October 23, 2025 • 13 mins
The case began when a decomposed female body was discovered inside a sack, bound with ropes and weighed down with stones in a canal near Kirdasah. With no missing person report at first, investigators faced major obstacles in identifying the victim. Two weeks later, her father reported his daughter, Shaymaa, missing, and forensic examination confirmed her identity. The autopsy revealed that Shaymaa had been tortured and strangled. As detectives pieced together her troubled history—marked by family conflicts and multiple marriages—the investigation turned toward her past relationships. Suspicion eventually fell on her first ex-husband, Amr Al-Shimi, a vegetable merchant. Driven by jealousy and doubt, and influenced by his current wife’s claims that the child he shared with Shaymaa might not be his, Amr lured her to his warehouse. There, in a violent fit of rage and revenge, he killed her before disposing of the body in the canal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So let's set the scene. It's Cardassa, Giza, twenty sixteen.
Think low lying rural fields, quiet, lots of irrigation canals,
you know, these terrats.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Very agricultural, pretty isolated. And it's that isolation that probably
played a role here.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Because one morning some local spot something, yeah, well, something
really out of place in one of these canals near
the bank.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah. Not just debris. It was this big, heavy sack
a shwall and you could tell even from a distance
it was heavy weighted.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It wasn't just floating freely. It seemed lodged, almost pinned
down exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Someone had gone to a considerable effort to make sure
whatever was inside stayed submerged, stayed on the canal floor.
The immediate thought, obviously was pretty grim a body.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So security forces are called, they arrive and they start
the process of getting this sack out of the water.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And that's when the level of let's call it meticulousness
really becomes clear. This wasn't just dumped, no.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Not at all. The sack was bound with tons of rope,
like crisscrossed, tied in really complex not It wasn't just functional,
It felt almost obsessive.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And then there was the stone, a large heavy stone
deliberately tied to the bottom. The intention was unmistakable, keep
this hidden forever.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That level of detail, that planning. Yeah, it screams premeditation,
doesn't it? Not panic?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Absolutely, it tells you this was personal, calculated. So they
finally cut through all those layers of rope and cloth
and a human body, but it was in a really
advanced state of decomposition. Making identification and figuring out what
happened incredibly difficult right from the start.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So you immediately have this double mystery. First, who is
this person?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And second why go to such extreme, almost baroque lengths
to conceal the body and eraser identity?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, the usual starting points just weren't there. No local
missing person's reports matched, no obvious crime scene nearby. They
were basically starting from zero, just with the body.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Itself, well, not quite zero. The forensic team still had
something to work with despite the decomposition. The initial medical
report confirmed the victim was female.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Okay, any idea on age.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
The estimate was late twenties, maybe around twenty eight, and
the cause of death was clear strangulation. Kannak.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But you mentioned the concealment. The meticulousness. Did the body
itself show signs of that kind of intensity? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yes, And this is where it gets even darker. The
report confirmed what the disposal method hinted at. The murder
wasn't quick. It was the end of a period of
prolonged suffering.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Torture, courture before she was strangled.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Correct extensive bruising contusions on her hands and feet. The
pattern suggested she'd been tightly bound with ropes for quite
some time before.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Death, bound for a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And there was something else. Forensic analysis found traces of
wood fibers embedded in her skin tissues.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Wood fibers. Wait, so she was beaten with like a.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Stick or something, that's the strong implication, repeatedly beaten. This
wasn't a sudden rage killing. This points to planned, methodical
cruelty unfolding over time.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Wow, okay, so strangulation, yes, but only after being bound
and beaten exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It paints a picture of calculated punishment, not a spontaneous act.
