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The Sins of Faraskur: The Tragedy of Ryan and Mohammad · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: So I want you to just picture this. It's the
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  Speaker 1: day after Eat al Adha in twenty eighteen. All across Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: there's this feeling of celebration. It's a huge holiday. Families
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  Speaker 1: are together, kids are playing. But in this one city,
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  Speaker 1: Fara Score, right down by the water, that joy is
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  Speaker 1: about to be just completely shattered. A local fisherman is
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  Speaker 1: on the nile, just going about his day, and he
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  Speaker 1: sees something floating beneath the Fara Score bridge. It's the
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  Speaker 1: bodies of two little boys. They're quickly identified. It's Rhan
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  Speaker 1: and Muhammad, two brothers who were reported missing just a
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  Speaker 1: few hours before.
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  Speaker 2: And that missing person's report it came from their own father,
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  Speaker 2: Mahmood Nasmi. He founded in a different governoratet Da Kalia,
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  Speaker 2: with this very specific, very tragic story of a kidnapping.
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  Speaker 2: So when the bodies turn up so far away, so quickly,
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  Speaker 2: well the investigation immediately zeroed in on him. The question
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just who did this, but how does the grieving
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  Speaker 2: father's story fit in or you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, not fit exactly. So today our mission is to
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  Speaker 1: unpack that lie. We're going to follow the evidence, the
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  Speaker 1: digital breadcrumbs and figure out how a family holiday outing
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  Speaker 1: turned into one of the most devastating tragedies imaginable. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into this. Mahmoud Nasmi's first story, the one
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  Speaker 1: he gave the police, was it was incredibly detailed. He
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  Speaker 1: said he took the boys, Ryan and Muhammad out for
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  Speaker 1: the holiday. They were in their new d clothes and
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  Speaker 1: he was taking them to an amusement park. And while
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  Speaker 1: they're at this park, this is the key moment, he says,
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  Speaker 1: he's approached by a man, a total stranger, but this
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  Speaker 1: man insists they were friends back in primary school. Mamood
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  Speaker 1: doesn't recognize him at all, but the guy just grabs
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  Speaker 1: him and embrace and starts talking and talking a really
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  Speaker 1: prolonged distraction, and.
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  Speaker 2: That distraction is the whole Hindu of the story, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: He claims that when he finally gets away from this
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  Speaker 2: guy and looks back for his sons, they're just gone.
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  Speaker 2: And of course the supposed friend has also vanished, right.
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  Speaker 1: And to make it even more convincing, he said he
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  Speaker 1: had witnesses. He claimed that other people at the park
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  Speaker 1: told him they saw the boys walking away with a
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  Speaker 1: veiled woman that she put them in a tikpook, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of those little three wheeld tacks, and just sped
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  Speaker 1: off toward the Alexandria Road.
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  Speaker 2: So the whole community just explodes. Mamod calls his wife,
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  Speaker 2: tells her the boys have been kidnapped, and this huge
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  Speaker 2: search starts, family, neighbors, everyone is out looking for them.
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  Speaker 2: He plays the part of the frantic father perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: But this whole first act it just collapses a few
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  Speaker 1: hours later because the search is happening on the Alexandria Road.
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  Speaker 1: But the bodies, they're found over one hundred kilometers away,
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  Speaker 1: floating under that bridge in farascoor sources to say when
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  Speaker 1: Mahmood identified them at the morgue, he just completely broke down.
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  Speaker 2: He was inconsolable, which for a time really cemented his
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  Speaker 2: role as the victim. The focus then goes straight to forensics,
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  Speaker 2: and the autopsy was critical. It confirmed the cause of
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  Speaker 2: death was drowning, purely drowning. There were no marks of assault,
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  Speaker 2: no injuries at all, So that tells you how they died,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't tell you who put them in the water.
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  Speaker 2: It kept his story alive for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: The funeral was enormous the whole community was grieving, and
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  Speaker 1: Mamood was right at the center of it, playing the
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  Speaker 1: part of the heartbroken father. But then he does something
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  Speaker 1: that cracks the whole case wide open. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: the main morning period is over, he's gone. He disappears,
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  Speaker 1: and he leaves this really dramatic note for his wife.
