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The Tragedy of Fajr Osama: Betrayal and Vengeance · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Picture this. You are in Giza, Egypt. Okay, It's the
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  Speaker 1: year twenty twenty. The sun is just dipped below the horizon,
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  Speaker 1: and that chaotic, oppressive heat of the day is finally
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  Speaker 1: starting to lift.
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  Speaker 2: A bit, right, that heavy evening heat exactly.
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  Speaker 1: The streets are dimming, the shadows are lengthening, but there
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  Speaker 1: is still that heavy, constant, almost suffocating hum of the
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  Speaker 1: city outside, just.
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  Speaker 2: The constant noise of Giza.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you are following a man named Osama. He's
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  Speaker 1: a sales representative, okay, and he works incredibly long, grueling
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  Speaker 1: hours just to keep his middle class family afloat and tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he is.
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  Speaker 2: Dead on his feet, which is such a relatable feeling.
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  Speaker 2: You just want to walk in the door and finally
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  Speaker 2: decompress completely.
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  Speaker 1: So he walks up the narrow stairs to his apartment,
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  Speaker 1: turns the key in the lock, and SUTs inside. But
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  Speaker 1: instead of the usual evening chaos of family.
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  Speaker 2: Wif the TV blaring, the smell of dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Right, the sound of kids running around. Yeah, instead all
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  Speaker 1: that he has met with a chilling, absolute silence.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He drops his keys. They clatter loudly against the floorboards.
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  Speaker 1: He looks at his wife a beer, who is sitting
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  Speaker 1: there in the quiet living room, completely.
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  Speaker 2: Still, just unnatural stillness.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and he asks her a simple everyday question. He says,
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  Speaker 1: where's our twelve year old daughter, Fudger?
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  Speaker 2: And this is where it gets strange.
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  Speaker 1: So strange a beer barely even looks up, and a
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  Speaker 1: voice so casual almost defies logic, she replies, she went
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  Speaker 1: down to the supermarket.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in missing child cases, the immediate instinctual reactions
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  Speaker 2: of the parents are critical markers, right. A parent's baseline
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  Speaker 2: response to a missing twelve year old in a bustling
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  Speaker 2: city at night should escalate rapidly toward panic, of course,
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  Speaker 2: But in that totally unremarkable exchange, the nightmare actually begins
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  Speaker 2: because as the minutes tick by, the atmosphere and that
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  Speaker 2: apartment violently shifts that' and the psychological dissonance just becomes
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  Speaker 2: deafening because by.
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  Speaker 1: Seven o'clock, Fudger is still not back. And look at
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  Speaker 1: how the clock dictates this panic For Osama, he'sn't just
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  Speaker 1: annoyed anymore. He is unraveling.
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  Speaker 2: The time is weaponized against him.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, the agonizing passage of time starts to physically weigh
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  Speaker 1: on him. He practically tears the front door off its hinges,
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  Speaker 1: running back out into the street. Here panic imagine the
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  Speaker 1: visceral terror of a parent in that moment. He is
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  Speaker 1: sprinting through the neighborhood, his heart hammering against his ribs.
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  Speaker 1: He is boasting into local shops, grabbing shop owners by
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  Speaker 1: the shoulders, desperately asking if they've seen his.
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  Speaker 2: Little girl, just doing anything he can think of.
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  Speaker 1: Right, he's calling his brother, his hands shaking so badly
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  Speaker 1: he can barely dial the phone.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: But the detail that really makes the hair on the
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  Speaker 1: back of your neck stand up is what is happening
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  Speaker 1: back in the apartment with a beer. Yeah, she is
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  Speaker 1: a statue. She is emotionally blank. While her husband is
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  Speaker 1: literally tearing the city apart. She just sits there, completely unbothered,
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  Speaker 1: repeating the exact same lifeless.
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  Speaker 2: Sentence, she went to the supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: She went to the supermarket, over and over.
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  Speaker 2: Her complete lack of anxiety, her unnatural statuesque calm while
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  Speaker 2: her husband is losing his mind. It is the very
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  Speaker 2: first major red flag that something much darker is hiding
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  Speaker 2: beneath the surface of this domestic picture.
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  Speaker 1: And uncovering that darkness is our mission for this deep.
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  Speaker 2: Dive, it's a heavy one.
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  Speaker 1: It really is to piece together exactly how this happened.
