October 25, 2025 • 12 mins
Abdul Tawab, a driver and personal assistant, betrayed the trust of the family he served for over a decade. When Mawadda and her daughter traveled to Egypt to purchase property, Abdul Tawab lured them to a farm he owned under the pretense of showing a better investment. There, he and his family murdered both women to steal 400,000 Egyptian pounds she had brought for the land. The bodies were dumped in a well and concealed, but police tracked the victims’ mobile phone signals to uncover the crime. Abdul Tawab was sentenced to death, while his wife and brothers-in-law received long prison terms for their involvement.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Imagine this scene Cairo. You can hear the traffic like
a constant hum way down below, but inside a hotel room,
it's just quiet, too quiet. Yeah, it's twenty fifteen. There's
a young woman, she's twenty seven, just staring at her phone.
She's been calling her mother Muwata for three hours straight.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Nothing, and just a few hours before that contact was normal.
Right after Mawata reached Minya.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Exactly a three hour drive south. The first call went
through fine, but now just silence, and the anxiety's building.
You can just picture it. The only thing keeping her
slightly calm, her mother, who's sixty, wasn't alone. She traveled
with abdultawas the driver. The driver, yes, but more than that,
a man the family had trusted, i mean completely for
ten whole years.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And that trust it wasn't just you know, he works
for us, It was deeper. He started back in what
two thousand and five in Kuwait.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Right as a driver for the whole family, Mawata, her husband,
the son, the daughter.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And apparently he was good at his job, diligent, seemed loyal.
They treated him like family. That's the phrase that keeps
coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
He wasn't just driving. Malwata saw him as a personal assistant,
someone she could confide in. She even apparently floated the
idea of him being a business partner.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, though those ventures never actually happened. Mm hmm, But
it shows the level of trust despite all this kindness. Though,
there's this detail about him. What's that he was always
complaining Even though he had a good position, financially stable,
working for this respected family, he seemed perpetually discontent.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Restless, looking for something else exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It points to maybe a lack of contentment. Yeah, rita
is it's sometimes called like this stability wasn't enough. It
was almost a trap in his mind.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Seeing kindness not as something to value, but maybe something
to leverage.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Perhaps it's a really unsettling thought, isn't it that ten
years of seeming loyalty could just be.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Waiting for the right opportunity, Which brings us to the
trip itself. Mahwata loved Egypt, wanted a vacation place there right.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
She set aside a pretty significant budget around one million
Egyptian pounds for an apartment in Cairo, and she asked
Abdul ta Wab to help her find one.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The trusted assistant.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The trusted assistant, and he sees this budget, sees the
plan and immediately spots, well, not an apartment, but an
opportunity for himself. Howso a Cairo apartment that's straightforward, lots
of eyes, agents processes. He needs something different, isolation control,
so he pivots hard.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
He tells her to forget Cairo completely.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
He says, why deal with the conjection. Buy farmland instead,
Upper Egypt Alminya Governorate, much cheaper, he.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Argues, Okay, hang on. A driver suddenly becomes a real
estate advisor, pitching remote farmland over a prime Cairo spot.
Didn't that like ring any alarm bells?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You'd think so, wouldn't you? Yeah, But it just speaks
volumes about how deeply they trusted him. He painted his
picture a better life, quieter, a good investment, surrounded by quote.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Con villagers find villagers right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Mawata wasn't immediately sold, apparently, but he pushed, said she
had to see the land herself to really get it,
and she agreed. She agreed to travel with him to Minya,
the two of them. Her daughter stays behind in the
Cairo hotel. That decision urged by him.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It was fatal, so they head south Malwatta and Abdultahwab.
The daughter waits in Cairo.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And for the first couple of hours after they supposedly
arrived in Minya, there's some contact texts, maybe a brief call,
then nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
The phone just stops connecting entirely, not unanswered, just dead.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah. Three hours go by like this, pure dread building.
