Latest / Crime Night / Kawkab: Unfit for Human Use
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Imagine this. It's two am.
- 0:02Speaker 2: The air is thick with that sharp hospital smell, disinfectant,
- 0:06Speaker 2: and there's this hushed urgency. You hear sirens far off,
- 0:09Speaker 2: footsteps rushing. Yeah, that classic er tension exactly. Then the
- 0:13Speaker 2: automatic doors slide open at Almaterrea General Hospital. Two people
- 0:17Speaker 2: stumble in, a man, a woman. Their faces are just
- 0:22Speaker 2: tight with panic. They're carrying a little girl, maybe twelve.
- 0:25Speaker 2: She's limp, unresponsive. But here's the thing. Her clothes clean,
- 0:31Speaker 2: hair damp, like she's just been bathed.
- 0:33Speaker 3: It's odd that detail stands out immediately, doesn't.
- 0:36Speaker 2: It It really does. They tell the staff she ate
- 0:38Speaker 2: something bad, poison just collapsed.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Okay, the standard explanation, maybe, but.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Something feels instantly wrong. The medical team jumps in, does
- 0:46Speaker 2: their work, and then just moments later the truth. She's
- 0:50Speaker 2: already gone, not unconscious, deceased, and the parents or the
- 0:54Speaker 2: adults with her. Their reaction it's not grief, it's pure panic.
- 0:58Speaker 2: They try to bolt, to run. This is where the
- 1:00Speaker 2: story of cock Cob truly begins. And while you're about
- 1:04Speaker 2: to dive deep into something that challenges everything you think
- 1:07Speaker 2: you know about human nature.
- 1:09Speaker 3: It sounds absolutely chilling already.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Okay, let's try to unpack this, because you know, to
- 1:14Speaker 2: really get what led to that hospital scene, we absolutely
- 1:17Speaker 2: have to rewind.
- 1:18Speaker 3: Right that initial shock. It raises so many questions, a.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Big one being who is co Cob? What twists the
- 1:26Speaker 2: life of family into that?
- 1:28Speaker 3: Well, what's really fascinating or perhaps deeply disturbing here is
- 1:32Speaker 3: how it all starts. It doesn't begin with outright horror, no, no,
- 1:36Speaker 3: it begins with a facade, a veneer of normalcy, respectability
- 1:39Speaker 3: even but it slowly, insidiously just unravels.
- 1:44Speaker 2: So where do we start.
- 1:45Speaker 3: We need to go back fourteen years, Yeah, back to
- 1:47Speaker 3: two thousand and eight. We're in the Almeterrea district, a
- 1:49Speaker 3: place called Aliquad.
- 1:50Speaker 2: Aliquad, Okay, and who do we meet there?
- 1:52Speaker 3: This is where we first meet Hatti. The sources paint
- 1:54Speaker 3: him as well, a genuinely decent guy. Respected, yeah, respected, hardworking,
- 2:00Speaker 3: free trader from a good family, lived in the house
- 2:02Speaker 3: his father built. He was ready to settle down.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Sounds like a solid foundation.
- 2:06Speaker 3: It should have been. And that year, two thousand and eight,
- 2:08Speaker 3: he chose co Cob. She was young, eighteen and her
- 2:12Speaker 3: background seemed okay on the surface, humble family, she had
- 2:15Speaker 3: striking features apparently, and this strong personality.
- 2:19Speaker 1: But you said seemed well, yeah.
- 2:22Speaker 3: The source is dig a bit deeper, the reveal she
- 2:24Speaker 3: was actually profoundly rebellious, always dissatisfied, always convinced only she
- 2:28Speaker 3: was right about everything.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Okay, that's a potential red flag, a big one.
- 2:32Speaker 3: But Hatty, he was financially stable and they married.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Quickly, and how did that go smoothly?
