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The Buried Truth of Eid: How Drug Paranoia and a Son's Secret Led to Double Murder in Egypt · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Is Meelia Egypt picture the eve of Iodolph Fistri twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. It's meant to be a time of joy, right.
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  Speaker 1: The smell of baking, families getting ready.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, anticipation in the air. Kid's excited about new clothes,
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  Speaker 2: the big feast after Ramadan.
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  Speaker 1: But not everywhere. In a small village as Bete alamda Sala,
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  Speaker 1: one particular home, well, the feeling was very different. It
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  Speaker 1: was dread.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where our story really crystallizes. You have the husband,
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  Speaker 2: Abdu Raman, showing up at his in last place, right, but.
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  Speaker 1: He's not there for celebration. He has something prepared, something
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  Speaker 1: he needs to.
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  Speaker 2: Say, and it's devastating. He looks Yasmin's parents in the
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  Speaker 2: eye and tells them she's gone.
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  Speaker 1: Not just gone, though, he claims she's run away, fled,
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  Speaker 1: and specifically he says with a lover, which was.
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  Speaker 2: An old accusation, something he'd thrown around before because of
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  Speaker 2: his paranoia. But this time it felt.
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  Speaker 1: Final because she did vanish completely for almost an entire year.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly the story he spun about her running off. It
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  Speaker 2: seemed to stick because well, she had left before to
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  Speaker 2: escape him. The police treated it as a missing person case,
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  Speaker 2: a runaway. The trail just went.
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  Speaker 1: Cold, and the truth stayed hidden, literally buried, until almost
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  Speaker 1: exactly a year later, the Eve of Ed twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: And when that truth finally came out, it was horrific.
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  Speaker 2: It confirmed she wasn't coming back alive.
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  Speaker 1: To really understand how things got to this point, we
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  Speaker 1: need to rewind, go back almost ten years.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do that, back to twenty fourteen, same village. We
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  Speaker 2: meet Abdul Rahman.
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  Speaker 1: He's twenty six, a daily laborer, but it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: work wasn't really his main focus.
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  Speaker 2: No, not really. Sources paint a picture of someone with
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  Speaker 2: very little ambition except for one thing, getting enough money
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  Speaker 2: each day to pay for his drugs.
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  Speaker 1: His family knew, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They knew. They'd tried to step in. Apparently he tried
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  Speaker 2: to help him, but nothing work.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the next step When that happens, Often its marriage, right,
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  Speaker 1: the idea that responsibility might somehow fix things.
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  Speaker 2: That seems to be exactly what his family was thinking,
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  Speaker 2: push him towards marriage. Maybe having a wife a home
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  Speaker 2: would force him to change, settle down, and he went
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  Speaker 2: for it immediately. He zeroed in on Yasmin. She was
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  Speaker 2: their neighbor, twenty four years old, from what's described as
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  Speaker 2: a respectable family.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about Yasmin for a second. Twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: In that context, there's pressure, right, social.
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  Speaker 2: Pressure, huge pressure. Opportunities might feel like they're narrowing. Marrying
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  Speaker 2: a local guy, even one maybe with some known issues,
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  Speaker 2: it could seem like the sensible, maybe even necessary path.
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  Speaker 2: She likely saw him as you know, suitable enough at
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  Speaker 2: that moment, maybe thought she could handle whatever problems there were.
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  Speaker 1: But those problems, they weren't small. How did things start off?
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning, Yasmin tried to keep up appearances, maintain
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  Speaker 2: the home, keep the secrets private. She noticed odd behavior, sure,
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  Speaker 2: the moods, him disappearing, but the full picture wasn't clear
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  Speaker 2: immediately until until she couldn't ignore it any more. She
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  Speaker 2: actually caught him more than once using drugs right there
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  Speaker 2: in their house.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that must have been a terrible shock, and not
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  Speaker 1: just emotionally, No, it.
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  Speaker 2: Hit everything, especially finances. The patterns started right away. Any
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  Speaker 2: money he earned straight to drugs.
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  Speaker 1: And if he didn't earn enough, that's when.
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  Speaker 2: Things got really bad. He'd start selling things from the
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  Speaker 2: house furniture, appliances, whatever he could turn into cash quickly.
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  Speaker 2: That's where the serious conflict began. Financial ruin fueled by addiction.
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward seven years. They have four children now.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and the eldest Adam. He becomes very close to Yasmin,
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  Speaker 2: really relies on her. His mother is his rock.
