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Poisoned Twice by His Own Wife · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: So you really need to picture the scene to understand
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  Speaker 1: where we're starting today. The year is two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 1: You are in the city of Ismaelia, Egypt, and you're
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  Speaker 1: standing right on the edge of a municipal.
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  Speaker 2: Sewage drain, which is I mean, that's definitely not place
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  Speaker 2: anyone wants to be.
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  Speaker 1: No, absolutely not. The intense heat of the midday sun
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  Speaker 1: is just pressing down on your shoulders. But what really
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  Speaker 1: hits you, what physically makes you recoil, is the stench.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that thick, foul odor of raw waste.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. It's suffocating, just decay rising up from the murky,
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  Speaker 1: stagnant water below. And there floating in this grim, dark
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  Speaker 1: sludge is a body. God, it's been submerged for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. It's battered by the elements and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the corrosive raw sewage. It's so degraded that the skin
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  Speaker 1: is completely ruined. The facial features are entirely unrecognizable.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a horrifying, stomach turning scene. It is.
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  Speaker 1: You are looking at the absolute lowest depth of human indignity.
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  Speaker 1: But what the investigators are about to discover is that
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  Speaker 1: the true no horror isn't the environment the body was
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  Speaker 1: found in.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's the story of how it got there. Because
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  Speaker 2: when that body's finally pulled from the sewage and brought
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  Speaker 2: to the medical examiner, the initial autopsy findings completely shatter
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  Speaker 2: any assumptions the police might have had.
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  Speaker 1: Right because initially you might think, hm, maybe he fell,
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  Speaker 1: or it was a robbery.
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  Speaker 2: Gone wrong exactly, but the forensic evidence immediately rules out
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  Speaker 2: an accident or a simple mugging. The sheer number of
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  Speaker 2: stab wounds, their varying sizes, and their specific placement on
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  Speaker 2: the body till a very clear, very chilling story.
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  Speaker 1: A story of extreme violence.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this level of overkill, the absolute frenzy of the blade.
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  Speaker 2: It indicates an extreme, deeply personal rage. It's a crime
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  Speaker 2: of vengeance. The attacker didn't just want this person dead,
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  Speaker 2: They wanted to obliterate them.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's deep dive. Our mission today is to
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  Speaker 1: unravel a chilling two thousand and eight true crime case
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  Speaker 1: from Ismaelia that investigators eventually classified as one of the
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  Speaker 1: most diabolical betrayals criminal history.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: We are taking you straight into the terrifying depths of
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  Speaker 1: human deception. You know, we often think of true crime
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  Speaker 1: as a story of strangers in dark alleys, the boogeyman
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  Speaker 1: waiting in.
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  Speaker 2: The shadows, the unknown threat.
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  Speaker 1: Right, But today you are going to explore what happens
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  Speaker 1: when the monster isn't a stranger at all. The monster
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  Speaker 1: is someone sitting right across the dinner table from you.
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  Speaker 2: Which is always the scariest kind of case.
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  Speaker 1: So let's unpack this from the very beginning. We need
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  Speaker 1: to dial the clock back and look at the foundation
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  Speaker 1: of what seemed, at least to the outside world, like
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  Speaker 1: a normal, quiet family. We have a man named Walid
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  Speaker 1: and his wife Randa. How did this marriage even start?
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  Speaker 2: Well. To understand the violent end, we really have to
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  Speaker 2: look at their deeply flawed beginning. Walid was a man
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  Speaker 2: who actually had plenty of options. His family had suggested
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  Speaker 2: several other women for him to marry over the years,
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  Speaker 2: which was a pretty common practice.
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  Speaker 1: But he wanted Randa.
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  Speaker 2: He was entirely fixated on her. He genuinely, deeply loved her.
