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The Forensic Files of Assiut · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's just dive right in. We're going to drop
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  Speaker 1: you into a scene that was meticulously designed to look
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  Speaker 1: like a terrible accident, a random act of fate.
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  Speaker 2: We're near the Assuit railway station. It's about six point
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  Speaker 2: and am. That cold early morning light is just starting
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  Speaker 2: to break, and that's when local residents find it. A
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  Speaker 2: body on the tracks.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a horrific scene. I mean, you can just
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  Speaker 1: imagine the visceral horror. The body is severely mutilated, torn
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  Speaker 1: into many pieces.
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  Speaker 2: The immediate assumption, of course, is that a person was
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  Speaker 2: hit by a train. It has all the hallmarks of
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  Speaker 2: a rail fatality, a really grim but seemingly open and
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  Speaker 2: shut case.
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  Speaker 3: Except it wasn't not at all.
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  Speaker 2: The moment the specialized security teams and the forensic lab
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  Speaker 2: arrive on site, they see something different. They don't just
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  Speaker 2: see a victim, they see a construction.
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  Speaker 1: And this is really the first major turning point, right
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  Speaker 1: because what looks like a horrible accident to a civilian
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  Speaker 1: immediately seems off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, to an expert, almost immediately, the assumption just fell
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  Speaker 2: apart under the first bit of scrutiny.
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  Speaker 1: So what did they see what specifically made them stop
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  Speaker 1: and say, wait a minute, this isn't right, because to
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  Speaker 1: mel a body hit by a train is the definition
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  Speaker 1: of chaos.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly why they were suspicious. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: a fast moving train hit something, it's pure physics, high speed,
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  Speaker 2: high energy things are thrown, scattered, dragged, it's an.
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  Speaker 1: Explosion, huge debris field, a.
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  Speaker 2: Huge, unpredictable debris field. Yeah, but that's not what they
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  Speaker 2: found here.
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  Speaker 1: It was the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: It was the complete opposite. The forensic team noted two
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  Speaker 2: huge red flags right away. First was the distribution of
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  Speaker 2: the remains. Okay, instead of being chaotically scattered, the body
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  Speaker 2: parts were well. The report called it a methodical or
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  Speaker 2: organized manner.
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  Speaker 3: It was just too neat.
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  Speaker 1: That's an incredible detail. It's less like an impact and
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  Speaker 1: more like someone placed the pieces precisely.
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  Speaker 2: And the second red flag was related to that. There
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  Speaker 2: was no debris field. If a train hits a body
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  Speaker 2: at speed, material is going to be found yards away
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  Speaker 2: in the brush everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: But there is nothing, nothing which.
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  Speaker 2: Strongly suggested the victim was placed there after death, not
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  Speaker 2: hit by a train in motion.
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  Speaker 1: And I imagine they immediately started checking the trains themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, security reviewed every train that passed in that time.
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  Speaker 2: Window witnesses saw nothing, but the real proof was, well,
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  Speaker 2: it is microscopic. The forensic teams went over the wheels,
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  Speaker 2: the undercarriage of the trains clean, no residue, no blood,
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  Speaker 2: no tissue, no signs that they had run over anything
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  Speaker 2: substantial at all.
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  Speaker 1: So the body is destroyed, but the trains are clean.
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  Speaker 1: The question becomes how is that possible?
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  Speaker 2: And the autopsy report provided the definitive, chilling answer. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't just contradict the accident theory, it blew it out
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  Speaker 2: of the water.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what were the findings.
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  Speaker 2: First toxicology, the body contained traces of a narcotic a drug.
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  Speaker 3: He been sedated.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so incapacitated. First.
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  Speaker 3: This was planned, deeply planned.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not what killed him. The cause of death
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  Speaker 2: was clear, massive blunt force trauma to the head DROM.
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  Speaker 2: A weapon a large wooden club or stick. According to
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  Speaker 2: the report, he was beaten.
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  Speaker 1: To death and the dismemberment that was.
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  Speaker 2: The final piece. The report confirmed It wasn't from the
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  Speaker 2: crushing force of a train. It was done with a
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  Speaker 2: sharp tool, specifically a knife.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. So the whole thing was a performance.
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  Speaker 2: A complete fabrication. He was drugged, murdered somewhere else, dismembered,
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  Speaker 2: and then meticulously staged on the tracks.