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  Speaker 1: But he still has a relationship with his father, even
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  Speaker 1: knowing about the addiction.
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  Speaker 2: That's the tragic part. He's caught in the middle. He
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  Speaker 2: loves his dad, but he sees what's happening, what the
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  Speaker 2: drugs are doing to their family.
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  Speaker 1: And the drugs weren't just causing money problems. They were
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  Speaker 1: affecting Abdul Raman's mind, weren't they deeply?
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  Speaker 2: It went beyond just needing the next fex. He developed
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  Speaker 2: this intense paranoia. He became utterly convinced Yasmin was having.
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  Speaker 1: An affair, that she had a secret lover yeah yes,
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  Speaker 1: and that.
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  Speaker 2: This lover would sneak into the house whenever he wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: It was complete delusion fueled by the drugs.
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  Speaker 1: But then he'd have moments of clarity, sober moments.
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  Speaker 2: It would and in those moments he'd apologize, beg for forgiveness,
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  Speaker 2: Ah and Yasmin she'd accept, she kept silent.
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  Speaker 1: That cycle is just devastating. The sober apology becomes another
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  Speaker 1: form of control, almost making her feel responsible for holding
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  Speaker 1: it all together.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely is. It resets the abuse clock. She likely
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  Speaker 2: felt trapped, needing to protect the kids, hoping this time
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  Speaker 2: the apology was real. But the silence just allowed the
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  Speaker 2: underlying problem to fester.
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  Speaker 1: And that silence got shattered, didn't it When Yasmin's mother
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  Speaker 1: came to visit it did? Her?
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  Speaker 2: Mother noticed a bad wound on Yasmin's face, looked serious, discolored.
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  Speaker 1: He has been tried to cover it up.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she lied, said she'd heart herself cleaning, you know,
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  Speaker 2: clumsy accident.
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  Speaker 1: But the mother didn't buy it, not.
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  Speaker 2: For a second. She could see the fear. So she
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  Speaker 2: did something smart. She went straight to Adam, the oldest.
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  Speaker 1: Son, and Adam told her what really happened.
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  Speaker 2: He did the terrifying truth. It wasn't an accident. About
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  Speaker 2: Rahman had attacked Yasmin during a huge fight with an axe.
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  Speaker 1: A fast an axe, my god.
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  Speaker 2: It apparently grazed her. Thankfully wasn't a direct hit, but
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  Speaker 2: it was incredibly close to being fatal.
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  Speaker 1: So the mother confronts abdul Rahman, and what's his defense?
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  Speaker 2: Straight back to the delusion. He basically said she deserved it,
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  Speaker 2: claiming she was hiding messages or calls from this imaginary lover.
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  Speaker 1: And the mother's reaction, this is where it gets even
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  Speaker 1: harder to understand.
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  Speaker 2: It's truly tragic. Despite seeing the physical evidence of violence,
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  Speaker 2: despite hearing the paranoid accusation, she refused to let Yasmin
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  Speaker 2: get a divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Why for the children.
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  Speaker 2: That was the reason given. For the sake of the children,
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  Speaker 2: they had to reconcile, stay together. She essentially forced Yasmin
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  Speaker 2: back into that incredibly dangerous situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the cultural pressure to keep the family unit intact,
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  Speaker 1: no matter the cost, overrode the obvious danger signs.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, a failure to recognize lethal risk, maybe blinded by
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  Speaker 2: tradition or saving face.
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  Speaker 1: Did things calm down after that, temporarily for a little.
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  Speaker 2: While, but only about two months. Then the call came
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  Speaker 2: not from Yasmine, but from Abdul Rahman's own brother.
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  Speaker 1: What did he say?
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  Speaker 2: It was urgent. He told Yasmin's mother, you need to
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  Speaker 2: come get your daughter now, and you need to file
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  Speaker 2: a police report.
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  Speaker 1: Why what had happened?
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  Speaker 2: Abdul Rahman had beaten Yasmine again severely. This time, even
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  Speaker 2: his own family had had enough. They disowned him, told
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  Speaker 2: the mother they insisted on a divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, surely this time with his own family saying it.
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  Speaker 2: You'd think so, but no. Incredibly, Yasmin's mother still refused
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  Speaker 2: to let them divorce again. How she somehow calmed everyone down,
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  Speaker 2: convinced them to give him another chance, pulled another promise
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  Speaker 2: out of him that he'd changed. It's just a pattern
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  Speaker 2: of enabling that sealed Yasmin's fate.
