Wael, a well-liked psychology teacher in Assiut, plotted to murder his wife, Hanan, so he could be with his secretary, as divorce was not an option for him. Over time, he fabricated evidence of her infidelity and staged alibis by creating disturbances in multiple locations. Wael eventually hired a convicted felon, Mohamed Khalaf, to carry out the murder. Careful police work uncovered the conspiracy, leading to the execution of both Wael and Khalaf in 2016.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, let's dive in. We're taking you to a suit Egypt.
Picture it early morning, twenty thirteen. It's quiet, almost too quiet.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, and inside this large ground floor apartment, part home,
part tutoring center for a successful teacher, something is definitely wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
His daughter, Sarah, she's nine. She wakes up, maybe expecting
the usual morning sounds, you know, parents getting ready for work,
Wheal and Haynaen, both.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Teachers, but there's just silence. And then she sees it
the first like really chilling detail. Her mom, Hannah's key.
It's still in the lock, but on the inside of
the apartment door, which.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Means Hannah never left. She couldn't have locked it from
the inside and then left exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So Sarah she pushes open the bedroom door and the
scene is just chaotic, furniture knocked over, things disturbed, and.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Her mother, Hannah is in bed still but there's this, uh,
this wet piece of clock stuffed in her.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Mouth, horrifying, and Sarah notices these these blue marks on
her mother's body. She tries shaking her, calling her name,
trying to wake her.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Up frantically, but then comes that awful realization, you know,
that's stillness. It's final.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
She panics, grabs the phone, calls her dad, while he
supposedly already at the school where he teaches.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
He answers, sounds completely shocked, devastated by what Sarah's trying
to tell him through her tears. He tells her call
your grandmother. I'm rushing home right now.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But here's where it gets really strange, almost immediately, like
just minutes later, before While even gets back.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, get this. The grandmother gets a call, an anonymous call.
This weird voice on the line says he killed Hanan
and demands fifty thousand Egyptian pounds.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And threatens While and the kids if the money isn't paid,
then click line goes dead.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So you've got this scene looks like maybe a robbery
gone wrong, maybe something else. You've got the grieving family
and then this bizarre, out of the blue ransom demand.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It screams misdirection, doesn't it like it's almost too theatrical.
It seems designed to point away from the obvious.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Absolutely, it sets up this narrative of external danger, kidnapping, ransom,
but the evidence, even the early stuff, it starts telling
a very different story, a much colder story.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And it points towards someone who knew exactly how to
manipulate appearances, someone who wasn't just reacting but orchestrating the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So when the police and the forensic teams arrive, they
start piecing together what actually happened at the scene.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And the first big thing, as you said, zero signs
of forced entry, no broken windows, no Jimmy Dores confirms
the key thing.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Hannan almost certainly knew her attacker let them in willingly.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Right. They also confirm the cause of death, strangulation, clear
marks on her neck, and that wet cloth stuffed in
her mouth, probably to keep her quiet crucial, you know,
in a ground floor apartment where neighbors might hear.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And they note the missing items, some gold jewelry about
one thousand EGP and cash. Seems consistent with a robbery, right,
especially since Wyle is known to be pretty well off.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It fits the narrative while once but then there's this
other piece of physical Eviden's a single unusual fingerprint found
in multiple spots around the apartment, not immediately identified, but
definitely noted.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And while the investigators are working the scene, wayl is
there playing the part of the devastated husband. But he's
also subtly guiding.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Them, oh completely. He drops these hints about strange romantic
messages Hanan had supposedly been receiving from some unknown number
that was disconnected.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Planting the seed suggesting she was having an affair, that
maybe that's why she was killed, a crime of passion
by a secret lover.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And this is where his background just sends chills down
your spine. He taught psychology, He knew how to manipulate.
He wasn't just grieving, he was actively psychologically managing the
investigation from the get go.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Deflecting suspicion by making the victim seem suspicious.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's it's textbook manipulation, create doubt about her, cloud the issue,
distract from the physical evidence, like the key that points
towards someone known to her, someone like him.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, so to really get why he'd do this, we
need to rewind a bit, go back to maybe two
thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, Whale was this like super popular psychology teacher, really successful, ambitious,
even working on his master's degree, married to Hannahan, who
is also a respected teacher, a colleague.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Seemed like a power couple. Maybe, but Whale's private tutoring
business absolutely exploded.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Right, and with the money came while greed, serious greed.
