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The 20-Second Call That Unraveled a Family: Murder, Incestuous Affairs, and Betrayal in Tuna El Gabal · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's take you deep into the heart of a
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  Speaker 1: seemingly ordinary place, Tuna Elgabal, a village in Minya, Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: The year is twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: It looks quiet on the surface, doesn't it like any
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  Speaker 2: close knit community exactly?
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  Speaker 1: But beneath that surface, something deeply unsettling is unfolding. We're
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  Speaker 1: focusing on a young man, emmer Gone. He's twenty years old,
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  Speaker 1: a vegetable martian, known for being responsible, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Guy everyone points to as the pillar of his family. Stable, hardworking.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a hidden side, a stark contradiction to that
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  Speaker 1: public image, and that's where this story really.
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  Speaker 2: Begins, right and our deep dive here isn't just about
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  Speaker 2: finding a killer. It's about trying to understand how extreme
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  Speaker 2: personal betrayal right inside a family unit could possibly lead
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  Speaker 2: to murder.
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  Speaker 1: That's a web, isn't it a.
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  Speaker 2: Very tangled one? The facts reveal layers of complexity of
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  Speaker 2: deception that really defy your typical understanding of motive in
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  Speaker 2: these cases.
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  Speaker 1: So let's set the date August eighteenth, twenty fourteen. Amaru
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  Speaker 1: finishes at the market, gets home around three, tells his
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  Speaker 1: father Ibrahim, he's planning to go to a wedding later
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  Speaker 1: that evening, say seven.
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  Speaker 2: Pm, seems perfectly normal, routine, even.
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  Speaker 1: Totally, But that routine is just a mask because an
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  Speaker 1: explosive chain of events has already been triggered, and it
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  Speaker 1: all comes down to a single, very brief phone call
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  Speaker 1: later that day. Okay, let's unpack this. So Omer's typical
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  Speaker 1: day was like clockwork, right down to the market with
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  Speaker 1: his mother six am, sharp.
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  Speaker 2: Very disciplined, especially for a twenty year old dedicated to
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  Speaker 2: the family business.
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  Speaker 1: But on this particular day, August eighteenth, something breaks that pattern.
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  Speaker 1: Around eleven am, he just vanishes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for about ninety minutes, just gone from the market,
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  Speaker 2: no explanation at the time.
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  Speaker 1: He comes back, finishes his work, goes home, gets ready
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  Speaker 1: for that wedding he mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where things take a sharp turn. At
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  Speaker 2: seven pm, he's dressed, says goodbyes to his father Ibrahim,
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  Speaker 2: steps outside, then his phone rings exactly a really short call.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking twenty seconds maybe less.
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  Speaker 1: And whatever was said in those twenty seconds, it completely
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  Speaker 1: changes his plan.
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  Speaker 2: Instantly, his father shees him walk off, but not towards
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  Speaker 2: the wedding hall. He just kind of veers away did.
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  Speaker 1: His father think anything of it at the time, Not really.
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  Speaker 2: Ibrahim just assumed, you know, Amer was maybe meeting up
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  Speaker 2: with a friend first before heading to the wedding. Seemed plausible, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So Ibraham goes to the wedding.
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  Speaker 2: He waits, waits until midnight, no sign of Amory. He
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  Speaker 2: must have been worried, then a little maybe annoyed. He
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  Speaker 2: tries calling Omer's phone, but it just rings and rings,
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  Speaker 2: no answer, So no panic, though not quite yet. See
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  Speaker 2: Amar apparently had this habit. He'd sometimes go off with
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  Speaker 2: friends ignore his phone for hours. It was frustrating for
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  Speaker 2: the family, but it had happened.
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  Speaker 1: Before, so Ibraham probably thought, ah, he's done it again.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much just typical Omor being sociable, maybe a bit
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  Speaker 2: irresponsible with his phone.
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  Speaker 1: Then morning comes and that's.
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  Speaker 2: When the real fear kicks in. Tuesday morning, six Am
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  Speaker 2: rolls around. Omer should be at the market, it's non
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  Speaker 2: negotiable for him.
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  Speaker 1: He's not there.
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  Speaker 2: He's not there. His phone it's still silent. That's the
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  Speaker 2: moment the family knows this isn't just Armour being flaky.
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  Speaker 2: Something is seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Wrong, so they start searching.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately, they scour the village ask everyone. No one's seen
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  Speaker 2: him since he walked away from his house the previous evening,
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  Speaker 2: after that phone.
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  Speaker 1: Call, and after twenty four hours they.