- 2:36Speaker 3: Not at all? This is where it gets really interesting
- 2:39Speaker 3: and disturbing. From literally day one, ka Cob started to
- 2:44Speaker 3: dismantle Hatty's life, how so, criticizing everything, his work, his friends,
- 2:49Speaker 3: even his own family. It was her way or constant misery.
- 2:52Speaker 2: For him, constant misery right, and Hatty's reaction, this.
- 2:55Speaker 3: Is what's so striking. He just complied, quietly, went along
- 2:59Speaker 3: with it, and when her criticisms made no sense.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Like he believed her.
- 3:03Speaker 3: It's described as if he had this internal conviction she
- 3:05Speaker 3: was always right, no evidence needed. He just folded, Which
- 3:10Speaker 3: brings up that crucial question, doesn't it. How does someone
- 3:13Speaker 3: gain that kind of absolute psychological control over another person.
- 3:17Speaker 2: It's terrifying to think about that slow erosion of self
- 3:21Speaker 2: worth exactly.
- 3:22Speaker 3: It's textbook course of control, your reality gets warped until
- 3:25Speaker 3: you doubt yourself completely.
- 3:27Speaker 2: And her influence wasn't just on haughty.
- 3:29Speaker 3: No, she lived in this bubble, bad relationship with her
- 3:31Speaker 3: own family, no friends, a semi secret world.
- 3:34Speaker 1: It's called isolated.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Very. Then two years in twenty ten, their first daughter,
- 3:39Speaker 3: Jana was born.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Okay, maybe a child changes.
- 3:42Speaker 3: Things for Hati, Yes, Janet became his entire world, his
- 3:46Speaker 3: reason for everything. But for cock Cob, it seems that
- 3:49Speaker 3: dynamic didn't change that joy. Hatty felt it was tainted.
- 3:53Speaker 3: Cock Cob still made him feel constantly wrong, made.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Him hate himself and the family.
- 3:57Speaker 3: Thing she doubled down convinced him is family whose sources
- 4:01Speaker 3: they were actually fine and kept to themselves, were envious
- 4:04Speaker 3: and spiteful.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Just poisoning the well.
- 4:06Speaker 3: Constantly, relentlessly. It's described as psychological pressure stronger than magic,
- 4:11Speaker 3: just grinding him down.
- 4:12Speaker 1: And then another child two years later.
- 4:14Speaker 3: Yes, their second daughter, Pharah was born. Now how he
- 4:19Speaker 3: had two anchors, two reasons to stay, to endure.
- 4:23Speaker 1: He felt he had to protect them.
- 4:25Speaker 3: Absolutely, he knew they'd have no one if he wasn't there,
- 4:28Speaker 3: And the sources are clear. K Cob treated both girls
- 4:31Speaker 3: very badly right from the start.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Cod imagine living like that, being told you're wrong every
- 4:35Speaker 2: single day for years.
- 4:37Speaker 3: Hatty aged prematurely crushed by anxiety depression, ten years, they say,
- 4:43Speaker 3: without a peaceful night's.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Sleep, always afraid for the girls.
- 4:46Speaker 3: Always knowing cow Cow wouldn't change. And if he even
- 4:49Speaker 3: asked where she'd been when she disappeared without a word,
- 4:51Speaker 3: it got worse, much worse. A brutal wave of negativity,
- 4:54Speaker 3: just says, this incredibly tragic stage. By this point, Jana's
- 4:57Speaker 3: twelve farres ten.
- 4:59Speaker 2: So after all those years, fourteen years of this, this
- 5:01Speaker 2: relentless pressure, this sacrifice, what happens next?
- 5:06Speaker 3: The next chapter unfolds in twenty twenty two. Hatty comes
- 5:09Speaker 3: home from work one day, goes to sleep, and he
- 5:11Speaker 3: never wakes up.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Oh wow, just like that.
- 5:14Speaker 3: It's just like that officially as death was ruled natural.
- 5:19Speaker 3: But you just have to wonder, don't you.
- 5:21Speaker 2: About the toll, the sheer weight of that stress, that
- 5:23Speaker 2: depression for so long.
