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The Gold Peugeot and the 61 Stab Wounds: A Cairo Betrayal Driven by Greed and Hidden Rage · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's set the scene. It's nineteen eighty seven Cairo.
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  Speaker 1: You're driving late at night down the autostrade, that long
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  Speaker 1: highway connecting Maddy Way down south to Heliopolis up north.
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  Speaker 1: It's late, kind of quiet out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's mostly just the sound of traffic that's sort
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  Speaker 2: of hum and it's not really near you know, houses
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  Speaker 2: or anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit isolated, exactly, and that's what makes this
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  Speaker 1: so eerie. So there's this driver my mood, heading home
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  Speaker 1: long day, right, just.
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  Speaker 2: Wants to get home. And then he spots it, a
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  Speaker 2: car parked on the shoulder, gold colored, looks pretty new,
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  Speaker 2: just sitting.
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  Speaker 1: There, which is weird enough out there, right, But as
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  Speaker 1: he gets closer, slows down a bed, his headlights hit it,
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  Speaker 1: and something is very very.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong, seriously wrong. He can't see inside the car at all,
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  Speaker 2: not because it's dark, but because every window, front, back,
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  Speaker 2: sides is just smeared coated was what blood, thickly like
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  Speaker 2: it'd been painted on, but wet, a deep reddish brown.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't see a thing through it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, the sheer amount.
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  Speaker 2: You'd immediately think absolutely not just an accident, something catastrophic,
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  Speaker 2: My mood, you know, he's terrified. Every instinct is probably
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  Speaker 2: screaming drive away, but he doesn't. He doesn't. He thinks
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  Speaker 2: what if someone's hurt needs help? So he stops his
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  Speaker 2: own car, gets out, walks towards this gold car.
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  Speaker 1: Heart must have been pounding.
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  Speaker 2: I can only imagine. He reaches out, pulls open the
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  Speaker 2: passenger door. It's a nightmare, just absolute horror. There's a
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  Speaker 2: man slumped in the passenger seat, older guy, maybe sixties.
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  Speaker 2: He's dead, but it's the way he died. He's been
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  Speaker 2: well mutilated. Isn't too strong a word. Stab wounds, so
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  Speaker 2: many stab wounds. It's hard to even comprehend the violence.
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  Speaker 1: Chaos, Yeah, led everywhere inside, total chaos.
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  Speaker 2: My mood apparently just stumbled back, probably screamed. He got
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  Speaker 2: back in his car, didn't wait, just drove straight to
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  Speaker 2: the nearest police station.
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  Speaker 1: I don't blame him, no way.
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  Speaker 2: So pretty soon that lonely stretch of auto strat is
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  Speaker 2: swarming police forensics teams, the whole setup, ceiling off the
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  Speaker 2: scene exactly, and almost immediately things start getting strange, paradoxical even.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, like what Let's start with the victim. They id'd him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, name was Maher, and the autopsy confirmed the sheer
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  Speaker 2: brutality sixty one stab wounds sixty one. Think about that.
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't quick. This was a frenzy, sustained.
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  Speaker 1: Vicious that's not just killing someone.
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  Speaker 2: That's obliteration precisely, and the concentration of wounds, especially around
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  Speaker 2: the heart area. It just screamed rage, deep personal hatred, vengeance.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so intense rage like that usually points to what
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  Speaker 1: revenge or maybe a robbery gone very very wrong.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you'd think, especially a robbery. But here's the
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  Speaker 2: first big twist. Nothing was taken Mar's car, this expensive
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  Speaker 2: new model, left right there, his wallet still on him,
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  Speaker 2: full of cash.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, sixty one stab wounds, and they didn't take the
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  Speaker 1: money or the car. Nope.
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  Speaker 2: All his personal belongings, everything of value, you completely untouched.
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  Speaker 1: That changes everything. So it wasn't about money at all.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't look like it. This immediately shifted the focus. It
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  Speaker 2: had to be personal. Someone or someone's wanted Mare dead
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  Speaker 2: for reasons other than profit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so it's personal. The investigators must be thinking who
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  Speaker 1: hated him that much?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. But the weirdness didn't stop there. The crime scene itself.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't just contained to the car.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: The forensics team found blood outside the car, a trail,
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  Speaker 2: not just drops, like a visible.
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  Speaker 1: Path of blood leading away from the car.
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  Speaker 2: Leading towards it, actually stretching back along the road for
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  Speaker 2: over six hundred meters.
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  Speaker 1: Six hundred that's huge. What does they even mean?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it suggests a massive struggle, possibly starting while the
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  Speaker 2: car was still moving slowly or just as it pulled over.
