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The Beauty Queen Who Dismembered Her Husband · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: I want you to just close your eyes for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Picture this. You're in minya Olcom, a city in Egypt's
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  Speaker 1: Sharkia Province. It's deep in the Nile Delta, right, so
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  Speaker 1: it's agricultural.
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  Speaker 2: Parts of it are very wealthy.
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  Speaker 1: And on this one specific night, the air is just thick,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that heavy humid feeling that just sticks to
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  Speaker 1: your skin, that.
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  Speaker 2: Makes everything feel quiet, oppressive.
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  Speaker 1: Even exactly So, we're inside this huge, luxurious house. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this place screams success. It's a calmtown.
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  Speaker 2: Really, it's meant to be a fortress, a safe space
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  Speaker 2: that money buys you. But tonight that's not what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all. And right in the middle of it all,
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  Speaker 1: there's a glass of mango juice on a table.
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  Speaker 2: In mango juice in Egypt, that's a big deal. It's hospitality,
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  Speaker 2: it's taken care of someone.
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  Speaker 1: But this glass, you have to look at it differently.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't just a drink. It's the key part of
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  Speaker 1: a nightmare about to unfold.
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  Speaker 2: It's the weapon, yeah, plain and simple. It's what turns
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  Speaker 2: this home into a crime scene. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the man drinking it, we'll call him the engineer.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big deal in town, owns factories, employs so
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  Speaker 1: many people. He's just exhausted from a long day. He
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  Speaker 1: takes a long drink from that glass and he has
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  Speaker 1: no idea, no.
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  Speaker 2: Idea that his wife, Dua Samir is watching him.
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  Speaker 1: And she's not just watching, she's waiting. She's watching that glass,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the drug to kick in.
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  Speaker 2: The tension must have been unbelievable. This isn't a crime
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  Speaker 2: of passion, you know, a sudden fight. This is it's cold,
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  Speaker 2: it's calculated. She's waiting for the sedative she mixed in
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  Speaker 2: to do their work.
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  Speaker 1: She's listening for her daughter's breathing to even out in
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  Speaker 1: the next room. She's waiting for everything to be perfectly still.
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  Speaker 2: In that image, this beautiful woman watching her husband just
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  Speaker 2: fade out. That's where our story really begins.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely because Duel wasn't just any wife. They called her
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  Speaker 1: the Queen of beauty. So the mission for this deep
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  Speaker 1: dive is really how how does the Princess of Sharkia,
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  Speaker 1: a woman with everything, orchestrate one of the most brutal
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  Speaker 1: betrayals imaginable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this case really just pulls back the curtain
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  Speaker 2: on the perfect life doesn't it. We see people with
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  Speaker 2: you and money and we just assume they're happy.
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  Speaker 1: We project contentment onto them exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But with Dolah Samir underneath all of that polish was well,
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  Speaker 2: it was something that shocked the entire country.
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  Speaker 1: So let's peel back those layers. Who was she before
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  Speaker 1: all this? Her reputation in the community is I think
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  Speaker 1: central to the story.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's everything. Minya lcom is a place where your
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  Speaker 2: family name matters, everyone knows everyone and doah. She had
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  Speaker 2: the money, sure, but she also had this incredible social.
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  Speaker 1: Status, the Queen of Beauty of Sharkia.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And that's not just some cutesy nickname.
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  Speaker 1: Yea.
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  Speaker 2: In a town like that, a label like that, it
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  Speaker 2: defines you, It becomes who you are.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like it could be a kind of psychological track.
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  Speaker 1: If everyone tells you your princess your whole life, you.
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  Speaker 2: Start to believe the world owes you a kingdom. Precisely,
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  Speaker 2: it can breed a certain kind of narcissism where you
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  Speaker 2: believe the rules, well, they're for other people, not for you.
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  Speaker 1: But even a princess has her own problems. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: back to her college, because that's where this whole tragedy
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  Speaker 1: really starts.
