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Poisoned Tea and Double Betrayal: The Cold-Blooded Murder Plot That Collapsed Over $12,000 · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's dive right in picture. This a quiet, comfortable
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  Speaker 1: home in Colubia, Egypt. It's late twenty nineteen. The air
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  Speaker 1: inside feels, I don't know, settled, heavy, almost. Sabri he's
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  Speaker 1: forty nine, a successful building contractor. He's just had a
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  Speaker 1: big win, a massive contract, and the down payment two
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand Egyptian pounds cash is safe inside the house.
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  Speaker 2: Right, He's likely feeling satisfied, maybe a bit tired, thinking
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  Speaker 2: about the project ahead.
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  Speaker 1: He's unwinding after dinner, and then his wife, Azila, she
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  Speaker 1: serves him tea, just a normal everyday moment.
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  Speaker 2: Except it's absolutely not normal. That's simple cup of tea.
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  Speaker 2: It's the delivery mechanism for murder.
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  Speaker 1: Force, leaving pills crushed, dissolved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you have to understand the mindset here. This
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  Speaker 2: isn't some sudden rage. It's cold, calculated using the intimacy
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  Speaker 2: of home of marriage as the weapon itself.
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  Speaker 1: So Sabri drinks the tea and the effect.
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  Speaker 2: Is immediate, devastatingly fast. He suddenly feels this intense faintness,
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  Speaker 2: loses all control.
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  Speaker 1: Collaxes onto the bed. It's midnight. He's sedated, paired, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe still conscious.
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  Speaker 2: The sources suggest tragically, yes, trapped in his own body.
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  Speaker 1: And Asila, his wife ten years younger.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't call for help, no, no doctor, nothing like that.
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  Speaker 1: She just picks up the phone and.
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  Speaker 2: Calls another man, Mohammed, to confirm phase one is complete.
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  Speaker 2: Her husband is disabled.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, so she's already moved on. Subridy's not even
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  Speaker 1: gone yet.
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  Speaker 2: He is an obstacle being removed. That's the chilling functionality
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  Speaker 2: of it. But to really get how she could do this,
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  Speaker 2: we need to look back right at the previous six years.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, let's trace Subury's story. A bit successful, self made
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  Speaker 1: guy mm.
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  Speaker 2: Hm, earned his well through contracting.
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  Speaker 1: He was widowed, had two adult sons, wasn't keen on
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  Speaker 1: remarrying for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: But he was lonely. His family saw that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they encouraged him find a companion.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how he met Azila in twenty thirteen, from
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  Speaker 1: the same village.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone thought she lived up to her name, Acila, you know, loyal, genuine,
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  Speaker 2: he was younger.
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  Speaker 1: Knew we had money, agreed right away.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing, isn't it That awareness of his financial
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  Speaker 2: status from the start.
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  Speaker 1: So how long did that loyal image last, because it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like she acted pretty quickly to well take over.
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  Speaker 2: Oh incredibly quickly, and this is key to her whole approach.
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  Speaker 2: Isolation first, then control.
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  Speaker 1: How does she do it?
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  Speaker 2: She played on his loneliness, built this intense intimacy and
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  Speaker 2: then just weaponize it, cut him off from his support system,
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  Speaker 2: especially the Suns.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't trust her, No.
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  Speaker 2: They saw her focus on money early on, but she
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  Speaker 2: managed to sideline them, positioned herself as the only person
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  Speaker 2: he could rely on emotionally, financially.
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  Speaker 1: Or she controlled everything everything.
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  Speaker 2: She never loved him. He was just the source bank account.
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  Speaker 1: And his job meant cash was always coming.
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  Speaker 2: In exactly big sums, down, payments, profits. It was routine
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  Speaker 2: for him to bring.
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  Speaker 1: Cash home, and she found ways to take.
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  Speaker 2: It constantly, made up reasons, expenses, just normalized the idea
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  Speaker 2: that his money was hers to spend. Built this deep
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  Speaker 2: sense of entire an.
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  Speaker 1: Entitlement that became threatened. I guess in.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty nineteen, precisely, that's when Mohammed enters the picture.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about him. Mohammed younger than Azila.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, younger, a simple worker, didn't have much money. She
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  Speaker 2: apparently just met him casually on the.
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  Speaker 1: Street, just a chance encounter.
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  Speaker 2: Seems like it. But here's the twist, or maybe just
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  Speaker 2: the grim symmetry. He was just as manipulative, so.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't genuinely interested in her either, not in her.
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  Speaker 2: No, he saw her as access, access to Sabrie's money.
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  Speaker 2: He flattered her, told her she was beautiful, deserved better,
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  Speaker 2: played right into her vanity.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so they both saw each other as a means
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  Speaker 1: to an end. Basically, it seems that way.
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  Speaker 2: The connection was instant and purely transactional, and it escalated fast,
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  Speaker 2: unbelievably fast. Like their first phone call, she's already complaining
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  Speaker 2: about Sebrie lies obviously, but critically confirming the cash flow.
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  Speaker 1: Giving him the key piece of information the.
