October 18, 2025 • 12 mins
Mostafa, a hardworking young man from Abu Rawash in Giza, who married Noura despite the tense objections and pressure from her family. Soon after the marriage, Mostafa discovered that Noura was far from the devoted wife she appeared to be. In secret, she was carrying on a relationship with another man, Amr, even going so far as to move into a separate room so that Amr could sneak in through the window at night. Together, Noura and Amr began plotting Mostafa’s death. They tried poisoning him, tampering with his car, and finally confronted him directly. When Mostafa caught the pair together, the confrontation turned violent, and they murdered him in cold blood. The crime shocked the community, and justice was ultimately served when both Noura and Amr were convicted and executed for their crime.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Imagine this scene. It's quiet in Abu Roh Wash, Giza,
early morning, maybe eight zero am. The day's just starting.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, the sun's probably coming up. You hear maybe distant traffic.
But right there, at this specific family home, there's this ah,
this awful stillness.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You look up second floor apartment. Mostafa's microbus, the one
he works so hard in. It's parked right outside.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Like always, but something's immediately wrong. The door to his apartment,
his and his new wife, Nora's place, it's not closed right,
it's open, just a crack.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And downstairs on the first floor his parents. They've been
feeling this dread since about two point am red.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
They heard the sound really loud, sharp, like something heavy,
just bang hit the floor upstairs, and then silence.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
They couldn't shake it. So the father, he goes up,
calls his son's name, nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And inside it's chaos, not just messy, you know, like
every day clutter, looks like it's been torn apart, ransacked.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
He goes into the bedroom and there's Mostafa. He's only
twenty six, covered completely by sheet on the bed.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The fodder reaches out, pulls back that sheet and just horror,
you see blood bruises, the strange fluid around his mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
That cry, that raw sound of a parent finding their
child like that, that's what pulls us into this story,
the eighty five day deception that ended most of his life.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So today we're diving deep into this. How does a
marriage that lasts what less than three months end like
this with such brutality.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Let's start with Mustaf himself. He sounds like a decent guy, right.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Fardworking, diligent. His dad helped him get the microbus. He
lied right there in the family building, second floor, parents below,
solid setup.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
He wasn't even keen on marriage initially, was he not?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Really no? But then he saw Nora Norhan. Actually she
was eighteen, a distant relative, apparently just stunningly beautiful. People
called her an angel, and that was it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
He was hooked.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Seems like it totally changed his mind. And because the
apartment was already to go, everything move fast, engagement wedding
plans very But his mother she.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Pick up on something early on, didn't she?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
During the engagement she did, That's a really key detail.
She sensed Nora wasn't comfortable, something felt off unnatural about her.
She actually said something yes, and very respectfully too. She
went to Nora privately and basically offered her a way out, said, look,
if you're not happy, we can stop this now, no shame,
no embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Wow, an escape patch right there exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But Nora refused, insisted she was happy that Mostapha was
responsible and she wanted to go through with it. Rejected
that first chance to get out.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So fast forward seven months from the engagement, they get married,
and the happiness lasted how long?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
About five days? Maybe not even that. Mostafa said right
from day one Nora seemed incredibly tense, just not natural,
and then on day five she just snapped, almost gathered
her clothes, her makeup, moved into the spare children's room.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
The one with the window. That detail becomes important later,
right crucial.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
She moved in there, locked the door from the inside,
and that was it. Refuse to come back to the
main bedroom. Total isolation. Just five days.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
In five days, that's not just adjusting, that feels planned.
What does Mostafa do?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
He was likely devastated, confused, ashamed. Probably. Then about two
weeks later, there's a big fight, loud enough for his
mother downstairs to hear.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So she steps in again.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
She does second time goes up, there, sees her son's
clearly miserable and offers them both an honorable divorce.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Again, let me guess.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Nor refused, same excuse, just stressed, overwhelmed by married life.
And so this bizarre routine sets in.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Most It works all day, comes home exhausted, she makes dinner,
he eats it, presumably alone, then sleeps alone. She stays
locked in a room.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, for a whole month, this was their life, separate
lives under the same roof.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But then things got even stranger, right the pregnancy.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Exactly suddenly they find out Nor's pregnant, which is well
odd considering Mostafa said they'd only been intimate that one
time on the wedding night.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
The timeline definitely raises questions, but her reaction was immediate.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Instantly demanded an abortion. Her reason, the marriage was unstable.
