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The Frozen Body and the Third Divorce · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the deep dive. Our mission is always the same,
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  Speaker 1: Take a complex stack of sources, articles, forensic reports, legal documents,
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  Speaker 1: and find the critical nuggets you need to understand the
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  Speaker 1: full picture.
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  Speaker 2: Today we are diving into a case that unfolded in
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  Speaker 2: New Cairo, centered on a high stakes domestic conflict that
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  Speaker 2: spiraled into a very calculated murder.
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  Speaker 1: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: We're dissecting the sources to understand not just the crime itself,
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  Speaker 2: but the meticulous yet ultimately flawed planning that went into the.
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  Speaker 1: Cover up exactly. Our starting point is, it's just so stark.
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  Speaker 1: It's seven o'clock at night in an upscale neighborhood. A woman, Wallah,
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  Speaker 1: forty three years old, very sharply dressed, arrives at a
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  Speaker 1: police station and she's with her lawyer, well her lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't some panicked nine one one call moments after
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  Speaker 1: a fight. This is an organized admission of.
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  Speaker 2: Guilt, right, And while despite claiming she's distressed, she has
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  Speaker 2: a certain composure. She has to speak directly with the
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  Speaker 2: head of detectives and then she investes. She tells him
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  Speaker 2: I killed my husband, Ollie. But she immediately deploys the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately she claims it was self defense, an uncontrollable reaction
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  Speaker 1: during a violent fight that she just snapped after years
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  Speaker 1: of abuse.
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  Speaker 2: She is framing this from the very first second as
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  Speaker 2: a crime of passion, the tragic end to a long,
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  Speaker 2: terrible marriage.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing is, the sources show that the circumstances
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  Speaker 1: around her confession, the timing, that composure, the lawyer being there,
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  Speaker 1: it all suggests a plan, not a panic.
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  Speaker 2: The police, of course, they have to verify her story regardless,
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  Speaker 2: so a team is dispatched to the couple's high end
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  Speaker 2: apartment right away.
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  Speaker 1: They need to secure the scene and crucially establish a timeline, and.
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  Speaker 2: That timeline right from the get go contradicted everything will
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  Speaker 2: lie had just said.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's go inside that apartment with the officers.
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  Speaker 1: They enter the master bedroom where they find Ali. He's dead,
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  Speaker 1: lying on the bed.
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  Speaker 2: But the first thing that hits them isn't the sight
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  Speaker 2: of the victim. It's the environment in the room. It's freezing,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely freezing. The air conditioning's running at its absolute highest setting.
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  Speaker 1: And that high ac That's the first, first huge physical clue,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. It tells you this isn't the scene of
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  Speaker 1: a fresh hot tempered conflict.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone who understands crime scene dynamics knows that excessive cooling
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  Speaker 2: is used for one reason, and one reason.
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  Speaker 1: Only, to slow down decomposition, exactly to buy time. And
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  Speaker 1: will Law had claimed this violent fight happened just hours ago,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: But when the forensic examiner gets there and assesses Ali's body,
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  Speaker 2: the time of death is well, it's much much older.
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  Speaker 1: How much older?
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  Speaker 2: The evidence showed he had been dead for at least
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  Speaker 2: twenty four hours. A full day had passed between the
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  Speaker 2: murder and her confession, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the moment the self defense play dies on the vine.
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  Speaker 2: It has to. Yeah, I mean, if this was truly
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  Speaker 2: an uncontrollable reaction to a threat, why wait a full day?
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  Speaker 2: Why is your first priority climate control?
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  Speaker 1: Right? The initial light completely changes the investigation. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: a domestic tragedy, it's a systematic attempt at concealment.
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  Speaker 2: So we had this deliberate twenty four hour delay. To
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  Speaker 2: understand why she needed that time time, we have to
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  Speaker 2: look back at the marriage itself. Who were these people?
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  Speaker 1: The marriage started back in two thousand and seven. Ali
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  Speaker 1: was a successful businessman, import tech sport. He traveled a
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  Speaker 1: lot for work, often to another Arab country.
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  Speaker 2: And Will went with him managed the household. They had
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  Speaker 2: three adult children. For years, you know, the arrangement seemed
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  Speaker 2: to function.
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  Speaker 1: But when they settled in Egypt full time around twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: things went south fast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the marriage really deteriorated while I was trying to
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  Speaker 2: launch her own career. She'd failed at a few businesses
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  Speaker 2: before landing on e commerce selling clothes online. But the
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  Speaker 2: conflict at home just got.
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  Speaker 1: Worse, and neighbors confirmed this. It wasn't quiet. There were
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  Speaker 1: constant loud fights, especially when Ali was home from his trips, and.
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  Speaker 2: The sources are pretty clear that Ali was not faithful.
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  Speaker 2: He had multiple relationships. It was a huge source of
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  Speaker 2: conflict and for walla intense jealousy.
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  Speaker 1: Yet she stayed through all the infidelity, the fights, she stayed,
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  Speaker 1: and that points to the real bond between them.