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  Speaker 2: The problem was that Randa, who was thirty years old
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  Speaker 2: at the time of these events, did not share that
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  Speaker 2: affection in the slightest.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't love him at all, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: She never loved him the marriage was the result of
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  Speaker 2: intense family and social pressure. So you have a foundation
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  Speaker 2: built on a severe psychological imbalance from day one.
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  Speaker 1: One partner is entirely devoted and desperate to please, and the.
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  Speaker 2: Other is entirely resentful, feeling trapped in a life she
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  Speaker 2: never actually chose for herself.
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  Speaker 1: And from what I understand, that resentment wasn't just simmering
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  Speaker 1: quietly in the background. It was actively weaponized because of
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  Speaker 1: a very specific, deeply personal issue within their marriage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a crucial factor in the dynamic.
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  Speaker 1: The case files mentioned Walid suffered from what translates as
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  Speaker 1: a quote sexual weakness. Now to put that in modern terms,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about chronic intimacy issues or a rectile dysfunction.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It clearly wasn't complete impotence, considering they had three children
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  Speaker 1: together over the course of their marriage. But it was
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  Speaker 1: a persistent, ongoing struggle and if Randa used it as
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  Speaker 1: constant ammunition, didn't she She did.
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  Speaker 2: Every single time they argued, no matter what the argument
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  Speaker 2: was actually about, she would bring his medical condition up.
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  Speaker 2: She would belittle him, attack his manhood, and essentially blame
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  Speaker 2: him for every ounce of her unhappiness.
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  Speaker 1: That's brutal.
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  Speaker 2: It was a calculated way to break his self esteem
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  Speaker 2: and maintain emotional dominance.
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  Speaker 1: In the household, which naturally makes you wonder about Walid's psychology.
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  Speaker 1: Why on earth would someone stay in a situation like that,
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  Speaker 1: Why endure that constant, targeted emotional abuse from the person
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  Speaker 1: who is supposed to be your partner.
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  Speaker 2: The answer lies in his tragic flaw, his unwavering, unconditional
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  Speaker 2: devotion to her.
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  Speaker 1: He just loved her too much, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of matching her anger or recognizing the toxicity of
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  Speaker 2: the situation and walking away, Walid's response to her cruelty
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  Speaker 2: was simply to reiterate his love. Wow. He would tell
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  Speaker 2: her over and over that he was willing to do
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  Speaker 2: absolutely anything to make her happy, to seek treatment to
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  Speaker 2: fix the situation, as long as she stayed with him.
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  Speaker 2: His attachment to her completely blinded his sense of self preservation.
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  Speaker 1: And that dynamic eventually reaches a breaking point. There's this
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  Speaker 1: climactic confrontation where Randa just lays all her cards on
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  Speaker 1: the table. She tells will lead straight to his face
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  Speaker 1: that she does not love him, that his condition is
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  Speaker 1: the source of all her misery, and she's entirely done
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  Speaker 1: playing house.
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  Speaker 2: And Walid is desperate.
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  Speaker 1: He is practically begging her. He pleads with her not
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  Speaker 1: to destroy their home, not to tear their family apart,
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of their three young children, and Randa's
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  Speaker 1: response is ice cold.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't care.
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  Speaker 1: She packs her bags, takes the three kids, and moves out.
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  Speaker 1: She goes back to live with her parents, and she
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  Speaker 1: stays there for eight long months.
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  Speaker 2: Those eight months act as a critical incubation period. She's
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  Speaker 2: living at home, constantly complaining to her family about Walid,
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  Speaker 2: which really just reinforces her own narratives of victimhood.
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  Speaker 1: Right. She's building her case to everyone around her exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But more importantly, this separation sets the stage for a
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  Speaker 2: fateful encounter. During this time, Randa makes routine trips to
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  Speaker 2: the local market to buy daily necessities, just mundane, everyday life.
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  Speaker 1: But then she meets someone.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. On one of these trips, she crosses paths with
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  Speaker 2: a man named Sayaed Muhammad. He's twenty five years old,
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  Speaker 2: so five years younger than Randa, and he works as
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  Speaker 2: a laborer. He makes a good steady.
