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The Balcony Betrayal: How One Broken Routine Uncovered Five Years of Hidden Lives, Secret Affairs, and a Shocking Murder · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the deep Dive. Today, we're digging into
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  Speaker 1: a story. It's about five years of hidden lives, secrets,
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  Speaker 1: all leading up to one single, unavoidable moment of truth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a real pressure cooker situation, and we're dropping you
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  Speaker 2: right into it. Alexandria Egypt, May fifteenth, twenty fourteen. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: picture this. It's about seven on more zero pm. I'm dead.
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  Speaker 2: He's a technical engineer. He's coming home, but tonight's different,
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  Speaker 2: totally different. Thursdays he always visits his mother, it's his.
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  Speaker 1: Routine, but not this Thursday. He caught a ride home
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  Speaker 1: with a neighbor, an engineer like him. So he's home
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  Speaker 1: hours early, carrying dinner, some fruit, you know, just coming home.
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  Speaker 2: Looks totally normal on the surface. Gets to his front door,
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  Speaker 2: knocks once, knocks again.
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  Speaker 1: Still nothing and this is weird, right, But then he
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  Speaker 1: reaches for his key and realizes.
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  Speaker 2: The door's locked from the inside. That's the first major
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  Speaker 2: red flag. It's not just quiet, it's deliberately sealed.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's this pause. Yeah, the whole minute goes by,
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  Speaker 1: which must have felt like an eternity.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Then finally the lock turns.
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  Speaker 1: And it's his wife, jeehad. She opens the door. She's
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  Speaker 1: in a nightgown. Her face it's just a mask, shock,
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  Speaker 1: pure terror.
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  Speaker 2: She scrambles for an excuse, right, something about hearing a
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  Speaker 2: naug earlier, got scared, locked the door tight, Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds weak and Ahmed he's probably not even focused
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  Speaker 1: on the excuse because as he steps inside, the whole
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  Speaker 1: apartment just feels off.
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  Speaker 2: The atmosphere is wrong. He notices their daughter is asleep,
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  Speaker 2: but not in her own room, and dinner's already made.
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  Speaker 2: Juice is poured in the living room like.
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  Speaker 1: She was expecting someone prepared exactly.
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  Speaker 2: All these little details are screaming that something isn't right.
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  Speaker 2: But the clincher the balcony door. It's wide open, and.
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  Speaker 1: They never left the balcony door open, never for safety.
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  Speaker 2: So Ahmed walks towards it, steps out onto the balcony,
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  Speaker 2: turns the corner and.
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  Speaker 1: Boom, reality hits there hiding. It's Raby, his friend, the
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  Speaker 1: guy he used to live upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: And he's shoeless, sockless, partially undressed, just caught hiding in
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  Speaker 2: the shadows on his friend's balcony.
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  Speaker 1: At one moment, it's explosive, but it wasn't random, was
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  Speaker 1: it not?
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  Speaker 2: At all? This was the end point, the culmination of
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  Speaker 2: five years, four different lives intertwining, starting back in two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and nine, when none of them even knew each other.
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  Speaker 2: To really get why this moment happened, why Amd reacts
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  Speaker 2: the way he does, we have to go back. We
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  Speaker 2: need to understand the players. So let's set the stage Alexandria,
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. Four people. First, Ahmed. Ahmed's the
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  Speaker 2: steady one. You described him perfectly, honest, hard working engineer,
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  Speaker 2: building his life. He actually held off on marriage for
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  Speaker 2: a bit, wanted financial stability, first, find the right person.
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  Speaker 1: Very deliberate, Okay, angie hot she had. Her focus was
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  Speaker 1: clear marriage, becoming a good homemaker. She finished intermediate school
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  Speaker 1: and that was pretty much her life goal. Modest focused
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  Speaker 1: on the home, so a fairly traditional setup for them, potentially.
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  Speaker 1: Now the other couple, Raby.
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  Speaker 2: Raby's interesting, skilled mechanic, big dreams, wanted this huge service center.
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  Speaker 2: Ambitious in that sense, but and this is the crucial flaw,
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  Speaker 2: his real focus relationships with women.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, so the ambition was real, but the money wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going into the business.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently not. Reports say he spent nearly all his earnings
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  Speaker 2: on women. That was his primary drive.