The daughter finally calls her brother back in.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Kuwait, and what does he say?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He does what you know, maybe any of us would do. Initially,
he tries to rationalize it. He falls back on the
track record the ten years, the ten years. Don't worry,
he tells her mom's with Abdul Tawab. He's been with
us forever. It'll be fine. He just couldn't imagine anything else.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
But the daughter, her gut feeling is screaming otherwise.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Absolutely, she can't shake it. So she ignores her brother's reassurance,
gets back in a car and starts driving south herself
towards Minya.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Heading for the farm, the last known location from the
phone signal.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Exactly, And while she's on that drive, her phone rings.
It's abdil to wop.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Finally, what does he say? What's the excuse.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh, it's incredibly flimsy design, just to stall her. Yeah,
he claims, Mawata is just wandering around the farm. Maybe
she's out of signal range, or she can't hear the phone.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Just walking around, walking around for hours, unable to be reached. Right,
it makes no sense, but it buys him time. Three
more hours pass while the daughter drives. Then she arrives.
She's at the farm, this remote property, and this.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Next moment is just incredible presence of mind under unimaginable stress.
What does she do before she even goes inside? Before
anything else? She takes out her phone, photographs the outside
of the farm building and sends it instantly to her
brother via WhatsApp.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Wow, just like click send.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That single photo becomes the anchor for everything that follows,
absolutely critical evidence.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So she goes to the door, presumably expecting her mother.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yes, but she's not met by her mother ye or
by Abdultawap. She's met by Halla, his wife.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, and Halla lets her in.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Halen lets her in, but she's immediately weird, insist she
won't let the daughter see Mowata right away, keeps pushing
her to stay for lunch. First lunch while the daughter
is frantic about.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Her missing mother exactly and Hala repeats the same weak's
story her husband used. Oh Mawata and Abdul Tawab are
just strolling the farm. It's clearly a lie, a delay tactic.
The daughter is likely trapped in this awkward, terrifying hospitality situation,
just trying.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
To get past the wife to find your mom. Right.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Another hour ticks by. Back in Kuwait, the brother tries
calling again. Now he can't reach his mother or his sister.
Oh no, that's the breaking point. Over twenty four hours missing,
the panic finally sets in fully. He makes call the embassy,
the Kuwaiti embassy in Cairo. He gives them everything, descriptions
of Muata sixty, the daughter, twenty seven, of Bultawab, the driver,
(06:08):
and that WhatsApp.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Photo of the farm crucial.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Egyptian authorities get involved immediately. The first thing they do
trace the cell signals for both missing women, and they
lead where they converge, both signals stubbornly pinging from the
same area the Minya Governorate, specifically.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The farm in the photo.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
The farm in the photo. Security forces mobilize heads straight there.
Abdultwab meets them outside.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And what's his story this time?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He's got a rehearsed lie ready claims, Oh, yes, they've
visited two days ago, but then they left, went back
to Cairo to continue sightseeing. Said they gave him some
vacation time.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Two days ago, but the daughter just arrived. The signals
are still there. It doesn't add up, not even close.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And the investigators pick up on something immediately. His wife Hala,
she's nervous, extremely nervous, visibly tense. That's a huge red
flag for the officers. They decide his story is incredible.
They start searching the whole property meticulously for an hour, buildings, fields, sheds,
looking everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But they find nothing, nothing but the signals.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The signals are still right there, pinpointed to that farm area.
