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Blood Sacrifice for Gold: The Egyptian Treasure Hunt Murder Fueled by Jinn and Betrayal · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so picture this a quiet Sunday morning. It's about
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  Speaker 1: nine am in the small, really close knit village in
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  Speaker 1: a suit governorate, Egypt. Life's just ticking along, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The usual sounds. The dust family is getting started until
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  Speaker 2: something completely shatters that piece.
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  Speaker 1: Charters is right. Some villagers spot something in a water channel,
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  Speaker 1: something unnatural.
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  Speaker 2: It's the upper torso of a human body, just floating there, headless.
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  Speaker 2: It's deeply, deeply.
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  Speaker 1: Disturbing, and the horror just mounts because within minutes they
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  Speaker 1: find the lower half nearby.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly so, security forces, criminal investigators, they all descend on
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  Speaker 2: the scene. Immediately, first thoughts are, okay, who is this?
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  Speaker 2: Looks like a young man killed very recently.
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  Speaker 1: But here's where it gets strained. Right from the start.
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  Speaker 2: Huh, this is the anomaly news like this, It travels
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  Speaker 2: like lightning in a place like that.
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  Speaker 1: Sure everyone would know something awful.
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  Speaker 2: Happen, right, but nobody comes forward, nobody identifies the body,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe even weirder, no one's reported anyone missing locally.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's silence. That's loud, isn't it. In a community
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  Speaker 1: where everyone knows everyone else's business.
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  Speaker 2: It's profoundly unsettling. It screams that maybe this wasn't random,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the victim was brought here from somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: And then they find the final piece, the head, confirming
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  Speaker 1: it's a young man, maybe twenties.
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  Speaker 2: But also.
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  Speaker 1: The violence, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Numerous stab wounds, vicious suggests intense rage, maybe revenge or
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  Speaker 2: something else.
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  Speaker 1: Entirely, this isn't just a straightforward murder case.
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  Speaker 2: Is it not even close? The level of violence, the
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  Speaker 2: mystery around the ID, yeah, it points to something darker.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this then, because this case it spirals
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  Speaker 1: quickly away from a normal homicide investigation into something really disturbing. Betrayal, superstition, unbelievable, greed.
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  Speaker 1: That's our deep dive today.
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  Speaker 2: So first things, first, identification. They have the.
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  Speaker 1: Parts, but no name, right, so forensics gets involved, fingerprinting
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  Speaker 1: the whole deal.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, full forensic workup. They're checking prints, cross referencing every
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  Speaker 2: single missing person report filed, not just locally but across
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  Speaker 2: the suits and neighboring areas.
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  Speaker 1: That must take time, it.
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  Speaker 2: Does, but it works. They get a hit, a report
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  Speaker 2: filled three days earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Back on Thursday, and that gives them a name.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Ahmed, twenty eight years old, and crucially reported missing
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  Speaker 2: from a village quite some distance away.
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  Speaker 1: Ah Okay, that explains why no local reports came up initially.
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  Speaker 1: So who was Ahmed?
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  Speaker 2: And this part's important kind of sets the stage for
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  Speaker 2: the tragedy. Ahmed was by all counts, a really good guy. Popular,
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  Speaker 2: worked hard, driving a small transport.
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  Speaker 1: Trust, had his own business basically yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Doing reasonably well, financially, highly respected. He was actually fixing
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  Speaker 2: up his apartment in the family home, getting ready to
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  Speaker 2: get married.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, just starting his.
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  Speaker 2: Life absolutely, and he was central to his family. His
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  Speaker 2: parents were separated, his mom lived with his paternal grandmother
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  Speaker 2: in the family compound. Ahmed was the reliable one, the
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  Speaker 2: fixer everyone leaned on.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so he's this depend well liked young man. What
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  Speaker 1: were his last known movements?
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  Speaker 2: Thursday? Evening?
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  Speaker 1: His mother and grandmother gave a police the timeline. Around
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  Speaker 1: eight pm that Thursday, his uncle's wife, they lived right
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  Speaker 1: next door in the same compound, came.
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  Speaker 2: Over his aunt, effectively.
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  Speaker 1: Right his aunt. She asks Ahmed, can you come over
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  Speaker 1: and fix our washing machine?