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  Speaker 2: Bait exactly, And within just two weeks they're.
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  Speaker 1: Having an affair in the marital home.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever Sabri was out working. Yeah, it became almost a
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  Speaker 2: daily thing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, But then things shift right the apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this is a really significant step psychologically, Asila starts
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  Speaker 2: getting paranoid about being caught at home.
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  Speaker 1: Understandable, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: So she suggests Mohammed run an apartment nearby for their meetings.
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  Speaker 1: But he couldn't afford it.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, he was poor. So she offers to pay for it.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, she's going to pay his rent?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, by siphoning money from Sabri every month.
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  Speaker 1: That's daggering. She's using her husband's money to fund the
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  Speaker 1: place where she's betraying him.
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  Speaker 2: It's a complete reversal, isn't it. She's leaving the marital
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  Speaker 2: home daily to go to this apartment she is paying
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  Speaker 2: for with Sabrize cash.
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  Speaker 1: So the affair, maintaining it, the logistics, the cost that
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  Speaker 1: becomes her priority, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: More important than the marriage, more important ultimately than Sabri's life,
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  Speaker 2: because that's where this is heading.
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  Speaker 1: So the fear wasn't just about the affair being discovered.
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  Speaker 1: It was about the money.
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  Speaker 2: Stopping exactly that purely pragmatic. If Sabri finds out, he
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  Speaker 2: divorces her, the money's gone, she can't pay for Mohammed's apartment,
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  Speaker 2: She loses him, she loses the lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: So murder wasn't an emotional reaction. It was a business.
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  Speaker 2: Decision in her mind. Yes, the only way to guarantee
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  Speaker 2: the transfer of wealth, keep Muhammad keep.
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  Speaker 1: Control, So she proposes it to Muhammad just like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and with specific terms like a contract. It had
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  Speaker 2: to look natural, a heart attack, no suspicion, right, and
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  Speaker 2: the payment that two hundred thousand EGP. Saber Issobri was
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  Speaker 2: due to bring home.
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  Speaker 1: And they had to wait a year to get married.
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  Speaker 2: Right, to keep up appearance.
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  Speaker 1: And the opportunity presented itself almost immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Sabri calls, confirms he's on his way home with the cash.
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  Speaker 1: That's the trigger.
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  Speaker 2: That's the trigger. Ascila goes out, buys the sedatives, makes dinner,
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  Speaker 2: serves at Poisoned Tea.
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  Speaker 1: And at midnight she makes the call to Mohammed.
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  Speaker 2: He arrives, finds Sabri on the bed, paralyzed, suffering but alive.
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  Speaker 1: This is where it gets even more brutal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, need it to look natural. So first Muhammad tries
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  Speaker 2: using a wet clock over Sabre's face suffocation, hoping it
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  Speaker 2: won't leave.
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  Speaker 1: Marx, trying to mimic some kind of respiratory failure.
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  Speaker 2: Something like that, but Sabri is still showing signs of life.
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  Speaker 2: It's not working fast enough.
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  Speaker 1: So Mohammed resorts.
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  Speaker 2: Too strangulation again, trying to be careful, minimize the marks,
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  Speaker 2: keep the natural causes story plausible.
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  Speaker 1: Just unbelievable violence masked by this weird financial calculation, and the.
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  Speaker 2: Detail that just sends chills down your spine. Asila watched
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  Speaker 2: watch the whole thing reportedly yes, almost smellbound by how
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  Speaker 2: efficiently Mohammad carried it out.
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  Speaker 1: And then what happened right after.
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  Speaker 2: This is perhaps the most disturbing part. Immediately after Sabri
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  Speaker 2: is dead, right there in the same room, they become intimate.
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  Speaker 2: No seriously, yes, it's hard to comprehend, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: about passion.
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  Speaker 1: What is it about.
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  Speaker 2: Then it's like sealing the deal, a celebration almost. They
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  Speaker 2: remove the obstacle, Sabri the secured the money. It's like
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  Speaker 2: cementing the criminal partnership shows a complete void where empathy
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  Speaker 2: should be.
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  Speaker 1: Human life just zero value compared to the cash.
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  Speaker 2: Zero.
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  Speaker 1: So Mohammad takes the two hundred thousand pounds and leaves.
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  Speaker 2: And Azila spends the next two hours cleaning, meticulously, wiping
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  Speaker 2: everything down, getting rid of the pill, packaging the wet cloth,
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  Speaker 2: erasing the crime.
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  Speaker 1: Then she waits until morning five am.
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  Speaker 2: She calls sa Brief's son and his brother, what's her story?
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  Speaker 2: Calmly claims she was just sitting next to him and
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  Speaker 2: he suddenly stopped talking, just passed.
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  Speaker 1: Away, making it seem sudden, unexpected, natural.
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  Speaker 2: She even gets neighbors involved, creates the scene of confusion and.
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  Speaker 1: Shock, a performance, and initially it almost works. The health
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  Speaker 1: doctor was ready to sign off, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Prepared to issue the burial permit. It looked convincing enough
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  Speaker 2: on the surface.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't work.
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  Speaker 2: Why Sabrief's son, his instinct.