They haven't moved. So the investigators realize they need to
refine the search. They call in forensic experts to reping
the signals, but with much higher precision, trying to narrow
it down not just horizontally, but vertically. And the refined
signals zero's in intensely focused on one specific spot on
(07:33):
the property.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Let me guess.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
A deep well one described as having been quote recently cleaned,
which suddenly sounds incredibly sinister clean by filling it with
debris exactly, that well becomes the absolute focus. It takes
three solid days, three days of hauling out garbage, waste, rocks,
all sorts of debris that had been deliberately dumped inside,
(07:58):
three days until finally they reached the bottom and the
truth comes out.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Horrifying, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It is? They recover the bodies Mowata and her daughter
from the bottom of that well, which was over twenty
meters deep, both in an advanced state of decomposition.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Twenty meters that's deep, and the forensics what do they show?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Brutal details. Mawata the mother, she had a severe head
worn from a sharp instrument, but crucially, the official cause
of death.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Was drowning, meaning she was likely thrown in alive or
at least immediately after being struck.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
That seems to be the implication, thrown in, possibly stunned
or unconscious, but drowned in the water at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And the daughter.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Her death was different, four separate stab wounds across her body.
The stabbing itself was the cause of.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Death, so she was killed first, then dumped, yes.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Killed above ground likely during that struggle when she realized
the danger with Hala before being put in the well
with her mother.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Unbelievable cruelty. The whole family involved.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
The arrests confirmed it. Abdul Tahwab, his wife, Hala, and
get this, Halea's three brothers, who were also at the
farm all arrested.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Her brothers too. Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Abdul Tahwad confessed the motive was exactly what you'd expect, robbery.
He wanted the money Mauwata brought.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
The four hundred thousand Egyptian pounds for the down payment that.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Was the target. His confession laid out the sequence. He
lured Mawada to the well, pretending to show her something.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
About the farm, got her right to the edge.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Right to the edge. Then he struck her with that
sharp object and pushed her in simple brutal efficiency.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And the daughter's arrival threw a wrench in the plan completely.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
When she showed up suspicious asking questions. Hala forced her
into a room, trying to contain her.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But the daughter must have realized fought.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Back, it seems so when she understood the danger, tried
to escape or scream. That's when Halea and her three
brothers attacked her, stabbing her multiple times. It wasn't one person,
it was a group attack to silence.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Her, the entire family unit basically conspiring in murder and
cover up husband, wife, brothers in law, all for cash.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, and they went to extraordinary lengths to hide it,
dumping tons of garbage and waste into that well. They
thought they'd buried the evidence completely.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
But they made one huge mistake.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
One critical technological error, in their rush. They threw the
victim's phones into the well along with the bodies.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
The very things leading the police right to them exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Those phones kept pinging relentlessly from beneath all that garbage.
The signals led investigators straight to the grave. Technology wouldn't
let them get away with it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So the Cord case, what was the outcome.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Swift justice relatively speaking. Abdul tah Wab, as the main
plotter and the one who killed Mwata, was sentenced.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
To death execution, and the others, Hala and her brothers.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
They received fifteen years each hard labor for their role
in the daughter's murder and the extensive cover up. The
sentences reflected their specific parts in the.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Crime acknowledging his primary role, but their active participation. Right.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's such a stark example of that concept, isn't it.
The betrayal of salt and bread is schwe.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Mah absolutely sharing food, sharing life, building trust over years,
a decade. In this case, the family opened their lives,
their resources to him, and this was the repayment for.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Four hundred thousand pounds about fifty thousand dollars at the time.
Maybe was that what ten years of trust was worth
to him?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It makes you question the nature of loyalty itself, doesn't it.
This wasn't a crime of passion, It wasn't sudden. It
seems rooted in that long term discontent finally finding a specific,
calculated outlet for financial gain.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Which leads to that really disturbing final thought. Could ten
years of what looked like perfect loyalty actually be well
a performance, a decade long setup.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
A ten year cultivation of trust, just waiting for the
moment of maximum vulnerability and opportunity, planned by someone who
fundamentally lacked that basic human quality of contentment. It's a
chilling possibility.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So when you hear this story, the takeaway for you
isn't just about a property deal gone tragically wrong in Egypt.
It's about something much deeper, much more unsettling.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, It's about how easily profound betrayal can mask itself.
