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Five Hours of Clarity: Meth Psychosis, a Paternity Suit, and the Chilling Double Killing of a 'Life's Love' · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Let's set the scene. It's January seventh, twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: It's five and door zero zero pm, late afternoon, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: late afternoon sun and casting those long shadows across this quiet,
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  Speaker 1: pretty upscale apartment block in New Cairo, and outside one
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  Speaker 1: particular door, Yasmin's mother is sitting there, just sitting. Her
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  Speaker 1: nerves are shot. You can imagine she's fighting this rising
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  Speaker 1: sense of panic because.
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  Speaker 2: Her usual routine, the morning visit, breakfast with her daughter
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  Speaker 2: yasmine and son in law hate them, never happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all day long. Yeah, just this profound silence from
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  Speaker 1: inside that apartment, completely unnatural for them.
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  Speaker 2: And that silence is chilling when you know the timeline, right,
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  Speaker 2: the mother knew they went into their bedroom around one
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  Speaker 2: one am the night before, so for them to still
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  Speaker 2: be silent, no activity at all by five point zero
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  Speaker 2: pm the next day, I mean there were early risers,
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  Speaker 2: always busy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't just unusual. It was screaming that something was
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  Speaker 2: terribly wrong. Yeah, had astrophically wrong.
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  Speaker 1: So after hours of this waiting, the dread just became
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  Speaker 1: too much. She calls a relation and when they get there,
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  Speaker 1: they make the decision. They break the door, down, just
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  Speaker 1: this sudden, violent crash echoing through.
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  Speaker 2: The building, shattering that silence.
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  Speaker 1: And revealing something what far worse than anyone could have
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  Speaker 1: brace themselves for.
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  Speaker 2: And the scene inside discovered by the relative, but also
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  Speaker 2: tragically witnessed by their two kids. Oh no, it was
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  Speaker 2: just absolute devastation. Haytham forty three years old, hanging from
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  Speaker 2: the ceiling, Goetty Asmin Yasmin thirty six on the bed
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  Speaker 2: below him, drowned in her own blood. A complete nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's try and unpack this because when the authority
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  Speaker 1: showed up, they weren't just looking at a crime scene.
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  Speaker 1: They were facing the total collapse of something significant.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. This wasn't you know, some brief, volved relationship that
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  Speaker 2: imploded everyone neighbor's family. They all said, this was a deep,
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  Speaker 2: twenty year love story, forty years enduring. So to understand
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  Speaker 2: how it ended like this in such horror, we really
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  Speaker 2: have to go back back to how it all began.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do that. We start in two thousand and five.
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  Speaker 1: Haysm is young, just twenty three, ambitious guy, already successful
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  Speaker 1: in his.
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  Speaker 2: Way, but yeah, stuck stuck in a first marriage that
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  Speaker 2: made him unhappy and he wasn't like a traditionalist, right,
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want this standard nine to five.
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  Speaker 1: No, he had bigger dreams, commerce, entrepreneurship. And then he
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  Speaker 1: meets Yasmin and everything changes. The connection is described as immediate, powerful.
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  Speaker 2: Like genuine passionate love, the kind that makes you rethink your.
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  Speaker 1: Whole life, which he did. He actually divorced his first
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  Speaker 1: wife specifically so he could be with Yasmin. This wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just a whim. It was overriding passion.
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  Speaker 2: And what's really interesting is the effort on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Yasmin had to work to convince her family about Hatham,
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  Speaker 2: you know, prove this was serious, right, and Hathum he
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  Speaker 2: stepped up, got them a beautiful apartment in New Cairo.
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  Speaker 2: They were building something together, overcoming hurdle.
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  Speaker 1: I share dream and for years they really lived it.
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  Speaker 1: Their early life together, happiness, supporting each other.
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  Speaker 2: They had their two children, and Hathum hit his big goal,
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  Speaker 2: financial success. He opened this really successful car wash business,
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  Speaker 2: make good.
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  Speaker 1: Money, and people saw it. Neighbors confirmed it. This was
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  Speaker 1: seen as a real true love. Twenty years married, but
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  Speaker 1: they'd known each other for thirty one years.
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  Speaker 2: That solid foundation, that history That's what makes the breakdown
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  Speaker 2: so baffling, so hard to reconcile. How does something seemingly
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  Speaker 2: that strong just shatter.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's where the cracks begin to show. Success sometimes brings,
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  Speaker 1: you know, easy money, maybe the wrong crowd, hate them.
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  Speaker 1: Started using drugs and it wasn't casual. He quickly fell
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  Speaker 1: into a heavy addiction ice, oh, methamphetamine.
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  Speaker 2: And the impact on the relationship was immediate and drastic.
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  Speaker 2: Yasmin knew him so well. She saw the science straight away.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of science isolation, pulling away, then aggression, getting
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  Speaker 2: into fights more often, long periods where he'd just be
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  Speaker 2: gone she knew.
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  Speaker 1: Did she try to intervene?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, She fought hard, tried to save him, save
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  Speaker 2: the marriage, save their family towards rehab, begged him to
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  Speaker 2: stop using.