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  Speaker 1: How long did that promise last?
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  Speaker 2: About a month, maybe four weeks? Then Abdul Rahman shows
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  Speaker 2: up the inlaws house again, same story.
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  Speaker 1: Yasmin ran away with her lover, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Playing the same card, but this time was different. But
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  Speaker 2: an hour later, Yasmine herself called her mother.
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  Speaker 1: Where was she? Had she actually left?
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  Speaker 2: She had, she was safe at a relative's house. She
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  Speaker 2: told her mother, I can't do it anymore. He hasn't
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  Speaker 2: changed the addiction, the behavior, It's the same.
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  Speaker 1: She was finally out, finally free, But then but.
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  Speaker 2: Then came the fatal mistake for the third time. Yasmine's
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  Speaker 2: mother intervened. She persuaded her daughter to go back home.
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  Speaker 1: How what did she promise?
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  Speaker 2: She promised she would personally step in mediate fix the relationship.
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  Speaker 2: It's heartbreaking to think about why Yasmin agreed. Was it
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  Speaker 2: hope or just the immense pressure of going against her
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  Speaker 2: mother and community.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the reason, she went.
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  Speaker 2: Back, she went back and abdur Rahman's reaction when she
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  Speaker 2: returned it wasn't anger. It was described as this really strange,
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  Speaker 2: unsettling calm.
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  Speaker 1: Calm sounds terrifying in hindsight.
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  Speaker 2: It was the quiet before the storm, because by this point,
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  Speaker 2: the drug fueled paranoia wasn't just random outbursts anymore. It
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  Speaker 2: had solidified into a plan, a homicidal plan.
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  Speaker 1: He decided she had to die yes.
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  Speaker 2: To silence the problem his paranoia had created, and he
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  Speaker 2: started preparing with something very specific and chilling. He started
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  Speaker 2: digging secretly outside the house, a deep pit, a cesspit or.
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  Speaker 1: Belah, and he tried to make it look normal.
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  Speaker 2: Right, He told neighbors anyone who asked it was just
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  Speaker 2: necessary plumbing work for sanitation, but later investigations confirmed no
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  Speaker 2: work was scheduled, no permits, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He was digging her grave.
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  Speaker 2: Essentially, yes, a place to hide the body.
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  Speaker 1: And then came the eve of Ed twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: the night he planned for exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He waited until the younger children were asleep. Then he
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  Speaker 2: asked Yasmin to come into another room, pretending he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to talk.
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  Speaker 1: Things through, but that wasn't his intention.
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  Speaker 2: No, once they were alone, he attacked her. He killed her.
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  Speaker 2: The sources used strong language emphasizing the brutality of the act.
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  Speaker 2: A Then immediately he took her body out to the
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  Speaker 2: pit he dug, put her inside and covered it up,
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  Speaker 2: sealed it.
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  Speaker 1: And went straight to the next part of his clan.
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  Speaker 2: Yep report her missing stick to the story she ran
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  Speaker 2: off with her lover. He couldn't name this lover, of course,
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  Speaker 2: but because Yasmin had.
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  Speaker 1: Left before the police bought it, filed a missing person report,
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  Speaker 1: considered her a runaway exactly.
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  Speaker 2: His plan seemed perfect, except one tiny, devastating detail he
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  Speaker 2: hadn't counted.
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  Speaker 1: On Adam, her eldest son.
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  Speaker 2: Adam. The next morning, the boy confronted his father. He
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been asleep, after all, he'd seen it.
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  Speaker 1: He saw his father kill his mother.
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  Speaker 2: He saw everything, and apparently he asked him, just with
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  Speaker 2: total childlike confusion. Why why did you do that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh Adam? What did abdul Rahman do? This changes everything.
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  Speaker 2: For him completely. Yasmin's murder, you could argue, was born
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  Speaker 2: from that drug induced paranoia, twisted logic. But Adam, Adam
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  Speaker 2: was a witness, a direct threat to the lie, to
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  Speaker 2: his freedom.
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  Speaker 1: The action wasn't emotional, it was calculated entirely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he realized instantly, the boy knows, the boy will talk.
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  Speaker 2: The plan is ruined unless Adam disappears too. He decided
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  Speaker 2: right then he had to kill his own son.
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  Speaker 1: How did he? How did it happen?
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  Speaker 2: He told Adam to keep quiet, wait until nighttime. That evening,
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  Speaker 2: he leered the boy, probably somewhere private, and he.