How someone can weaponize years of kindness and reliance for
a calculated, cold blooded objective.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That idea of sociopathic loyalty. Someone mimicking connection, building trusts meticulously,
all while waiting for the perfect moment to cash in
that trust at the highest price.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It really makes you wonder, doesn't it. How well do
we truly know the people we let clothes? Are we
just providing them with the currency of trust they plan
to spend later?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Have you thought something to definitely mull over until our
next deep dive
Imagine this scene Cairo. You can hear the traffic like
a constant hum way down below, but inside a hotel room,
it's just quiet, too quiet. Yeah, it's twenty fifteen. There's
a young woman, she's twenty seven, just staring at her phone.
She's been calling her mother Muwata for three hours straight.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Nothing, and just a few hours before that contact was normal.
Right after Mawata reached Minya.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Exactly a three hour drive south. The first call went
through fine, but now just silence, and the anxiety's building.
You can just picture it. The only thing keeping her
slightly calm, her mother, who's sixty, wasn't alone. She traveled
with abdultawas the driver. The driver, yes, but more than that,
a man the family had trusted, i mean completely for
ten whole years.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And that trust it wasn't just you know, he works
for us, It was deeper. He started back in what
two thousand and five in Kuwait.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Right as a driver for the whole family, Mawata, her husband,
the son, the daughter.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And apparently he was good at his job, diligent, seemed loyal.
They treated him like family. That's the phrase that keeps
coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
He wasn't just driving. Malwata saw him as a personal assistant,
someone she could confide in. She even apparently floated the
idea of him being a business partner.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, though those ventures never actually happened. Mm hmm, But
it shows the level of trust despite all this kindness. Though,
there's this detail about him. What's that he was always
complaining Even though he had a good position, financially stable,
working for this respected family, he seemed perpetually discontent.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Restless, looking for something else exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It points to maybe a lack of contentment. Yeah, rita
is it's sometimes called like this stability wasn't enough. It
was almost a trap in his mind.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Seeing kindness not as something to value, but maybe something
to leverage.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Perhaps it's a really unsettling thought, isn't it that ten
years of seeming loyalty could just be.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Waiting for the right opportunity, Which brings us to the
trip itself. Mahwata loved Egypt, wanted a vacation place there right.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
She set aside a pretty significant budget around one million
Egyptian pounds for an apartment in Cairo, and she asked
Abdul ta Wab to help her find one.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The trusted assistant.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The trusted assistant, and he sees this budget, sees the
plan and immediately spots, well, not an apartment, but an
opportunity for himself. Howso a Cairo apartment that's straightforward, lots
of eyes, agents processes. He needs something different, isolation control,
so he pivots hard.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
He tells her to forget Cairo completely.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
He says, why deal with the conjection. Buy farmland instead,
Upper Egypt Alminya Governorate, much cheaper, he.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Argues, Okay, hang on. A driver suddenly becomes a real
estate advisor, pitching remote farmland over a prime Cairo spot.
Didn't that like ring any alarm bells?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You'd think so, wouldn't you? Yeah, But it just speaks
volumes about how deeply they trusted him. He painted his
picture a better life, quieter, a good investment, surrounded by quote.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Con villagers find villagers right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Mawata wasn't immediately sold, apparently, but he pushed, said she
had to see the land herself to really get it,
and she agreed. She agreed to travel with him to Minya,
the two of them. Her daughter stays behind in the
Cairo hotel. That decision urged by him.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It was fatal, so they head south Malwatta and Abdultahwab.
The daughter waits in Cairo.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And for the first couple of hours after they supposedly
arrived in Minya, there's some contact texts, maybe a brief call,
then nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
The phone just stops connecting entirely, not unanswered, just dead.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah. Three hours go by like this, pure dread building.
The daughter finally calls her brother back in.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Kuwait, and what does he say?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He does what you know, maybe any of us would do. Initially,
he tries to rationalize it. He falls back on the
track record the ten years, the ten years. Don't worry,
he tells her mom's with Abdul Tawab. He's been with
us forever. It'll be fine. He just couldn't imagine anything else.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
But the daughter, her gut feeling is screaming otherwise.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Absolutely, she can't shake it. So she ignores her brother's reassurance,
gets back in a car and starts driving south herself
towards Minya.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Heading for the farm, the last known location from the
phone signal.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Exactly, And while she's on that drive, her phone rings.