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  Speaker 2: It was financial completely.
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  Speaker 1: Her own business ideas were shaky. She was at a
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  Speaker 1: fundamental level depend on his wealth. He was her tether
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  Speaker 1: to that lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: And this brings us to a really specific legal detail
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  Speaker 2: that just raises the stakes enormously. Allie had already divorced
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  Speaker 2: Wala twice.
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  Speaker 1: Once in twenty twenty and then again in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: And in their specific legal framework, a third divorce is.
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  Speaker 1: It's devastating for listeners who aren't familiar with this. What
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  Speaker 1: does that third divorce actually mean for her?
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  Speaker 2: It creates a massive legal wall between them after that
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  Speaker 2: third time, they can't just reconcile and remarry. For Wala
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  Speaker 2: to legally get back with Ali, she would first have
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  Speaker 2: to marry another man and then legitimately divorce that man.
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  Speaker 1: A process known as to leo exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And for a woman in her social position, the idea
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  Speaker 2: of losing all that financial security and going through that public,
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  Speaker 2: complex legal process, it was a catastrophe.
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  Speaker 1: It gave her an overwhelming reason to stop him from
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  Speaker 1: initiating that third divorce at any cost, to secure her position.
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  Speaker 2: And it seemed she decided securing her position meant eliminating
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  Speaker 2: Ali before he could act.
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  Speaker 1: Because that story she walked into the police station with
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  Speaker 1: the self defense lie. It was just systematically dismantled piece
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  Speaker 1: by piece by the medical examiner's report.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the autopsy was the nail on the coffin. Cause
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  Speaker 2: of death was strangulation, probably with a cloth strip.
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  Speaker 1: And she had actually volunteered that detail right. She said
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  Speaker 1: she use a belt from her son's karate uniform.
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  Speaker 2: She did, which was consistent, but the body held a
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  Speaker 2: secret she was desperately hoping to conceal. Toxicology report came
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  Speaker 2: back and it was a shock.
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  Speaker 1: Ali's system was saturated with a muscle relaxant, a huge
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  Speaker 1: quantity far beyond any medical.
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  Speaker 2: Use, which confirms two things. One, Ali was incapacitated. He
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  Speaker 2: couldn't have fought back, which makes the self defense claim impossible.
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  Speaker 2: And two two we find out later from digital evidence
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  Speaker 2: that this specific drug was chosen because they believed it
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't leave a trace in a standard medical analysis. This
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  Speaker 2: suggests a high degree of.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just pause on that for a second. The concealment
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  Speaker 1: went so far beyond just turning on the ac The
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  Speaker 1: investigators found something.
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  Speaker 2: Else, traces of a specific anti bruising.
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  Speaker 1: Cream applied directly to his neck. They were treating the
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  Speaker 1: wound after he was already.
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  Speaker 2: Dead, and that detail the cream that shifts the whole
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  Speaker 2: narrative from a spontaneous act to a systematic cleanup. And
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  Speaker 2: there was more evidence of severe nasal bleeding had been
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  Speaker 2: meticulously scrubbed from the scene.
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  Speaker 1: So you put it all together. The incapacitated victim, the
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hour delay, the anti bruising cream. This wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a snap decision.
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  Speaker 2: No, this was a sophisticated, if ultimately clumsy, attempt to
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  Speaker 2: hide a premeditated murder. And that level of planning almost
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  Speaker 2: never happened solo.
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  Speaker 1: Which leads us straight to the money trail. This is
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  Speaker 1: the thread that unraveled the whole conspiracy.
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  Speaker 2: Before Walla even drove to that police station, she made
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  Speaker 2: two very suspicious financial transactions.
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  Speaker 1: She transferred a massive set one and a half million
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  Speaker 1: EGP from Ali's account into her own. Now, for our
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  Speaker 1: international listeners, this is a staggering, life altering amount of money.
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  Speaker 2: And then she made a second, much smaller transfer, fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand EGP to an e.
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  Speaker 1: Wallet registered under the name Ahmed, and.
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  Speaker 2: That fifty thousand was a payoff. Please quickly identified Ahmed.
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  Speaker 2: He's a twenty seven year old accountant and e marketing specialist.
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  Speaker 1: And how did they know each other.
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  Speaker 2: Wala had hired him in twenty twenty two to manage
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  Speaker 2: her online clothing.
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  Speaker 1: Business, so he was known to the family. He'd come
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  Speaker 1: to the house for work. Ali knew him, the children
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  Speaker 1: knew him, But.
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  Speaker 2: That professional relationship was a cover for a year long
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  Speaker 2: romantic affair that had started in early twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: And their dynamic was it was profoundly transactional.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, He was twenty seven, she was forty three. He
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  Speaker 2: wanted access to her wealth, her social standing. She wanted
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  Speaker 2: validation to feel desired again. It was mutual exploitation.
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  Speaker 1: She was so deep in this manipulation that she even
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  Speaker 1: used the threat of the third divorce against her own kids.