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  Speaker 1: But they had a huge problem. The killer or killers
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  Speaker 1: had been very careful. They had a victim with no ID,
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  Speaker 1: no documents, no wallet, nothing right, So.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation shifts from what happened to who is he?
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  Speaker 2: And for days they had nothing, just circulating descriptions, waiting
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  Speaker 2: for a break.
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  Speaker 1: And that break comes on day four.
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  Speaker 2: It does a missing post and report gets filed by
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  Speaker 2: an elderly father. The only issue is it's from a
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  Speaker 2: village a pretty significant distance away from the crime scene.
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  Speaker 1: But the details lineup they do.
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  Speaker 2: The victim is identified as Salah. He's twenty seven, a
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  Speaker 2: skilled worker who traveled a lot for.
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  Speaker 1: His job and his father. When he's interviewed, he says
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  Speaker 1: Sala had no enemies, that he was well liked.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he claims said.
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  Speaker 2: He left for a job in the village five days earlier,
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  Speaker 2: just a totally normal guy with no connection to this
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  Speaker 2: kind of horror.
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  Speaker 1: But the police know a crime this personal this stage
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  Speaker 1: isn't random. They have to find the connection.
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  Speaker 2: And they find it where they so often do these days,
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  Speaker 2: in the digital trail. They get his mobile phone records.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this.
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  Speaker 2: They track the phone's activity until it goes dead. And
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  Speaker 2: the very last number he called belonged to a woman,
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  Speaker 2: a twenty four year old named Omnia.
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  Speaker 1: And where does she live?
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  Speaker 2: She's from Sala's village, but she had married a man
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  Speaker 2: named miss Sam, an electrician, a couple of years prior.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the kicker.
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  Speaker 3: I'm guessing here's the kicker.
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  Speaker 2: After they got married, Omnia Essam moved and their new
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  Speaker 2: home was and I quote, very close to the exact
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  Speaker 2: spot on the railway tracks where Sala's body was found.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that one phone call just connects everything the victim,
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  Speaker 1: from his home village to the perpetrators living right now
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  Speaker 1: to the dump site.
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  Speaker 3: It does.
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  Speaker 2: But when police go back to Saula's father with this information,
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  Speaker 2: he gets hesitant. He claims he doesn't know anything about
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  Speaker 2: an Omnia.
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  Speaker 1: So they're hiding something.
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  Speaker 2: The family is hiding something investigators knew. They had to
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  Speaker 2: dig into Saula's social circle, talk to his friends.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when the real story comes out.
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  Speaker 3: It does.
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  Speaker 2: The friends confirm it. Saul and Omnia had been in
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  Speaker 2: an illicit relationship before she got married. He was apparently
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  Speaker 2: deeply in love wanted to marry her, but he just
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  Speaker 2: wasn't financially ready.
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  Speaker 1: So she marries Essam instead and cuts off all contact.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but this is where it turns, well, it turns
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  Speaker 2: from romance to blackmail. How So, during their relationship, Sala
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  Speaker 2: had secretly taken photos and videos of omnia compromising ones.
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  Speaker 2: He told her they were just for memories.
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  Speaker 1: But when she left him, those memories became weapons exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He felt betrayed, so he started threatening her, demanding the
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  Speaker 2: continue of the relationship or he would send the photos
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  Speaker 2: to her husband, her family.
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  Speaker 3: The entire village.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's that is a terrifying situation to be.
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  Speaker 2: In, especially when you find out who her husband is.
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  Speaker 2: The police run a background check on sm the electrician,
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  Speaker 2: and it turns out he has a serious criminal history.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of history, convictions for armed robbery.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So she's not just worried about social ruin, she's
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  Speaker 1: terrified of the wrath of a violent criminal, her own husband.
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  Speaker 2: So police move fast. They go to Omniu's house near
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  Speaker 2: the tracks. The report says she showed extreme signs of
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  Speaker 2: anxiety the moment she saw them, and her husband, Sam
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  Speaker 2: was conveniently not there.
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  Speaker 1: They confront her.
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  Speaker 2: They confront her with solace photo with the phone records,
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  Speaker 2: and she knows the game is up. She breaks down
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  Speaker 2: and confesses everything.
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  Speaker 1: She told a psalm about the blackmail.
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  Speaker 2: She told him everything, and his decision was immediate and brutal.
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  Speaker 2: They had to murder.