It's abdil to wop.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Finally, what does he say? What's the excuse.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh, it's incredibly flimsy design, just to stall her. Yeah,
he claims, Mawata is just wandering around the farm. Maybe
she's out of signal range, or she can't hear the phone.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Just walking around, walking around for hours, unable to be reached. Right,
it makes no sense, but it buys him time. Three
more hours pass while the daughter drives. Then she arrives.
She's at the farm, this remote property, and this.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Next moment is just incredible presence of mind under unimaginable stress.
What does she do before she even goes inside? Before
anything else? She takes out her phone, photographs the outside
of the farm building and sends it instantly to her
brother via WhatsApp.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Wow, just like click send.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That single photo becomes the anchor for everything that follows,
absolutely critical evidence.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So she goes to the door, presumably expecting her mother.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yes, but she's not met by her mother ye or
by Abdultawap. She's met by Halla, his wife.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, and Halla lets her in.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Halen lets her in, but she's immediately weird, insist she
won't let the daughter see Mowata right away, keeps pushing
her to stay for lunch. First lunch while the daughter
is frantic about.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Her missing mother exactly and Hala repeats the same weak's
story her husband used. Oh Mawata and Abdul Tawab are
just strolling the farm. It's clearly a lie, a delay tactic.
The daughter is likely trapped in this awkward, terrifying hospitality situation,
just trying.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
To get past the wife to find your mom. Right.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Another hour ticks by. Back in Kuwait, the brother tries
calling again. Now he can't reach his mother or his sister.
Oh no, that's the breaking point. Over twenty four hours missing,
the panic finally sets in fully. He makes call the embassy,
the Kuwaiti embassy in Cairo. He gives them everything, descriptions
of Muata sixty, the daughter, twenty seven, of Bultawab, the driver,
(06:08):
and that WhatsApp.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Photo of the farm crucial.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Egyptian authorities get involved immediately. The first thing they do
trace the cell signals for both missing women, and they
lead where they converge, both signals stubbornly pinging from the
same area the Minya Governorate, specifically.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The farm in the photo.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
The farm in the photo. Security forces mobilize heads straight there.
Abdultwab meets them outside.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And what's his story this time?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He's got a rehearsed lie ready claims, Oh, yes, they've
visited two days ago, but then they left, went back
to Cairo to continue sightseeing. Said they gave him some
vacation time.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Two days ago, but the daughter just arrived. The signals
are still there. It doesn't add up, not even close.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And the investigators pick up on something immediately. His wife Hala,
she's nervous, extremely nervous, visibly tense. That's a huge red
flag for the officers. They decide his story is incredible.
They start searching the whole property meticulously for an hour, buildings, fields, sheds,
looking everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But they find nothing, nothing but the signals.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The signals are still right there, pinpointed to that farm area.
They haven't moved. So the investigators realize they need to
refine the search. They call in forensic experts to reping
the signals, but with much higher precision, trying to narrow
it down not just horizontally, but vertically. And the refined
signals zero's in intensely focused on one specific spot on
(07:33):
the property.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Let me guess.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
A deep well one described as having been quote recently cleaned,
which suddenly sounds incredibly sinister clean by filling it with
debris exactly, that well becomes the absolute focus. It takes
three solid days, three days of hauling out garbage, waste, rocks,
all sorts of debris that had been deliberately dumped inside,
(07:58):
three days until finally they reached the bottom and the
truth comes out.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Horrifying, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It is? They recover the bodies Mowata and her daughter
from the bottom of that well, which was over twenty
meters deep, both in an advanced state of decomposition.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Twenty meters that's deep, and the forensics what do they show?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Brutal details. Mawata the mother, she had a severe head
worn from a sharp instrument, but crucially, the official cause
of death.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Was drowning, meaning she was likely thrown in alive or
at least immediately after being struck.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
That seems to be the implication, thrown in, possibly stunned
or unconscious, but drowned in the water at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And the daughter.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Her death was different, four separate stab wounds across her body.