The report also gave two other small but vital pieces
of personal information.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
What were they?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
She had been married previously, and she had given birth
at some point in her.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Life, so she had a family network connections, people who
should have noticed she was gone, which makes the lack
of a missing person's report even stranger.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Precisely, that silence was a huge red flag in itself,
and because nobody local was reporting someone like her missing,
the police had to cast a much wider net, far
beyond Curdosa, beyond Giza.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Even How long did that take? About?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Two weeks? Two frustrating weeks. Then finally a potential break
an alert came in, but not from nearby, was from Alexandria, Kisconduria, Alexandria.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's quite a distance. What was the alert?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
A missing person's report had been filed by an elderly
man for his daughter Seima. She was twenty eight years old.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Age matches. But what was strange about it the timing.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Mainly, he reported her missing after she'd already been gone
for two full months, sixty days.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Two months, and he's only just reporting it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And apparently his demeanor was off, very calm, no real
sense of regency or suspicion towards anyone, just matter of
factly reporting her gone for two months.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
That is deeply suspicious. So did they connect her to
the body.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
They showed the father photos of the clothing found on
the victim, He identified them immediately. They belonged to his daughter, Seama.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So the victim has a name, Shama. What happened when
they started digging into her life? Did it explain the
father's odd behavior?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It certainly started to. The picture that emerged was complex
and deeply dysfunctional. Also, while investigators learned the father wasn't
just a concerned parent, He was known in some circles
as a pimp, a call wad, and Shama had been
involved in his operations.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, that changes the dynamics significantly.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It does. Her life involved multiple non traditional marriages, She
traveled a lot. The primary goal, it seems, was often
financial gain, and her father knew all about this, even
seemed to facilitate it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So, given the brutality that torture the disposal, revenge seemed
like a very strong motive now rooted in this turbulent background.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Absolutely, the investigators really honed in on that this wasn't random,
This felt like payback, something deeply personal.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Do they look at her current husband, the one in Alexandria.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
They did quickly, but he seemed almost entirely indifferent. So
she often disappeared for long stretches. He considered it normal
for her. He was ruled out pretty fast.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
So if not the present, they looked to the past exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That led them to her previous husband, a man named
Amr El Scheimy. He was thirty eight, a fairly prominent
fruit and vegetable merchant, a Tajir Kodhar Wafakiya. They had
officially divorced about a year before Seima's disappearance late twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
A fruit and vegetable merchant. Okay, and this is where
things start clicking into place. Right the location.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Bingo Ammerel Shamy owned a storage warehouse a mason and
its location.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Let me guess, near the canal.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Not just near it. It was located on the exact
same path as the section of the canal where Shima's
body was pulled out.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, that's a huge connection. The ex husband's.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Business is right there, a massive geographical link. But it
wasn't just the where. It was also the what the sack,
the very sack she was found in. It was identified
as a specific type commonly used in his line of
work for packaging and transporting fruits and vegetables, a schwal
cut Harwaffakiha.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So the location and the materials used to hide the
body point directly to his business.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yes, you have the victim, you have the ex husband,
you have his warehouse on the canal path, and you
have the exact type of sack he uses daily involved
in the murder concealment. It formed a very tight, undeniable triangle.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Too many coincidences to ignore what happened when they confronted him.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They got a warrant, went to the warehouse and Amerrel
Scheimy apparently showed immediate sign of stress, real visible tension
to water.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Did they find anything incriminating inside the warehouse? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah. During the search they found stacks of sacks identical
to the one Shama was found in, and huge amounts
of rope the same kind used to bind her body
and weight the sack. The materials were just part of
his everyday business inventory.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The evidence was literally surrounding him. Did he confess eventually?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yes, he broke down and confessed, and the story he
told filled in the gaps, revealing just how toxic their
history was.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
How did they even meet?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
It started back in twenty eleven, And remember Seama's father right,
Apparently the father essentially engineered the connection, seeing Amer's wealth
as an opportunity. Amer and Seama got married secretly, an earfy.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Marriage, secretly meaning his first wife didn't know exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
For two years it was completely clandestine. Then Shama had
a son. After the baby was born, Amer decided to
make the marriage official formalize it. He wanted his son
raised with his other kids he had six with his
first wife.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So they were officially married for another two years while
he was still married to his first wife.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Correct a recipe for disaster. Really, the first wife was
understandably consumed by jealousy. The pressure she put on Omor.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Was immense, constant, until he couldn't take it anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Pretty much. He divorced Seama in late twenty fifteen, largely,
it seems due to the relentless pressure from the first wife.
She likely thought she'd won that Shama was.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Out of the picture, but she wasn't, was she no.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Only about four months after the divorce, Shamer reached out
to Omer again. The initial reason given was that she
could see their son, plausible enough, but it didn't stop there.
They resumed their relationship, though not formally remarried this.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Time, and Seamer's father and her new husband in Alexandria.
