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Monaco's wealthiest woman had a SECRET hater... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: On a morning in May of twenty fourteen, a detective
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Speaker 1: sat next to the hospital bed of a mortally injured
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Speaker 1: seventy seven year old woman.
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Speaker 2: This woman had been in a coma for the last ten.
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Speaker 1: Days following a vicious attack on her, and in that
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Speaker 1: time the detective had been desperately working to try to
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Speaker 1: figure out who had attacked her. But now, somewhat amazingly,
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Speaker 1: the woman had woken up from her coma, and now
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Speaker 1: this detective was finally getting the chance to ask the
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Speaker 1: victim directly, who did this to you? However, when the
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Speaker 1: woman began to speak, this conversation would not go as planned.
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Speaker 3: Okay, let's get into today's story.
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Speaker 1: Late in the afternoon on May sixth, twenty fourteen, seventy
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Speaker 1: seven year old Helene Pastor sat at her office desk
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Speaker 1: in Monaco with a phone pressed to her ear, and
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Speaker 1: on the other end was one of Helene's many tenants
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Speaker 1: doing what they did best, which was to complain. This time,
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Speaker 1: there was a problem with their water heater and apparently
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Speaker 1: the plumber was late, and Helene, like she always did,
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Speaker 1: listen patiently because she was a landlord and this was
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Speaker 1: her job. But when this tenant was finished, Helene told
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Speaker 1: them in a soft but firm voice that the plumber
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Speaker 1: would be there eventually and that they, the tenant, were
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Speaker 1: certainly not too important to wait.
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Speaker 2: Then she hung up.
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Speaker 1: Helene knew her tenant wouldn't like this, but she also
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Speaker 1: just didn't have patience for entitled, wealthy snobs. Unfortunately for her, though,
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Speaker 1: she spent a lot of time with people like that,
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Speaker 1: because Helene was actually the single richest woman in all
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Speaker 1: of Monaco. So. Monaco is a country located on the
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Speaker 1: Mediterranean coast, and it's surrounded on three sides by France,
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Speaker 1: and so Monaco and France share a lot of cultural similarities.
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Speaker 1: But unlike France, Monaco is very, very small, just under
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Speaker 1: a mile wide and has only about thirty nine thousand citizens,
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Speaker 1: and many of those thirty nine thousand citizens are incredibly wealthy.
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Speaker 1: It's essentially a country of millionaires and billionaires living in
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Speaker 1: ultra luxury condos and high rises all along its coastline,
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Speaker 1: and Helene and her family, the Pastors, owned most of
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Speaker 1: those condos, which meant they were among the wealthiest landlords
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Speaker 1: not just in Monaco but on the whole planet. The
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Speaker 1: pastors multi billion dollar real estate empire had started three
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Speaker 1: generations ago, and Helene was now in charge of it.
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Speaker 1: It was a lot of work, and Helene could have
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Speaker 1: passed it off to somebody else, but she was a pastor,
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Speaker 1: and pastores worked for what they had, which was why,
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Speaker 1: you know, despite her wealth, Helene was a very hands
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Speaker 1: on landlord and spent long days in her office with
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Speaker 1: her staff, you know, dealing with accounting and handling tenants,
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Speaker 1: requests and complaints like about you know, the plumber not
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Speaker 1: being on time. Now, Helene picked up the phone once
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Speaker 1: more to make one more call before she left for
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Speaker 1: the day, and this call was to her daughter, Sylvia.
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Speaker 1: Sylvia was fifty three and had been diagnosed with breast
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Speaker 1: cancer two years earlier. So Helene, you know, naturally worried
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Speaker 1: about her a lot and checked him with her daily.
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Speaker 1: And on this day, when she heard her daughter pick
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Speaker 1: up and say hello, Helene immediately asked her, like, how
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Speaker 1: are you feeling? But Sylvia said she actually couldn't talk
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Speaker 1: right now. Her massage therapist had just arrived, and so
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Speaker 1: she excused herself.
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Speaker 2: And hung up. Helene took the phone off her ear and.
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Speaker 1: Just stared at the receiver as the the dial tone
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Speaker 1: blared through it, you know, doing her best not to
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Speaker 1: feel hurt. Helene knew she was a very demanding parent
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Speaker 1: and you know, generally was not particularly warm, but she
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Speaker 1: loved Sylvia and lately it seemed like her daughter just
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Speaker 1: didn't necessarily reciprocate that. And Helene knew exactly who to
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Speaker 1: blame for this, and it was not Sylvia, and it
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Speaker 1: wasn't even Helene. It was Sylvia's boyfriend, Voycheck. Now, Sylvia
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Speaker 1: had been with Voycheck for almost three decades, and it
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Speaker 1: seemed like everyone in Monaco absolutely loved this guy. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he was charming and gregarious and gave a ton of
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Speaker 1: money to charity. But Helene had always felt like there
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Speaker 1: was just something off about him, and she worried that
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Speaker 1: he was taking advantage of her daughter's very famous name.
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Speaker 1: And so generally there had just been this sort of
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Speaker 1: sitting unspoken tension between Helene and Sylvia about Voycheck, you know,
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Speaker 1: the fact that clearly Helene didn't really like him. Like
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Speaker 1: that tension was there between the mother and daughter. But
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Speaker 1: lately it seemed like that tension had finally gotten to
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Speaker 1: the point where, you know, Helene and Sylvia were just
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Speaker 1: having all these little arguments that you know, sometimes were
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Speaker 1: actually about boy Check and other times were about completely
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Speaker 1: different things. It was like they were just quick to
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Speaker 1: argue with each other. But for now, Alene looked at
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Speaker 1: the time and saw, you know, it was time to go,
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Speaker 1: and so she stood up, and she smoothed out her
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Speaker 1: beautiful Chanel suit, and she knew that if she wanted
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Speaker 1: to see her son, Guildo tonight, she really needed to
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Speaker 1: get a move on here. So Guildo, Helene's son, had
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Speaker 1: been in the hospital for the last few months after
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Speaker 1: having a stroke.
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Speaker 2: Helene visited with him daily, making the.