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  Speaker 1: Sola and get the phone. That was the whole point,
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  Speaker 1: eliminate the threat and destroy the evidence.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So now we can walk through that night, the
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  Speaker 2: five hour window where this whole horrifying plan unfold.
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  Speaker 1: It starts with the lure.
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  Speaker 2: It does Omnia call Sala, She tells him to come
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  Speaker 2: to the house as her husband and Sam as away traveling,
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  Speaker 2: setting the trap.
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  Speaker 1: Then the preparation. They prepare a sedative. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: drug his drink as m is hiding inside the house armed.
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  Speaker 2: Their plan is probably to just knock him out quietly
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  Speaker 2: and take the phone, but it goes wrong. This is
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  Speaker 2: around eleven pm. Salah arrives. He drinks the tea with
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  Speaker 2: the drug in it, but it's not strong enough. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't fully.
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  Speaker 3: Incapacitate him, and Sam has to act.
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  Speaker 2: A sum has to come out of hiding. He has
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  Speaker 2: that large wooden club and he strikes Sola on the head,
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  Speaker 2: killing him instantly. Now it's not a simple robbery, it's
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  Speaker 2: a murder.
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  Speaker 1: They have to cover up, and the cover up becomes
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  Speaker 1: the staging exactly.
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  Speaker 2: With solid dead. Sam starts to dismember the body with
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  Speaker 2: a knife. And this is where that chilling detail comes in.
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  Speaker 1: Is morbid inspiration.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, having lived by those tracks his entire life,
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  Speaker 2: he knew exactly what a train accident looked like. He
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  Speaker 2: had seen the aftermath before he was trying to replicate it.
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  Speaker 1: That is the level of cold calculation that is just
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  Speaker 1: hard to comprehend. He's using a knife to mimic the
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  Speaker 1: force of a locomotive.
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  Speaker 2: He is, And they work until four am. They put
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  Speaker 2: the remains in plastic bags, take them out to the tracks,
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  Speaker 2: and carefully arrange them in that methodical way that the
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  Speaker 2: forensics team noticed.
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  Speaker 1: Your biggest mistake, their biggest mistake.
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  Speaker 2: And on the final step evidence disposal, they take all
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  Speaker 2: the Sola's ID. Then they take the phone, the whole
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  Speaker 2: reason for the murder. They break it and then they
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  Speaker 2: burn it.
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  Speaker 1: They thought they had erased every single trace.
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  Speaker 2: Every trace, but the phone wreckers already existed and Issam
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  Speaker 2: was arrested shortly after he got home. He denied it.
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  Speaker 1: All, of course, until he was confronted with Omnia's full confession,
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  Speaker 1: at which.
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  Speaker 2: Point he had nowhere to go. The entire desperate plot
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  Speaker 2: just unraveled.
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  Speaker 1: And the final verdict for both of them was the
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  Speaker 1: death sentence.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a stunning case. The whole scheme was undone
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  Speaker 2: because in their effort to perfectly replicate chaos, they made
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  Speaker 2: the scene too orderly.
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  Speaker 1: So when we look at this, what does it all mean?
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  Speaker 1: This was aphisticated plan, drugs, murder, staging, destroying evidence. It
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  Speaker 1: worked perfectly for five.
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  Speaker 2: Hours, but it fell apart because of two things that
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  Speaker 2: organized placement and that single forgotten phone call that placed
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  Speaker 2: the victim right at their new front door.
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  Speaker 1: It really highlights how the most careful plans can be
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  Speaker 1: undone by the simplest of oversights.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely the electronic trail or in this case, the physical
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  Speaker 2: trail they tried so hard to disguise.
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  Speaker 1: So it leaves me with this one question. What if
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  Speaker 1: they hadn't been so elaborate, What if they had just
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  Speaker 1: taken the body, dumped it in a river miles away,
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  Speaker 1: and burn the phone.
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  Speaker 2: Would the police ever have connected an anonymous body found
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  Speaker 2: so far away to this specific couple exactly.
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  Speaker 1: The sheer audacity of trying to stage an accident was,
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  Speaker 1: in the end, their downfall. The thing they thought was
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  Speaker 1: so clever was actually the strongest proof that it was
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  Speaker 1: a murder.
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  Speaker 2: The attempt to create chaos was the most orderly clue
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  Speaker 2: they could have left.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for this deep dive.