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The Six-Year Plot: Passport Left Behind Reveals Wife's Border-Crossing Murder Conspiracy · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: So we're doing a deep dive today into a really
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  Speaker 1: intricate criminal conspiracy. It's quite a story, Yeah, it really is.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about six years of planning, crossing.
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  Speaker 1: Border Palestine to Egypt and it all comes down to
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  Speaker 1: this plot a wife against her husband, driven by years
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  Speaker 1: of resentment, and.
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  Speaker 2: It ends tragically and the Egyptian desert. But let's start
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  Speaker 2: right where it really heats up at the discovery. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: where are we March twenty twenty one, but Drashan, Giza Governorate, Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: Picture this dried, dusty air of farmer's out near his fields, right,
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  Speaker 2: and he sees something odd, something bundled, half submerged in
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  Speaker 2: a mass rof sahi. That's a local sewage drain stagnant
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  Speaker 2: water grim scene.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the plice are called in.
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  Speaker 2: They are they retrieve the body. It's a man fully clothed,
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  Speaker 2: which is you know, a bit strange if it was
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  Speaker 2: just a robbery.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, usually they take everything.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, but all his valuables are gone. Looks like a straightforward,
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  Speaker 2: if brutal mugging at first glance, but there's one thing
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  Speaker 2: left behind. What's that tucked away in his back pocket?
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  Speaker 1: A passport a passport they left ID that seems.
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  Speaker 2: Careless or maybe intentional. You'll get to that. The passport
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  Speaker 2: identifies him Catter Shinbari, forty one years old, Palestinian citizen. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and here's the kicker, the really crucial detail. He'd only
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  Speaker 2: been in Egypt for twenty days.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty days, Wow, that's.
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  Speaker 2: That's nothing, rarely landed. So the immediate question is what
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  Speaker 2: on earth happened to Catter in those like three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Right? To understand the murder, you can't just look at
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  Speaker 1: those twenty days, can you.
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  Speaker 2: No, you absolutely have to rewind years back. You have
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  Speaker 2: to understand the relationship he had with the person closest
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  Speaker 2: to him, his.
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  Speaker 1: Wife, honey, Ali Gebber.
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  Speaker 2: That's her. Let's go back to two thousand and five.
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  Speaker 2: Catter's twenty five, she's about twenty one, four years younger.
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  Speaker 2: They get married and.
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  Speaker 1: They start a family that one right, Yeah, six kids
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  Speaker 1: over the next ten years. So from the outside looking in,
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  Speaker 1: probably seem like a normal, maybe even happy family life.
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  Speaker 2: But appearances can be deceiving, as they say, very much so.
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  Speaker 1: Here the information suggests the relationship really soured over time,
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  Speaker 1: and the main driver seems to have been financial pressure.
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  Speaker 2: More kids, less money. That's a classic stressor exactly. Katter's
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  Speaker 2: ability to provide apparently declined as the family grew, and
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  Speaker 2: this seems to have built up a lot of resentment,
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  Speaker 2: certainly on Hanya's side.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but then there's this conflict in the story. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: there about abuse?
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  Speaker 2: Right? This is where it gets really interesting and frankly
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  Speaker 2: quite murky. Later on, Hennya claims Catter was abusive, physically abusive.
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  Speaker 1: To her and the children, trying to justify her actions.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps it certainly.
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  Speaker 2: Looks that way, especially when you compare it to what
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  Speaker 2: others said their neighbors back in Palestine. They completely contradicted
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  Speaker 2: her story, uniformly say they described Catter as a good father, dedicated,
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  Speaker 2: someone who really cared about his kid's happiness. It paints
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  Speaker 2: a very different picture.
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  Speaker 1: So the abuse claim seems convenient, at least, maybe not
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  Speaker 1: the real root cause.
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  Speaker 2: It strongly suggests the motive wasn't self defense or escaping abuse.
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  Speaker 2: It points more towards well malice, resentment over their life,
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  Speaker 2: their financial situation, and.
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  Speaker 1: She fixated on one solution, not divorce.
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  Speaker 2: Never divorce. That's key. From about twenty seventeen, onwards. Her
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  Speaker 2: one single goal appears to be getting rid of Catter
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  Speaker 2: permanently and crucially doing it in a way that would
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  Speaker 2: leave zero trace back to her. That was always the focus.
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  Speaker 1: A six year obsession, as Johnny So twenty seventeen is
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  Speaker 1: when she starts actively plotting.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's when the first concrete plan seems to emerge.