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  Speaker 1: He says he's not coming back until he's avenged his
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  Speaker 1: son's or died trying.
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  Speaker 2: And for investigators, that was it. That was the turning point.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this timeline was already shaky, but a supposedly
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  Speaker 2: innocent father doesn't just run. Why would you. He was
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  Speaker 2: an immediate massive red flag because they made the decision
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  Speaker 2: to tracks every single move on that.
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  Speaker 1: Day, and that's when the physical evidence starts to just
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  Speaker 1: shred his story to pieces. They pull the CCTV footage
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  Speaker 1: from the roads and they find him. They find his
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  Speaker 1: car and it's just shelling. He's driving on the road
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  Speaker 1: toward Feriscor and in the backseat you can clearly see
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  Speaker 1: Ryan and Mohammad. They're happy, they're waving out the window.
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  Speaker 1: It's a definitive proof. He never went to the amusement park.
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  Speaker 1: He drove them straight to the river.
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  Speaker 2: The CCTV was damning, but the electronic trail from his
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  Speaker 2: phone that was basically the confession. Investigators tracked his phone
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  Speaker 2: line and they discovered that the frantic call he made
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  Speaker 2: to his wife, the one where he reported the kidnapping
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  Speaker 2: from the park, actually came from pharoscor.
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  Speaker 1: Wait from fariscor as in from.
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  Speaker 2: The bridge, from the exact area of the bridge. Think
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  Speaker 2: about that. He's claiming to be at a park an
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  Speaker 2: hour's drive away, but his phone pings from the very
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  Speaker 2: spot where his son's bodies would be found, and the
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  Speaker 2: call was made right around the estimated time of their death.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't searching. He was calling in his alibi from
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  Speaker 2: the crime scene.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so that's not just a lie, that's a cold
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  Speaker 1: calculated performance. He's creating a false trail while he's standing
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  Speaker 1: right there.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely. It made his story geographically impossible. So the police
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  Speaker 2: track him down. They find him hiding at a relative's house,
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  Speaker 2: and when they arrest him, they find a large amount
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  Speaker 2: of drugs on him, tramadol, strokes, Hushish, And then.
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  Speaker 1: They found the one thing that changed it from a
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  Speaker 1: kidnapping case to philicide, the of one's own children.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. They found a letter, a handwritten letter to
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  Speaker 2: his wife. In it, he begs for her forgiveness and
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  Speaker 2: admits that he was the one who killed their sons.
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  Speaker 2: Handwriting analysis confirmed it was his. And yet even with
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  Speaker 2: all of that, when he's arrested, he denies everything.
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  Speaker 1: She just immediately starts spinning a new story.
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  Speaker 2: To understand why, you really have to look at who
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  Speaker 2: he was. Mahmood was thirty two. He wasn't struggling for money.
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  Speaker 2: He had inherited about one point five million, but he
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  Speaker 2: had a severe drug addiction. His wife was constantly fighting
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  Speaker 2: with him about it, about the money he was wasting.
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  Speaker 2: She was terrified the boys would see their father like that.
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  Speaker 2: His own family had even tried to get him committed
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  Speaker 2: to a psychiatric facility, but he always refused to go.
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  Speaker 1: And that background is what fueled his next lie, right,
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  Speaker 1: the one the sources called the artifacts lie.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly Suddenly his story changes. Now it's about a bad
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  Speaker 2: business deal with an antiquity smuggler. He claimed this smuggler
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  Speaker 2: had him kidnapped and killed the boys for revenge. And
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  Speaker 2: the confession letter he said the gang forced him to
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  Speaker 2: write it, But.
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  Speaker 1: That fell apart pretty quickly too, I'm guessing immediately.
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  Speaker 2: First, they'd already proven he never went to the park. Second,
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  Speaker 2: the blood analysis was key, the amount of drugs in
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  Speaker 2: his system, especially tramadol. It's known to cause severe psychosis.
