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Rain Unearths a Skeleton: Forensic Files Mystery · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: We're diving into a case today where justice wasn't found
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  Speaker 1: through brilliant detective work, not initially anyway, It was served
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  Speaker 1: by something much more primal, a storm. So let's set
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  Speaker 1: the scene picture Alexandria, Egypt. We're in the borg l
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  Speaker 1: Arab district. It's late twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's round ten pm. But this isn't just
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  Speaker 2: any night. There's this incredibly severe winter storm raging.
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  Speaker 1: You described it as the thunder wasn't just noise, it
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  Speaker 1: was physical.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely shaking the houses, and the rain relentless, just absolutely hammering,
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  Speaker 2: drowning everything out.
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  Speaker 1: And it's this storm, this absolute deluge that forces this
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  Speaker 1: seventy six year old tenant, mister Muhammad into a really
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  Speaker 1: difficult spot.
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  Speaker 2: Right. He'd been living in this house for what about
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  Speaker 2: a year and a half, maybe a bit more.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly water is just pouring through his ceiling.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly pouring in. So he has to go up to
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  Speaker 2: the roof, a part of the house he apparently almost
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  Speaker 2: never went near.
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  Speaker 1: Now what he finds up there, It's not just a
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  Speaker 1: simple leak source, is it.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. The roof was well basically cluttered,
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  Speaker 2: just covered an old construction debris, you know, sand, bags
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  Speaker 2: of cement, bits of wood, like someone started a project and.
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  Speaker 1: Just stopped preparation for maybe another floor that never got.
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  Speaker 2: Built, probably, and this mess, this debris, it turns out
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  Speaker 2: to be absolutely key.
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  Speaker 1: So mister Muhammad gets up there trying to find the
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  Speaker 1: leaky and.
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  Speaker 2: He sees it pretty quickly, a huge pile of sand,
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  Speaker 2: completely soaked by the rain. It basically slid down and
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  Speaker 2: was blocking the main drainage pipe. That's where the water
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  Speaker 2: was backing up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so simple fix, right, Just move the.
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  Speaker 2: Sand, that's what he thought. He grabs a shovel, just
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  Speaker 2: playing to shift a little clear of the blockage. But
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  Speaker 2: as he digs in, the wet sand moves and something
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  Speaker 2: else is revealed, something pale organic sticking out of the sand,
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  Speaker 2: and he realizes, with this dawning horror, it looks like
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  Speaker 2: a skull.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, I mean, your first instinct must be maybe
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  Speaker 1: an animal, a large dog.
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  Speaker 2: For sure. You try to rationalize it. But he just
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  Speaker 2: nudged the sand around it a bit more, and it
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  Speaker 2: became instantly horribly clear, unmistakably human. A skull still connected
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  Speaker 2: to skeletal remains, buried shallowly right there, under all that
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  Speaker 2: sand and debris.
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  Speaker 1: So the storm, the sheer volume of rain eroded just enough.
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  Speaker 2: Cover precisely a four year old secret basically washed away
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  Speaker 2: by a clogged drain pipe. The whole crime just exposed.
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  Speaker 1: Must a panic to start yelling.
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  Speaker 2: He did, frantically yelling for help, but the storm, the wind,
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  Speaker 2: it was just too loud. No one could possibly hear him.
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  Speaker 1: So what does he do? He can't stay up there, No,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Even try to dig more or wait, he just bolts,
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  Speaker 2: runs down out of the house and street to the
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  Speaker 2: nearest police station, the Borgale Arab station.
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  Speaker 1: And the police reaction immediate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they understood the gravity right away. Police forensic experts. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They descend on the scene, treat the rooftop like a
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  Speaker 2: proper crime scene.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So now it's a professional excavation, right.
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  Speaker 2: Carefully removing the debris layer by layer, the stuff that
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  Speaker 2: had hidden the body so long, and they find a
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  Speaker 2: complete human skeleton. It's in a state of full decomposition,
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  Speaker 2: as you expect after that long but also crucially a
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  Speaker 2: pair of trousers, small trousers buried right there with the remains.
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  Speaker 1: Trousers. Okay, and the initial forensic report. What did that
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  Speaker 1: tell them?
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  Speaker 2: It was incredibly detailed, very meticulous work, and it gave
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  Speaker 2: them two immediate, really critical pieces of information. This wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just found remains anymore. This was suddenly well potentially a
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  Speaker 2: solvable cold case.
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  Speaker 1: What were those key details?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, first the basics. The victim was male, tragically young,
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  Speaker 2: estimated age between twelve and thirteen years old.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve or thirteen, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the time of death. They estimated it happened more
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  Speaker 2: than four years ago, consistent with the decomposition.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so a young boy missing for years. There was more?