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Speaker 1: Forty five minute drive from Monaco to where he was
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Speaker 1: hospitalized in Nice, France. Now, the daily commute was definitely
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Speaker 1: a lot, but Helene didn't care. She always worked it
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Speaker 1: into her very busy schedule. Now, Guildo was forty seven,
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Speaker 1: but he was still very much Helene's child, and the
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Speaker 1: whole ordeal had been just awful and very emotional for Helene,
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Speaker 1: especially on top of you know, her daughter's cancer diagnosis
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Speaker 1: and the tension between.
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Speaker 2: Her and her daughter.
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Speaker 1: Like right now, life was pretty tough. Seeing her chill
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Speaker 1: like this had reminded Helene that money just could not
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Speaker 1: save you from everything, even in Monaco. Now, Helene grabbed
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Speaker 1: her Hermes purse and she headed out the door. Minutes later,
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Speaker 1: Helene was outside and was climbing into a black mini
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Speaker 1: van that was waiting for her at the curb. And
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Speaker 1: as Helene slid into the back seat.
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Speaker 2: She was greeted by her sixty four year old driver,
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Speaker 2: Mohammed Darwich.
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Speaker 1: So. Mohammed had actually been working with Helene now for
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Speaker 1: fifteen years, and so the two of them spent the
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Speaker 1: entire forty five minute drive to Nice just chatting about
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Speaker 1: their kids because in some ways they were longtime friends.
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Speaker 1: Mohammed told Helene about how he really missed his daughter
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Speaker 1: who lived back in Egypt with her mom, and he
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Speaker 1: also updated Helene on his son with Sam and how
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Speaker 1: he liked living in France. Their conversation made the drive
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Speaker 1: go fast, and before Helene knew it, they were at
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Speaker 1: the hospital around six pm that night. Helene was sitting
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Speaker 1: at Guildo's bedside, helping him drink.
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Speaker 2: A glass of water.
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Speaker 1: Like his mother, Guildo had been both blessed and cursed
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Speaker 1: with the pastor work ethic. Despite the family money, he
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Speaker 1: was constantly still arding ventures and investing in businesses. So
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Speaker 1: Helene knew the hospitalization had been really hard for him,
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Speaker 1: not just physically, but just from a work perspective. You know,
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Speaker 1: he was missing out on so many opportunities because he
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Speaker 1: was stuck here, and even though now he was awake
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Speaker 1: and alert, he was still partially paralyzed and just.
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Speaker 2: Couldn't speak very well.
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Speaker 1: Helene sat with Guildo for about an hour, talking to
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Speaker 1: him and also checking in with his doctors, and then
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Speaker 1: at some point she kissed her son's forehead and told
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Speaker 1: him she would see him soon. Just after seven pm,
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Speaker 1: Helene walked out of the hospital to where Mohammed was
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Speaker 1: waiting in the minivan, and this time she got into
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Speaker 1: the front passenger seat and Mohammed. He started the car
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Speaker 1: and they began to make their way out of the
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Speaker 1: lot toward the busy streets of Nice, and pretty much
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Speaker 1: right away they got stuck in absolutely standstill traffic, and
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Speaker 1: so Helene just sat back in her seat.
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Speaker 2: And tried to relax.
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Speaker 1: But as she was doing that, something caught her eye
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Speaker 1: outside of the car, like out her window.
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Speaker 2: It was this person who had a hat kind of pulled.
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Speaker 1: Down low over their eyes, and they were jogging right
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Speaker 1: towards the minivan, and Helene she just stared at this
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Speaker 1: person and tried to see if they maybe knew them,
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Speaker 1: because it did seem like they were coming right towards
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Speaker 1: this car like their car.
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Speaker 2: But then she saw what this person was holding.
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Speaker 1: And immediately she screamed at Mohammed to drive, but before
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Speaker 1: Mohammad could react, Helene heard a loud bang and the
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Speaker 1: sound of shattering glass. About fifteen minutes later, the commissioner
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Speaker 1: of the Nice Police, Philippe Frison, pulled up to the
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Speaker 1: hospital with the sirens on. He'd been in his office
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Speaker 1: about to finish up for the day when he got
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Speaker 1: a call about shots being fired, but he really didn't
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Speaker 1: know how serious it was, so he parked and jumped
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Speaker 1: out of his car, and the first thing he saw
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Speaker 1: was a crowd of people gathered on the street across
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Speaker 1: from the hospital, and they were all staring at this
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Speaker 1: parked black minivan with Monaco plates and also a shattered
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Speaker 1: passenger side window.
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Speaker 2: Frison jogged over.
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Speaker 1: And he was technically the first officer on the scene,
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Speaker 1: but a firefighter standing by the minivan told him a
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Speaker 1: few details based on what he'd seen and what the
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Speaker 1: onlookers had been saying. Apparently, a man dressed in black
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Speaker 1: had come out of nowhere on foot and fired two
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Speaker 1: shots into the minivan, striking both the man and the.
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Speaker 2: Woman who were in there in the head.
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Speaker 1: The shooter had then disappeared back into the crowd, and
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Speaker 1: witnesses saw a second man dressed in black follow after him.
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Speaker 1: The firefighter said that both victims had been taken to
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Speaker 1: the hospital in critical condition, but he didn't know if
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Speaker 1: they were still alive now, and he also didn't have
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Speaker 1: any information on their identities, just that it was a man.
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Speaker 2: And a woman.
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Speaker 1: Immediately, Frison's mind went to carjacking.
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Speaker 2: Now. Nice did not have a huge amount.
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Speaker 1: Of crime, but one of its more common issues was
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Speaker 1: something called the car door grab, which was when criminals
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Speaker 1: would target cars who were stuck in traffic and they
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Speaker 1: would rob these cars. And so he wondered if maybe
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Speaker 1: carjackers had approached this vehicle and attempted to rob it.
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Speaker 1: Something happened, they drew a weapon and then obviously the
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Speaker 1: victims inside were shot, and then the carjackers took off,
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Speaker 1: and so Frizon radioed back to the station for backup.