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  Speaker 1: But there was another layer complicating things. Wasn't there external pressure?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Haytham's family apparently they never fully warmed to Yasmine.
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  Speaker 2: There were these vague claims, unsubstantiated, that she was too
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  Speaker 2: focused on herself, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: That means, and they kept whispering these doubts in.
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  Speaker 2: His ear, constantly sowing distrust. And this is where it
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  Speaker 2: becomes a perfect storm. The meth addiction created severe paranoia. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: but the family's negativity that provided the storyline for the paranoia.
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  Speaker 2: He developed this intense delusion, apparently starting from a weird dream.
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  Speaker 1: That Yasmin was cheating on him.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly completely baseless, but utterly real.
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  Speaker 1: To him in that state, so he starts acting on it.
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  Speaker 2: Total surveillance, checking her phone constantly, finding nothing, following her,
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  Speaker 2: watching her every move. Still nothing, no evidence whatsoever, But the.
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  Speaker 1: Delusion just sticks. Fueled by the drugs.
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  Speaker 2: It intensified, convinced him of this betrayal that simply wasn't happy.
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  Speaker 1: And this raises that awful question, right, how much can
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  Speaker 1: addiction warp reality? Apparently when he was sober those rare
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  Speaker 1: moments he knew it.
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  Speaker 2: Was fantasy, he could see it wasn't real, But under
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  Speaker 2: the influence it was absolute truth, his truth overwriting two
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  Speaker 2: decades of love and trust, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then it culminates in this incredibly bizarre, incredibly cruel act.
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  Speaker 2: He files a lawsuit denying paternity of their own children.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, what, after twenty years two kids they raised together,
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  Speaker 1: a paternity suit?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, think about the public humiliation. The sheer destructiveness of
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  Speaker 2: that accusation was.
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  Speaker 1: That just the drugs talking, or did the family influence
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  Speaker 1: push him to that specific act.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like the terrifying combination, doesn't it. The addiction
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  Speaker 2: created the psychosis, but maybe those external voices gave him
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  Speaker 2: the script, the justification for that specific attack.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable and for Yasmin, that was.
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  Speaker 2: The end, the absolute final straw. The man she loved
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  Speaker 2: was gone, consumed. She left, took the kids and left
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  Speaker 2: the house. The marriage was for her.
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  Speaker 1: The haythen goes to rehab.
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  Speaker 2: He does, and while he's there, he seems to have
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  Speaker 2: this moment of clarity. He sees the wreckage, the scale
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  Speaker 2: of the destruction he's caused, and he wants her back desperately.
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  Speaker 2: He starts sending messages, making promises, I'll change, I won't
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  Speaker 2: listen to anyone else, you know, the works.
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  Speaker 1: But she's wary. I mean, after the paternity suit, how
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  Speaker 1: could she not be exactly?
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  Speaker 2: The trust was shattered, the public shame was.
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  Speaker 1: Immense, So words aren't enough. He escalates.
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  Speaker 2: He posts the video, a very public video. It went
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  Speaker 2: viral apparently, or just Raw apologizing profusely, Diasmin, what did
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  Speaker 2: he say in it? He took back the heinous accusations
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  Speaker 2: against her honor, called her his life's love, admitted point blank,
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  Speaker 2: I was sick, I was addicted.
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  Speaker 1: So a full confession and retraction.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, called her a model wife, apologized to her mother
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  Speaker 2: the kids. It seemed incredibly sincere. But there's a butt
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  Speaker 2: woven into this heartfelt apology where these really chilling threats.
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  Speaker 2: He said it multiple times, very threatened that if Yasmin
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  Speaker 2: didn't come back to him, he would kill himself, he'd
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  Speaker 2: commit suicide.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So it's an apology, but it's also emotional blackmail.
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  Speaker 2: A threat, a devastatingly effective one, perhaps because Yasmin was
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  Speaker 2: touched by the apology itself, but the main reason she
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  Speaker 2: considered going back the kids missed their dad terribly, and
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  Speaker 2: by all accounts, when he wasn't consumed by the addiction,
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  Speaker 2: he was a good father.
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  Speaker 1: So, torn between her fear and the hope for her family.
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  Speaker 2: She decided to return. But her mother, quite wisely remained suspicious.
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  Speaker 2: She actually went back with Yasmin, maybe hoping to keep
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  Speaker 2: an eye on things, ensure the change was real.
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  Speaker 1: How long did the peace last?
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  Speaker 2: Almost no time at all. Yasma quickly started suspecting he
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  Speaker 2: was using again, and the fight started up immediately, loud arguments.
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  Speaker 2: Neighbors could hear them again. Often they couldn't even make
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  Speaker 2: out the words, just loud, angry.
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  Speaker 1: Noise, and it become normalized.
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  Speaker 2: Sadly, yes, the neighbors had gotten used to these loud,
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  Speaker 2: unintelligible fights. It was just part of the backgrain noise, which.