He started earning way more, but he was also home
way less, putting a huge strain on the marriage, especially
after they had two kids.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And then around two thousand and eight, Hannan finds out
he's not just busy, he's having affairs, multiple affairs. She
apparently had solid proof.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Now you'd think that's the end, right, but no, Whale
uses his psychology skills again, but this time on Hannan directly.
He twists it all around.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Gaslighting her basically totally.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
He convinces her that his cheating is somehow her fault,
that she was neglecting him, focusing too much on the kids,
and somehow she starts feeling guilty.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's incredible manipulation. So Hannan, trying to save them marriage,
comes up with this plan.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, a desperate move really. She suggests they move into
this big ground floor apartment. Why so they could convert
part of it into Wyle's tutoring center. Her thinking was,
if his work is at home, she can supervise him,
keep the family unit together.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Keep an eye on him, basically.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Exactly, and Whale. He agrees immediately, almost too quickly, you
might think, in hindsight.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So they move. The business is right there, and then
he hires a secretary. Yeah, beautiful young woman to handle schedules, money,
and she lives there too, in the apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yep, right there. Hannan naturally is intensely jealous sees her
as you know, typical competition, another woman too close to
her husband.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But it was way more than that, wasn't it. This
wasn't just some new hire, No.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
This was the secret the seven year secret. The secretary
was Wale's long term mistress.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Seven years while married to Hennan.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Living under the same roof. Eventually, it's audacious, and apparently
this relationship reached an ultimatum point. The secretary demanded he
choose her or her nun.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But Whale, being Christian in Egypt, faced hurdles with divorce
right and marrying his mistress wouldn't be simple, either culturally
or socially correct.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Divorce wasn't an easy option, especially if he wanted to
maintain his reputation and crucially, his finances. So faced with
losing his mistress or potentially a messy, costly divorce, he
saw a third.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Option, murder disguised as something else, entirely.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
The cleanest option in his warped view. It preserved his image,
his money, and theoretically got rid of the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And this wasn't a snap decision, you said, This was
planned for months.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Four months, a meticulous, chillingly detailed blueprint for murder and evasion.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, walk us through it. Phase one.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Phase one, framing the victim. This is where those weird
text messages come in. Whale bought a burner phone himself.
He started sending those vague, romantic messages to Hannan's phone.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So he created the other man narrative himself.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Precisely, he laid the foundation for the story he would
later tell the police. Pure setup.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Phase two, securing the let's call it softening agent sedationan.
He convinces Hannahs she's suffering from terrible insomnia. He pushes her,
suggests she needs sleeping pills.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And crucially gets her to buy them from the pharmacy herself.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Exactly plausible deniability. Her pills, her problem. He just made
a helpful suggestion.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Phase three is where his own flaw comes in, right, Yeah, his.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Cheapness, pathological stinginess. Yeah, he actually tries to hire professionals first,
the Alamatarine Mountain Gang, apparently known for serious crimes. He
wanted them to do the killing, but the fee he
offered was insultingly low, like ridiculously cheap for a contract killing.
They basically lacked him off and refused the job. His
own greed potentially saved him from using truly dangerous criminals.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Ironically, so the pros said no. He moves to phase four,
finding an amateur.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He finds Mohammed Kuloff, a local car mechanic. Guy's got
a criminal record, deep in financial trouble, desperate while approach him,
initially asking him to kill a friend's wife, trying to
keep some distance.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But Kalof wasn't stupid. He suspected while was talking about
his own wives Hanan right, and.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
That suspicion led Kalof to do something while never ever
counted on something purely for self preservation or maybe future leverage.