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  Speaker 2: She starts pushing Cotter really hard to leave Palestine. Fine
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  Speaker 2: work abroad, but he didn't want to go. No, he
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  Speaker 2: wanted to stay with the family, with his kids, but
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  Speaker 2: she was relentless. Eventually she wears him down, convinces him
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  Speaker 2: their only hope is a legal immigration to Europe.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so he agrees to this dangerous journey.
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  Speaker 2: He does. But here's the truly dark part. Hanya wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just sending him off. She was secretly coordinating with the
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  Speaker 2: smuggler who was arranging.
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  Speaker 1: The boat, coordinating how she.
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  Speaker 2: Gave him instructions and payment. The instruction was to throw
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  Speaker 2: caught her overboard mid journey, in the middle of the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Just murder amid sea.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, cold blooded. But then she calls it off last minute.
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  Speaker 1: She had a change of heart.
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  Speaker 2: Second thoughts doesn't seem like it was morals or love
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  Speaker 2: kicking in it was purely tactical. She realized the flaw
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  Speaker 2: in the plan. What if someone else on the boat survived.
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  Speaker 2: What if they reported the murder, the smuggler would be caught, right, and.
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  Speaker 1: He'd immediately point a finger at her to save himself.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. So she aborted the plan, not because it was wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but because the risk of her getting caught was too high.
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  Speaker 2: Risk assessment, pure and.
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  Speaker 1: Simple, incredible. So that plan fails. She needs a new approach,
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  Speaker 1: someone maybe more controllable.
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  Speaker 2: Uh closer precisely, which brings us to twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: She needs a new pawn.
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  Speaker 1: Enter the Internet, right.
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  Speaker 2: Facebook Henye is three seven, now still married, still plodding.
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  Speaker 2: She connects online with Mohammed Ibrahim Ramadan. He's Egyptian, twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years old, works in a plastics factory, and crucially crucially,
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  Speaker 2: he's described as a registered offender, already known to the police.
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  Speaker 1: That seems significant, potentially easier to influence, or maybe just
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  Speaker 1: less risk averse.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps both, and Honey plays this masterfully. She starts feeding
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  Speaker 2: him details about her unhappy life, carefully grooming him, building.
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  Speaker 1: This connection, seducing him basically.
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  Speaker 2: Essentially, Yes, She eventually tells him she's in love with him,
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  Speaker 2: wants to marry him, but the just.
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  Speaker 1: One obstacle her husband, COTTERR.
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  Speaker 2: Cotter, he's the only thing standing in their way. According
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  Speaker 2: to her narrative, Mohammed is completely taken in hook line
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  Speaker 2: and Sinker, ready to do whatever she.
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  Speaker 1: Asks, and he gives her the next step she needs.
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  Speaker 2: He does. He tells her, Okay, if we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be together, you need to come to Egypt. Bring the
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  Speaker 2: whole family, Cotter, the kids, everyone, come here and I
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  Speaker 2: will handle the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Which is exactly what she wanted. She needed Cotter on
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian soil, where Mohammad could operate.
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  Speaker 2: It gives her the perfect excuse.
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  Speaker 1: So how does she convince Coddr To uproot the entire
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  Speaker 1: family and move to.
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  Speaker 2: Egypt another calculated deception. She tells him she's found a connection,
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  Speaker 2: supposedly through friend's husband, a broker in Egypt who can
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  Speaker 2: get him good work, find them a place to live,
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  Speaker 2: sort everything.
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  Speaker 1: Out, and Cotter, desperate for a solution, buys it.
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  Speaker 2: He does he wants to provide for his family. This
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  Speaker 2: sounds like the answer, so in March twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: they arrive Cotter, Hanya and all six children, and.
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  Speaker 1: Guess who meets them, playing the role of the helpful
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  Speaker 1: broker Mohammed.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, he even rents them an apartment in Badrashan.
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  Speaker 2: And where does he rent it.
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  Speaker 1: Let me guess, right next door to his own place.
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  Speaker 2: Got it right next door? Maximum convenience for planning and
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  Speaker 2: for the affair.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So this is the start of those final twenty
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  Speaker 1: days the countdown begins, it does.
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  Speaker 2: And he trusts Mohammed completely. This guy is his lifeline,
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  Speaker 2: his only friend, his fixer in this new country.
