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The Devil of Al-Ayyat: Unmasking Nasser Abd Al-Aal's Reign of Terror · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Imagine the sounds, first, that harsh clang of metal doors
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  Speaker 1: echoing late at night in a humid, fluorescent lit police station,
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  Speaker 1: and then through the door, these two figures just stumble in,
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  Speaker 1: a man, Fathy and a woman Herrea. They're battered clothes,
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  Speaker 1: torn faces, just a map of pain and terror.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to picture, isn't it. The sheer exhaustion, the
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  Speaker 2: fear practically rolling off them in waves.
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  Speaker 1: Fathy could barely stand. Horay was just trembling, uncontrollably, holding
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  Speaker 1: herself together.
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  Speaker 2: And the police officers, you know, they see things, but
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  Speaker 2: this this was different, right.
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  Speaker 1: Their first thought wasn't who did this? It was how
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  Speaker 1: many people did this? They assumed a huge brawl, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a dozen attackers.
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  Speaker 2: Because the idea that one single person could inflict that
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  Speaker 2: level of damage seemed impossible exactly. And that initial shock,
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  Speaker 2: that disbelief from season officers really sets the stage for
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  Speaker 2: who we're talking about today. This deep dive is about
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  Speaker 2: Naser abd Ah all known chillingly as the Devil.
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  Speaker 1: Of alay At, and Fathy in Herrea. Their arrival at
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  Speaker 1: that station was just the terrifying prologue to uncovering Gasser's story.
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  Speaker 2: It's a story of violence and manipulation that's almost hard
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  Speaker 2: to comprehend.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this. Where does someone like Nasa even
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  Speaker 1: come from? Nasar abdah All thirty seven years old, from Alayat,
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  Speaker 1: and his history is well, it's dark from the start,
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  Speaker 1: it really is.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about someone who, even as a child, wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just mischievous. He seemed to genuinely love crime, violence.
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  Speaker 1: The reports he even killed another child when he was
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  Speaker 1: still a minor, locked up for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was just the beginning. His official record
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  Speaker 2: lists fourteen crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen, including two murders as an adult two.
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  Speaker 2: Murders, yes, and countless violent assaults, thuggery. The list goes on.
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  Speaker 2: He spent cumulatively over twenty years in prison, different sentences,
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  Speaker 2: different times.
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  Speaker 1: But it never stuck, did it not at all?
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  Speaker 2: For him, prison was just a visit, as he apparently
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  Speaker 2: called it, No rehabilitation, no change. He'd get out and.
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  Speaker 1: Just escale to the point where his own family couldn't
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  Speaker 1: take it anymore exactly.
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  Speaker 2: They disown him cut Ties completely. They saw the brutality,
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  Speaker 2: the refusal to change. It tells you something profound about
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  Speaker 2: his nature, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It really does so outside of prison, how is he
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  Speaker 1: supporting himself.
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  Speaker 2: Primarily through extortion what's locally called a tala protection money,
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  Speaker 2: protection money. Yeah, he'd go to the local shopkeepers, the
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  Speaker 2: businesses and alayat and the deal was simple, I imagine,
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  Speaker 2: chillingly simple, pay me or I destroy everything you have,
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  Speaker 2: your shop, your livelihood gone.
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  Speaker 1: And the fear it must have been absolute.
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  Speaker 2: Completely paralyzing. Nobody reported him, not the neighbors who saw things,
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  Speaker 2: not the shopkeepers. Living under this constant threat.
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  Speaker 1: He created his own bubble of impunity through sheer terror.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good way to put it. That's silence. That
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  Speaker 2: fear was his greatest weapon. It let him operate right
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  Speaker 2: out in the open.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the public face, the terror of alli It.
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  Speaker 1: What about his personal life? Was there anyone close to him?
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  Speaker 2: Apparently yes. During a trip to Himbolve, he met a
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  Speaker 2: woman named Maha.
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  Speaker 1: MAHA's story is also quite complex. She'd been married before,
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  Speaker 1: had two kids, and there was something in her past
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  Speaker 1: referred to as a morality case. Though importantly, the sources
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  Speaker 1: say she had left that life behind her. She's trying
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  Speaker 1: to move on. So what drew her to someone like
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  Speaker 1: Naser It seems like such a dangerous choice from.
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  Speaker 2: Her perspective, or what we can gather, she saw his well,
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  Speaker 2: his strength, his power.
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  Speaker 1: She thought he could protect her.
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  Speaker 2: It seems so. Maybe she felt vulnerable because of her past,
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  Speaker 2: and Naser projected this image of being untouchable, a protector.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tragic kind of irony.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Their relationship itself was unconventional. They lived together for
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  Speaker 2: a whole year before any kind of marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Then they had a customary.