- 5:25Speaker 3: Exactly what does fourteen years of that kind of psychological
- 5:28Speaker 3: torture do to a person physically? It's hard not to
- 5:32Speaker 3: connect the dots, even if we can't prove it medically.
- 5:35Speaker 1: So Hatty's gone.
- 5:36Speaker 2: You'd expect, I don't know, some period of grief from
- 5:39Speaker 2: Ka Cobb, some reflection after fourteen years, two kids.
- 5:42Speaker 3: You'd think so. But kon Cobb's reaction was well immediate
- 5:47Speaker 3: and aggressive. Just one month after Hetty died, she started
- 5:51Speaker 3: conflicts with who with Hatty's family, criticizing them, trying to
- 5:55Speaker 3: impose her will. Remember, she's still living in the apartment
- 5:58Speaker 3: in their family home.
- 5:59Speaker 2: Right surrounded by people who knew Hatty is whole life,
- 6:01Speaker 2: and she.
- 6:02Speaker 3: Just picks up where she left off or worse pretty much.
- 6:05Speaker 2: She continued her old pattern too, disappearing, leaving the girls
- 6:09Speaker 2: locked in the apartment alone.
- 6:10Speaker 3: Oh my god, the girls are alone, locked in Yeah.
- 6:14Speaker 2: And when Hatty's family completely understandably got worried and asked her,
- 6:18Speaker 2: you know where were you?
- 6:19Speaker 1: You can't just leave them.
- 6:20Speaker 3: She reacted badly.
- 6:21Speaker 2: Furious She'd had fourteen years of zero accountability with Hatty.
- 6:26Speaker 2: She saw their concern as an attack, an invasion, refuse
- 6:30Speaker 2: any advice, just saw it as interference, exactly, pure interference
- 6:35Speaker 2: in her world.
- 6:36Speaker 3: So how long did that last her staying in the family.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Home not long. Things escalated fast. Within just two months
- 6:44Speaker 2: of Hatty's death, she took the girls and moved out.
- 6:46Speaker 3: Where did she go to her own mother's house?
- 6:49Speaker 2: Okay, maybe some family support there.
- 6:51Speaker 3: Initially yes, her mother welcomed them, but ka Cob didn't
- 6:55Speaker 3: change her ways, still constantly out, still neglecting the.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Girls, and her mother put up with it, not for long.
- 7:01Speaker 3: After a short while, her mother laid down the law,
- 7:04Speaker 3: respect the rules, take care of your kids.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Or leave, and Kakob's response.
- 7:08Speaker 3: Predictable, wasn't it? Refused to be controlled, refused any limits.
- 7:12Speaker 1: So she left her mother's place too.
- 7:14Speaker 3: She did. Just three months after Hatty died, she took
- 7:17Speaker 3: Janna and Farah and rented a new apartment, same district, Almaterea,
- 7:21Speaker 3: but a more isolated.
- 7:22Speaker 2: Area, this time isolated that feels significant.
- 7:25Speaker 3: It turns out it was very significant, and things moved
- 7:28Speaker 3: incredibly fast from there, chillingly fast. Within just one week
- 7:33Speaker 3: of moving into that new apartment, a new person enters
- 7:36Speaker 3: the picture. Oho Arak, her thirty four year old neighbor, unmarried,
- 7:41Speaker 3: lived in the same building, and he becomes important instantly.
- 7:44Speaker 3: He became the absolute center of her world, moved right
- 7:47Speaker 3: into the space Haughty used to occupy metaphorically.
- 7:50Speaker 1: Speaking, so neighbors notice.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Tarak was there constantly. Kakab even started telling
- 7:55Speaker 3: people they were married.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Were they No.
- 7:58Speaker 3: It seems their relationship was intimate like a married couple's,
- 8:02Speaker 3: but they lived outside the law, completely unofficial.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Okay, so k Cob finds a new partner almost immediately,
- 8:09Speaker 2: But what about the girls, Jana and Parah.