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  Speaker 1: The one who already distrusted her exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He arrives, sees Asila's act, knows how she isolated his fog,
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  Speaker 2: how focused she was on money, and he refuses. He
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  Speaker 2: just refuses to accept it was natural.
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  Speaker 1: He suspected foul play.
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  Speaker 2: He was certain she was involved. That gut feeling, that
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  Speaker 2: refusal to sign the permit that changed.
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  Speaker 1: Everything, So he forces an investigation.
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  Speaker 2: He reports his suspicions to the police. That halts the burial.
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  Speaker 2: Sabri's body is sent for forensic examination.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, and the truth comes out.
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  Speaker 2: Three days later. The autopsy, it's undeniable.
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  Speaker 1: What do they find?
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  Speaker 2: High levels of sedative drugs in.
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  Speaker 1: His system, the sleeping pill.
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  Speaker 2: Clear strangulation marks on the neck, no question about it.
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  Speaker 2: And the wet cloth water found in the lungs confirmed
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  Speaker 2: the suffocation attempt.
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  Speaker 1: So game over for the natural cause of story.
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  Speaker 2: It's officially murder, officially murdered. The police now have a case.
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  Speaker 1: They must be closing in on Asila and Mohammed.
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  Speaker 2: You'd think so, they have the evidence. But then something
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  Speaker 2: completely unexpected happens. What Before the police can even formally
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  Speaker 2: make their move, Asila walks into the police station and confesses,
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  Speaker 2: confesses everything, implicates herself, implicates Mohammed spills the entire plan.
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  Speaker 1: But why after all that meticulous planning, the cover up,
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  Speaker 1: why give it all up? Guilt remorse not even close.
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  Speaker 1: It was revenge, revenge against Mohammad.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this is the final, absolutely brutal twist. The day
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  Speaker 2: after the murder, the very next day, Azila finds something out.
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  Speaker 1: What did she discover?
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  Speaker 2: She discovered that Mohammad had just gotten married married to
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  Speaker 2: someone else, to another woman. Yeah, using the two hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand EGP he took from Sabrey's house, the payoff money.
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  Speaker 1: No way, he used the blood money to marry someone else.
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  Speaker 2: It gets worse.
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  Speaker 1: How could it get worse?
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  Speaker 2: He married the other woman in the apartment the same
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  Speaker 2: apartment Asila was paying the rent for with Sabrieze money.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, the ultimate betrayal.
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  Speaker 2: He'd apparently been involved with this other woman the whole
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  Speaker 2: time he was with Asila planning the murder.
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  Speaker 1: So Azila calls him furious.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely livid. But Mohammed was apparently confident, arrogant, even figured
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  Speaker 2: she'd never confess because it would mean incriminated herself.
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  Speaker 1: He miscalculated badly.
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  Speaker 2: He fundamentally misunderstood her motivation. It was never about loyalty
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  Speaker 2: or love, not even to him. It was about the
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  Speaker 2: money and the control. When he took both and gave
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  Speaker 2: them to someone.
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  Speaker 1: Else, she snapped and brought the whole thing down exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Her confession wasn't about guilt over Sabriy. It was pure
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  Speaker 2: rage at being double crossed by her partner in crime.
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  Speaker 1: So she was never a Cela loyal to anyone, not
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  Speaker 1: her husband, not even her co conspirator.
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  Speaker 2: Never, it proved, she couldn't even grasp the concept of loyalty,
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  Speaker 2: not when money was involved. She expected Mohammad to be
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  Speaker 2: loyal to her criminal enterprise, but he was just as
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  Speaker 2: transactional as she was.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the outcome her.
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  Speaker 2: Confession led to Mohammad's arrest. Both were tried, convicted, sentenced
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  Speaker 2: to death.
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  Speaker 1: Just a devastating story of greed and betrayal layered on betrayal.
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  Speaker 2: It really is. It shows how that intense selfishness, that
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  Speaker 2: entitlement can just completely erase empathy, erase the value of
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  Speaker 2: human life. The whole elaborate, cold blooded plan fall apart,
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  Speaker 2: not because of conscience, but because of a fight over
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  Speaker 2: the spoils.
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  Speaker 1: It's striking, isn't it. Yeah, The entire crime depended on
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  Speaker 1: her betraying Sabre's trust so completely, Yet she put her
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  Speaker 1: faith such as it was, in someone who was obviously
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  Speaker 1: just as opportunistic as she was.
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  Speaker 2: She saw herself as the manipulator, but she was blind
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  Speaker 2: to being manipulated herself because her own greed was the
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  Speaker 2: driving force.
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  Speaker 1: Which really leaves you wondering, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It does. Here's something to think about. If Acila could
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  Speaker 2: murder the man who provided everything for her solely for
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  Speaker 2: financial game, why on earth does she believe her partner
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  Speaker 2: in that crime, someone clearly motivated only by the same money,
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  Speaker 2: would show her any loyalty once he had it. What
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  Speaker 2: does this whole tragic affair tell us about the nature
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  Speaker 2: of evil when it becomes purely transactional.