What did you He secretly recorded all of his conversations
with while about the plan, every single detail, not for justice,
just insurance black mail material down the line.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Wow, So Wyle confirms Handan is the target and the
deal is struck. What was the price for kalof pathetic?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Really? Just two thousand Egyptian pounds maybe one hundred and
twenty US at the time, plus whatever gold and cash
Kloff could steal from Hannan's body afterwards.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Unbelievable. He valued his wife's life and avoiding inconvenience. I
go practically nothing exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
The greed is just staggering.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Okay, So the investigation progresses, the forensic reports land, what
do they confirm?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
They confirmed the sedation sleeping pills were definitely in hanansis
cause of death, strangulation violent enough to fracture bone in
her neck, and that wet cloth placed after she was
already dead post mortem to.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Make it look like she was silenced during.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
The act, possibly or just part of the staging. But
the most chilling forensic detail for me anyway was the
soap residuce soap on her hands, on her hands, Yeah,
the investigators concluded the killers used soap like regular hand
soap to lubricate her fingers and wrists.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Why could get the rins off easily?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Her jewelry exactly to calmly slide off her gold jewelry
after she was dead speaks volumes about their mindset. This
wasn't a frantic struggle. This was cold calculated theft from
a corpse of business transaction.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Almost just gruesome. Meanwhile, the police are digging into Whale's
story for that morning.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
His alibis, and it starts to look well too perfect,
almost staged. Phone records confirm Whale called Cloth at seven
fifteen am, likely the signal to go ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Then wail Lee's for his day, but.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
He doesn't just go to work. He makes stops, and
at each stop he makes a He goes to a
bakery and deliberately starts a huge argument about the bread quality.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Loudly drawing attention to himself.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Then he goes to a gas station and cuts the line,
causing another commotion, ensuring people notice him, remember him being angry.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Being there, creating witnesses not just being seen, but being
remembered exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And then he gets to school and does something completely
out of character. He buys juice for his friends, which
sounds minor, but while was notoriously cheap, people would remembered
that specifically because it was so unlike him.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So the conclusion is obvious. He wasn't just establishing an alibi.
He was aggressively imprinting himself on the memories of multiple
people at specific times. The locations a manufacturing proof he
couldn't have been home.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It was overkill, too deliberate, too staged, and it raised
red flags for the investigators.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So they bring Whale in detained and what happens with
k Kaloff.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Gets arrested too, and face with the evidence. Maybe seeing
Wole wasn't going to protect him. He spills everything, immediately confesses.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
The whole plot and confirms the recordings of Goa.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
He confirms the recordings the ace of his sleeve, the
thing Whyle never knew about. Suddenly Wiles's elaborate plan, his
psychological manipulation, his perfect alibi. It all collapses, neutralized by
greed and a cheap Cape recorder, and.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Then Kalof drops one last horrifying detail about the morning itself,
about Wiles's own son.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, this is just the coldest part. Kaloff reviews that
during the murder, Wiles's young son actually woke up came
into the room.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Wal Klough was there during or right after.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The killing, right around the time, possibly just after. Instead
of panicking, Will calmly hid Kalof probably pushed him into
a closet or bathroom. Then he turned to his son,
told him his mother was just asleep, and gently sent
the little boy back to bed.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Minutes after murdering the boy's mother, he just lied to
his child's face and sent him away.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The level of detachment is it's hard to comprehend.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It really is using his understanding of the human mind
of psychology not to heal or help, but to commit
such a calculated, depraved act against his own family.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
You have to wonder was he just a meticulous planner
who made a fatal error with Kalof, or was this
the act of a true psychopath where the planning itself
was part of the thrill, but empathy and consequence were
just absent concepts.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
He thought he'd covered every angle, didn't he? The ransom
called red herring, the fake affair narrative, the rock solid alibi.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Every angle except the human element. He couldn't control Kaloff's
desperation and suspicion, and the simple fact that technology, even
just a basic audio recording.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Could preserve the truth, so the outcome.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
In twenty sixteen, both Whale and Ahamed Kalof were tried,
convicted and sentenced to death.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
A chilling end to a chilling story.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And you know when you boil it all down, the
entire scheme, the murder, the terror inflicted on his children,
the destruction of two families. It hinged on two thousand EGP,
that tiny sum Colough was promised, plus some stolen gold.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It makes you think about value, doesn't it. The value
Whale put on his wife's life versus the cost of
his own pathological stinginess.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Absolutely what if he hadn't been so cheap? What if
he had paid the al mad Hereing gang their asking price?