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  Speaker 2: And Ahmed, being the helpful guy, goes immediately helps his aunt,
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  Speaker 2: but he never comes back home.
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  Speaker 1: Never returns, so the family starts looking frantically.
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  Speaker 2: By two am, it's clear something's wrong. This isn't like
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed at all.
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  Speaker 1: They search and what did the uncle, the aunt, and
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  Speaker 1: their son Adam say? The ones whose house he went to, they.
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  Speaker 2: All tell the exact same story to the family searching
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  Speaker 2: and later to the police. They say, Yeah, Ahmed fixed
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  Speaker 2: the machine, then he got a weird phone call, seemed
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  Speaker 2: urgent and rushed off, saying he had to go somewhere quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Hmmm, a convenience story, all three saying the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Consistency can be reassuring or it can be rehearsed, and
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  Speaker 2: here it just didn't line up with the physical evidence.
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  Speaker 2: How so this is critical. During that frantic early morning search,
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  Speaker 2: neighbors noticed something important. Hamed's own transport truck, the one
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  Speaker 2: he used for work. Yeah, it was still parked right
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  Speaker 2: there outside the house.
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  Speaker 1: Ah So if he rushed off, he didn't take his
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  Speaker 1: truck exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He must have been picked up or left in someone
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  Speaker 2: else's car, which means that alibi.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm, the strange call, rushed off story. It was a
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  Speaker 1: lie from the second they told it. Okay, so the
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  Speaker 1: police know the family next door is lying. The uncle,
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  Speaker 1: aunt cousin Adam.
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  Speaker 2: Suspicion immediately sharpens on them, and then something else happens.
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  Speaker 2: Just two days after Ahmed vanished, Saturday morning, what's that
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  Speaker 2: the aunt, the one who asked him to six the
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  Speaker 2: washing machine. Neighbors see her leaving the house carrying a
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  Speaker 2: big travel bag.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, where's she going her?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, she suddenly needs urgent leg surgery, has to go
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  Speaker 2: to Cairo right away.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, they're in the middle of this desperate search for
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  Speaker 1: her nephew who was last seen at her house, and
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  Speaker 1: she decides now that was the time for sudden, unmentioned
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  Speaker 1: leg surgery in another city.
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  Speaker 2: It makes absolutely no sense. Neighbors thought it was bizarre too,
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  Speaker 2: She'd never complained about her legs before leaving during the search.
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  Speaker 2: It's illogical.
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  Speaker 1: That's not just illogical, that's a massive red flag waving frantically,
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  Speaker 1: a huge one.
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  Speaker 2: This bizarre trip, plus the lie about the truck, it
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  Speaker 2: pushes investigators to dig deeper into that specific family unit,
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  Speaker 2: the uncer's family.
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  Speaker 1: And what are they find?
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  Speaker 2: They uncovered the uncle's let's say, expensive hobby. He had
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  Speaker 2: this long standing obsession with antiquities and importantly with illegal
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  Speaker 2: unauthorized digging.
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  Speaker 1: Looking for treasure, ah the classic hunt for buried riches.
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  Speaker 1: So he was digging under the house.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently, though get this, five months earlier, the family had
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  Speaker 2: made a big show of telling everyone they'd stopped digging,
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  Speaker 2: filled in any pits, height calmed it was over.
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  Speaker 1: But the aunt's sudden surgery trip suggests maybe it wasn't over.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, based on her suspicious departure and the digging history,
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  Speaker 2: police demand US search warrant for the uncle's house, the
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  Speaker 2: one right next door to Ahmed's mother.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm guessing the uncle wasn't thrilled.
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  Speaker 2: Highly resistant, yeah, especially about certain rooms. Tried to block access,
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  Speaker 2: lock them up.
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  Speaker 1: That never looks good. What did they find when they
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  Speaker 1: got inside?
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  Speaker 2: It was a house of horrors Those specific rooms he
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  Speaker 2: tried to hide. The walls were smeared with blood.
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  Speaker 1: Oh god, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: Just random splatters, strange deliberate marks like bloody handprints, almost
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  Speaker 2: ritualistic patterns.
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  Speaker 1: Ritualistic. Okay, this is getting darker.
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  Speaker 2: What else beneath those marks? The floor wasn't solid. They
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  Speaker 2: found massive deep excavation shafts, pits dug straight down twenty
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  Speaker 2: meters deep, twenty meters.
