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The Three Devils and the Murders · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I want you just for a second imagine
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  Speaker 1: stepping into the hallway of a totally normal apartment building.
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  Speaker 1: It's twenty seventeen in al March.
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  Speaker 2: It's a quiet, everyday.
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  Speaker 1: Place, exactly the kind of place where you might nod
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  Speaker 1: to a neighbor, but that's it. And in this building
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  Speaker 1: there was one apartment rented by a man named Ahmed
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  Speaker 1: that was just a total black.
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  Speaker 2: Hole avoid The new landlord and his wife felt it.
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  Speaker 2: They said, there was this heavy, oppressive silence around that
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  Speaker 2: one door that just made your skin crawl.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So for them, even just collecting rent from this
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  Speaker 1: guy became this whole exercise and vigilance. They knew something
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  Speaker 1: was off. The landlord's wife especially was tasked with sort
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  Speaker 1: of keeping an eye on them, but she.
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  Speaker 2: Had no idea what was actually walked away inside.
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  Speaker 1: And then one morning, that silence just shatters. The landlord's
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  Speaker 1: wife is going about her day and she sees a
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  Speaker 1: woman sitting on the floor right outside that apartment door.
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  Speaker 1: It's emon Ahmed's.
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  Speaker 2: Wife, and she's just defeated, weeping quietly. But it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the crying that was so shocking. It was what the
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  Speaker 2: landlord's wife could see, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The visual evidence of just absolute horror. The first thing
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  Speaker 1: she notices is that Emon is blind, and.
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  Speaker 2: Her face, her body, it's covered and burns, scars, the
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  Speaker 2: signs of relentless, severe torture.
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  Speaker 1: The whole facade just crumbles in an instant.
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  Speaker 2: So the landlord's wife approaches her, you know, tries to help,
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  Speaker 2: and Emon starts to talk. At first, it's just Ahmed
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  Speaker 2: kicked me out, but then it shifts, It shifts hard.
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  Speaker 1: She launches into this devastating confession about the murders of
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  Speaker 1: her three children and her own part in.
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  Speaker 2: It, all while trying to frame herself as this helpless
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  Speaker 2: victim who was forced into it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a scenario you can barely wrap your head around.
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  Speaker 1: So for this deep dive, we're going to explore that moment. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but really we need to go back. We need to
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  Speaker 1: look at the years that led to it.
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  Speaker 2: We have to understand the forces that brought Ahmed, Halla
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  Speaker 2: and Emon this trio they called the three devils together
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  Speaker 2: in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly to get through depravity, you have to trace the
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  Speaker 1: timeline of greed, obsession, and control that started it all.
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  Speaker 2: And it all begins with a financial arrangement. That's the
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  Speaker 2: foundation for everything that follows. It's all about self interest.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's rewind. It's twenty ten. We meet the
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  Speaker 1: first devil, Ahmed abdel Cutter. He's twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: And he's basically described as a man with no integrity,
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  Speaker 2: no ambition, and no money.
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  Speaker 1: Lazy but ambitious about one thing, getting money. You do
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  Speaker 1: anything for it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's when he meets HeLa, the second devil. She's
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  Speaker 2: fifty one, much older and very wealthy. The source of
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  Speaker 2: her money is a little murky.
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  Speaker 1: But she has it, and she has a habit of
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  Speaker 1: marrying younger men.
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  Speaker 2: So Ahmed sees a walking bank account. Hala sees a young,
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  Speaker 2: attractive man she can control with her money.
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  Speaker 1: It's a deal, a cold, transactional deal. He marries her,
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  Speaker 1: moves into her nice apartment, and for three years he
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  Speaker 1: just lives off her money. Simple as that.
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  Speaker 2: But then a problem. Ahmed finds out Hala kept something
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  Speaker 2: from him. She's infertile.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is where it gets weird. For a guy
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  Speaker 1: who seems to care about nothing but money, he apparently
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  Speaker 1: develops this this acute longing for children. He feels his
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  Speaker 1: life is empty without a family.
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  Speaker 2: Or at least that's the story he tells, because he
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  Speaker 2: also recognizes this gives him leverage.
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  Speaker 1: Huge leverage. He's already taken a lot of her money,
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  Speaker 1: so he uses this desire for kids to pressure Hala
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  Speaker 1: into letting him take.
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  Speaker 2: A second wife, and she agrees, which brings us to Imon,
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  Speaker 2: the third devil.
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  Speaker 1: Emon is twenty three. She falls for Ahmed and this
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  Speaker 1: is crucial. She has no idea he's already married to Hyla.