Would he have gotten away with it? It's a disturbing
thought how sometimes the grandest, most evil plans can unravel
because of the smallest, most mundane flaw, like being too
greedy to pay for reliable help.
Okay, let's dive in. We're taking you to a suit Egypt.
Picture it early morning, twenty thirteen. It's quiet, almost too quiet.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, and inside this large ground floor apartment, part home,
part tutoring center for a successful teacher, something is definitely wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
His daughter, Sarah, she's nine. She wakes up, maybe expecting
the usual morning sounds, you know, parents getting ready for work,
Wheal and Haynaen, both.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Teachers, but there's just silence. And then she sees it
the first like really chilling detail. Her mom, Hannah's key.
It's still in the lock, but on the inside of
the apartment door, which.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Means Hannah never left. She couldn't have locked it from
the inside and then left exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So Sarah she pushes open the bedroom door and the
scene is just chaotic, furniture knocked over, things disturbed, and.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Her mother, Hannah is in bed still but there's this, uh,
this wet piece of clock stuffed in her.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Mouth, horrifying, and Sarah notices these these blue marks on
her mother's body. She tries shaking her, calling her name,
trying to wake her.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Up frantically, but then comes that awful realization, you know,
that's stillness. It's final.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
She panics, grabs the phone, calls her dad, while he
supposedly already at the school where he teaches.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
He answers, sounds completely shocked, devastated by what Sarah's trying
to tell him through her tears. He tells her call
your grandmother. I'm rushing home right now.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But here's where it gets really strange, almost immediately, like
just minutes later, before While even gets back.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, get this. The grandmother gets a call, an anonymous call.
This weird voice on the line says he killed Hanan
and demands fifty thousand Egyptian pounds.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And threatens While and the kids if the money isn't paid,
then click line goes dead.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So you've got this scene looks like maybe a robbery
gone wrong, maybe something else. You've got the grieving family
and then this bizarre, out of the blue ransom demand.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It screams misdirection, doesn't it like it's almost too theatrical.
It seems designed to point away from the obvious.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Absolutely, it sets up this narrative of external danger, kidnapping, ransom,
but the evidence, even the early stuff, it starts telling
a very different story, a much colder story.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And it points towards someone who knew exactly how to
manipulate appearances, someone who wasn't just reacting but orchestrating the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So when the police and the forensic teams arrive, they
start piecing together what actually happened at the scene.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And the first big thing, as you said, zero signs
of forced entry, no broken windows, no Jimmy Dores confirms
the key thing.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Hannan almost certainly knew her attacker let them in willingly.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Right. They also confirm the cause of death, strangulation, clear
marks on her neck, and that wet cloth stuffed in
her mouth, probably to keep her quiet crucial, you know,
in a ground floor apartment where neighbors might hear.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And they note the missing items, some gold jewelry about
one thousand EGP and cash. Seems consistent with a robbery, right,
especially since Wyle is known to be pretty well off.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It fits the narrative while once but then there's this
other piece of physical Eviden's a single unusual fingerprint found
in multiple spots around the apartment, not immediately identified, but
definitely noted.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And while the investigators are working the scene, wayl is
there playing the part of the devastated husband. But he's
also subtly guiding.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Them, oh completely. He drops these hints about strange romantic
messages Hanan had supposedly been receiving from some unknown number
that was disconnected.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Planting the seed suggesting she was having an affair, that
maybe that's why she was killed, a crime of passion
by a secret lover.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And this is where his background just sends chills down
your spine. He taught psychology, He knew how to manipulate.
He wasn't just grieving, he was actively psychologically managing the
investigation from the get go.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Deflecting suspicion by making the victim seem suspicious.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's it's textbook manipulation, create doubt about her, cloud the issue,
distract from the physical evidence, like the key that points
towards someone known to her, someone like him.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, so to really get why he'd do this, we
need to rewind a bit, go back to maybe two
thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, Whale was this like super popular psychology teacher, really successful, ambitious,
even working on his master's degree, married to Hannahan, who
is also a respected teacher, a colleague.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Seemed like a power couple. Maybe, but Whale's private tutoring
business absolutely exploded.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Right, and with the money came while greed, serious greed.
