October 28, 2025 • 13 mins
Yasmin and her eldest son, Adham, went missing for a year, only to be tragically found dead. Their husband and father, Abdul Rahman, a drug addict from Ezbet Al-Omda Al-Saleh in Ismailia, had long exhibited violent behavior fueled by delusions that his wife was unfaithful. Despite family interventions, he refused help. During the Eid holiday in 2023, Abdul Rahman murdered Yasmin and Adham on consecutive nights, burying them in a self-dug sewage pit outside their home. The truth emerged a year later when his brother came forward, prompting police to uncover the decomposed bodies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is Meelia Egypt picture the eve of Iodolph Fistri twenty
twenty three. It's meant to be a time of joy, right.
The smell of baking, families getting ready.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, absolutely, anticipation in the air. Kid's excited about new clothes,
the big feast after Ramadan.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
But not everywhere. In a small village as Bete alamda Sala,
one particular home, well, the feeling was very different. It
was dread.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And that's where our story really crystallizes. You have the husband,
Abdu Raman, showing up at his in last place, right, but.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
He's not there for celebration. He has something prepared, something
he needs to.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Say, and it's devastating. He looks Yasmin's parents in the
eye and tells them she's gone.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Not just gone, though, he claims she's run away, fled,
and specifically he says with a lover, which was.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
An old accusation, something he'd thrown around before because of
his paranoia. But this time it felt.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Final because she did vanish completely for almost an entire year.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Exactly the story he spun about her running off. It
seemed to stick because well, she had left before to
escape him. The police treated it as a missing person case,
a runaway. The trail just went.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Cold, and the truth stayed hidden, literally buried, until almost
exactly a year later, the Eve of Ed twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And when that truth finally came out, it was horrific.
It confirmed she wasn't coming back alive.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
To really understand how things got to this point, we
need to rewind, go back almost ten years.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Let's do that, back to twenty fourteen, same village. We
meet Abdul Rahman.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
He's twenty six, a daily laborer, but it sounds like
work wasn't really his main focus.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No, not really. Sources paint a picture of someone with
very little ambition except for one thing, getting enough money
each day to pay for his drugs.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
His family knew, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They knew. They'd tried to step in. Apparently he tried
to help him, but nothing work.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So what's the next step When that happens, Often its marriage, right,
the idea that responsibility might somehow fix things.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That seems to be exactly what his family was thinking,
push him towards marriage. Maybe having a wife a home
would force him to change, settle down, and he went
for it immediately. He zeroed in on Yasmin. She was
their neighbor, twenty four years old, from what's described as
a respectable family.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, let's talk about Yasmin for a second. Twenty four.
In that context, there's pressure, right, social.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Pressure, huge pressure. Opportunities might feel like they're narrowing. Marrying
a local guy, even one maybe with some known issues,
it could seem like the sensible, maybe even necessary path.
She likely saw him as you know, suitable enough at
that moment, maybe thought she could handle whatever problems there were.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But those problems, they weren't small. How did things start off?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
In the beginning, Yasmin tried to keep up appearances, maintain
the home, keep the secrets private. She noticed odd behavior, sure,
the moods, him disappearing, but the full picture wasn't clear
immediately until until she couldn't ignore it any more. She
actually caught him more than once using drugs right there
in their house.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Wow, that must have been a terrible shock, and not
just emotionally, No, it.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Hit everything, especially finances. The patterns started right away. Any
money he earned straight to drugs.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And if he didn't earn enough, that's when.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Things got really bad. He'd start selling things from the
house furniture, appliances, whatever he could turn into cash quickly.
That's where the serious conflict began. Financial ruin fueled by addiction.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Fast forward seven years. They have four children now.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Right, and the eldest Adam. He becomes very close to Yasmin,
really relies on her. His mother is his rock.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But he still has a relationship with his father, even
knowing about the addiction.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's the tragic part. He's caught in the middle. He
loves his dad, but he sees what's happening, what the
drugs are doing to their family.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And the drugs weren't just causing money problems. They were
affecting Abdul Raman's mind, weren't they deeply?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It went beyond just needing the next fex. He developed
this intense paranoia. He became utterly convinced Yasmin was having.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
An affair, that she had a secret lover yeah yes,
and that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
This lover would sneak into the house whenever he wasn't there.
