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The Rogue Cop Who Kidnapped Amira Al-Hakim · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, I want you to close your eyes for a second.
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  Speaker 1: We're going back to nineteen eighty five cartoon Sudan. It's
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  Speaker 1: early morning, but if you know anything about that part
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  Speaker 1: of the world, you know the heat is already rising
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  Speaker 1: off the pavement. It's that bright, blinding sunlight that hits
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  Speaker 1: you the moment you step outside.
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  Speaker 2: Right, the city is just waking up. You hear the
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  Speaker 2: metal shutters of shops rattling open, the hum of traffic,
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  Speaker 2: just you know, the sound of thousands of people starting
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  Speaker 2: their day.
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  Speaker 1: And it's this very specific texture of life, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It's bustling, it's vibrant.
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  Speaker 2: But there's an order to it. People have their routines.
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  Speaker 2: And in the middle of this very ordinary morning, we
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  Speaker 2: have a young woman named Amira.
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  Speaker 1: Aljakim, right, and we really need to set the stage
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  Speaker 1: on who she is, because that changes the stakes immediately.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely does. Amir isn't just you know, a random
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  Speaker 2: face in the crowd. She comes from a very prominent,
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  Speaker 2: well known family. The accounts from that time describe her
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  Speaker 2: as striking beautiful, but she carried herself with this maturity.
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  Speaker 2: She looked older than she was, a student, full of
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  Speaker 2: life and On this specific morning, she walks out the
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  Speaker 2: front door.
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  Speaker 1: Of her family home, just like any other Tuesday. She
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  Speaker 1: steps into that sunlight, heads toward her school and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the last time her family sees her.
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  Speaker 1: She never makes it to the classroom. Lunchtime comes and goes,
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't come home, and by sunset, the panic isn't
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  Speaker 1: just creeping in, it's taking over.
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  Speaker 2: And because of her family status, this doesn't stay quiet
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  Speaker 2: in a tight knit society like Khartom. News travels fast.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, when someone like amra Al Hakeim vanishes into
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  Speaker 2: thin air, it kind of breaks the social contract. It
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  Speaker 2: signals that the streets aren't safe. The fear spilled out
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  Speaker 2: of the household immediately, parents started pulling their kids out
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  Speaker 2: of school.
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  Speaker 1: And the rumor mill just goes into overdrive. Is it
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  Speaker 1: a kidnapping? Is it political?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly?
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  Speaker 1: That's the terrifying part. The silence. Days go by, no
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  Speaker 1: ransom note, no phone calls, no sightings. It's as if
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  Speaker 1: she was erased from existence.
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  Speaker 2: The police are running in circles. The family is desperate.
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  Speaker 1: But then the story takes a turn that you honestly
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  Speaker 1: couldn't write in a movie script. The break in the
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  Speaker 1: case didn't come from a detective.
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  Speaker 2: No, it came from a newspaper. And this is a
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  Speaker 2: classic case of what we call information asymmetry. The key
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  Speaker 2: to the mystery was sitting right there in public, but
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  Speaker 2: no one had connected the dots yet.
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  Speaker 1: So about a week after she disappears, a local paper
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  Speaker 1: runs this story. It's buried in a corner, not a headline.
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  Speaker 1: It reports on a public disturbance in a busy neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: On the surface, it seems totally unrelated.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I did say.
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  Speaker 2: The article described a really chaotic scene. A man on
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  Speaker 2: a motorcycle cuts off a young woman walking down the street.
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  Speaker 2: He's aggressive, shouting, he claims to be a police officer,
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  Speaker 2: and he's trying to force her on the back of
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  Speaker 2: his bike to arrest her.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, this is in broad daylight.
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  Speaker 2: Broad daylight, busy street. The girl is screaming, terrified, fighting him.
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  Speaker 1: Off, So surely people reacted. I mean, if I see
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  Speaker 1: a guy manhandling a screaming woman on a motorcycle, I'm
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  Speaker 1: stepping in.
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  Speaker 2: And they did. This is where the psychology of the
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  Speaker 2: crowd is so fascinating and so tragic. Shopkeepers, pedestrians, locals.
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  Speaker 2: They swarmed the bike. They surrounded them. They demanded to
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  Speaker 2: see his ID. You have to understand. In nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 2: five Soudan authority was respected, but it was also scrutinized.