Were they okay with this?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Cassidly yes, because money was involved. Emma was wealthy and
that seemed to smooth things over for them. But someone wasn't.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Okay with it, the first wife.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
The first wife found out they were seeing each other again,
and this time her approach was different, more insidious.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
How so what did she do?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
This is what investigators started calling the whispering campaign al
zan a la al we done, literally like buzzing in.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The ears, a whispering campaign. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Instead of direct confrontation, she started planting seeds of doubt poison.
She constantly, relentlessly chipped away at Ahmer's mind about what.
She didn't just complain about the affair. She started insinuating
things about the past, accusing Shama of cheating on him
during their marriage, and crucially, she began questioning the paternity
of their son over and over again. Wow, so psychological
(09:36):
warfare exactly, pure manipulation, constantly suggesting he'd been deceived, that
the child might not even be his. She fed his insecurities,
stoked his ego, painted Shama as this treacherous figure who
had dishonored.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Him, and Amer, despite being the successful merchant, fell for
it completely.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
This constant drip drip drip of suspicion and accusation drove
him into this state of extreme paranoia. It warped his perception,
made him see Shama not as a former partner, but
as someone who had utterly betrayed him. The sources describe
his state as almost barbaric homogia. The Whispering campaign manufactured
this intense, almost blind rage.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So that paranoia, fueled by the First Wives campaign, led
him to plan the murder.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yes, he decided to take revenge. He devised a plan
to lure Shama to the warehouse. He knew she was
staying alone in Cairo at the time, away from her
family or current husband. Easy target, and the lure was simple,
deceptively simple. He told her to come to the warehouse
to see their son, something she clearly wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So she walks right into the trap she did.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
As soon as she arrived, he overpowered her, locked her
inside a room he'd apparently prepared within the warehouse, and
the torture began then that night. According to his confession,
the abuse lasted for two full days two days. Two days,
he beat her. Then he bound her tightly to a bed,
hands and feet, using those same ropes from his business.
(11:00):
He started this around midnight, knowing the area was deserted,
no witnesses, no one to hear anything.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Just unimaginable cruelty drawn out over forty eight.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hours, calculated sustained cruelty. After those two days, when he
decided he was done torturing her, he strangled.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Her with a rope and then back to meticulous planning.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Immediately, he transitioned right back into the careful merchant mode,
bound her entire body with more ropes, placed her inside
one of his large fruit sacks. Then he got the
heavy stones and secured them to the.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Bottom, ensuring it would sink and stay sunk precisely.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Then he waited until about three am, the dead of night. Again,
he called a coworker, someone who drove one of his
transport trucks.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Did the coworker know what was happening, No, omer lied.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
He told the coworker they needed to dump some spoiled
produce that was starting to smell. Said they'd take it
to a distant part of the canal, away from the
main routes.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So the coworker unknowingly helped him dispose of the body.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Exactly, thinking he was just getting rid of some rotten
fruit and vegetables. He drove Amor and the heavy sack
to the spot and they dumped it into the canal.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Mr must The thought he'd gotten away with it completely
planned down to the last detail.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
He probably did, But that meticulous waiting, the very thing
meant to hide her forever, ironically led to the discovery
when the sack got snagged near the bank. Two and
a half months later.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
When he was caught, did he try to justify it?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
He did. During the investigation, he attempted to frame it
as an honor killing rad Schiaff, claiming he was defending
his honor after being deceived.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
But the investigators didn't buy that, not for a second.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
An honor killing is often argued as a crime of
sudden passion, uncontrollable rage. This involved days of planning, two
days of cold blooded torture, elaborate concealment. It was the
opposite of spontaneous. Ammar was clearly a calculating individual.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And the court agreed they did.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
His defense was dismissed. Amer Elsheimy was found guilty of
premeditated murder?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What was the sentence?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
He was sentenced to death?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Ali dum brutal story obviously rooted in Shama's difficult life circumstances,
but the real catalyst seems to be external.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Absolutely, while her family background made her vulnerable, perhaps the
direct trigger, the mechanism for the murder was that whispering campaign,
that persistent toxic manipulation from the first wife. It proved
incredibly destructive, arguably more so than any direct confrontation could
have been. It turned Ahmher's jealousy into homicidal rage.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
It really makes you think about the power of that
kind of sustained psychological pressure, that insidious influence. For Emmer,
the poison wasn't really in his direct interactions with shame anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
No, it was in the lies, the doubts, the accusations,
constantly whispered or maybe shouted into his ear by someone else.