- 8:11Speaker 3: This is where it takes an absolutely horrific turn. This
- 8:14Speaker 3: new relationship brought violence, violence from Terrek.
- 8:17Speaker 2: Yes, Trek started beating Dauna and Pharah violently under the
- 8:21Speaker 2: guise of disciplining them.
- 8:22Speaker 3: Disciplining beating, and the sources are explicit. Ka Cob knew
- 8:26Speaker 3: she consented. It wasn't just occasional anger. It was systematic torture, kerture.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Oh my god, did anyone know? Did the neighbors hear anything?
- 8:35Speaker 3: They did? The neighbors often heard the children screaming, heart
- 8:39Speaker 3: wrenching cries.
- 8:40Speaker 1: Did they try to help?
- 8:41Speaker 3: Some did? They'd come down, knock on the door, try
- 8:44Speaker 3: to intervene at a concern and co Cob and to
- 8:46Speaker 3: Rek they'd scream, back, mind your own business. Cock Cob
- 8:50Speaker 3: would even say to Rek.
- 8:51Speaker 2: Was like their father defending him while he's beating her.
- 8:55Speaker 3: Children defending him, and that's where you see that awful
- 8:59Speaker 3: bise Tander effect maybe or just the difficulty of intervening.
- 9:03Speaker 3: People couldn't see inside. They were aggressively pushed away. They
- 9:07Speaker 3: tragically didn't grasp the full horror.
- 9:09Speaker 2: So this abuse was happening behind closed doors, but the
- 9:12Speaker 2: sounds were getting out exactly.
- 9:14Speaker 3: For four months, this pattern continued. The beatings, the screams
- 9:18Speaker 3: were now seven months after Hotty's death, and this violence
- 9:21Speaker 3: is just dismissed by them as discipline.
- 9:23Speaker 1: They even had a line they used.
- 9:24Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, chillingly manipulative. When neighbors try to step in,
- 9:28Speaker 3: they'd say, don't interfere. The man is doing a good
- 9:31Speaker 3: deed by raising.
- 9:31Speaker 2: The girls, a good deed, raising them through beatings.
- 9:36Speaker 3: Unbelievable, isn't it, which.
- 9:37Speaker 2: Brings us full circle, doesn't it? Back to that hospital
- 9:40Speaker 2: two am, Back.
- 9:41Speaker 3: To that awful scene. Kacab and Trek arrived with twelve.
- 9:44Speaker 2: Year old Johna and she was clean, bathed, new clothes.
- 9:48Speaker 2: That detail is still so disturbing.
- 9:50Speaker 3: It really is a calculated detail, perhaps, Yeah, and they
- 9:53Speaker 3: stick to the story poisoned food, lost consciousness.
- 9:57Speaker 1: But the medical team saw it instantly.
- 9:59Speaker 3: Immediately they knew she was deceased on arrival, and when
- 10:02Speaker 3: they examined her body more closely, the truth started coming out. Injuries,
- 10:07Speaker 3: clear signs, fresh injuries, old injuries both. But it wasn't
- 10:13Speaker 3: just the physical state of the child. What else It
- 10:15Speaker 3: was caught Cobin to rec the tension, the panic radiating
- 10:19Speaker 3: off them. It was palpable.
- 10:20Speaker 1: So when the doctors told them Johna was dead, that's.
- 10:23Speaker 3: When they tried to run, desperate attempt to flee, but
- 10:26Speaker 3: the hospital staff security.
- 10:28Speaker 1: They held them until the police arrived.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Until the police arrived, and.
- 10:31Speaker 2: What could call Cob and torect tell the police?
- 10:33Speaker 3: Initially Kakab identified herself as the mother, obviously, but to
- 10:37Speaker 3: rec she called him just a good neighbor. A good neighbor, yeah,
- 10:40Speaker 3: someone who was just kind enough not to leave her
- 10:42Speaker 3: alone in this situation.