He started earning way more, but he was also home
way less, putting a huge strain on the marriage, especially
after they had two kids.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And then around two thousand and eight, Hannan finds out
he's not just busy, he's having affairs, multiple affairs. She
apparently had solid proof.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Now you'd think that's the end, right, but no, Whale
uses his psychology skills again, but this time on Hannan directly.
He twists it all around.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Gaslighting her basically totally.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
He convinces her that his cheating is somehow her fault,
that she was neglecting him, focusing too much on the kids,
and somehow she starts feeling guilty.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's incredible manipulation. So Hannan, trying to save them marriage,
comes up with this plan.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, a desperate move really. She suggests they move into
this big ground floor apartment. Why so they could convert
part of it into Wyle's tutoring center. Her thinking was,
if his work is at home, she can supervise him,
keep the family unit together.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Keep an eye on him, basically.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Exactly, and Whale. He agrees immediately, almost too quickly, you
might think, in hindsight.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So they move. The business is right there, and then
he hires a secretary. Yeah, beautiful young woman to handle schedules, money,
and she lives there too, in the apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yep, right there. Hannan naturally is intensely jealous sees her
as you know, typical competition, another woman too close to
her husband.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But it was way more than that, wasn't it. This
wasn't just some new hire, No.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
This was the secret the seven year secret. The secretary
was Wale's long term mistress.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Seven years while married to Hennan.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Living under the same roof. Eventually, it's audacious, and apparently
this relationship reached an ultimatum point. The secretary demanded he
choose her or her nun.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But Whale, being Christian in Egypt, faced hurdles with divorce
right and marrying his mistress wouldn't be simple, either culturally
or socially correct.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Divorce wasn't an easy option, especially if he wanted to
maintain his reputation and crucially, his finances. So faced with
losing his mistress or potentially a messy, costly divorce, he
saw a third.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Option, murder disguised as something else, entirely.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
The cleanest option in his warped view. It preserved his image,
his money, and theoretically got rid of the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And this wasn't a snap decision, you said, This was
planned for months.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Four months, a meticulous, chillingly detailed blueprint for murder and evasion.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, walk us through it. Phase one.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Phase one, framing the victim. This is where those weird
text messages come in. Whale bought a burner phone himself.
He started sending those vague, romantic messages to Hannan's phone.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So he created the other man narrative himself.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Precisely, he laid the foundation for the story he would
later tell the police. Pure setup.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Phase two, securing the let's call it softening agent sedationan.
He convinces Hannahs she's suffering from terrible insomnia. He pushes her,
suggests she needs sleeping pills.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And crucially gets her to buy them from the pharmacy herself.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Exactly plausible deniability. Her pills, her problem. He just made
a helpful suggestion.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Phase three is where his own flaw comes in, right, Yeah, his.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Cheapness, pathological stinginess. Yeah, he actually tries to hire professionals first,
the Alamatarine Mountain Gang, apparently known for serious crimes. He
wanted them to do the killing, but the fee he
offered was insultingly low, like ridiculously cheap for a contract killing.
They basically lacked him off and refused the job. His
own greed potentially saved him from using truly dangerous criminals.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Ironically, so the pros said no. He moves to phase four,
finding an amateur.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He finds Mohammed Kuloff, a local car mechanic. Guy's got
a criminal record, deep in financial trouble, desperate while approach him,
initially asking him to kill a friend's wife, trying to
keep some distance.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But Kalof wasn't stupid. He suspected while was talking about
his own wives Hanan right, and.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
That suspicion led Kalof to do something while never ever
counted on something purely for self preservation or maybe future leverage.