It was complete delusion fueled by the drugs.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But then he'd have moments of clarity, sober moments.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It would and in those moments he'd apologize, beg for forgiveness,
Ah and Yasmin she'd accept, she kept silent.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That cycle is just devastating. The sober apology becomes another
form of control, almost making her feel responsible for holding
it all together.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It absolutely is. It resets the abuse clock. She likely
felt trapped, needing to protect the kids, hoping this time
the apology was real. But the silence just allowed the
underlying problem to fester.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And that silence got shattered, didn't it When Yasmin's mother
came to visit it did? Her?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Mother noticed a bad wound on Yasmin's face, looked serious, discolored.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He has been tried to cover it up.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, she lied, said she'd heart herself cleaning, you know,
clumsy accident.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
But the mother didn't buy it, not.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
For a second. She could see the fear. So she
did something smart. She went straight to Adam, the oldest.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Son, and Adam told her what really happened.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
He did the terrifying truth. It wasn't an accident. About
Rahman had attacked Yasmin during a huge fight with an axe.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
A fast an axe, my god.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It apparently grazed her. Thankfully wasn't a direct hit, but
it was incredibly close to being fatal.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So the mother confronts abdul Rahman, and what's his defense?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Straight back to the delusion. He basically said she deserved it,
claiming she was hiding messages or calls from this imaginary lover.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And the mother's reaction, this is where it gets even
harder to understand.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It's truly tragic. Despite seeing the physical evidence of violence,
despite hearing the paranoid accusation, she refused to let Yasmin
get a divorce.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Why for the children.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That was the reason given. For the sake of the children,
they had to reconcile, stay together. She essentially forced Yasmin
back into that incredibly dangerous situation.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's like the cultural pressure to keep the family unit intact,
no matter the cost, overrode the obvious danger signs.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Exactly, a failure to recognize lethal risk, maybe blinded by
tradition or saving face.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Did things calm down after that, temporarily for a little.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
While, but only about two months. Then the call came
not from Yasmine, but from Abdul Rahman's own brother.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
What did he say?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It was urgent. He told Yasmin's mother, you need to
come get your daughter now, and you need to file
a police report.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Why what had happened?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Abdul Rahman had beaten Yasmine again severely. This time, even
his own family had had enough. They disowned him, told
the mother they insisted on a divorce.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, surely this time with his own family saying it.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You'd think so, but no. Incredibly, Yasmin's mother still refused
to let them divorce again. How she somehow calmed everyone down,
convinced them to give him another chance, pulled another promise
out of him that he'd changed. It's just a pattern
of enabling that sealed Yasmin's fate.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
How long did that promise last?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
About a month, maybe four weeks? Then Abdul Rahman shows
up the inlaws house again, same story.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yasmin ran away with her lover, exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Playing the same card, but this time was different. But
an hour later, Yasmine herself called her mother.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Where was she? Had she actually left?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
She had, she was safe at a relative's house. She
told her mother, I can't do it anymore. He hasn't
changed the addiction, the behavior, It's the same.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
She was finally out, finally free, But then but.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Then came the fatal mistake for the third time. Yasmine's
mother intervened. She persuaded her daughter to go back home.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
How what did she promise?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
She promised she would personally step in mediate fix the relationship.
It's heartbreaking to think about why Yasmin agreed. Was it
hope or just the immense pressure of going against her
mother and community.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Whatever the reason, she went.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Back, she went back and abdur Rahman's reaction when she
returned it wasn't anger. It was described as this really strange,
unsettling calm.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Calm sounds terrifying in hindsight.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It was the quiet before the storm, because by this point,
the drug fueled paranoia wasn't just random outbursts anymore. It
had solidified into a plan, a homicidal plan.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
He decided she had to die yes.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
To silence the problem his paranoia had created, and he
started preparing with something very specific and chilling. He started
digging secretly outside the house, a deep pit, a cesspit or.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Belah, and he tried to make it look normal.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Right, He told neighbors anyone who asked it was just
necessary plumbing work for sanitation, but later investigations confirmed no
work was scheduled, no permits, nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He was digging her grave.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Essentially, yes, a place to hide the body.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And then came the eve of Ed twenty twenty three,
the night he planned for exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
He waited until the younger children were asleep. Then he
asked Yasmin to come into another room, pretending he wanted
to talk.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Things through, but that wasn't his intention.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, once they were alone, he attacked her. He killed her.
