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The Helwan Homicide: How a Father's Love Became the Key to His Own Assassination · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Imagine this. It's late Friday night, hell Wan, Egypt, around
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  Speaker 1: ten pm. You hear keys turning in a lock, a
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  Speaker 1: heavy new iron lock. That sound it should mean safety
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  Speaker 1: right home.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly the end of the week, But tonight that click
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  Speaker 2: echoes into silence. The door opens, not to comfort, but
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  Speaker 2: to chaos. The immediate shock belonging scattered everywhere, a.
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  Speaker 1: Scene of violation, and it draws you inevitably towards the bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where the real horror lies. Mister Kamal, a
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  Speaker 2: well respected man, a banking executive. He's faced down on
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  Speaker 2: the bed.
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  Speaker 1: His hands are bound. The scene. It's brutal, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a pillowcase twisted tight around his neck. The sheer violence
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  Speaker 1: of it screams something more than robbery.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely. The police when they arrived, they saw the overkill.
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  Speaker 2: They knew straightaway this wasn't just some random break in
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  Speaker 2: gone bad. This felt personal, like an assassination staged as
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  Speaker 2: something else.
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  Speaker 1: So for this deep dive, we're looking beyond the surface.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't just about greed, though that's part of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's about a relationship, a father son dynamic that became
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  Speaker 1: incredibly toxic.
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  Speaker 2: Corrosive is the word, a father who perhaps gave too much,
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  Speaker 2: and a son who came to see him as well.
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  Speaker 1: An obstacle, an obstacle to be removed. The evidence suggests calculation,
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  Speaker 1: a coldness that's frankly chilling. Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, First, let's understand the victim. Mister Kamal, high ranking
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  Speaker 2: bank employee, stable, successful, lived in the same area, hell
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  Speaker 2: One for more than twenty five years. Seemed like a
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  Speaker 2: solid life from the outside, but.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the family unit things were strained. There were marital problems,
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  Speaker 1: serious enough that the mother was actually planning to immigrate
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  Speaker 1: to the US for the whole family.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and here's a critical point. Everyone got their visa
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  Speaker 2: approvals except the son. Mehat. He was twenty two, studying
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  Speaker 2: tourism and hotels.
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  Speaker 1: Why was he rejected?
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  Speaker 2: The embassy flagged him concerns about his conduct? Maybe unstable
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  Speaker 2: behavior was the term used. He had this reputation, the
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  Speaker 2: failing son, successful only among well the wrong crowd associates.
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  Speaker 1: That's tough, especially when you compare him to.
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  Speaker 2: His sister exactly. The sister was the success story, good
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  Speaker 2: job at a major company. Mister Kamal apparently wished med
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  Speaker 2: How could be more like her.
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  Speaker 1: Which probably just fueled more resentment.
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  Speaker 2: And mister Kamal he seemed caught in this trap. He
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  Speaker 2: indulged manhad constantly money whatever he asked for. Maybe he
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  Speaker 2: felt guilty, like maybe he was responsible for Med had
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  Speaker 2: struggles because he'd been too easy on him. Classic enabling.
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  Speaker 1: Really yeah, you see that. Sometimes fear of failing as
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  Speaker 1: a parent leads to well this making things worse, and
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  Speaker 1: the sister often got caught in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: She did made it, had would go to her for
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  Speaker 2: money or try and influence the father. She was the
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  Speaker 2: mediator but also another resource for Med had to tap.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the fall lines are clear. Resentment, financial dependence,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a sense of failure. It's a volatile mix.
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  Speaker 2: And it erupted before the murder. There was let's call
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  Speaker 2: it address rehearsal hashtag tag tag the dress hustle.
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  Speaker 1: The first attempt right, This happened earlier in twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about that.
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  Speaker 2: It was morning, mister Kamal was home alone, the kids
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  Speaker 2: were out. Two young men knock on the door. They
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  Speaker 2: claim they're there about an ad to rent the garage.