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  Speaker 2: The crowd wasn't going to just let him take her.
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  Speaker 1: So the system worked. The bystanders intervened for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the man on the bike didn't have a badge,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't have a warrant card, but he had confidence.
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  Speaker 2: He was shouting that he was from a nearby precinct,
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  Speaker 2: acting like he had all the authority in the world.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd must have been wavering.
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  Speaker 2: They were hesitating, and then the balance of power shifted completely.
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  Speaker 1: What happened.
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  Speaker 2: A woman steps out from the group of bystanders. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: She walks right up to the circle, points at the
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  Speaker 2: guy on the bike and says, wait, I know him.
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  Speaker 2: He really is an officer.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. That must have just sucked the air right out
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  Speaker 1: of the situation. If a witness.
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  Speaker 2: Vouches for him, exactly, it deflated the resistance. But, and
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  Speaker 2: this is key, the crowd was still uneasy. The girl,
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  Speaker 2: a Mirah, was just screaming too much for this to
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  Speaker 2: be a standard arrest.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't feel right, so they forced a compromise.
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  Speaker 2: They did. They hailed a passing taxi. They said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a cop, you follow the taxi, the girl
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  Speaker 2: goes in the car, and you all go to the
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  Speaker 2: station together. It was a way to de escalate, and
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  Speaker 2: he agreed. He agreed. A mirror was put into the taxi.
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  Speaker 2: The officer followed on his motorcycle and they just drove away.
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  Speaker 1: That is chilling. The crowd thought they were solving the problem,
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  Speaker 1: but they were actually handing her over.
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  Speaker 2: They thought they were applying a safety buffer. Instead, they
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  Speaker 2: were facilitating the abduction.
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  Speaker 1: So the security forces investigating Amir's disappearance they see this article.
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  Speaker 1: The description matches a mirror perfectly. The timing is exact.
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  Speaker 2: It was a light bulb moment, but a horrific one.
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  Speaker 1: You must have realized immediately that this disturbance was the
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  Speaker 1: crime scene, right.
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  Speaker 2: So the police summoned the journalist who wrote the piece.
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  Speaker 2: He tells them his source was a cousin who saw
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing. The police grabbed the cousin, rush him
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  Speaker 2: to the scene and start canvassing the shop owners.
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  Speaker 1: Showing them a mirror's photo.
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  Speaker 2: They show them a photograph of amra Al Hakim. Immediate recognition.
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  Speaker 2: The shop owners confirm it. That was the girl screaming
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  Speaker 2: for help. That was the girl they put in the taxi.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so now they have a lead. They know the
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  Speaker 1: guy claimed to be from a Pacific precinct. I assume
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  Speaker 1: they went straight there to find out who arrested her.
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  Speaker 2: They did. They went to the station expecting to find,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a paperwork mix up, maybe she was in
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  Speaker 2: a holding cell. But when they checked the logs, nothing, nothing,
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  Speaker 2: no arrest record, no girl brought in, No officer filed
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  Speaker 2: a report.
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  Speaker 1: So he was lying. He was an impostor.
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  Speaker 2: Well yes and no. And this brings up a detail
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  Speaker 2: that is incredibly specific to the economic reality of Sudan
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  Speaker 2: at the time. The police checked the equipment logs, no
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  Speaker 2: officer at that station owned a private motorcycle.
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  Speaker 1: And why is that detail so important?
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  Speaker 2: In nineteen eighty five, Sudan was facing serious economic challenges.
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  Speaker 2: A private motorcycle was a luxury. It wasn't something your
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  Speaker 2: average beat cop could.
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  Speaker 1: Afford, right, they'd use official vehicles or walk.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that this man had his own bike was
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  Speaker 2: a massive outlier. It meant he either had money or connections,
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  Speaker 2: or he was operating completely outside the norm.
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  Speaker 1: So they're standing in this police station realizing the man
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  Speaker 1: wasn't from there, the girl isn't there, and the trail
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  Speaker 1: has gone cold. It's a dead end. What do they
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  Speaker 1: do next?
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  Speaker 2: They realized they had to work backward. They split the
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  Speaker 2: investigation into three distinct task forces. It was a strategy
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  Speaker 2: of divide and conquer.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Task Force.
