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The Chameleon Killer: The Dark Double Life of Qaddafi Farag · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so picture this. It is twenty twenty. You're standing
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  Speaker 1: in a brightly lit, high end jewelry shop in Alexandria.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, setting the scene right away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're jumping right in. So outside there's this steady,
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  Speaker 1: just oblivious hum of street traffic, but inside the air
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  Speaker 1: has suddenly gone dead silent.
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  Speaker 2: The kind of quiet where you can hear your own heartbeat.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. A man walks through the glass doors and he
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  Speaker 1: is entirely unassuming, just polite, normal looking. He approaches the
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  Speaker 1: glass counter and he slides this heavy, unyielding bag across.
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  Speaker 2: The surface, unzipping it. I imagine he.
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  Speaker 1: Unzips it, and then comes the sound, that heavy, unmistakable
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  Speaker 1: clinking of massive amounts of gold jewelry just spilling out
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  Speaker 1: beneath the harsh fluorescent lights. Bracelets, necklaces, rings, just an
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  Speaker 1: absolute mountain of gold.
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  Speaker 2: That is bold, just walking in off the street light
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  Speaker 2: that it is.
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  Speaker 1: But if you look closer at the jeweler behind the counter,
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  Speaker 1: his heart is absolutely hammering against his ribs. The sweat
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  Speaker 1: is starting to beat at his hairline because he recognizes
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  Speaker 1: these exact pieces. Yes, they were literally just circulated in
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  Speaker 1: a highly confidential police bulletin about a massive, high profile robbery.
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  Speaker 2: That is the ultimate moment of hidden panic, because that
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  Speaker 2: jeweler knows he's standing across from a highly dangerous criminal.
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  Speaker 2: But he he has to force a smile, He has
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  Speaker 2: to act like this is just another Tuesday transaction.
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  Speaker 1: You can almost feel the tension. He starts stalling, He
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  Speaker 1: compliments the pieces, He takes his agonizing time weighing them
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  Speaker 1: one by one, all while someone in the back room
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  Speaker 1: is frantically dialing the police.
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  Speaker 2: Minutes must have felt like ours.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, But finally the authorities burst in the man
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  Speaker 1: at the counter. He doesn't even resist. He hands over
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  Speaker 1: his ID. He is arrested under the name Mohammed Mustafa.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like a clean bust, right, just a thief
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  Speaker 2: caught fencing stolen goods.
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  Speaker 1: That is exactly what they thought. But as you are
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  Speaker 1: about to find out, the man in handcuffs Mohammed most Alpha,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't actually exist, never did. Welcome to today's deep dive.
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  Speaker 1: Today we are opening up a stack of chilling investigative
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  Speaker 1: file timeline documents and police reports and our mission to
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  Speaker 1: unravel the terrifying true story of Kadaffi ferrog of Delatide,
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  Speaker 1: the man.
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  Speaker 2: Who would eventually become known as the Giza Butcher. Looking
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  Speaker 2: through these investigative files, we are dealing with a chameleon,
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  Speaker 2: a man who stole fortunes, identities, and lives, all while
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  Speaker 2: hiding in plain sight.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to imagine sitting across from a monster
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  Speaker 1: who smiles at you, who asks about your day, who
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  Speaker 1: even offers you a plate of food, all while plotting
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  Speaker 1: your absolute destruction. That is the kind of darkness we
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  Speaker 1: are exploring today.
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  Speaker 2: And the most terrifying weapon in his arsenal wasn't violence.
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  Speaker 2: It was his polite, unassuming facade. When you analyze his
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  Speaker 2: behavioral patterns in these documents, you see a classic manifestation
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  Speaker 2: of the dark triad of personality traits narcissism, Machiavilianism, and psychopathy.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't just hurt people, He manipulated reality itself to
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  Speaker 2: serve as needs.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, break that dark triad down for me before
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  Speaker 1: we get into the timeline. Because we hear in terms
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  Speaker 1: like psychopath thrown around law on true crime, But what
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  Speaker 1: does that practically look like in these specific case files.
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  Speaker 2: That is a crucial distinction to make in Kadafi's case,
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  Speaker 2: the narcissism is his profound sense of entitlement. It's the
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  Speaker 2: belief that he has the absolute right to play god
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  Speaker 2: with other people's lives and their finances right. The machiavilianism
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  Speaker 2: is his capacity for extreme complex deception. He treats human
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  Speaker 2: beings like chess pieces to be moved or just sacrificed.