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  Speaker 2: Marriage, yes, and they had two children together, added to
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  Speaker 2: her too from before, so she was raising four kids and.
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  Speaker 1: Naser being Naser, he saw an angle in this relationship
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  Speaker 1: for his business, didn't he.
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  Speaker 2: He did. It was calculated. He decided to use Maha
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  Speaker 2: in his extortion racket. He thought it would break the
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  Speaker 2: shopkeepers even more to have a woman come and collect
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  Speaker 2: the ottawa. He felt would be the ultimate humiliation for them.
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  Speaker 2: It would underscore his total dominance.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's twisted, it is.
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  Speaker 2: And Maha went along with it.
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  Speaker 1: She did, She received a cut of the money, became
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  Speaker 1: in a way complicit.
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  Speaker 2: But even with Maha, even with this seeming closeness, Naser
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  Speaker 2: was deeply suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't he always that need for control never left him.
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  Speaker 1: Her past, that morality case. Apparently it preyed on his mind.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't let it go.
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  Speaker 2: But this wasn't about love or jealousy in the way
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  Speaker 2: we might understand it.
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  Speaker 1: No, not for Nauser. It was purely about control, about
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  Speaker 1: maintaining his image. He couldn't be seen as weak or
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  Speaker 1: tricked or betrayed.
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  Speaker 2: So he kept tabs on her constantly.
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  Speaker 1: His associates were watching her. She was under surveillance. It
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  Speaker 1: was about power, not passion.
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  Speaker 2: A gilded cage in.
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  Speaker 1: A sense, a very dangerous one. Okay, so this fragile, controlled, dynamic. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: things inevitably took a turn.
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  Speaker 2: They did. Nasser ends back in prism, another fight, another sentence.
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  Speaker 1: And while he's inside Fathy.
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  Speaker 2: This acquaintance of Nosros from MBABA starts visiting Maha at
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  Speaker 2: their apartment, regularly.
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  Speaker 1: Playing with fire. Considering who Naser.
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  Speaker 2: Was absolutely a huge risk and Nasser, upon his release,
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  Speaker 2: his first priority wasn't getting back to business as usual.
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  Speaker 1: He was finding out what happened while he was gone exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He went straight to his assistance, his eyes and ears,
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  Speaker 2: and they told him Fathy's visits frequently.
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  Speaker 1: He wouldn't just take their word for it. I assume no.
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  Speaker 2: He checked, corroborated it from multiple sources, left no room
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  Speaker 2: for doubt. He knew Maha had been unfaithful, and.
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  Speaker 1: His reaction pure rage.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you'd expect, maybe, but no, it was chillingly calm, collected.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't confront her immediately.
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  Speaker 2: No, he kept up the facade, pretended he knew nothing
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  Speaker 2: because his mind was already working plotting. This wasn't just
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  Speaker 2: going to be about revenge, Oh no, it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be elaborate, brutal, and crucially for Naser, profitable.
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  Speaker 1: He saw a way to make money from this betrayal.
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  Speaker 2: He did. It's that cold, calculating nature again, turning even
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  Speaker 2: infidelity into a business opportunity, albeit a horrifying one.
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  Speaker 1: So the plan starts to unfold. How does he draw
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  Speaker 1: Fathy in?
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  Speaker 2: He calls him simple as that invites him over, says
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  Speaker 2: he has a new job for him, something potentially lucrative.
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  Speaker 1: And Fathy yeah, he must have felt.
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  Speaker 2: Uneasy, deeply uneasy. He knew Nosser, knew his reputation and
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  Speaker 2: his capacity for violence. But saying no to Noser that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't really an option either.
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  Speaker 1: So he went goobly walks into the apartment.
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  Speaker 2: And Noasser greets him with this big smile, offers some tea,
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  Speaker 2: makes small talk about this supposed job, completely disarming.
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  Speaker 1: Lulling him into a false sense of security.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, but the second Fathy finishes that cup of tea, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the switch flips really instantly. Noster just explodes attacks Fathy
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  Speaker 2: without warning, beats him brutally, relentlessly until Fathy loses consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: Just complete sudden violence.
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  Speaker 2: When Fathy comes to the real horror begins. He's tied
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  Speaker 2: to the bed, can't move, and Nasser Nasar has a knife,
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  Speaker 2: a big one called asanja, and he starts cutting Fathy
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  Speaker 2: everywhere methodically, my guy for two hours. This goes on
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  Speaker 2: two hours, NASA questioning him constantly about the affair it.
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  Speaker 2: Fathy admitted he denied it at first, desperately he knew
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  Speaker 2: admitting it could be the end. But under that level
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  Speaker 2: of torture, eventually he broke.
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  Speaker 1: He confessed physical agony must have been.
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  Speaker 2: Unbearable, unimaginable. But Nasar wasn't done, not even close.
