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Murdered for a Car Down Payment: The Daughter Who Killed Her Mother and Tortured Her Own Child · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this. Today. We're diving into a case
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  Speaker 1: from Egypt, a really disturbing one. It starts with greed, sure,
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  Speaker 1: but then it just spirals into something incredibly dark, targeting
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  Speaker 1: the most vulnerable. We're going to follow the investigation piece
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  Speaker 1: by piece.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's striking right from the start is how
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  Speaker 2: the police immediately sensed this wasn't random.
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  Speaker 3: The way the victim was found.
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  Speaker 2: It screamed personal hatred, not just say a robbery that
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  Speaker 2: went bad. Right, So the big question right off the
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  Speaker 2: bat was who was this woman and who could possibly
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  Speaker 2: hate her that much?
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  Speaker 1: So let's set the scene. It's twenty sixteen kafrail Doar
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  Speaker 1: near the Elmamoudia Canal. I think, quiet farming area. It's morning.
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  Speaker 1: Some local farmers are near the water and they see
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  Speaker 1: something odd. Yeah, this misshapen sack a schwalt is floating there.
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  Speaker 1: Looks heavy, but it's still floating. Doesn't look right, so
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  Speaker 1: they pull.
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  Speaker 2: It in and well, the shock must have been immediate.
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  Speaker 2: Inside there's a body, but it's the way it's prepared,
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  Speaker 2: meticulously wrapped head to toe and place stick sheeting, and
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  Speaker 2: the head itself covered with a separate black plastic bag.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't someone trying to quickly hide something, This is
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  Speaker 2: careful concealment.
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  Speaker 1: Police arrive and the initial assessment it just sets this
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  Speaker 1: grim tone. The victims an older woman maybe sixties seventies,
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  Speaker 1: fully clothed, but the violence is stark.
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  Speaker 2: Throat, slit, mad boha and clear signs of restraint. Hands
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  Speaker 2: tied with a scarf and a shawl, legs bound with
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  Speaker 2: a clothesline, just awful, and.
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  Speaker 1: The pathologist sees severe bruises, multiple wounds. The feeling is
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  Speaker 1: this was recent and fueled by just an incredible out
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  Speaker 1: of personal rage.
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  Speaker 2: Right. The restraints suggest the killer wanted control, maybe didn't
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  Speaker 2: expect to fight, but the wounds they indicate she fought
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  Speaker 2: back hard and crucially no id nothing.
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  Speaker 3: So where you even.
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  Speaker 1: Start, Well, the police did start intensely. They basically did
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  Speaker 1: three things at once. Interviewed everyone living nearby with a
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  Speaker 1: view of the canal, hoping for an eyewitness, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Then scoured all the missing persons reports for the whole
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  Speaker 1: area cav old, doar and.
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  Speaker 3: Beyond standards but vital.
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  Speaker 1: And Third, they got a description of the victim out
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  Speaker 1: to the public.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where it gets a bit weird, right,
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  Speaker 2: because no one had reported her missing. No matching reports
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  Speaker 2: came up initially for a crime this violent against an
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  Speaker 2: older woman. That's unusual, a real dead end at first.
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  Speaker 1: It was only after that public notice went out after
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a delay, that they got a call
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  Speaker 1: a breakthrough a woman named Amani Mohammad.
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  Speaker 3: And she identifies the victim.
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  Speaker 1: It's her mother, na'm Hassan il Sayad, sixty years old.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out she was a well known vegetable seller, a
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  Speaker 1: Bayat codar, respected in the community, raised her kids alone
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  Speaker 1: after her husband died young.
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  Speaker 2: So suddenly this image of extreme brutality clashes completely with
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  Speaker 2: the victim being this beloved local figure. The idea this
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  Speaker 2: was random, it just dissolves.
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  Speaker 1: Totally off the table. The investigation has to look closer
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  Speaker 1: to home now.
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  Speaker 2: And then comes the second big clue from the medical examiner.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't just the throat slitting. The primary cause of
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  Speaker 2: death was actually a massive blow to the head delivered
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  Speaker 2: with what a large marble slab, a low rocum caber heavy.
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  Speaker 2: The slitting seems to have come after that, maybe to
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  Speaker 2: ensure death.
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  Speaker 1: A marble slab that's not something you just find lying
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  Speaker 1: around in a struggle. Is it that feels brought.
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  Speaker 3: To the scene exactly?
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  Speaker 2: It suggests planning, and remember these wounds. The pathologists also
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  Speaker 2: found something else.
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  Speaker 1: She fought back.
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  Speaker 2: Fiercely critical forensic evidence attack her skin tissue under her fingernails.
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  Speaker 2: She scratched him, left a mark.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so now it's not just who killed her, it's
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  Speaker 1: who did she know well enough to let into her home?