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  Speaker 1: While Cotter's out pounding the pavement looking for these jobs,
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  Speaker 1: Mohammad supposedly is lined.
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  Speaker 2: Up and encouraged by Hanya to go out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep looking.
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed and Hania are together in the apartment, plotting.
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  Speaker 2: Plotting the murder, yes, and carrying on their affair. And
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  Speaker 2: just get this, Hania is pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: Pregnant with her seventh child during all this.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, pregnant, but completely focused on the affair and the
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  Speaker 2: intricate details of how they're going to kill her husband,
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  Speaker 2: the father of her children, including the one she's carrying.
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  Speaker 1: The level of compartmentalization is staggering.
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  Speaker 2: It really is. So they're strategizing and Mohammad decides he
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  Speaker 2: needs backup for the actual act.
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  Speaker 1: He's not gonna do to himself.
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  Speaker 2: No, he outsources the wet work. Essentially, he contacts mag
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  Speaker 2: Biel Dagdati fifty one years old, lives in Saquara and
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  Speaker 2: let me guess, another registered offender. Mohammad pays him specifically
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  Speaker 2: to carry out the murder.
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  Speaker 1: So now we have Hania the masterfind Mohammed the lover
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  Speaker 1: and facilitator, and Magdie the hired killer.
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  Speaker 2: That's the core team. The plan is set.
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  Speaker 1: How do they lure caught?
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  Speaker 2: March twentieth, twenty twenty one, Mohammad calls Cotter says, great news,
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  Speaker 2: found some solid job opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Playing the helpful broker role to the end exactly.
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  Speaker 2: They spend the whole day together, visiting potential workplaces, talking
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  Speaker 2: about the future, cementing that trust one last time. This
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  Speaker 2: goes on until evening. Ben On the way back home, supposedly,
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  Speaker 2: Mohammad suggests a quick detour, says he needs to pick
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  Speaker 2: something up from his place.
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  Speaker 1: But he takes an unusual route.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cotter apparently notices the path is strange. It's deserted
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  Speaker 2: quiet off the main track. But he's with Mohammed, his friend, right,
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  Speaker 2: so he doesn't suspect anything fatal. He trusts him, He
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  Speaker 2: trusts him, and that trust is broken in the most
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  Speaker 2: brutal way possible. In this desolate, isolated spot, Magdi appears,
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  Speaker 2: just emerges from the fields like an ambush. He's carrying
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  Speaker 2: a schuma basically a heavy, thick club, and he just
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  Speaker 2: attacks Catter viciously, going hits him repeatedly on the head,
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  Speaker 2: fractures his skull, makes absolutely sure he's dead.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus. Okay, so Katter is dead. What do Mohammed and
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  Speaker 1: Magdi do?
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  Speaker 2: Then they rob him, take his money, his phone, anything valuable,
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  Speaker 2: make it look like a robbery, but they leave the
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  Speaker 2: passport deliberately, deliberately leave the passport in his back pocket.
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  Speaker 2: That was part of their plan, remember for quick identification.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And then they need to dispose.
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  Speaker 2: Of the body, right, They bring in one more person,
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  Speaker 2: a fourth accomplice, said d l a Sale. He's twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: owns a tooktop.
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  Speaker 1: A getaway driver essentially, yeah, more like.
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  Speaker 2: A transport service for the body. They use his TikTok
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  Speaker 2: to move Kater's body to that sewage, drain the mass
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  Speaker 2: rofsaki and dump it there where the farmer eventually finds him.
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  Speaker 1: The whole thing is just meticulously planned, step by step.
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  Speaker 2: Every stage was thought out, the lure, the ambush, the
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  Speaker 2: clean up, the disposal.
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  Speaker 1: So the body's dumped, what's the immediate next step for
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  Speaker 1: Hanye and Mohammed.
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  Speaker 2: Mohammed sends Hanya a message on Facebook basically saying job done.
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  Speaker 3: Confirmed on Facebook. Seriously, seriously, we'll come back to that
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  Speaker 3: critical err. Then they wait two days, let a little
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  Speaker 3: time pass, and then then they walk into the police
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  Speaker 3: station together to file a missing person report for Cada.
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  Speaker 2: Playing the part of the worried wife and the helpful
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  Speaker 2: friends exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Their calculation was, Okay, the body will be found quickly
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  Speaker 1: because of the passport. It'll looked like a robbery murder.