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  Speaker 1: We're pulling from a stack of local Egyptian police reports,
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  Speaker 1: forensic analyses from the trial, and psychological profiles of predatory behavior.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to reconstruct a devastating sequence of events
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  Speaker 1: for you. This is a journey that begins with the
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  Speaker 1: most mundane household issue you can imagine and spirals into
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  Speaker 1: an unthinkable tragedy.
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  Speaker 2: It really is a masterclass in how predatory behavior operates.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a story of manipulation, a profound betrayal, and
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  Speaker 1: a mother's fable secret.
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  Speaker 2: Because predators don't always lurk in alleyways, sometimes they are
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  Speaker 2: invited right into the living room, which is terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: So to understand the sheer horror of that silent apartment
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, we have to rewind clock exactly.
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  Speaker 2: One year, back to twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Right, the family is experiencing something we have all dealt with.
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  Speaker 2: A plumbing leak, just a totally ordinary, annoying problem, just
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  Speaker 2: a leaky pipe.
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  Speaker 1: Osama, as we mentioned, is constantly out of the house
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  Speaker 1: working to pay.
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  Speaker 2: The bills, leaving a beer alone.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, leaving her alone in the apartment to manage the
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  Speaker 1: household and coordinate the repairs. So she picks up the
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  Speaker 1: phone and calls a local plumber named Id Bocket.
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  Speaker 2: And we really need to pause on Id because he
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  Speaker 2: clearly wasn't just there to fix a pipe.
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  Speaker 1: No, not at all. Yeah, tell us about Aid.
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  Speaker 2: So D is a well known local figure in this
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  Speaker 2: specific neighborhood, but he operates a very dark side hustle.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: He actively claims to practice magic, exorcisms and the spiritual arts.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he tells vulnerable people he has the site that
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  Speaker 2: he can look at a person and instantly know if
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  Speaker 2: they are afflicted by black magic or if a curse
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  Speaker 2: has been placed on them to ruin their lives.
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  Speaker 1: So he walks into that apartment to fix a leaking pipe,
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  Speaker 1: but he's actually hunting. It, takes one look at a
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  Speaker 1: beer and completely ignores the plumbing. He targets her directly.
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  Speaker 1: He looks her dead in the eye and tells her
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  Speaker 1: she looks off right. He claims he can sense a
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  Speaker 1: heavy dark energy around her, that she's under a curse
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  Speaker 1: meant to destroy her happiness. I mean, how does a
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  Speaker 1: plumber pull off that kind of pivot so effectively.
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  Speaker 2: He is using a classic cold reading tactic.
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  Speaker 1: Cold reading.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, cold reading is essentially a psychological parlor trick used
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  Speaker 2: by con artists and fake psychics. They don't actually read minds,
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  Speaker 2: they read micro expressions and contextual clues. Oh, I see,
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  Speaker 2: you'd likely notice the dark circles under her eyes, the
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  Speaker 2: tension in her jaw, the overall state of the apartment,
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  Speaker 2: and made a high probability guess that she was exhausted
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  Speaker 2: and overwhelmed. He isn't sensing magic, No, he is sensing vulnerability.
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  Speaker 2: He arrives to fix a pipe, but he immediately attacks
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  Speaker 2: her psychological state. He introduces a fabricated problem, a curse
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  Speaker 2: for which he just so happens to be the only cure.
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  Speaker 1: We really have to understand a Beer's reality at this
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  Speaker 1: moment to see why she fell for it. Definitely, she
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  Speaker 1: is trapped in a failing twenty one year marriage. The
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  Speaker 1: spark is entirely gone. They are drowning in financial.
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  Speaker 2: Stress, and Osama is never home.
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  Speaker 1: Never in a society where the pressure to maintain the
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  Speaker 1: image of a perfect family is immense. She is lonely,
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  Speaker 1: isolated and desperately looking for a reason why her life
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  Speaker 1: feels so miserable. She needs an excuse, right, So when
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  Speaker 1: this man tells her it's not your fault, you are
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  Speaker 1: cursed and I can fix it, the floodgates just open.
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  Speaker 1: She confides every single marital misery, every fear, every frustration
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  Speaker 1: to him.
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  Speaker 2: This highlights a crucial intersection of societal shame and predatory grooming.