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  Speaker 2: One find the woman who vouched for the officer. Who
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  Speaker 2: was she? Why does she lie? Task Force two find
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  Speaker 2: the taxi driver? And Task Force three identify the man
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  Speaker 2: on the motorcycle.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with the woman, the one who stepped out
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  Speaker 1: of the crowd. That seems like the wildest card in
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  Speaker 1: the deck. How'd he even find a random bystander in
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  Speaker 1: a city of millions?
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  Speaker 2: You go back to the witnesses. The police returned to
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  Speaker 2: that shop owner who saw the fight, and they drilled
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  Speaker 2: him for details. What did she look like? What was
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  Speaker 2: she wearing? And he remembered something that just didn't make sense.
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  Speaker 2: He said she was wearing clothes that looked like, well
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  Speaker 2: like wedding attire or at least very glamorous evening where
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  Speaker 2: heavy makeup, flashy fabrics at ten o'clock in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: exactly in the blistering heat of a cartoon morning. It
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  Speaker 2: was completely out of place.
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  Speaker 1: So she wasn't a shopper or a student.
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  Speaker 2: The detectives made a deduction. If a woman is wearing
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  Speaker 2: full evening glam at ten am, she likely hasn't woken
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  Speaker 2: up early. She hasn't gone to sleep yet.
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  Speaker 1: She works in nightlife.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they suspected. Cabarets, clubs, private parties.
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  Speaker 1: That narrows it down, but that is still a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ground to cover.
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  Speaker 2: It was a grind. They physically dragged this poor shop
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  Speaker 2: owner around the city for a week, every single night,
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  Speaker 2: taking him to smoky clubs, underground spots, just staring at faces.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine the exhaustion.
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  Speaker 2: And then finally they walk into a place and the
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  Speaker 2: shop owner freezes. He points to a woman and says
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  Speaker 2: that's her.
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  Speaker 1: Just like that.
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  Speaker 2: They arrest her on the spot and under questioning, she
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  Speaker 2: doesn't hold up. She confirms she's the fight. She confirms
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  Speaker 2: she vouched for him, and then she drops the bombshell
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  Speaker 2: what she says, he really is an officer, I know him, so.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't an impostor he was a real cop.
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  Speaker 2: He was a real police officer, but a rogue one.
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  Speaker 2: She gave them the name Abdul Sadik Yusuf.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So now the puzzle piece is fit a cop
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  Speaker 1: with his own motorcycle.
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  Speaker 2: Right. They checked his file, Abdul Sadik Yusuf. He's been
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  Speaker 2: absent without leave a wall for two months and crucially,
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  Speaker 2: his file confirms he owns a private motorcycle, which, as
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  Speaker 2: we discussed, made him unique on the force.
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  Speaker 1: They must have raided his house immediately.
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  Speaker 2: They did, but they were too late. The house was empty.
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  Speaker 2: He had fled, so he's.
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  Speaker 1: On the run. But surely in that era you can
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  Speaker 1: lock down the country pretty fast.
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  Speaker 2: You would think so. And this is where the story
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  Speaker 2: pivots on a moment of bureaucratic incompetence that is just heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 2: The police issue an immediate high priority travel ban. They
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  Speaker 2: send the order to all borders, all airports stop Abdul Ssi.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so he shouldn't be able to leave in theory.
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  Speaker 2: But remember this is nineteen eighty five. There are no
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  Speaker 2: computers at the border desks. There's no digital database. This
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  Speaker 2: is communicated via radio or telephone to a dispatch officer,
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  Speaker 2: who then writes it down by hand in a ledger.
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  Speaker 1: I have a really bad feeling about where this is going.
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  Speaker 2: The officer at central dispatch receives the order, he picks
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  Speaker 2: up his pen. The name is Abdul Sadik Yusuf, but
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  Speaker 2: he mishears it, or he writes it quickly, and instead
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  Speaker 2: of Abdul, he writes Abdullah Sadik Yusuf.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, you're kidding.
