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The Ground Floor Killer: How the "Safah of El-Mamoura" Weaponized Respectability and Buried Victims in His Law Offices · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: The deep dive is on tonight. We're peeling back the
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  Speaker 1: layers on a case. It is just it's a chilling
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  Speaker 1: masterpiece of criminal duality. It really forces you to ask,
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  Speaker 1: how well can someone hide when their mask is respectability,
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  Speaker 1: when their weapon is the law itself?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, we're dissecting the life the crimes of Nasa Eldin,
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  Speaker 2: a highly educated lawyer now known as the Sofa of
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  Speaker 2: Elma Mora, the serial killer who well turned his ground
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  Speaker 2: floor law offices into tombs, highly specialized tombs.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start right at the moment it all fell apart.
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  Speaker 1: Picture this. It's two am in Alma Mora, Alexandria, usually quiet,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but this quiet shattered sounds of arguing, shouting,
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  Speaker 1: real commotion coming from a ground floor law office.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this wasn't just a one off. Neighbors were
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  Speaker 2: already suspicious of this lawyer, Nasarelden. They talked about his
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  Speaker 2: late night activities, these excessive gatherings red parties sometimes called
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  Speaker 2: them running till dawn.
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  Speaker 1: So this argument, it was the last straw.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, absolutely, A neighbor picks up the phone, call the
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  Speaker 2: landlord right away.
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  Speaker 1: The landlord shows up, demands to be let in. You
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  Speaker 1: can just feel the tension, right, yeah, naw. Sir Eldon,
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  Speaker 1: the respected lawyer. He refuses at first, tries to use
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  Speaker 1: his legal background, you know, to keep the door shut, but.
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  Speaker 2: The landlord wasn't having it. He insists, forces his way inside,
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  Speaker 2: and the scene it's immediately strange. Two men, two women,
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  Speaker 2: all looking really agitated, try and act normal, but.
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  Speaker 1: The landlord sees it this single locked room, a room
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  Speaker 1: Nasser always said was off limits, right.
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  Speaker 2: And despite Nasar protesting like frantically trying to stop him,
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  Speaker 2: the landlord.
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  Speaker 1: Breaks the lock inside. It's dark, but he sees it
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  Speaker 1: fresh digging on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: His first thought, bizarrely was illegal archaeology, Like he thought
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  Speaker 2: the lawyer was digging for artifacts.
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  Speaker 1: An understandable mistake maybe in Egypt, but deeply wrong here.
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  Speaker 2: He calls the police, and that call that's what brought
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  Speaker 2: the horror to light. Police arrive, investigate the disturbed.
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  Speaker 1: Earth and find not artifacts, but a body tightly wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in a carpet, black plasus stick, clearly hidden in a hurry.
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  Speaker 2: That discovery kicks off this huge investigation. The lawyer who
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  Speaker 2: deals in justice, he's actually the sofa of Elmamurra.
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  Speaker 1: So this dramatic exposure, But who was this man? How
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  Speaker 1: do you build a life that implodes so spectacularly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's really fascinating and frankly disturbing is his background.
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  Speaker 2: Naser Elden graduated law in Sharia back in ninety four,
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  Speaker 2: got very good honors, highly intelligent. He had all the
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  Speaker 2: pieces for a successful ethical career, deeply religious image, command
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  Speaker 2: of language.
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  Speaker 1: The perfect setup for a respected lawyer exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But underneath there was this fatal flaw, an intense desire
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  Speaker 2: for quick money, big money.
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  Speaker 1: So the ethical path was just too slow for.
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  Speaker 2: Him, way too slow. He pivoted almost immediately, it seems,
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  Speaker 2: from lawyer to capulated fraudster, and he.
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  Speaker 1: Used his early career to build this veneer of respectability.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much started in Jordan, specializing in bankruptcy rescue, complex stuff,
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  Speaker 2: highly sought after them. Moved to Saudi Arabia, worked as
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  Speaker 2: a broker, made a lot of money, but apparently burned
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  Speaker 2: bridges ruined his reputation. There had to come back to Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So back in Egypt this is where the scale
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  Speaker 1: becomes clear. He rents nineteen offices.
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  Speaker 2: Nineteen across Giza. Alexandria Ismaelia, notably avoiding his hometown cofre
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  Speaker 2: l Shake and the key detail, the absolute requirement for
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  Speaker 2: every single one grain.
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  Speaker 1: Floor, they all had to be on the ground floor.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that wasn't random, that was strategic. It was essential
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  Speaker 2: for his emo.
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  Speaker 1: Why what did the ground floor give him?