It leaves you with a really chilling question, doesn't it.
How often is prolonged malicious psychological manipulation the unseen driver
behind tragedies that we might otherwise label simply as domestic
violence or crimes of passion. Something to definitely think about.
So let's set the scene. It's Cardassa, Giza, twenty sixteen.
Think low lying rural fields, quiet, lots of irrigation canals,
you know, these terrats.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Very agricultural, pretty isolated. And it's that isolation that probably
played a role here.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Because one morning some local spot something, yeah, well, something
really out of place in one of these canals near
the bank.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah. Not just debris. It was this big, heavy sack
a shwall and you could tell even from a distance
it was heavy weighted.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It wasn't just floating freely. It seemed lodged, almost pinned
down exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Someone had gone to a considerable effort to make sure
whatever was inside stayed submerged, stayed on the canal floor.
The immediate thought, obviously was pretty grim a body.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So security forces are called, they arrive and they start
the process of getting this sack out of the water.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And that's when the level of let's call it meticulousness
really becomes clear. This wasn't just dumped, no.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Not at all. The sack was bound with tons of rope,
like crisscrossed, tied in really complex not It wasn't just functional,
It felt almost obsessive.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And then there was the stone, a large heavy stone
deliberately tied to the bottom. The intention was unmistakable, keep
this hidden forever.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That level of detail, that planning. Yeah, it screams premeditation,
doesn't it? Not panic?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Absolutely, it tells you this was personal, calculated. So they
finally cut through all those layers of rope and cloth
and a human body, but it was in a really
advanced state of decomposition. Making identification and figuring out what
happened incredibly difficult right from the start.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So you immediately have this double mystery. First, who is
this person?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And second why go to such extreme, almost baroque lengths
to conceal the body and eraser identity?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, the usual starting points just weren't there. No local
missing person's reports matched, no obvious crime scene nearby. They
were basically starting from zero, just with the body.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Itself, well, not quite zero. The forensic team still had
something to work with despite the decomposition. The initial medical
report confirmed the victim was female.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Okay, any idea on age.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
The estimate was late twenties, maybe around twenty eight, and
the cause of death was clear strangulation. Kannak.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But you mentioned the concealment. The meticulousness. Did the body
itself show signs of that kind of intensity? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yes, And this is where it gets even darker. The
report confirmed what the disposal method hinted at. The murder
wasn't quick. It was the end of a period of
prolonged suffering.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Torture, courture before she was strangled.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Correct extensive bruising contusions on her hands and feet. The
pattern suggested she'd been tightly bound with ropes for quite
some time before.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Death, bound for a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And there was something else. Forensic analysis found traces of
wood fibers embedded in her skin tissues.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Wood fibers. Wait, so she was beaten with like a.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Stick or something, that's the strong implication, repeatedly beaten. This
wasn't a sudden rage killing. This points to planned, methodical
cruelty unfolding over time.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Wow, okay, so strangulation, yes, but only after being bound
and beaten exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It paints a picture of calculated punishment, not a spontaneous act.