She didn't want to bring a child into this mess.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And Mazova agreed.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
He and his mother, Yeah, they seemed worn down by
it all. Reluctantly they agreed. So after the abortion, Nora
went to her parents' house for about fifteen days. So
now we're what forty five days into the marriage, not
a single happy one. According to Mustafa, and.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
She comes back and goes right back to the locker room.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Immediately, same routine, but this is when things shift from
just marital misery to something well actively sinister.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The accidents start happening right.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Over the next couple of weeks. First incident, Mustafa drinks
some juice before work, suddenly gets hit with crippling.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Stomach pain, needs a stomach pump.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So poisoning looks like it serious enough for an emergency
stomach pump, but at the time maybe dismissed as just
bad food or something.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, what next?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
His microbus The brakes completely fail while he's driving. He
manages to survive, gets a checked out. The mechanic finds
the brake fluid line was deliberately messed with, the fluid
was drained drained.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Okay, that's not accidental, that's attempt.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
To murder clearly. And then just days later another issue
with the bus. The engine oiled drain plug is found loosened,
all the oil drained out again right after it had
been serviced.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Poison, brake failure, engine sabotage, all within about two weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yep, it's a pattern. Calculated attempts to make his death
look like an accident or illness.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's chilling. But hold on, did anyone connect these did
Mustava suspect her?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It seems like they were trying hard not to connect
the dots. Maybe the shame, the desire for things to
just work out. Denials powerful, powerful.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Enough to ignore someone tampering with the vehicle. Didn't anyone
see anything?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Actually, yes, Mustafa's father he saw some young guy hanging
around the microbus one morning, someone he didn't recognize, not
from the area.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
The guy saw Maustafa's dad looking at him and just
took off, fled immediately. That sounds incredibly suspicious, it does,
But the father unbelievably talked himself out of it, dismissed
his own gut feeling as quote unreal delusions. Just couldn't
accept the possibility.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Wow, that denial. It's heartbreaking, which leads us to the
next weird event around day eighty.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, just before the end, another big argument, and then
Nora just vanishes from the apartment. She's found later out
in the street somewhere. Her story it was incredible, Okay,
let's hear it. She claims she opened the window in
her locker room remember the window, climbed out onto the
roof of the next building and then used their internal
stairs to get down to the street.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That is quite the acrobatic escape and specific, extremely specific,
and physically quite risky. But again, in the chaos, nobody
really questioned how she knew that route or why she'd
do something so drastic, chalked it up to panic.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Maybe they just accepted it. Five more days pass, we're
at day eighty five, the final night.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Mostofa gets home around seven pm. Later that night, about
eleven pm, his mother goes upstairs.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
What does she find?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The apartment door is slightly open again. As she walks in,
she sees Nora quickly shutting the bedroom door, saying Mostafa's
inside asleep, exhausted from wark. Okay. Then Nora does something odd.
She offers the mother a glass.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Of juice, which, given the previous juice.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Exactly, the mother refuses the juice, feels uneasy about the
whole situation, but she leaves.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And then three hours later, two point oh am that's
when the parents hear it. The loud crash from upstairs,
the sound of something heavy falling, then total silence again.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Fast forward to eight am. The father goes up, finds
Mustafa the horror we started.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
With, and soon after Nora returns plays the part of
the hysterical widow perfectly claims she left Mustafa sleeping, went
to the market, then her parents' house.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
The initial police saw it with the mess was robbery.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, robbery gone wrong. It looks stage that way. But
the forensics team they saw through it prety quickly.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
What did they find.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, first, nothing was actually stolen, big red flag for
a robbery. The mess was just mess staged.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, what else?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They found a fingerprint belonging to neither Mustafa nor Nora.
A third person was in that apartment, yeh.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And the autopsy that was.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
The nail in the coffin for the robbery theory. Massive
doses of sleeping pills plus insecticide or pesticide, significant.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Amount insecticide on top of the pills.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, And that wasn't all. There were wounds on his
face consistent with being hit by a sharp instrument, and
widespread bruising all over.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
His body, so poisoning, drugging and a physical attack. This
was personal.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Ruly, absolutely, this wasn't a robbery gone wrong. It was
a planned murder followed by a violin assault.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So the police go back to Nora.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
They did, armed with the autopsy, the fingerprint, the stage scene.