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  Speaker 2: So in twenty thirteen he marries Imon. The triangle is
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  Speaker 2: officially formed, but it's not stable.
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  Speaker 1: No, because Halea is the one with the money and
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  Speaker 1: she's not about to lose control. She agrees, but on
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  Speaker 1: her terms. She insists they all move out of her
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  Speaker 1: comfortable apartment.
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  Speaker 2: And into the small, cheap rented flat that Ahmed had
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  Speaker 2: gotten for Emon, and of course Hala moves in with them.
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  Speaker 1: She's the financier. She's not letting him out of her sight.
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  Speaker 2: So Emon finds out the truth, but she accepts it.
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  Speaker 1: Why money, the promise of it? Anyway, She believe if
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  Speaker 1: she just plays along, when Hala eventually dies, she'll inherit
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  Speaker 1: a fortune.
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  Speaker 2: So mutual calculated greed becomes the glue holding them together.
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  Speaker 1: And to make it all worse, EMA's family completely cuts
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  Speaker 1: her off for marrying this unemployed guy. So now she's
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  Speaker 1: totally isolated, trapped in that small apartment with them.
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  Speaker 2: And that shared secret, you know, the fact that they're
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  Speaker 2: all just in it for the money. That creates the
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  Speaker 2: perfect silent pressure cooker, and things start to escalate fast.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen, life in
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  Speaker 1: that apartment goes completely dark, invisible to the outside world.
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  Speaker 2: The neighbors saw nothing, they heard nothing, total silence. The
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  Speaker 2: only sign of life was Emon covered in a knee cub,
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  Speaker 2: running a quick errand, and then disappearing Back inside.
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  Speaker 1: They built their own sealed off world, and inside that
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  Speaker 1: world things got really twisted.
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  Speaker 2: The sources are pretty clear here. Emon's motive was greed, sure,
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  Speaker 2: but Amed and Hala mood way beyond that. They started
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  Speaker 2: developing what are called devilish ideas that would lead to murder.
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  Speaker 1: He needed a stronger bond than just money. They needed
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  Speaker 1: shared guilt.
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  Speaker 2: And that moment comes in twenty sixteen. Hala, who seems
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  Speaker 2: to be the one driving this, gives the order Ahmed
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  Speaker 2: has to kill his two young daughters, Malak who is
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  Speaker 2: three and Johana who is two.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, this is the guy who claimed he
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  Speaker 1: desperately wanted children, that his life was meaningless without them.
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  Speaker 1: And Haley gives the order and.
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  Speaker 2: He just he agrees instantly, without hesitation. It tells you
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  Speaker 2: everything you need to know, right, that whole desire for
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  Speaker 2: a family was just another tool for him, another piece
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  Speaker 2: of leverage. His real loyalty was to Hala and her money.
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  Speaker 1: So the plan is just horrifyingly methodical. They strangle the
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  Speaker 1: girls and wrap their bodies in plastic bags.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the detail that really just dusts. It solidifies
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  Speaker 2: the depravity. Ahmed, their father, stands there and films and
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  Speaker 2: photographs both of his daughters as they die.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just murder, it's evidence. It's documentation to use
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  Speaker 1: his leverage.
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  Speaker 2: Later, the three of them, Ahmed, Halla, and Emon, wait
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  Speaker 2: for the dawn, called a prayer, the quietest part of
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  Speaker 2: the day, and they take the bodies and dump them
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  Speaker 2: in a drainage ditch.
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  Speaker 1: And that single act does two things. First, it locks
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  Speaker 1: Iman in forever, she can never go back. She's an accomplice.
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  Speaker 2: And second, it secures Ahmed's position with hala. They've now
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  Speaker 2: committed the ultimate shared crime. Their bond is unbreakable.
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  Speaker 1: After that, everything changes for Emon immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Now that they have the video evidence, their leverage over
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  Speaker 2: her is absolute, and that's when the systematic torture.
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  Speaker 1: Starts, burning her, stabbing her with knives.
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  Speaker 2: They were completely confident she could never report them. She's
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  Speaker 2: cut off from her family and they have proof that
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  Speaker 2: she killed her own children.
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  Speaker 1: She's trapped. But then around mid twenty seventeen, the outside
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  Speaker 1: world starts knocking again. The building gets sold.
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  Speaker 2: And it's that new landlord's wife, the one who was
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  Speaker 2: already suspicious. She sees Emon again, still in her knee cab,
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  Speaker 2: but this time she notices Emon is pregnant, and.