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Speaker 1: A crime like this, you know, whether it was carjacking
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Speaker 1: or not, you know, obviously what he's dealing with here
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Speaker 1: is is murder. A crime like this needed more officers
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Speaker 1: than just him, and so he gets in touch with
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Speaker 1: the dispatcher and he fills her in on the need
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Speaker 1: for backup, and then during this discussion, she actually passes
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Speaker 1: one more piece of information to Frizon that she had
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Speaker 1: recently learned, and that was the identities of the victims.
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Speaker 2: And the reason that they.
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Speaker 1: Already knew who these people were is because one of
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Speaker 1: the victims was incredibly famous. The woman who had been
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Speaker 1: shot was Helene Pastor. The other victim was her driver,
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Speaker 1: Mohammed Darwich. When Frisan heard this, he couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, of course, he knew who she was. Everyone
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Speaker 1: in Monaco knew who Helene Pastor was, or at least
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Speaker 1: had heard the Pastor name. And so now that Frison
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Speaker 1: knew the identities of his victims, I mean, his theory
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Speaker 1: of this case immediately changed. He felt like there was
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Speaker 1: no way the richest woman in Monaco just happened to
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Speaker 1: be targeted by random carjackers.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this had to be a hit.
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Speaker 1: And so Frizon, after getting off the radio, went back
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Speaker 1: to the minivan and just looked inside, and right away
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Speaker 1: he saw there was a purse that was sitting untouched
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Speaker 1: on the dashboard, which made him even more certain that
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Speaker 1: this was no robbery, I mean, very likely that would
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Speaker 1: have been grabbed. But then he noticed something else. The
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Speaker 1: front seats and the floor of the minivan were covered
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Speaker 1: in all these rounded, metallic pellets, which he recognized as
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Speaker 1: being from shotgun ammunition, like buckshot, like the inside of
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Speaker 1: you know what a shotgun fires or canfire. And this
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Speaker 1: struck Frizon as being very strange. I mean, a shotgun
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Speaker 1: was an odd choice for a you know, a professional hit,
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Speaker 1: because it was big and bulky, and you really couldn't
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Speaker 1: carry it in public without attracting a lot of attention,
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Speaker 1: and so this, combined with the fact that this happened
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Speaker 1: in broad daylight, told Frizon that very likely whoever had
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Speaker 1: shot Helene and her driver was not an experienced hitman,
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Speaker 1: which was also just not what he would have expected.
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Speaker 1: Just then, Frizan heard the sound of sirens cut through
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Speaker 1: the air, and he knew.
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Speaker 2: His backup had arrived.
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Speaker 1: A few hours later, Frizan was back at the police
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Speaker 1: station talking to his team, which now included one of
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Speaker 1: the city's very best detectives, investigator Catherine Messinio. Both of
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Speaker 1: their victims, Mohammed and Helene, had survived at least to
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Speaker 1: this point, they were in comas and their attack was
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Speaker 1: already the leading news all around Europe. But Frizan was
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Speaker 1: not particularly worried about, you know, potentially not being able
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Speaker 1: to solve this, because he.
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Speaker 2: Knew he would have some answers soon.
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Speaker 1: Not only had their technicians processed the crime scene and
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Speaker 1: gathered swabs and other evidence from the minivan, but also
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Speaker 1: Frisan's officers had found two security cameras near the scene
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Speaker 1: that likely recorded the entire shooting.
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Speaker 2: So in France, it was common.
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Speaker 1: For cities and towns to have like a network of
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Speaker 1: closed circuit surveillance cameras that law enforcement was able to access,
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Speaker 1: and Nice had more of those cameras than any other
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Speaker 1: city in the country. So Frison was optimistic about what
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Speaker 1: the footage might show once it finally arrived, but in
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Speaker 1: the meantime, he wanted to speak to Helene's immediate family
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Speaker 1: and friends and see if she had any enemies. The
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Speaker 1: way Frison saw it was, you know, Helene's daughter and son,
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Speaker 1: who she was very close with Sylvia and Guildo, they
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Speaker 1: would certainly know if there was anyone who wanted their
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Speaker 1: mother dad. But Frison also knew that her children were
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Speaker 1: not just potential sources of critical information, they were also suspects.
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Speaker 1: Friisan didn't have access to the details of Helene's estate,
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Speaker 1: but he knew enough about the family to guess that
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Speaker 1: whatever inheritance Helene left behind was literally in the billions,
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Speaker 1: which meant that her death would likely make both Sylvia
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Speaker 1: and Guildo billionaires. Now, Frisan didn't think that either of
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Speaker 1: them had actually pulled the trigger here, but what Frisan
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Speaker 1: did think was that both of them definitely had the
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Speaker 1: motive and the means to hire somebody else to do
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Speaker 1: the shooting. But Frison had one big problem. Sylvia and
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Speaker 1: Guildo and really all of the people he really wanted
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Speaker 1: to speak to lived in Monaco, and since Frison and
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Speaker 1: his team were French and this crime had happened in France,
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Speaker 1: they had no jurisdiction in Monaco. So in order to
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Speaker 1: speak to Helene's children and her inner circle, they couldn't
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Speaker 1: just walk up and demand an interview. Instead, they basically
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Speaker 1: had to ask nicely. The next morning, Frison sat in
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Speaker 1: a very expensive looking living room overlooking the beautiful Monaco Harbor.