They arrested her and apparently she confessed fairly quickly.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And revealed the partner, the owner of the third fingerprint.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes, his name was Om, he was twenty two. Turned
out he was Nora's long term boyfriend from before Mustafa
her boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So why did she marry Mustafa?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Family pressure? Her father had rejected Amor, called him useless,
basically forced her into the marriage with Mustafa who seemed
like a better prospect.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So the whole marriage was a sham from her side
right from.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
The start completely. And now the locked room, the window,
It all clicks into place, doesn't it. Nora confessed she
was putting sleeping pills in Mustafa's dinner every.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Single one every night, My god.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Once Mustapha was unconscious, Amar would climb through that window
into her room. They'd be together right there in the
apartment while Mustafa slept drug just feet away, and Mustapha's
parents downstairs.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
They had no idea Omer would leave before morning.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, usually before six foe am undetected. This went on well.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
For weeks, So audacity is just breathtaking so Omer was
the guy the father saw near the microbus that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And the poison juice, the brake sabotage. Those were their
earlier attempts to kill Mustafa and make it look like
an accident, planned together.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Which brings us back to that final night two pointy am.
What really happened.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The plan again was poison, a huge dose of pills
and insecticide this time, then staged the robbery.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's something went wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The massive dose. It didn't just knock him out, it
caused an agonizing reaction. Mustapha woke up in terrible pain,
probably heading for the bathroom. When he came back from
the bathroom, stumbling in agony, he found them, Nora and
Emmer together in his bedroom. Caught them red handed, the.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Ultimate betrayal discovered in the worst possible way, and chaos erupted.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Nora apparently struck the first blow, hit him in the
face with something a metal gas canister, key, a gas key,
just whatever was at hand, seems like it a moment
of pure panic and violence. Then a mayre joined in.
They beat Mustafa, already weakened by the poison, until he collapsed.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
That was the sound the parents heard the fall.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That was the sound. He died within minutes, the report said,
the combination of the massive drug dose and the physical trauma.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And after he was dead.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
They finished staging the scene to look like a robbery.
Then at six a m. They left the apartment together
walked away.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Unbelievable and the outcome justice.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Both Nora and Ahmer were tried, convicted, and ultimately sentenced
to execution for the murder.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It's just the level of sustained deception, the coldness required
to drug your husband every night, carry on an affair
in his helm under his parents' roof.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's extreme, almost psychopathic in its audacity, rejecting the life
forced upon her in the most brutal way imaginable.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He comes back to those missed opportunities, doesn't it? The
pressure Staffa's mother offered Nora that dignified exit three times
three times.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
But the fear of disappointing her father, the shame of
a failed marriage, maybe the desire to protect her secret
life with Amor it was stronger. She chose deception and
ultimately murder over simply walking away.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It really makes you think, doesn't it? What kind of
societal or internal pressure makes someone feel trapped like that,
trapped enough to commit such horrific acts rather than accept
an out even when everything is clearly falling apart.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It's a heady question, the weight of marrying someone you
despise the consequences of prioritizing appearance over truth. In this case,
it was
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Fatal, a truly chilling in to an eighty five day deception.
Imagine this scene. It's quiet in Abu Roh Wash, Giza,
early morning, maybe eight zero am. The day's just starting.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, the sun's probably coming up. You hear maybe distant traffic.
But right there, at this specific family home, there's this ah,
this awful stillness.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You look up second floor apartment. Mostafa's microbus, the one
he works so hard in. It's parked right outside.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Like always, but something's immediately wrong. The door to his apartment,
his and his new wife, Nora's place, it's not closed right,
it's open, just a crack.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And downstairs on the first floor his parents. They've been
feeling this dread since about two point am red.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
They heard the sound really loud, sharp, like something heavy,
just bang hit the floor upstairs, and then silence.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
They couldn't shake it. So the father, he goes up,
calls his son's name, nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And inside it's chaos, not just messy, you know, like
every day clutter, looks like it's been torn apart, ransacked.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
He goes into the bedroom and there's Mostafa. He's only
twenty six, covered completely by sheet on the bed.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The fodder reaches out, pulls back that sheet and just horror,
you see blood bruises, the strange fluid around his mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
That cry, that raw sound of a parent finding their
child like that, that's what pulls us into this story,
the eighty five day deception that ended most of his life.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So today we're diving deep into this. How does a
marriage that lasts what less than three months end like
this with such brutality.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Let's start with Mustaf himself. He sounds like a decent guy, right.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Fardworking, diligent. His dad helped him get the microbus. He
lied right there in the family building, second floor, parents below,
solid setup.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
He wasn't even keen on marriage initially, was he not?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Really no? But then he saw Nora Norhan. Actually she
was eighteen, a distant relative, apparently just stunningly beautiful. People
called her an angel, and that was it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
He was hooked.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Seems like it totally changed his mind. And because the
apartment was already to go, everything move fast, engagement wedding
plans very But his mother she.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Pick up on something early on, didn't she?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
During the engagement she did, That's a really key detail.
She sensed Nora wasn't comfortable, something felt off unnatural about her.