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't there something specific about the body itself?
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  Speaker 2: There was? The physical evidence told a much deeper, sadder story.
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  Speaker 2: The cause of death was clearly severe blunt force trauma
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  Speaker 2: the skull it was badly fractured crutched from powerful blows.
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  Speaker 2: Extremely but beyond the cause of death, the forensic team
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  Speaker 2: noted something else just by examining the bones, particularly the
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  Speaker 2: leg bones. This was clear evidence of a physical disability.
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  Speaker 2: The structure indicated the victim had suffered from a noticeable
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  Speaker 2: mobility impairment.
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  Speaker 1: That's incredibly specific. That must have narrowed things down significantly
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  Speaker 1: for the police hugely.
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  Speaker 2: It takes you from a general pool of missing children
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  Speaker 2: to a very specific subset. But there was one more thing,
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  Speaker 2: something really strange anomaly, a deeply unsettling one. They found
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  Speaker 2: sand residue packed tightly into the mouth and nasal cavity
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  Speaker 2: area of the skull.
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  Speaker 1: Packed in. Not just residual from the burial, No, this.
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  Speaker 2: Looked deliberate, like someone actively forced sand into the victim's airways.
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  Speaker 1: Why what does that suggest?
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  Speaker 2: It suggests well, a chilling level intent, maybe to ensure death,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps suffocation after the initial attack, or maybe just panic
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  Speaker 2: and malice. It points to a killer act with extreme
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  Speaker 2: violence and maybe fear.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the police now have this incredibly precise profile.
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  Speaker 1: A boy twelve or thirteen died about four years ago,
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  Speaker 1: severe head trauma, mobility impairment, sand in the airways.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, And with that profile they started digging into the
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  Speaker 2: missing person's files from around that time. Word also starts
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  Speaker 2: spreading in the neighborhood about the discovery on the.
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  Speaker 1: Roof, and that leads to the father.
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  Speaker 2: It does the man named Salem. He hears about it,
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  Speaker 2: understands the potential connection, and rushes to the station. He's
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  Speaker 2: been living this nightmare for four years.
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  Speaker 1: And the profile matches his missing son perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: Devastatingly so. His son, Raby, who often went by the
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  Speaker 2: nickname Model Raby, was exactly twelve when he disappeared four
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  Speaker 2: years earlier.
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  Speaker 1: And the specific details the impairment matched exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Raby had a known mobility impairment. But also Raby was
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  Speaker 2: completely mute. He couldn't speak, couldn't make a sound.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, mute and with a mobility issue, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And then the final confirmation clothing.
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  Speaker 1: The trousers they found buried with him.
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  Speaker 2: Salem immediately identified them, especially the trousers. They were quite distinctive.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently he knew they were his sons.
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  Speaker 1: Just imagine that poor man searching all over Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: For four years, chasing down every rumor, any report of
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  Speaker 2: a disabled child, a mute child.
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  Speaker 1: Only to find out his son was buried literally next
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  Speaker 1: door on the roof of the house, right beside his
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  Speaker 1: own home.
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  Speaker 2: The tragedy is almost unimaginable, and that horrifying proximity, of course,
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  Speaker 2: immediately shifts the focus of the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: To the house itself, the history of that property.
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  Speaker 2: Right the current tenant, mister Mohammed, the man who found
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  Speaker 2: the body he's quickly ruled out. He wasn't there four
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  Speaker 2: years ago. The police needed to know who was living there.
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  Speaker 1: Back then at tenants from four years prior.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly the family occupying the house right around the time Rapie.
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  Speaker 1: Disappeared, and that leads them to one person in particular,
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  Speaker 1: it does.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation zeros in on the teenage son of that family,
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  Speaker 2: a boy named Mohammed, who would have been about sixteen
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  Speaker 2: at the time Raby went missing.
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  Speaker 1: And this Mohammed, he wasn't exactly unknown in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: No, definitely not, And unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons,
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  Speaker 2: police records immediately flag him. He had a history, what
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  Speaker 2: kind of history, a deeply disturbing one. He'd actually been
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  Speaker 2: arrested previously and even served a short jail sentence for
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  Speaker 2: attempted indecent assault against another child in the same neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: He was convicted.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, that's the thing. He was released due to
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  Speaker 2: a lack of conclusive evidence. But legally released doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: socially accepted, does it not?
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  Speaker 1: In a tight knit community.