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  Speaker 1: Seems innocent enough.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe mister Kamal lets them in. Mistake. They immediately pull knives,
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  Speaker 2: demand bank cards where the cash is kept. Standard robbery
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  Speaker 2: stuff but violent. They hit him over the head hard
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  Speaker 2: enough to knock him.
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  Speaker 1: Out, and they took off scrash ash the.
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  Speaker 2: Bank cards naturally, but also interestingly a video camera. Then
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  Speaker 2: they fled.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So mister Kamal wakes up later.
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  Speaker 2: But about half an hour later, Yeah, he's dazed, calls
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  Speaker 2: his daughter first, she rushes over. Met Hoot gets there
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  Speaker 2: a bit later, apparently coming from college.
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  Speaker 1: And Medhot plays the part shocked concerned son.
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  Speaker 2: Perfectly participates in the police report. Everything seems normal, but
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  Speaker 2: then mister Kamal says something crucial.
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  Speaker 1: What was that?
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  Speaker 2: He tells met Hoot and his sister basically, don't worry
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  Speaker 2: too much about the cards. I called the bank right
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  Speaker 2: away canceled everything. They're useless now.
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  Speaker 1: Ah And did anyone notice Medhot's reaction?
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  Speaker 2: Apparently not at the time, but investigators later considered this
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  Speaker 2: moment pivotal. They believe there must have been a flicker,
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  Speaker 2: just a split second of panic or frustration on Medot's
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  Speaker 2: face when he heard the money plan was.
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  Speaker 1: Dead, because if he was involved, that meant the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing was for nothing, the risk, the violence pointless exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The quick score failed and the target survived.
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  Speaker 1: That changes things, and mister Kamal's response wasn't just calling
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  Speaker 1: the bank, was it. He took physical.
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  Speaker 2: Precautions big time. He installed heavy duty iron security doors
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  Speaker 2: on the apartment itself, the main building entrance, even the
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  Speaker 2: rooftop access. He fortified the.
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  Speaker 1: Place, trying to protect himself, but maybe maybe sealing himself in.
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  Speaker 2: In a way. Yes, he made casual entry impossible, which
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  Speaker 2: meant any future attempt would require a much more sophisticated
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  Speaker 2: or insidious plan. Hashtag tags tag the fatal Friday and
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  Speaker 2: the flaws.
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  Speaker 1: So a month goes by after that first attack, mister
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  Speaker 1: Komal can't identify the attackers from photos. Life gets a
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  Speaker 1: semblance of normalcy behind those new iron doors.
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  Speaker 2: Until the following Friday, a family day off.
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  Speaker 1: In Egypt, and this is where Metot's actions become incredibly calculated.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely around five pm, he calls his sister, suggests they
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  Speaker 2: go visit their aunt, spend the evening there together.
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  Speaker 1: Creating an alibi, a shared one.
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  Speaker 2: A seemingly perfect one. From five pm until ten pm,
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  Speaker 2: he's accounted for. With his sister, they return home together
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  Speaker 2: at ten pm and discover the horrific scene we described earlier.
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  Speaker 1: But the police investigation immediately flags something odd, didn't they Those.
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  Speaker 2: Doors, those heavy new iron doors, No scratches, no dents,
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  Speaker 2: no bent frames, zero signs of forced entry.
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  Speaker 1: Which is impossible if it was a robbery by strangers, Right,
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  Speaker 1: you can't just walk through solid iron correct.
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  Speaker 2: It immediately told investigators the killer or killers didn't break in,
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  Speaker 2: They were let in.
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  Speaker 1: That points the finger inwards, doesn't it towards someone mister
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  Speaker 1: Kamal knew trusted.
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  Speaker 2: Combined with the sheer brutality, the six stab wounds, the
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  Speaker 2: multiple injuries, it felt personal, like rage revenge, not just
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  Speaker 2: a robbery gone wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And the forensics delivered that final chilling piece.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the forensic report was unambiguous. The bruising on mister
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  Speaker 2: Kamal's neck, the marks from the pillowcase used for strangulation.
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  Speaker 2: They were inflicted after he was already dead from the
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  Speaker 2: stab boys.
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  Speaker 1: Someone choked a corpse.