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  Speaker 2: How so well, We often think of coercion as forceful
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  Speaker 2: or violent, but predators don't always use force. Sometimes they
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  Speaker 2: just offer a desperately unhappy person exactly what they want
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  Speaker 2: to hear valdidation exactly. D promised he could break the
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  Speaker 2: curse and fix her life. He made her feel seen, understood,
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  Speaker 2: and entirely dependent on his so called spiritual intervention. He
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  Speaker 2: was starving for validation, and he served it to her
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  Speaker 2: on a silver platter.
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  Speaker 1: And the manipulation escalates rapidly from there. What starts as
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  Speaker 1: a plumber offering spiritual advice turns into daily phone calls,
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  Speaker 1: daily daily for an entire month. D is on the
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  Speaker 1: phone with a beer, extracting more and more intimate details
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  Speaker 1: about our life.
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  Speaker 2: He is building a highly detailed psychological profile of her weaknesses.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and then he drops the act. He declares his
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  Speaker 1: love for her wo and a beer starved for affection reciprocates.
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  Speaker 2: The boundary is completely breached. Here, a full blown affair begins,
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  Speaker 2: and it is built entirely on a foundation of manufactured dependence.
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  Speaker 1: And affair that lasts for an entire year, a year
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  Speaker 1: right under Osama's nose. The audacity of this is staggering
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  Speaker 1: to me. D is frequently visiting the apartment. His cover
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  Speaker 1: is perfect. He's just the plumber coming to check on the.
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  Speaker 2: Pipes, hiding in plain sight.
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  Speaker 1: But while Osama is out working to feed his family,
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  Speaker 1: d is in his home. He is drinking tea in
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  Speaker 1: his living room. He is even building a bond with
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  Speaker 1: Osama's children.
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  Speaker 2: The older brother Mohammed and twelve year old Fudger.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he becomes a fixture in their daily lives.
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  Speaker 2: The psychological violation of that space cannot be overstated. He
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  Speaker 2: is embedding himself into the very fabric of the family
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  Speaker 2: he intends to dismantle. He is gaining the trust of
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  Speaker 2: the children not because he cares about them, but because
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  Speaker 2: they are pawns on his board.
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  Speaker 1: It's so calculated. So after a year of this, D
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  Speaker 1: gives a Beer a harsh ultimatum. He demands that she
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  Speaker 1: divorced Osama. He paints this grand picture for her. He
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  Speaker 1: promises to marry her, to cover all the financial expenses,
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  Speaker 1: and to step in and raise her children as his own.
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  Speaker 2: And that ties right back into his initial manipulation.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: He tells her this is the ultimate way to break
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  Speaker 2: the curse on her life. He is testing his ultimate control.
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  Speaker 2: He has spent a year isolating her emotionally from her husband,
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  Speaker 2: stripping away her autonomy piece by piece, and now he
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  Speaker 2: is pulling the trigger. He wants total ownership of her life.
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  Speaker 1: But a Beer hesitates. She actually takes a week to think.
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  Speaker 2: About it, a week of reality setting in.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly during that week, the cold, hard reality hits her.
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  Speaker 1: The thought of blowing up a two decade marriage, tearing
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  Speaker 1: her family apart, facing the profound social stigma of divorce
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  Speaker 1: and infidelity in her community. It just becomes too much.
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  Speaker 2: It's too high a cost.
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  Speaker 1: She backs out. She calls Ed and tells him no,
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  Speaker 1: she wants to end the affair. She wants to try
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  Speaker 1: and save her marriage to Osama, and she gives id
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  Speaker 1: a firm boundary, which is she says never call me again,
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  Speaker 1: and never step foot in this house.
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  Speaker 2: That rejection triggers what psychologists call narcissistic rage. Narcissistic rage, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: when a predator or a narcissist loses control over their victim,
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  Speaker 2: the charming facade instantly vanishes. That masks slick exactly. They
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  Speaker 2: don't just get sad. They feel a profound, volatile sense
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  Speaker 2: of injury, and their immediate instinct is to destroy the
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  Speaker 2: person who rejected them.
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  Speaker 1: And the mask absolutely shatters. Here, the scene on that
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  Speaker 1: phone call is chilling. Ed erupts into a violent rage.
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  Speaker 1: At first, he uses the classic blackmail tactic. He threatens
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  Speaker 1: to publicly expose the affair to Osama and the whole neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: ruining her reputation.