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  Speaker 1: Living and they hit it off.
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  Speaker 2: They strike up a conversation and very quickly a passionate,
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  Speaker 2: ilicit affair begins.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but here is where the logistics of this affair
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  Speaker 1: get incredibly dark. Randa is living in her parents' house.
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  Speaker 1: It's crowded, there are relatives everywhere, there is zero privacy.
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  Speaker 1: She absolutely cannot bring a twenty five year old lover
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  Speaker 1: back to her childhood bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: No, that would be impossible to hide.
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  Speaker 1: So she has to come up with a solution. How
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  Speaker 1: does she pull off an affair under those conditions.
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  Speaker 2: The solution she lands on is a master class in
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  Speaker 2: chilling pragmatism. After eight months of loudly proclaiming how miserable
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  Speaker 2: she is with Walid, she suddenly announces she's going to
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  Speaker 2: reconcile with him. Aware yeah, she packs up the kids
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  Speaker 2: and moves back in with the husband she spent the
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  Speaker 2: better part of a year despising.
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  Speaker 1: Great So she isn't going back to fix the marriage
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  Speaker 1: or out of some sudden realization of love. She's just
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  Speaker 1: using him for real estate.
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  Speaker 2: That is the breathtaking cruelty of the calculation. She returns
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  Speaker 2: solely to use his house as a safe house for
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  Speaker 2: her affair.
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  Speaker 1: That is unbelievably cold.
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  Speaker 2: Walid has a very demanding job that frequently keeps him
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  Speaker 2: away from home for long stretches of the day, sometimes overnight.
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  Speaker 2: Randa realizes that his absence makes their marital home the
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  Speaker 2: perfect rent free rendezvous point.
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  Speaker 1: She's utilizing the man who loves her unconditionally as a
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  Speaker 1: literal physical shield for her infidelity. Precisely, it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: even wrap your mind around that level of deception. To
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  Speaker 1: look a man in the eye, pretend you want to
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  Speaker 1: heal your family, and then invite your lover into his
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  Speaker 1: bed the second he leaves.
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  Speaker 2: For work, and it gets even more brazen. How so well,
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  Speaker 2: Eventually Sayad starts complaining he lives pretty far away and
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  Speaker 2: the commute is sneak over to Walid in Randa's house
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  Speaker 2: and Ismalia is taking a toll on him. He tells
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  Speaker 2: Randa he loves her, he wants to be near her,
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  Speaker 2: but the travel is just too much.
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  Speaker 1: So what does she do?
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  Speaker 2: Randa actually goes out and rents a room near her home,
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  Speaker 2: specifically for Sayid to live in. This ensures he's always nearby,
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  Speaker 2: just waiting for the exact moment will lead Lee's for
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  Speaker 2: work so he can slip inside the house.
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  Speaker 1: Having him that close leads to incredible risks. You have
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  Speaker 1: to remember there are three young children living in this house.
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  Speaker 1: They start seeing this strange man, Sayed, coming into their
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  Speaker 1: home on a regular basis, and.
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  Speaker 2: Children are observant. They ask questions.
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  Speaker 1: Right when they ask Randa who this man is, she
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  Speaker 1: feeds them alie. She tells them Sayed is their uncle,
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  Speaker 1: but an uncle they just don't know very well. She
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  Speaker 1: is actively making her children complicit in the deception without
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  Speaker 1: them even realizing.
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  Speaker 2: It, which almost backfires spectacularly.
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  Speaker 1: The kids, being innocent, believe it, but then they innocently
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  Speaker 1: mention it to their father. Walid comes home and the
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  Speaker 1: kids say, hey, our uncle was here today.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine the sheer, heart stopping panic Randa must
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  Speaker 2: have felt in that split second.