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  Speaker 1: What else could he possibly do?
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  Speaker 2: He pulls out blank promissory notes, receipts for huge sums
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  Speaker 2: of money, forces the bleeding broken Fathy to sign them, so.
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  Speaker 1: Now he has financial leverage too.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, the threat was clear, if you ever report this,
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  Speaker 2: I'll use these, You'll go to prison for debt, adding
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  Speaker 2: another layer of control of silence.
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  Speaker 1: It's just layer upon layer of cruelty. And Maha where
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  Speaker 1: were she during all this?
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  Speaker 2: She was there witnessing it. And then Nasser involves her
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  Speaker 2: directly in the most horroring way. He orders her under
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  Speaker 2: threat to go to Imbaba to find herea Fathi's wife
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  Speaker 2: and bring her back to the.
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  Speaker 1: Apartment, bring his wife into this nightmare?
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  Speaker 2: Why for Naser? Maximum humiliation, maximum cruelty. Maha, terrified for
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  Speaker 2: her own life, does as she's told.
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  Speaker 1: How did she even convince heray to come?
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  Speaker 2: She made up a story said Fathi had been arrested
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  Speaker 2: on drug charges and Herrayah needed to bring five hundred
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  Speaker 2: pounds to the apartment right away to help sort it out.
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  Speaker 1: A believable lie designed to get her there quickly.
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  Speaker 2: It worked. An hour later Herrea arrives, She walks in
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  Speaker 2: and sees.
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  Speaker 1: Her husband tied up, bloodied, tortured.
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  Speaker 2: This scene must have been beyond comprehension, and the realization
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  Speaker 2: hits her immediately. What Nasar intends to do.
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  Speaker 1: To assault her in front of Fathy?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she starts screaming naturally pure terror.
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  Speaker 1: How did Naser react.
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  Speaker 2: Brutally slams her head against the wall to silence her,
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  Speaker 2: and then the scene gets even darker. If that's possible,
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  Speaker 2: he orders Maha, tells Maha to hold the knife the
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  Speaker 2: soanja to Fathi's throat. With the threat, Fathy makes a sound,
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  Speaker 2: Maha kills.
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  Speaker 1: Him, pitting victim against victim.
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  Speaker 2: Utterly demonic control. Then, for the next two hours, Nasar
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  Speaker 2: tries to assault Herea. Does he succeed No, Incredibly, Herea
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  Speaker 2: fights back fiercely with everything she has. She resists him,
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  Speaker 2: prevents the assault from happening.
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  Speaker 1: For strength in that moment is just astounding, It really is.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually, Nasar gives up on the assault, maybe frustrated, maybe
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  Speaker 2: something else.
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  Speaker 1: He stops and then what he just lets him go.
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  Speaker 2: He unties Fathy, allows them both to leave, but not
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  Speaker 2: before delivering his final twist of the knife, which was it.
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  Speaker 2: He imposes a monthly ottawa on them five hundred pounds
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  Speaker 2: do every.
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  Speaker 1: Month, extorting his victims after torturing.
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  Speaker 2: Them exactly and the threat remains if you report me,
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  Speaker 2: I use the documents, or I come after Herea again.
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  Speaker 1: So Fathy and Herrea leave, broken shattered.
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  Speaker 2: They leave the apartment, don't even speak to each other
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  Speaker 2: on the way. Fathy utterly humiliated, Herea traumatized. The discovery
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  Speaker 2: of the affair another layer of devastation.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to fathom surviving something like that. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: what about Maha. She helped lure Herrea. What happened to
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  Speaker 1: her after they left?
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  Speaker 2: Mahan knew as soon as Fathy and Herrea walked out
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  Speaker 2: that door, she knew her own ordeal was about to begin.
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  Speaker 2: Nasser turned his attention to her. He tied her to
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  Speaker 2: a chair and then began a torture session that lasted
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  Speaker 2: for three continuous.
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  Speaker 1: Days, three days, three days.
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  Speaker 2: The details from the forensic report are sickening.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us we need to understand the extent of it.
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  Speaker 2: The report documented one hundred and forty three separate deep
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  Speaker 2: wounds caused by a spoon constantly heated then applied to
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  Speaker 2: her skin, sixty distinct cigarette burns from head to toe,
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  Speaker 2: marks of electric shock torture in multiple places.
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  Speaker 1: And there was more. Wasn't there a particularly severe injury.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, a deep, horrific wound inflicted in a sensitive area
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  Speaker 2: of her body. The report detailed it specifically. It speaks
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  Speaker 2: to a level of sadism that's almost beyond.
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  Speaker 1: He kept her alive for this for three days.
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  Speaker 2: Consciously, every time she passed out from the pain, he'd
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  Speaker 2: revive her cold water just to continue the torture.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't about killing her quickly, it was about the suffering.