The sources used strong language emphasizing the brutality of the act.
A Then immediately he took her body out to the
pit he dug, put her inside and covered it up,
sealed it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And went straight to the next part of his clan.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yep report her missing stick to the story she ran
off with her lover. He couldn't name this lover, of course,
but because Yasmin had.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Left before the police bought it, filed a missing person report,
considered her a runaway exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
His plan seemed perfect, except one tiny, devastating detail he
hadn't counted.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
On Adam, her eldest son.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Adam. The next morning, the boy confronted his father. He
hadn't been asleep, after all, he'd seen it.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
He saw his father kill his mother.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
He saw everything, and apparently he asked him, just with
total childlike confusion. Why why did you do that?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh Adam? What did abdul Rahman do? This changes everything.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
For him completely. Yasmin's murder, you could argue, was born
from that drug induced paranoia, twisted logic. But Adam, Adam
was a witness, a direct threat to the lie, to
his freedom.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The action wasn't emotional, it was calculated entirely.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, he realized instantly, the boy knows, the boy will talk.
The plan is ruined unless Adam disappears too. He decided
right then he had to kill his own son.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
How did he? How did it happen?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
He told Adam to keep quiet, wait until nighttime. That evening,
he leered the boy, probably somewhere private, and he.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Choked him to death, and then back to the pit.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Back to the pit, he dug it up again, placed
Adam's small body next to his mother's and cover them
both up again, sealed the grave for a second time.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And just continued the lie that Yasmin took Adam with
her when she ran off.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That became the updated story. She fled with her lover
and she took her oldest son, and for a long
time that story held. The case went cold for how long?
Eleven months? Eleven months of silence. Yasmin's parents were obviously devastated, heartbroken,
searching the police file remained runaway abdu Rahan cut off
all contacts with his in laws.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
What finally broke the silence.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It happened just days before the next add twenty twenty four,
so almost a full year later, and the break came
from his own family again. The brother, Yes, his brother
went back to the police, but this time he wasn't
reporting Yasmin missing. He reported Adam missing.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Uh, because if Yasmin ran off with Adam, why hadn't
anyone heard from the boy in almost a year, why
wasn't he in touch with his father?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Precisely? That detail didn't add up. It immediately shifted the
police focus. This wasn't just a runaway mother anymore. Something
was very wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So they brought Abdul Rahman in again.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
They did, and his story started to crumble. He gave
excuses about Exan's Adam said the boy had called him,
claimed he was with his mother, but refused to come home.
It was inconsistent, unconvincing, and.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
The police suspicion grew, especially considering Yasmin's family had a
good reputation.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Right, they started thinking foul play, conspiracy, and the investigation
quickly zeroed in on the area around Abdil Rahman's.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
House and that strange pit he dug a year earlier.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
That un authorized pit became the crucial piece of evidence,
the fatal clue.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
When they confronted him about it, did he stick to
the plumbing story.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
He tried, lied again, said it just for sanitation, but
the police already knew that wasn't true. They had checked
with the authorities. No work was ever planned or done.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
There officially, so they ordered it excavated.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
They did. They started digging, and deep down in that pit,
they found them, both of them, both of them, the
decomposed remains of Yasmin and her son.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Adam, and faced with that, he confessed immediately.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Discovery broke him completely. He told them everything, the planning,
the murders, the concealment.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Did he take responsibility or blame the drugs?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
He blamed the drugs. So the addiction created the paranoia
about the lover, which led to killing Yasmin and then
killing Adam was necessary to cover that.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Up, so he was arrested what's the status.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Now he's awaiting trial. Given the premeditation, especially digging the
pit beforehand of the double homicide, the expectation is that
he'll face the death penalty.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's just an absolutely chilling story, the way the addiction
created this whole false reality he felt he had to protect,
even through murder.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It really is. But for me, the most horrifying part
isn't even the first murder born from that paranoia. It's
the second one, killing Adam. Killing Adam. That wasn't about paranoia.
That was cold, rational calculation, protecting himself, protecting the lie.