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Speaker 1: Now Frizon had been up all night and was basically
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Speaker 1: running on fumes at this point, but he hoped, you know,
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Speaker 1: that was going to be worth it, because sitting across
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Speaker 1: from him was Helene's daughter, Sylvia Pastor and her sixty
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Speaker 1: four year old boyfriend Voi czech Chanowski. When Frizan had
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Speaker 1: reached out to Sylvia and Boichek and asked them to
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Speaker 1: speak with him, one, he had been sort of surprised
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Speaker 1: at how quickly they had agreed to do it, but
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Speaker 1: two he sensed really not much emotion, like they were
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Speaker 1: sort of cold and detached and sort of quick to
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Speaker 1: be like, sure, you know, we'll meet up and chat
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Speaker 1: with you about this, as if it was just no
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Speaker 1: big deal. But now that he was face to face
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Speaker 1: with them, I mean, it was clear that they were
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Speaker 1: absolutely devastated, I mean, especially Sylvia. Now, Frizon knew as
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Speaker 1: much as he wanted to ask some sort of pointed
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Speaker 1: questions here, he needed to be very careful because Sylvia
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Speaker 1: and Voichek did not have to be speaking to him
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Speaker 1: at this point, like they basically are just agreeing to
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Speaker 1: do this interview, and at any point they can say
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Speaker 1: enough leave and he would have to go. So Frizon
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Speaker 1: when he began, he just started out with some very
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Speaker 1: light background questions about Helene, and in a very shaky voice,
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Speaker 1: Sylvia described her mother as being very tough but incredibly generous.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: She said they did fight a lot, but it was
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Speaker 1: just over silly things and they were actually, you know,
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Speaker 1: pretty close. Sylvia said she'd been battling breast cancer and
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Speaker 1: her mother had always called to check, like she really cared.
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Speaker 1: When Frison asked about enemies, Sylvia shook her head and
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Speaker 1: she said, you know, obviously my mother is worth a
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Speaker 1: ton of money, and so by default she is a target.
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Speaker 1: But she really didn't get out much. She didn't really
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Speaker 1: engage with the Monaco's social scene. She pretty much just
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Speaker 1: worked all the time and looked after the family like
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Speaker 1: she just kept herself. So I certainly can't think of
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Speaker 1: anybody that would have wanted to harm her. When Frison
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Speaker 1: turned to Boychek, Voycheck seemed equally mystified by this whole thing.
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Speaker 1: He told Frison that he and Sylvia had been together
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Speaker 1: for twenty eight years and they had a daughter together,
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Speaker 1: and so, you know, he knew Helene very very well.
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Speaker 1: And he said that, you know, his relationship with Helene
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Speaker 1: had always been great, and that Helene generally was like
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Speaker 1: this incredibly generous person.
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Speaker 2: I mean, especially really with him and with Sylvia.
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Speaker 1: He said that even though he had his own businesses
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Speaker 1: and his own income, you know, totally separate from the pastors,
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Speaker 1: Helene still would give him and his family money. The
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Speaker 1: mention of finances, though, made Frison perk up, and so
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Speaker 1: he asked Boychek to be more specific about the type
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Speaker 1: of financial generosity he was describing. And when he asked
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Speaker 1: that question, Frizan noticed there was this look of uncertainty
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Speaker 1: that crossed Voychek's face, and for a second Frizan wondered
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Speaker 1: if he had just touched on something that was kind
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Speaker 1: of a sore spot. But Voichek went from looking uncertain
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Speaker 1: to sort of recovering very quickly, and then an easy
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Speaker 1: smile came across his face and he explained that Helene
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Speaker 1: gave her daughter and sons of Sylvia, his girlfriend and
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Speaker 1: Gildo a monthly allowance of about five hundred thousand euros each,
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Speaker 1: which was around six hundred thousand US dollars. When Frisan
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Speaker 1: heard this, he had to force himself not to reflexively
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Speaker 1: raise his eyebrows, because this was like a staggering amount
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Speaker 1: of money to get every single month as just an allowance.
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Speaker 1: It was so high, in fact, that it made Frison
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Speaker 1: doubt whether either of Helene's children would feel a need
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Speaker 1: to kill her. I mean, if she's already giving them
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Speaker 1: this much money every month, what else do you need?
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Speaker 2: But Voichek wasn't done.
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Speaker 1: He cleared his throat and sort of shifted in a
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Speaker 1: seat like he was uncomfortable, and then he said that,
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Speaker 1: you know, he and Sylvia used this very generous amount
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Speaker 1: of money that Helene gave them on household expenses. But
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Speaker 1: you know, Voichek said, if he was being honest, he'd
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Speaker 1: heard that Guildo spent it on other stuff. Voichek said,
18:17
Speaker 1: you know, Sylvia's brother, Helene's son, he owned some companies
18:21
Speaker 1: that were not doing well, and so he was in
18:24
Speaker 1: very deep debt. For Frizon, you know, he couldn't tell
18:27
Speaker 1: if this was true or not, but it certainly opened
18:29
Speaker 1: up a new investigatory door. So he jotted down this
18:32
Speaker 1: information on his notepad. He was actually meeting with Guildo
18:35
Speaker 1: next and so if Voichek was right, then this debt
18:38
Speaker 1: was definitely a huge red flag.
18:45
Speaker 2: Forty five minutes later, when Frizon walked.
18:47
Speaker 1: Into Gildo's hospital room, he was shocked by what he saw.
18:51
Speaker 1: Now he had known that Gildo was sick, but he
18:53
Speaker 1: really hadn't been prepared for just how sick. Guildo could barely.
18:57
Speaker 2: Move or speak.
18:58
Speaker 1: The only way he could communicate was actually by blinking.
19:01
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, Frizan sat down by his bedside and began
19:05
Speaker 1: with a few simple questions. It took a long time
19:07
Speaker 1: for Guildo to blink out his answers, and he really
19:10
Speaker 1: couldn't communicate really anything more. Than a few words at
19:12
Speaker 1: a time. And it was also just kind of obvious
19:14
Speaker 1: to Frazhn that even with these short answers, he just
19:17
Speaker 1: was not going to get much. And as time was
19:20
Speaker 1: going by, you know, Guildo was just getting more and
19:22
Speaker 1: more frustrated with basically his lack of being able to
19:25
Speaker 1: contribute much here. And so by the time Frizan left
19:28
Speaker 1: the hospital not that long after he had arrived, he
19:31
Speaker 1: was very doubtful that Guildo was really in any shape
19:34
Speaker 1: to be planning a hired hit. I mean, the guy
19:36
Speaker 1: really was just not doing well. But you know, it
19:39
Speaker 1: was still possible at least. Frison thought it could be
19:42
Speaker 1: that Guildo had begun preparations before his stroke, which had
19:46
Speaker 1: only happened two months earlier in March, and Frazan realized
19:50
Speaker 1: the amateurish quality of the hit itself could have actually
19:53
Speaker 1: been a product of Guildo's illness, like he had to
19:56
Speaker 1: rush the hit because he basically could barely communicate a
20:00
Speaker 1: Frizan thought this case was basically full of contradictions. One
20:04
Speaker 1: of the richest people on the planet had almost been
20:07
Speaker 1: assassinated by shockingly unprofessional hitmen. Both of the children, you know,
20:12
Speaker 1: both of Helene's kids stood to inherit billions and billions
20:16
Speaker 1: of dollars and were therefore the most obvious suspects. But
20:20
Speaker 1: at the same time, both kids were receiving an ungodly
20:24
Speaker 1: amount of money already, like they didn't need the money.