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  Speaker 2: She falls in love, a classic story, a young man
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  Speaker 2: from the same town. They're deeply in love, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a huge problem class, the class divide. He was from
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  Speaker 2: a poor, simple family, she was local royalty. When he
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  Speaker 2: tried to propose her family just they shut it down instantly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't even a conversation. He wasn't good.
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  Speaker 1: Enough, and that rejection that's the first domino, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: He leaves the country heartbroken, probably trying to make a
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  Speaker 1: fortune to prove them wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And while he's gone, Doua moves on, at least on
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  Speaker 2: the surface. She marries the man who becomes our.
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  Speaker 1: Victim, the engineer.
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  Speaker 2: The engineer, and on paper, I mean, he was the
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  Speaker 2: perfect match. Wealthy, respected, he could give her the life
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  Speaker 2: everyone thought she deserved.
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  Speaker 1: And from everything we can tell, he absolutely adored her.
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  Speaker 1: He built her a beautiful home, gave her every luxury.
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  Speaker 1: They even had a daughter who looked just like Doa.
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  Speaker 1: For two years, it looked like a fairy tale.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing about a relationship that's more of
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  Speaker 2: a transaction than a romance. Foundation is weak. Doah married
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  Speaker 2: the status, the lifestyle. She didn't necessarily marry the man,
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  Speaker 2: and then.
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  Speaker 1: Two years in the past comes knocking. She's walking down
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  Speaker 1: the street one day and runs right into him, her
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  Speaker 1: ex boyfriend.
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  Speaker 2: He's back, and this is a really crucial detail. He failed,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't make his fortune. He came back just as
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  Speaker 2: poor and struggling as when he left.
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  Speaker 1: So you have this this stark contrast, the queen in
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  Speaker 1: her gilded cage and the lover who couldn't make it.
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  Speaker 1: And she stops to talk to him, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is already a huge risk in a town where everyone
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  Speaker 2: is watching. But you can imagine the pull, the nostalgia.
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  Speaker 2: He's the road not taken.
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  Speaker 1: Exchange numbers, and you know how this goes.
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  Speaker 2: It starts with a few techs, how are you? Then
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  Speaker 2: phone calls, Then I never stop loving you, and before
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  Speaker 2: long the affair begins.
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  Speaker 1: He starts coming to the house when the husband is away, but.
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  Speaker 2: That creates his own kind of stress, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: constant fear of being caught. Neighbors see things, people talk
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  Speaker 2: Sneaking around wasn't enough for them.
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  Speaker 1: So she comes up with a plan, and the audacity
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  Speaker 1: of this plan, it just gives you a pit in
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  Speaker 1: your stomach. She decides the best way to hide her
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  Speaker 1: lover is in plain sight.
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  Speaker 2: It's the trojan horse strategy. It's so manipulative. She goes
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  Speaker 2: to her husband and tells him about this young man
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  Speaker 2: who needs.
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  Speaker 1: A job, but she lies about who he is completely.
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  Speaker 2: She says he's the brother of a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 2: He's a good kid, just struggling. Can you help him out?
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  Speaker 1: And her husband, the engineer, he says no at first.
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  Speaker 1: He's a businessman, he says, I have enough employees. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not running a charity.
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  Speaker 2: Which is fair enough. Yeah, but doah. She uses his
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  Speaker 2: love for her against him. She makes it about her honor.
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  Speaker 2: Please don't embarrass me in front of my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Just do it for me, and he caves. Of course
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  Speaker 1: he caves. He hires the man, and not just for
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  Speaker 1: some factory job.
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  Speaker 2: No, he makes him his personal assistant.
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  Speaker 1: The level of betrayal is just staggering.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost Shakespearean, isn't it. The husband brings this man
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  Speaker 2: into his inner circle, he trusts him, he has him
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  Speaker 2: over for dinner. He's literally paying a salary to the
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  Speaker 2: man who's sleeping with his way.