It shows how addiction at its deepest, doesn't just destroy
judgment or finances. It can strip away the most fundamental
(13:29):
human instincts, like protecting your own child. All that mattered
was self preservation.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It leaves you wondering, doesn't it. At what point does
the struggle against addiction turn into a desperate fight to
protect the terrible reality the addiction has created a truly
devastating case
Is Meelia Egypt picture the eve of Iodolph Fistri twenty
twenty three. It's meant to be a time of joy, right.
The smell of baking, families getting ready.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, absolutely, anticipation in the air. Kid's excited about new clothes,
the big feast after Ramadan.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
But not everywhere. In a small village as Bete alamda Sala,
one particular home, well, the feeling was very different. It
was dread.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And that's where our story really crystallizes. You have the husband,
Abdu Raman, showing up at his in last place, right, but.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
He's not there for celebration. He has something prepared, something
he needs to.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Say, and it's devastating. He looks Yasmin's parents in the
eye and tells them she's gone.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Not just gone, though, he claims she's run away, fled,
and specifically he says with a lover, which was.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
An old accusation, something he'd thrown around before because of
his paranoia. But this time it felt.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Final because she did vanish completely for almost an entire year.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Exactly the story he spun about her running off. It
seemed to stick because well, she had left before to
escape him. The police treated it as a missing person case,
a runaway. The trail just went.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Cold, and the truth stayed hidden, literally buried, until almost
exactly a year later, the Eve of Ed twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And when that truth finally came out, it was horrific.
It confirmed she wasn't coming back alive.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
To really understand how things got to this point, we
need to rewind, go back almost ten years.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Let's do that, back to twenty fourteen, same village. We
meet Abdul Rahman.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
He's twenty six, a daily laborer, but it sounds like
work wasn't really his main focus.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No, not really. Sources paint a picture of someone with
very little ambition except for one thing, getting enough money
each day to pay for his drugs.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
His family knew, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They knew. They'd tried to step in. Apparently he tried
to help him, but nothing work.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So what's the next step When that happens, Often its marriage, right,
the idea that responsibility might somehow fix things.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That seems to be exactly what his family was thinking,
push him towards marriage. Maybe having a wife a home
would force him to change, settle down, and he went
for it immediately. He zeroed in on Yasmin. She was
their neighbor, twenty four years old, from what's described as
a respectable family.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, let's talk about Yasmin for a second. Twenty four.
In that context, there's pressure, right, social.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Pressure, huge pressure. Opportunities might feel like they're narrowing. Marrying
a local guy, even one maybe with some known issues,
it could seem like the sensible, maybe even necessary path.
She likely saw him as you know, suitable enough at
that moment, maybe thought she could handle whatever problems there were.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But those problems, they weren't small. How did things start off?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
In the beginning, Yasmin tried to keep up appearances, maintain
the home, keep the secrets private. She noticed odd behavior, sure,
the moods, him disappearing, but the full picture wasn't clear
immediately until until she couldn't ignore it any more. She
actually caught him more than once using drugs right there
in their house.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Wow, that must have been a terrible shock, and not
just emotionally, No, it.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Hit everything, especially finances. The patterns started right away. Any
money he earned straight to drugs.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And if he didn't earn enough, that's when.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Things got really bad. He'd start selling things from the
house furniture, appliances, whatever he could turn into cash quickly.
That's where the serious conflict began. Financial ruin fueled by addiction.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Fast forward seven years. They have four children now.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Right, and the eldest Adam. He becomes very close to Yasmin,
really relies on her. His mother is his rock.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But he still has a relationship with his father, even
knowing about the addiction.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's the tragic part. He's caught in the middle. He
loves his dad, but he sees what's happening, what the
drugs are doing to their family.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And the drugs weren't just causing money problems. They were
affecting Abdul Raman's mind, weren't they deeply?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It went beyond just needing the next fex. He developed
this intense paranoia. He became utterly convinced Yasmin was having.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
An affair, that she had a secret lover yeah yes,
and that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
This lover would sneak into the house whenever he wasn't there.
