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The Doctor's Eight-Month Blueprint for Murder: How a Double Life and Toxic Rumors Staged a Cairo Crime Scene · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Cairo, Egypt, October twenty thirteen. Imagine stepping into the sixth
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  Speaker 1: of October area. It's a dense, working class neighborhood, you know,
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  Speaker 1: concrete apartment blocks packed pretty close together, and normally the
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  Speaker 1: air's just thick with everyday sounds and smells, cooking, maybe
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  Speaker 1: some exhaust beam, street noise. But then something changes. Over
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  Speaker 1: four days, this this awful smell starts radiating from one
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  Speaker 1: apartment building. It gets stronger, impossible to ignore. It's coming
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  Speaker 1: from apartment three fourteen, and it's clear something is terribly
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  Speaker 1: wrong inside. When the authorities finally break down that door,
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  Speaker 1: well it's not just quiet. It's a scene carefully arranged,
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  Speaker 1: almost theatrical, meant to look like sheer rage, a domestic
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  Speaker 1: dispute ending in tragedy.
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  Speaker 2: But that's staging. That initial appearance. It was just a facade.
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  Speaker 2: Right Beneath it lay something far colder, the bloody conclusion
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  Speaker 2: of a plan meticulously crafted over eight long months, an.
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  Speaker 1: Eight month blueprint for murder.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly what we're looking at here isn't some sudden crime
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  Speaker 2: of passion. It's it's amazing manipulation, years in the making. Really,
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  Speaker 2: you've got three main people adal the mastermind, highly educated.
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  Speaker 2: Then her husband Fidia the victim, and his sister Wafa
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  Speaker 2: the other victim. Okay, So for this deep dive, we
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  Speaker 2: need to peel back the layers. We can't just look
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  Speaker 2: at the crime scene. We have to trace Hadeel's path,
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  Speaker 2: her motivations, starting way back. How does a medical professional
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  Speaker 2: plot for eight months to kill two people and crucially
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  Speaker 2: convince everyone she's the innocent party. Let's unpack it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, let's go back ten years earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Syria two thousand and three had deal as a medical.
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  Speaker 2: Student shark, very intelligent, but also skilled it crafting an image.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, she perfected this persona the poor abandoned daughter
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  Speaker 1: her father had left for Egypt, and she used that
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  Speaker 1: played the broken wind woman card brilliantly.
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  Speaker 2: But that wasn't the reality.
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  Speaker 1: Not according to the details we have. It seems she
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  Speaker 1: was always calculating relationships were transactions. She didn't just want success.
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  Speaker 1: She enjoyed actively controlling people. It was a deep part
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  Speaker 1: of her. And this is where five comes in. An
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  Speaker 1: engineering student, what did he see in her?
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  Speaker 2: He saw the image she projected, hard working, self reliant,
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  Speaker 2: maybe needing someone stable, almost like a father. Figure as
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  Speaker 2: well as a husband.
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  Speaker 1: But for her deal it was different completely.
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  Speaker 2: Fido was well. He was her ticket, her pathway to Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: She desperately wanted to finish her advanced medical specialization there
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  Speaker 2: obstetrics and gynecology. He could make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: So they get married to have two children, but the
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  Speaker 1: dynamic wasn't right for her.
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  Speaker 2: No, the tension started almost right away. Fighter was reliable, steady, sure,
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  Speaker 2: but he was passive. He didn't have that same fierce
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  Speaker 2: ambition she did, especially about moving to Egypt Quickly. She
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  Speaker 2: felt trapped, trapped by his lack of drive, by the
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  Speaker 2: marriage itself. But here's a critical point. Divorce wasn't really
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  Speaker 2: an option for her. Why not Financially it would have
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  Speaker 2: been disastrous because of the social system. Divorcing him meant
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  Speaker 2: she'd lose any claim to future inheritance. So she felt stuck,
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  Speaker 2: but needed a way out that was profitable.
