In Egypt, 15-year-old Ahmed was lured and murdered by a man named Tariq, who pretended to be a cancer survivor. The crime, initially suspected as organ trafficking, was actually directed by a 15-year-old in Kuwait to produce "Red Room" content for the Dark Web. Tariq was paid for the murder and filming, and investigations revealed a broader pattern of similar crimes by the Kuwaiti teen. Both perpetrators were ultimately apprehended.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, let's start this deep dive. We're setting the scene
and Esbetoffman a really tight knit neighborhood in Shubra el Kaima, Egypt.
The time is April twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Four, right, and for seven days there's this palpable anxiety
hanging over the community. A fifteen year old boy, Ahmed
Mohammed sad he's vanished.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's gone. And while the official investigation is kind of
slow to start, something else starts to creep in, something physical.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You had a smell, a really foul odor getting stronger
and stronger.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And it's coming from one specific apartment, an apartment rented
by someone the community thought they knew that's smell.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It really became the turning point, didn't it. It forced people
to confront something they couldn't ignore anymore. It shattered the
illusion around this neighbor.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And revealed this wasn't just a local missing person case.
This was something much darker, with connections stretching unbelievably to
the dark web.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Exactly a local tragedy, yes, but with these chilling global implications,
orchestrated by someone they trusted.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
So our mission today is to really unpack the layers here,
the deception, the manipulation. How a figure who seemed well
respected became an anonymous killer.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
It's genuinely one of the most disturbing cases to come
out of the region. The psychological game played here is
something else.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It really is. And you mentioned the calculation involved. Let's
talk about the man at the center of this Tarik
right trek.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
He's in his late twenties. He only showed up in
the neighborhood about four months before Ahmed.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Disappeared, so a relative newcomer completely.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
No one knew his family, his history, nothing. He was
basically a blank slate.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And he used that anonymity incredibly effectively.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh absolutely, he understood the community religious, close knit, and
he played right into it well by faking vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
A masterclass in exploiting empathy. As you said, how did
you do it?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Two key lies working together. First, he claimed he was
battling severe cancer, said he was treating it himself.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Which immediately creates sympathy. Explains maybe odd behavior absences precisely.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And it also explained why he, supposedly an electrician, was
working as a simple assistant in a local coffee shop.
Financial hardship.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You see, Okay, that makes sense. And the second lie piety.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He presented himself as deeply religious, always ready with advice
on faith, on good conduct, constantly talking the talk.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So he's the devout man suffering silently. It's a powerful image.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Incredibly powerful. It deflected questions. I mean, claiming serious illness
like cancer, self treating in such a close community. That
feels risky, right.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, you'd think someone might challenge.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
That, But the piety acted like a shield, had the
supposed financial hardship preventing proper care, and people just accepted it.