It was complete delusion fueled by the drugs.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But then he'd have moments of clarity, sober moments.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It would and in those moments he'd apologize, beg for forgiveness,
Ah and Yasmin she'd accept, she kept silent.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That cycle is just devastating. The sober apology becomes another
form of control, almost making her feel responsible for holding
it all together.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It absolutely is. It resets the abuse clock. She likely
felt trapped, needing to protect the kids, hoping this time
the apology was real. But the silence just allowed the
underlying problem to fester.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And that silence got shattered, didn't it When Yasmin's mother
came to visit it did? Her?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Mother noticed a bad wound on Yasmin's face, looked serious, discolored.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He has been tried to cover it up.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, she lied, said she'd heart herself cleaning, you know,
clumsy accident.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
But the mother didn't buy it, not.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
For a second. She could see the fear. So she
did something smart. She went straight to Adam, the oldest.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Son, and Adam told her what really happened.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
He did the terrifying truth. It wasn't an accident. About
Rahman had attacked Yasmin during a huge fight with an axe.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
A fast an axe, my god.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It apparently grazed her. Thankfully wasn't a direct hit, but
it was incredibly close to being fatal.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So the mother confronts abdul Rahman, and what's his defense?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Straight back to the delusion. He basically said she deserved it,
claiming she was hiding messages or calls from this imaginary lover.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And the mother's reaction, this is where it gets even
harder to understand.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It's truly tragic. Despite seeing the physical evidence of violence,
despite hearing the paranoid accusation, she refused to let Yasmin
get a divorce.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Why for the children.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That was the reason given. For the sake of the children,
they had to reconcile, stay together. She essentially forced Yasmin
back into that incredibly dangerous situation.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's like the cultural pressure to keep the family unit intact,
no matter the cost, overrode the obvious danger signs.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Exactly, a failure to recognize lethal risk, maybe blinded by
tradition or saving face.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Did things calm down after that, temporarily for a little.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
While, but only about two months. Then the call came
not from Yasmine, but from Abdul Rahman's own brother.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
What did he say?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It was urgent. He told Yasmin's mother, you need to
come get your daughter now, and you need to file
a police report.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Why what had happened?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Abdul Rahman had beaten Yasmine again severely. This time, even
his own family had had enough. They disowned him, told
the mother they insisted on a divorce.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, surely this time with his own family saying it.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You'd think so, but no. Incredibly, Yasmin's mother still refused
to let them divorce again. How she somehow calmed everyone down,
convinced them to give him another chance, pulled another promise
out of him that he'd changed. It's just a pattern
of enabling that sealed Yasmin's fate.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
How long did that promise last?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
About a month, maybe four weeks? Then Abdul Rahman shows
up the inlaws house again, same story.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yasmin ran away with her lover, exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Playing the same card, but this time was different. But
an hour later, Yasmine herself called her mother.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Where was she? Had she actually left?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
She had, she was safe at a relative's house. She
told her mother, I can't do it anymore. He hasn't
changed the addiction, the behavior, It's the same.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
She was finally out, finally free, But then but.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Then came the fatal mistake for the third time. Yasmine's
mother intervened. She persuaded her daughter to go back home.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
How what did she promise?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
She promised she would personally step in mediate fix the relationship.
It's heartbreaking to think about why Yasmin agreed. Was it
hope or just the immense pressure of going against her
mother and community.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Whatever the reason, she went.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Back, she went back and abdur Rahman's reaction when she
returned it wasn't anger. It was described as this really strange,
unsettling calm.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Calm sounds terrifying in hindsight.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It was the quiet before the storm, because by this point,
the drug fueled paranoia wasn't just random outbursts anymore. It
had solidified into a plan, a homicidal plan.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
He decided she had to die yes.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
To silence the problem his paranoia had created, and he
started preparing with something very specific and chilling. He started
digging secretly outside the house, a deep pit, a cesspit or.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Belah, and he tried to make it look normal.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Right, He told neighbors anyone who asked it was just
necessary plumbing work for sanitation, but later investigations confirmed no
work was scheduled, no permits, nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He was digging her grave.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Essentially, yes, a place to hide the body.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And then came the eve of Ed twenty twenty three,
the night he planned for exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
He waited until the younger children were asleep. Then he
asked Yasmin to come into another room, pretending he wanted
to talk.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Things through, but that wasn't his intention.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, once they were alone, he attacked her. He killed her.
The sources used strong language emphasizing the brutality of the act.
