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The Whisper That Destroyed the Silent House · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: I want to take you somewhere tonight. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to visualize a place where the darkness feels heavy, almost physical. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we are in Egypt, the Ausharkia Governorate to be specific.
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  Speaker 1: It's twenty sixteen, it's late, well past ten zero pm,
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  Speaker 1: and we're standing in the middle of what the locals
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  Speaker 1: call the green Desert.
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  Speaker 2: That name is so deceptive, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds lush, but at night it's just miles and
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  Speaker 3: miles of this reclaimed agricultural land.
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  Speaker 2: It's vast, it's empty.
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  Speaker 1: And incredibly isolated.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there are no street lights out here, nothing,
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  Speaker 3: just the stars, the crops and silence.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle of all this emptiness, there is one house,
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  Speaker 1: a single building, sitting all alone in the fields. Inside
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  Speaker 1: there's a family. But the silence inside this particular house
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  Speaker 1: is different, right.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just the absence of noise, it's the condition
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  Speaker 3: of their existence. The husband, Mohammed and his wife Soha.
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  Speaker 3: They're both deaf and nonverbal, which.
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  Speaker 1: Means the sensory landscape. But this whole story is completely unique.
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  Speaker 1: They navigate their entire world through sight, through vibration.
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  Speaker 3: And in the next room, their two children are sleeping.
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  Speaker 3: There's Yusuf who is ten, and Maruam who is seven.
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  Speaker 3: They're the only hearing people in the house.
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  Speaker 1: But right now they're asleep.
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  Speaker 2: They're lost in dreams.
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  Speaker 1: So just set that scene in your mind. It's quiet,
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  Speaker 1: the kids are asleep, so highs in the bedroom, and
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed is in the kitchen but he isn't making tea.
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  Speaker 3: He opens a drawer and if you and I were
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  Speaker 3: standing there, the sound would be.
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  Speaker 1: Jarring, horrifying mm, the metallic slide of a heavy knife,
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  Speaker 1: the dull thud of an axe being lifted.
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  Speaker 2: But for soha, nothing, absolute silence.
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  Speaker 3: She might feel the floorboard shift if he walks heavily,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe catch a shadow moving under the doorframe, but
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  Speaker 3: she has no auditory warning.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't know. She doesn't know that the man coming
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway isn't the partner. She's built a life
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  Speaker 1: with no idea that detail. Yeah, it terrifies me, the
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  Speaker 1: sheer vulnerability of it. So this deep dive is about
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  Speaker 1: what happened in that house. Yes, we're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: the silent house more than just the violence. I really
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  Speaker 1: want to figure out how a family that started with
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  Speaker 1: you know so much apparent love ended up in that kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: because this wasn't just a random snap, was it. No?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely not. What we're looking at here is a masterclass
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  Speaker 3: in psychological dismantling. It's a case study in what psychologists
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  Speaker 3: call coercive control. But it's operating on a level that's
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  Speaker 3: honestly difficult to even comprehend.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean the person holding the weapon isn't necessarily the
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  Speaker 3: only one responsible for the violence.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's back up then, because usually when we look
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  Speaker 1: at family annihilators, people who kill their entire family, we
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  Speaker 1: see a history of visible instability, you know, unemployment, addiction,
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  Speaker 1: public outbursts. Did Mohammad fit that profile at all?
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  Speaker 2: Surprisingly?
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  Speaker 3: No. In fact, if you looked at Mohammed's file, say
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  Speaker 3: twelve years prior, he was a success story. He was
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  Speaker 3: born into the Cherbrawi family, a very wealthy, established clan
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  Speaker 3: in the region, so he had resources, huge resources. And yes,
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  Speaker 3: he was deaf from birth, but he was incredibly high functioning.
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  Speaker 3: He had a solid job as a warehouse keeper for
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  Speaker 3: a major company.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, warehouse keeper. That's not just manual labor,
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  Speaker 1: that's logistics. You have to track inventory managed shipments. You
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  Speaker 1: have to be precise exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It requires a high level of executive function. You cannot
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  Speaker 3: be chaotic and run a warehouse. This is such a
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  Speaker 3: crucial data point to keep in your pocket for later.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It establishes that his baseline mental state was organized, focused
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  Speaker 3: and reliable. He wasn't just you know, drifting through life.