The stabbing itself was the cause of.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Death, so she was killed first, then dumped, yes.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Killed above ground likely during that struggle when she realized
the danger with Hala before being put in the well
with her mother.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Unbelievable cruelty. The whole family involved.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
The arrests confirmed it. Abdul Tahwab, his wife, Hala, and
get this, Halea's three brothers, who were also at the
farm all arrested.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Her brothers too. Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Abdul Tahwad confessed the motive was exactly what you'd expect, robbery.
He wanted the money Mauwata brought.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
The four hundred thousand Egyptian pounds for the down payment that.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Was the target. His confession laid out the sequence. He
lured Mawada to the well, pretending to show her something.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
About the farm, got her right to the edge.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Right to the edge. Then he struck her with that
sharp object and pushed her in simple brutal efficiency.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And the daughter's arrival threw a wrench in the plan completely.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
When she showed up suspicious asking questions. Hala forced her
into a room, trying to contain her.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But the daughter must have realized fought.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Back, it seems so when she understood the danger, tried
to escape or scream. That's when Halea and her three
brothers attacked her, stabbing her multiple times. It wasn't one person,
it was a group attack to silence.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Her, the entire family unit basically conspiring in murder and
cover up husband, wife, brothers in law, all for cash.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, and they went to extraordinary lengths to hide it,
dumping tons of garbage and waste into that well. They
thought they'd buried the evidence completely.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
But they made one huge mistake.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
One critical technological error, in their rush. They threw the
victim's phones into the well along with the bodies.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
The very things leading the police right to them exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Those phones kept pinging relentlessly from beneath all that garbage.
The signals led investigators straight to the grave. Technology wouldn't
let them get away with it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So the Cord case, what was the outcome.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Swift justice relatively speaking. Abdul tah Wab, as the main
plotter and the one who killed Mwata, was sentenced.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
To death execution, and the others, Hala and her brothers.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
They received fifteen years each hard labor for their role
in the daughter's murder and the extensive cover up. The
sentences reflected their specific parts in the.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Crime acknowledging his primary role, but their active participation. Right.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's such a stark example of that concept, isn't it.
The betrayal of salt and bread is schwe.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Mah absolutely sharing food, sharing life, building trust over years,
a decade. In this case, the family opened their lives,
their resources to him, and this was the repayment for.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Four hundred thousand pounds about fifty thousand dollars at the time.
Maybe was that what ten years of trust was worth
to him?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It makes you question the nature of loyalty itself, doesn't it.
This wasn't a crime of passion, It wasn't sudden. It
seems rooted in that long term discontent finally finding a specific,
calculated outlet for financial gain.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Which leads to that really disturbing final thought. Could ten
years of what looked like perfect loyalty actually be well
a performance, a decade long setup.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
A ten year cultivation of trust, just waiting for the
moment of maximum vulnerability and opportunity, planned by someone who
fundamentally lacked that basic human quality of contentment. It's a
chilling possibility.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So when you hear this story, the takeaway for you
isn't just about a property deal gone tragically wrong in Egypt.
It's about something much deeper, much more unsettling.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, It's about how easily profound betrayal can mask itself.
How someone can weaponize years of kindness and reliance for
a calculated, cold blooded objective.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That idea of sociopathic loyalty. Someone mimicking connection, building trusts meticulously,
all while waiting for the perfect moment to cash in
that trust at the highest price.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It really makes you wonder, doesn't it. How well do
we truly know the people we let clothes? Are we
just providing them with the currency of trust they plan
to spend later?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Have you thought something to definitely mull over until our
next deep dive
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