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  Speaker 1: It seems, okay, that's quite a contrast to Ahmed already
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  Speaker 1: and his eventual wife, Rehab.
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  Speaker 2: Rehab shared Jihad's goal of marriage, but she was described
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  Speaker 2: as beautiful, have lots of suitors, so she was in
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  Speaker 2: the position of choosing. You know, she had options.
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  Speaker 1: So how do these paths start to cross. Let's take
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  Speaker 1: Ahmed and Jihad.
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  Speaker 2: First, they met by chance. Ahmed was drawn to her modesty. Apparently,
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  Speaker 2: they get engaged and it lasts about a year and
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  Speaker 2: a half. Seems like they built a genuinely strong, loving
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  Speaker 2: relationship during that time, based on effort, trust, a solid foundation.
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  Speaker 2: Now Raby in Rehab, very different story. Raby saw Rehab
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  Speaker 2: walking past his workshop, pursued her, proposed She accepted quickly,
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  Speaker 2: impressed by his skill as a mechanic, his looks okay,
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  Speaker 2: But their engagement turbulent. Plan for one year stretched two
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  Speaker 2: and a half. Why because Raby couldn't stop his affairs.
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  Speaker 2: He kept seeing other women.
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  Speaker 1: Even during the engagement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Rehab's love was described as possessive. She kept
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  Speaker 2: hoping he'd change, She kept promising he would, but didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, So right from the start, you've got one relationship
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  Speaker 1: built on mutual effort and the other one is just
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  Speaker 1: riddled with infidelity and broken promises.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly night and day. They enter marriage on completely different terms.
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  Speaker 1: So fast forward. They both get married, Ahmed and Jihad.
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  Speaker 2: They settle into a stable life, popular neighborhood, have their
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  Speaker 2: first child about a year after marrying. Fundamentally secure, you know.
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  Speaker 2: The main issues were maybe Jihad feeling a bit lonely
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed worked till six pm every day, and her feeling
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  Speaker 2: like his family didn't quite like her. Minor stuff relatively speaking.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, manageable issues in a basically stable marriage Raby and Rehab.
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  Speaker 2: Predictably, it got worse after marriage rented apartment, also in
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  Speaker 2: a popular area, but Rehab's jealousy intensified because she kept
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  Speaker 2: catching him. It was constant discoveries.
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  Speaker 1: Of his affairs, and he just promised to change again.
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  Speaker 2: Always always promising, never changing until twenty twelve. That's when
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  Speaker 2: things really shift. What happened, Rehab found out Raby was
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  Speaker 2: having an affair with a woman who lived on their street.
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  Speaker 2: This was public humiliation for her. Her reputation was damaged.
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  Speaker 2: She demanded a.
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  Speaker 1: Divorce finally drew a line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, rayby panics basically agrees to change, really change this time,
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  Speaker 2: but only if they move immediately, get away from the situation.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the twist, right, where does he find
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  Speaker 1: a place?
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  Speaker 2: This is the fateful part. He finds an apartment to
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  Speaker 2: rent directly above a Meed and Jihad. No way, just coincidence,
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  Speaker 2: pure devastating coincidence. Suddenly these two couples, with their vastly
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  Speaker 2: different relationship dynamics, are living literally on top of each other.
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  Speaker 1: And what happens then? How did they.
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  Speaker 2: Interact instantly close Jihad and Rehab, especially both wives husbands
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  Speaker 2: often working late, They bonded intensely, became best friends, shared everything,
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  Speaker 2: confided in each other completely.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So Rehab finds a confidant in Jihad.
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  Speaker 2: Her closest one, and the men Ahmed and Raby, they
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  Speaker 2: become close to hanging out late at night socializing in
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  Speaker 2: each other's home is a real foursome.
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  Speaker 1: The irony is just staggering. Rehab insists they moved because
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  Speaker 1: Raby cheated with a neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: Only to move next door to the woman who would
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  Speaker 2: become his next and arguably most devastating affair, and Rehab
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  Speaker 2: confided everything in her.