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  Speaker 2: What confirmation? Maybe a final act of desecration. It's hard
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  Speaker 2: to say for sure that it speaks volumes about the
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  Speaker 2: state of mind of whoever did it. It's deeply unsettling.
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  Speaker 1: So the police start digging into the family dynamics.
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  Speaker 2: And they quickly learn about the arguments, the constant friction
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  Speaker 2: between mehd Hut and his father, mostly over money, and crucially,
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  Speaker 2: they discover mister Kamal was taking steps steps. He was
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  Speaker 2: in the process of transferring most of his assets to
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  Speaker 2: his daughter. He profoundly distrusted Medhot with money.
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  Speaker 1: He saw the pattern, so Medhut potentially saw his inheritance
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  Speaker 1: slipping away.
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  Speaker 2: A motive crystallizes a powerful one, and then the alibi cracked.
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  Speaker 2: How Metack claimed he left the house early that Friday morning,
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  Speaker 2: went about his day, met his sister at five pm.
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  Speaker 2: But people in the neighbor, local residents, they saw him
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  Speaker 2: leave the family home at four pm.
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  Speaker 1: An hour before he supposedly met a sister, an.
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  Speaker 2: Hour unaccounted for him, right before the murder likely happened.
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  Speaker 2: A crucial window hashtag tagg the truth unveiled.
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  Speaker 1: That missing hour. Where did the police look next?
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  Speaker 2: His phone records for that specific timeframe and bingo two
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  Speaker 2: calls made around two pm that Friday. Who are the
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  Speaker 2: calls to two young men Adele and Yakoub, both twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: working low age jobs drivers laborers. Remember the description of
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  Speaker 2: the first attackers.
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  Speaker 1: The two young men involved in the earlier robbery attempt,
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  Speaker 1: the very same.
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  Speaker 2: The police locate Adele and Yakoob, bring them in and
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  Speaker 2: a search of Adele's place turns up everything. What did
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  Speaker 2: they find the stolen bank cards from the first attempt,
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  Speaker 2: mister Kamal's mobile phone taken during the murder. And remember
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  Speaker 2: that video camera stolen initially, Yeah, they found that too.
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  Speaker 2: They tied both incidents together perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: So Adele and Yakoub confessed they did.
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  Speaker 2: They admitted to the murder, but they insisted on one thing.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't plan it, and hot did.
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  Speaker 1: He was the mastermind, and it recruited them.
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  Speaker 2: How he'd apparently met them at church, befriended them. He
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  Speaker 2: promised them a significant amount of money, sixty thousand Egyptian
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  Speaker 2: pounds each to be paid from his inheritance after his
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  Speaker 2: father was dead.
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  Speaker 1: A huge sum for them, I imagine, But just money
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  Speaker 1: Is that enough to convince someone to commit murder?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not on its own. Manhattan knew that, so he
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  Speaker 2: didn't just offer money. He offered justification. He manipulated them.
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  Speaker 1: How what did he tell them?
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  Speaker 2: He painted his father as a terrible person, claimed mister
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  Speaker 2: Kamal was cheating on his mother, bringing strange women back
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  Speaker 2: to the house, and using that stolen video camera to
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  Speaker 2: film these encounters. He created a false narrative where killing
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  Speaker 2: his father wasn't just about money, it was almost righteous
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  Speaker 2: dealing with a morally corrupt man.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's incredibly manipulative, turning parricide into some kind of
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  Speaker 1: twisted justice.
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  Speaker 2: He gave them the psychological permission they needed. Perhaps still
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  Speaker 2: had a practical problem those iron doors.
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  Speaker 1: Right, the first plan failed because they couldn't get the
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  Speaker 1: money easily. The second plan needed to overcome the physical security.
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  Speaker 1: How did metaht solve that?
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  Speaker 2: His solution was horrifyingly clever because it prayed directly on
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  Speaker 2: mister Kamal's love for his son.
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  Speaker 1: Explain the plan?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So on that Friday, Medhot leaves the house, normally
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  Speaker 2: tells his daddy's off to meet friends, standard routine h
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  Speaker 2: But then just five minutes later he comes back.