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  Speaker 2: And the psychopathy is the absolute lack of empathy or remorse.
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  Speaker 2: It is the ability to eat a warm meal with
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  Speaker 2: a person you are actively planning to murder without your
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  Speaker 2: heart rate even elevating.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this. We have to go back to
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  Speaker 1: the beginning to see how this facade was built. According
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  Speaker 1: to the timeline documents, the year is twenty fourteen and
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  Speaker 1: Kadafi ferrog Abdellatai is living a seemingly normal life.
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  Speaker 2: Very normal, modest, middle class background. Right.
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  Speaker 1: His financial situation early on wasn't great, so he decides
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  Speaker 1: to hustle. He gets into real estate, working as a
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  Speaker 1: broker in Giza, handling sales and rentals, and by twenty
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  Speaker 1: fourteen business is absolutely booming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's making real money, which buys him social respectability.
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  Speaker 2: He becomes the helpful guy in the neighborhood. He's building
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  Speaker 2: deep trust within his community, so.
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  Speaker 1: Much trust that in twenty fifteen, he marries a woman
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  Speaker 1: named Fatima al Zara. Now, if you ask Fatima to
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  Speaker 1: describe her new husband, she would tell you he is shy,
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  Speaker 1: deeply respectful, and incredibly.
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  Speaker 2: Kind, the perfect catch.
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  Speaker 1: To her, he is the perfect catch. But there is
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  Speaker 1: a massive lie at the center of this. Fatima has
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  Speaker 1: absolutely no idea she is his second wife. Wow, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Kadafi is already married to a different woman. But the
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  Speaker 1: secrets get so much darker than a hidden marriage, don't they,
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  Speaker 1: Hey do This.
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  Speaker 2: Period is where we see the psychological tipping point. It
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  Speaker 2: is the moment where the polite real estate broker realizes
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  Speaker 2: that to protect his carefully constructed double life, he is
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  Speaker 2: willing to cross the ultimate line.
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  Speaker 1: The files show the conflict starts with a woman named Nadine,
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  Speaker 1: and Nadine isn't just a random woman. She is fatimas Azara's.
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  Speaker 2: Sister, his new wife's sister.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, before Kaddaffi ever proposed to Fatima, he was having
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  Speaker 1: an illicit affair with Nadine. So when Nadine finds out
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  Speaker 1: that her secret lover is now going to marry her sister.
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  Speaker 1: She is furious, understandably, she threatens to burn his entire
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  Speaker 1: life to the ground. She tells him she is going
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  Speaker 1: to the family, She's going to expose him, and she
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  Speaker 1: is going to ruin the wedding. How does a guy
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  Speaker 1: like Kadaffi handle a threat like that?
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  Speaker 2: What's fascinating here is how Kadafi responds to being cornered.
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  Speaker 2: A normal person panics, maybe confesses, or tries to negotiate
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  Speaker 2: a messy way out. Kadafi immediately defaults to predatory manipulation.
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  Speaker 2: He identifies his obstacle and he uses her own deepest
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  Speaker 2: desires against her. Nadine had always dreamed of being a
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  Speaker 2: famous actress, so.
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  Speaker 1: He invents a story. He tells her he has a
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  Speaker 1: friend who is a very wealthy Syrian film producer looking
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  Speaker 1: for new faces to sign to massive act and contracts abroad.
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  Speaker 2: It's a brilliant evil trap. He offers her an out
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  Speaker 2: that is simply too good to refuse. But her family
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  Speaker 2: is traditional. When she brings up traveling abroad for acting,
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  Speaker 2: they initially say absolutely not. They refuse to let her go.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, so how does he get around the parents?
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  Speaker 2: He hires a man to play the part of this
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  Speaker 2: fake Syrian producer. He physically brings this actor into his
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  Speaker 2: future in law's home.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be kidding me, No.
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  Speaker 2: The fake producer sits on their couch, drinks their tea,
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  Speaker 2: and pitches them on how their daughter is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a star. He promises them it's the opportunity of
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  Speaker 2: a lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: He brought an actor into their living room, and they
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  Speaker 1: bought it.
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  Speaker 2: They completely bought it. The parent's cave. Nadine signs a
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  Speaker 2: fabricated contract and packs her bags to travel, but she
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  Speaker 2: never gets on a plane. As soon as she supposedly leaves,
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  Speaker 2: all real communication stops.
