October 15, 2025 • 11 mins
The story recounts the murder of Mohamed El-Samman, a wealthy but extremely frugal elderly man. When he was found brutally killed in his apartment, suspicions initially pointed to his estranged wives and children, who were thought to be after his inheritance. However, the investigation eventually led to the son of a respected neighbor, a young man burdened by debt and hiding a criminal past. Forensic evidence exposed him, and he finally confessed: he murdered El-Samman hoping to steal a fortune. In the end, all he got was a quarter of an Egyptian pound. He was convicted and sentenced to death.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Picture this. It's fhasal midday, blazing hot sun inside this
apartment building. Though it's quiet, really quiet, except for this
frantic pounding on a heavy wooden door, second floor.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, and that pounding, it's not just noise, it's pure
dread building up outside that door. You've got the man's
ex wife, another relative. They know him, Mohammed Elsamon, sixty
two years old, a contractor.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Very dependable, apparently like clockwork.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, but he hasn't answered his phone since eight pm
the night before, missed his morning routine entirely. That's just
not him.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
So first thought is maybe health. He's diabetic, maybe a
coma or something. But getting to him is another issue.
The places like Fort Knox, they even tried scaling the outside.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Walls, right, but iron gates on every window, no way in.
So they remember something. His daughter knows her dad conscious
as he was kept a spare key hidden nearby for emergencies.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, so they find it, They find.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The key, the lock turns, but the second that door
creeps open, while the whole medical emergency idea just instance,
did they see the air hits them first? It's chemical,
but the sight it's immediate, violent, Right there on the threshold,
this huge splash of blood, dark.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Shocking against like the normal backdrop of an apartment entrance,
just completely jarring totally.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And that blood at the door, that's only the start.
Doesn't just stop there.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
There's a trail, Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, a grim one. They follow a deeper inside, big
dark smears leading from the entrance through the main living area,
and then it gets really concentrated in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Wow, the amount of blood must have been staggering, suggests
the real fight moving through the apartment.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Exactly, a prolonged, maybe frantic struggle across three different rooms.
But they still haven't found.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Them until they check the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That's where they find Mohammad al Sammon in the backtub.
His head's covered and look the details here are chilling
and crucial. There's this tiny stream of water running just
barely pooling in the.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Tub and a chemical smell.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Over powering chlorine. Leitch. Maybe this wasn't just violence, this
was calculation, someone trying to mask the smell, speed up decomposition.
They clearly expected him to lie there for days before
anyone found it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, that shifts everything cold calculation. So the victim, Mohammed
el salmon, wealthy guy right contractor properties in Giza. So hag,
let's unpack him a bit. What was his reputation, because
that really drove the first wave of the investigation.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, he was known for being incredibly cautious, borderline paranoid,
especially about his money. People close to him, family, they
often said he was stingy, even greedy.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
He still had ties to the ex wife though through
the kids.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, maintained a decent relationship because their kids lived right
there in the same building. Yeah, but trust, especially with
his assets, he trusted almost no one.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So you've got significant wealth, complex family dynamics, friction over
money inheritance seems like the obvious place to look first exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The police thought so too high stakes hit targeted and
the timing supported it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
When was he last heard from?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Saturday night? Around eight pm? He actually told his eldest
daughter he had a large sum of cash in the
apartment ready to buy a new building the next morning,
and then then silence. But crucially Sunday morning, he doesn't
show up for Fodger prayers. That was absolutely old Claude
routine for him, never missed it.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So it screams either robbery gone wrong, or someone in
the family making a move for the inheritance.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That was the working theory, but the crime scene itself
started throwing curve balls almost immediately. Yeah, big ones. It
didn't quite fit that neat narrative.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Like the entry you said, no forced entry, right.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
None, whoever did this was let in or they had
a key. And then the attack itself door, kitchen, bathroom
That suggest control, not some panic smashing ground.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
But the biggest contradiction was the bedroom, right, Yes, the
hidden safe, this is key, despite knowing El Samin had
this pile of cash ready, despite the apparent planning, the
killer didn't get into the safe.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It was still locked.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Wait, he was still there the money he told his
daughter about.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yes, when investigators finally got it open, the cash was there,
important documents too untouched.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Hold on. That blows the simple robbery or inheritance motive
wide open, doesn't it. If the goal was that cash,
why leave it? Why go through the cleanup with chlorine
and everything? If you didn't get the main prize.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's a huge pivot point. But investigators were kind of
stuck on the most logical motive the family, the inheritance.