She actually said something yes, and very respectfully too. She
went to Nora privately and basically offered her a way out, said, look,
if you're not happy, we can stop this now, no shame,
no embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Wow, an escape patch right there exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But Nora refused, insisted she was happy that Mostapha was
responsible and she wanted to go through with it. Rejected
that first chance to get out.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So fast forward seven months from the engagement, they get married,
and the happiness lasted how long?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
About five days? Maybe not even that. Mostafa said right
from day one Nora seemed incredibly tense, just not natural,
and then on day five she just snapped, almost gathered
her clothes, her makeup, moved into the spare children's room.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
The one with the window. That detail becomes important later,
right crucial.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
She moved in there, locked the door from the inside,
and that was it. Refuse to come back to the
main bedroom. Total isolation. Just five days.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
In five days, that's not just adjusting, that feels planned.
What does Mostafa do?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
He was likely devastated, confused, ashamed. Probably. Then about two
weeks later, there's a big fight, loud enough for his
mother downstairs to hear.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So she steps in again.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
She does second time goes up, there, sees her son's
clearly miserable and offers them both an honorable divorce.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Again, let me guess.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Nor refused, same excuse, just stressed, overwhelmed by married life.
And so this bizarre routine sets in.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Most It works all day, comes home exhausted, she makes dinner,
he eats it, presumably alone, then sleeps alone. She stays
locked in a room.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, for a whole month, this was their life, separate
lives under the same roof.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But then things got even stranger, right the pregnancy.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Exactly suddenly they find out Nor's pregnant, which is well
odd considering Mostafa said they'd only been intimate that one
time on the wedding night.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
The timeline definitely raises questions, but her reaction was immediate.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Instantly demanded an abortion. Her reason, the marriage was unstable.
She didn't want to bring a child into this mess.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And Mazova agreed.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
He and his mother, Yeah, they seemed worn down by
it all. Reluctantly they agreed. So after the abortion, Nora
went to her parents' house for about fifteen days. So
now we're what forty five days into the marriage, not
a single happy one. According to Mustafa, and.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
She comes back and goes right back to the locker room.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Immediately, same routine, but this is when things shift from
just marital misery to something well actively sinister.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The accidents start happening right.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Over the next couple of weeks. First incident, Mustafa drinks
some juice before work, suddenly gets hit with crippling.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Stomach pain, needs a stomach pump.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So poisoning looks like it serious enough for an emergency
stomach pump, but at the time maybe dismissed as just
bad food or something.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, what next?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
His microbus The brakes completely fail while he's driving. He
manages to survive, gets a checked out. The mechanic finds
the brake fluid line was deliberately messed with, the fluid
was drained drained.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Okay, that's not accidental, that's attempt.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
To murder clearly. And then just days later another issue
with the bus. The engine oiled drain plug is found loosened,
all the oil drained out again right after it had
been serviced.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Poison, brake failure, engine sabotage, all within about two weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yep, it's a pattern. Calculated attempts to make his death
look like an accident or illness.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's chilling. But hold on, did anyone connect these did
Mustava suspect her?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It seems like they were trying hard not to connect
the dots. Maybe the shame, the desire for things to
just work out. Denials powerful, powerful.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Enough to ignore someone tampering with the vehicle. Didn't anyone
see anything?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Actually, yes, Mustafa's father he saw some young guy hanging
around the microbus one morning, someone he didn't recognize, not
from the area.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
The guy saw Maustafa's dad looking at him and just
took off, fled immediately. That sounds incredibly suspicious, it does,
But the father unbelievably talked himself out of it, dismissed
his own gut feeling as quote unreal delusions. Just couldn't
accept the possibility.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Wow, that denial. It's heartbreaking, which leads us to the
next weird event around day eighty.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, just before the end, another big argument, and then
Nora just vanishes from the apartment. She's found later out
in the street somewhere. Her story it was incredible, Okay,
let's hear it. She claims she opened the window in
her locker room remember the window, climbed out onto the
roof of the next building and then used their internal
stairs to get down to the street.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That is quite the acrobatic escape and specific, extremely specific,
and physically quite risky. But again, in the chaos, nobody
really questioned how she knew that route or why she'd
do something so drastic, chalked it up to panic.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Maybe they just accepted it. Five more days pass, we're
at day eighty five, the final night.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Mostofa gets home around seven pm. Later that night, about
eleven pm, his mother goes upstairs.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
What does she find?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The apartment door is slightly open again. As she walks in,
she sees Nora quickly shutting the bedroom door, saying Mostafa's
inside asleep, exhausted from wark. Okay. Then Nora does something odd.