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  Speaker 1: It must have been terrifying for her, but she brushes
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  Speaker 1: it off. She tells Walid, oh, it was just a relative.
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  Speaker 1: He was in the neighborhood and stopped by briefly.
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  Speaker 2: The wildest part about Walid's reaction is the absolute lack
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  Speaker 2: of one.
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  Speaker 1: He just accepts it.
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  Speaker 2: The psychological profile of Walid in this moment suggests that
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  Speaker 2: on some level he had to know the pieces were
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  Speaker 2: all there. A sudden reconciliation after eight months of hatred,
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  Speaker 2: strange man visiting the house, his kids, mentioning an uncle
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't know.
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  Speaker 1: He suspected something was deeply wrong.
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  Speaker 2: He had to, but his fear of confronting the truth,
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  Speaker 2: his absolute terror that pushing the issue would cause Randa
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  Speaker 2: to pack up and leave him again, kept him silent.
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  Speaker 1: His denial became a survival mechanism for his heart.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, but it ultimately sealed his physical fate because while
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  Speaker 2: he is choosing to look the other way, Randa and
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  Speaker 2: Sciat are deciding that sneaking around is no longer enough.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Randa realizes she wants a normal, open life with
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  Speaker 1: say Ed, and the only obstacle in her way is
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  Speaker 1: her husband, so she formulates a plan to eliminate Walid.
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  Speaker 2: It has to look natural, he has to look like
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  Speaker 2: a tragedy, not a.
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  Speaker 1: Murder, so they set up a date. Randa approaches Walid
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  Speaker 1: and suggests they leave the kids at home, go for
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  Speaker 1: a romantic walk in the market and get some lunch
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  Speaker 1: together just the two of them.
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  Speaker 2: And Walid is absolutely thrilled. He thinks his marriage is
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  Speaker 2: finally healing, so.
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  Speaker 1: They go to the market for a romantic lunch. How
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  Speaker 1: does a public date turn into an assassination attempt.
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  Speaker 2: She weaponizes his desire to please her. They go to
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  Speaker 2: the market, they buy their food, They sit down to
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  Speaker 2: eat in a relatively busy area, and right in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of this supposedly romantic meal, Randa casually asks Walid
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  Speaker 2: to go buy her a bottle of water from a
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  Speaker 2: nearby vendor.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a simple, mundane request.
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  Speaker 2: But the moment he turns his back and walks away,
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  Speaker 2: she reaches into her belongings, pulls out a packet of
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  Speaker 2: rat poison and leases his food with it.
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  Speaker 1: He comes back with the water, sits down and finishes
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  Speaker 1: his meal, completely oblivious, and then the poison takes effect.
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  Speaker 2: The onset is brutal.
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  Speaker 1: He is hit with sudden, agonizing stomach cramps right there
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  Speaker 1: in the street. The pain is so severe he collapses
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  Speaker 1: onto the pavement. Bystanders rush over, A crowd forms and
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  Speaker 1: an ambulance is called. They race him to the hospital
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  Speaker 1: and it is a desperate medical emergency.
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  Speaker 2: It's a miracle to even made it to the er.
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  Speaker 1: But hold on, I have to interrupt here. He collapses
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  Speaker 1: in the street, goes to the hospital. How do er
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  Speaker 1: doctors completely miss rat poison? What did the basic blood
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  Speaker 1: tests show that he ingested a lethal.
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  Speaker 2: Chemical in a perfect world with unlimited resources, Yes, but
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  Speaker 2: you have to consider the context of a busy, resource
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  Speaker 2: strapped hospital. In two thousand and eight, the active ingredient
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of rat poisons causes severe gas row,
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  Speaker 2: intestinal distress, cramping, and internal bleeding.
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  Speaker 1: Which looks a lot like a bad stomach bug.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly when a patient comes in with those symptoms and
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  Speaker 2: the doctors are told he just collapsed after eating street
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  Speaker 2: food in an open air market, the most logical immediate
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  Speaker 2: diagnosis is severe food poisoning or a violent bacterial infection.