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  Speaker 2: Easy access? Obviously facilitated those late night parties, but crucially
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  Speaker 2: it allowed him to excavate, to dig up floors, bury evidence,
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  Speaker 2: bodies without the hassle of stairs or elevators. He weaponized
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  Speaker 2: the rental market basically.
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  Speaker 1: Chillingly practical, and this strategy fed into his dual persona right,
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  Speaker 1: how did he keep that up?
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  Speaker 2: He mastered the balancing act, the devout shake image for
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  Speaker 2: his legal work, attracting wealthy clients. Then the same offices
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  Speaker 2: late at night became these venues for well illicit gatherings,
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  Speaker 2: the red parties. It helped him find more victims perhaps
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  Speaker 2: or maybe just fed his instability. Two completely different men
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  Speaker 2: living in the same.
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  Speaker 1: Skin, and this duality, it was part of a strict
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  Speaker 1: daily routine.
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  Speaker 2: Extremely rigid mornings, courthouse, systematically scouting targets wealthy people usually
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  Speaker 2: involved in land deals, people with cash.
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  Speaker 1: And he used his actual legal knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: Against them, exactly introduced himself, gained their trust, then BAM
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  Speaker 2: hit them with obscure contract clauses, complex legal jargon, made
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  Speaker 2: them feel scared dependent, offered to handle everything to guarantee
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  Speaker 2: their rights, which really meant guaranteeing he could defraud them.
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  Speaker 1: And the fraud itself happened in a specific window yep.
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  Speaker 2: Six pm to ten pm client time. Then after midnight
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  Speaker 2: the office transformed excess parties. And here's the truly bizarre part.
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  Speaker 2: After a night of fraud, maybe even murder, he'd go
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  Speaker 2: online post these religious pleas asking God for protection forgiveness.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, the cognitive dissonance is just staggering extreme.
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  Speaker 2: And this instability, mixed with that cold calculation, led to
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  Speaker 2: the first known murder we know about Mona in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Mona young wealthy He met her.
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  Speaker 2: How through a legal issue in Giza. He couldn't defraud
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  Speaker 2: her outright, it seemed, so he changed tactics, married her
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  Speaker 2: a customary marriage to gain control, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then things escalated.
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  Speaker 2: They moved to Alexandria, and that's where she apparently discovered
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  Speaker 2: the full picture, the fraud, the parties, his entire double life.
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  Speaker 2: That discovery that confrontation. It cost her her life. He
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  Speaker 2: killed her, the reports say, with utmost.
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  Speaker 1: Calm, utmost calm and the discosal pure premeditation.
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  Speaker 2: Wrapped her body immediately in airtight bags to stop the smell.
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  Speaker 2: Then he hired a carpenter, had a custom sized coffin built,
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  Speaker 2: sealed her inside, and buried her in that locked room
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  Speaker 2: in his Alexandria office. The ground floor advantage in.
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  Speaker 1: Action already planned for just party infrastructure seems.
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  Speaker 2: Like it, and he just carried on. Two years later
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  Speaker 2: he lines up his next target, Engineer Mohammed Ibrahim, wealthy
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  Speaker 2: guy lived abroad back selling property was the lure for him,
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  Speaker 2: the promise of a great deal. Naser convinced him to
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  Speaker 2: come to the office late at night, said he had
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  Speaker 2: a buyer willing to pay way over market value. The
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  Speaker 2: engineer went to the office and was never seen again.
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  Speaker 2: This was about three years before Nasr's.
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  Speaker 1: Arrest and the cover story for the family that was elaborate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, bizarrely so he called them using this strange altered voice.
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  Speaker 2: Claimed the engineer ran off with the Ukrainian woman to
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  Speaker 2: charmel Shak said he'd sold his house, his car, everything.
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  Speaker 1: Why such a flimsy story. Surely he knew they wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Buy that, ah, But there was something else, a hidden message.
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  Speaker 2: This is heartbreaking. During that supposed call from the engineer,
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  Speaker 2: he apparently included greetings to people the family knew were
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  Speaker 2: already dead.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, a coded signal.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, a desperate attempt to tell his family he was
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  Speaker 2: in danger, probably being forced to make the call.
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  Speaker 1: So the family suspected Naser immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Right away reported him missing, pointed the finger straight at Nasser.
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  Speaker 2: And yet he gets questioned by security forces, and as
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  Speaker 2: a skilled lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: He talks his way out of it, completely.