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  Speaker 1: And then he meets Soha, she's also deaf from a
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  Speaker 1: more humble background. But from everything I've read, she's the
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  Speaker 1: grounding force.
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  Speaker 3: She was the anchor, kind, resilient, and raised with very
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  Speaker 3: traditional values about you know, supporting her husband. When they married,
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  Speaker 3: it was seen as a perfect match, right. The wealthy
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  Speaker 3: Chibrawis provided an apartment in their own family building, a
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  Speaker 3: twelve story tower. I mean it looked like the start.
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  Speaker 2: Of a great life.
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  Speaker 1: And they had the two kids. I read about Yusuf,
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  Speaker 1: the ten year old. Yeah, the descriptions of him are
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  Speaker 1: just heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 3: They called him a little That dynamic is so important
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  Speaker 3: because his parents were nonverbal, Yusuf became their bridge to
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  Speaker 3: the hearing world. Can you imagine the maturity that takes
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  Speaker 3: for a ten year old to interpret complex social interactions
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  Speaker 3: for his parents?
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  Speaker 2: No, it suggests a.
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  Speaker 3: Very tightly knit, cooperative family unit. And for the first
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  Speaker 3: five or six years there were no police reports, no violence.
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  Speaker 3: It really was a happy home.
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  Speaker 1: So where does the crack and the foundation appear? Because
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  Speaker 1: you don't go from a supportive, happy unit to an
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  Speaker 1: axe murder overnight. Something had to poison the well.
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  Speaker 3: The poison has a name, Uncle Shabrowe.
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed's father, the patriarch.
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  Speaker 2: But not just a father figure.
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  Speaker 3: We have to understand the cultural nuance here, you know,
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  Speaker 3: without falling into stereotypes. In this specific family dynamic, the
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  Speaker 3: patriarch holds absolute authority. He's the bank, the judge, and
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  Speaker 3: the jury.
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  Speaker 1: And Shabrawi was a man who seemingly could not tolerate
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  Speaker 1: his son having any real independence. So he was hovering,
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  Speaker 1: he was suffocating. But it's a real fracture. The moment
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  Speaker 1: it all changed happened about five years before the murder.
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  Speaker 1: The couple was living in that apartment building owned by
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  Speaker 1: the father. One day, Mohammed is at work, Shabra lets
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  Speaker 1: himself into the apartment, Soha is there with.
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  Speaker 3: The kids, and this is where the story takes.
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  Speaker 2: A very dark turn.
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  Speaker 1: He attempted to sexually harass her, his own daughter in law.
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  Speaker 1: He tried to force himself on.
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  Speaker 3: Her, which is horrific enough, but Soha didn't just take it.
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  Speaker 1: No, she fought back. She'd grab a slipper or a
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  Speaker 1: shoe and hit it with it. Then she ran to
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen and grabbed a knife to chase him out.
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  Speaker 1: She defended her dignity and her home.
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  Speaker 3: Good for her, but I can already see the trap
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  Speaker 3: folming here. She's alone, she's deaf, and the man she
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  Speaker 3: just humiliated is the most powerful person in the entire family.
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  Speaker 1: Precisely. Shabrai fled the apartment, but he realized he had
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  Speaker 1: a massive problem. If Mohammed came home and Soha somehow
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  Speaker 1: managed to explain what happened, the shame would be unbearable.
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  Speaker 2: It would destroy his standing in the community.
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  Speaker 1: So he had to control the narrative.
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  Speaker 3: He intercepted Mohammed before he could even get upstairs. And
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  Speaker 3: because he's the father, the authority, and because he could
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  Speaker 3: communicate with his son in a way that you know,
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  Speaker 3: excluded outsiders, he spun a.
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  Speaker 2: Lie, a devastating lie.
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  Speaker 1: What did he say?
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  Speaker 3: He told Mohammed that Soha had attacked him, that she
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  Speaker 3: had humiliated the patriarch for absolutely no reason.
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  Speaker 1: He weaponized Mohammed's deafness. He knew Mohammed couldn't hear the
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  Speaker 1: neighbor's gossiping or get the full context from anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: He created this, this closed loop of information.