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  Speaker 1: Who hated her this much? Attacked her with a slab
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  Speaker 1: and got scratched in.
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  Speaker 2: The process, Precisely. The overkill aspect is significant too. If
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  Speaker 2: the slab was fatal, why try to choke her, why
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  Speaker 2: the final knife cut? It almost suggests panic, maybe layered
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  Speaker 2: on top of.
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  Speaker 3: Cold and tin.
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  Speaker 1: So the police focus on in AM's inner circle. They
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  Speaker 1: talked to Amani again. She's distraught, obviously, but she points
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  Speaker 1: to one ongoing source of friction in her mother's life.
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  Speaker 2: And it's depressingly common, isn't it money? Specifically conflict with
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  Speaker 2: her son in law, Kareem. He's married to an other daughter, Mayada, right.
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  Speaker 1: Amani says, Kareem and Mayada were always asking Innam for money,
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  Speaker 1: and she, well, she usually said no.
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  Speaker 2: So Karim gets called in immediately, and the police barely
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  Speaker 2: need to ask questions.
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  Speaker 3: Before they see it.
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  Speaker 2: The scratches, bingo, fresh scratches crawbish visible on his face,
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  Speaker 2: his neck, his hands, and he's clearly agitated, nervous. He
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  Speaker 2: hadn't even tried to hide them properly.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't take long for him to break did.
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  Speaker 2: It Almost instantly, he confesses. But then comes the twist
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  Speaker 2: that must have floored the investigators.
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  Speaker 1: He says he didn't act alone.
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  Speaker 2: Not just that, he says he wasn't even the main planner.
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  Speaker 2: He claims he was pushed into it, coerced by his wife.
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  Speaker 1: Mayada Inam's own daughter.
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  Speaker 3: Her own daughter planned her mother's murder and the.
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  Speaker 1: Motive it's just so mundane and awful. By add his
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  Speaker 1: twenty four care on twenty five, unemployed, they have a
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  Speaker 1: young child.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted money, Specifically, Mayata knew her mother had some savings,
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  Speaker 2: cash and gold. The plan was to kill an am,
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  Speaker 2: steal valuables to buy a car for crime.
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  Speaker 1: They calculated their mother's life was worth a downpayment on
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  Speaker 1: a car.
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  Speaker 2: It's Patrick's side for essentially consumer goods. And it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just them. The planning involved a.
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  Speaker 3: Third person right the disposal.
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  Speaker 2: Karim's friend Rita Masad, a driver. He agreed to help
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  Speaker 2: get rid of the body for fifteen hundred Egyptian pounds.
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  Speaker 2: They treated the whole thing like a job. Murder, cleanup, disposal,
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  Speaker 2: just steps in a process.
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  Speaker 1: Let's walk through that night, because the details are chilling.
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  Speaker 1: Mayata and Karam go to Inam's house, just a normal visit, right,
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  Speaker 1: no reason for her to suspect.
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  Speaker 2: Anything, exactly Blend write in and then Mayata, this is
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  Speaker 2: maybe the coldest detail. She goes into the bathroom and
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  Speaker 2: does what turns on the washing machine deliberately that loud,
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  Speaker 2: churning sound. It was to cover any noise, any screams,
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  Speaker 2: so the neighbors wouldn't hear her mother being murdered.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, the daughter created a sound buffer for her mother's killing.
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  Speaker 2: That's the level of premeditation we're talking about. Just unbelievable calculation.
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  Speaker 1: So Enom comes out of the bathroom and.
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  Speaker 2: Karim attacks her with the marble slab, tries to choke her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mayada, what she doing.
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  Speaker 2: Scanding right there? According to Karam's confession, she was urging
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  Speaker 2: him on, telling him to hurry up, finish it quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe worried about the washing machine cycle, ending she's directing it,
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  Speaker 2: actively participating. Then Karam, making sure she's dead, takes a
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  Speaker 2: knife and slits her throat daba, and once it's done,
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  Speaker 2: the plan just kicks back.
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  Speaker 1: In logistics mode. They tie her hands and feet, wrap
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  Speaker 1: her head in the black bag, body in the plastic sheeting,
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  Speaker 1: put her in.
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  Speaker 3: The shwall, and final touch the rocks.
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  Speaker 1: Rocks odd jar placed inside the sack with the body
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  Speaker 1: to make absolutely sure it sank in the canal and
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  Speaker 1: stayed sunk gone forever, they hoped.
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  Speaker 2: While Karen and Rita are off dumping the body, Mayada's
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  Speaker 2: back at the house.
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  Speaker 1: Cleaning methodically removing every trace of blood and stealing. They
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  Speaker 1: came for seven gold bangles, a ring, an earring, about
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  Speaker 1: three thousand pounds in cash.
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  Speaker 3: The trial must have been quick after confessions like that.
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  Speaker 1: It seems so. Karm and Rita, for their direct roles
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  Speaker 1: in the murder and disposal, got the death sentence.