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  Speaker 2: File the official missing person's report. The weight is over.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's a formal crisis.
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  Speaker 1: Two days later, two agonizing days of searching, hoping.
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  Speaker 2: The hope ends brutally. Some locals out by the main
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  Speaker 2: irrigation ditch, the terra, just outside the village, they find
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  Speaker 2: a body.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mirror.
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  Speaker 2: It's identified as a mirrors. The search is over, but
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  Speaker 2: the nightmare is just beginning.
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  Speaker 1: What did the scene the forensics tell the police right away.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it told a very violent story. The attack was severe,
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  Speaker 2: three distinct, very forceful blows to the head.
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  Speaker 1: With what kind of weapon?
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  Speaker 2: Something sharp and heavy. It was later determined to be
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  Speaker 2: an iron pipe. The impact cause a massive skull fracture,
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  Speaker 2: brain hemorrhage. That was the cause of death, instantaneous.
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  Speaker 1: Basically, And you said the ditch.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't killed there, No, definitely not. The evidence pointed
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  Speaker 2: clearly to him being killed elsewhere and then dumped in
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  Speaker 2: the terra post mortem.
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  Speaker 1: So the killer moved the body plan.
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  Speaker 2: The disposal exactly. This wasn't a spur of the moment
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  Speaker 2: crime scene, the disposal site was chosen.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so police have a body, a cause of death,
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  Speaker 1: a rough timeline starting from that seven pm departure, But
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  Speaker 1: who did it? Where did they even start?
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  Speaker 2: Well? They pursued two main lines of inquiry, pretty standard
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  Speaker 2: stuff initially, like what first business rivalry? Amar was young
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  Speaker 2: but successful. Could someone have been jealous? Try to eliminate
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  Speaker 2: the competition?
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  Speaker 1: Makes sense? What was the second path that.
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  Speaker 2: One gained traction faster? Actually it was Amer's personal life,
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  Speaker 2: specifically his reputation, which he was known throughout the village
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  Speaker 2: for having multiple affairs extramarital relationships with married women.
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  Speaker 1: Ah. So the immediate thought is a vengeful husband.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely a classic motive. Scorned husband finds out, seeks remenge.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators spent a lot of time chasing down that possibility,
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  Speaker 2: looking for an outsider connected to one of these women.
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  Speaker 1: Did any of those leads span out, any angry husbands
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  Speaker 1: fit the timeline?
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  Speaker 2: That's where it got really interesting. No, none of the
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  Speaker 2: traditional leads, the jealous husbands, the business rivals, none of
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  Speaker 2: it lined up with that critical seven pm window.
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  Speaker 1: It was a dead end, which brings them back.
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  Speaker 2: Right back to that single piece of hard evidence, the
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  Speaker 2: phone call, that twenty second call Amar received just before
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  Speaker 2: he disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: So they pull the phone records, They request.
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  Speaker 2: The call logs from the phone company, mandatory disclosure. Who
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  Speaker 2: made that last call? That had to be the key,
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  Speaker 2: and it was it. It was a surprise, all right,
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  Speaker 2: but not the kind they expected. The last person Amar
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  Speaker 2: spoke to, the person who called him at seven pm
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  Speaker 2: was his maternal uncle, Omar.
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  Speaker 1: His call his uncle. Wow, Okay, not an outsider at.
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  Speaker 2: All, not even close. The number was saved right there
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  Speaker 2: in Amar's phone under Omar's name. Suddenly the whole focused
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  Speaker 2: shit dramatically from external conflict to deep within the family itself.
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  Speaker 1: So Omar is brought in for questioning. What's his story?
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  Speaker 2: He plays it cool, acts like the concern grieving uncle. Says, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he called Omar, but it was just to see if
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  Speaker 2: they could go to the wedding together, simple coordination.
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  Speaker 1: And when Armor didn't show, Omar.
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  Speaker 2: Claimed he waited a bit then just went into the
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  Speaker 2: wedding alone. He even added that he supposedly tried calling
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  Speaker 2: Amar several more times later that night because he was worried.
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  Speaker 1: But the investigators they weren't buying it.
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  Speaker 2: They started noticing cracks, big ones. First off, why didn't
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  Speaker 2: Omar mention this crucial seven pm call right away when
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  Speaker 2: Ahmer's body was found? That should have been vital timeline information?
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  Speaker 1: Good point? What else?