Skepticism evaporated when faced with this image of a saintly
struggling man.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And this image really resonated with the local kids, especially Ahmed.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, particularly Ohmed, the fifteen year old victim he looked
up to. Terrek saw him as this role model, someone
overcoming terrible adversity while staying devout. A hero figure almost
knew this.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He focused on the children, he did.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He offered mentorship advice, you know, focus on your studies,
stay away from bad influences. Sounds good, right, protective.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Very much so, fatherly almost.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And he backed it up with little gifts money for
Ahmed to use at the PlayStation shop things like that,
cementing the bond crucially.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Ahmed would then go home and tell his family about
Tarik's kindness, his.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Advice exactly, providing Tarek with a constant stream of positive
reinforcement within the family. He was using the boy's own
trust to build his immunity within the community. It's chillingly smart.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, But this carefully constructed image. It starts to crack,
doesn't it. The financial hardship story, specifically, it does.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Things begin to shift. Tarek starts taking these unexplained breaks
from his coffee shop job, two weeks at a time,
and the excuse was more cancer treatment intensive sessions, he claimed.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But looking back with what we know now, these weren't treatment.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Sessions almost certainly, it seems much more likely this was
well him proving himself, building a portfolio, maybe demonstrating his
capabilities to whoever was pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Wow, okay. And then comes a really dramatic change after
one of these absences.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
A complete transformation. Yeah, he returns, but he's no longer
the struggling assistant. He's got a new car, a new phone, expensive.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Clothes that must have raised eyebrows. How did he explain.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That another lie ready to go, his wealthy brother had
suddenly passed away. He said he'd inherited.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
A fortune, just like that convenient very, And.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He seamlessly transitioned. Yeah, he went from being an employee
at the coffee shop to being a generous patron, buying
drinks for people, flashing the cash a bit.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And this new wealth, it didn't shatter his image.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
No, strangely, it almost reinforced it. Now he was the devout, generous,
wealthy man who had overcome tragedy. It gave him this
final layer of perceived respectability.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Which maybe gave him the confidence or the cover he
needed for the next step.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It seems that way. It insulated him from suspicion, let
him operate right up until the final act.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
April fifteenth, twenty twenty four, the day Ahmed disappears.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yes, by eight point zero zero pm that evening, his
family is frantic searching everywhere, and Terrek is right there
playing the part of the concerned neighbor, outwardly helping with
the search, showing concern.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
But the truth starts to emerge with surveillance footage.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Right CCTV is crucial here. It tracks Ahmed's movements the
PlayStation shop, then meeting Terrek at the coffee shop.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And the last sighting, the.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Critical footage Ahmed walking away with Terrek and then they
both vanished from camera view. Nothing more so.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
When the police inevitably talked.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
To Terrek, he sticks to a calculated denial, claims he
just ran into Ahmed by chance. They spoke for a moment,
then he went off on an errand said he only
learned Ahmed was muling later a total lie.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But the police investigation it didn't immediately focus on him.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, initially treated as a standard missing person case. There's
that procedural delay, you know, the waiting period before escalating things.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Frustrating for the family, I imagine terribly.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But investigators kept digging, review more CCTV and they spot
something interesting from two days before Ahmed disappeared. What was
that Terrek entering.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
A pharmacy okay, and what did he buy?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Not just aspirin? He bought an anesthetic or some kind
of narcotic substance plus gauze and cotton.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
That sounds premeditated.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It certainly looks that way.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Though interestingly, when neighbors heard about this later, some initially
tried to explain it away, Wow, connecting it back to
his fake cancer. Maybe it was for his self treatment,
they suggested. They were still trying to make his story fit,
still protecting that image.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Incredible, the power of that constructed persona.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
But the police weren't buying it. They saw preparation. Terrek
had the means to incapacitate someone.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And then a week passes since Ahmed's disappearance, seven days.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Seven days, and that smell from Tarrek's apartment it's become unbearable, overpowering.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So the neighbors, driven by this awful smell and growing dread,
they decide they can't weigh it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
No, they enter the apartment and the scene they find
it's just horrific, beyond comprehension. Ahmed's body is on the bed,
brutally disfigured. It had been sliced open length twise. All
the internal features were gone, the body was unrecognizable, Oh Mike,
and nearby a sealed black bag. Police later confirmed it
contained the boy's organs.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So Tarrek is arrested immediately right there, and he confesses,
but his initial confession his motive, it's another lie, isn't this.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
His first story is that he did it for money
five million Egyptian pounds, said it was for an organized
human organ trafficking ring with a contact basing kuoit directing.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Him organ trafficking. It sounds like a plausible, if grim
criminal motive.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It does, and maybe it's a standard cover story they're
told to use, but the forensic evidence it completely demolishes
that story instantly.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
How so what did the medical examination show?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Well, first, this was not a surgical removal of organs
for transplants, not even close. The victim ahmed, heavy, tortured, crtard, yes,
and the incisions they are crude, violent, not the work
of someone trying to preserve organs. There's no medical equipment found,
just signs of utter brutality.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
What kind of injuries are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The neck was slit, the body cut open lengthwise as
we said, and the major organ's heart, liver, kidneys just
ripped out and put in that bag.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So not organ harvesting. What was it?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Then? That's when terror cracks again. He admits the organ
story was fake. The real reason it's somehow even more
disturbing go on. He says he was directed by someone
he met online and accomplice. And get this, the accomplice
is a fifteen year old Egyptian student living in Kuwait, a.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Fifteen year old the same age as the victim, orchestrating
this from Kuwait.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Unbelievable, isn't It reframes everything. This wasn't about the organs themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
So why remove them? What was the point?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The point was the performance, the spectacle. Terrek was instructed
by this teenager in Kuwait to carry out the killing
and the dismemberment while on a live video call, streaming it,
streaming the entire horrific event moment by moment, so the
accomplishing Kuwait could watch it happen and record it.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Dear God, for what purpose?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
This leads us directly into the darkest corners of the Internet.