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  Speaker 1: That's incredibly deep under a house.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and inside those pits more blood, a large quantity
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  Speaker 2: plus digging tools. Proof they hadn't stopped digging five months ago.
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  Speaker 2: They had carried on in secret.
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  Speaker 1: The blood, the pits, the weird marks, the resistance.
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  Speaker 2: The evidence was overwhelming, immediate. This wasn't just where Ahmed
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  Speaker 2: was last seen. This was like where he was killed violently,
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  Speaker 2: and it was somehow connected to this secret digging.
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  Speaker 1: So they arrest the uncle and the sun Adam right
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  Speaker 1: away on the spot. And the confession what did it reveal?
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  Speaker 1: Did it explain the sheer brutality of the strange.
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  Speaker 2: Marks it did, and the motive. It's almost unbelievable. It
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  Speaker 2: goes way beyond simple greed or anger. It's greed twisted
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  Speaker 2: up with extreme dangerous superstition.
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  Speaker 1: Superstition, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? So the family, the uncle, the ant, the sun Adam,
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  Speaker 2: and even their daughter, they had kept digging secretly. They
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  Speaker 2: were desperate, convinced pressure was buried beneath.
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  Speaker 1: Them right the illegal excavation, but.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't finding anything, so they hired help. Two well sorcerers,
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  Speaker 2: Charlatans maybe locally called sheikhs, though not in the respected
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  Speaker 2: religious sense.
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  Speaker 1: Travels okay, and these Charlatans promised them treasure.
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  Speaker 2: They did. They promised The antiquities were there, but they
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  Speaker 2: were guarded, guarded by the Gin.
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  Speaker 1: Gin like genies, supernatural exactly, spirits often believed in folklore
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  Speaker 1: to guard hidden treasures or influence human affairs.
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  Speaker 2: And these Charlatans claimed the Gin required a specific, terrible
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  Speaker 2: price to release the treasure.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell me a blood sacrifice, oh, my god, a
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  Speaker 1: human sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And the conditions laid out by these sorcerers were
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  Speaker 2: chillingly precise.
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  Speaker 1: What were they?
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  Speaker 2: The victim had to be the firstborn son, or at
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  Speaker 2: least hold that kind of primary position in the family structure.
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  Speaker 2: They had to be young, unmarried.
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  Speaker 1: Ahmed fit that description perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But the most horrific condition the sorcerers insists of
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  Speaker 2: the victim had to be slaughtered while fully conscious, awake
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  Speaker 2: and aware, and the killing had to happen over the
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  Speaker 2: sacrificial site, over those twenty meters deep excavation pits, so
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  Speaker 2: the blood would appease the gin and open the way
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  Speaker 2: to the treasure.
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  Speaker 1: This is medieval, It's beyond comprehension, and the.
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  Speaker 2: Most sickening part the entire family unit, uncle, aunt, son, Adam,
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  Speaker 2: and the daughter. They discussed this. They agreed.
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  Speaker 1: They agreed to sacrifice Ahmed, their nephew.
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  Speaker 2: They agreed that Ahmed, the kind, hard working young man
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  Speaker 2: who trusted them completely, who came over instantly to help
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  Speaker 2: fix their washing machine, he was the perfect victim to
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  Speaker 2: fulfill this demonic ritual.
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  Speaker 1: They chose him deliberately.
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  Speaker 2: They chose a phantom promise of buried gold offered by
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  Speaker 2: Charlatan's over their own flesh and blood.
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  Speaker 1: So Thursday night, the washing machine wasn't broken.
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  Speaker 2: It was the bait, the lure. As soon as Ahmed
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  Speaker 2: walked in unsuspecting his cousin, Adam attacked him with a knife.
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  Speaker 2: His own cousin, then the two sorcerers they'd hired jumped in,
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  Speaker 2: and finally the uncle joined the attack, making sure Ahmed was.
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  Speaker 1: Dead and the blood.
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  Speaker 2: They drained his blood into those deep pits, just as
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  Speaker 2: the ritual demanded, and those strange bloody marks on the
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  Speaker 2: walls part of the same ritual.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. What was their plan then after the ritual?
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  Speaker 2: Originally they probably planted to just dump the body somewhere
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  Speaker 2: far away quietly, but they didn't count on the family,
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  Speaker 2: raising the alarm so.