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  Speaker 1: He knocks on the door and mister Kamal opens it,
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  Speaker 1: expecting his son.
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  Speaker 2: He opens the inner door, yes, but what he sees
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  Speaker 2: isn't just med Hot. He sees Medhot flanked by Adele
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  Speaker 2: and Yakoub, and they have knives not pointed at mister Kamal.
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  Speaker 1: No pointed out Medha exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Knives to mid Hoot's throat inside the ultimate deception. The
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  Speaker 2: threat wasn't agaves mister Kamal directly. It was let us
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  Speaker 2: in or we kill your son right here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. So mister Kamal, thinking he's saving Medhot's life, he.
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  Speaker 2: Opens the main security door. He does the one thing
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  Speaker 2: he thinks will protect his child, and in doing so,
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  Speaker 2: seals his own fate. It's pure psychological exploitation that.
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  Speaker 1: Is just devastating, using a father's protective instinct as the
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  Speaker 1: key to unlock his own murder.
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  Speaker 2: Once inside, Adele and Yakoub overpowered, mister Kamal took him
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  Speaker 2: to the bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly.
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  Speaker 1: And Medhot where was he?
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  Speaker 2: He stayed back in the hall. He wasn't directly involved
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  Speaker 2: in the physical act of stabbing, keeping his hands technically clean,
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  Speaker 2: you could say.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't leave it there, did he the pillowcase.
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  Speaker 2: No, After Adele and Yakub were done, MadHat himself went
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  Speaker 2: into the bedroom. He took the pillowcase and he personally
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  Speaker 2: choked his father's body.
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  Speaker 1: After he was already dead.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, He later told the accomplices he needed to be
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  Speaker 2: absolutely sure this time, referencing the failure of the first attempt.
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  Speaker 2: He needed that final physical confirmation.
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  Speaker 1: An act of extreme calculation and utter finality.
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  Speaker 2: Than what then the cleanup. They stole cash, jewelry, items
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  Speaker 2: that were actually intended for this sister, and Medhot coolly
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  Speaker 2: proceeds with his plan, makes a five PM called to
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  Speaker 2: his sister, establishes his alibi, spends the evening at the
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  Speaker 2: ant house, and returns at ten pm to discover the
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  Speaker 2: crime scene and playing the shocked grieving son hashtag tag outro.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the layers of deception are staggering. This wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a crime of passion or even simple greed. It was
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  Speaker 1: a meticulously planned execution.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely driven by resentment, financial desperation, sure, but executed with
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  Speaker 2: chilling precision, exploiting the very core of the father son bond,
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  Speaker 2: that protective instinct to achieve.
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  Speaker 1: His goal, and that final act, the post mortem strangulation.
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  Speaker 1: It speaks to a level of detachment that's hard to comprehend,
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  Speaker 1: ensuring the obstacle was gone permanently.
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  Speaker 2: And the ultimate irony, isn't it The very character flaws
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  Speaker 2: the instability that got met Hot rejected by the US embassy.
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  Speaker 2: Those were the same flaws that made his father distrust
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  Speaker 2: him with money. That distrust led the father to protect
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  Speaker 2: his assets by favoring the daughter, which.
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  Speaker 1: Likely pushed Medhat over the edge and motivated the murder
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  Speaker 1: in the first place. It's a tragic, self fulfilling prophecy.
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  Speaker 2: Almost completely. His own family, by the way, disowned him
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  Speaker 2: publicly even before the final core verdict came down. They
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  Speaker 2: saw the truth.
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  Speaker 1: It leaves you thinking, doesn't it. How does parental love,
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  Speaker 1: even if it manifests this enabling get twisted into the
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  Speaker 1: very weapon used for destruction.
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  Speaker 2: That transition from enabling a child's dependency to becoming the
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  Speaker 2: target of their ultimate betrayal. Yeah, foundly disturbing.
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  Speaker 1: How many years does that resentment have to build for
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  Speaker 1: a son to look at his father and see just
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  Speaker 1: an obstacle, something to be systematically brutally erased, something for
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  Speaker 1: you to ponder