It made so much sense on the surface. They struggled
initially to see it as maybe a completely botched, maybe
desperate robbery attempt instead.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So what was missing then, if not the big cash pile,
just a.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Few things really the victims keys, house car, safe, keys,
and both of his mobile phones.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Taking the keys and phones, maybe trying to buy time,
prevent identification, maybe hoping to come back for the safe
with the key, or just panic.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Could be any of those. It definitely confused things, but
it forced them to think, Okay, if it wasn't necessarily
a the big score inside, who else could have done this?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And that led them back to the building itself. That
locked main entrance between ten pm and seven am was
a major constraint.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Absolutely. It meant the killer was almost certainly a resident
or someone who had easy access a key, and the
time frame pointed to late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
Suddenly the focus shifts from the family to the neighbors.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right the pool of suspects gets much smaller, much closer
to home.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And this is where the seemingly normal surface starts to crack.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So who were they looking at? Among the residents?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
There was one family that zeroed in on eventually lived
there for twenty years. A divorced mother, her daughter who
was in college, and her son, Mohammed twenty two years old.
He was a maintenance technician.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
What was the perception of them in the building?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh, totally respectable, hard working folk. Everyone knew they were
struggling financially. The son, Mohammed had apparently just broken off
in engagement because he couldn't afford it. Just sympathetic, unassuming neighbors.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The classic red herring, the.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Ultimate red herring, which makes the next step so crucial.
Security forces decided, despite this reputation, to run a deep
background check on them. They didn't just accept the struggling
but respectable story.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And that background check that's where everything showed. This is
where it gets really interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Absolutely fascinating and horrifying. It just shattered that whole twenty
year facade. Remember the divorced mother. The story was the
father was a car dealer who just abandoned them years ago.
Turns out, no, not a car dealer. He's a major
drug trafficker. Arrested back in two thousand and eight, got
a life sentence, and then he escaped prison during the
(06:37):
chaos of the January Revolution.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
He escaped and was ware.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Hiding, potentially hiding right there or certainly being protected by
the family's normal life. Yeah, for years living under this
total cloak of secrecy.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Wow. So the whole family life, the struggling single mom,
it was all built around hiding a fugitive drug lord.
That's immense pressure on everyone, especially the sun.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And he gets even darker the sun. Mohammed, the quiet,
twenty two year old maintenance tech. He wasn't just the
son of a fugitive. He himself had faced a murdered
charge before cat Yes, though he was acquitted, not enough
evidence apparently. But now you look at him, desperate for money,
a history of violence, plus this, this inherited knowledge of
(07:20):
how to operate outside the law, how to hide things
from his father's life. He shoots right to the top
of the suspect list.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Okay, so the police get a warrant. They go to
the neighbor's apartment. Mohammed isn't there at first.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Not initially. They search his room and there on the floor, Yeah,
they find a pair of trousers with fresh bloodstains clearly visible.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Game over pretty much.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
They seize them immediately. Forensics gets involved, and just as
they're processing everything, Mohammed comes home.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
How did he react? You mentioned he had this sort
of inherited criminal savvy. Did he play it cool?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
He tried. He definitely tried to mask it, put on
a show of composure, like he knew how to act
if suspected. But the officers there said the tension was palpable,
grippling anxiety underneath. He knew the moment he saw them
it was.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Over and the blood on the trousers.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Forensics came back fast, a perfect match for the victim,
Mohammad al Sama. No question. Mohammad was arrested. Did he
confess immediately? Laid it all out and the level of
planning was chilling.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
This wasn't spontaneous at all, then, not even close.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
He admitted he'd been watching El Samon for some time,
studying his routines. He was actually counting on everyone assuming
it was the family, the inheritance. He thought that assumption
would be.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
His cover spart in a twisted way.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
He even bought a brand new knife specifically for this,
something easy to get rid of afterwards, and.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
The timing he waited for the prayer.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Time right the hours he told him. He hit on
the stairs outside El Samon's door from about three point
thirty in the morning until seven am, just waiting to
ambush him when he came out for fad your prayers.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But El Simon didn't come out that morning, no.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And by seven am, Mohammad couldn't wait any longer, couldn't
risk leaving. He'd somehow gotten a key, maybe copied one earlier,
maybe stole it, It's not entirely clear how, but he
used it to open the door quietly.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Eh Samon was awake, yes, heard.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
The door, came to see who it was, and found
his neighbor, the quiet maintenance kid, standing there with a knife.