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  Speaker 3: And Mohammed conditioned his whole life to obey his father
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  Speaker 3: believed him. The two of them went back upstairs. Oh no,
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  Speaker 3: and in a horrific display of loyalty to the father,
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  Speaker 3: Mohammed joined him and beating Soha.
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  Speaker 2: They broke her arm.
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  Speaker 1: That is, it's just gut wrenching. She defends herself against
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  Speaker 1: assault and her own husband breaks her arm for it.
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  Speaker 2: It destroyed the trust in the marriage.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, the police got involved, Soha's family got involved. And
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  Speaker 3: here is where Soha made a choice that is just
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  Speaker 3: tragic in hindsight. Okay, she told her so blings the
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  Speaker 3: truth about the assault, but she hid the sexual harassment
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  Speaker 3: part from her own father.
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  Speaker 1: Why would she do that to protect the predator?
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  Speaker 3: No, to prevent a blood feud. She knew if her
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  Speaker 3: father knew the full extent of the disrespect, violence would
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  Speaker 3: erupt between the clans. She swallowed that trauma to keep
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  Speaker 3: the peace.
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  Speaker 1: So they reconciled.
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  Speaker 3: A reconciliation was brokered, yes, but there was one condition.
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  Speaker 3: So has family said they can stay together, but they
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  Speaker 3: cannot live in Shabrai's building anymore.
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  Speaker 2: They have to move.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how they ended up in the silent house
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the fields. It was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be an.
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  Speaker 3: Escape, It was supposed to be a firewall physical distance.
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  Speaker 3: But this brings us to a key psychological concept. Coercive
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  Speaker 3: control doesn't need proximity to work right. You can control
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  Speaker 3: someone from miles away if you hold the right leverage.
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  Speaker 1: What leverage did he have? I mean, Muhammad had a job, he.
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  Speaker 3: At a salary ah, but he didn't have access to it.
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  Speaker 3: We discovered that even after they moved, Shabrawi demanded Mohammed
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  Speaker 3: hand over his entire paycheck every single month. What then
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  Speaker 3: Shabrawi would give him back a small allowance.
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  Speaker 1: He infantilized him, a grown man with a wife and
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  Speaker 1: kids living on an allowance from his dad.
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  Speaker 3: It strips away your autonomy. It makes you feel like
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  Speaker 3: a child. And then came the psychological warfare. Shabrowi would
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  Speaker 3: visit the farmhouse periodically, and every time he did, he
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  Speaker 3: would just drip poison into Mohammed's ears.
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  Speaker 1: The saws is greedy.
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  Speaker 2: She wants your inheritance.
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  Speaker 1: Those children they aren't yours, or they're against you. He
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  Speaker 1: was just systematically dismantling Mohammad's reality.
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  Speaker 3: He was rewriting the script of his son's life, and
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  Speaker 3: it worked. Witnesses said, you could see the switch flip.
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  Speaker 3: How So, when Mohammed was alone with Soha and the kids,
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  Speaker 3: he was calm, He was the Mohammed of old. But
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  Speaker 3: the moment he saw his father, he became paranoid, aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like he was being programmed. But was he
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  Speaker 1: actually losing his mind? I mean clinically.
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  Speaker 3: That is the million dollar question. Because just three days
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  Speaker 3: before the murder, Soha's mother visit at the farmhouse and
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  Speaker 3: she reported that Muhammad was the perfect host. He was smiling, generous,
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  Speaker 3: pouring tea, making jokes.
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  Speaker 1: So he could mask the aggression. He could turn it
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  Speaker 1: on and off exactly.
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  Speaker 3: If he were in the grips of a total psychotic break,
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  Speaker 3: masking that well would be incredibly difficult. It suggests he
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  Speaker 3: still had social awareness. He knew how to behave, which brings.
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  Speaker 1: Us back to that night February twenty sixteen. Let's walk
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  Speaker 1: through this because the timeline implies something very, very different
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  Speaker 1: than a sudden snap.
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  Speaker 2: It was a tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Muhammad went to work again, holding down that complex job.
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  Speaker 3: He came home, they had dinner. Forensics showed food in
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  Speaker 3: everyone's stomachs, meaning it was a peaceful meal.
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  Speaker 1: No fighting, no adrenaline spike stopping digestion, just a family
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  Speaker 1: eating dinner.
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  Speaker 2: And then they go to sleep. The children drift off.
