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The Betrayal of Mercy: The Qatar Triple Murder Case · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: The air in Doha, Qatar, is different. Before dawn. It's
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  Speaker 1: usually silent still, especially during the quiet focus of Ramadan,
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  Speaker 1: and this particular morning, it all started with the tradition
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  Speaker 1: of Fajier prayer, that first prayer of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Right a time for peace, for reflection.
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  Speaker 1: A close friend arrives in an apartment building to meet
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  Speaker 1: his three companions, and he sees their cars parked right
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  Speaker 1: below exactly where they should be.
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  Speaker 2: So far, so normal.
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  Speaker 1: But when he gets to the flat, the door's locked.
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  Speaker 1: He knocks, nothing, he calls their phones, All three goes
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  Speaker 1: straight to voicemail, silent. And you have to understand, these
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  Speaker 1: were men of deep, routine, successful, dependable.
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  Speaker 2: So this wasn't just them sleeping in.
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  Speaker 1: No, this was an immediate crisis. Yeah, a chilling break
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  Speaker 1: from the norm.
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  Speaker 2: And that break from the norm, that deviation, it tells
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  Speaker 2: you everything. When the police finally get inside, what they
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  Speaker 2: find isn't just a crime scene, it's a total calculated
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  Speaker 2: betrayal of trust.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings us to the core of this deep dive,
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  Speaker 1: that old painful saying, beware the evil of him upon
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  Speaker 1: whom you confer good exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So let's unpack this let's.
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  Speaker 1: Start with the victims, because their lives are really the
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  Speaker 1: crucial backdrop to all of this.
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  Speaker 2: Abdulsila Marus he was the older brother, kind of the
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  Speaker 2: anchor of the group, an established, very successful businessman. He
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  Speaker 2: owned a contracting company in.
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  Speaker 1: Doha, which is not easy to do there. It's a
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  Speaker 1: hugely competitive market, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: And his success, you know, it allowed him to help
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  Speaker 2: his family, which is why his younger brother, Goma Marus
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  Speaker 2: was there. He'd come to Qatar to work with him.
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  Speaker 2: A classic story, a very classic story. And the third
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  Speaker 2: man was Ali Shaban Alshimi, an engineer, a close friend
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  Speaker 2: from Fayum. Living with the brothers, they were a unit, respected,
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  Speaker 2: hard working and op bomb. This is the key known
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  Speaker 2: for being incredibly kind.
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  Speaker 1: And that kindness is what set everything in motion. April
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, the second day of Ramadan, the three
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  Speaker 1: men are out for a walk after Iftar after breaking
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  Speaker 1: their fast, and.
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  Speaker 2: They see someone, a man named Tamer Mohammed Sayed, forty
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  Speaker 2: four years old, a ceramic tyler. He's just openly weeping
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  Speaker 2: in the street.
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  Speaker 1: That's a site that would stop anyone, especially during Ramanan.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, so they approach him and Tamer tells them this
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  Speaker 2: story of just absolute desperation. He's from Super El Cheimen
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  Speaker 2: in Egypt, came over on a tourist visa hoping to
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  Speaker 2: find illegal.
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  Speaker 1: Work, probably tied to all the World Cup construction.
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  Speaker 2: Most likely. Yeah, but he'd failed, he'd overstated his visa,
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  Speaker 2: he was out of money, and he tells them he's
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  Speaker 2: been sleeping on the street for four days, no food,
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  Speaker 2: no water. And their response was just instantaneous. It's deeply cultural.
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  Speaker 2: You don't see that and walk away. They insisted right
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  Speaker 2: then and there that Tamer.
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  Speaker 1: Come live with them, no questions asked.
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  Speaker 2: Just come with us. They told him he could stay
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  Speaker 2: until they found him work, or if that failed, they'd
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  Speaker 2: arrange his ticket back to Egypt themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And that one decision, that one act of compassion, gave
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  Speaker 1: Tamer twenty five days inside their home.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty five days, and he didn't just get a bed
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  Speaker 2: and some food. They integrated him into their lives. He
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  Speaker 2: ate with them, they took him out. They felt this
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  Speaker 2: genuine sense of responsibility for him.
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  Speaker 1: They even introduced him to their friends.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, at their suhor and if Tar gatherings. He was
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  Speaker 2: treated like family. But this is where the story starts.