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  Speaker 2: The phone records they directly contradicted his story about calling
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  Speaker 2: multiple times later. The logs showed Omar called Amar exactly once,
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  Speaker 2: that short twenty second call at seven pm and that
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  Speaker 2: was it. No follow up calls like he claimed.
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  Speaker 1: So he's lying about the calls and he omitted the
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  Speaker 1: first one. That looks bad.
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  Speaker 2: It looks very bad. The relationship between the uncle Omar
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  Speaker 2: and the nephew Ahmar suddenly becomes the absolute focus of
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  Speaker 2: the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where things get even more complicated. Right,
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  Speaker 1: there were whispers intelligence reports about the family itself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, reports started surfacing describing the family dynamics as strange, suspicious,
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  Speaker 2: even incomprehensible, And a lot of it seemed to revolve
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  Speaker 2: around one particular woman, hammer Hanan.
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  Speaker 1: Who is she in relation to everyone else? Because this
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  Speaker 1: sounds like you could get confusing.
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  Speaker 2: It is incredibly confusing, So let's break it down carefully.
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  Speaker 2: Hannan is married to Omar's brother Okay, so she's Omar's sister.
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  Speaker 1: In law, got it, sister in law to the main suspect, Omar.
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  Speaker 2: But wait, there's more. Hannan is also married to Ahmar's
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  Speaker 2: paternal uncle.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, She's married to Omar's brother and Omar's uncle.
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  Speaker 1: How is that possible? Are they the same person?
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  Speaker 2: No different uncles? One maternal uncle's family Omar's side, one
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  Speaker 2: paternal uncle's family Omar's father's side. She is married into
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  Speaker 2: both sides of this extended family. She's Omar's sister in law,
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  Speaker 2: Andy Amer's aunt by marriage through his father's brother.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, wow, that is deeply intertwined. She's connected by marriage
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  Speaker 1: to the victim Ahmer and the suspect Omar, and.
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  Speaker 2: To Ahmer's father Ibrahim as well through her marriage to
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  Speaker 2: his brother. She's woven into the very fabric of this
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  Speaker 2: family unit.
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  Speaker 1: So when the police talk to Hanan, what does she reveal?
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  Speaker 2: She basically detonates the whole facade. Under questioning, Hannan confesses
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  Speaker 2: she admits she was involved in relationships with three men
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  Speaker 2: from this family simultaneously.
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  Speaker 1: Three who Amr the victim, her nephew by marriage, Ibrahim,
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  Speaker 1: Ahmer's father, who is technically her father in law through
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  Speaker 1: her marriage to his brother, and Almar the suspect her
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  Speaker 1: brother in law.
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  Speaker 2: I need a second year. Ahmar, his father Ibrahim, and
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  Speaker 2: his uncle Omar all involved with the same woman, Hannan,
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  Speaker 2: who is related to all of them by marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, she claims she loved each one individually, that she
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  Speaker 1: somehow managed to keep these three sets affairs completely secret
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  Speaker 1: from her husband and presumably from each other for a time.
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  Speaker 2: This explains so much that ninety minute disappearance Omer took
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  Speaker 2: from the market on the morning of the murder.
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  Speaker 1: Hanan confirmed it Ohmer was with her during that time
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  Speaker 1: that unexplained gap in his routine. It was an assignation
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  Speaker 1: with Hannan.
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  Speaker 2: So the internal affairs angle wasn't just a theory, It
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  Speaker 2: was the absolute reality. But the question remains, why would
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  Speaker 2: Omar kill Omar just finding out about Omar and Hanan?
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  Speaker 2: Was it simple jealousy?
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  Speaker 1: It was more than simple jealousy. It was about layers
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  Speaker 1: upon layers of betrayal, fueled by Omar's own long held secrets.
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  Speaker 2: What was Omar hiding? He confessed that his own relationship
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  Speaker 2: with Hanan wasn't new, It had been going on.
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  Speaker 1: For years years while she was married to his brother.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and get this, Omar claimed he started his affair
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  Speaker 2: with Hannan after he found out that she was already
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  Speaker 2: involved with ibraheim On Meyer's father.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, so Omar knew about Hanan and Ibrahim and then
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  Speaker 1: started his own affair with her.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he claimed. He even tried to justify it,
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  Speaker 2: saying he believed Hannan was somehow forced into the relationship
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  Speaker 2: with Ibrahim, the family patriarch, So in his mind, maybe
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  Speaker 2: he saw himself as rescuing her while also having an
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  Speaker 2: affair with his brother's wife, who was also sleeping with
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  Speaker 2: his relative in law.