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  Speaker 1: There is another complication, a big one. Fighter's sister, Waffa
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  Speaker 1: h Waffa.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this is where it gets really tangled. Wafa had
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  Speaker 2: a strong personality and apparently she was the only one
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  Speaker 2: who saw through hadil right from the beginning. She didn't
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  Speaker 2: trust her not at all, reportedly called her a she
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  Speaker 2: devil since something wasn't right behind that innocent act. So
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  Speaker 2: Waffa instantly became Hadil's main obstacle, the person standing between
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  Speaker 2: her and full control, especially control of fighter's finances.
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  Speaker 1: So Hadil is stuck waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Until twenty eleven. Things change in Syria, unforeseen events and
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  Speaker 2: the families forced to move to Egypt. Suddenly Hadil has
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  Speaker 2: exactly what she wanted. The setting, the setting. Yes, her
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  Speaker 2: husband and her main obstacle, Wafa are now under the
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  Speaker 2: same roof in a new city, a city where Hadil
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  Speaker 2: already had connections. The stage was finally set, and that's
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  Speaker 2: when the eight month blueprint really kicks into gear.
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  Speaker 1: Eight months. It's chilling how long she planned this. And
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  Speaker 1: it didn't start with violence, did it. It started with reputation.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, sabotage first psychological warfare. Phase one was all about
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  Speaker 2: destroying the reputations in the new neighborhood in Giza.
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  Speaker 1: How did she do that?
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  Speaker 2: She started spreading this incredibly vicious roamor toxic that Fidala,
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  Speaker 2: her husband was a pimp running prostitutes out of their
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  Speaker 2: own apartment. Wow, and not just that, but involving his
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  Speaker 2: own sister Wafa in it and claiming he was trying
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  Speaker 2: to force her, Hadeal, the devoted wife, to participate.
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  Speaker 1: Two. Why why that specific rumor? What was the strategic purpose?
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  Speaker 2: It was absolutely crucial groundwork. Think about it. If you
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  Speaker 2: established that narrative before anything happens, and if they're found
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  Speaker 2: dead precisely, the police, the neighbors, everyone immediately thinks, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: the pimp, husband, the shame. It must be a murder suicide.
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  Speaker 2: It explains everything neatly fits the social biases.
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  Speaker 1: She was creating the conclusion before the crime even happened,
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  Speaker 1: pre writing the police report.
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  Speaker 2: Almost you could say that manipulating the narrative from the start.
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  Speaker 2: So with that social poison spread, she moves to phase two,
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  Speaker 2: the medical manipulation, and this is.
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  Speaker 1: Where her being a doctor becomes truly terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: Its weaponized knowledge. She convinces Fadi he has hepatitis C,
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  Speaker 2: a really serious diagnosis. Well he didn't, No, all he
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  Speaker 2: had was colitis, something manageable. But she uses the fake
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  Speaker 2: diagnosis to insist on treatment, self administered v drips at home.
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  Speaker 1: And what was actually in those trips?
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  Speaker 2: Drugs designed to slowly systematically destroy his kidney and liver function.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't treatment, it was slow poisoning disguised his care,
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  Speaker 2: creating a plausible medical decline over time.
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  Speaker 1: That is ice hold. And the slow process also let
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  Speaker 1: her find help, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It gave her cover. She needed certain drugs supplies. This
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  Speaker 2: led her to visit a local human rights aid organization
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  Speaker 2: that helps Syrians, and there she strategically encounters doctor Abdul.
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  Speaker 1: Salam, another doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Another doctor, and she plays her part perfectly, the respectable,
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  Speaker 2: suffering wife trapped with a criminal pimp husband. Doctor Abdul
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  Speaker 2: Salam fell for it completely.
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  Speaker 1: He became infatuation soletally.
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  Speaker 2: Infatuating, yeah, saw himself as her rescuer, became utterly devoted,
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  Speaker 2: ready to do whatever she asked.
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  Speaker 1: So now she has the medical cover story, the slow
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  Speaker 1: poisoning underway, and an accomplice who's a doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and she uses the rumor she created Fidev's supposed
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  Speaker 2: filthy life as her excuse to leave him, publicly tells
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  Speaker 2: the neighbors she can't take it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Making her look like the victim escaping a bad situation.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, she moves in with the smitten doctor Abdul Salam
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  Speaker 2: and they start finalizing the h the actual assassination plan,
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  Speaker 2: which involves bringing in one.
