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Bloody Vengeance: A Black Magic Murder Plot · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, try and picture this with me. It's twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 1: You're in Fetian village, Benny's Suif, Egypt. It's late, really late,
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  Speaker 1: way past midnight, and you find yourself outside this old,
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  Speaker 1: decaying house, an ancestral home, just abandoned. The air feels heavy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not just hot, but thick, with a strange
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  Speaker 1: sweet smell, burnt incense, damp earth. Inside it's pitched black mostly,
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  Speaker 1: but now and then a lamp flickers. You can just
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  Speaker 1: make out this sound, this deep rhythmic chanting in Arabic,
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  Speaker 1: and then another sound, liquid being sprinkled onto the dirt floor.
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  Speaker 1: It's chilling. That's the scene we're diving into today. We're
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  Speaker 1: peeling back the layers on a crime that was so
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  Speaker 1: so cleverly planned. It was meant to look like well,
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  Speaker 1: like a supernatural mishap, a dark magic accident. This is
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  Speaker 1: the story of Gazelle, Blood or Call. It's about revenge,
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  Speaker 1: cold and calculated, hidden behind this folklore of gin demons
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  Speaker 1: and buried gold, and at the heart of it all,
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  Speaker 1: two men ahmed desperate feels like a failure, drowning in
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  Speaker 1: debt and maybe worse humiliation. And there's Ragab a blacksmith,
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  Speaker 1: physically strong, the man Ahmed owed money to, but our
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  Speaker 1: gob it also violently shamed um public before holds the IOUs,
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  Speaker 1: holds the history. Okay, so let's get into this. You've
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  Speaker 1: got this really toxic past, serious debt, and then this
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  Speaker 1: perfect cover story ancient treasure. What happens when that deep
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  Speaker 1: need for revenge gets wrapped up in black magic.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's really key here is how the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: leans on what people in that area already believe. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about fashion, right right, and it's widely believed there
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  Speaker 2: that many old houses are built right on top of kins,
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  Speaker 2: you know, significant hordes of gold, maybe antiquities, and crucially
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  Speaker 2: the local custom the cuff says, you can't just dig
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  Speaker 2: it up yourself. You need help, spiritual help. Often a sorcerer,
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  Speaker 2: a dudgall, someone who can handle the gin supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be guarding it.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the belief system Ahmed basically weaponized. He was obsessed,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't He felt like a failure his whole life, inherited
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  Speaker 1: the family name, but no success. He was absolutely convinced
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  Speaker 1: his grandparents' house held the key goal to clear his
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  Speaker 1: debts and maybe just maybe restore his pride.
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  Speaker 2: And for God was right at the center of that obsession. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed owed him a lot of money. We know that
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  Speaker 2: there were sign checks, but the debt it feels almost
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  Speaker 2: secondary to the humiliation factor. Rebab had apparently assaulted Ahmed publicly,
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  Speaker 2: really shamed him. Everyone knew.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, hang on, if the whole village knew Regab had
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  Speaker 1: attacked and humiliated Ahmed, wouldn't this sudden close friendship look suspicious?
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  Speaker 1: Why would Ragabub even hang out with him?
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  Speaker 2: That's the brilliant or maybe sinister, part of Ahmed's plan.
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  Speaker 2: He dangled the ultimate bait. He told Regob he'd already
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  Speaker 2: tried digging with some other shake dug this huge six
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  Speaker 2: meter hole, found nothing. He said he needed someone he
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  Speaker 2: could trust, a partner, to find a better, more powerful expert.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't asking Regob for cash. He was offering him
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  Speaker 2: a shot at life changing wealth. All Ragob had to
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  Speaker 2: do was find the right guy, and he played.
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  Speaker 1: Right into that local custom. The Cuff promised Ragab a
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  Speaker 1: big piece of the treasure. Didn't even say how much,
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  Speaker 1: just substantial, just for finding this sorcerer exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It's genius in a dark Waygab suddenly invested. He risks
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  Speaker 2: nothing but a bit of time for potentially enormous gain.
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  Speaker 1: Greed, trump suspicion, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: It seems so Regad didn't question the weird shift in
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed's attitude. He went out and found this sorcerer, this
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  Speaker 2: dej all apparently quite powerful from another village. And this
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  Speaker 2: new sorcerer comes in with a huge demand right off
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  Speaker 2: the bat, fifty percent half of everything they.