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  Speaker 1: So when did the affair between Jihad and Rabi actually start?
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  Speaker 2: The investigation confirmed it began shortly after Raby and Rehab
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  Speaker 2: moved in upstairs, so around twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve, right away, basically, and the reason sighted for Jihad
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  Speaker 1: this emotional deficiency.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the term used in the reports. It suggests
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  Speaker 2: that while Ahmed was providing stability, security, maybe that hard
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  Speaker 2: working nature meant something else felt missing for her attention,
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  Speaker 2: maybe validation.
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  Speaker 1: And Rabi, the expert manipulator when it came to women.
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  Speaker 2: He likely saw that vulnerability, that perceived gap and exploited it.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't offering stability, he was offering whatever thrill or
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  Speaker 2: attention she felt. She locked wrapped in betrayal. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: So this goes on while their neighbors. Yeah, but then
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  Speaker 1: Raby and Rehab move again, right in twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, after only about a year living above Ahmed and Jihad,
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  Speaker 2: they move again, this time to be closer to Raby's workshop.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe some distance helps.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's another layer. Ahmeda was actually secretly relieved when
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  Speaker 2: they moved.
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  Speaker 1: Really he was friends with Raby, he was, but.
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  Speaker 2: He'd become uncomfortable. He noticed Raby looking at Jihad in
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  Speaker 2: well a strange way, lingering gazes. Plus, he was tired
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  Speaker 2: of their constant loud fights about Raby's otherwound.
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  Speaker 1: But he never said anything to Jihad.
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  Speaker 2: Or Raby never mentioned his discomfort. It's like he saw
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  Speaker 2: the signs maybe, but couldn't or wouldn't connect the dots.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe trusted his friend too much or his wife. He
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  Speaker 2: just hoped the problem that the discomfort would literally move away.
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  Speaker 1: So they move. Does the affair stop now?
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  Speaker 2: It continues over the phone. Jihad and rehabsity in close contact,
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  Speaker 2: still friends, confiding in each other.
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  Speaker 1: But Rehab starts noticing things are off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Rehab, always vigilant about Rady, starts picking up on
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  Speaker 2: weird behavior from Jihad, like Jihad being overly concerned about
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  Speaker 2: Rehab's marriage, asking really personal questions to invested.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, and Rehab also noticed a change in Raby.
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  Speaker 2: She did. He seemed unusually calm, changed. Rehab couldn't figure
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  Speaker 2: out if he genuinely reformed this time or if he
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  Speaker 2: was just hiding something much much deeper.
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  Speaker 1: The irony Again. She suspects something is up with Raby,
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  Speaker 1: but her radar is pointing everywhere, accept.
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  Speaker 2: At her best friend, exactly the ultimate blind spot. She
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  Speaker 2: moved to a skip a neighborhood affair, never dreaming the
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  Speaker 2: real threat was the woman she trusted most, and Ahmed too.
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  Speaker 2: He apparently, since Jihad was not normal, hiding something but
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  Speaker 2: didn't push it, didn't investigate.
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  Speaker 1: It's like they are both relying on the routine, the
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  Speaker 1: appearance of normalcy, to avoid seeing the chaos right under
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  Speaker 1: their noses, precisely, which brings us right back to that evening,
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  Speaker 1: May fifteenth, seven point zero pm. Ahmed confronts Raby on
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  Speaker 1: the balcony. Raby tries to lie his way out of it,
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  Speaker 1: claims rehab was coming over.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a desperate, flimsy lie. Says they panicked, didn't want
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed to misunderstand why he was there. Hiding partially undressed
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  Speaker 2: doesn't really.
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  Speaker 1: Hold water, does it. Ahmed makes some call rehab.
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  Speaker 2: Force ishm too. The moment Rehab picks up it's over,
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed takes the phone, speaks to her directly.
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  Speaker 1: And she confirms she's not coming thanks. Raby's at some
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  Speaker 1: celebration confirms it all.
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  Speaker 2: The lie evaporates instantly, the betrayal, the friend, the wife.
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  Speaker 2: The sheer deception hits Ahmed all at once.
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  Speaker 1: And he just snaps, grabs a wooden stick that was nearby, attacks.