The report also gave two other small but vital pieces
of personal information.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
What were they?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
She had been married previously, and she had given birth
at some point in her.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Life, so she had a family network connections, people who
should have noticed she was gone, which makes the lack
of a missing person's report even stranger.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Precisely, that silence was a huge red flag in itself,
and because nobody local was reporting someone like her missing,
the police had to cast a much wider net, far
beyond Curdosa, beyond Giza.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Even How long did that take? About?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Two weeks? Two frustrating weeks. Then finally a potential break
an alert came in, but not from nearby, was from Alexandria, Kisconduria, Alexandria.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's quite a distance. What was the alert?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
A missing person's report had been filed by an elderly
man for his daughter Seima. She was twenty eight years old.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Age matches. But what was strange about it the timing.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Mainly, he reported her missing after she'd already been gone
for two full months, sixty days.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Two months, and he's only just reporting it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And apparently his demeanor was off, very calm, no real
sense of regency or suspicion towards anyone, just matter of
factly reporting her gone for two months.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
That is deeply suspicious. So did they connect her to
the body.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
They showed the father photos of the clothing found on
the victim, He identified them immediately. They belonged to his daughter, Seama.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So the victim has a name, Shama. What happened when
they started digging into her life? Did it explain the
father's odd behavior?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It certainly started to. The picture that emerged was complex
and deeply dysfunctional. Also, while investigators learned the father wasn't
just a concerned parent, He was known in some circles
as a pimp, a call wad, and Shama had been
involved in his operations.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, that changes the dynamics significantly.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It does. Her life involved multiple non traditional marriages, She
traveled a lot. The primary goal, it seems, was often
financial gain, and her father knew all about this, even
seemed to facilitate it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So, given the brutality that torture the disposal, revenge seemed
like a very strong motive now rooted in this turbulent background.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Absolutely, the investigators really honed in on that this wasn't random,
This felt like payback, something deeply personal.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Do they look at her current husband, the one in Alexandria.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
They did quickly, but he seemed almost entirely indifferent. So
she often disappeared for long stretches. He considered it normal
for her. He was ruled out pretty fast.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
So if not the present, they looked to the past exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That led them to her previous husband, a man named
Amr El Scheimy. He was thirty eight, a fairly prominent
fruit and vegetable merchant, a Tajir Kodhar Wafakiya. They had
officially divorced about a year before Seima's disappearance late twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
A fruit and vegetable merchant. Okay, and this is where
things start clicking into place. Right the location.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Bingo Ammerel Shamy owned a storage warehouse a mason and
its location.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Let me guess, near the canal.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Not just near it. It was located on the exact
same path as the section of the canal where Shima's
body was pulled out.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, that's a huge connection. The ex husband's.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Business is right there, a massive geographical link. But it
wasn't just the where. It was also the what the sack,
the very sack she was found in. It was identified
as a specific type commonly used in his line of
work for packaging and transporting fruits and vegetables, a schwal
cut Harwaffakiha.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So the location and the materials used to hide the
body point directly to his business.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yes, you have the victim, you have the ex husband,
you have his warehouse on the canal path, and you
have the exact type of sack he uses daily involved
in the murder concealment. It formed a very tight, undeniable triangle.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Too many coincidences to ignore what happened when they confronted him.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They got a warrant, went to the warehouse and Amerrel
Scheimy apparently showed immediate sign of stress, real visible tension
to water.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Did they find anything incriminating inside the warehouse? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah. During the search they found stacks of sacks identical
to the one Shama was found in, and huge amounts
of rope the same kind used to bind her body
and weight the sack. The materials were just part of
his everyday business inventory.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The evidence was literally surrounding him. Did he confess eventually?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yes, he broke down and confessed, and the story he
told filled in the gaps, revealing just how toxic their
history was.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
How did they even meet?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
It started back in twenty eleven, And remember Seama's father right,
Apparently the father essentially engineered the connection, seeing Amer's wealth
as an opportunity. Amer and Seama got married secretly, an earfy.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Marriage, secretly meaning his first wife didn't know exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
For two years it was completely clandestine. Then Shama had
a son. After the baby was born, Amer decided to
make the marriage official formalize it. He wanted his son
raised with his other kids he had six with his
first wife.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So they were officially married for another two years while
he was still married to his first wife.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Correct a recipe for disaster. Really, the first wife was
understandably consumed by jealousy. The pressure she put on Omor.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Was immense, constant, until he couldn't take it anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Pretty much. He divorced Seama in late twenty fifteen, largely,
it seems due to the relentless pressure from the first wife.
She likely thought she'd won that Shama was.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Out of the picture, but she wasn't, was she no.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Only about four months after the divorce, Shamer reached out
to Omer again. The initial reason given was that she
could see their son, plausible enough, but it didn't stop there.
They resumed their relationship, though not formally remarried this.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Time, and Seamer's father and her new husband in Alexandria.
Were they okay with this?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Cassidly yes, because money was involved. Emma was wealthy and
that seemed to smooth things over for them. But someone wasn't.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Okay with it, the first wife.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
The first wife found out they were seeing each other again,
and this time her approach was different, more insidious.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
How so what did she do?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
This is what investigators started calling the whispering campaign al
zan a la al we done, literally like buzzing in.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The ears, a whispering campaign. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Instead of direct confrontation, she started planting seeds of doubt poison.
