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Kafr El-Sheikh doctor's crime · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's set the scene. It's New Year's Day,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. We're in Kafer Elshik in Egypt, and it's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be, you know, a quiet day.
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  Speaker 2: A fresh start exactly.
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  Speaker 3: But in this one residential tower around noon, that quiet
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  Speaker 3: is just shattered.
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  Speaker 1: We have to try and imagine the sound. Neighbors talked
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  Speaker 1: about this sudden, high pitched scream that just cuts through everything.
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  Speaker 3: It was desperate and it brought people running. The doorman,
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  Speaker 3: the neighbors all rushing up to the third floor.
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  Speaker 1: And there they find doctor Ahmed Abdullah Zaki. He's a physician.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to be just getting home.
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  Speaker 3: And he is by all accounts, in a state of
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  Speaker 3: total collapse, just completely distraught.
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  Speaker 1: But the scene he supposedly just discovered is it's a
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  Speaker 1: domestic massacre.
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  Speaker 3: It is inside that apartment. Investigators find his wife, doctor
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  Speaker 3: Mona el Sajini. She's thirty years old.
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  Speaker 1: And she's been murdered, along with her three children.
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  Speaker 3: All three eight year old Abdullah, six year old Omar,
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  Speaker 3: and the little girl Leila, who is just four years old.
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  Speaker 1: Just an entire family gone.
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  Speaker 3: And this is where we get at the very first anomaly,
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  Speaker 3: the first red flag. Amidst this unbelievable horror, Doctor Ahmed,
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  Speaker 3: the grieving father, is fixated on one thing.
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  Speaker 1: What was it?
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  Speaker 2: The missing gold?
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  Speaker 3: He kept mentioning the jewelry had been stolen from the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: That just doesn't track. I mean, if you've just found
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  Speaker 1: your entire family murdered, is your mind even capable of
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  Speaker 1: processing a detail like stolen jewelry psychologically?
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  Speaker 3: It's a huge inconsistency that overwhelming shock should erase any
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  Speaker 3: material thought. For the witnesses that focus on a staged robbery, hmm,
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  Speaker 3: it just felt wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what this deep dive is all about. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to trace how a man, a doctor, spent four
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  Speaker 1: months meticulously planning this, all driven by professional envy.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start with the crime scene itself, because the physical
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  Speaker 3: evidence immediately told a very different story from the one
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  Speaker 3: he was trying to sell.
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  Speaker 1: Right first, the front door, no.
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  Speaker 3: Signs of forced entry, none, no splittered wood, no broken lock.
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  Speaker 3: This wasn't a random person breaking.
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  Speaker 1: In, So whoever did this was led in.
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  Speaker 3: Or had a key precisely, And the so called robbery
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  Speaker 3: was well, it was incredibly specific.
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  Speaker 2: Only gold jewelry was taken the.
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  Speaker 1: Rest of the apartment was untouched completely, and.
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  Speaker 3: The gold was taken from a closet in the bedroom,
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  Speaker 3: a place you know only someone very familiar with the
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  Speaker 3: home would even know.
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  Speaker 1: To look, So the scene was staged. The killer was
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  Speaker 1: known to the family, which of course puts suspicions squarely
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  Speaker 1: on the husband instantly.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Ahmed is the primary suspect. But the problem for
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  Speaker 3: investigators was this man had an alibi and it was,
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  Speaker 3: for all intents and purposes perfect.
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  Speaker 1: He had his whole morning mapped out for them.
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  Speaker 3: He did a step by step account. He said he
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  Speaker 3: had breakfast with his family, then left for his job
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  Speaker 3: at the local health unit.
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  Speaker 1: And he had proof.
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  Speaker 3: He had a paper trail for everything.
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  Speaker 2: He proved.
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  Speaker 3: He gone to a bank and even had a transaction number.
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  Speaker 3: He placed a large order at a fish restaurant, paid
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  Speaker 3: for it, and had it set for delivery.
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  Speaker 1: He's building a record of normalcy.
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  Speaker 2: A verifiable record.