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  Speaker 2: He added two letters, just a slightly different name, Abdula
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  Speaker 2: versus Abdullah a typo, and that mattered. It mattered more
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  Speaker 2: than anything, because while the police are tearing Kartom apart,
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  Speaker 2: the real Abdul cidik Usif walks into the airport. He
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  Speaker 2: presents his passport. The border agent looks at the handwritten
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  Speaker 2: ban list in his ledger and he.
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  Speaker 1: Sees Abdullah Sadik Yusif.
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  Speaker 2: Right. He looks at the pass court which says Abdul,
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  Speaker 2: It's not a match. Bureaucracy is literal, and he lets
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  Speaker 2: him go. He stamps the pas port and the prime
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  Speaker 2: suspect boards a plane to Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: That is, I mean, that's infuriating. A girl is missing.
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  Speaker 1: The whole city is terrified and the guy walks free
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  Speaker 1: because of bad handwriting.
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  Speaker 2: It just highlights the fragility of the entire system. A
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  Speaker 2: massive investigation defeated by a penstroke.
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  Speaker 1: So he's gone. The public must have been losing their minds.
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  Speaker 1: People probably thought the police let him go on purpose.
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  Speaker 2: The pressure was immense, Accusations of a cover up were flying.
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  Speaker 2: But remember the task forces, Task Force two, the ones
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  Speaker 2: looking for the taxi driver, finally got a break.
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  Speaker 1: Right the taxi, the last place she was seen alive
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  Speaker 1: by a witness. Did they find the driver?
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  Speaker 2: They did, and his testimony fills in that final gap
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  Speaker 2: of what happened After the crowd dispersed. He confirmed he
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  Speaker 2: picked up a Mirra and the officer followed on the bike,
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  Speaker 2: but he said they never made it to the police station.
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  Speaker 2: What happened halfway there? The officer on the motorcycle signaled
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  Speaker 2: him to pull over. He opened the taxi door, ordered
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  Speaker 2: a Mirra out, and forced her onto the back of
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  Speaker 2: his bike.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no.
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  Speaker 2: Then he turned to the driver and gave a direct
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  Speaker 2: order go leave. I'll take her the rest of the way,
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  Speaker 2: and the driver just left her there. He was a
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  Speaker 2: taxi driver dealing with an irate police officer. He probably
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to get out of the situation.
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  Speaker 1: He drove off, leaving her alone with him. Again.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that was the final failure of the safety net.
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  Speaker 1: So now they know the what, they know who took her,
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  Speaker 1: They know he's in Egypt. How did they get him back?
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  Speaker 2: This required high level diplomacy. Sudanese authorities contacted Egyptian intelligence.
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  Speaker 2: They needed leverage. They went to Abdul's sister back in
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  Speaker 2: Sudan and applied immense pressure. Eventually she cracked and gave
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  Speaker 2: up his location in Cairo.
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  Speaker 1: The met closes.
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  Speaker 2: Egyptian police moved in, arrested him and extradited him back
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  Speaker 2: to Sudan. He lands in Khartoon and handcuffs.
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  Speaker 1: The chase is over, I imagine the interrogation room was intense.
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  Speaker 1: The whole country wants answers. Why did he do it?
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  Speaker 2: This is where the story shifts from a thriller to
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  Speaker 2: a tragedy. It wasn't money, it wasn't politics. Abdull confess.
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  Speaker 2: He said he and Ameera had been in a.
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  Speaker 1: Relationship, a relationship, a.
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  Speaker 2: Secret one, according to him, a toxic, obsessive romance, but
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  Speaker 2: Amira wanted out. She was moving on. Reportedly planning to
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  Speaker 2: marry someone else, someone more suitable to her family status.
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  Speaker 1: And he couldn't handle the rejection. He was obsessed, So
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  Speaker 1: the arrest on the street, that was just him trying
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  Speaker 1: to control her, to force her to.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to That's what he claimed. He admitted to the
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  Speaker 2: charade with the crowd. He admitted to pulling her out
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  Speaker 2: of the taxi. He describes putting her on the back
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  Speaker 2: of his motorcycle. He says he was driving recklessly, speeding,
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  Speaker 2: fueled by rage. He claims. Keep in mind this is
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  Speaker 2: his version. He claims Amera fell off the back of
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  Speaker 2: the bike while they were moving at high speed.
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  Speaker 1: He says it was an accident.