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  Speaker 2: It seems entirely focused on prolonging the agony, inflicting the
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  Speaker 2: maximum possible pain over the longest possible time.
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  Speaker 1: And after three days, after.
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  Speaker 2: Three days of this unimaginable torment, MAHA's body finally gave out.
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  Speaker 1: She died, and ANSWER's reaction remorse.
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  Speaker 2: Panic, neither complete calm. He locks the apartment door with
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  Speaker 2: her body still inside and starts thinking, planning how to
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  Speaker 2: dispose of the body.
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  Speaker 1: He considered burying her himself.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently yes, in a cemetery. He wasn't worried about immediate
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  Speaker 2: discovery because he was utterly convinced Fathi would never talk.
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  Speaker 2: The threats, the sign documents, the humiliation. He believed Fathi
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  Speaker 2: was silenced permanently. That confidence, that arrogance, is why He
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  Speaker 2: felt safe leaving her body there for the time being.
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  Speaker 1: But he miscalculated badly.
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  Speaker 2: He did because trauma and desperation can push people beyond fear. Fathy,
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  Speaker 2: despite everything, sought help.
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  Speaker 1: He went to a lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he told the lawyer what happened about the torture,
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  Speaker 2: the forced documents. The lawyer advised him go to the police,
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  Speaker 2: report it claim dress.
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  Speaker 1: And they did. Fathy and Herea went to the police.
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  Speaker 2: They did. They reported the assault, the torture, the force
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  Speaker 2: signing of documents. Strategically they left out the part about
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  Speaker 2: the affair, understandable given circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: But it was enough. Yeah, that report was the catalyst.
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  Speaker 2: It was the police already had Nasser on their radar,
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  Speaker 2: they had intelligence on him. Fathyan Herea's report gave them
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  Speaker 2: concrete grounds to act. They went to his apartment, knocked
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  Speaker 2: on the door, no answer. They knew something was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: They broke the door down and found her. They found
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  Speaker 2: Maha NATed, covered in blood. The horrific evidence of the
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  Speaker 2: three day torture session laid bare.
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  Speaker 1: The scene must have been ghastly.
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  Speaker 2: Unspeakable, and Naser was he long gone?
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  Speaker 1: Surprisingly, no, he was apprehended very quickly, he wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: really high, still confident, still utterly confident, fath he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: dare report him, Still wrapped up in his own perceived invincibility.
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  Speaker 1: Did he confess.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately, calmly confess to killing Maha, confessed to the three.
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  Speaker 1: Days of torture and his justification.
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  Speaker 2: He claimed he had. And this is chilling, logical and
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  Speaker 2: convincing reasons for doing what he did. From his perspective,
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  Speaker 2: it made sense.
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  Speaker 1: Just zero empathy, zero grasp of the monstrosity of his actions.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely none. It's a hallmark of that kind of extreme
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  Speaker 2: personality disorder, a complete disconnect from morality as we understand it.
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  Speaker 1: So with the trial, the outcome.
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  Speaker 2: With the evidence, faithy and Horaa's testimony, the confession, it
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  Speaker 2: was conclusive. Nasa was sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 1: And for the people of Alayat, it.
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  Speaker 2: Was like waking up from a nightmare, just this profound
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  Speaker 2: sense of relief. The man they called Chaitan Alayat, the
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  Speaker 2: devil of Alayat, His reign of terror was finally over.
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  Speaker 1: His name became a legend, though a warning, a symbol
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  Speaker 1: of that darkness.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely a chilling local legend born from unbearable reality.
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  Speaker 1: It's a story that just leaves you cold. The calculated cruelty,
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  Speaker 1: the manipulation, the absolute disregard for human life and suffering.
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  Speaker 2: It really forces you to confront the depths of human
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  Speaker 2: depravity and the power of fear, which brings.
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  Speaker 1: Us back to that question, really, how does someone like
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  Speaker 1: Naser abdol I all even come to be?
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  Speaker 2: It's a deeply unsettling question, isn't it What confluence of
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  Speaker 2: faggers nature versus nurture creates such a person?
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  Speaker 1: And equally, what does it say about a community when
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  Speaker 1: fear allows such darkness to flourish unchallenged for so long.
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  Speaker 2: That's silence. It's almost a character in this story too,
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  Speaker 2: the silence born of terry that Nasser culivated so effectively.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you think about the fragility of safety, the
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  Speaker 1: power dynamics in any community, what happens when fear takes.
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  Speaker 2: Root, and the courage it takes to finally break that silence,
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  Speaker 2: even when you've been pushed to the absolute brink.
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  Speaker 1: A truly harrowing story, The Devil of Alliot, It stays
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  Speaker 1: with you