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  Speaker 1: Soon after Emon gives birth to a son, and.
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  Speaker 2: The three of them, without missing a beat, they just
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  Speaker 2: repeat the cycle. They decide to kill the newborn, drown
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  Speaker 2: him right.
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  Speaker 1: After birth, and again Ahmed records Emum participating.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it raises the question did murder just become
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  Speaker 2: their way of doing business, their method for maintaining control.
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  Speaker 1: The landlord's wife definitely sensed something was deeply wrong. She
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  Speaker 1: saw a pregnant woman, but then she never heard a baby.
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  Speaker 1: No crying nothing.
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  Speaker 2: But what finally broke the cycle wasn't conscience. It was bureaucracy.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Ahmed was laid on the rent, and the landlord
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  Speaker 1: was already so uncomfortable with them that he just decided
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  Speaker 1: not to renew the lease.
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  Speaker 2: The eviction notice is what triggers the endgame. The landlord's
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  Speaker 2: wife goes up to deliver the news. She sees Iman
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  Speaker 2: again and she's horrified. Emon is now blind and she
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  Speaker 2: has fresh torture marks all over her.
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  Speaker 1: Ahmed panics. He knows this is too much to hide,
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  Speaker 1: so he cooks up this insane cover story. He claims
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  Speaker 1: Milan's own father had assaulted her and then blinded her
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  Speaker 1: to keep her quiet.
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  Speaker 2: But the truth, of course, was that Ahmed and Hala
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  Speaker 2: had blinded her themselves. She had threatened to expose them,
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  Speaker 2: and that was their final brutal act to silence her forever.
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  Speaker 1: But it backfired completely. Now Imod is outside the apartment,
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  Speaker 1: broken and the whole six structure just collapses.
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  Speaker 2: The landlord's wife finds her on the floor, crying about
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  Speaker 2: being kicked out, and Emmon just she starts telling the
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  Speaker 2: whole story, the murders, the videos, the torture.
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  Speaker 1: Still trying to play the victim even then, still claiming
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  Speaker 1: she was forced.
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  Speaker 2: But it was too late. While Emon is talking, the
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  Speaker 2: wife secretly calls the police. The officers arrive, but they
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  Speaker 2: don't rush in. They position themselves silently, just out of
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  Speaker 2: sight and listen.
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  Speaker 1: The wife keeps Emon talking, drawing out every last detail,
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  Speaker 1: making sure the police hear at all before they move in.
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  Speaker 2: Emon is arrested on the spot. The police go up
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  Speaker 2: to the apartment. Ahmed is gone, but Hella is locked inside.
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  Speaker 1: And get this, the door is secured with five separate padlocks.
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  Speaker 1: Ahmed was so paranoid he locked both women in to
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  Speaker 1: stop them from ever leaving or talking to anyone.
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  Speaker 2: They just wait, and when Ahmed comes back, they arrest
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  Speaker 2: him too.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation finds the memory card, the hard evidence. The
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  Speaker 1: officers who had to watch those videos they said they
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  Speaker 1: were the most difficult scenes they'd ever witnessed in their
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  Speaker 1: entire careers.
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  Speaker 2: There was no doubt. The court found all three of them, Ahmed, Hella,
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  Speaker 2: and Emon guilty, all sentenced.
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  Speaker 1: To death, And one last bizarre twist, Ahmed, the man
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  Speaker 1: who started this whole thing for money, died the second
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  Speaker 1: he heard his death sense right aloud, just dropped dead.
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  Speaker 2: In the courtroom, an instant heart attack.
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  Speaker 1: Just an unbelievable case. It really shows you that depths
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  Speaker 1: people can sing to when they're isolated and driven by greed.
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  Speaker 1: But the lesson here isn't just about the shock value.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. If you really look at the
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  Speaker 2: bigger picture, it shows that secrets like this are only
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  Speaker 2: as strong as the leverage used to keep them. The
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  Speaker 2: real engine of this nightmare wasn't just greed.
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  Speaker 1: It was the combination of financial dependency and these leverage
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  Speaker 1: documented secrets. It created this, this pathological spiral where the
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  Speaker 1: only way out was to go deeper.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly once those bonds are forged, escape becomes almost impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Abusers and criminals like this often hide in plain sight,
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  Speaker 2: and they rely on silence and isolation. If you ever
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  Speaker 2: sense something that profoundly wrong that level of secrecy in
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  Speaker 2: your community, never hesitate to report it.
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  Speaker 1: Some to think about as you go about your day.
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  Speaker 1: That was the deep dive