She offers the mother a glass.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Of juice, which, given the previous juice.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Exactly, the mother refuses the juice, feels uneasy about the
whole situation, but she leaves.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And then three hours later, two point oh am that's
when the parents hear it. The loud crash from upstairs,
the sound of something heavy falling, then total silence again.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Fast forward to eight am. The father goes up, finds
Mustafa the horror we started.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
With, and soon after Nora returns plays the part of
the hysterical widow perfectly claims she left Mustafa sleeping, went
to the market, then her parents' house.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
The initial police saw it with the mess was robbery.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, robbery gone wrong. It looks stage that way. But
the forensics team they saw through it prety quickly.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
What did they find.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, first, nothing was actually stolen, big red flag for
a robbery. The mess was just mess staged.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, what else?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They found a fingerprint belonging to neither Mustafa nor Nora.
A third person was in that apartment, yeh.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And the autopsy that was.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
The nail in the coffin for the robbery theory. Massive
doses of sleeping pills plus insecticide or pesticide, significant.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Amount insecticide on top of the pills.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, And that wasn't all. There were wounds on his
face consistent with being hit by a sharp instrument, and
widespread bruising all over.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
His body, so poisoning, drugging and a physical attack. This
was personal.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Ruly, absolutely, this wasn't a robbery gone wrong. It was
a planned murder followed by a violin assault.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So the police go back to Nora.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
They did, armed with the autopsy, the fingerprint, the stage scene.
They arrested her and apparently she confessed fairly quickly.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And revealed the partner, the owner of the third fingerprint.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes, his name was Om, he was twenty two. Turned
out he was Nora's long term boyfriend from before Mustafa
her boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So why did she marry Mustafa?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Family pressure? Her father had rejected Amor, called him useless,
basically forced her into the marriage with Mustafa who seemed
like a better prospect.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So the whole marriage was a sham from her side
right from.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
The start completely. And now the locked room, the window,
It all clicks into place, doesn't it. Nora confessed she
was putting sleeping pills in Mustafa's dinner every.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Single one every night, My god.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Once Mustapha was unconscious, Amar would climb through that window
into her room. They'd be together right there in the
apartment while Mustafa slept drug just feet away, and Mustapha's
parents downstairs.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
They had no idea Omer would leave before morning.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, usually before six foe am undetected. This went on well.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
For weeks, So audacity is just breathtaking so Omer was
the guy the father saw near the microbus that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And the poison juice, the brake sabotage. Those were their
earlier attempts to kill Mustafa and make it look like
an accident, planned together.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Which brings us back to that final night two pointy am.
What really happened.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The plan again was poison, a huge dose of pills
and insecticide this time, then staged the robbery.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's something went wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The massive dose. It didn't just knock him out, it
caused an agonizing reaction. Mustapha woke up in terrible pain,
probably heading for the bathroom. When he came back from
the bathroom, stumbling in agony, he found them, Nora and
Emmer together in his bedroom. Caught them red handed, the.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Ultimate betrayal discovered in the worst possible way, and chaos erupted.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Nora apparently struck the first blow, hit him in the
face with something a metal gas canister, key, a gas key,
just whatever was at hand, seems like it a moment
of pure panic and violence. Then a mayre joined in.
They beat Mustafa, already weakened by the poison, until he collapsed.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
That was the sound the parents heard the fall.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
That was the sound. He died within minutes, the report said,
the combination of the massive drug dose and the physical trauma.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And after he was dead.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
They finished staging the scene to look like a robbery.
Then at six a m. They left the apartment together
walked away.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Unbelievable and the outcome justice.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Both Nora and Ahmer were tried, convicted, and ultimately sentenced
to execution for the murder.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It's just the level of sustained deception, the coldness required
to drug your husband every night, carry on an affair
in his helm under his parents' roof.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's extreme, almost psychopathic in its audacity, rejecting the life
forced upon her in the most brutal way imaginable.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He comes back to those missed opportunities, doesn't it? The
pressure Staffa's mother offered Nora that dignified exit three times
three times.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
But the fear of disappointing her father, the shame of
a failed marriage, maybe the desire to protect her secret
life with Amor it was stronger. She chose deception and
ultimately murder over simply walking away.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It really makes you think, doesn't it? What kind of
societal or internal pressure makes someone feel trapped like that,
trapped enough to commit such horrific acts rather than accept
an out even when everything is clearly falling apart.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It's a heady question, the weight of marrying someone you
despise the consequences of prioritizing appearance over truth. In this case,
it was
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Fatal, a truly chilling in to an eighty five day deception.
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