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  Speaker 1: Choked him to death, and then back to the pit.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the pit, he dug it up again, placed
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  Speaker 2: Adam's small body next to his mother's and cover them
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  Speaker 2: both up again, sealed the grave for a second time.
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  Speaker 1: And just continued the lie that Yasmin took Adam with
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  Speaker 1: her when she ran off.
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  Speaker 2: That became the updated story. She fled with her lover
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  Speaker 2: and she took her oldest son, and for a long
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  Speaker 2: time that story held. The case went cold for how long?
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  Speaker 2: Eleven months? Eleven months of silence. Yasmin's parents were obviously devastated, heartbroken,
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  Speaker 2: searching the police file remained runaway abdu Rahan cut off
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  Speaker 2: all contacts with his in laws.
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  Speaker 1: What finally broke the silence.
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  Speaker 2: It happened just days before the next add twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: so almost a full year later, and the break came
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  Speaker 2: from his own family again. The brother, Yes, his brother
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  Speaker 2: went back to the police, but this time he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: reporting Yasmin missing. He reported Adam missing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, because if Yasmin ran off with Adam, why hadn't
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  Speaker 1: anyone heard from the boy in almost a year, why
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  Speaker 1: wasn't he in touch with his father?
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  Speaker 2: Precisely? That detail didn't add up. It immediately shifted the
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  Speaker 2: police focus. This wasn't just a runaway mother anymore. Something
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  Speaker 2: was very wrong.
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  Speaker 1: So they brought Abdul Rahman in again.
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  Speaker 2: They did, and his story started to crumble. He gave
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  Speaker 2: excuses about Exan's Adam said the boy had called him,
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  Speaker 2: claimed he was with his mother, but refused to come home.
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  Speaker 2: It was inconsistent, unconvincing, and.
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  Speaker 1: The police suspicion grew, especially considering Yasmin's family had a
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  Speaker 1: good reputation.
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  Speaker 2: Right, they started thinking foul play, conspiracy, and the investigation
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  Speaker 2: quickly zeroed in on the area around Abdil Rahman's.
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  Speaker 1: House and that strange pit he dug a year earlier.
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  Speaker 2: That un authorized pit became the crucial piece of evidence,
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  Speaker 2: the fatal clue.
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  Speaker 1: When they confronted him about it, did he stick to
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  Speaker 1: the plumbing story.
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  Speaker 2: He tried, lied again, said it just for sanitation, but
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  Speaker 2: the police already knew that wasn't true. They had checked
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  Speaker 2: with the authorities. No work was ever planned or done.
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  Speaker 1: There officially, so they ordered it excavated.
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  Speaker 2: They did. They started digging, and deep down in that pit,
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  Speaker 2: they found them, both of them, both of them, the
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  Speaker 2: decomposed remains of Yasmin and her son.
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  Speaker 1: Adam, and faced with that, he confessed immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Discovery broke him completely. He told them everything, the planning,
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  Speaker 2: the murders, the concealment.
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  Speaker 1: Did he take responsibility or blame the drugs?
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  Speaker 2: He blamed the drugs. So the addiction created the paranoia
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  Speaker 2: about the lover, which led to killing Yasmin and then
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  Speaker 2: killing Adam was necessary to cover that.
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  Speaker 1: Up, so he was arrested what's the status.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's awaiting trial. Given the premeditation, especially digging the
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  Speaker 2: pit beforehand of the double homicide, the expectation is that
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  Speaker 2: he'll face the death penalty.
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  Speaker 1: It's just an absolutely chilling story, the way the addiction
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  Speaker 1: created this whole false reality he felt he had to protect,
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  Speaker 1: even through murder.
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  Speaker 2: It really is. But for me, the most horrifying part
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  Speaker 2: isn't even the first murder born from that paranoia. It's
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  Speaker 2: the second one, killing Adam. Killing Adam. That wasn't about paranoia.
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  Speaker 2: That was cold, rational calculation, protecting himself, protecting the lie.
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  Speaker 2: It shows how addiction at its deepest, doesn't just destroy
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  Speaker 2: judgment or finances. It can strip away the most fundamental
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  Speaker 2: human instincts, like protecting your own child. All that mattered
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  Speaker 2: was self preservation.
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  Speaker 1: It leaves you wondering, doesn't it. At what point does
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  Speaker 1: the struggle against addiction turn into a desperate fight to
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  Speaker 1: protect the terrible reality the addiction has created a truly
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  Speaker 1: devastating case