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  Speaker 1: Find, fifty percent, and Ahmed.
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  Speaker 2: He agrees immediately, no hesitation, which could look like desperation
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  Speaker 2: or you know, total commitment to the trap he was setting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, trap sprung. So the sorcerer shows up.
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  Speaker 2: Right with two assistants. He goes into the house, checks
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  Speaker 2: it out, sees the big six meter hole Ahmed had
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  Speaker 2: already dug standard procedure maybe, But then he makes this
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  Speaker 2: grand announcement, you know, gott to justify the fifty percent fee. Right,
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  Speaker 2: He says, after doing some initial rights, that there isn't
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  Speaker 2: just one treasure, oh, of course not. There are two.
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  Speaker 2: One in the hole they already knew about, guarded by
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  Speaker 2: jin naturally, but a second one called a daffin, which
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  Speaker 2: means like a treasure someone found before and reburied. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed's grand father hidden somewhere else?
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  Speaker 1: And where was this second crucial treasure supposed to be hid?
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  Speaker 2: It in the wall right next to the staircase. Remember
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  Speaker 2: that detail, the daphin in the wall near the stairs.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely critical to the whole set up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, two treasures. Greed meter goes way up. So how
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  Speaker 1: do they find this dafphin? More rituals?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, elaborate ones to pinpoint the location, some in
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  Speaker 2: the entities. The sorcerer demands these really specific kind of
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  Speaker 2: disturbing materials, specialized incense. Yes, and the thing that gives
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  Speaker 2: this case its name Gazell blood, Gzell blood.
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  Speaker 1: And wasn't there something else, something even worse?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this is deeply unsettling. He demanded a young girl
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  Speaker 2: around nine years old to read over, supposedly to help
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  Speaker 2: with the summoning channel the spirits.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, that just adds this layer of genuine darkness,
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  Speaker 1: makes the whole thing feel terrifyingly real, which I suppose
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  Speaker 1: was exactly what Ahmed wanted for his story.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely. So the ritual starts, it's ar the sorcerer his assistance.
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  Speaker 2: They're sprinkling this gazelle, blood, chanting talismans, maybe distorted versus
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  Speaker 2: the atmosphere must have been thick with fear.
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  Speaker 1: And right then Ahmed makes his move.
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  Speaker 2: Is alibi perfect timing. He claims he's terrified, maybe says
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  Speaker 2: he hears twisted verses things that scare him deeply. He
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  Speaker 2: tells Regab, I can't stay here. I trust you, you stay,
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  Speaker 2: call me the second you find.
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  Speaker 1: It, And just like that, he's out clean break, not
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  Speaker 1: physically present when things inevitably go wrong. Yeah, anyone looking
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  Speaker 1: back see's high magic, high tension, and the sorcerer as
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  Speaker 1: the obvious culprit.
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  Speaker 2: If something happens to Rigab exactly, he removes himself, leaving
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  Speaker 2: Regab with the Sorcerer and his assistance.
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  Speaker 1: So hours go by. Ahmed eventually comes back to the house.
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  Speaker 1: The door's open, slightly silence.
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  Speaker 2: Total silence, no Regab, no sorcerer, no assistance, just an
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  Speaker 2: empty dark house.
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  Speaker 1: And am D immediately starts pushing the narrative heat planned.
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  Speaker 2: All along right, immediately spreading the story. Either the sorcerer
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  Speaker 2: got greedy, killed and ran off with the treasure of
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  Speaker 2: the Kens, or maybe Regab and the Sorcerer teamed up
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  Speaker 2: betrayed him and split the loot.
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  Speaker 1: And conveniently, Rigab's phone is off dead end, no way
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  Speaker 1: to check that story immediately.
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  Speaker 2: That's the communication link perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: So the next steps the investigation, it must have been
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  Speaker 1: complicated from the.
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  Speaker 2: Start, hugely complicated. Or Rigab's family waits two days. They're agonizing,
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  Speaker 2: but they also know he was involved in something illegal,
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  Speaker 2: digging for antiquities. Finally, they report him missing, and they
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  Speaker 2: name Ahmed as the last person known to have seen him.
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  Speaker 1: And Ohmed's reaction when the police questioned him.