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  Speaker 1: So they don't even look for poison.
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  Speaker 2: They pump his stomach, stabilizes fluids, and pull them back
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  Speaker 2: from the brink based on that food poisoning diagnosis. They
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  Speaker 2: don't run a comprehensive toxicology screen because there's no reason
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  Speaker 2: to suspect foul play. No one assumes a wife just
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  Speaker 2: tried to assassinate her husband over lunch.
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  Speaker 1: That makes a terrifying kind of sense. So Walid miraculously survives,
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  Speaker 1: and when Randa gets back to Syed and tells him
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  Speaker 1: what happened, he doesn't express relief that they weren't caught,
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  Speaker 1: he chides her.
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  Speaker 2: He's actually angry with her.
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  Speaker 1: He tells her she was foolish for using too small
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  Speaker 1: a dose of the rat poison, that she needs to
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  Speaker 1: use something stronger next time, and there is a next time.
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  Speaker 2: Five months go by.
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  Speaker 1: Five months of Walid living in that house, completely unaware
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  Speaker 1: he is sleeping next to his own attempted murderer. It's
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  Speaker 1: a quiet day at home. Randa goes into the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: and brewis two cups of tea. It's the ultimate picture
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  Speaker 1: of domestic tranquility, but into Walid's cup, she pours a
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  Speaker 1: massive lethal dose of toxic agricultural insecticide.
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  Speaker 2: She hands in the cup, he drinks it. The strong
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  Speaker 2: flavor of the tea likely masks the chemical taste. Within moments,
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  Speaker 2: violent illness strikes again. He begins vomiting, losing consciousness, his
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  Speaker 2: body actively shutting down from the.
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  Speaker 1: Toxins, and Randa just watches this happen.
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  Speaker 2: She does, and then, maintaining her horrifying facade, she picks
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  Speaker 2: up the phone and coldly calls the ambulance herself. She
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  Speaker 2: plays the panic, distressed wife perfectly. It's a calculated move
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  Speaker 2: to ensure the event looks like a tragic spontaneous medical
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  Speaker 2: emergency occurring in the home.
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  Speaker 1: But once again Walid proves unkillable. The ambulance arrives, They
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  Speaker 1: rush him to the er, and the doctors manage to
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  Speaker 1: save his life a second time. It is absolutely astounding.
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  Speaker 1: He survives a lethal dose of agricultural insecticide.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the criminal behavior profile here, these
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  Speaker 2: two failed poisonings mark a massive turning point in the
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  Speaker 2: conspirator's psychology. Oh so, poisoning is a passive, detached method
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  Speaker 2: of murder. It allows the killer to avoid looking the
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  Speaker 2: victim in the eye, to maintain a psychological distance from
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  Speaker 2: the actual taking of a life. But when passive methods
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  Speaker 2: fail twice, the frustration mounts.
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  Speaker 1: Is Seed realizes that hiding behind chemicals isn't working anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the accidental proch has to be abandoned. The shift
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  Speaker 2: to brute intimate force becomes inevitable.
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  Speaker 1: So after two failed attempts, the frustration boils over, Sayed
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  Speaker 1: decides he has had enough. He tells Randa that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to finish the job himself, and he gives her
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  Speaker 1: very strict instructions to stay entirely out of it. Physically,
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  Speaker 1: he does wond her hands on the weapon right. The
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  Speaker 1: setup happens on a fateful morning. Said visits Randa at
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  Speaker 1: the house and gives her one precise directive. Tonight, at
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  Speaker 1: exactly nine pm, you need to ask Walid to go
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  Speaker 1: out and buy something for you. Just get him out
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  Speaker 1: of the house and onto the street.