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  Speaker 2: But Mayada her sentence was different, significantly different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is quite striking. She only received four years
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  Speaker 1: in prison, four.
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  Speaker 2: Years for planning her mother's murder. The argument, apparently successful,
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  Speaker 2: was that Karim was the dominant figure, that he pressured her,
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  Speaker 2: controlled her, and her courtroom behavior seemed to back this up.
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  Speaker 2: She put on this performance of extreme remorse, utter collapse,
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  Speaker 2: said things like crying blood instead of tears wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: enough to atone It painted her as coerce, maybe manipulated,
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  Speaker 2: deserving of leniency.
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  Speaker 1: So the court saw her less as the cold planner
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  Speaker 1: and more as a reluctant participant.
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  Speaker 2: It seems that narrative worked, but tragically, that four year
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  Speaker 2: sentence wasn't the end of the story, not even.
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  Speaker 1: Close, right, This is just chapter one exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Fast forward to twenty twenty. My autis serves her time.
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  Speaker 1: She's released and her family wants nothing to do with her.
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  Speaker 2: Understandably, her surviving sister, Amani and other relatives rejected her completely.
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  Speaker 3: She was an outcast.
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  Speaker 1: So where did she go?
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  Speaker 3: She ended up.
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  Speaker 2: Seeking refuge with her late husband, Karam's family, his siblings
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  Speaker 2: and Alexandria. They had actually taken custody of her son,
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  Speaker 2: who is now about five years old.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so she's with her son and her in laws.
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  Speaker 2: For about three months, and then, as the source puts it,
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  Speaker 2: her contemptibility and evil came right back to the surface.
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  Speaker 1: What she do.
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  Speaker 2: She stole everything, all the property and money belonging to
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  Speaker 2: her in laws, the people who'd taken her in. Then
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  Speaker 2: she took her son, kidnapped him essentially, and just vanished.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, total disappearance until three months later.
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  Speaker 1: Where did she turn up?
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  Speaker 2: Back in Kafra el Dalwar at a hospital. She walked
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  Speaker 2: in carrying her little boy. Her five year old son
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  Speaker 2: told the doctors he was just high.
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  Speaker 1: But he wasn't just tired?
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  Speaker 3: Was he far from it?
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  Speaker 2: The doctors realized immediately something was catastrophically wrong. The child
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  Speaker 2: was unconscious and his body showed signs of horrific stained torture,
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  Speaker 2: covered in bruises from beatings, burn marks consistent with cigarettes,
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  Speaker 2: maybe fire all over his body.
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  Speaker 3: And this detail is just sickening. All of his fingernails
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  Speaker 3: had been ripped out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: The doctors called the police straight away. Mayetta confessed again,
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  Speaker 2: confessed that she'd been forcing her own son to beg
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  Speaker 2: on the streets. She had, and she'd been beating and
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  Speaker 2: abusing him relentlessly until he died from the injuries.
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  Speaker 1: She tortured her own child to death. After getting out
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  Speaker 1: of prison for her mother's murder.
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  Speaker 2: That final act, that absolute cruelty against a defenseless child.
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  Speaker 2: There was an o leniency this time she was sentenced
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  Speaker 2: to death.
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  Speaker 1: So looking back at this whole thing, it goes so
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  Speaker 1: far beyond just greed, doesn't it. It feels like a complete
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  Speaker 1: failure of empathy escalating from killing her mother to this.
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  Speaker 3: It really does.
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  Speaker 2: Four years in prism, the supposed accountability, it didn't reform anything.
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  Speaker 2: It almost seems like it just paused her capacity for
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  Speaker 2: harm before she directed it elsewhere.
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  Speaker 1: And that performance of remorse in the first trial, crying
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  Speaker 1: blood instead of tears.
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  Speaker 2: It makes you question everything, doesn't it. How do you
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  Speaker 2: tell genuine repentance from a calculated act to save yourself,
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  Speaker 2: especially when the person then goes on to commit an
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  Speaker 2: even more monstrous crime almost immediately upon release.
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  Speaker 1: It's chilling. The source material mentioned this phrase, reflecting the
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  Speaker 1: horror they must invent a way to execute her more
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  Speaker 1: than once.
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  Speaker 2: Which is obviously legally impossible, but you understand the sentiment
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  Speaker 2: behind it, the sheer scale of her depravity escalating after
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  Speaker 2: supposedly paying her debt to society. It's deeply disturbing.
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  Speaker 1: It really makes you wonder, what does a case like Mayadas,
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  Speaker 1: say about the limits of rehabilitation, or maybe about identifying
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  Speaker 1: profound psychological issues before it's too late. When a prison
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  Speaker 1: sentence seems only to provide a brief intermission before even
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  Speaker 1: greater violence, that's the question that stays with you.