The attack was instant, right at the door. He dragged
him into the kitchen to muffle the noise, and then
into the tub and.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The chlorine, the water that was all part of the
plane too.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Absolutely he confirmed it to speed up decomposition, kill the smell.
He thought it would be days, maybe longer before anyone
found the body, giving him plenty of.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Time time to do what, get away, sell whatever he.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Stole, time to benefit from the robbery he thought he
was committing.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So what does this all mean. We've got the detailed planning,
the surveillance, the weapon, hours of waiting, this brutal, multi
stage attack, the calculated cleanup, all aimed at getting that
big pile of cash. El Salmon mentioned, After all that risk,
all that violence, what did he actually get? What was
the hall?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
This is where the story just becomes well, utterly absurd
and tragic. His search for that cash total failure. He
couldn't get the safe open. Frantic searching turned up nothing
of real value.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
He went through all that for nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Worse than nothing financially speaking, he confessed. The only things
he managed to actually steal were the victim's keys, which
he ditched, the two mobile phones, ditched those two, and
one other item, a single coin insignificant, a quarter pound
on a quarter pound pound coin.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's it. That's all he got.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's it. He dumped everything, the knife, phones, keys, the
coin near the Almyriuta Canal. The press later dubbed him
the quarter pound Killer.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Unbelievable, a man known for his wealth, his extreme caution,
killed so violently, and the killer walks away with basically nothing,
just a quarter pound. Meanwhile, the whole neighborhood wakes up
to the fact they'd been living next to this hidden
criminal element for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, the shock was immense. That facade of respectability just crumbled.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And it really highlights the danger of assumption, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Absolutely everyone police included, jump to the most logical conclusion inheritance,
family feud. That assumption that red herring almost let him
get away with it.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
It blinded them to the desperate person hiding in plain
sight right next door, someone who's hidden history actually made
him a far more likely suspect if only they'd look
past the surface sooner.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It really makes you think, doesn't it. How much do
we really know about the people around us? We trust
the surface, the image they project. This wealthy man wasn't
killed for his millions. He was killed ultimately over loose change,
by a neighbor hiding an incredible secret. It just leaves
you wondering what hidden histories might be concealed behind the
ordinary faces we see every day
Picture this. It's fhasal midday, blazing hot sun inside this
apartment building. Though it's quiet, really quiet, except for this
frantic pounding on a heavy wooden door, second floor.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, and that pounding, it's not just noise, it's pure
dread building up outside that door. You've got the man's
ex wife, another relative. They know him, Mohammed Elsamon, sixty
two years old, a contractor.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Very dependable, apparently like clockwork.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, but he hasn't answered his phone since eight pm
the night before, missed his morning routine entirely. That's just
not him.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
So first thought is maybe health. He's diabetic, maybe a
coma or something. But getting to him is another issue.
The places like Fort Knox, they even tried scaling the outside.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Walls, right, but iron gates on every window, no way in.
So they remember something. His daughter knows her dad conscious
as he was kept a spare key hidden nearby for emergencies.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, so they find it, They find.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The key, the lock turns, but the second that door
creeps open, while the whole medical emergency idea just instance,
did they see the air hits them first? It's chemical,
but the sight it's immediate, violent, Right there on the threshold,
this huge splash of blood, dark.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Shocking against like the normal backdrop of an apartment entrance,
just completely jarring totally.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And that blood at the door, that's only the start.
Doesn't just stop there.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
There's a trail, Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, a grim one. They follow a deeper inside, big
dark smears leading from the entrance through the main living area,
and then it gets really concentrated in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Wow, the amount of blood must have been staggering, suggests
the real fight moving through the apartment.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Exactly, a prolonged, maybe frantic struggle across three different rooms.
But they still haven't found.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Them until they check the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That's where they find Mohammad al Sammon in the backtub.
His head's covered and look the details here are chilling
and crucial. There's this tiny stream of water running just
barely pooling in the.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Tub and a chemical smell.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Over powering chlorine. Leitch. Maybe this wasn't just violence, this
was calculation, someone trying to mask the smell, speed up decomposition.