20:27
Speaker 1: And I mean, even if Guildo was in debt, the
20:30
Speaker 1: idea that half a million dollars every month isn't enough
20:34
Speaker 1: to at least keep you afloat just seems sort of fishy.
20:37
Speaker 1: And so Frison began to wonder about Sylvia's boyfriend, Voichek.
20:41
Speaker 1: Could he have planned the hit because he not Sylvia
20:44
Speaker 1: wanted access to Helene's money.
20:46
Speaker 2: And so Frizan pulled out his.
20:47
Speaker 1: Phone and he called Missineo, the very talented detective, you know,
20:50
Speaker 1: the best in the city, and he told her about,
20:52
Speaker 1: you know, what he saw as issues about having Sylvia
20:55
Speaker 1: and Gildo as suspects. Missineo completely agreed with Frizon, and
20:59
Speaker 1: then she shared something that she had learned during her
21:02
Speaker 1: own interviews about Voychek. She said that one of Helene's
21:06
Speaker 1: friends told her that Sylvia had been with Boychek so
21:09
Speaker 1: long twenty eight years without getting married, because Sylvia wanted
21:13
Speaker 1: to make sure her inheritance went to her or her child,
21:17
Speaker 1: or just stayed within her direct family bloodline and didn't
21:21
Speaker 1: go to an outsider to a husband. Frizan considered what
21:25
Speaker 1: this meant. It told him that Sylvia didn't completely trust Boychek,
21:29
Speaker 1: but it also tanked his theory that Voychek might have
21:32
Speaker 1: planned the hit since he had zero claim to the
21:35
Speaker 1: Pastor estate, whether Helene was alive or not. But then
21:39
Speaker 1: Missineo said something else that made Frison stop thinking about
21:43
Speaker 1: the Pastors completely. She said she had found something out
21:46
Speaker 1: about Helene's.
21:46
Speaker 2: Driver, Mohamed.
21:48
Speaker 1: Mohammed was apparently involved in a love triangle and had
21:51
Speaker 1: been for years. He was from Egypt and he had
21:53
Speaker 1: a family there, but he also had a mistress here.
21:56
Speaker 1: And Massineo had gotten the number for Mohammed's adult son,
21:59
Speaker 1: who lived with in France, so they could just ask
22:02
Speaker 1: him about it. And so as Frizan hung up the phone,
22:05
Speaker 1: his mind was spinning. I mean, this whole time, he
22:08
Speaker 1: had thought it was so obvious who the target of
22:11
Speaker 1: the hit was. It had to be Helene. She's this billionaire,
22:14
Speaker 1: it's gotta be her. But now he was wondering if
22:17
Speaker 1: maybe the real target was Mohammed. That afternoon, Frizan was
22:21
Speaker 1: back at the station with Missineo. It had been twenty
22:23
Speaker 1: four hours since the shooting and neither of them had slept,
22:27
Speaker 1: but Frizan did not think they'd be able to do
22:29
Speaker 1: that anytime soon because the security camera footage had just arrived,
22:33
Speaker 1: and Frizan had put a lot of stock into this footage,
22:36
Speaker 1: like he felt really hopeful that this was going to
22:39
Speaker 1: be what they needed, because it felt like every other
22:41
Speaker 1: lead he had tried to follow so far in this
22:43
Speaker 1: case had already hit some kind of dead end.
22:46
Speaker 2: He'd just gotten off the.
22:46
Speaker 1: Phone with Mohammed's son, with Sam, who he had hoped,
22:50
Speaker 1: you know, might shed some light on the possibility that
22:52
Speaker 1: Mohammed was the intended target of the attack, but Wassam
22:56
Speaker 1: had been skeptical. He did not think the lead about
22:59
Speaker 1: his father's love trying meant very much. He said, the
23:02
Speaker 1: mistress had been a part of Muhammed's life for a
23:04
Speaker 1: long time, and to be honest, nobody was particularly upset
23:08
Speaker 1: about it now. Unlike Sylvia and Guildo, with Sam was
23:11
Speaker 1: a young and healthy man, so theoretically he could have
23:15
Speaker 1: been one of the shooters, but Frizan hadn't heard anything
23:18
Speaker 1: in their call that made him think with Sam wanted
23:20
Speaker 1: to kill his father or Helene for that matter. So
23:23
Speaker 1: now Frison and Messineo began scrolling through the security footage
23:28
Speaker 1: looking for clues that could maybe point them in the
23:30
Speaker 1: right direction. When they got to the point in the
23:32
Speaker 1: recording where the shooting actually happened, they were relieved to
23:35
Speaker 1: see they did have a clear view of the scene
23:38
Speaker 1: and they watched it play out right in front of them,
23:40
Speaker 1: and just like the witnesses had said, Helene's car is
23:43
Speaker 1: seen turning out of the hospital parking lot, and then
23:46
Speaker 1: a man with a shotgun approached a window and fired twice.
23:50
Speaker 1: Frizan could see that the second man watched the whole
23:52
Speaker 1: thing from across the street at a snack bar, probably
23:55
Speaker 1: acting as a lookout, and then after the shooting, both
23:58
Speaker 1: men ran away on foot and their faces were never
24:01
Speaker 1: visible in the footage. And so Frison rewound the tape
24:04
Speaker 1: to see when these men arrived, and he saw they
24:07
Speaker 1: showed up about twenty minutes before the shooting, But it
24:10
Speaker 1: was not when they showed up that was particularly significant.