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  Speaker 2: Think about the tension in that house. All day, Randa
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  Speaker 2: is watching the clock tick down, making dinner, talking to
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  Speaker 2: her children, knowing exactly what is waiting for her husband
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  Speaker 2: in the.
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  Speaker 1: Dark eight pm, eight thirty pm, then nine pm strikes.
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  Speaker 1: Randa goes to Walid and ask him to run an
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  Speaker 1: errand for her, and Walid, ever, the devoted husband, eager
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  Speaker 1: to please the wife he loves so much, agrees without hesitation.
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  Speaker 2: He has no idea.
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  Speaker 1: He steps out the front door and walks into the night.
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  Speaker 1: You have to picture this dark, isolated street. The shadows
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  Speaker 1: are long, the air is still. Walid is just walking,
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  Speaker 1: probably thinking about what he needs to buy, and then
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  Speaker 1: the ambush happens.
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  Speaker 2: Sayd. It steps out of the shadows. There is no conversation,
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  Speaker 2: there is no warning. Sayd attacks Walid with a knife
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  Speaker 2: and linking back to the forensic evidence, we discussed at
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  Speaker 2: the very beginning of this deep dive. This wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: single clean strike to incapacitate him.
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  Speaker 1: It was a slaughter.
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  Speaker 2: It was a brutal, frenzied stabbing. Sayde stabbed him repeatedly, relentlessly,
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  Speaker 2: until he was absolutely certain Walid was dead. It was
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  Speaker 2: an execution fueled by the desire to take Walid's life,
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  Speaker 2: his house, and his place as the head of that family.
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  Speaker 1: Once Walid is dead on the pavement, said drags the
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  Speaker 1: body to the municipal sewage system and dumps it into
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  Speaker 1: the dark foul water, hoping the sludge will dissolve the
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  Speaker 1: evidence and the body will never be found.
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  Speaker 2: He thought he had committed the person crime.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Then he turns around, walks back to Randa's house, and
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: delivers the chilling confirmation. The job is done. The husband
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: is dead.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: I just want to pause for a second think about
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: the weight of that betrayal.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: It's incredibly heavy.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Wali died out in the dark, trying to buy something
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: to make his wife happy, killed by a man who
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: was already sleeping in his bed, orchestrated by the woman
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: he's simply refused to give up on. It is the
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: ultimate exploitation of a person's loyalty. But their perfect plan
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: built on arrogance and cruelty, begins to unravel almost immediately
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: because nature and the sewage system refuse to keep their secret.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Two days later, the body surfaces. The police pull it
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: from the muck, identified as Walid, and they show up
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: at Randa's door to deliver.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: The news, and she's ready for them.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: She puts on an Oscar worthy performance. She screams, she cries,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: she literally collapses in grief in front of the detectives.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: She is playing the devastated widow to absolute perfection.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: But detectives are trained to look past the theatrical performance
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: and focus on the practical timelines. The lead investigator immediately
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: spots a glaring inconsistency.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: The timeline doesn't make sense.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Exactly Waled's body. He has been in the sewage for
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: two days, the forensic timeline is clear. That means he
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: has been missing from his home for at least forty
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: eight hours. Why didn't this supposedly devastated, deeply loving wife
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: ever bother to file a missing person's report.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Randa realizes her slip up and tries to cover her tracks.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: She tells the police. Oh, his job is so demanding,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: he frequently stays away for days at a time. I
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: just assumed he was working late or on.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: A site, which might sound plausible to a casual observer, but.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: To a seasoned detective, the seat of doubt has been
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: firmly planted. The police decide they need to dig deeper,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: so they bring in Waled's extended family for questioning.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: And this is the fatal blow to Randa and Sayad's
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: entire conspiracy. The family delivers two massive pieces of evidence
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: that blow the case wide open.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: What do they tell them?