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  Speaker 2: To turn the red flags, big ones. You see, while
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  Speaker 2: his hosts were fasting and praying for Ramadan, Tamer was
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  Speaker 2: doing neither.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a little strange, But.
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  Speaker 2: Get this, despite being completely looked after by abdel Salam,
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  Speaker 2: he was constantly hitting up their friends for money, begging
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  Speaker 2: for cash, for jobs from the very people he was
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  Speaker 2: being introduced to.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, he's panhandling while they're providing him with everything.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, it completely undermined the charity he was receiving.
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  Speaker 1: Did the brothers notice this? Was there any friction?
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  Speaker 2: There was Goma, the younger brother. He was the one
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  Speaker 2: who felt really uncomfortable with it all. He was suspicious
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  Speaker 2: from the get go.
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  Speaker 1: He had a bad gut feeling.
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  Speaker 2: A very bad feeling. But abdel Salam and Ali they
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  Speaker 2: felt this this moral obligation to see it through. They'd
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  Speaker 2: made a promise.
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  Speaker 1: So while they're lecturing him, you know, telling him he
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't begging when he's being cared for, he wasn't really listening.
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  Speaker 1: He was observing.
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  Speaker 2: He was cataloging, not job leads, but vulnerabilities. He learned
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  Speaker 2: that of Delsilam as a contractor, handled large amounts of
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  Speaker 2: cash and crucially he figured out where that cash was kept.
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  Speaker 1: In a safe inside the apartment, in a.
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  Speaker 2: Safe, and that's the moment this likely shifts from desperation
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  Speaker 2: to a calculated, opportunistic plan.
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  Speaker 1: So what was the final trigger? When did they decide
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  Speaker 1: he had to leave?
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  Speaker 2: After more than three weeks, They just they accepted they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't find him legal work. His visa situation was impossible,
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  Speaker 2: so the most responsible thing to do was send him home.
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  Speaker 1: And even then they showed him one last act.
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  Speaker 2: Of kindness, an incredible one. Tamer claimed he couldn't afford
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  Speaker 2: a ticket, so they pulled their own money and Goma,
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  Speaker 2: the brother who was the most suspicious of him, Goma
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  Speaker 2: personally booked the flight.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, when was it for?
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  Speaker 2: For dawn Tuesday, the twenty seventh?
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  Speaker 1: The rama. They even took him shopping for gifts to
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  Speaker 1: take back to his family.
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  Speaker 2: Got a farewell gesture. Can you imagine the disconnect? They're
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  Speaker 2: spending their last hours with him, showing him grace, and
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  Speaker 2: he's already planning how.
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  Speaker 1: To kill them. That generosity it just put a clock
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  Speaker 1: on his plan, didn't it. He knew he had to
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  Speaker 1: act before that flight.
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  Speaker 2: It sealed their fate That night, the night before the flight,
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  Speaker 2: Tamer set his trap.
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  Speaker 1: During the iftar meal that shared evening meal, he puts
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  Speaker 1: a sedative, a sleeping agent, into the juice for the
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  Speaker 1: two brothers of Del Salaam and Wilma.
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  Speaker 2: The plan was probably simple, drugging them, grabbed the cash
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  Speaker 2: from the safe, and be at the airport before they
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  Speaker 2: ever woke up, and at first it worked. Moments after
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  Speaker 2: the meal, they both passed out. He starts ransacking the
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  Speaker 2: place straight for the safe, believes he has the apartment
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  Speaker 2: to himself.
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  Speaker 1: But he made a mistake, a fatal one.
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  Speaker 2: A terrible miscalculation the dosage of the sedative. It just
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  Speaker 2: wasn't strong enough. As Tamer is stuck in cash into
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  Speaker 2: a bag, the brothers start to wake up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: They're groggy, dizzy, completely disoriented, but they're awake and they
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  Speaker 2: see him. The men they took in robbing them blind.
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  Speaker 1: And even in that state, they tried to stop him.
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  Speaker 2: He did, but Tamer was ready. He had a knife,
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  Speaker 2: he was fully alert, and they were compromised. He overpowered
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  Speaker 2: them with brutal speed.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even imagine.