The motive wasn't organ trafficking. It was content creation, sickening content.
We know the organ story was a lie because after
Tarik did what he did, the contact in Kuwait apparently
told him the Organs were quote.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Unsuitable, unsuitable after all that exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And then immediately tried to pressure Terek into finding a
second victim for more money. It proves the organs themselves
were never the point.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
The point was the act itself, the recording.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Precisely, this is the world of so called red rooms.
It's a term used on the dark web for essentially
live stream torture and order pay per view horror monetized
through anonymous channels.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So the teenager in Kuwait wasn't just an accomplice, He
was a producer, a director.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Effectively, yes, generating this horrific video content to sell online,
linking directly to global organized crime models that profit from
extreme violence. The violence is the product.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And Tarik's earlier behavior, those two weak disappearances, the sudden wealth.
It all clicks into place now, doesn't it terribly?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
So he likely wasn't getting cancer treatment. He was probably auditioning,
performing smaller acts, maybe on animals, maybe something else. We
don't know for sure, but proving he was capable, proving
he'd follow through.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Proving he was worth a five million pound contract. He
didn't just get hired, He had to earn the role
of murderer.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It appears that way he vetted himself for the job.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And the dark web provides the platform for all this.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It provides the anonymity, the untraceable payment methods using cryptocurrency
and the global marketplace needed to make this industry function
and generate huge sums of money.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So the investigation didn't stop.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
With Terrek No and went international. Very quickly, Interpool got involved.
Cooperation between Egypt and Kuwait was.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
And they found the teenager in Kuwait.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
They did the fifteen year old student and interestingly, his
father were both arrested.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
The father was involved.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Apparently the teenager had used his father's personal phone for
some of the communication with Trek, which implicated him. Both
were extradited back to Egypt to face charges.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
And this wasn't the teenager's first time orchestrating.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Something like this, investigations suggests not. It seems he had
coordinated similar crimes or attempted to in other countries, using
the exact same horrific method, directing someone locally to commit
murder and dismemberment, recording it all presumably for sale online.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
A system, a repeatable, horrifying system.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Built on exploiting vulnerable people like Terrek, finding victims like Ahmed,
and leveraging the anonymity of the dark web.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It's just the ultimate betrayal, isn't it. Ahmed tried trusted
this man, the community trusted him, and he was just
an instrument, a paid performer for this global network profiting
from death.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It really lays baret terrifying vulnerability. How easily can these isolated,
trusting communities become hunting grounds for predators operating from the
darkest hidden corners of the Internet is a deeply unsettling question.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And the sheer coldness of the orchestrator, the fifteen year
old in Kuwait, the investigation found he even obtained photos
of Ahmed with Terek beforehand.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
To confirm the target. He knew exactly who Ahmed was.