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  Speaker 2: But more importantly, that amount of blood over that.
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  Speaker 1: Distance, it can't be just the victim's blood.
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  Speaker 2: Highly unlikely it was only the victims. It strongly suggested
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  Speaker 2: that at least one of the attackers was also bleeding significantly,
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  Speaker 2: And it also gave immediate weight to the idea of
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  Speaker 2: multiple attackers.
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  Speaker 1: Right inflicting sixty one wounds on a grown man probably
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  Speaker 1: fighting back inside a car. That's incredibly difficult for one person.
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  Speaker 2: Almost impossible, And the blood spatter inside the car backed
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  Speaker 2: that up. It wasn't just on the passenger side where else.
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  Speaker 2: It was on the ceiling, on the driver's seat, even
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  Speaker 2: splattered onto the back seat bench.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that paints a picture maybe attackers from the
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  Speaker 1: side and someone in the back too.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what the pattern suggested, a coordinated attack, an
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  Speaker 2: ambush essentially planned, not random.
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  Speaker 1: So this wasn't some random road side violence.
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  Speaker 2: This was an execution, a brutal personal execution. So the
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  Speaker 2: next question is who is maher?
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  Speaker 1: Good question? Who was this guy?
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  Speaker 2: Mahr was sixty retired from the Armed forces, apparently quite
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  Speaker 2: high ranking. But he'd done well since leaving the military.
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  Speaker 2: How so own a successful car dealership. Also heavily involved
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  Speaker 2: in buying and selling land properties. So a wealthy man.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so wealth business dealings, Yeah, that opens up possibilities, rivals,
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  Speaker 1: just grundled associates.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, lots of avenues. He lives in New Cairo in
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  Speaker 2: his own building with his wife, his third wife.
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  Speaker 1: Nola, third wife, Okay, did she know anything.
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  Speaker 2: When the police went to the apartment, she was already
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  Speaker 2: quite agitated, said mar had been missing for about a day,
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  Speaker 2: which she claimed was very unlike him.
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  Speaker 1: Did she offer any leads enemies?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, problems initially No, she played it very unaware, so
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  Speaker 2: she couldn't think of anyone who would want to harm him.
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  Speaker 1: But the police are focusing on personal betrayal now, right,
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  Speaker 1: so they dig into the marriage.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and what they found was well, deeply contradictory.
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  Speaker 2: On the surface incredible trust. So Mar had given Noah
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  Speaker 2: general power of attorney over everything, his money, his businesses,
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  Speaker 2: his properties, everything whoa okay.
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  Speaker 1: On general power of attorney. That means she could legally access, sell,
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  Speaker 1: do whatever she wanted with his assets.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much, she was his legal proxy. She didn't need
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  Speaker 2: his premier day to day. She could have liquidated everything,
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  Speaker 2: taken the money, and walked away clean legally.
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  Speaker 1: Without needing to ye yeah, stab him sixty.
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  Speaker 2: One time exactly. She already had complete financial control, which
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  Speaker 2: makes the violence seem even more gratuitous or driven by
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  Speaker 2: something else entirely.
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  Speaker 1: So what was the something else? If she had the money,
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  Speaker 1: what was the friction?
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  Speaker 2: It seems the conflict wasn't financial, It was emotional control.
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  Speaker 2: Sources suggested, Mar, despite trusting her with his wealth, was well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a bit controlling in other ways, maybe stingy data day,
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  Speaker 2: But the major issue, the one that kept coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Nahl had a son from a previous marriage, an adult
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  Speaker 2: son in his twenties, right Maher absolutely forbade her from
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  Speaker 2: seeing him. He even apparently stopped her from going to
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  Speaker 2: her own son's wedding.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously, Yeah, wow, that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: We're incredibly isolating for her. Think about the resentment that
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  Speaker 2: must build forbidden from seeing your own child, that kind
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  Speaker 2: of that kind of anger, It can curdle into something
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  Speaker 2: really dark, something maybe money can't fit.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got this potent mix financial freedom but deep
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  Speaker 1: emotional resentment and control. That's a powder.
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  Speaker 2: Keg, it really is. But for four days the police
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  Speaker 2: were hitting dead ends. They had the scene, the victim,
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  Speaker 2: the violence, the money paradox, the wife with the power
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  Speaker 2: of attorney, and the simmering resentment, but no solid link,
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  Speaker 2: no suspects.
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  Speaker 1: Frustrating What broke the case?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't forensics initially it was family. On the fifth day,
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  Speaker 2: Mar's eldest son, Majj came forward. He lived in the
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  Speaker 2: same building, an apartment above his father and noal.
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  Speaker 1: And he had information. Why wait five days?