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  Speaker 1: Her phone goes dark, and the family starts getting these bizarre,
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  Speaker 1: sporadic text messages from her. Number. One text says she
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  Speaker 1: hurt her leg. Another says she is just too busy
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  Speaker 1: filming to talk. Another says she moved to a new house.
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  Speaker 2: Just enough to keep them from panicking immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, But they never actually hear her voice because in reality,
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  Speaker 1: Kadaffi murdered her and buried her body.
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  Speaker 2: This is a defining hallmark of his sociopathy. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: just end her life, He created a digital ghost to
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  Speaker 2: placate her grieving parents. He even sat with them in
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  Speaker 2: their living room, comforting them, pretending to call his producer
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  Speaker 2: friend to help them track her down. He actively joined
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  Speaker 2: their frantic search parties.
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  Speaker 1: That is chilling.
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  Speaker 2: It requires a terrifying level of emotional compartmentalization to comfort
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  Speaker 2: the parents of the woman you just buried.
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  Speaker 1: He entirely eliminated himself as a suspect, and unfortunately, getting
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  Speaker 1: away with it gave him a taste for how easy
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  Speaker 1: it was to make someone vanish, which brings us to
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  Speaker 1: Act two of this nightmare, the betrayal of a lifelong.
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  Speaker 2: Best friend, Engineer Rita.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I want you, the listener, to imagine your absolute
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  Speaker 1: closest friend in the world, the person you trust implicitly.
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  Speaker 1: For Kadaffi, that was a man named Engineer Rita.
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  Speaker 2: Rita was the definition of a loyal friend. He moved
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  Speaker 2: to Saudi Arabia to work incredibly hard, trusting Dafi completely
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  Speaker 2: to manage his finances back home in Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Over the course of three years, Rada painstakingly sends Kadaffi
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  Speaker 1: three million Egyptian pounds. That is a massive amount of
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  Speaker 1: sweat equity. He trusts Kadaffi to invest this money in
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  Speaker 1: real estate. But years go by and Rita sees zero
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  Speaker 1: return on his investment, no profits, no paperwork.
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  Speaker 2: He starts getting suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he gets suspicious and books a flight back to
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  Speaker 1: Egypt to confront his best friend and see his properties
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  Speaker 1: for himself. The clock is ticking. What do the files
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  Speaker 1: say happens? When Rita lands?
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  Speaker 2: Kadafi knows the moment Rada asks to see the accounts,
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  Speaker 2: the entire financial fraud will be exposed. The three million
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  Speaker 2: pounds is gone. So Kadafi orchestrates a welcoming that is
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  Speaker 2: as deeply personal as it is lethal. He goes to
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  Speaker 2: the airport to pick Rita up himself, big hugs, smiles,
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  Speaker 2: welcome home brother.
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  Speaker 1: He drives Rada back to an apartment in Giza, and
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  Speaker 1: the sick irony here is that this apartment was actually
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  Speaker 1: bought with Rada's own money and it is legally in
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  Speaker 1: Rada's name. Kadaffi tells him to sit down and relax.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I bought you your favorite meal, koshcherry. Yeah, kusherie.
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  Speaker 1: It's a classic comforting Egyptian dish of lentils, rice and
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  Speaker 1: pasta that Rada had been craving the whole time he
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  Speaker 1: was in Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: This raises an important question about the intimacy of the kill.
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  Speaker 2: Serving some of their favorite comfort food, watching them eat
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  Speaker 2: it while looking them in the eye, pretending to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: their homecoming. It is profoundly chilling.
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  Speaker 1: Rada digs in, but Kadafi has laced the Kurshari with
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  Speaker 1: a massive dose of poison. Mid bite, Ryda doubles over.
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  Speaker 1: The pain is sudden, sharp and excruciating. As his best
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  Speaker 1: friend is writhing and agony on the floor, Kadafi calmly
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  Speaker 1: steps into the.
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  Speaker 2: Pitches so on the thought of he picks.
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  Speaker 1: Up a heavy iron bar he had hidden there specifically
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  Speaker 1: for this moment. He walks back out and strikes Rita
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  Speaker 1: over the head, over and over again until he stops moving.