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  Speaker 1: It's like she was mocking him to his face.
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  Speaker 2: Up for a narcissist it's the ultimate power trip. But
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  Speaker 2: it gave them access. The lover was always around. It
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  Speaker 2: was the perfect cover. But that still wasn't enough. They
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  Speaker 2: wanted time together in the house.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where it goes from a moral betrayal
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  Speaker 1: to criminal assault. They start using sleeping.
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  Speaker 2: Pills, strong ones sedatives. When the husband comes home tired
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  Speaker 2: from work, she slips them into his juice, their famous
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  Speaker 2: mango juice.
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  Speaker 1: He just passes out, thinking he's exhausted, and while he's unconscious, the.
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  Speaker 2: Lover comes over. They spend the day together in the
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  Speaker 2: house while the husband is just out of it in
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  Speaker 2: the next room. It's a horrifying violation.
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  Speaker 1: And they did this more than once repeatedly.
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  Speaker 2: It was their system. But you know, lies like that,
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  Speaker 2: they can't last. Deutsche starts getting paranoid.
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  Speaker 1: She thinks her husband is getting suspicious. Maybe he notices
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  Speaker 1: he's always groggy, or he catches a look between.
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  Speaker 2: Those whatever it was, that paranoia becomes the trigger. They
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  Speaker 2: decide that hiding isn't enough to be together. Legitimately, the
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  Speaker 2: husband has to go.
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  Speaker 1: They decide to kill him, and they think they have
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  Speaker 1: a perfect cover story.
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  Speaker 2: Right, he's a powerful merchant. He must have enemies. They
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  Speaker 2: figure they can blame it on a business deal gone bad. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a cold, hard calculation.
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  Speaker 1: So we come back to that night, the night it
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  Speaker 1: all happened. The husband comes home. Doa serves him the juice,
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  Speaker 1: but this time the dose is it's massive.
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  Speaker 2: She needs him completely unresponsive. He drinks it. He falls
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  Speaker 2: into that deep drug sleep and she waits, She waits
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  Speaker 2: for the house to be silent, and then she makes
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  Speaker 2: the call. It's time.
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  Speaker 1: The lover comes over, and the forensic details they're grim.
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  Speaker 1: They drag the unconscious man into the bathroom and.
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  Speaker 2: They don't just kill him, They dismember him. They cut
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  Speaker 2: the body into pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Why why do that? It seems so extreme.
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  Speaker 2: It's usually about two things. One disposal, it's easier to
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  Speaker 2: move pieces than a whole body without being seen. But
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  Speaker 2: two it's psychological. It deep personalizes the act. He's no
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  Speaker 2: longer a husband, a person, He's just pieces of evident.
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  Speaker 1: So they pack the parts into boxes and bags. The
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  Speaker 1: lover takes them out in the null of the night
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  Speaker 1: and just dumps them in different spots around town like garbage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they go home and doah. She cleans the
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  Speaker 2: bathroom and goes to sleep in her own bed.
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  Speaker 1: That's the part that I just can't wrap my head around,
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  Speaker 1: the ability to compartmentalize that, to sleep in the house
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  Speaker 1: where you just did.
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  Speaker 2: That, It suggests a complete shut down of empathy, a
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  Speaker 2: total disconnect from reality.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, of course, it's chaos. The body parts
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  Speaker 1: are found, the police arrive, and Doah puts on an
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  Speaker 1: Oscar worthy performance.
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  Speaker 2: The grieving widow screaming, collapsing. She plays the part to perfection,
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  Speaker 2: and when they ask who could have done this, she
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  Speaker 2: points them straight toward his business rivals.
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  Speaker 1: And for a while it works. The police are looking
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  Speaker 1: at competitors. The whole town is reeling, but the investigation
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  Speaker 1: stalls until one officer notices something everyone else missed. The child,
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  Speaker 1: the little girl. He sees her sitting alone, probably just
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  Speaker 1: terrified and confused, and he just gently starts talking to
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  Speaker 1: my It's smart policing.