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  Speaker 2: He admitted Noah, his stepmother had warned him not to
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  Speaker 2: talk about something he'd seen, told him his father got
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  Speaker 2: mixed up with some bad people and talking about it
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  Speaker 2: would just hurt Moore's reputation. She was trying to control
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  Speaker 2: the narrative.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, classic manipulation. What did Moijdi scene.
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  Speaker 2: He'd seen a meeting at the car dealership the day
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  Speaker 2: before the murder, a very strange meeting. Who was there, Maher,
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  Speaker 2: Noal and two other guys. One was named Allah He
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  Speaker 2: used to work for Mar. He used to Yeah, Mar
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  Speaker 2: had fired him apparently for being dishonest causing trouble. And
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  Speaker 2: the other guy with Allah was his friend Esse.
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  Speaker 1: So the victim, his wife, a fired employee known for dishonesty,
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  Speaker 1: and the friend. That sounds ominous. What were they meeting about?
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  Speaker 2: Business? Specifically a piece of land. Mar owned a valuable
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  Speaker 2: plot out in Albasatan near the Jewish cemetery.
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  Speaker 1: What was so important about this land?
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  Speaker 2: Mar had big plans for it. Wanted to build a
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  Speaker 2: cement brick factory. He was apparently really invested in this
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  Speaker 2: project and did not want to sell the land.
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  Speaker 1: But Allah and Zet were pressuring him.
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  Speaker 2: To sell it, Yes, intensely, according to Majie. They were
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  Speaker 2: really laying it on thick. But crucially so is Noel.
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  Speaker 1: The wife was pushing him to sell this land.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want to sell persistently, maj He said. She
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  Speaker 2: was nagging him, working on him alongside Allah and Eat,
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  Speaker 2: and eventually.
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  Speaker 1: Maher gave in, he agreed to sell.
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  Speaker 2: He agreed to meet their supposed buyer the next day
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  Speaker 2: at a specific coffee shop in an area called Eldarasa.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is huge. This connects the wife and these
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  Speaker 1: other guys to Maher's movements right before he died exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The police jumped on this immediately. They went back to
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  Speaker 2: Maher's office, searched his desk and found Maher had a
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  Speaker 2: habit he drew little maps for everywhere he was going,
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  Speaker 2: and they found it, a hand drawn map to that
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  Speaker 2: exact coffee shop in.
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  Speaker 1: Eldarassa incredible physical proof.
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  Speaker 2: Tangible evidence. So they went straight to the coffee shop.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to the owner.
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  Speaker 1: Did he remember them?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, he clearly remembered Maher pulling up in his
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  Speaker 2: gold Puyoh remembered him meeting two younger men, Alah and Azat.
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  Speaker 1: How long were they there?
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  Speaker 2: Not long at all, less than ten minutes, the owner said,
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  Speaker 2: just a quick meeting. Then the three of them got
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  Speaker 2: back into Mar's car and drove off together towards the autostrade.
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  Speaker 1: But who was driving this was key.
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  Speaker 2: The owner noticed one of the younger men, Allah got
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  Speaker 2: into the driver's seat, Mahr got in the passenger seat
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  Speaker 2: and the other young man, Zat, squeezed into the back.
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  Speaker 1: The ambush was set. They were in control of the
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  Speaker 1: car from the.
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  Speaker 2: Start, precisely so, armed with this timeline, this route, the map,
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  Speaker 2: the witness, they brought.
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  Speaker 1: Them all back in and confronted her with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. She tried to deny it again, denied knowing about
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  Speaker 2: any important business meeting. But faced with Majdi's testimony, the map,
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  Speaker 2: the coffee shop owner's account, she finally cracked.
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  Speaker 1: She confessed.
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  Speaker 2: She confessed to the plan, the plan to sell the land,
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  Speaker 2: the meeting she'd pushed for. It all started to.
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  Speaker 1: Unravel, which led them straight to Allah and Zat.
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  Speaker 2: Arrested them quickly, and the moment they got them, there
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  Speaker 2: was visible evidence, something obvious.
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  Speaker 1: What was it?
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  Speaker 2: Both Alla and Zett had fresh cuts on their arms,
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  Speaker 2: big ones, deep lacerations.
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  Speaker 1: Ah the attacker's blood from the trail.
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  Speaker 2: Looked like it. They immediately claimed they'd gotten hurt in
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: a street fight, totally unrelated.
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  Speaker 1: Right a convenient coincidence? Did forensics confirm?