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  Speaker 2: The transition from a warm, nostalgic meal to cold blooded
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  Speaker 2: bludgeoning is jarring, and the post myrder logistics are just
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  Speaker 2: as calculated. He shoves his lifelong best friend's body into
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  Speaker 2: a a massive bag, He drags it out, transports it
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  Speaker 2: to another apartment, also owned by Rita, and buries him
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  Speaker 2: under the floorboards.
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  Speaker 1: And then he repeats his favorite trick. He takes a
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  Speaker 1: burner phone, texts Rita's sister and pretends to be Rita.
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  Speaker 1: The text says he was walking down the street, got
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  Speaker 1: swept up in a political protest, was arrested by security forces,
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't know where they're taking him.
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  Speaker 2: It is a masterclass in gaslighting. He gives the family
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  Speaker 2: a plausible, chaotic excuse that prevents them from looking for
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  Speaker 2: a dead body. They spend years searching police stations in
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  Speaker 2: prisons for a man who is buried into the floor
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  Speaker 2: of his own investment property.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings us to the most protesque chapter in these files,
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  Speaker 1: The House of Horrors. Remember Kadaffi's actual first wife, Fatima Zakaria,
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  Speaker 1: the one.
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  Speaker 2: Who had no idea he was marrying a.
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  Speaker 1: Second time exactly. She makes a terrifying discovery in their home.
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  Speaker 1: She finds a hidden stash of official ID cards. They
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  Speaker 1: all have Kadaffi's face printed on them, but every single
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  Speaker 1: card has a completely different name. She realizes she is
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  Speaker 1: married to a total fraud. She does a exactly what
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  Speaker 1: Nadine did. She threatens to expose him to the authorities.
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  Speaker 2: A fatal mistake. She cornered a predator who had already
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  Speaker 2: learned that murder is a highly effective problem solving tool.
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  Speaker 1: Here's where it gets really interesting, and by interesting I
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  Speaker 1: mean absolutely horrifying. Kadafi doesn't even hesitate. He poisons her food,
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  Speaker 1: just like he did with Rada, but he takes it
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  Speaker 1: a step further. After she dies, he dismembers her body.
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  Speaker 1: He places the remains into bags and puts them inside
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  Speaker 1: a deep freezer.
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  Speaker 2: He waits until they're frozen completely solid. This is a
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  Speaker 2: gruesome but highly calculated logistical move to prevent any fluids
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  Speaker 2: from leaking during transport.
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  Speaker 1: He transports those frozen bags to the exact same apartment
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  Speaker 1: where he buried his best friend Rada. He digs another
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  Speaker 1: hole and he buries his wife right next to him.
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  Speaker 2: If we connect this to the bigger picture, the sheer
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  Speaker 2: audacity is mind boggling. He is creating a centralized personal graveyard.
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  Speaker 2: But it's what he does next that truly highlights the
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  Speaker 2: depth of his psychopathy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this detail kept me awake. If there was an
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  Speaker 1: award for the absolute most part monstrous landlord in human history.
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  Speaker 1: Kaddaffi takes the prize. He fills in the graves. Then
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  Speaker 1: he brings in contractors he fully remodels the apartment. He
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  Speaker 1: lays down fresh, pristine, shining ceramic tiles directly over the
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  Speaker 1: burial sites. And then, though he puts the apartment up
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  Speaker 1: for rent for four entire years, an unsuspecting family rents
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  Speaker 1: that apartment. They cook, they sleep, they watch TV. They
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  Speaker 1: live their daily lives directly on top of two rotting corpses.
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  Speaker 2: Acting as a landlord for your own victims, collecting rent
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  Speaker 2: on a tomb it requires a complete detachment from human reality.
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  Speaker 2: And as for his wife's disappearance, he went to his
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  Speaker 2: in laws, put on a sad face and claims that
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  Speaker 2: Tema stole a bunch of money from his house and
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  Speaker 2: ran away just like that. Her family actually filed a
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  Speaker 2: police report accusing Kadaffi of having something to do with
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  Speaker 2: her disappearance, but with zero physical evidence, he just walked away.
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  Speaker 1: He went right back to his life. But by twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: the heat is slowly turning up. He realizes Giza is
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  Speaker 1: getting dangerous for him. Too many missing people, too many questions,
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  Speaker 1: so he decides to vanish the file say. He liquidates
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  Speaker 1: all of Rida's remaining properties, takes the cash, and moves
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  Speaker 1: to Alexandria. But hold on, if Rid is technically a
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  Speaker 1: missing person, how on earth does Kadaffi legally sell his
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  Speaker 1: real estate.