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  Speaker 2: Forever, which is terrifying for her.
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  Speaker 1: But then he realizes that might not be enough to
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  Speaker 1: control her. He pivots to something infinitely darker. Oh, he
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  Speaker 1: delivers a highly specific, terrifying ultimatum. He tells a beer
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  Speaker 1: that if she cuts him off, he will take his revenge,
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  Speaker 1: and he won't take it out on her or Osama. No,
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  Speaker 1: he will take his revenge on her twelve year old daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Piger pause and think about the gravity of that moment
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  Speaker 2: for a second. Yeah, the man who has been inside
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  Speaker 2: your home, who has drank tea with your children, explicitly
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  Speaker 2: threatens the life of your twelve year old daughter because
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  Speaker 2: you ended an affair unthinkable. The maternal instinct in that
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  Speaker 2: situation should be explosive. It should result in immediate police involvement,
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  Speaker 2: warning the husband, locking down the house, whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 1: But a beer does none of that. She completely dismisses.
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  Speaker 2: It, dismisses it entirely.
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  Speaker 1: She convinces herself he is just lashing out in anger.
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  Speaker 1: She keeps the secret. I mean, how does a mother
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  Speaker 1: justify that to herself?
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  Speaker 2: It requires a staggering amount of cognitive.
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  Speaker 1: Dissonance, which is what exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort we feel when our
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  Speaker 2: beliefs contradict our actions, or when we hold two conflicting
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  Speaker 2: truths at the same time. Okay Abir had to hold
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  Speaker 2: the truth that her child was in mortal danger alongside
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  Speaker 2: the truth that exposing the danger would destroy her.
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  Speaker 1: Own life, right because to protect Foger, she would have
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  Speaker 1: to expose her infidelity.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, she would face the wrath of her husband, the
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  Speaker 2: destruction of her family an utter societal ruin, so she
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  Speaker 2: chose self preservation. Her mind built a massive wall of
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  Speaker 2: denial to protect her own secret, rationalizing the threat away
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  Speaker 2: as empty words, leaving her daughter completely exposed to a predator.
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  Speaker 1: And that throws us violently back to where we started.
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  Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty. Fudger is missing.
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  Speaker 2: The nightmare is real now.
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  Speaker 1: So Sama has dragged his brother to the local police
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  Speaker 1: station to file a desperate missing person's report. The investigations
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  Speaker 1: officially underway. The detectives are exhausted working the dim, chaotic
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  Speaker 1: streets of Giza, trying to find any lead on a
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  Speaker 1: twelve year old girl who vanished into the evening.
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  Speaker 2: In these crucial early hours, investigators cast a wide net.
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  Speaker 2: They start pulling in anyone from the neighborhood who might
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  Speaker 2: have been on the street, anyone who might have seen
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  Speaker 2: something out of the ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and during this chaotic process, the police bring a
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  Speaker 1: local tuk tuk driver into the precinct for routine questioning.
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  Speaker 2: Now, for you listening, you might not know a tuk
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  Speaker 2: tuk is one of those small, three wheeled, open air
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  Speaker 2: motorized taxis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you see them weaving constantly through the heavy traffic
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  Speaker 1: in Egyptian cities, they are.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere completely ubiquitous.
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  Speaker 1: So a Beer is sitting there in the precinc still
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  Speaker 1: maintaining her eerie statuesque, calm.
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  Speaker 2: But blank stare.
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  Speaker 1: But the moment they walk this tucktook driver into the room,
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  Speaker 1: everything changes. A Beer's facade absolutely crumbles, it breaks. Her
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  Speaker 1: eyes go wide, she starts physically shaking. She points at
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  Speaker 1: the driver in absolute visible panic. She yells out to
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  Speaker 1: the detectives, that's the plumber, that's d see.
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  Speaker 2: The detectors are trained observers. They instantly notice that a
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  Speaker 2: Beer's reaction makes no logical sense in the context of
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  Speaker 2: a missing child. Right why the plumber exactly? Why is
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  Speaker 2: the grieving mother terrified of the family plumber, And more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: why is the quote unquote plumber driving a tuktook on
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  Speaker 2: the exact night a child goes missing.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't add up.
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  Speaker 2: They immediately realize the mother is the key to cracking
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  Speaker 2: this case.