They clearly expected him to lie there for days before
anyone found it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, that shifts everything cold calculation. So the victim, Mohammed
el salmon, wealthy guy right contractor properties in Giza. So hag,
let's unpack him a bit. What was his reputation, because
that really drove the first wave of the investigation.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, he was known for being incredibly cautious, borderline paranoid,
especially about his money. People close to him, family, they
often said he was stingy, even greedy.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
He still had ties to the ex wife though through
the kids.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, maintained a decent relationship because their kids lived right
there in the same building. Yeah, but trust, especially with
his assets, he trusted almost no one.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So you've got significant wealth, complex family dynamics, friction over
money inheritance seems like the obvious place to look first exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The police thought so too high stakes hit targeted and
the timing supported it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
When was he last heard from?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Saturday night? Around eight pm? He actually told his eldest
daughter he had a large sum of cash in the
apartment ready to buy a new building the next morning,
and then then silence. But crucially Sunday morning, he doesn't
show up for Fodger prayers. That was absolutely old Claude
routine for him, never missed it.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So it screams either robbery gone wrong, or someone in
the family making a move for the inheritance.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That was the working theory, but the crime scene itself
started throwing curve balls almost immediately. Yeah, big ones. It
didn't quite fit that neat narrative.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Like the entry you said, no forced entry, right.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
None, whoever did this was let in or they had
a key. And then the attack itself door, kitchen, bathroom
That suggest control, not some panic smashing ground.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
But the biggest contradiction was the bedroom, right, Yes, the
hidden safe, this is key, despite knowing El Samin had
this pile of cash ready, despite the apparent planning, the
killer didn't get into the safe.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It was still locked.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Wait, he was still there the money he told his
daughter about.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yes, when investigators finally got it open, the cash was there,
important documents too untouched.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Hold on. That blows the simple robbery or inheritance motive
wide open, doesn't it. If the goal was that cash,
why leave it? Why go through the cleanup with chlorine
and everything? If you didn't get the main prize.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's a huge pivot point. But investigators were kind of
stuck on the most logical motive the family, the inheritance.
It made so much sense on the surface. They struggled
initially to see it as maybe a completely botched, maybe
desperate robbery attempt instead.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So what was missing then, if not the big cash pile,
just a.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Few things really the victims keys, house car, safe, keys,
and both of his mobile phones.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Taking the keys and phones, maybe trying to buy time,
prevent identification, maybe hoping to come back for the safe
with the key, or just panic.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Could be any of those. It definitely confused things, but
it forced them to think, Okay, if it wasn't necessarily
a the big score inside, who else could have done this?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And that led them back to the building itself. That
locked main entrance between ten pm and seven am was
a major constraint.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Absolutely. It meant the killer was almost certainly a resident
or someone who had easy access a key, and the
time frame pointed to late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
Suddenly the focus shifts from the family to the neighbors.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right the pool of suspects gets much smaller, much closer
to home.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And this is where the seemingly normal surface starts to crack.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So who were they looking at? Among the residents?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
There was one family that zeroed in on eventually lived
there for twenty years. A divorced mother, her daughter who
was in college, and her son, Mohammed twenty two years old.
He was a maintenance technician.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
What was the perception of them in the building?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh, totally respectable, hard working folk. Everyone knew they were
struggling financially. The son, Mohammed had apparently just broken off
in engagement because he couldn't afford it. Just sympathetic, unassuming neighbors.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The classic red herring, the.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Ultimate red herring, which makes the next step so crucial.
Security forces decided, despite this reputation, to run a deep
background check on them. They didn't just accept the struggling
but respectable story.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And that background check that's where everything showed. This is
where it gets really interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Absolutely fascinating and horrifying. It just shattered that whole twenty
year facade. Remember the divorced mother. The story was the
father was a car dealer who just abandoned them years ago.
Turns out, no, not a car dealer. He's a major
drug trafficker. Arrested back in two thousand and eight, got
a life sentence, and then he escaped prison during the
(06:37):
chaos of the January Revolution.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
He escaped and was ware.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Hiding, potentially hiding right there or certainly being protected by
the family's normal life. Yeah, for years living under this
total cloak of secrecy.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Wow. So the whole family life, the struggling single mom,
it was all built around hiding a fugitive drug lord.