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  Speaker 2: Raby, strikes some beautiful times, kills him right there on
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  Speaker 2: the balcony when the police arrive.
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  Speaker 1: What are the initial stories.
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed claims defensive honor, says he didn't want to kill
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  Speaker 2: Jihad because their daughter was nearby. Jihad claims complete innocence, hysterical,
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  Speaker 2: saying Raby attacked her while she was alone, painting herself
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  Speaker 2: as the victim.
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  Speaker 1: But the scene didn't match her story, did it? The
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  Speaker 1: forensics not even close.
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  Speaker 2: The forensic evidence completely blew Jihad's story apart, and the
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  Speaker 2: truth that emerged was shocking even for Ahmed and certainly
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  Speaker 2: for Rehab when she learned the details.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, break down the key evidence what proved Jihad was
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  Speaker 1: lying and involved Point one, rayby state, shoeless, sockless, partially undressed.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't someone fighting off an attack. This was someone
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  Speaker 1: comfortable settled in, someone who felt at home there right,
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  Speaker 1: not the posture of an attacker or someone being repelled.
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  Speaker 1: What else?
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  Speaker 2: The preparation, the dinner already made in the kitchen, the
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  Speaker 2: juice ready in the living room. This proved she was
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  Speaker 2: expecting him hosting him. It corroborated the idea of a
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  Speaker 2: planned rendezvous, not a sudden assault.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so he was comfortable she was prepared. What tied
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  Speaker 1: it all together.
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  Speaker 2: Zero point three the phone records. This was the final
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  Speaker 2: nail in the coffin for Jihad's story and the ultimate
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  Speaker 2: proof of her betrayal of rehab. Investigators found Raby's last
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  Speaker 2: call was to Jihad. They'd arranged the meeting and.
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  Speaker 1: Jihads called a rehab earlier that day.
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  Speaker 2: That wasn't an innocent chat. The timing showed it was
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  Speaker 2: specifically to confirm rehab wouldn't be visiting, to make sure
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  Speaker 2: the coast was clear for Raby to come over. Timed
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  Speaker 2: perfectly around Ahmed's usual Thursday absence.
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  Speaker 1: She coordinated the whole thing new Ahmed's.
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  Speaker 2: Routine, meticulously planned. Face with the evidence Ja had confessed
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  Speaker 2: admitted to the affair, which had been going on for
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  Speaker 2: about a year and a.
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  Speaker 1: Half, So the full picture emerges. Rabi betrayed Ahmed's friendship
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  Speaker 1: and hospitality. Jihad betrayed Ahmed's trust and rehabs deep friendship
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  Speaker 1: and confidence layers.
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  Speaker 2: Upon layers of betrayal, all happening under the guise of
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  Speaker 2: close friendship and neighborly routine, and.
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  Speaker 1: Ahmed lived with this completely unaware for five years since
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  Speaker 1: they first met Raby. Even though the affair itself was
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  Speaker 1: maybe only one point five years, the deception from his
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  Speaker 1: friend started earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the active affair was one point five years according
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  Speaker 2: to the confession. But the closeness, the potential for Raby's manipulation,
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity that existed from the moment they became neighbors
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  Speaker 2: and close friends. Ahmed was oblivious to the true nature
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  Speaker 2: of his friend's interactions with his wife.
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  Speaker 1: For years, staggering a secret life operating just feet away
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  Speaker 1: sometimes yea. And it only came crashing down because of
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  Speaker 1: one tiny random change.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ahmed accepting that ride home, breaking his routine for
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  Speaker 2: one night. If he'd gone to his mother's usual, who
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  Speaker 2: knows how long it could have continued.
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  Speaker 1: That really is the chilling part, isn't it. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: some grand investigation that uncovered at all. It was chance,
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  Speaker 1: a disruption to the expected pattern.
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  Speaker 2: It makes you think, doesn't it. We build our lives
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  Speaker 2: on these routines, these expectations of normalcy, and maybe maybe
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  Speaker 2: sometimes that very predictability is what allows chaos or deception
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  Speaker 2: to hide right beneath the surface, unseen. How much do
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  Speaker 2: we miss because we assume everything is just normal,