24:14
Speaker 2: It was how they showed up.
24:16
Speaker 1: When Frison saw how they arrived, his jaw dropped because
24:20
Speaker 1: finally he'd found the lead he could follow. Both men
24:24
Speaker 1: were separately driven to the hospital in taxis, and one
24:28
Speaker 1: of the taxi's license plates was clearly visible on screen.
24:41
Speaker 1: That evening, Frizon, Messinio and a group of officers burst
24:44
Speaker 1: into the lobby of Hotel.
24:46
Speaker 2: Azor and Nice.
24:47
Speaker 1: In Frison's hand was a photo of both of the shooters.
24:50
Speaker 1: After calling the taxi company, everything had moved very quickly.
24:54
Speaker 1: The taxi dispatch had a record of these two men's
24:57
Speaker 1: rides and gave detectives the mobile nutt that were used
25:01
Speaker 1: to book each cap and it didn't take long for
25:04
Speaker 1: Frisan's team to connect those numbers to two Burner phones
25:07
Speaker 1: that were purchased just hours before the shooting at a
25:10
Speaker 1: store about two hours away from the hospital in a
25:13
Speaker 1: French city called Marseille. And then by using closed circuit
25:16
Speaker 1: camera footage, the police had been able to track the
25:19
Speaker 1: shooter's movements prior to the shooting, first as they left
25:22
Speaker 1: that store with their Burner phones, and then as they
25:25
Speaker 1: boarded a train Denis and then stopped at Hotel Azor
25:28
Speaker 1: before getting taxis to the hospital.
25:31
Speaker 2: So that's why.
25:32
Speaker 1: Frizan and his team were at the hotel now. In
25:34
Speaker 1: order to find out who planned this attack, they needed
25:37
Speaker 1: to id the shooters.
25:39
Speaker 2: They were hoping somebody here could.
25:40
Speaker 1: So Frizan approached the reception desk with the picture of
25:43
Speaker 1: the shooters and asked the person manning it if they
25:46
Speaker 1: had seen either of the men in the photo, and
25:48
Speaker 1: the receptionist said yes, those men had rented two separate
25:52
Speaker 1: rooms just the day before, but they had already checked out,
25:55
Speaker 1: and so Frizan wrote down the names the receptionist gave
25:58
Speaker 1: him for these two.
25:59
Speaker 2: Men, but the names were not familiar.
26:02
Speaker 1: Then Frison and Messinio split up to actually go search
26:05
Speaker 1: the rooms. Moments later, Frizan and some officers hurried into
26:09
Speaker 1: a very clean hotel room, and the receptionist had told
26:12
Speaker 1: him that this was going to be the case because
26:14
Speaker 1: the maids had already been in and out of that room,
26:17
Speaker 1: they had cleaned it, and so for Forzn, even though
26:19
Speaker 1: he did expect you a clean room, it was still
26:22
Speaker 1: disappointing to walk in there and see it, because, you know,
26:25
Speaker 1: had there been any evidence still in here by now,
26:28
Speaker 1: it was very likely gone.
26:30
Speaker 2: However, just then.
26:31
Speaker 1: He heard one of his officers call out from the bathroom,
26:34
Speaker 1: and so Frizan went in there and found one of
26:36
Speaker 1: his officers pointing to where a used bottle of shower
26:39
Speaker 1: gel sat on the side of the tub.
26:42
Speaker 2: Frizan couldn't believe it.
26:43
Speaker 1: I mean, he knew no other guests had been in
26:45
Speaker 1: this room since the shooters had been, which meant that
26:48
Speaker 1: gel was almost certainly theirs. The maids must have missed
26:52
Speaker 1: it during their cleaning, and so Frizan told the officer
26:55
Speaker 1: to bag it. I mean, it was a long shot,
26:57
Speaker 1: but he wanted to maybe get it sent off and
26:59
Speaker 1: tested for DNA. On May sixteenth, twenty fourteen, investigators Frison
27:06
Speaker 1: and Messineo paced around Frisan's office. Every now and again,
27:10
Speaker 1: they glanced at a document that was sitting on the desk.
27:12
Speaker 1: It had only been ten days since Helene Pastor and
27:15
Speaker 1: her driver Mohammed Darwitch were shot outside a hospital in Nice, France.
27:19
Speaker 1: Helene was still alive and in a coma, but Mohammed
27:22
Speaker 1: Darwitch had died, which meant Frisan was now officially leading
27:26
Speaker 1: a murder investigation. Now this was daunting for Frizan, but
27:30
Speaker 1: at the same time he felt like they were close
27:33
Speaker 1: to breaking this case, because that document on his desk
27:36
Speaker 1: told him that the shower gel they collected during a
27:39
Speaker 1: search of the shooter's hotel rooms actually did have DNA
27:42
Speaker 1: on it, and it had matched to someone in their system,
27:46
Speaker 1: a twenty four year old man named Samin said Ahmed,
27:49
Speaker 1: and through a series of phone taps, they'd also managed
27:53
Speaker 1: to figure out the name of Samine's accomplice, a thirty
27:56
Speaker 1: one year old man named all Hair Hamadi.
27:59
Speaker 2: Now these names as.
28:00
Speaker 1: Were different from the ones that the hotel had given Frison,
28:03
Speaker 1: so clearly the men must have used pseudonyms when they
28:06
Speaker 1: checked into that hotel. Now, both of them did have
28:09
Speaker 1: prior criminal records, but like Frison had suspected, they were
28:13
Speaker 1: not like professional killers.
28:15
Speaker 2: They were just petty criminals and drug.
28:17
Speaker 1: Dealers from a neighborhood in Marseilles that had the highest
28:19
Speaker 1: crime rate in the entire country. So it sort of
28:22
Speaker 1: did make sense that two men from that area might
28:25
Speaker 1: agree to carry out a.
28:26
Speaker 2: Hit for money.
28:28
Speaker 1: But what didn't make sense to Frizon or Messinio was
28:31
Speaker 1: how Samin Sayidahmed or al Hai Hamadi could possibly be
28:36
Speaker 1: connected to anybody in Helene's life. The pastores in their
28:40
Speaker 1: inner circle were some of the richest people in the world.