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  Speaker 1: By filing the report, they appear cooperative, grieving, deflects any
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  Speaker 1: possible suspicion away from them. Almost clever, almost. But they
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  Speaker 1: made some huge miscalculations, didn't they, especially about the police.
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  Speaker 2: Massive miscalculations. They underestimated the investigators. The police already had
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  Speaker 2: the body already id'd cotterer thanks to that passport. They
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  Speaker 2: so helpfully left, So.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation wasn't starting from scratch when they walked.
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  Speaker 2: In, not at all. The police knew who the victim was,
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  Speaker 2: and they knew he'd only been in Egypt twenty days,
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  Speaker 2: So who did he know? Who were his contacts?
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed the broker is only real contact.
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  Speaker 2: And not just any contact a registered offender. That's an
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  Speaker 2: immediate red flag for the police. Right, He's instantly person
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  Speaker 2: number one on their list.
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  Speaker 1: So Muhammad was flagged straight away. What about hernia?
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  Speaker 2: Standard procedure in spousal death often involves looking closely at
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  Speaker 2: the spouse, so suspicion naturally falls on her too. Investigators
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  Speaker 2: start digging into their connection, and.
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  Speaker 1: They used Facebook.
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  Speaker 3: And they used.
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  Speaker 2: Facebook for everything, the grooming, the planning, the coordination, and
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  Speaker 2: that final confirmation message That was the fatal flaw.
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  Speaker 1: They managed all the physical logistics, moving countries, hiring killers,
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  Speaker 1: staging a scene, but failed completely on digital security totally.
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  Speaker 2: The investigators suspecting the affair and her involvement, got access
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  Speaker 2: to those messages.
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  Speaker 1: All of it.
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  Speaker 2: The entire plot laid bare in their Facebook chat history.
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  Speaker 1: So picture this. Hani and Muhammad walk into the flee station,
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  Speaker 1: ready to put on their performance.
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  Speaker 2: Thinking they've got the perfect cover story, ready to act distraught.
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  Speaker 1: And instead the police basically say thanks for coming in,
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  Speaker 1: We've already read your messages confirming the murder.
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  Speaker 2: USh exactly that. They were confronted right there and then
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  Speaker 2: with printed copies of their own incriminating Facebook messages, including
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  Speaker 2: Mohammad's job done message.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, arrested on the spot.
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  Speaker 2: Instantly, the perfect plan crumbled because of a digital footprint
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  Speaker 2: they never thought would be traced.
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  Speaker 1: It's just such a contrast, isn't it. The years of careful,
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  Speaker 1: sinister planning, the multiple accomplices, the international move, this staged robbery, all.
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  Speaker 2: That complexity undone by well traceable dms. It's almost bafflingly
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  Speaker 2: arrogant or naive maybe both.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to them in the end and Magdi The.
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  Speaker 2: Wheels of justice turned relatively quickly in this case. In
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, Hania, Mohammad, and the hitman Magdi al
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  Speaker 2: Baghdati were all sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 1: And the fourth accomplice, the Tip Tuck driver.
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  Speaker 2: The sources focus mainly on the three primary conspirators receiving
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  Speaker 2: the death penalty hey Hanya.
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  Speaker 1: The descriptions from the court room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, reportedly quite dramatic. She was seen crying holding her
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  Speaker 2: newborn baby, the seventh child she was pregnant with during
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  Speaker 2: the plotting trying to evoke sympathy, it seems.
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  Speaker 1: Despite orchestrating the murder of the father for seven.
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  Speaker 2: Children, exactly seven children left without a father directly because
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  Speaker 2: of her actions. Cotter's body, by the way, was eventually
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  Speaker 2: returned to Palestine. He got a proper burial back home.
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  Speaker 1: Such a tragic end, and it leaves you with this
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  Speaker 1: really disturbing question, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It really does.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of mindset, what level of I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: deep seated malice and utter self absorption does it take
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  Speaker 1: to plot for six years to kill your spouse, your partner,
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  Speaker 1: the father of your.
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  Speaker 2: Children, to try it once and fail, then regroup and
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  Speaker 2: try again.
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  Speaker 1: All while living with him, raising those kids, even carrying
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  Speaker 1: another one of his children during the final stages of
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  Speaker 1: the plot. It's hard to comprehend that level of sustained
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  Speaker 1: deception and coldness.
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  Speaker 2: It really is that chilling dedication, that psychological aspect that's
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  Speaker 2: maybe the most haunting part of this whole story for
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  Speaker 2: you to think about.