She constantly, relentlessly chipped away at Ahmer's mind about what.
She didn't just complain about the affair. She started insinuating
things about the past, accusing Shama of cheating on him
during their marriage, and crucially, she began questioning the paternity
of their son over and over again. Wow, so psychological
(09:36):
warfare exactly, pure manipulation, constantly suggesting he'd been deceived, that
the child might not even be his. She fed his insecurities,
stoked his ego, painted Shama as this treacherous figure who
had dishonored.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Him, and Amer, despite being the successful merchant, fell for
it completely.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
This constant drip drip drip of suspicion and accusation drove
him into this state of extreme paranoia. It warped his perception,
made him see Shama not as a former partner, but
as someone who had utterly betrayed him. The sources describe
his state as almost barbaric homogia. The Whispering campaign manufactured
this intense, almost blind rage.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So that paranoia, fueled by the First Wives campaign, led
him to plan the murder.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yes, he decided to take revenge. He devised a plan
to lure Shama to the warehouse. He knew she was
staying alone in Cairo at the time, away from her
family or current husband. Easy target, and the lure was simple,
deceptively simple. He told her to come to the warehouse
to see their son, something she clearly wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So she walks right into the trap she did.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
As soon as she arrived, he overpowered her, locked her
inside a room he'd apparently prepared within the warehouse, and
the torture began then that night. According to his confession,
the abuse lasted for two full days two days. Two days,
he beat her. Then he bound her tightly to a bed,
hands and feet, using those same ropes from his business.
(11:00):
He started this around midnight, knowing the area was deserted,
no witnesses, no one to hear anything.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Just unimaginable cruelty drawn out over forty eight.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hours, calculated sustained cruelty. After those two days, when he
decided he was done torturing her, he strangled.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Her with a rope and then back to meticulous planning.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Immediately, he transitioned right back into the careful merchant mode,
bound her entire body with more ropes, placed her inside
one of his large fruit sacks. Then he got the
heavy stones and secured them to the.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Bottom, ensuring it would sink and stay sunk precisely.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Then he waited until about three am, the dead of night. Again,
he called a coworker, someone who drove one of his
transport trucks.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Did the coworker know what was happening, No, omer lied.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
He told the coworker they needed to dump some spoiled
produce that was starting to smell. Said they'd take it
to a distant part of the canal, away from the
main routes.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So the coworker unknowingly helped him dispose of the body.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Exactly, thinking he was just getting rid of some rotten
fruit and vegetables. He drove Amor and the heavy sack
to the spot and they dumped it into the canal.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Mr must The thought he'd gotten away with it completely
planned down to the last detail.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
He probably did, But that meticulous waiting, the very thing
meant to hide her forever, ironically led to the discovery
when the sack got snagged near the bank. Two and
a half months later.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
When he was caught, did he try to justify it?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
He did. During the investigation, he attempted to frame it
as an honor killing rad Schiaff, claiming he was defending
his honor after being deceived.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
But the investigators didn't buy that, not for a second.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
An honor killing is often argued as a crime of
sudden passion, uncontrollable rage. This involved days of planning, two
days of cold blooded torture, elaborate concealment. It was the
opposite of spontaneous. Ammar was clearly a calculating individual.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And the court agreed they did.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
His defense was dismissed. Amer Elsheimy was found guilty of
premeditated murder?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What was the sentence?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
He was sentenced to death?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Ali dum brutal story obviously rooted in Shama's difficult life circumstances,
but the real catalyst seems to be external.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Absolutely, while her family background made her vulnerable, perhaps the
direct trigger, the mechanism for the murder was that whispering campaign,
that persistent toxic manipulation from the first wife. It proved
incredibly destructive, arguably more so than any direct confrontation could
have been. It turned Ahmher's jealousy into homicidal rage.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
It really makes you think about the power of that
kind of sustained psychological pressure, that insidious influence. For Emmer,
the poison wasn't really in his direct interactions with shame anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
No, it was in the lies, the doubts, the accusations,
constantly whispered or maybe shouted into his ear by someone else.
It leaves you with a really chilling question, doesn't it.
How often is prolonged malicious psychological manipulation the unseen driver
behind tragedies that we might otherwise label simply as domestic
violence or crimes of passion. Something to definitely think about.
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