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  Speaker 1: Quickly the frantics started almost immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly so, now they're trying they have Ahmed's body hidden
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  Speaker 2: in their house, while they have to go outside and
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  Speaker 2: pretend to join the desperate search room. Imagine the psychological horror.
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  Speaker 1: Of that participating in the search while knowing it's monstrous.
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  Speaker 2: That pressure forced their hand. On Friday night, with the
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  Speaker 2: search still raging outside, the ant, the sun, Adam and
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  Speaker 2: the daughter took the next horrific step. Why was that
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  Speaker 2: they dismembered Ahmed's body inside the house to make it
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  Speaker 2: easier to transport and dispose.
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  Speaker 1: Of later, while pretending to be grieving searching family members.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and then we get to Saturday morning. The ant
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  Speaker 2: sudden tripped Cairo for leg surgery.
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  Speaker 1: The travel bag.
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  Speaker 2: That bag wasn't for clothes, It contained Ahmed's dismembered remains. No,
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  Speaker 2: she took that bag and traveled to three different distant locations.
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  Speaker 2: She scattered the to torso in one place, the lower
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  Speaker 2: body in another, the head somewhere else, precisely where the
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  Speaker 2: villagers eventually found them. Trying to confuse things, delay identification.
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  Speaker 1: The calculation, the coldness.
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  Speaker 2: It's just I have no words, sustained deceit on a
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  Speaker 2: level that's hard to process, searching for him by day,
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  Speaker 2: dismembering him by night, then disposing of the parts while
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  Speaker 2: claiming a medical emergency.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was that final desperate lie from the
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  Speaker 1: ant right after she fled.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, utterly despicable. She posted a video on social media
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  Speaker 2: from hiding, claiming the whole thing happened because Vahmed had
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  Speaker 2: tried to assault her daughter.
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  Speaker 1: A complete fabrication to save her own skin.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely a lie, completely demolished by the physical evidence, the
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  Speaker 2: ritualistic blood patterns, and crucially the detailed confessions from multiple
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  Speaker 2: family members about the real motive, the sacrifice for treasure.
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  Speaker 1: So looking at this whole nightmare, what does it tell us,
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  Speaker 1: what's the takeaway here?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a horrifying, stark example of how
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  Speaker 2: the lure of wealth, especially quick, easy wealth from something
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  Speaker 2: like buried treasure, when it gets tangled up with dangerous
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  Speaker 2: superstitions and these predatory charlatans, it can completely obliterate basic
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  Speaker 2: human decency, even fundamental family bonds.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the promise of gold just burned away their
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  Speaker 1: humanity totally.
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  Speaker 2: You have four people here, Uncle aunt's son daughter, driven
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  Speaker 2: by this fantasy of riches, manipulated by sorcerers selling nonsense
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  Speaker 2: about jin.
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  Speaker 1: And they coldly, calculatedly sacrificed one of their own, someone
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  Speaker 1: they claimed to love, someone who trusted them. Implicitly, they
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  Speaker 1: chose imaginary treasure over a real human life, their own family.
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  Speaker 2: It's the ultimate betrayal fueled by greed and superstition. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 2: just as did prevail in this.
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  Speaker 1: Case, they were all caught.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, all four family members involved, the uncle, aunt, son,
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  Speaker 2: and daughter were captured. They confess to their roles in
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  Speaker 2: the premeditated murder of the ritual, that dismemberment. They were
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  Speaker 2: all sentenced to death, some.
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  Speaker 1: Measure of justice for Ahmed. But it leaves you thinking
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  Speaker 1: it really does?
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  Speaker 2: It leaves you with a heavy question, doesn't it. When
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  Speaker 2: people are desperate, maybe economically, maybe just consumed by greed,
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  Speaker 2: how vulnerable do they become?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? And when that vulnerability meets ancient fears like beliefs
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  Speaker 1: in and curses exploited by people promising miracles.
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  Speaker 2: What responsibility does a community or maybe society a large mare?
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  Speaker 2: How do we stop desperation and superstition from letting charlatans
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  Speaker 2: dictate literal life or death decisions over innocent people.
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  Speaker 1: A truly horrific question to ponder, the idea that belief
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  Speaker 1: twisted by greed could lead to this, it's chilling.