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  Speaker 2: The investigators argued this wasn't a revenge plot. It was
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  Speaker 2: a drug induced loss of control, and witnesses his own
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  Speaker 2: relatives confirmed it. They said he was an addict who
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  Speaker 2: saw his own children as a major problem.
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  Speaker 1: So he wasn't being chased by some shadowy gang. He
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  Speaker 1: was being consumed by his own addiction.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. His wife even told police she believed he killed
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  Speaker 2: them as revenge against her for all their fights about
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  Speaker 2: his drug use. After the artifacts lie failed, he even
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  Speaker 2: tried to blame a female acquaintance. It was just a
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  Speaker 2: constant stream of desperation.
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  Speaker 1: So investigators had to just ignore him and focus on
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  Speaker 1: the herd evidence and on that confession letter. In that
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  Speaker 1: final confession, it matched everything, and it laid out a
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  Speaker 1: level of premeditation that is just terrifying. His motive was
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  Speaker 1: this really twisted mix of self pity and what he
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  Speaker 1: called love. He said the drugs and losing all his
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  Speaker 1: money had driven him over the edge and he decided
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  Speaker 1: to kill his children to relieve them of this difficult world,
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  Speaker 1: so they wouldn't have to grow up and see their
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  Speaker 1: father as an addict. He admitted he'd been planning it
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  Speaker 1: for a.
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  Speaker 2: While and his actions on that day were just so methodical.
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  Speaker 2: He visited relatives, he bought the boys new toys, all
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  Speaker 2: part of the act. He told his wife he was
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  Speaker 2: taking them to the amusement park, the film he'd created
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  Speaker 2: to cover his tracks, and he took a large dose
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  Speaker 2: of drugs before he left, telling police he needed to focus.
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  Speaker 1: It all ends at the Farrescore Bridge. He stops the car,
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  Speaker 1: tells the boys they're getting out to take pictures. He
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  Speaker 1: looks around, no witnesses nearby, and then he walks over
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  Speaker 1: to Ryah and he says to him, goodbye, my love.
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  Speaker 1: I will take you to heaven, and then he throws
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  Speaker 1: him over the railing into the nile. And then he
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  Speaker 1: turns to Mohammet says the exact same words and throws
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  Speaker 1: them in right after his brother.
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  Speaker 2: One of the strangest, most chilling details from the interrogation.
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  Speaker 2: They asked him why the boys didn't scream, they didn't
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  Speaker 2: cry out for help and Mamud just said they were
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  Speaker 2: strangely quiet, they made no sound at all.
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  Speaker 1: And his reason for choosing drowning, he said it was
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  Speaker 1: the only way he could do it. He couldn't use
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  Speaker 1: a weapon, couldn't use his hands. In his twisted logic,
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  Speaker 1: he saw drowning as the method with the least pain.
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  Speaker 2: After that confession and a full reenactment of the crime
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  Speaker 2: at the bridge, Malud Nasmi was prosecuted. He was executed
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  Speaker 2: in February twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: So what does this all mean. Well, here's the final
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  Speaker 1: unsettling piece of this. Despite the confession, the CCTV, the
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  Speaker 1: phone data, all of it, Mamood's relatives still deny he
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  Speaker 1: did it. They insist he loved his children too much
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  Speaker 1: and that he only confessed so he could be executed
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  Speaker 1: and join them in death.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a tragic, stark example of how addiction and
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  Speaker 2: profound irresponsibility can destroy everything, not just a life, but
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  Speaker 2: the most fundamental bond there is, that of a parent
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  Speaker 2: and child. The investigation painted a picture of a man
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  Speaker 2: so consumed by his own self destruction that his children became,
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  Speaker 2: in his mind, just an obstacle.
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  Speaker 1: A nile from the family. It leaves us with a
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  Speaker 1: final question for you to think about. When the truth
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  Speaker 1: of a crime is proven by cold, hard evidence, what
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  Speaker 1: is it that compels a family to reject that reality,
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  Speaker 1: to choose a comforting lie over an unbearable truth about
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  Speaker 1: someone they loved. Something to think about long after this
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  Speaker 1: deep dive is over.