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  Speaker 2: No, what happened then the neighborhood was apparently convinced of
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  Speaker 2: his guilt, despite the court outcome after his release, the
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  Speaker 2: community basically mobilized. They put immense pressure on Mohammed and
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  Speaker 2: his entire family to the point where to the point
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  Speaker 2: where the family was essentially forced to pack up and
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  Speaker 2: leave the area completely.
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  Speaker 1: And when did this forced move happen?
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  Speaker 2: Get this exactly four years prior, right around the precise
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  Speaker 2: time young Raby went missing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the timeline fits perfectly. The history fits disturbingly well.
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  Speaker 2: It does so even without direct physical evidence yet linking
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  Speaker 2: Mohammed to the skeleton on the roof. The police are
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  Speaker 2: operating on very strong instinct here. You've got proximity, you've
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  Speaker 2: got the timing, you've got this documented history of targeting
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  Speaker 2: vulnerable children.
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  Speaker 1: It's pointing overwhelmingly in one direction.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, So investigators track down the family in their new location,
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  Speaker 2: find Mohammed and bring him in for questioning.
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  Speaker 1: And his reaction when they arrest him, when they confront
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  Speaker 1: him about the body found on his old.
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  Speaker 2: Roof, it's interesting. Initially he seems completely calm, almost detached.
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  Speaker 2: He denies everything, claims he knows absolutely nothing about.
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  Speaker 1: It, like he genuinely doesn't remember, or just a good liar.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to say, right, I mean, this happened four
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  Speaker 2: years earlier, when he was sixteen. Maybe he had managed
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  Speaker 2: to just bury the memory, compartmentalize it somehow, or maybe
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  Speaker 2: he was just putting on an act.
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  Speaker 1: But his denial was firm at first.
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  Speaker 2: Rock solid. He wasn't cracking. So the investigators realized they
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  Speaker 2: needed a different approach. They couldn't rely on physical evidence
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  Speaker 2: they didn't quite have yet.
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  Speaker 1: So they switched tactics.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they went for a psychological strategy, a calculated bluff.
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  Speaker 1: Essentially, what did they tell him?
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  Speaker 2: They told him convincingly that they had irrefutable physical evidence, fingerprints,
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  Speaker 2: DNA forensic proof that absolutely tied him Mohammed directly to
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  Speaker 2: Raby's body on that.
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  Speaker 1: Roof, even though they didn't actually have that.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, not definitively, no, but they presented it as fact.
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  Speaker 2: They manufactured the certainty they needed to break through his denial.
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  Speaker 1: And did it work.
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  Speaker 2: It did that lie, that assertion of absolute proof, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: that was the key. It completely shattered his composure, broke
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  Speaker 2: his denial and he confessed he did. And the details
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  Speaker 2: that came out, they provide this absolutely chilling window at
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  Speaker 2: of what happened.
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  Speaker 1: What was the motive? He was only.
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  Speaker 2: Sixteen According to the confession, he was heavily involved in
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  Speaker 2: substance abuse at the time, drugs and driven by these well,
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  Speaker 2: these unst and dangerous compulsions.
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  Speaker 1: And why Raby, why target him specifically?
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  Speaker 2: This confirms what the forensics suggested and what the police suspected.
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  Speaker 2: He chose Rady precisely because the boy was mute and
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  Speaker 2: had that mobility impairment.
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  Speaker 1: He saw him as an easy tart exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He believed Raby wouldn't be able to effectively fight back,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't scream for help, couldn't tell his father or the
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  Speaker 2: police what had happened. It was a horrifying calculation based
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  Speaker 2: on vulnerability.
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  Speaker 1: How did he even get him up to the roof?
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  Speaker 2: Tragically simple? He knew Raby loved birds, and Muhammad apparently
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  Speaker 2: kept some birds up on that roof, so he just
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  Speaker 2: lured him up there, told him they could play with
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  Speaker 2: the birds.
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  Speaker 1: Just pure manipulation of a trusting child.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And once they were alone up there, secluded on
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  Speaker 2: the rooftop, the situation turned violent. What happened Mohammad started
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  Speaker 2: trying to remove Rabi's clothes. The boy understandably became distressed, scared,
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  Speaker 2: and tried to resist tried to get away.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he couldn't shout for help right.
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  Speaker 2: But Mohammad panicked. He feared that somehow Raby might still
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  Speaker 2: be able to alert someone. You make noise, maybe get
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  Speaker 2: down and communicate nonverbally.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't risk it, so in that moment of panic, he.
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  Speaker 2: Grabbed the nearest weapon. There was construction debris everywhere. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he grabs a large stone, maybe a brick, and just
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  Speaker 2: attacked Raby. Struck him violently, repeatedly.