He then watched him die in real time.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Recorded it, and immediately pushed Terek to find another victim,
almost like it was just business.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Complete detachment, planning, execution, and then looking for the next transaction,
all apparently driven by a desire for online notoriety and profit.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It leaves you with a truly chilling thought. What happens
to society when our absolute worst impulses, our most depraved
actions can be professionally produced, monetized, and broadcast to an
anonymous global audience.
Okay, let's start this deep dive. We're setting the scene
and Esbetoffman a really tight knit neighborhood in Shubra el Kaima, Egypt.
The time is April twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Four, right, and for seven days there's this palpable anxiety
hanging over the community. A fifteen year old boy, Ahmed
Mohammed sad he's vanished.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's gone. And while the official investigation is kind of
slow to start, something else starts to creep in, something physical.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You had a smell, a really foul odor getting stronger
and stronger.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And it's coming from one specific apartment, an apartment rented
by someone the community thought they knew that's smell.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It really became the turning point, didn't it. It forced people
to confront something they couldn't ignore anymore. It shattered the
illusion around this neighbor.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And revealed this wasn't just a local missing person case.
This was something much darker, with connections stretching unbelievably to
the dark web.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Exactly a local tragedy, yes, but with these chilling global implications,
orchestrated by someone they trusted.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
So our mission today is to really unpack the layers here,
the deception, the manipulation. How a figure who seemed well
respected became an anonymous killer.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
It's genuinely one of the most disturbing cases to come
out of the region. The psychological game played here is
something else.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It really is. And you mentioned the calculation involved. Let's
talk about the man at the center of this Tarik
right trek.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
He's in his late twenties. He only showed up in
the neighborhood about four months before Ahmed.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Disappeared, so a relative newcomer completely.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
No one knew his family, his history, nothing. He was
basically a blank slate.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And he used that anonymity incredibly effectively.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh absolutely, he understood the community religious, close knit, and
he played right into it well by faking vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
A masterclass in exploiting empathy. As you said, how did
you do it?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Two key lies working together. First, he claimed he was
battling severe cancer, said he was treating it himself.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Which immediately creates sympathy. Explains maybe odd behavior absences precisely.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And it also explained why he, supposedly an electrician, was
working as a simple assistant in a local coffee shop.
Financial hardship.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You see, Okay, that makes sense. And the second lie piety.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He presented himself as deeply religious, always ready with advice
on faith, on good conduct, constantly talking the talk.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So he's the devout man suffering silently. It's a powerful image.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Incredibly powerful. It deflected questions. I mean, claiming serious illness
like cancer, self treating in such a close community. That
feels risky, right.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, you'd think someone might challenge.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
That, But the piety acted like a shield, had the
supposed financial hardship preventing proper care, and people just accepted it.
Skepticism evaporated when faced with this image of a saintly
struggling man.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And this image really resonated with the local kids, especially Ahmed.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, particularly Ohmed, the fifteen year old victim he looked
up to. Terrek saw him as this role model, someone
overcoming terrible adversity while staying devout. A hero figure almost
knew this.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He focused on the children, he did.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He offered mentorship advice, you know, focus on your studies,
stay away from bad influences. Sounds good, right, protective.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Very much so, fatherly almost.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And he backed it up with little gifts money for
Ahmed to use at the PlayStation shop things like that,
cementing the bond crucially.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Ahmed would then go home and tell his family about
Tarik's kindness, his.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Advice exactly, providing Tarek with a constant stream of positive
reinforcement within the family. He was using the boy's own
trust to build his immunity within the community. It's chillingly smart.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, But this carefully constructed image. It starts to crack,
doesn't it. The financial hardship story, specifically, it does.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Things begin to shift. Tarek starts taking these unexplained breaks
from his coffee shop job, two weeks at a time,
and the excuse was more cancer treatment intensive sessions, he claimed.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But looking back with what we know now, these weren't treatment.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Sessions almost certainly, it seems much more likely this was
well him proving himself, building a portfolio, maybe demonstrating his
capabilities to whoever was pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Wow, okay. And then comes a really dramatic change after
one of these absences.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
A complete transformation. Yeah, he returns, but he's no longer
the struggling assistant. He's got a new car, a new phone, expensive.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Clothes that must have raised eyebrows. How did he explain.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That another lie ready to go, his wealthy brother had