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  Speaker 3: Soho goes to bed, but Muhammad stays up. He goes
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  Speaker 3: to the kitchen. He makes the decision. He takes the
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  Speaker 3: axe in the knifef He walks.
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  Speaker 2: Down the hall.
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  Speaker 1: He attacks Soha.
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  Speaker 3: First, Yes, he stripes her with the axe. But and
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  Speaker 3: this is the detail that just keeps me up at night.
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  Speaker 3: She doesn't die in stae. She's wounded, she's terrified. She
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  Speaker 3: tries to defend herself, and then Muhammed stops. He hesitates, no,
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  Speaker 3: he strategizes. He puts the weapon down. He looks at
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  Speaker 3: his bleeding wife and he uses sign language. You're kid,
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  Speaker 3: He tells her, I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Let me take you to the doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's gaming her.
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  Speaker 3: In that moment, he is exploiting her trust and her hope.
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  Speaker 3: He knows if she keeps fighting, it will be messy.
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  Speaker 3: So he feigns a moment of clarity, I'm back, it's me.
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  Speaker 3: Let me help you.
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  Speaker 1: And she believed him. Of course she did.
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  Speaker 3: She lowered her guard, she let him get close, and
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  Speaker 3: the moment she relaxed, he slaughtered her.
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  Speaker 1: That isn't madness. That is cold, calculated manipulation. That requires
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  Speaker 1: cognitive empathy. You have to understand what the other person
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  Speaker 1: is feeling to use it against them.
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  Speaker 3: It proves he was connected to reality. He knew he
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  Speaker 3: had to deceive her to kill her efficiently. But the
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  Speaker 3: struggle it woke the children. Yusuf grabbed his phone. He
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  Speaker 3: tried to call for help. He tried to be the
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  Speaker 3: little man one less time Mohammad saw him, he didn't hesitate.
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  Speaker 2: He killed his son.
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  Speaker 1: And then marry him.
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  Speaker 3: Then he turned to marry him his seven year old
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  Speaker 3: daughter and killed her too.
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  Speaker 1: He eraised his entire world in what twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Minutes and then the silence returned. But look at his
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  Speaker 3: actions immediately after. He didn't run screaming into the night.
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  Speaker 3: He dragged the bodies to the bathroom. He washed the
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  Speaker 3: blood off his hands in his face, He changed his clothes,
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  Speaker 3: he locked the front door.
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  Speaker 1: Rational actions, concealment.
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  Speaker 2: Highly rational.
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  Speaker 3: And then he walked out into the dark and went
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  Speaker 3: to the one place he was always going to go.
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  Speaker 3: He went to his father's house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what did uncle Shabbrow? We do call the police
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  Speaker 1: and say my son just confessed to a triple murder.
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  Speaker 2: Not quite.
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  Speaker 3: They went to the police station together and they reported
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  Speaker 3: a break in. They spun a story that masked intruders
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  Speaker 3: had broken into the farmhouse and killed the family while
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  Speaker 3: Mohammad was helpless.
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  Speaker 1: The intruder theory, it's the first thing detectives jacket, it's
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  Speaker 1: usually the first thing they rule out.
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  Speaker 3: And it fell apart almost instantly. There was no forced entry,
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  Speaker 3: The doors were locked from the inside, nothing was stolen,
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  Speaker 3: and Mohammad's demeanor was just flat. He wasn't grieving, he
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  Speaker 3: was vacant.
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  Speaker 1: So when the police brought in sign language interpreters, the
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  Speaker 1: story shifted.
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  Speaker 2: He dropped the intruder live and confessed. He confessed, but he.
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  Speaker 3: Pivoted to a new narrative. He claimed a force took
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  Speaker 3: over his body. He described transforming into a beast, losing
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  Speaker 3: all control, having no memory of the violence.
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  Speaker 1: The insanity play, the demon made me do it.
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  Speaker 3: He was laying the groundwork for a psychiatric defense. But
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  Speaker 3: the investigators were thorough. They started digging into his movements
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  Speaker 3: from that day and they found a piece of paper
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  Speaker 3: that turned this from a tragedy into a conspiracy. What
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  Speaker 3: kind of paper a medical certificate. It was from a
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  Speaker 3: psychiatric hospital. It certified that Mohammed suffered from severe schizophrenia
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  Speaker 3: and recommended immediate electric shock therapy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, wait, so he was sick. Does that validate his story?