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  Speaker 1: More person, a third accomplice, her.
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  Speaker 2: Cousin, Yeahiah. Adil arranges for him to come to Egypt
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  Speaker 2: the promise a hefty payment when she secures the inheritance
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  Speaker 2: after fid Day's death.
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  Speaker 1: So the team is assembled. What was the specific plan
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  Speaker 1: for the murders the staging.
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  Speaker 2: It was incredibly detailed, designed to reinforce that murder suicide
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  Speaker 2: narrative she'd built.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, walk us through it.
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  Speaker 2: The script was Waffen needed to be found dead throat
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  Speaker 2: sled wearing only underwear, the implication being Vadah found her
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  Speaker 2: in a compromising shameful state.
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  Speaker 1: And snapped, and Feida.
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  Speaker 2: Was supposed to look like he killed himself afterward. Wrist slit.
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  Speaker 2: That's a classic signify right, the knife use would be
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  Speaker 2: placed in his hand with only his fingerprints on it,
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  Speaker 2: a need package.
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  Speaker 1: The level of detail it's hard to comprehend. So the
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  Speaker 1: night itself, Hadil goes over to the apartment. The excuse
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  Speaker 1: is Feida's treatment.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, she administers the IV drips to if you die
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  Speaker 2: in the living room, but then the absolute peak of
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  Speaker 2: her cruelty Brandsa Wafa. She convinced Wafa, her sister in law,
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  Speaker 2: to also take an IV drip under the guise of
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  Speaker 2: it being a special weight loss treatment Hidel had arranged
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  Speaker 2: for her, preparing her for some cosmetic procedure unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: So she gives them both ivs laced with powerful narcotics
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  Speaker 1: supplied by doctor Abdul Salam.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, strong knockout drugs. Thirty minutes later, both Fida and
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  Speaker 2: Waffa are deeply unconscious. Hadiel checks confirms they're out, and
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  Speaker 2: then she leaves the apartment handed clean, and moments later
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  Speaker 2: Abdul Salama Yahia enter. And this this is where the
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  Speaker 2: meticulous eight month plan hits a snag, a fatal flaw.
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  Speaker 2: What happens human emotion After all that cold calculation, Abdul Salam,
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  Speaker 2: apparently fueled by this intense rage Hadeal had cultivated in him,
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  Speaker 2: rage against Fida, protective love for a deal, he just snaps.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't follow the script.
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  Speaker 2: He completely ignores the script for Feida. Instead of staging
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  Speaker 2: the suicide by cutting the wrists, he immediately slits Feeda's
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  Speaker 2: throat instant kill. The suicide angle is gone.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, why would Adal being so calculating rely on someone
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  Speaker 1: so obviously driven by emotion at that critical moment, did
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  Speaker 1: she misjudge him?
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  Speaker 2: That's a fascinating question. It seems she did miscalculate the
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  Speaker 2: intensity of the passion she herself had engineered. She created
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  Speaker 2: this narrative of Fida being a monster, and Abdul Salam
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  Speaker 2: acted on that narrative, not her clinical murder plan. He
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  Speaker 2: saw himself as an avenger, not just an accomplice.
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  Speaker 1: Following steps, so Abdul Salam kills Fida, incorrectly, ruining staging,
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  Speaker 1: but about Yahiyah.
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  Speaker 2: Yahiah proceeds with Wafa, moves her, undresses her to match
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  Speaker 2: the shameful discovery part of the plan, and slits her throat.
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  Speaker 2: Then they grab valuables, phones, money, Wafa's gold jewelry to
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  Speaker 2: make it look like a robbery gone wrong, a secondary.
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  Speaker 1: Motor, and they dump the knife in the nile right.
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  Speaker 2: But the damage to the core narrative the suicide staging
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  Speaker 2: was already done.
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  Speaker 1: Four days later, the police arrive. They find the scene,
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  Speaker 1: and initially because of Hidel's groundwork.
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  Speaker 2: They leaned towards the story she wanted them to believe.