suddenly passed away. He said he'd inherited.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
A fortune, just like that convenient very, And.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He seamlessly transitioned. Yeah, he went from being an employee
at the coffee shop to being a generous patron, buying
drinks for people, flashing the cash a bit.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And this new wealth, it didn't shatter his image.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
No, strangely, it almost reinforced it. Now he was the devout, generous,
wealthy man who had overcome tragedy. It gave him this
final layer of perceived respectability.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Which maybe gave him the confidence or the cover he
needed for the next step.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It seems that way. It insulated him from suspicion, let
him operate right up until the final act.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
April fifteenth, twenty twenty four, the day Ahmed disappears.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yes, by eight point zero zero pm that evening, his
family is frantic searching everywhere, and Terrek is right there
playing the part of the concerned neighbor, outwardly helping with
the search, showing concern.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
But the truth starts to emerge with surveillance footage.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Right CCTV is crucial here. It tracks Ahmed's movements the
PlayStation shop, then meeting Terrek at the coffee shop.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And the last sighting, the.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Critical footage Ahmed walking away with Terrek and then they
both vanished from camera view. Nothing more so.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
When the police inevitably talked.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
To Terrek, he sticks to a calculated denial, claims he
just ran into Ahmed by chance. They spoke for a moment,
then he went off on an errand said he only
learned Ahmed was muling later a total lie.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But the police investigation it didn't immediately focus on him.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, initially treated as a standard missing person case. There's
that procedural delay, you know, the waiting period before escalating things.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Frustrating for the family, I imagine terribly.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But investigators kept digging, review more CCTV and they spot
something interesting from two days before Ahmed disappeared. What was
that Terrek entering.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
A pharmacy okay, and what did he buy?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Not just aspirin? He bought an anesthetic or some kind
of narcotic substance plus gauze and cotton.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
That sounds premeditated.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It certainly looks that way.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Though interestingly, when neighbors heard about this later, some initially
tried to explain it away, Wow, connecting it back to
his fake cancer. Maybe it was for his self treatment,
they suggested. They were still trying to make his story fit,
still protecting that image.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Incredible, the power of that constructed persona.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
But the police weren't buying it. They saw preparation. Terrek
had the means to incapacitate someone.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And then a week passes since Ahmed's disappearance, seven days.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Seven days, and that smell from Tarrek's apartment it's become unbearable, overpowering.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So the neighbors, driven by this awful smell and growing dread,
they decide they can't weigh it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
No, they enter the apartment and the scene they find
it's just horrific, beyond comprehension. Ahmed's body is on the bed,
brutally disfigured. It had been sliced open length twise. All
the internal features were gone, the body was unrecognizable, Oh Mike,
and nearby a sealed black bag. Police later confirmed it
contained the boy's organs.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So Tarrek is arrested immediately right there, and he confesses,
but his initial confession his motive, it's another lie, isn't this.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
His first story is that he did it for money
five million Egyptian pounds, said it was for an organized
human organ trafficking ring with a contact basing kuoit directing.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Him organ trafficking. It sounds like a plausible, if grim
criminal motive.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It does, and maybe it's a standard cover story they're
told to use, but the forensic evidence it completely demolishes
that story instantly.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
How so what did the medical examination show?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Well, first, this was not a surgical removal of organs
for transplants, not even close. The victim ahmed, heavy, tortured, crtard, yes,
and the incisions they are crude, violent, not the work
of someone trying to preserve organs. There's no medical equipment found,
just signs of utter brutality.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
What kind of injuries are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The neck was slit, the body cut open lengthwise as
we said, and the major organ's heart, liver, kidneys just
ripped out and put in that bag.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So not organ harvesting. What was it?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Then? That's when terror cracks again. He admits the organ
story was fake. The real reason it's somehow even more
disturbing go on. He says he was directed by someone
he met online and accomplice. And get this, the accomplice
is a fifteen year old Egyptian student living in Kuwait, a.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Fifteen year old the same age as the victim, orchestrating
this from Kuwait.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Unbelievable, isn't It reframes everything. This wasn't about the organs themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
So why remove them? What was the point?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The point was the performance, the spectacle. Terrek was instructed
by this teenager in Kuwait to carry out the killing
and the dismemberment while on a live video call, streaming it,
streaming the entire horrific event moment by moment, so the
accomplishing Kuwait could watch it happen and record it.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Dear God, for what purpose?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
This leads us directly into the darkest corners of the Internet.