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  Speaker 1: So the police execute a classic interrogation maneuver. They expertly
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  Speaker 1: isolate a Beer. They physically separate her from Osama, putting
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  Speaker 1: it in a different rooms so we can't hear what's about
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Once they have a beer alone, they apply
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  Speaker 1: the pressure they drill into her sudden panic, and under
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  Speaker 1: the weight of the interrogation, the damn breaks.
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  Speaker 2: She gives it up.
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  Speaker 1: She confesses everything. She admits to the year long affair
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  Speaker 1: with d and then she admits to the threat. She
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  Speaker 1: tells the police that Ed promised to take revenge jh
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  Speaker 1: on Faushar.
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  Speaker 2: This is where the investigation tilts from a standard missing
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  Speaker 2: person case into a total nightmare scenario. The police now
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  Speaker 2: know they aren't looking for a runaway child, They are
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  Speaker 2: looking for the victim of a targeted retaliatory abduction.
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  Speaker 1: But the police press her further, and this is the
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  Speaker 1: moment where the true horror of a Beer's actions is revealed.
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  Speaker 1: They ask her about the supermarket story gallibi right, and
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  Speaker 1: a Beer confesses it was a complete lie. Foger never
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  Speaker 1: went to the supermarket.
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  Speaker 2: This turning point is almost impossible to stomach.
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  Speaker 1: It is because earlier that evening, Ead had actually called
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  Speaker 1: Fager directly on the phone. He used that bond he
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  Speaker 1: had meticulously built over the year. He told the twelve
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  Speaker 1: year old girl he had a special gift for her.
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  Speaker 2: What was the gift?
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  Speaker 1: A brand new mobile phone. He just needed her to
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  Speaker 1: come downstairs to the street to get it. Oh God,
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  Speaker 1: and listen to this detail, because it is the most
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  Speaker 1: haunting part of the entire investigation. For me. A Beer knew,
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  Speaker 1: she knew. She watched her daughter put her shoes on.
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  Speaker 1: She watched her twelve year old one walk out the
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  Speaker 1: front door to go downstairs and meet the exact man
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  Speaker 1: who had explicitly threatened.
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  Speaker 2: To destroy her, and she did nothing.
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  Speaker 1: She did nothing to stop her.
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  Speaker 2: It is the ultimate, unimaginable betrayal. She traded her child's
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  Speaker 2: safety for the preservation of her own life. By sitting
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  Speaker 2: in that living room and doing nothing, she actively facilitated
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  Speaker 2: the trap.
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  Speaker 1: Put yourself right there on the street with the little phaser.
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  Speaker 1: She walks out of her building into the twilight, expecting
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  Speaker 1: a gift. She sees d the friendly plumber she's known
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  Speaker 1: for a year, sitting in the driver's seat of that
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  Speaker 1: motorized tuctic. She trusts him completely. She walks out to him, smiling,
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  Speaker 1: asking for the phone. Ed looks at her and says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I forgot it. My friend Samir has it. Jump in,
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  Speaker 1: we'll go get it, and she gets in because she
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  Speaker 1: trusts him. She climbs into the back of the tuptuk.
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  Speaker 1: The engine revs and they drive off into the dark,
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  Speaker 1: chaotic streets of Giza.
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  Speaker 2: The psychological manipulation of the child mirrors the manipulation of
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  Speaker 2: the mother perfectly. How So, Ed uses the trust he
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  Speaker 2: cultivated over twelve months as a weapon to bypass any
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  Speaker 2: stranger danger instincts the child might have had.
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  Speaker 1: So they leave the residential glow of Giza behind. The
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  Speaker 1: tuktook rattles out toward the industrial.
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  Speaker 2: Outskirts, far away from anyone who could help.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Id pulls up to a dark, completely isolated chemical
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  Speaker 1: storage warehouse, and waiting for them in the shadows is
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  Speaker 1: Samir the friend. But Samir isn't just a friend holding
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: a phone. He is an accomplice who is fully aware
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: of Id's dark, vengeful plan.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: The environment itself is chosen for its isolation and its resources.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: A chemical warehouse offers them exactly what they need for
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: what comes next. This wasn't a spontaneous crime. It was
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: highly premeditated.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: We are going to be careful here, but the gravity
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: of what happens inside that warehouse cannot be understated. Yeah,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Once Fodger is trapped inside the unthinkable occurs. She is
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: brutally assaulted by both d and Samir.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: A nightmare.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: A twelve year old girl betrayed by everyone she trusted,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: left entirely at the mercy of two monsters in the dark.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: And following the assaul the perpetrators transition from an act
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: of horrific violence to an act of cold, calculated erasure.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Right the methodology of the cover up proves just how
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: deeply Eed had planned this revenge.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: It is truly monstrous. They don't just bury her, They
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: need her to disappear entirely so Ed can get away
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: with his revenge and leave a beer to live with
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the secret forever total erasure. Inside the warehouse, they take
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: the child's body and place it into a large industrial barrel.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: They then fill that barrel to the brim with highly
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: caustic corrosive chemicals swored in the facility. Can you explain
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the forensic reality of what they were trying to do here?