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  Speaker 1: The mental gymnastics there are just staggering. He felt justified
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  Speaker 1: in his own affair knowing about Ibraheim, but then Amer.
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  Speaker 2: Gets involved and that was the breaking point. The trigger
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just finding Hanan with someone else, it was finding
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  Speaker 2: her with Honor, his nephew.
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  Speaker 1: When did he find out?
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  Speaker 2: How it happened? That very morning, August eighteenth, the day
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  Speaker 2: of the murder, Omar had apparently left his brother working
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  Speaker 2: out in the fields, and he decided to double back home,
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  Speaker 2: maybe hoping to catch hn On alone, and instead he
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  Speaker 2: walked in on Hannon and Amar together during that ninety
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  Speaker 2: minute window when Amar was missing from the market.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, So he caught them red handed.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, And in that moment, seeing his nephew with his
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  Speaker 2: secret lover, the woman he constructed this whole justification around
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  Speaker 2: having an affair with it was the ultimate betrayal in
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  Speaker 2: his eyes. He saw Ammer as a trader.
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  Speaker 1: A trader for doing essentially what he and Ibrahim were
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  Speaker 1: also doing. But Amer was the nephew, the younger generation.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe perhaps, or maybe it was just the final straw,
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  Speaker 2: the sheer weight of all the deception, all the secrets
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  Speaker 2: contained within that house focused onto that one moment of discovery.
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  Speaker 2: It pushed Omar over the edge.
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  Speaker 1: And the murder itself, how'd you carry it out? It
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  Speaker 1: confirms the planning absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: That evening he uses the phone, makes that twenty second
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  Speaker 2: call at seven pm. It wasn't about the wedding at all.
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  Speaker 1: He was luring Amor.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely, he lured Amor to a predetermined spot somewhere secluded
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  Speaker 2: out in the agricultural fields. Who was waiting there with
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  Speaker 2: the iron pipe.
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  Speaker 1: Three blows to the head.
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  Speaker 2: Three powerful blows. Then he dragged the body to the
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  Speaker 2: terra dumped it in the water, and he didn't forget
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  Speaker 2: the phone.
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  Speaker 1: He buried Amer's phone, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Buried it somewhere else, entirely to break that digital link,
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  Speaker 2: hide the last call record if he could, very calculated.
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  Speaker 1: And then the most chilling part.
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  Speaker 2: He goes home, acts completely normal. The next day he's
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  Speaker 2: out there with Ibrahim and the rest of the family
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  Speaker 2: putting on a show a searching for his missing nephew,
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  Speaker 2: expressing concern.
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  Speaker 1: The level of detachment required for that.
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  Speaker 2: It's profound. It speaks not just to rage, but to
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  Speaker 2: a chilling premeditation and ability to deceive those closest to him,
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  Speaker 2: even in the immediate aftermath of extreme violence.
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  Speaker 1: So what was the final outcome for Omar for Hanan?
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  Speaker 1: Omar was tried, convicted, and ultimately sentenced to execution for
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  Speaker 1: the murder of m R.
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  Speaker 2: And Hanan. What happened to her after all this came out.
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  Speaker 1: Once the full extent of her relationships with m Ror,
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  Speaker 1: Ibrahim and Omar was revealed during the investigation. In trial,
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  Speaker 1: her husband, Omar's brother, and Amar's uncle divorced her.
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  Speaker 2: A tragic end to a story built on layers of secrets.
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  Speaker 2: It really is And if you try to connect this
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  Speaker 2: to a bigger picture. It's a stark reminder of how
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  Speaker 2: the very structures we think provide safety and intimacy, like
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  Speaker 2: a close family, can actually become incubators for the most
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  Speaker 2: toxic secrets and ultimately violence.
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  Speaker 1: Police looked outside first, business, rivals, jealous husbands, the usual suspects,
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  Speaker 1: but the.
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  Speaker 2: Real poison was internal. It was extreme intimacy, cross boundaries, jealousy,
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  Speaker 2: and betrayal, all festering within the family unit itself.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the takeaway here for us for you listening.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we tend to assume we know the people
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  Speaker 1: closest to us, right, especially family, but this.
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  Speaker 2: Case forces you to ask how much deception can exist
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  Speaker 2: right under the surface. How many complicated, contradictory relationships can
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  Speaker 2: be hidden within what looks like a normal.
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  Speaker 1: Family, hidden completely until something catastrophic like a murder, rips
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  Speaker 1: the veil away and forces everything into the harsh light.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you wonder what secrets might lie hidden even
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  Speaker 1: in the most seemingly familiar places.