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: First, they reveal that Walid had suffered from two severe,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: mysterious bouts of poisoning earlier that same year. Suddenly, the
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: detectors realized this wasn't a random street crime. This was
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the culmination of a sustained, month's long campaign to kill him.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And the second piece of evidence, the police.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Asked the family about a man named Sayed Mohammad, who
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Randa claimed in passing was a close friend of Walid's.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: The family categorically denies it. They state firmly that Walid
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: absolutely did not have a friend named Sayed. He had
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: never mentioned him, he had never brought him around, the
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: lie is completely exposed.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: The police now know they have a secret affair, they
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: have a history of poisoning, and they have a brutally
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: murdered husband. They know Randa and Sayed did it, but
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: as we see so often in the justice system, knowing
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: it and proving it in core are two entirely different things.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Right there, they don't have the murder weapon, and.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: The physical evidence on the body has been completely washed
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: away by the raw sewage. They desperately need a confession,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: so the detectives set a brilliant psychological trap. It's a
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: classic execution of the prisoner's dilemma.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: This is a textbook application. The police know that criminal
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: conspiracies rely entirely on mutual trust between the topa traders.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: By isolating Sayed, they can break that trust. They bring
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: him in for questioning, but they don't interrogate him right away.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: They just let him sit.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: They hold him in custody for three full days. Three
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: days of sitting in a cell alone with his thoughts,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: wondering what Randa is saying to the police, wondering what
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: evidence they actually have. The isolation breeds paranoia, and the
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: anxiety builds to an absolute breaking point.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Then on the third day, the detectives finally walk into
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: his cell. They sit down and they bluff. They look
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Sayed dead in the eye and say we have Randa.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: She cracked. She confessed to everything.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: That is such a bold move.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: But here's the thing, sayed. She put it all on you.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: She told us you bought the rat poison. She said
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: you poured the insecticide in the tee. She said the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: murder was entirely your idea. She tried to stop you,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: and you acted alone. You are going down for this
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and you are going to face the executioner by yourself.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: It's a masterful psychological stroke. The mechanics of the prisoner's
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: dilemma dictate that, when faced with a partner's presumed betrayal,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: betraying them back becomes your most logical survival strategy.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: They pit his survival instinct against his loyalty.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: They leverage his self preservation against his loyalty to Ritanda.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Say it is a twenty five year old laborer facing
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the gallows. The idea of taking the fall completely alone
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: terrifies him. The solidarity of their conspiracy instantly evaporates. He breaks,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: He completely folds and gives the police a full detailed
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: confession of every single thing that happened, from the rented
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: room to the rat poison to the final ambush. At
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: nine pm, he hands.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Them the entire case on a silver platter. Based on
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: his detailed confession, the police immediately arrests Randa. The facade
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: of the grieving widow shatters completely. They are both charged
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: with premeditated murder, and the.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Justice systant responds with absolute severity. The foren evidence of
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: the stabbings, combined with side's detailed confession of the prior
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: poisoning attempts, paints a picture of undeniable malice of forethought.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: So what was the final verdict?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: The judge, upon reviewing the horrific details of the case,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: sentences both rand Inside to death by hanging. The court's
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: final statements explicitly condemned them not just for the physical
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: act of murder, but for their utter and complete lack
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: of humanity and how they treated a man who offered
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: them nothing but love and accommodation.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: They took a man who repeatedly forgave, repeatedly tried to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: heal his family, and they threw him away like garbage,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: literally into a sewer. It is a profoundly dark story.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I want to leave you with the final chilling thought
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: to ponder. We often lock our doors to protect ourselves
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: from the monsters outside. We install alarms, we check the locks,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: We look over our shoulders in the dark. But what
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: happens when the deepest threat to your life isn't out there?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: What happens when the person plotting your destruction is the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: person you trust most sleeping right next to you.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: That is a haunting perspective to end on. The true
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: danger wasn't in the shadows on the street, It was
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: in his own home. Thank you for joining us on
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: this deep dive. Stay curious, keep asking questions, and always
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: remember to look beneath the surface. We'll catch you next time.