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  Speaker 2: Forensics blew their story apart. The criminal lab got blood
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  Speaker 2: samples from both Allah and Eszat. They compared the blood
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  Speaker 2: types to the samples taken from that massive six hundred
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  Speaker 2: meters blood trail near the car, A perfect match. The
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  Speaker 2: blood on the road belonged to them, undeniable, absolutely, and
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  Speaker 2: there was more fingerprints, bloody fingerprints lifted from the outside
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  Speaker 2: of the car body.
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  Speaker 1: Let me guess, Allah and.
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  Speaker 2: Esa matched them exactly. The street fight was a lie.
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  Speaker 2: Those injuries happened inside that car during the murder.
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  Speaker 1: So faced with all that they talked, they broke.
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  Speaker 2: The full confession came out piece by piece, and it
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  Speaker 2: all pointed back to one person as the mastermind, Nala Nullah.
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  Speaker 2: She orchestrated the whole thing. She had approached Allah, the
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  Speaker 2: disgruntled ex employee.
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  Speaker 1: What did she offer him?
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  Speaker 2: A fortune two hundred thousand Egyptian pounds, which was a
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  Speaker 2: huge sum back then, plus a brand new car and
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  Speaker 2: incredibly half ownership of Mars car dealership.
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  Speaker 1: Half the business. Yeah, just to kill her husband.
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  Speaker 2: That was the deal. Alla, likely driven by greed and
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  Speaker 2: maybe resentment over being fired, agreed, but he knew Mar
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  Speaker 2: knew he was a big, strong.
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  Speaker 1: Guy, couldn't handle him alone, right.
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  Speaker 2: So he recruited his friend as At, promised him a
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  Speaker 2: chunk of the money to help with the dirty work.
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  Speaker 1: So the plane at the coffee shop, it was just
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  Speaker 1: a pretext.
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  Speaker 2: Getmar in the car, isolate him, as that hid the
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  Speaker 2: knife in the back seat. Once they were driving, Ala
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  Speaker 2: gave some kind of signal.
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  Speaker 1: And as that attacked from behind, started the stabbing.
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  Speaker 2: Then Alla joined in churning the knife on his former boss.
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  Speaker 2: That's how they inflicted those sixty one wounds. That so
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  Speaker 2: they got injured themselves in the process.
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  Speaker 1: Just brutal, calculating.
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  Speaker 2: Utterly, ruthless. After the murder, they dumped the car, went
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  Speaker 2: straight to a clinic, got stitched up, and invented the
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  Speaker 2: story about the street brawl.
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  Speaker 1: The betrayal is just staggering, especially from the wall. He
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  Speaker 1: gave her everything financially, with that power of attorney.
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  Speaker 2: Complete trust. She could have taken the money, the assets
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  Speaker 2: legally without any violence, and a Lamar had employed him
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  Speaker 2: tried to help him at one point. It's layers of betrayal.
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  Speaker 1: Greed, resentment, a lethal combination. They were all sentence, all.
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  Speaker 2: Three received the death penalty. The evidence was overwhelming, The
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  Speaker 2: confessions detailed the how and the who were crystal clear.
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  Speaker 1: But there's still a piece missing, isn't there?
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  Speaker 2: There is the deepest Why, specifically, why the extreme violence
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  Speaker 2: Noel masterminded it. The motive seems clearer, get mar out
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  Speaker 2: of the way, maybe stop him interfering with her son,
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  Speaker 2: and solidify her control over the assets, even though she
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  Speaker 2: technically already had it.
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  Speaker 1: But why demand such brutality? Why sixty one stab wounds?
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  Speaker 2: That's the question that hangs over this case. Noal, even
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  Speaker 2: after conviction, even when facing death, refused to explain it.
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  Speaker 2: She never revealed the true depth of her hatred, the
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  Speaker 2: psychological reason for needing him not just dead but utterly destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: She took that secret with her she did.
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  Speaker 2: Why orchestrate such a savage, hands on murder when a simpler,
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  Speaker 2: cleaner method might have achieved the same financial result, especially
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  Speaker 2: given her power of attorney. The sixty one stab wounds
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  Speaker 2: remain the horrifying signature of a motive she never fully disclosed.
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  Speaker 1: It really makes you think, doesn't it. This case. It's
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: a chilling reminder of how betrayal can curdle into extreme,
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  Speaker 1: calculated violence. But the unanswered question is terrifying in itself,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely considering Mark gave no Wall, that complete financial freedom,
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  Speaker 1: that ultimate sign of trust. Why the overkill? Why the savage,
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  Speaker 1: bloody execution, What level of hidden rage, What dark calculation
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  Speaker 1: turns absolute trust into that leads you wondering how well
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: can you ever truly know the secrets hidden inside the
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  Speaker 1: people closest to you