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  Speaker 2: He plays the part beautifully, the worried friend, the cheated partner.
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  Speaker 2: He immediately fesses up to the illegal digging, makes him
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  Speaker 2: seem honest in a way, and he points them straight
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  Speaker 2: to the big six meter hole. He says, that's where
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  Speaker 2: you should look. The sorcerer must have killed him for
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  Speaker 2: the gold and dumped the body there. He's actively directing them.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the police go check it out.
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  Speaker 2: They do. They find the huge hole empty, just like
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed said. They find digging to a leftover incense, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they find spots of reddish stuff, the gazelle blood. Initially,
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  Speaker 2: it all just seems to confirm Ahmed's story a treasure
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  Speaker 2: hunt gone violently wrong, rituals, greed, murder.
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  Speaker 1: That's something didn't add up for them exactly.
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  Speaker 2: These were experienced officers. They looked around this house, derelict,
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  Speaker 2: falling apart for years. Yeah, dust everywhere, decay, except except
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  Speaker 2: for one spot, right next to the staircase where the
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  Speaker 2: sorcerer supposedly said that second treasure the daffin was hidden.
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  Speaker 1: Let me guess it looked new, brand new.
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  Speaker 2: A section of the wall was freshly cemented. It stood
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  Speaker 2: out like a sore thumb in that ruin.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. He didn't just dump the body in
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  Speaker 1: the hole he pointed them to. He cemented with gob
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  Speaker 1: into the wall in the exact spot the fake sourceerer
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  Speaker 1: pin pointed for the fake second treasure.
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  Speaker 2: That's the chilling part, the psychological game he was playing.
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  Speaker 2: It was like leaving a clue that pointed away from itself.
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  Speaker 2: The police immediately made the connection, the daffin story, the
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  Speaker 2: fresh cement. They start breaking down that wall and inside
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  Speaker 2: inside they found ragab fully clothed. The discovery was grim and.
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  Speaker 1: The medical examiner what did they find? No magic involved,
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  Speaker 1: as him.
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  Speaker 2: No magic, just brutal reality, severe blunt force trauma to
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  Speaker 2: the head, likely hit with something heavy like an iron pipe,
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  Speaker 2: knocked out instantly, but it didn't stop. There multiple further strikes,
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  Speaker 2: a skull fracture, massive internal bleeding. This wasn't an accident
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  Speaker 2: during a ritual. It was a deliberate, sustained, violent attack.
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  Speaker 1: The murder and the time of death.
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  Speaker 2: Matched perfectly with the window. When Ahmed claimed he'd left
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  Speaker 2: the house in fear, and when he supposedly came back
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  Speaker 2: to find everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Gone, the whole story starts.
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  Speaker 2: To unravel completely. The police realized Ahmed wasn't just a
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  Speaker 2: witness or a victim. He was actively manipulating them, pointing
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  Speaker 2: them towards the empty hole, towards this phantom sorcerer. The
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  Speaker 2: focus shifted entirely onto Ahmed.
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  Speaker 1: So they started digging into his background, beyond the treasure story.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they looked deeper. First, they confirmed the money motive,
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  Speaker 2: the huge debt, the signs checks. That was real, But
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  Speaker 2: often money is just the surface layer, isn't it. Usually
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  Speaker 2: the real driving force, they suspected was emotional. They uncovered
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  Speaker 2: the full story of the previous assault, the public humiliation
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  Speaker 2: regob had inflicted on Ahmed. That explained the intensity the planning.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't just about getting out of debt. It
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  Speaker 1: was about revenge, erasing the shame.
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  Speaker 2: It seems, so he needed to restore his reputation, especially
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  Speaker 2: because Regob's actions had apparently damaged it significantly in the village.
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  Speaker 1: And then came the witnesses. Right, you mentioned the girl
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  Speaker 1: for the ritual, but there was another one.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this is where it gets even more complex and
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  Speaker 2: frankly tragic. A confidential source tipped the police off. They
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  Speaker 2: mentioned a fifteen year old girl Ahmed had been trying
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  Speaker 2: to marry. Okay, her father had actually rejected Ahmed's proposal
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  Speaker 2: because of his damaged reputation, specifically links to that past
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  Speaker 2: incident with Regob.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So it all came next back to Rigab.