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  Speaker 3: He even mentioned calling a carpenter to arranged them work
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  Speaker 3: for his wife's brother. And the thing is every single
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  Speaker 3: detail checked out.
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  Speaker 1: You're kidding, not at all.
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  Speaker 3: His signature was in the work ledger, the bank confirmed
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  Speaker 3: his visit, the restaurant confirmed the order, even the Carpenter
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  Speaker 3: confirmed the phone call, so.
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  Speaker 1: At the time of the murders, all the evidence suggested
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't even there.
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  Speaker 3: It's the classic investigative nightmare. The crime scene screams insider
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  Speaker 3: job that the timeline screams impossible.
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  Speaker 1: So to understand this we have to go back. We
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  Speaker 1: have to look at the marriage itself.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It began as a very traditional arranged marriage, a so
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  Speaker 3: called salon's marriage. Both were from respectable families, both physicians.
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  Speaker 1: On the surface, a perfect match. But the cracks started
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  Speaker 1: showing pretty early on, didn't they They did.
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  Speaker 3: Background checks show that doctor Ahmed he just had no
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  Speaker 3: real ambition after he graduated. Doctor Mona, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 3: was incredibly driven. She had goals, she wanted.
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  Speaker 1: To advance, and that became the central conflict it did.
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  Speaker 3: They eventually moved to Saudi Arabia for work, and that's
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  Speaker 3: where Mona's career just exploded. She worked in a lab,
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  Speaker 3: she tutored, she did everything she could.
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  Speaker 1: To book in money, and she was doing it for
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  Speaker 1: a specific reason.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yes, and this is crucial. A lot of that
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  Speaker 3: money was specifically to fund doctor Ahmed's own expensive PhD.
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  Speaker 1: Studies, So she was literally investing her own hard work
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  Speaker 1: into his future.
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  Speaker 3: She was the engine of the family. Her income grew
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  Speaker 3: quickly surpassing his, and that is where the poison, the envy,
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  Speaker 3: really took root.
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  Speaker 1: How did he react to her success.
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  Speaker 2: With pure resentment? He saw it as meaningless.
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  Speaker 3: He developed this deep seated inferiority complex. He felt humiliated
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  Speaker 3: by her success, and this.
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  Speaker 1: Was made worse by his own family.
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  Speaker 3: It was they were constantly criticizing Mona, saying she was
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  Speaker 3: prioritizing her career over him, over their home. It just
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  Speaker 3: fueled his sense of inadequacy.
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  Speaker 1: So when they moved back to Egypt, that dynamic was
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  Speaker 1: already set in stone.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: She got a great job at a private lab. He
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  Speaker 3: just went back to his routine government job at the
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  Speaker 3: health unit. That complex was just festering under the surface.
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  Speaker 1: What's really schilling is learning when he made the decision
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  Speaker 1: to kill her, this wasn't a snap decision, not even close.
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  Speaker 3: Investigators determined that in August twenty eighteen, four full months
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  Speaker 3: before the murders, he decided he had to eliminate her,
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  Speaker 3: and the reason his words, To finish the complex of
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  Speaker 3: inferiority that was haunting him. He chose New Year's Eve
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  Speaker 3: as the day he would do it, so.
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  Speaker 1: The alibi was part of the plan from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 3: It was that detail about the carpenter that came up
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  Speaker 3: at a family dinner just days before the murder. Mona's
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  Speaker 3: brother needed one for his wedding. Ahmed immediately jumped on it,
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  Speaker 3: saw it as a piece of his alibi he could.
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  Speaker 1: Build, which brings us to New Year's Eve.
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  Speaker 3: He tells his wife he's staying home with the family.
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  Speaker 3: She makes some breakfast. Then he puts on gloves that
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  Speaker 3: he'd bought four days earlier, just cold calculation.
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  Speaker 1: And he approached her, pretending to play.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: He came up behind her with a curtain tie, like
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  Speaker 3: it was a game. She had no reason to be afraid.
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  Speaker 3: This was her husband.
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  Speaker 1: Until it wasn't a game anymore.