What did you He secretly recorded all of his conversations
with while about the plan, every single detail, not for justice,
just insurance black mail material down the line.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Wow, So Wyle confirms Handan is the target and the
deal is struck. What was the price for kalof pathetic?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Really? Just two thousand Egyptian pounds maybe one hundred and
twenty US at the time, plus whatever gold and cash
Kloff could steal from Hannan's body afterwards.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Unbelievable. He valued his wife's life and avoiding inconvenience. I
go practically nothing exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
The greed is just staggering.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Okay, So the investigation progresses, the forensic reports land, what
do they confirm?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
They confirmed the sedation sleeping pills were definitely in hanansis
cause of death, strangulation violent enough to fracture bone in
her neck, and that wet cloth placed after she was
already dead post mortem to.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Make it look like she was silenced during.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
The act, possibly or just part of the staging. But
the most chilling forensic detail for me anyway was the
soap residuce soap on her hands, on her hands, Yeah,
the investigators concluded the killers used soap like regular hand
soap to lubricate her fingers and wrists.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Why could get the rins off easily?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Her jewelry exactly to calmly slide off her gold jewelry
after she was dead speaks volumes about their mindset. This
wasn't a frantic struggle. This was cold calculated theft from
a corpse of business transaction.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Almost just gruesome. Meanwhile, the police are digging into Whale's
story for that morning.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
His alibis, and it starts to look well too perfect,
almost staged. Phone records confirm Whale called Cloth at seven
fifteen am, likely the signal to go ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Then wail Lee's for his day, but.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
He doesn't just go to work. He makes stops, and
at each stop he makes a He goes to a
bakery and deliberately starts a huge argument about the bread quality.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Loudly drawing attention to himself.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Then he goes to a gas station and cuts the line,
causing another commotion, ensuring people notice him, remember him being angry.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Being there, creating witnesses not just being seen, but being
remembered exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And then he gets to school and does something completely
out of character. He buys juice for his friends, which
sounds minor, but while was notoriously cheap, people would remembered
that specifically because it was so unlike him.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So the conclusion is obvious. He wasn't just establishing an alibi.
He was aggressively imprinting himself on the memories of multiple
people at specific times. The locations a manufacturing proof he
couldn't have been home.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It was overkill, too deliberate, too staged, and it raised
red flags for the investigators.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So they bring Whale in detained and what happens with
k Kaloff.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Gets arrested too, and face with the evidence. Maybe seeing
Wole wasn't going to protect him. He spills everything, immediately confesses.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
The whole plot and confirms the recordings of Goa.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
He confirms the recordings the ace of his sleeve, the
thing Whyle never knew about. Suddenly Wiles's elaborate plan, his
psychological manipulation, his perfect alibi. It all collapses, neutralized by
greed and a cheap Cape recorder, and.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Then Kalof drops one last horrifying detail about the morning itself,
about Wiles's own son.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, this is just the coldest part. Kaloff reviews that
during the murder, Wiles's young son actually woke up came
into the room.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Wal Klough was there during or right after.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The killing, right around the time, possibly just after. Instead
of panicking, Will calmly hid Kalof probably pushed him into
a closet or bathroom. Then he turned to his son,
told him his mother was just asleep, and gently sent
the little boy back to bed.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Minutes after murdering the boy's mother, he just lied to
his child's face and sent him away.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The level of detachment is it's hard to comprehend.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It really is using his understanding of the human mind
of psychology not to heal or help, but to commit
such a calculated, depraved act against his own family.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
You have to wonder was he just a meticulous planner
who made a fatal error with Kalof, or was this
the act of a true psychopath where the planning itself
was part of the thrill, but empathy and consequence were
just absent concepts.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
He thought he'd covered every angle, didn't he? The ransom
called red herring, the fake affair narrative, the rock solid alibi.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Every angle except the human element. He couldn't control Kaloff's
desperation and suspicion, and the simple fact that technology, even
just a basic audio recording.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Could preserve the truth, so the outcome.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
In twenty sixteen, both Whale and Ahamed Kalof were tried,
convicted and sentenced to death.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
A chilling end to a chilling story.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And you know when you boil it all down, the
entire scheme, the murder, the terror inflicted on his children,
the destruction of two families. It hinged on two thousand EGP,
that tiny sum Colough was promised, plus some stolen gold.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It makes you think about value, doesn't it. The value
Whale put on his wife's life versus the cost of
his own pathological stinginess.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Absolutely what if he hadn't been so cheap? What if
he had paid the al mad Hereing gang their asking price?
Would he have gotten away with it? It's a disturbing
thought how sometimes the grandest, most evil plans can unravel
because of the smallest, most mundane flaw, like being too
greedy to pay for reliable help.
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