- 10:43Speaker 1: Did the police buy that.
- 10:45Speaker 3: Not for a second. Experienced officers, they can often sense deceit.
- 10:51Speaker 3: They saw through it almost.
- 10:52Speaker 2: Instantly, and Jana's body told its own.
- 10:54Speaker 3: Story, a horrific one. The police examination found extensive bruising, marx,
- 10:59Speaker 3: severe blows all over her body, yes, and crucially, ligature
- 11:03Speaker 3: marks on her hands and feet. She'd been tied up
- 11:07Speaker 3: and a distinct, deep wound on her head. They were
- 11:10Speaker 3: immediately arrested. Jana's body sent for forensic examination.
- 11:14Speaker 1: The forensic report, I can only imagine.
- 11:16Speaker 3: It was beyond shocking for a twelve year old child. Yeah,
- 11:20Speaker 3: just devastating. It confirmed long term abuse and torture, long
- 11:23Speaker 3: term stating most injuries were over three months old. There
- 11:25Speaker 3: were burn marks stings, likely from a heated metal object
- 11:29Speaker 3: like a spoon.
- 11:29Speaker 1: Burns too.
- 11:30Speaker 3: This is a monstrous and even more disturbing traces of
- 11:33Speaker 3: wood fragments in her scalp, Other parts of her body
- 11:36Speaker 3: with fragments from being beaten with a wooden stick. That
- 11:39Speaker 3: head wound especially pointed to a severe blow with a
- 11:42Speaker 3: wooden club. Wood traces right in her.
- 11:44Speaker 1: Scalp, a wooden club.
- 11:46Speaker 3: The conclusion was stark. After all this torture, Jina suffered
- 11:50Speaker 3: massive blood loss, lost consciousness, went into circulatory collapse, and died.
- 11:56Speaker 2: Did Cobb and Tarek keep denying it?
- 11:58Speaker 3: Initially? Yes, Cock Cob clung desperately to the poisoning story,
- 12:02Speaker 3: but the forensics undeniable, absolute proof. When confronted with that,
- 12:06Speaker 3: they both broke They.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Confessed, and the confession revealed just.
- 12:10Speaker 3: The depth of their inhumanity. The sources call them the
- 12:14Speaker 3: most despicable two people you could ever hear about.
- 12:16Speaker 1: What exactly do they confess.
- 12:18Speaker 3: To Torek, with cock COB's full knowledge, her full consent,
- 12:22Speaker 3: systematically tortured both girls, Jana and Pharah, both.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Of them using what methods.
- 12:27Speaker 3: Described only as the most difficult methods of torture, just brutal,
- 12:31Speaker 3: unimaginable ways.
- 12:33Speaker 2: And the girls knew, they sensed something was wrong with
- 12:35Speaker 2: the relationship between co Cob and Terrect.
- 12:37Speaker 3: They were aware it was unnatural. Yes, they couldn't fully
- 12:40Speaker 3: grasp or explain it, being so young, but they knew
- 12:42Speaker 3: it was wrong. And cock Cob never showed a shred
- 12:46Speaker 3: of remorse or care, not for a moment.
- 12:48Speaker 2: So what happened on the day Jana died, what was
- 12:50Speaker 2: the final trigger?
- 12:52Speaker 3: It was the ultimate horror. Johanna, just twelve, woke up
- 12:56Speaker 3: and she saw Cocab and Trek engaged in an indie
- 13:00Speaker 3: act right there in the apartment.
- 13:01Speaker 1: She witnessed something she shouldn't.
- 13:03Speaker 3: Have exactly, and to silence her to wreck, grabbed a
- 13:07Speaker 3: wooden bed slat.
- 13:08Speaker 1: A bed slat like the piece that holds up the
- 13:10Speaker 1: mattress that's right.
- 13:11Speaker 3: And he beat her with it, Yeah, repeatedly, aiming for
- 13:13Speaker 3: her body, her head. Yeah, beat her until the slat
- 13:16Speaker 3: itself broke. They just kept going until she collapsed, lost consciousness,
- 13:21Speaker 3: and then lost her life.