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  Speaker 2: That is where his expertise and forgery comes in. Kadaffi
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  Speaker 2: commits what is legally known as the usurpation of identity.
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  Speaker 2: He creates highly sophisticated forged powers of attorney. He drafts
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  Speaker 2: legal documents claiming that RHDDA, while supposedly locked away in
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  Speaker 2: an undisclosed prison, had granted Kadaffi full legal authority to
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  Speaker 2: sell his assets. He exploits the bureaucratic confusion to drain
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  Speaker 2: Redda's estate dry.
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  Speaker 1: That is unbelievably brazen. So he takes the cash and
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  Speaker 1: flees to Alexandria. But he doesn't go as Kadaffi. He
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  Speaker 1: assumes the identity of his dead best friend. He starts
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  Speaker 1: introducing himself to everyone in Alexandria as engineer Rita and
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  Speaker 1: expert in electronics.
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  Speaker 2: He literally steps into the skin of the man he
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  Speaker 2: beat to death. It's the ultimate theft. He didn't just
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  Speaker 2: take Rida's life and money, he took his future. He
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  Speaker 2: walks around Alexandria wearing his best friend's name like a
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  Speaker 2: tailored suit.
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  Speaker 1: And engineer Rita is just as lethal as Kadafi. In Alexandria,
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  Speaker 1: he meets a woman named Yasmin. He channgs her, convinces
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  Speaker 1: her to invest her money with him, and promises to
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  Speaker 1: marry her. We've heard this song before, we have. When
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  Speaker 1: Yasmin realizes there is no investment and demands her money back,
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  Speaker 1: he sets a trap. He tells her he doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: the cash, but he has a warehouse in the Alisaffra
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  Speaker 1: district full of expensive household appliances she can take to
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  Speaker 1: cover the debt. He tells her to meet him there
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  Speaker 1: alone in the dead of night.
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  Speaker 2: She walks into a dark, empty warehouse, expecting appliances and
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  Speaker 2: instead finds a killer. Another obstacle is eliminated. He strangles her,
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  Speaker 2: beats her, and buries her under the warehouse floor.
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  Speaker 1: He has Mien is gone, but Kadafi's still living. As
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  Speaker 1: Redda doesn't stop. He manages to marry a wealthy pharmacist
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  Speaker 1: named doctor Noha, but this marriage doesn't last. She sees
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  Speaker 1: through him relatively quickly. Three months in, doctor Noha demands
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  Speaker 1: a divorce. Surprisingly, he agrees. How does a guy who
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  Speaker 1: normally murders his problems just agree to a divorce.
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  Speaker 2: Because he found a different way to exert dominance. Kadaffi
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  Speaker 2: never walks away without taking something. He decides to enact
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  Speaker 2: a deeply personal revenge on her wealthy family. He waits
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  Speaker 2: until he knows her parents are traveling Ah.
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  Speaker 1: This is where the story takes on this incredibly eerie
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  Speaker 1: cinematic visual. Kaddaffi dresses himself in a full flowing black
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  Speaker 1: knee coop, completely veiled, hiding his face and his gender.
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  Speaker 1: He slips undetected past the neighbors and into his exce
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  Speaker 1: and law's apartment. He completely clears out their safetaking massive
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  Speaker 1: amounts of cash and all their gold jewelry.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where the massive web of lies he
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  Speaker 2: is wove and finally begins to tangle. When Doctor Noah's
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  Speaker 2: family discovers the robbery, they go straight to the police.
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  Speaker 2: They report the prime suspect, her ex husband, Engineer Rita.
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  Speaker 1: The police launch a massive man hunt for Engineer Rita.
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  Speaker 1: They circulate descriptions of the stolen gold to every jeweler
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  Speaker 1: in the city. But the police are hunting a ghost.
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  Speaker 1: The real Engineer Rita has been dead and buried under
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  Speaker 1: a ceramic floor in Giza for years.
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  Speaker 2: It is his stunning paradox. The identity he stole to
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  Speaker 2: protect himself is now the exact thing that brings the
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  Speaker 2: police crashing down on.
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  Speaker 1: Him, which brings us right back to the climax of
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  Speaker 1: this deep dive, that incredibly tense opening scene. In the
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  Speaker 1: Alexandria jewelry shop, Kadaffi, who has now changed his name again,
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  Speaker 1: this time to Mohammed Mustafa, needs to fence the stolen gold.