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  Speaker 3: In an instant, he started strangling her. She fought back,
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  Speaker 3: of course, struggled for her life. So he grabbed a
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  Speaker 3: knife and finished it.
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  Speaker 1: And then the unthinkable happens.
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  Speaker 3: It gets so much worse. Their four year old daughter, Lilah,
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  Speaker 3: saw what happened to her mother, and she started screaming.
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  Speaker 1: What did he do?
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  Speaker 2: He picked her up, He hugged his daughter and then
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  Speaker 2: he slid her throat.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: After that, he went into the children's room and he
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  Speaker 3: killed his two sons, Agdullah and Omar, in the exact
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  Speaker 3: same way.
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  Speaker 1: And then, just as methodically, he starts the.
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  Speaker 3: Cover up, changed his clothes, stole the gold, stage the robbery.
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  Speaker 3: He bagged up the evidence, the clothes, the knife, the gold,
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  Speaker 3: drove to a remote spot and buried it all.
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  Speaker 1: And then he went and enacted his alibi, the backup alibi.
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  Speaker 3: Actually that's right. The original plan with the carpenter fell
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  Speaker 3: through when the guy said he couldn't do the job,
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  Speaker 3: so Ahmed switched to plan b the bank, the restaurant,
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  Speaker 3: the whole performance.
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  Speaker 1: For weeks after the police were stuck, the public was suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: The neighbors told police about all the fighting, but his
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  Speaker 1: alibi was just unbreakable.
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  Speaker 3: It really was a high profile mystery. All the circumstantial
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  Speaker 3: evidence pointed to him, but the timeline said he couldn't
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  Speaker 3: have done it.
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  Speaker 2: The case was completely.
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  Speaker 1: Stalled until a colleague of his came forward.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Risra. She worked with him at the health unit,
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  Speaker 3: and she broke the case wide open.
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  Speaker 1: What was her testimony?
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  Speaker 3: She told investigators that doctor Ahmed had called her the
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  Speaker 3: day before, on New Year's Eve and asked her for
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  Speaker 3: a huge favor, which was he asked her to sign
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  Speaker 3: the attendance ledger for him on New Year's Day to
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  Speaker 3: make it look like he.
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  Speaker 2: Was at work.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so there it is the lie.
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  Speaker 3: But get this, there's another layer to it. He specifically
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  Speaker 3: asked that the day not be counted as a formal
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  Speaker 3: vacation day, so it wouldn't be deducted from his leave.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, so he wasn't just faking his presence. He was
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  Speaker 1: making sure his free alibi didn't cost him a day off.
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  Speaker 3: The greed in that small detail, that was the fatal flaw,
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  Speaker 3: a crack in the perfect alibi.
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  Speaker 1: And when they confronted him with that, it was over
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  Speaker 1: a whole thing collapsed.
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  Speaker 2: He confessed almost immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Did he confirm the motive the envy.
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  Speaker 3: Word for word, he said it was envy, jealousy, and
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  Speaker 3: weak character because of her success. He killed her to
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  Speaker 3: silence his own feeling of failure.
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  Speaker 1: But what about the children? What reason did he give
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  Speaker 1: for murdering his three kids?
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  Speaker 3: That's the most chilling part of all. He gave no reason,
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  Speaker 3: no explanation, no justification at all. They were just collateral
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  Speaker 3: damage in the war against his own ego.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a horrifying look at how deep professional envy
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  Speaker 1: can cut. It overwrote everything, his marriage, his role as
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  Speaker 1: a father. He destroyed his whole family to solve an
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  Speaker 1: inferiority complex.
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  Speaker 3: He was eventually sentenced to death, But the case leaves
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  Speaker 3: you with this awful question, which is considering how meticulously
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  Speaker 3: he planned this, how he could fabricate a reality that
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  Speaker 3: fooled everyone for weeks. What does that tell us about
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  Speaker 3: the hidden face of jealousy and how far someone might
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  Speaker 3: go to destroy evidence not of a crime, but of
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  Speaker 3: their own perceide inadequacy. Something for you to think about
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  Speaker 3: as you process this deep dive.