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  Speaker 2: He stabbed each brother multiple times, and then he slit
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  Speaker 2: their throats. He then just continued the robbery, grabbing cash,
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  Speaker 2: their phones, clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Even their passports that are passars.
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  Speaker 2: It's cold. It suggests he wanted to erase them completely
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  Speaker 2: to delay identification.
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  Speaker 1: And just when you think it can't get any worse.
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  Speaker 2: The ultimate complication. As Tamor is grabbing the last of
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  Speaker 2: the loot, Ali, the third roommate, walks through the door.
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  Speaker 1: He comes home to that to.
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  Speaker 2: An absolute horror scene. He sees what's happened, and he
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  Speaker 2: immediately attacks Tamer But tamer Is he's already in that
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  Speaker 2: zone of violence. He's faster. He stabs Ali over and
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  Speaker 2: over again until he's sure he's did too.
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  Speaker 1: What he did next is it's just chilling.
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  Speaker 2: It speaks volumes about his mindset. He doesn't canic and run.
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  Speaker 2: He pauses. He moves all three bodies into a single room.
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  Speaker 1: He cleaned the apartment.
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  Speaker 2: He cleaned the apartment, trying to wipe away the evidence
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  Speaker 2: of the struggle. Then he grabs his loot and races
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  Speaker 2: to the airport to catch the very flight his victims
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  Speaker 2: bought for him.
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  Speaker 1: The level of premeditation there is staggering.
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  Speaker 2: It's not desperation anymore. It's a full blown execution of
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  Speaker 2: a plan, which.
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  Speaker 1: Brings us back to that friend. Arriving for Don Preyer,
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  Speaker 1: he finds the locked door. He calls the police and
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  Speaker 1: the investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Begins right and the police immediately focus on who had
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  Speaker 2: recent access. The friend identifies Tamer from CCTV footage leaving
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  Speaker 2: that morning with bags. They have a name, they have
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  Speaker 2: a face.
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  Speaker 1: But Tamer's already in the air.
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  Speaker 2: He has a huge headstart. Katari authorities alert Doha Airport,
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  Speaker 2: but his plane has already departed.
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  Speaker 1: So this becomes an international chase.
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  Speaker 2: Instantly, the Katari police get Interpol involved. They track the
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  Speaker 2: flight path Doha to Kuwait for a transit, then on
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  Speaker 2: to Cairo.
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  Speaker 1: There no time for red tape none.
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  Speaker 2: Katari authorities coordinate directly with Egyptian security. They make sure
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  Speaker 2: Tamer does not walk out of that airport a freeman.
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  Speaker 1: And the final moments it's like something out of a movie.
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  Speaker 1: Tamer gets off the plane at Cairo International, probably thinking
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  Speaker 1: he's home free.
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  Speaker 2: He's descending the steps of the aircraft. He thinks he's
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  Speaker 2: pulled it off, and they're just waiting for him, waiting
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  Speaker 2: for him right there on the tarmac. He's arrested on
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  Speaker 2: the spot, and when they search him, They find everything,
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  Speaker 2: the cash, all of it, the victim's mobile phones, and critically,
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  Speaker 2: their passports. The evidence was overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: He confessed right away.
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  Speaker 2: A full confession in Cairo, but the crime happened in Katar,
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  Speaker 2: so he was quickly extradited back to Doha to face
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  Speaker 2: justice there.
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  Speaker 1: When you connect this to the bigger picture, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it such a devastating story for that community, a true
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  Speaker 1: cautionary tale.
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  Speaker 2: It's a powerful illustration of the risk of that kind
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  Speaker 2: of open, unconditional trust, especially when you invite a total
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  Speaker 2: stranger into your home, your safest space.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a robbery that just went wrong. This is
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  Speaker 1: a calculated violation of the most profound kind of human generosity.
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  Speaker 2: Which leaves you with this one lingering question, doesn't it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: when Tamer was on that street crying, was he genuinely
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  Speaker 2: desperate and looking for rescue or was he already a
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  Speaker 2: predator looking for his next opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Looking for someone whose compassion he could exploit.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly think about those twenty five days he lived with them.
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  Speaker 2: How much of that was gratitude and how much was
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  Speaker 2: just calculation, just waiting for the right moment. What does
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  Speaker 2: that tell you about the difference between desperation and premeditation.
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  Speaker 2: That's something to really mull over.