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  Speaker 2: And crucially, someone had seen this fifteen year old girl
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  Speaker 2: with Ahmed and Regab on the night of the murder.
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  Speaker 2: Not inside during the ritual perhaps, but around the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Hold On, just to be clear, the sorcerer supposedly demanded
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  Speaker 1: a nine year old for the ritual itself.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, that seems to have been part of the theatrical setup.
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  Speaker 2: But this fifteen year old, the one Ahmed wanted to
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  Speaker 2: impress She was the one he actually brought near the scene. Later,
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  Speaker 2: it seems he wanted an audience, an audience for what
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  Speaker 2: for his revenge, for proving his strength his dominance over Regab,
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  Speaker 2: the man who had ruined his standing. He brought her
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  Speaker 2: there to witness him reclaiming his honor in the most
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  Speaker 2: brutal way possible.
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  Speaker 1: So the police talked to her. Yeah, fifteen year old.
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  Speaker 2: They bring her in and she confirms everything. Ahmed brought
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  Speaker 2: her near the house, spun some story about the treasure,
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  Speaker 2: but really it was about showing off, confronting Regad.
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  Speaker 1: Did she see yes? Did she see the murder itself?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she saw the whole horrifying sequence. Ahmed grabbing an irony,
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  Speaker 2: probably one of the digging tools, lying around and striking Regob.
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  Speaker 2: She confirmed he didn't stop after the first blow. He
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  Speaker 2: kept hitting him until Regab was dead.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: She then saw Ahmed in the dark drag the body
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  Speaker 2: over to that spot near the staircase and begin sealing
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  Speaker 2: him into the wall, mixing the cement right there.
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  Speaker 1: And when Ahmed was confronted with her testimony.
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  Speaker 2: He broke confessed everything, The entire elaborate, devilish plan to
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  Speaker 2: the sorcerer, totally fabricated, just an anonymous figure from out
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  Speaker 2: of town. Easy to blame someone who would just disappear.
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  Speaker 2: The gazelle blood.
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  Speaker 1: Not blood at all, Nope.
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  Speaker 2: Forensics confirmed it was just a die, a paint basically
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  Speaker 2: made to look like ritualistic blood. Add to the confusion
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  Speaker 2: sell the story.
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  Speaker 1: Every single detail was planned. The treasure rumor, getting Ragab involved,
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  Speaker 1: the fake sorcerer, the demands, the ritual leaving at the
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  Speaker 1: key moment.
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  Speaker 2: All of it calculated to point away from him, to
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  Speaker 2: make sure everyone, the family, the village, the police would
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  Speaker 2: instantly blame this greedy, vanished sorcerer when Regab turned up missing, and.
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  Speaker 1: The final layer of calculation. It wasn't just about the
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  Speaker 1: murder itself, was it. It was about how it would
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  Speaker 1: be reported or not reported properly exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He used the illegality of the situation against the victim's family.
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  Speaker 2: How could they go to the police and say, our
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  Speaker 2: relative is missing. He was illegally digging for antiquities with
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  Speaker 2: this known sorcerer. They couldn't not without implicating themselves. He
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  Speaker 2: weaponized the law by banking on their fear of it.
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  Speaker 1: So when you boil it all down, This wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: a story about ancient gold or black magic at all.
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  Speaker 2: No, not, at its core, it was about pride, humiliation, debt,
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  Speaker 2: and ultimately revenge. He just used the local beliefs, the superstitions,
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  Speaker 2: the illegal activities that were already happening as the perfect
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  Speaker 2: smoke screen. The fear of the gin became his shield
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  Speaker 2: against the law.
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  Speaker 1: So the gazelle blood, it wasn't magic. It was just
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  Speaker 1: paint red paint on the path to a very personal,
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  Speaker 1: very brutal act of vengeance.
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  Speaker 2: Which really makes you think, doesn't it? When we hear
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  Speaker 2: these stories, these sensational crimes involving things like black magic,
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  Speaker 2: hidden treasure, ancient curses, how often do we get distracted
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  Speaker 2: by the elaborate details. How often do we maybe overlook
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  Speaker 2: the simplest, most human motive hiding underneath it all, things
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  Speaker 2: like resentment, shame, anger. How many other stories, maybe even
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  Speaker 2: closer to home, are being masked by superstition and rumor
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  Speaker 2: hiding a much simpler, darker truth.