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  Speaker 1: He tries at once with a few small pieces and
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  Speaker 1: it works, but he gets greedy the heavy bag. The
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  Speaker 1: second time he brings the heavy bag, the jeweler recognizes
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  Speaker 1: the pieces, stalls and the police arrest Mohammed Mustafa.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, the Alexandria police process him thinking they
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  Speaker 2: just caught a run of the mill burkler, but through
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  Speaker 2: their internal fingerprinting in systems, they realize this man matches
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  Speaker 2: the description of the fugitive engineer Rita wanted for the
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  Speaker 2: robbery of the pharmacist family.
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  Speaker 1: So the police pick up the phone they call the
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  Speaker 1: family of the real engineer Rita in Giza, the family
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  Speaker 1: who has been desperately searching prisons and police stations for
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  Speaker 1: their missing brother for five tortuous years. The police say,
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  Speaker 1: we've found him. We have arrested Rita in Alexandria for theft.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine the emotional whiplash for that family, shock that he's
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  Speaker 2: a thief, anger that he has been hiding, but ultimately
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  Speaker 2: overwhelming relief they are finally gonna see their brother.
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  Speaker 1: Put yourself in that hallway. Rita's family rushes frantically to
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  Speaker 1: the Alexandria police station. They are breathless. They demand to
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  Speaker 1: see him. The police lead them down the fluorescent lit hall.
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  Speaker 1: They open the door to the interrogation room.
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  Speaker 2: And they look up.
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  Speaker 1: They look up, expecting to see their brother's familiar face,
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  Speaker 1: and instead they lock eyes with Kadaffi.
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  Speaker 2: The betrayal in that single look must have been unfathomable.
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  Speaker 2: The man who sat at their dinner table, the man
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  Speaker 2: who helped them hand out missing person flyers, is sitting
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  Speaker 2: in handcuffs, wearing their dead brother's name.
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  Speaker 1: The dominoes instantly collapse. The family starts screaming, that's not Rita,
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  Speaker 1: that's his friend, Kadaffi. The police suddenly realize they aren't
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a simple jewelry thief. The interrogations intensify. Kadaki's
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  Speaker 1: facade finally shatters. He confesses to everything. He leads the
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  Speaker 1: police back to Giza, back to the warehouse in Alexandria.
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  Speaker 1: The police bring in jackhammers. They tear up those pristine
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  Speaker 1: ceramic tiles in the rental apartment. They exhume the bodies.
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  Speaker 1: The staggering scale of his horrific double life is dragged
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  Speaker 1: out into the daylight. He was ultimately tried, convicted, and
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to even wrap your head around it.
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  Speaker 1: So what does this all mean. We look at a
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  Speaker 1: story like this and it reads like a Hollywood thriller,
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  Speaker 1: But this was reality. This was a man who wore
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  Speaker 1: human identities like cheap suits, discarding them the moment they
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  Speaker 1: no longer served him.
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  Speaker 2: It forces us to confront the limits of our own perception.
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  Speaker 2: We rely heavily on social contracts. We assume the person
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  Speaker 2: smiling at us, the person breaking bread with us, operates
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  Speaker 2: with the same basic human empathy that we do. Kadafi
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  Speaker 2: weaponized that exact assumption. But before we wrap up, it
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  Speaker 2: makes you wonder about the illusion of the digital age.
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  Speaker 2: We tend to think that because we leave such a
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  Speaker 2: massive digital footprint, phones tracking our steps, constant communication that
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  Speaker 2: it's nearly impossible to truly vanish today. We rely on
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  Speaker 2: that technology to feel safe.
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  Speaker 1: Right, But he proved otherwise exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Kadafi proved that just a few carefully timed text messages
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  Speaker 2: from a burner phone can still completely override human intuition.
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  Speaker 2: We will believe a lie on a screen over the
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  Speaker 2: horrifying truth right in front of us.
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  Speaker 1: That is a deeply unsettling thought. We're so connected, yet
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  Speaker 1: so easily deceived. So, my friend listening to this right now,
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  Speaker 1: think about your daily routine. The polite real estate agent
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  Speaker 1: who handed you your keys, the helpful family friend who
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  Speaker 1: always remembers your favorite food, the person smiling at you
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  Speaker 1: from across the table. Right now, look closely, how well
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  Speaker 1: do you really know them