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  Speaker 2: Children see everything, and they don't have the filter's adults do.
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  Speaker 1: He asks her a very simple question, who comes to
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  Speaker 1: visit the house?
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  Speaker 2: And she gives in the answer that cracks the whole
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  Speaker 2: case wide open.
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  Speaker 1: She says, the assistant comes over a lot. He helps Daddy,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes sometimes he comes over when Daddy isn't here
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  Speaker 1: to see mommy.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it. That one sentence, the whole house of
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  Speaker 2: cards just collapses. Ye, why is an employee visiting the
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  Speaker 2: wife alone?
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  Speaker 1: They immediately run a background check on the assistant and
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  Speaker 1: they find the old college connection, the history, the motive.
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  Speaker 2: Just snaps into place. It's not business, it's a love triangle.
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  Speaker 2: So they bring the lover in.
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  Speaker 1: He denies everything at first, plays dumb, but the police
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  Speaker 1: are smart. They use the old prisoner's dilemma trick right.
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  Speaker 2: They tell him, look, your girlfriend has already confessed and
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  Speaker 2: she's pinning it all on you. She says you were
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  Speaker 2: the monster, that you forced her, and he panics.
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  Speaker 1: He realizes he's about to take the fall alone for
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  Speaker 1: a crime he committed for her.
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to hang for her, so he just
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  Speaker 2: he breaks. He tells them every every last detail, which
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  Speaker 2: matches the forensics perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: With his confession in hand, they go to Doma and
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  Speaker 1: face with his betrayal, the Queen of Beauty finally admits it.
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  Speaker 1: The performance is.
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  Speaker 2: Over, and the town's reaction was it was explosive. People
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  Speaker 2: loved her husband. He was a pillar of the community.
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  Speaker 2: Mobs tried to storm the police station to get to her.
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  Speaker 1: It was a betrayal of the whole community's.
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  Speaker 2: Trust, a complete violation of their social fabric. Both of
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  Speaker 2: them were sentenced to death, and there's this one last
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  Speaker 2: detail from the executioner, a man named Ashmawi.
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  Speaker 1: A famous figure in Egypt, a man who has seen
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  Speaker 1: more death than anyone.
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  Speaker 2: And he's not easily rattled. But even he was struck
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  Speaker 2: by Doa. He reportedly said something about the tragedy of
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  Speaker 2: seeing a face so beautiful only for it to end
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  Speaker 2: in a hangman's news because of what was inside.
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  Speaker 1: What a chilling thought, the contrast between that outer beauty
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  Speaker 1: and the inner ugliness.
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  Speaker 2: It's the core of the whole story. A woman who
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  Speaker 2: had everything, the looks, the money, a family, and she
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  Speaker 2: burned it all to the.
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  Speaker 1: Ground for an illusion. Really a past romance that probably
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have survived in the real world anyway.
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  Speaker 2: It's a really dark cautionary tale about entitlement and greed.
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  Speaker 2: She wanted his money, but she wanted her lover, and
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  Speaker 2: she thought she could have both.
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  Speaker 1: And the real victim left behind is that little girl.
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  Speaker 1: Her innocent words solves the crime, and now she has
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  Speaker 1: to live with knowing what her parents did.
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  Speaker 2: That's the real tragedy. That trauma just ripples forward.
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  Speaker 1: So as we close out this deep dive, the thought
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  Speaker 1: I want to leave you with is this. We all
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  Speaker 1: curate our lives now right on social media. We present
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  Speaker 1: a perfect version of ourselves. Dua Shamir was the ultimate curator.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth, the truth is heavy. You can't just
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  Speaker 1: hide it away forever. Eventually it comes out. It always does,
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  Speaker 1: a tragic, heavy story. We'll be back next time with
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  Speaker 1: another deep dive. Until then, stay curious.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye everyone,