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  Speaker 1: She convinced one of her daughters that Ali had already
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  Speaker 1: issued the final divorce.
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  Speaker 2: She had to marry Ahmed to bypass the legal restrictions
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  Speaker 2: and secure the family's future.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. But the absolute smoking gun in this whole investigation
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  Speaker 1: was digital.
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  Speaker 2: When the police seized their phones, the search history from
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  Speaker 2: just three days before the crime laid out the entire blueprint.
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  Speaker 1: Well lot of searches were all about the aftermath. She
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  Speaker 1: looked up how do forensic doctors work, how do they
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  Speaker 1: determine cause of death? And the most critical one.
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  Speaker 2: How to obtain a death certificate?
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  Speaker 1: And what about Ahmed?
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  Speaker 2: His searches were about the murder weapon itself. He googled
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  Speaker 2: what type of drug causes complete loss of control but
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  Speaker 2: leaves no trace in medical analysis.
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  Speaker 1: And he found the exact muscle relaccent that was later
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  Speaker 1: found in all E's system.
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  Speaker 2: It's just stunning. This wasn't a crime of passion. It
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  Speaker 2: was a business plan researched online, all to secure an
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  Speaker 2: inheritance and then wrapped in a convenient self defense story
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  Speaker 2: as a plan be.
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  Speaker 1: And their original plan wasn't even to fake self defense,
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  Speaker 1: was it.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. The goal was to make it
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  Speaker 2: look like a natural death, secure the inherent with no investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Walla had even convinced Ali to hire Ahmed as a
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  Speaker 2: personal driver, giving him complete access to the house.
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  Speaker 1: So let's trace the full disastrous timeline. On the night
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  Speaker 1: of the murder, Walla makes sure the children are away,
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  Speaker 1: staying with relatives.
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  Speaker 2: She then gives Ali four the narcotic pills mixed into
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  Speaker 2: his food or drink.
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  Speaker 1: Once he's completely unconscious, she strangles him with the karate belt.
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  Speaker 2: Then she calls Ahmed. He comes over, helps her move
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  Speaker 2: the body to the bed, and his main job is
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of the evidence. The rest of the pills,
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  Speaker 2: the blood soak tissues from the nosebleed. He dumps them
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  Speaker 2: far from the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: But the plan hits a snag pretty much immediately.
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  Speaker 2: In the hours after the murder, Walan notices bruisings starting
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  Speaker 2: to form on Ali's neck. The evidence of strangulation was
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  Speaker 2: literally appearing before her eyes.
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  Speaker 1: She panics. She calls Hmed back and tells him to
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  Speaker 1: rush out and buy that anti bruising cream.
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  Speaker 2: They apply it, hoping to mask the discoloration, and then
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  Speaker 2: they move to their final fatal step, trying to get
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  Speaker 2: the death certified as natural.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where the whole thing just unravels because
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  Speaker 1: of the most mundane bureaucratic obstacle you can imagine.
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  Speaker 2: They take their story to three different local health offices
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  Speaker 2: in sharuk Nasara City and Shubra trying to get a
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  Speaker 2: death certificate.
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  Speaker 1: And at all three they're refused flat out.
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  Speaker 2: The procedure is non negotiable. A medical examination of the
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  Speaker 2: body is mandatory before a death certificate can be issued.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't bypass the protocol.
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  Speaker 1: So there they are. The body is in the freezing house.
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  Speaker 1: The plan to fake a natural death is ruined. The
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  Speaker 1: cream isn't working.
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  Speaker 2: Wala had no choice. She made the huge money transfers,
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  Speaker 2: paid off Ahmed, and then, as a last resort, walked
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  Speaker 2: into that police station with her self defense story.
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  Speaker 1: Hoping the untraceable drug and the cream would be enough
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  Speaker 1: to create doubt.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't. The digital blueprint, the money, the timeline, the forensics.
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  Speaker 2: It all led directly to their conviction.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, the court delivered the verdict. Wala
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  Speaker 1: as the mastermind, was sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 2: An Ahmed, her co conspirator and lover, He received ten
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  Speaker 2: years of strict imprisonment for his role.
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  Speaker 1: What's so fascinating here is how the fear of losing
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  Speaker 1: financial control, that dread of the third divorce, drove a
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  Speaker 1: woman to orchestrate this incredibly complex, two phase cover up, and.
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  Speaker 2: Yet their entire plan was brought down by the simplest,
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  Speaker 2: most mundane administrative hurdle. You need a doctor to look
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  Speaker 2: at the body before you can get a dead certificate.
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  Speaker 1: We often look for the big, dramatic mistakes and criminal plans,
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  Speaker 1: but for the learner today, maybe consider this. When you're
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  Speaker 1: designing any high stake strategy, What small procedural detail that
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  Speaker 1: seemingly insignificant step like needing a mandatory certificate is the
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  Speaker 1: most likely point of failure.
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  Speaker 2: It's the bureaucracy, not the brilliance, that often catches the culprit.
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  Speaker 2: Something for you to ponder,