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  Speaker 2: Look at the date on the certificate. It was dated
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  Speaker 2: the mourning of.
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  Speaker 1: The murder, the morning of, before the peaceful dinner, before
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  Speaker 1: he even picked up the axe.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, on the morning of the crime, before going to work,
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  Speaker 3: Mohammed and his father, uncle Shabroi, had driven to a
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  Speaker 3: hospital and secured this document That changes everything.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a diagnosis, that's a permission slip.
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  Speaker 3: In forensic psychology, we call this malingering, faking an illness
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  Speaker 3: to avoid responsibility. But this is something even darker. This
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  Speaker 3: is premeditated malingering. They weren't seeking treatment, they.
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  Speaker 1: Were securing an alibi.
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  Speaker 3: That implies the father knew it implies the father might
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  Speaker 3: have even set the timeline get the paper in the morning,
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  Speaker 3: do the deed at night.
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  Speaker 1: It suggests the father decided it was time to clean house.
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  Speaker 1: He viewed Soha and the children as liabilities. He secured
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  Speaker 1: the insanity defense to protect his son from the gallas,
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  Speaker 1: sent him back to the silent house and waited.
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  Speaker 3: It makes the insanity look like a weapon, a loaded
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  Speaker 3: gun handed.
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  Speaker 2: To him by his father.
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  Speaker 1: Precisely, it challenges our entire understanding of the crime. Mohammad
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a chaotis madman acting on impulse. He was a
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  Speaker 1: weapon that had been carefully aimed.
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  Speaker 3: So did it work? Did the court buy the schizophrenia story?
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  Speaker 1: They tried the defense lean heavily on that piece of paper,
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  Speaker 1: but the timeline destroyed them. The trick he pulled on Soha,
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  Speaker 1: signing to her to lower her guard prove he had
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  Speaker 1: cognitive control.
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  Speaker 2: The cleanup proved he had awareness of guilt.
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  Speaker 3: The locking of the doors proved he wanted to delay discovery.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be legally insane and tactically brilliant at the same.
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  Speaker 2: Time, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: A chaotic psychotic mind doesn't usually act with that much
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  Speaker 3: preservation instinct. Regarding the evidence, the court concluded he was
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  Speaker 3: fully aware of his actions, so Muhammad was convicted. He
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  Speaker 3: was the law holds the hand that swings the weapon accountable.
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  Speaker 1: But what about the father, what about Uncle Shabrowi?
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  Speaker 3: And that is the dark cloud that hangs over this
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  Speaker 3: entire case. Morally, he is the architect of this slaughter.
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  Speaker 3: He broke his son's mind, he isolated the family, he
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  Speaker 3: controlled the money. He likely orchestrated the legal cover up beforehand.
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  Speaker 1: But did he go to jail.
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  Speaker 3: In many legal systems, bad parenting or psychological manipulation is
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  Speaker 3: incredibly hard to prosecute his murder unless they could prove
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  Speaker 3: he physically handed him the axe and said kill them.
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  Speaker 3: Now he remains in the shadows.
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  Speaker 1: That is terrifying. We always tell people you to look
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  Speaker 1: for bruises, listen for screaming, watch for broken doors.
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  Speaker 3: Right, But the most dangerous element in this entire story
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  Speaker 3: wasn't the axe. It was the whisper. It was the quiet,
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  Speaker 3: slow drip of poison from a father to a son,
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  Speaker 3: turning a loving husband into a killer.
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  Speaker 1: It really redefines what safety means. It's not just about
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  Speaker 1: the locks on your doors. It's about who has access
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: to your mind? Who are you letting write the script
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: of your reality?
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Mohammed let his father write his script. He surrendered his
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: autonomy for approval, and that script ended in a tragedy
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: that no one saw coming except perhaps the two men
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: who walked into a hospital that morning to get a
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: piece of paper.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: That is a truly chilling thought to leave us with.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: We'll be thinking about Soha yusef and marry em for
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: a long time. They deserved a voice, and I hope
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: we gave them one to day. That's it for this
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: deep dive. Take care of yourselves and we'll catch you
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: in the next one.