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  Speaker 2: He says she hit the ground hard, catastrophic injuries. She
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  Speaker 2: was unconscious, bleeding, dying.
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  Speaker 1: If that's true, you go to a hospital, you flag
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  Speaker 1: down a car, you save.
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  Speaker 2: Her, unless you're an a Wall police officer who just
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  Speaker 2: kidnapped a woman in front of fifty witnesses paned. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't go to a hospital. He scooped her up and
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  Speaker 2: drove to the home of a friend, a man named Yusef.
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  Speaker 1: He took her to a friend's house.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and this part, this part is very difficult to
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  Speaker 2: talk about. It's where the humanity just leaves the story entirely.
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  Speaker 1: What happened at the house.
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  Speaker 2: Abdul leaves Amera's body there. He leaves the house to
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  Speaker 2: go change his clothes, maybe to clean up, to formulate
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  Speaker 2: a plan. He leaves her.
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  Speaker 1: Defenseless while he's gone.
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  Speaker 2: When he returns, he finds that Amerah has died from
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  Speaker 2: her injuries. But he also finds that his friend Yusef
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  Speaker 2: had taken advantage of the situation. Wait, he had sexually
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  Speaker 2: assaulted her courts.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is I don't even have words
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  Speaker 1: for that. That is vile.
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  Speaker 2: It is the ultimate betrayal. First she's kidnapped by a
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  Speaker 2: man who claimed to love her, and then desecrated by
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  Speaker 2: a stranger who saw an opportunity in her death. It's
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  Speaker 2: a level of depravity that shocked even the seasoned detectives
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  Speaker 2: working the case.
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  Speaker 1: So you have these two men bound together by this horror.
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  Speaker 1: What do they do?
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  Speaker 2: They cover it up. They took Amrah's body to a
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  Speaker 2: massive waste dump on the outskirts of Khartum, a landfill,
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  Speaker 2: and they buried her in the trash.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where she was for all those weeks.
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  Speaker 2: It took the police a week of searching that landfill.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine that police officers sifting through a city's refuse looking
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  Speaker 2: for the daughter of a prominent family. But eventually they
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  Speaker 2: found her.
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  Speaker 1: They found her, and the men.
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  Speaker 2: Both were arrested. The evidence was overwhelming, but there was
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  Speaker 2: one final twist. Abdul Sadik Yusuf, the architect of this
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  Speaker 2: entire nightmare, died in prison before he could serve.
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  Speaker 1: His full sentence, So there wasn't even the satisfaction of
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  Speaker 1: a full life sentence served.
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  Speaker 2: No, And perhaps that's why this case lingers so heavily
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  Speaker 2: in the public memory in Sudan. It feels unresolved, It
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  Speaker 2: feels fragile.
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  Speaker 1: When you look back at this stripped of all the sensationalism,
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  Speaker 1: what are we really seeing here? Because it feels like
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  Speaker 1: more than just a crime store.
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  Speaker 2: It is a story about system failure. Think about the
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  Speaker 2: chain of events. The cloud failed because they respected a
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  Speaker 2: fake authority. The taxi driver failed because he followed orders.
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  Speaker 2: The border control failed because of a clerical.
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  Speaker 1: Error, like a domino effect of human error.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, amer Ajakim didn't die just because of one man's obsession.
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  Speaker 2: She died because every safety net that civilization is supposed
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  Speaker 2: to provide community, police, bureaucracy. It all snapped under pressure.
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  Speaker 1: It really haunts you, doesn't it. That moment on the street,
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  Speaker 1: the sun is shining, people are watching, and yet she
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  Speaker 1: was taken.
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  Speaker 2: It forces us to confront the bystander effect, not as
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  Speaker 2: a concept in a textbook, but as a reality. We
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  Speaker 2: all like to think we would be the hero, We
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  Speaker 2: would be the one to say no, show me your badge,
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  Speaker 2: But in the moment, in the heat, those people just watched.
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  Speaker 1: I want to leave you with a thought today, a
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  Speaker 1: hard one. If you were that taxi driver, if a
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  Speaker 1: man who looked like an authority figure told you to
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: drive away and leave a terrified girl on the curb,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: would you have done it? Or would you have stayed?
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  Speaker 2: It's a question we all hope we never have to answer.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for diving deep with us. We'll see you next time.