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: These aren't just household cleaners. We're talking about industrial grade
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: pastic chemicals designed to break down organic matter at an
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: accelerated rate. Okay, scientifically, extreme caustics cause severe chemical burns
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: that liquefy tissues. It's a process related to suponification, where
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: fats are turned into soap like substances, rapidly destroying muscle
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: and skin.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: It just dissolves everything.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: They dissolve her body almost entirely, leave having absolutely nothing
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: behind except for a few small bone fragments that the
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: chemicals couldn't break down fast enough. It is a terrifying
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: attempt at total annihilation of the evidence, and.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Even that isn't enough for Ed and Samir. They scoop
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: out the remaining bone fragments and gather up Figer's clothes.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: They carry them up the concrete stairs to the flat
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: roof of the warehouse, trying to finish the job under
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the night sky. They douse the remains in accelerant and
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: set them on fire, hoping to turn the last traces
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: of Figer into smoke and ash.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: But this is where the sheer arrogance of the criminal
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: mind so often fails. You can never truly erase a
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: crime scene of this magnitude. Science and human error always
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: leave a trace.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Because back at the precinct, a Beer's broken confession gave
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the police exactly who to look for. They track the TikTok,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: They trace aids, known associates and locations.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: They're roving fast.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Now heavily armed police forces raid that industrial chemical warehouse.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: They kick the doors in, they apprehend Samir right there
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: on site, and shortly after they hunt down Ead and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: arrest him too, And.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: The forensic teams move into the warehouse and despite the
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: chemical barrel and the fire on the roof, the investigators prevail.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: They find it crime scene technicians find the remnants of
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the fire on the roof. They recover the charred bone fragments,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: but more importantly, down in the dark warehouse, they find
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: microscopic traces of human remains and crucial blood spots that
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the men missed in their rush to clean up.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: The DNA testing comes back. It is a definitive, undeniable match.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: The blood belongs to twelve year old Phager.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: The forensic proof they needed.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: The trap was real. The murder is officially confirmed.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: The justice system moves swiftly when confronted with evidence this
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: overwhelming and a crime this depraved edbeck Kit.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: And his accomplice Semir are dragged into court. They face
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the absolute maximum penalty the law allows. Both men are
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: sentenced to death for the kidnapping, assault, and premeditated murder.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Of fagers, as they should be.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: But for Osama the father, the nightmare doesn't end with
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a gavel strike. His reality is utterly completely shattered. He
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: has not only lost his little girl in the most
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: horrific way imaginable, but he has discovered that the architect
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: of his destruction was his wife of twenty one years.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: The psychological toll on Osama is unfathomable. He spent his
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: days exhausted, working to build a future for his family,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: entirely unaware that his wife was actively dismantling that family
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: from the inside out. Yeah, culminating in an act of
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: complicity that really defies human understanding.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Left with nothing but profound grief and fury, Osama files
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: a formal adultery lawsuit against a beer. The family unit
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: is entirely pulverized.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: You know. Stepping back and looking at the tragic reality
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: of this case, it serves as an incredibly dark, sobering
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: reminder for all of us. Definitely, we spend so much
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: time worrying about stranger danger. We teach our kids not
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: to talk to people they don't know, to avoid dark alleys,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: but the reality of predation is often much closer to home.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Evil doesn't always break in through a shatter window in
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: the middle of the night. Sometimes it knocks politely, offers
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: to fix a leaking pipe, and is invited right through
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: the front door disguised as help.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: We all have locks on our doors to keep the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: monsters out. But what happens when the real danger isn't
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the stranger and the dog, but the secrets we keep
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: from the people we love.