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  Speaker 2: Walks away clean, goes right back to his life.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable, And this connects back to Mona, the first victim.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, because about two and a half years later, late
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, Nasar decides to move offices again from
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  Speaker 2: Asafra to Elma Mora. He couldn't just leave Mona's body,
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  Speaker 2: so he moves the coffin, the custom built airtight coffin,
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  Speaker 2: takes it to.
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  Speaker 1: The new place in Elma Mora, and the very first.
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  Speaker 2: Thing he does there digs up the floor in a
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  Speaker 2: new restricted room, buries her remains, seals it up. He's
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  Speaker 2: literally layering his crimes into the foundations of his workplaces.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings us to the final victim found there. Haja Turkey.
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  Speaker 2: Aja Turkey, Yeah, sixty two years old, wealthy fashion designer.
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  Speaker 2: She went to NASA for help with a legal dispute.
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  Speaker 1: And he betrayed her completely.
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  Speaker 2: Utterly, took her fees, then secretly worked with her opponent
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  Speaker 2: to make sure she lost the case, got paid by
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  Speaker 2: both sides, and still planned to steal the money he
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  Speaker 2: technically owed.
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  Speaker 1: Haja Turkey, so she confronted him.
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  Speaker 2: She went to the office, demanded the money, question why
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  Speaker 2: she lost. That confrontation turned fatal. He killed her again.
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  Speaker 2: Reports mentioned that same chilling calm wrapped her in a
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  Speaker 2: black bag a carpet, put her in the chamber, planning
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  Speaker 2: to bury her properly later, but he.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't get the chance. That's what led to the.
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  Speaker 2: Discovery precisely that temporary storage was his undoing. One of
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  Speaker 2: the women at his late night parties got curious about
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  Speaker 2: the locked room, found a way in, saw the body,
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  Speaker 2: and instead of calling the police, she gathered some friends.
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  Speaker 2: They decided to confront Nasser, try to blackmail him, maybe
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  Speaker 2: or report him themselves. That's the shouting, the commotion we
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  Speaker 2: started with. That noise alerted the neighbor, brought the landlord,
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  Speaker 2: and finally the.
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  Speaker 1: Police and the full scope starts to unravel.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately they find Haja Turkey in the carpet, keep digging
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  Speaker 2: in that room and find Mona, his.
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  Speaker 1: Wife, two bodies in one office. Investigators must have known
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  Speaker 1: this was bigger.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Suddenly there's this flood of missing person reports
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  Speaker 2: connected to him, and crucially reports about these nineteen sealed
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  Speaker 2: apartments he rented nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: So they started searching the.
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  Speaker 2: Others exactly, and during the excavation of one of those
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  Speaker 2: other sealed offices, they found the third body, engineer Mohammed Ibrahim,
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  Speaker 2: missing for three years. So that's three confirmed victims across
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  Speaker 2: three different offices found so far.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Nacer himself during questioning, still.
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  Speaker 2: Calm, completely calm, that same detachment he showed after the killings.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite eerie. There's this parallel, you know, with other
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  Speaker 2: infamous killers, like the Asafa of Giza, Safa of Takamo.
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  Speaker 2: This compulsion some.
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  Speaker 1: Have to do something normal, almost comforting, after something horrific, right.
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  Speaker 2: Like eating a large meal right after a murder or
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  Speaker 2: a major fraud. It points to this deep, profound instability
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  Speaker 2: sitting right alongside the sharp, calculating mind.
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  Speaker 1: He was a lawyer, He knew how investigations work, he.
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  Speaker 2: Knew the system inside out, understood evidence procedure. But his arrogance,
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  Speaker 2: his belief that he was marder than everyone else, combined
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  Speaker 2: with that emotional void, it ultimately doomed him. He thought
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  Speaker 2: those ground floor tombs were the perfect crime.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the takeaway here for you listening to this?
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't just a case of someone snapping. This was
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  Speaker 1: a vast criminal operation built entirely on weaponizing a professional life. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that ground floor office was everything fraud up by day,
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  Speaker 1: tone by night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And the bigger picture, it really shows how easily
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  Speaker 2: someone can hide in plain sight using trust, education, respectability
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  Speaker 2: as shields. The scale is just terrifying. Three victims found
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  Speaker 2: across three offices out of nineteen known locations.
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  Speaker 1: And that leaves us with a final, really unsettling thought
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  Speaker 1: for you to consider. With nineteen separate ground floor apartments
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  Speaker 1: rind in by nasceul Din and victims found in three,
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  Speaker 1: what secrets might still lie buried beneath the floors? Of
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  Speaker 1: the other sixteen. The true number of victims we just
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It might take years to find out, if
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  Speaker 1: ever