28:43
Speaker 1: If any of them were planning a hit, Frizan would
28:46
Speaker 1: have expected them to hire more experienced.
28:48
Speaker 2: And professional assassins.
28:50
Speaker 1: So now Frison wondered if maybe they needed to take
28:53
Speaker 1: a closer look into other areas of Helene's life, like
28:56
Speaker 1: maybe her tenants, to see if anyone had obvious connect
29:00
Speaker 1: to Marseilles. He knew from speaking with Helene's friends that
29:03
Speaker 1: she often handled many of her tenants personally, and so
29:07
Speaker 1: it was possible that maybe there was a feud or
29:10
Speaker 1: dispute that they just didn't know about. However, thousands of
29:14
Speaker 1: people lived in Helene's buildings, going through that list would
29:17
Speaker 1: be nearly impossible, which was why Frizan and Messineo had
29:21
Speaker 1: decided that the best way to approach this whole thing
29:24
Speaker 1: was with a method Frisan called the fishing rod. Instead
29:28
Speaker 1: of arresting the shooters, Samine and Alhair, they would watch
29:32
Speaker 1: them and keep their phones tapped and see if they
29:34
Speaker 1: led police to whoever hired them. However, while they were
29:37
Speaker 1: figuring all this out, Friisan's phone suddenly rang, and when
29:41
Speaker 1: he answered it, he got very unexpected news. It was
29:44
Speaker 1: the hospital Helene had woken up from her coma, and
29:48
Speaker 1: so first thing the next morning, Frisan sent Messinio to
29:51
Speaker 1: the hospital to interview Helene, and then after sending her out,
29:54
Speaker 1: Frisan waited anxiously at the station for her to return.
29:57
Speaker 1: He was hoping that Helene could simply tell the Sino
30:00
Speaker 1: who wanted her dad, and then they could just close
30:03
Speaker 1: the case easy. But when Massineo came back that afternoon,
30:07
Speaker 1: she did not have good news. Helene had told Massineo
30:09
Speaker 1: that she was terrified and she had lots of things
30:12
Speaker 1: that she wanted to tell the police, and at one
30:15
Speaker 1: point she seemed like she was on the verge of actually,
30:18
Speaker 1: you know, giving Massinio a name or just something really meaningful.
30:21
Speaker 1: But then she literally just struggled to breathe, and medical
30:24
Speaker 1: staff had rushed in to stabilize her, and they hadn't
30:27
Speaker 1: been able to finish the interview. Frison was so disappointed.
30:31
Speaker 1: I mean, they'd been so close to maybe hearing the
30:34
Speaker 1: truth directly from the mouth of.
30:35
Speaker 2: Their victim, and now they might never know.
30:38
Speaker 1: It would turn out four days later, you know, before
30:41
Speaker 1: the police ever had a chance to have another interview
30:44
Speaker 1: with Helene, she died two weeks after Helene's death. So
30:53
Speaker 1: in early June of that year, Frison parked his car
30:56
Speaker 1: and began to walk into.
30:57
Speaker 2: The station to start his day.
30:59
Speaker 1: And he was incredibly anxious because Helene and Mohammed's case
31:03
Speaker 1: had really stagnated, and Helene's death really only made the
31:07
Speaker 1: public pressure on him and his team way more intense.
31:10
Speaker 1: Frizan still had his team watching the shooters and tracing
31:13
Speaker 1: their phone calls, but so far they hadn't gotten any
31:16
Speaker 1: more leads from that. They were also slowly chipping their
31:19
Speaker 1: way down the list of Helene's tenants, but so far
31:22
Speaker 1: they hadn't found anyone with the kind of motive they
31:24
Speaker 1: were looking for. Frizan had not totally eliminated his first suspects,
31:28
Speaker 1: which were Guildo, Sylvia, and Voichek, but he just didn't
31:31
Speaker 1: feel like any of them stood out above the rest.
31:34
Speaker 1: Guildo potentially needed a windfall because of alleged money problems,
31:38
Speaker 1: although Frizan had not confirmed that with bank records, but
31:41
Speaker 1: Guildo's poor health made it extremely unlikely he could have
31:45
Speaker 1: planned this hit. Then there was Sylvia, who was entitled
31:48
Speaker 1: to an enormous inheritance from her mother's death.
31:51
Speaker 2: But she already had a.
31:53
Speaker 1: Massive monthly allowance when her mother was alive, and really
31:57
Speaker 1: did not seem desperate for cash at all. And then
31:59
Speaker 1: as for Voychek, he wasn't even married to Sylvia, so
32:02
Speaker 1: he literally had no legal claim to the Pastore estate,
32:06
Speaker 1: so Helene's death really didn't do him any good. So
32:09
Speaker 1: all this was sort of going through Frison's mind as
32:11
Speaker 1: he stepped inside the station, and as he did, right
32:14
Speaker 1: away he saw Missinio come running towards him carrying a
32:18
Speaker 1: piece of paper, and this paper was covered in lines
32:21
Speaker 1: of numbers that Frizan immediately recognized as a call log,
32:25
Speaker 1: and Missinio explained that they had traced one of all
32:28
Speaker 1: hig Yeer's recent calls and finally found a link to Monaco.