- 13:23Speaker 1: And kak Cobb's reaction to her own daughter dying.
- 13:26Speaker 3: Right there, not grief, not shock, chilling calculation, calculation. Immediately
- 13:30Speaker 3: she took Jana's body to the bathroom, washed away the blood,
- 13:33Speaker 3: the evidence, dressed her in those clean clothes, preparing the
- 13:36Speaker 3: cover story. Preparing the cover story. Then with Torek off
- 13:39Speaker 3: to the hospital with a poison lie, hoping for a
- 13:42Speaker 3: death certificate, hoping to get away with it all.
- 13:44Speaker 2: Her only thought was saving herself and him, That's.
- 13:48Speaker 3: What it seems, saving themselves from the consequences of their
- 13:50Speaker 3: own horrific actions.
- 13:52Speaker 2: So after everything, this deep dive into such darkness, what
- 13:57Speaker 2: does it all mean?
- 13:59Speaker 1: What happens next?
- 14:00Speaker 3: Well, the chilling reality is that justice did eventually catch
- 14:03Speaker 3: up to them.
- 14:04Speaker 1: They were brought to justice, Yes.
- 14:06Speaker 3: After their confessions. The evidence was overwhelming, and Hatti's family
- 14:11Speaker 3: remember them, the ones k Cob alienated, Yeah.
- 14:15Speaker 1: The family she turned haughty against.
- 14:16Speaker 3: They stepped forward without hesitation. They took in Pharah, the
- 14:21Speaker 3: younger daughter.
- 14:21Speaker 1: Phara survived.
- 14:22Speaker 3: Phara survived and at just ten years old, she corroborated
- 14:25Speaker 3: everything confirmed. The torture confirmed. She suffered too often, even
- 14:30Speaker 3: worse than Joha.
- 14:31Speaker 2: Oh, that poor child, what she must have endured unimaginable.
- 14:36Speaker 3: Following the investigation, the confessions, the evidence, Coocab and Trek
- 14:40Speaker 3: were both sentenced.
- 14:40Speaker 1: What was the sentence?
- 14:41Speaker 3: There were sentenced to death.
- 14:42Speaker 2: This whole story, it leaves you reeling thinking about Hati
- 14:46Speaker 2: fourteen years of that dread, that torment, likely shortening his
- 14:50Speaker 2: own life.
- 14:51Speaker 3: Absolutely, and then Jena just tragic innocence destroyed by unimaginable
- 14:56Speaker 3: cruelty from her own mother and this man.
- 14:58Speaker 2: It really forces you to in front the extremes of
- 15:01Speaker 2: human behavior, doesn't it How things can escalate behind closed doors?
- 15:05Speaker 3: It does. It brings home a really stark truth that
- 15:09Speaker 3: some individuals seem to operate completely without empathy, without remorse,
- 15:13Speaker 3: acting in ways that just defy reason.
- 15:15Speaker 2: Yeah, with no discernible benefit even to themselves. Sometimes it
- 15:19Speaker 2: just seems purely destructive, which.
- 15:21Speaker 3: Really underscores how vital it is to recognize signs of abuse,
- 15:25Speaker 3: subtle or not, and the need for a society that's vigilant,
- 15:28Speaker 3: that protects its most vulnerable members.
- 15:30Speaker 2: It makes you wonder what other horrors might be hidden
- 15:34Speaker 2: behind closed doors, masked by that deceptive calm, or dismissed
- 15:37Speaker 2: as you know, private matters.
- 15:39Speaker 3: And how do we learn to see it, How do
- 15:41Speaker 3: we intervene effectively before it reaches a point like this,
- 15:44Speaker 3: before it's too late.
- 15:45Speaker 2: That's a really powerful question, something for all of us,
- 15:48Speaker 2: I think, to carry with us and reflect on.