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  Speaker 1: Brings us back to that night, January sixth, around one
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  Speaker 1: point zero, am Haathum and Yasmin go into their room
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  Speaker 1: to talk.
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  Speaker 2: The final fight begins, lasts less than fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: And then silence, that profound, unbroken silence that lasted until
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  Speaker 1: five pm the next day.
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  Speaker 2: And from this point on we have to rely solely
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  Speaker 2: on the forensic evidence what the scene itself told the investigators.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, first thing, please confirm.
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  Speaker 2: No forced entry. Whatever happened happened entirely inside that apartment
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  Speaker 2: between the two of them.
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  Speaker 1: So the only witnesses left are the physical facts. The
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  Speaker 1: CSI reports the medical examiner's findings.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, and they paint a truly terrifying picture of those
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  Speaker 2: final hours.
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  Speaker 1: Let's walk to it. What did theme determine about Yasmin's death?
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  Speaker 2: Primary cause of death was manual strangulation. It happened while
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  Speaker 2: she was on.
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  Speaker 1: The bed strangled. But that wasn't all, was it. There
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  Speaker 1: were other injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Horrific, both mortem injuries after she was already dead. Her
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  Speaker 2: throat was slit. She also had multiple stab wounds. The
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  Speaker 2: knife was found right there post.
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  Speaker 1: Mortem, so after he strangled her and Atham's state toxicology.
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  Speaker 2: Confirmed a massive amount of methamphetamine ICE in his system
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  Speaker 2: around the time of the initial.
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  Speaker 1: Attack, which supports the idea that the strangulation at least
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  Speaker 1: was driven by that drug fueled psychosis.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly seems that way. But here's the most disturbing
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  Speaker 2: forensic finding, the detail that changes everything. It's the time
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  Speaker 2: of death analysis. The medical examiner concluded that Haytham died
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  Speaker 2: five hours after Yasmin five hours.
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  Speaker 1: He was alive in that room with her body for
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  Speaker 1: five hours after he killed.
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  Speaker 2: Her, five hours. That gap is crucial. It means this
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  Speaker 2: wasn't one single continuous act of rage where he killed
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  Speaker 2: her and immediately killed himself.
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  Speaker 1: No, he killed her, yeah, and then he waited or
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  Speaker 1: existed for five hours.
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  Speaker 2: What must that have been like? Sitting there the high
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  Speaker 2: the intense meth psychosis may be starting to wear.
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  Speaker 1: Off just enough enough to say, see what he'd done.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps the initial violence, the strangling, the horrific mutilation afterwards,
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  Speaker 2: that looks like the addict, the delusion running rampant, possibly
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  Speaker 2: believing she was somehow still alive, or something else entirely irrational.
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  Speaker 1: But the five hours that followed that must.
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  Speaker 2: Have been the crash, the horrifying clarity alone in that room,
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  Speaker 2: staring at the absolute devastation, the body of his wife,
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  Speaker 2: the end of everything.
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  Speaker 1: Confronting the reality that he killed the woman he publicly
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  Speaker 1: called his life's.
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  Speaker 2: Love, Trapped with that knowledge, haunted by their history, their kids,
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  Speaker 2: everything destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: And after those five hours of what must have been
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  Speaker 1: unbearable clarity, he.
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  Speaker 2: Fulfilled the threat he made in that video. He ended
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  Speaker 2: his own life self strangulation. He used a rope, but
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  Speaker 2: also three plastic maintenance strips. He made sure it would work.
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  Speaker 1: It's horrifying when you connect all those.
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  Speaker 2: Pieces, and if you look at the bigger picture here,
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  Speaker 2: this tragedy goes beyond just, you know, a domestic dispute
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  Speaker 2: gone wrong. It's a stark lesson, isn't it, In what
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  Speaker 2: way it shows the deadly combination severe addiction that completely
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  Speaker 2: erodes reality, mixed with the poison of letting those negative
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  Speaker 2: outside voices shape your inner.
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  Speaker 1: World, the family's influence, giving his paranoia a.
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  Speaker 2: Target, exactly, giving it a narrative, a twisted justification for
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate betrayal.
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  Speaker 1: The community was just stunned, right, couldn't reconcile the loving
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  Speaker 1: husband they thought they knew with this act?
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  Speaker 2: Completely baffled, But forensically the sequence of events is clear,
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  Speaker 2: which is why legally there's no need for a trial.
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  Speaker 2: The perpetrator and the victim, they're both gone.
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  Speaker 1: And Yasmin she went back. She walked back into that apartment,
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  Speaker 1: trying to save her family, driven by love, by.
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  Speaker 2: Hope, and walked unknowingly into the final act of his addiction.
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  Speaker 2: Her very last decision was motivated by love.
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  Speaker 1: It really makes you think, what kind of thought, what
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  Speaker 1: external voice, if you let it grow unchecked hmm, could
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  Speaker 1: potentially compromise your own grasp on what's real versus what's delusion.
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  Speaker 1: It's a truly chilling place to lead this deep dive