A Then immediately he took her body out to the
pit he dug, put her inside and covered it up,
sealed it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And went straight to the next part of his clan.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yep report her missing stick to the story she ran
off with her lover. He couldn't name this lover, of course,
but because Yasmin had.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Left before the police bought it, filed a missing person report,
considered her a runaway exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
His plan seemed perfect, except one tiny, devastating detail he
hadn't counted.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
On Adam, her eldest son.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Adam. The next morning, the boy confronted his father. He
hadn't been asleep, after all, he'd seen it.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
He saw his father kill his mother.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
He saw everything, and apparently he asked him, just with
total childlike confusion. Why why did you do that?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh Adam? What did abdul Rahman do? This changes everything.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
For him completely. Yasmin's murder, you could argue, was born
from that drug induced paranoia, twisted logic. But Adam, Adam
was a witness, a direct threat to the lie, to
his freedom.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The action wasn't emotional, it was calculated entirely.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, he realized instantly, the boy knows, the boy will talk.
The plan is ruined unless Adam disappears too. He decided
right then he had to kill his own son.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
How did he? How did it happen?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
He told Adam to keep quiet, wait until nighttime. That evening,
he leered the boy, probably somewhere private, and he.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Choked him to death, and then back to the pit.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Back to the pit, he dug it up again, placed
Adam's small body next to his mother's and cover them
both up again, sealed the grave for a second time.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And just continued the lie that Yasmin took Adam with
her when she ran off.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That became the updated story. She fled with her lover
and she took her oldest son, and for a long
time that story held. The case went cold for how long?
Eleven months? Eleven months of silence. Yasmin's parents were obviously devastated, heartbroken,
searching the police file remained runaway abdu Rahan cut off
all contacts with his in laws.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
What finally broke the silence.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It happened just days before the next add twenty twenty four,
so almost a full year later, and the break came
from his own family again. The brother, Yes, his brother
went back to the police, but this time he wasn't
reporting Yasmin missing. He reported Adam missing.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Uh, because if Yasmin ran off with Adam, why hadn't
anyone heard from the boy in almost a year, why
wasn't he in touch with his father?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Precisely? That detail didn't add up. It immediately shifted the
police focus. This wasn't just a runaway mother anymore. Something
was very wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So they brought Abdul Rahman in again.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
They did, and his story started to crumble. He gave
excuses about Exan's Adam said the boy had called him,
claimed he was with his mother, but refused to come home.
It was inconsistent, unconvincing, and.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
The police suspicion grew, especially considering Yasmin's family had a
good reputation.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Right, they started thinking foul play, conspiracy, and the investigation
quickly zeroed in on the area around Abdil Rahman's.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
House and that strange pit he dug a year earlier.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
That un authorized pit became the crucial piece of evidence,
the fatal clue.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
When they confronted him about it, did he stick to
the plumbing story.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
He tried, lied again, said it just for sanitation, but
the police already knew that wasn't true. They had checked
with the authorities. No work was ever planned or done.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
There officially, so they ordered it excavated.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
They did. They started digging, and deep down in that pit,
they found them, both of them, both of them, the
decomposed remains of Yasmin and her son.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Adam, and faced with that, he confessed immediately.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Discovery broke him completely. He told them everything, the planning,
the murders, the concealment.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Did he take responsibility or blame the drugs?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
He blamed the drugs. So the addiction created the paranoia
about the lover, which led to killing Yasmin and then
killing Adam was necessary to cover that.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Up, so he was arrested what's the status.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Now he's awaiting trial. Given the premeditation, especially digging the
pit beforehand of the double homicide, the expectation is that
he'll face the death penalty.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's just an absolutely chilling story, the way the addiction
created this whole false reality he felt he had to protect,
even through murder.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It really is. But for me, the most horrifying part
isn't even the first murder born from that paranoia. It's
the second one, killing Adam. Killing Adam. That wasn't about paranoia.
That was cold, rational calculation, protecting himself, protecting the lie.
It shows how addiction at its deepest, doesn't just destroy
judgment or finances. It can strip away the most fundamental
(13:29):
human instincts, like protecting your own child. All that mattered
was self preservation.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It leaves you wondering, doesn't it. At what point does
the struggle against addiction turn into a desperate fight to
protect the terrible reality the addiction has created a truly
devastating case
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