That's immense pressure on everyone, especially the sun.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And he gets even darker the sun. Mohammed, the quiet,
twenty two year old maintenance tech. He wasn't just the
son of a fugitive. He himself had faced a murdered
charge before cat Yes, though he was acquitted, not enough
evidence apparently. But now you look at him, desperate for money,
a history of violence, plus this, this inherited knowledge of
(07:20):
how to operate outside the law, how to hide things
from his father's life. He shoots right to the top
of the suspect list.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Okay, so the police get a warrant. They go to
the neighbor's apartment. Mohammed isn't there at first.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Not initially. They search his room and there on the floor, Yeah,
they find a pair of trousers with fresh bloodstains clearly visible.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Game over pretty much.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
They seize them immediately. Forensics gets involved, and just as
they're processing everything, Mohammed comes home.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
How did he react? You mentioned he had this sort
of inherited criminal savvy. Did he play it cool?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
He tried. He definitely tried to mask it, put on
a show of composure, like he knew how to act
if suspected. But the officers there said the tension was palpable,
grippling anxiety underneath. He knew the moment he saw them
it was.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Over and the blood on the trousers.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Forensics came back fast, a perfect match for the victim,
Mohammad al Sama. No question. Mohammad was arrested. Did he
confess immediately? Laid it all out and the level of
planning was chilling.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
This wasn't spontaneous at all, then, not even close.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
He admitted he'd been watching El Samon for some time,
studying his routines. He was actually counting on everyone assuming
it was the family, the inheritance. He thought that assumption
would be.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
His cover spart in a twisted way.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
He even bought a brand new knife specifically for this,
something easy to get rid of afterwards, and.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
The timing he waited for the prayer.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Time right the hours he told him. He hit on
the stairs outside El Samon's door from about three point
thirty in the morning until seven am, just waiting to
ambush him when he came out for fad your prayers.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But El Simon didn't come out that morning, no.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And by seven am, Mohammad couldn't wait any longer, couldn't
risk leaving. He'd somehow gotten a key, maybe copied one earlier,
maybe stole it, It's not entirely clear how, but he
used it to open the door quietly.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Eh Samon was awake, yes, heard.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
The door, came to see who it was, and found
his neighbor, the quiet maintenance kid, standing there with a knife.
The attack was instant, right at the door. He dragged
him into the kitchen to muffle the noise, and then
into the tub and.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The chlorine, the water that was all part of the
plane too.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Absolutely he confirmed it to speed up decomposition, kill the smell.
He thought it would be days, maybe longer before anyone
found the body, giving him plenty of.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Time time to do what, get away, sell whatever he.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Stole, time to benefit from the robbery he thought he
was committing.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So what does this all mean. We've got the detailed planning,
the surveillance, the weapon, hours of waiting, this brutal, multi
stage attack, the calculated cleanup, all aimed at getting that
big pile of cash. El Salmon mentioned, After all that risk,
all that violence, what did he actually get? What was
the hall?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
This is where the story just becomes well, utterly absurd
and tragic. His search for that cash total failure. He
couldn't get the safe open. Frantic searching turned up nothing
of real value.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
He went through all that for nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Worse than nothing financially speaking, he confessed. The only things
he managed to actually steal were the victim's keys, which
he ditched, the two mobile phones, ditched those two, and
one other item, a single coin insignificant, a quarter pound
on a quarter pound pound coin.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's it. That's all he got.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's it. He dumped everything, the knife, phones, keys, the
coin near the Almyriuta Canal. The press later dubbed him
the quarter pound Killer.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Unbelievable, a man known for his wealth, his extreme caution,
killed so violently, and the killer walks away with basically nothing,
just a quarter pound. Meanwhile, the whole neighborhood wakes up
to the fact they'd been living next to this hidden
criminal element for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, the shock was immense. That facade of respectability just crumbled.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And it really highlights the danger of assumption, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Absolutely everyone police included, jump to the most logical conclusion inheritance,
family feud. That assumption that red herring almost let him
get away with it.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
It blinded them to the desperate person hiding in plain
sight right next door, someone who's hidden history actually made
him a far more likely suspect if only they'd look
past the surface sooner.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It really makes you think, doesn't it. How much do
we really know about the people around us? We trust
the surface, the image they project. This wealthy man wasn't
killed for his millions. He was killed ultimately over loose change,
by a neighbor hiding an incredible secret. It just leaves
you wondering what hidden histories might be concealed behind the
ordinary faces we see every day
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