32:32
Speaker 1: The guy he called was somebody named Pascal Doriak, and
32:36
Speaker 1: unlike the shooters, Pascal had direct ties to Monaco. He
32:40
Speaker 1: was a personal trainer and some of his clients were
32:42
Speaker 1: elite families who lived in Monaco, and a few of
32:45
Speaker 1: those clients were also people that Frison and his team
32:49
Speaker 1: had examined in connection with the murders. Frisan grabbed the
32:52
Speaker 1: piece of paper and read and re read its contents
32:55
Speaker 1: before he finally looked up at Messinio and said they
32:58
Speaker 1: needed Pascal's phone wrecordds right now. Later that same day,
33:02
Speaker 1: Frizan was sitting at his desk staring at a name
33:05
Speaker 1: written on a piece of paper. He had gotten access
33:07
Speaker 1: to Pascal's phone records, and he discovered that every time
33:11
Speaker 1: there had been a significant event in this entire case,
33:15
Speaker 1: like on the day of the actual shooting or the
33:18
Speaker 1: days of Mohammed or Helene's death, Pascal had texted the
33:22
Speaker 1: same number. And now that Frisan knew who that number
33:25
Speaker 1: belonged to, he realized he had been at least half
33:28
Speaker 1: right the whole time. These murders were about money. Based
33:36
Speaker 1: on the police investigation, multiple confessions, video surveillance, and bank records,
33:42
Speaker 1: here is a reconstruction of what police belief happened to
33:44
Speaker 1: Helene Pastor and Mohammed Darwich. On the evening of May sixth,
33:48
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, around seven pm, the hitman named some mean
34:00
Speaker 1: and Sayid Ahmed strode toward Helene's black fan and as
34:03
Speaker 1: he did, he could see her terrified face through the
34:06
Speaker 1: passenger side window as she realized what he was carrying
34:10
Speaker 1: a shotgun, and she looked at her driver and screamed
34:13
Speaker 1: at him to drive. But before Mohammed the driver could
34:16
Speaker 1: hit the gas, he raised his shotgun and fired twice
34:20
Speaker 1: into the passenger side door, and then Samin just stood
34:23
Speaker 1: there and watched as Helene and Mohammed sort of slouched
34:27
Speaker 1: forward in their seats and began to convulse. Samin didn't
34:30
Speaker 1: know who the people were he just shot, but he
34:33
Speaker 1: wasn't thinking about that. He was thinking about the payday
34:35
Speaker 1: he was about to receive for doing this. After a moment,
34:38
Speaker 1: Samin was convinced that he had been successful, that Helene
34:42
Speaker 1: and Mohammed were dead, and so he turned and sprinted
34:45
Speaker 1: away as fast as he could, knowing that his accomplice,
34:48
Speaker 1: all Hiir, would follow shortly after, just like they had planned,
34:52
Speaker 1: and so Samin as he ran away, he pulled his
34:55
Speaker 1: baseball hat down over his eyes, hoping that would be
34:58
Speaker 1: enough to avoid any cameras that might be in the
35:00
Speaker 1: the area. And he ran, and he ran through the
35:02
Speaker 1: streets of Nice, eventually slowing to a walk before going
35:05
Speaker 1: inside of his hotel, where once he was inside, he
35:08
Speaker 1: went to his room, sat in his bed, and he
35:09
Speaker 1: called the man who hired him across the city. Pascal Doriak,
35:14
Speaker 1: the personal trainer, heard his phone ring, and he politely
35:17
Speaker 1: told the client he was with that he'd be right back.
35:19
Speaker 1: He then grabbed his phone and hurried out of the
35:21
Speaker 1: personal gym he had just been in, and he stepped
35:23
Speaker 1: into this grand marble hallway to take the call. And
35:27
Speaker 1: what he heard on the other end of the line
35:29
Speaker 1: was Samine telling him the good news that the job
35:32
Speaker 1: was done. Pascal smiled, he hung up, and then he
35:36
Speaker 1: began typing out a text message. This text message was
35:39
Speaker 1: for the real killer, that is, the person who'd actually
35:42
Speaker 1: ordered the hit in the first place, to let them
35:44
Speaker 1: know that everything had gone off without a hitch. Seconds later,
35:47
Speaker 1: the real killer looked down and saw they had just
35:50
Speaker 1: gotten a text message and it was from Pascal, their trainer.
35:53
Speaker 1: And as soon as they saw that, their heart began
35:55
Speaker 1: to race. They were very nervous about what this text was.
35:58
Speaker 2: Going to say.
36:00
Speaker 1: Eventually, they scooped up their phone and they opened the message.
36:03
Speaker 1: But when the real killer read what was on their phone,
36:06
Speaker 1: they felt this enormous sense of relief that they hadn't
36:09
Speaker 1: felt in years because their plan sort of.
36:11
Speaker 2: Unbelievably had worked.
36:13
Speaker 1: Then the real killer just sank back down in their comfy,
36:16
Speaker 1: expensive couch and looked out their window.
36:19
Speaker 2: At an amazing view of the Monaco Harbor.
36:21
Speaker 1: It would turn out Sylvia's boyfriend of twenty eight years,
36:25
Speaker 1: voycheck Janowski, was lying about everything. It was Voycheck, not Gildo,
36:31
Speaker 1: who was drowning in debt. Voychek claimed to be this
36:34
Speaker 1: very successful businessman, but in reality, all the companies that
36:38
Speaker 1: he was involved with were failing and in deep financial trouble.
36:42
Speaker 1: This had been going on for years, and Voychek had
36:45
Speaker 1: just been swindling his girlfriend, Sylvia out of her assets
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Speaker 1: and monthly allowance to stay afloat. And when Sylvia was
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Speaker 1: diagnosed with cancer two years ago, he panicked. They weren't married,
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Speaker 1: so if she died, he'd lose everything. But he believed
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Speaker 1: if Sylvia inherited the family fortune all at once, he
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Speaker 1: could easily steal it from her and wipe out his debts.
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Speaker 1: Voichek had also been lying to investigators about his relationship
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Speaker 1: with Helene. The reality was they hated each other. Helene
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Speaker 1: was very suspicious rightfully so that Voichek was after the
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Speaker 1: pastor family fortune. In twenty eighteen, Voichek was found guilty
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Speaker 1: of murdering both Helene and Mohammed and was sentenced to
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Speaker 1: life in prison. The other accomplices, Pascal Doriak, Semine Saydahmed,
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Speaker 1: and al Haye Hermadi, all received between twenty two years
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Speaker 1: and life in prison. As for Gildo, he would eventually
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Speaker 1: recover from a stroke and he moved to the United States,
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Speaker 1: while Sylvia, at least as of twenty twenty five, is
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Speaker 1: still alive and she would give Mohammed's son a job
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Speaker 1: and let the Darwich family live in one of our
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Speaker 1: family's properties. Thank you so much for watching. Let me
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