The motive wasn't organ trafficking. It was content creation, sickening content.
We know the organ story was a lie because after
Tarik did what he did, the contact in Kuwait apparently
told him the Organs were quote.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Unsuitable, unsuitable after all that exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And then immediately tried to pressure Terek into finding a
second victim for more money. It proves the organs themselves
were never the point.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
The point was the act itself, the recording.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Precisely, this is the world of so called red rooms.
It's a term used on the dark web for essentially
live stream torture and order pay per view horror monetized
through anonymous channels.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So the teenager in Kuwait wasn't just an accomplice, He
was a producer, a director.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Effectively, yes, generating this horrific video content to sell online,
linking directly to global organized crime models that profit from
extreme violence. The violence is the product.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And Tarik's earlier behavior, those two weak disappearances, the sudden wealth.
It all clicks into place now, doesn't it terribly?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
So he likely wasn't getting cancer treatment. He was probably auditioning,
performing smaller acts, maybe on animals, maybe something else. We
don't know for sure, but proving he was capable, proving
he'd follow through.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Proving he was worth a five million pound contract. He
didn't just get hired, He had to earn the role
of murderer.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It appears that way he vetted himself for the job.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And the dark web provides the platform for all this.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It provides the anonymity, the untraceable payment methods using cryptocurrency
and the global marketplace needed to make this industry function
and generate huge sums of money.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So the investigation didn't stop.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
With Terrek No and went international. Very quickly, Interpool got involved.
Cooperation between Egypt and Kuwait was.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
And they found the teenager in Kuwait.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
They did the fifteen year old student and interestingly, his
father were both arrested.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
The father was involved.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Apparently the teenager had used his father's personal phone for
some of the communication with Trek, which implicated him. Both
were extradited back to Egypt to face charges.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
And this wasn't the teenager's first time orchestrating.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Something like this, investigations suggests not. It seems he had
coordinated similar crimes or attempted to in other countries, using
the exact same horrific method, directing someone locally to commit
murder and dismemberment, recording it all presumably for sale online.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
A system, a repeatable, horrifying system.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Built on exploiting vulnerable people like Terrek, finding victims like Ahmed,
and leveraging the anonymity of the dark web.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It's just the ultimate betrayal, isn't it. Ahmed tried trusted
this man, the community trusted him, and he was just
an instrument, a paid performer for this global network profiting
from death.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It really lays baret terrifying vulnerability. How easily can these isolated,
trusting communities become hunting grounds for predators operating from the
darkest hidden corners of the Internet is a deeply unsettling question.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And the sheer coldness of the orchestrator, the fifteen year
old in Kuwait, the investigation found he even obtained photos
of Ahmed with Terek beforehand.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
To confirm the target. He knew exactly who Ahmed was.
He then watched him die in real time.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Recorded it, and immediately pushed Terek to find another victim,
almost like it was just business.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Complete detachment, planning, execution, and then looking for the next transaction,
all apparently driven by a desire for online notoriety and profit.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It leaves you with a truly chilling thought. What happens
to society when our absolute worst impulses, our most depraved
actions can be professionally produced, monetized, and broadcast to an
anonymous global audience.
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