  Speaker 2: into unimaginable violence. It really leaves you pondering the ghosts
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  Speaker 2: we create in our own minds.