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  Speaker 2: Shame anger, murder, suicide, it fit the rumors everyone had.
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  Speaker 1: Heard, but the evidence didn't fit, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: The unraveling started almost immediately in the lab. The toxicology
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  Speaker 2: report was the first massive blow to Hadiel's story.
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  Speaker 1: What did it show?
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  Speaker 2: It showed that Feita and Wafa didn't die from the
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  Speaker 2: throat slitting. They died from massive overdoses of narcotics administered
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  Speaker 2: via FEV before.
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  Speaker 1: The cuts, meaning they were already unconscious.
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  Speaker 2: Deeply unconscious, unable to struggle, which completely contradicts a violent race.
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  Speaker 2: Each fueled murder suicide. That scenario demands signs of a fight.
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  Speaker 2: This scene had none. The talks report screen premeditation, not passion.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the medical evidence undermines the narrative.
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  Speaker 2: What else Surveillance footage CCTV. It clearly shows Hidel visiting
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  Speaker 2: that afternoon, staying about thirty minutes, long enough to administer
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  Speaker 2: drugs via four V, leaving empty handed, and then and
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  Speaker 2: then about an hour later, two men later identified as
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  Speaker 2: Abdul Salam and Yahia are seen entering the apartment complex
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  Speaker 2: and then leaving shortly after, moving quickly, looking suspicious like
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  Speaker 2: they were fleeing.
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  Speaker 1: So the timeline implicates them absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: The police connect the dots. Hadil lied about Feeda's illness,
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  Speaker 2: the very illness that gave her the excuse to administer drugs.
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  Speaker 2: She was the only source of his terrible reputation, and
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  Speaker 2: these two men link to her show up right after
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  Speaker 2: she leaves, just before the estimated time of death via overdose.
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  Speaker 1: It all points back to her.
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  Speaker 2: It does, and when they bring in Yahia, her cousin,
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  Speaker 2: he cracks almost immediately.
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  Speaker 1: What does he say?
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  Speaker 2: He confesses everything says Hidel convinced him Fea was abusive, dangerous,
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  Speaker 2: even had aids that she needed saving. He was apparently
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  Speaker 2: shocked to learn it was all a fabrication by Hidel
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  Speaker 2: just to get him involved, and Abil Salam His denials
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  Speaker 2: just crumbled under the weight of Yahia's confession and the
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  Speaker 2: undeniable forensic evidence. The game was up.
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  Speaker 1: So the eight month plan, two doctors, a cousin, all
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  Speaker 1: built on laws destroyed by science.
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  Speaker 2: In the end, yes, the meticulous planning, the psychological manipulation,
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  Speaker 2: the staged scene, none of it could withstand the scrutiny
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  Speaker 2: in the toxicology report and the CCTV footage. All three
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  Speaker 2: were arrested, tried, and ultimately sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 1: The sheer length of the planning eight months. That's what's
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  Speaker 1: so disturbed, it really is.
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  Speaker 2: It's the sustained deception, the cold calculation over such a
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  Speaker 2: long period, and the fact that two medical professionals used
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  Speaker 2: their skills their oaths basically as weapons, complete disregard for
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  Speaker 2: human life, for financial gains.
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  Speaker 1: And the children they were there the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sources confirmed for Dye's family took custody, But imagine
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  Speaker 2: living in that apartment for eight months while your mother
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  Speaker 2: is slowly poisoning, your father, manipulating your aunt, planning their murders,
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  Speaker 2: completely unaware of the horror unfolding around them.
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  Speaker 1: Just devastating.
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  Speaker 2: It leads you with a really unsettling thought, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 2: A deal could make people believe utter falsehoods convinced her
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  Speaker 2: husband he had a fatal disease, convinced her sister in
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  Speaker 2: law to take a lethal injection for weight loss, convinced
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  Speaker 2: a doctor to help her murder. So beyond forensics, beyond cameras,
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  Speaker 2: what real safeguards does society have against someone's so adept
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  Speaker 2: at manipulation driven by such profound, cold self interest. How
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  Speaker 2: do you stop someone who can twist reality itself,