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  Speaker 1: On the head until he was dead.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and then then comes the confirmation of that really
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  Speaker 2: disturbing forensic detail, the sand. Mohammed confessed that after the attack,
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  Speaker 2: after making sure Rabi was no longer moving, he grabbed
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  Speaker 2: handfuls of sand from the debris pile and deliberately packed
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  Speaker 2: it into the boy's mouth and nose.
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  Speaker 1: Why to make absolutely sure That.
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  Speaker 2: Seems to be the reason he gave to ensure suffocation,
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  Speaker 2: to make absolutely certain Raby had expired, just an extra
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  Speaker 2: layer of brutality born from panic.
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  Speaker 1: And then he just buried him right there, quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Buried him in that existing pile of sand and debris,
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  Speaker 2: covered him up, and then acted like nothing happened.
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  Speaker 1: I just went back down carried.
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  Speaker 2: On unbelievably, Yes, and the sources highlight something even more chilling.
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  Speaker 2: Later that same day or evening, when Rabe's father Salem,
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  Speaker 2: realized his son was missing and the innickel desperate search.
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  Speaker 1: Began, Mohammad joined in.
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  Speaker 2: Mohammad actually joined the search party, helping the frantic father
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  Speaker 2: look for the very boy he had just murdered and
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  Speaker 2: buried mere feet away on the roof right next door.
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  Speaker 2: The audacity is staggering.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So the confession ties it all together, the forensics,
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  Speaker 1: the timeline, the motive, everything.
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  Speaker 2: It backed up the physical evidence they did have, the
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  Speaker 2: skull fracture, the location. Eventually the clothing id and filled
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  Speaker 2: in the horrifying gaps only the killer could know, like
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  Speaker 2: the packed.
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  Speaker 1: Sand, which led to the trial.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly based on the confession corroborated by the forensic findings,
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  Speaker 2: Mohammad was brought to trial and justice finally was served
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  Speaker 2: for Rabi four long years later.
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  Speaker 1: But that four year gap it had a really significant
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  Speaker 1: legal consequence, didn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It really did. It's a profound point about timing and
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  Speaker 2: the law. Think about it. If Mohammed had been caught
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  Speaker 2: immediately after the murder, back when.
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  Speaker 1: He was see he would have been tried as a
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  Speaker 1: juvenile correct and.
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  Speaker 2: Under the laws relevant here, as a juvenile, he wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been eligible for the death penalty regardless of the
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  Speaker 2: crime severity.
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  Speaker 1: But because the crime remained hidden, buried under sand and
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  Speaker 1: malice for four years.
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  Speaker 2: Until that storm forced miss Muhammed up under.
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  Speaker 1: The roof, Muhammad was twenty years old by the time
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  Speaker 1: the body was discovered and the case proceeded to.
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  Speaker 2: Trial, making him legally an adult and therefore eligible for
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  Speaker 2: the maximum penalty the law allowed or acquired for such
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  Speaker 2: a crime, which he subsequently received. The delay caused essentially
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  Speaker 2: by an act of nature, fundamentally changed the legal outcome.
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  Speaker 1: It really underscores how every single detail uncovered by the
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  Speaker 1: forensics team was critical.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely that initial report, the age estimate, the mobility impairment,
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  Speaker 2: kinpointing the victim, the crushed skull showing the violence, that
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  Speaker 2: bizarre detail of the sand confirming the killer's specific actions.
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  Speaker 2: Each piece was vital, vital for identification, vital for securing
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  Speaker 2: the confession, and ultimately vital for justice.
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  Speaker 1: So it leads you contemplating this strange, almost eerie interception
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  Speaker 1: of what human intention and the power of the natural
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  Speaker 1: world fate.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps it does, doesn't it. I mean, yeah, this terrible
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  Speaker 2: secret was deliberately concealed, hidden away under tons of debris
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  Speaker 2: by the shiller. It was meant to stay hidden.
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  Speaker 1: Forever, protected by human action exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But then comes this uncontrollable force, a violent rainstorm, something
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  Speaker 2: completely indifferent to human secrets, and it triggers a chain
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  Speaker 2: of events. A simple roof leak forces an innocent man
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  Speaker 2: into the path of this hidden crime, and the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Comes pouring out, literally washed clean by the rain. It
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  Speaker 1: really makes you wonder, doesn't it. How many other secrets
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  Speaker 1: carefully buried by people are just sitting there, waiting, waiting
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  Speaker 2: For the right storm maybe, or the right flood, or
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  Speaker 2: just the right coincidence to bring them unexpectedly into the light.