Crime Night

Recounts the 2023 "Sahel Doctor" case in Egypt, involving the murder of orthopedic surgeon Dr. Osama Tawfik. After receiving a suspicious call on June 4th, Dr. Osama disappeared, prompting an eight-day search before his body was found buried under a refrigerator in his clinic in the Sahel district. The perpetrators were his colleague Dr. Ahmed Shehta, Shehta’s common-law wife Iman Mohamed, and an...

Recounts the life of Ernst Herber Heim, a notorious Nazi "Doctor of Death." Born in Austria, he joined the Nazi Party and conducted horrific human experiments on prisoners during World War II. After the war, Heim escaped Allied custody and lived decades in hiding under various aliases, eventually settling in Cairo, Egypt, as Tarek Hussein Farid. There, he converted to Islam and was known locally a...

A criminal investigation in Egypt that began in 2018 with the discovery of a male body in a public garden in Masaken Sheraton. The victim, later identified as twenty-year-old engineering student Mohamed, had been stabbed multiple times during a struggle. Authorities connected the murder to a missing person report from Mohamed’s mother, noting he was carrying 25,000 pounds to purchase a used laptop...

Recounts the life and alleged activities of Amina al-Mufti, described as one of the most dangerous Arab spies. Born in Jordan to a prominent family, she moved to Vienna for studies, where she began rejecting Arab traditions. She later married a Jewish Israeli military pilot, Moshe, converted to Judaism, and emigrated to Israel after his death on the Syrian front. Al-Mufti became an agent for the M...

Recounts the tragic case of Selin Rakaan, a young Lebanese girl who died while under the care of her Ethiopian domestic worker, Bouzai. Initially thought to be a natural death or related to vaccination, investigations revealed that Bouzai had murdered Selin to prevent the child from exposing her years of theft from the family. The narrative details the investigation, including Bouzai’s shifting co...

Recounts the true crime case of Emad Ramadan and his wife, Sahar. Emad, described as weak-willed, and Sahar, characterized as controlling and defiant, experienced a tumultuous marriage that worsened after Sahar’s infidelity. Their relationship escalated into mutual threats of violence, culminating in Emad murdering his wife. The narrative details his plan to dismember her body and conceal it in a...

A shocking kidnapping case involving Hanaa and her husband, Ibrahim, a wealthy farmer in Qalyubia, Egypt. Although initially appearing respectable, Hanaa masterminded the abduction of her two-year-old son, Mohamed, in collusion with her former lover, Alaa, to extort 500,000 EGP from Ibrahim. Police investigation, aided by surveillance footage and phone records, exposed her secret communications wi...

A tragic true crime story involving Ashraf and Amal. Their marital conflict escalated due to Amal’s inability to bear a son, prompting Ashraf to marry his cousin Fatima, who gave birth to a boy, Abdullah. Despite ongoing tension between the wives, Amal was allowed to return to the household. Driven by revenge against Ashraf and his family, Amal fatally injected baby Abdullah with insecticide. Susp...

Recounts the 2008 Egyptian crime involving the murder of Heba El Akkad and her friend Nadine. The victims suffered multiple stab wounds, and the unusual circumstances of their deaths made the case a major public concern. Initially, authorities found that theft did not appear to be the primary motive. Investigation eventually led to Mahmoud El Essawy, tracked through a stolen cell phone. He confess...

A criminal case involving Nadera in Asyut, Egypt. Married to a simple farmer, she gradually became involved in illegal activities, prostituting herself and using sedatives to incapacitate her husband. She began an affair with Hedaya, a vegetable and fruit vendor, and plotted her husband’s murder, offering Hedaya and three others money and livestock to carry out the crime. The narrative details the...

Recounts the "European Countryside Massacre", a 2022 criminal case in Egypt. Five family members—a grandfather, his two daughters, and two grandchildren—were brutally murdered on a farm in Sheikh Zayed, discovered by the grandfather’s son. The crime scene indicated an attempted assault on one of the daughters, leading investigators to two suspects. The primary perpetrator, Atef Mahmoud Al-Saidi, a...

A homicide investigation in Sudan involving the murder of Amna Al-Sharif, wife of a prominent businessman. She was found strangled in her bedroom, with a large sum of money stolen from a closet, initially prompting suspicion toward the family’s maids or a recently hired carpenter. A forensics report later suggested the theft was staged, shifting suspicion to the victim’s daughter-in-law, Dr. Ryan...

A true crime case from Egypt in 2014 involving a microbus robbery and kidnapping. A man posing as a passenger orchestrated an armed robbery on a microbus traveling from Giza to Fayoum, targeting a remote area at Kilometer 35 of the desert road. He stole valuables, forced three women off the bus, sexually assaulted one, and then fled into the desert. The narrative details the subsequent police inve...

Recounts the chilling case of Radia, known as the Moroccan Devil, a high-profile criminal case in Morocco. It details the disappearance of her husband, Azzouz, in 2012, during which Radia gained public sympathy through a television appearance. Years later, her son, Sherif, also disappeared, with Radia offering inconsistent explanations, followed by the death of her daughter, Bassina, ruled a suici...

Recounts the investigation of a mysterious disappearance and murder in an Egyptian village, initially framed as a crime involving black magic and the search for buried treasure. The story follows Ahmed and his friend Ragab, who attempt to unearth a legendary treasure from Ahmed’s ancestral home and enlist the help of a supposed sorcerer. After Ragab disappears, Ahmed claims the sorcerer killed him...

Recounts a brutal quadruple murder of a single family in the village of Abu Al-Abbas, Minya Governorate, in 2009. It describes the daily life of Radia and her three children before the tragedy, highlighting the family’s close bonds, her husband Mubarak’s work abroad, and Radia’s habit of sharing personal information with neighbors. The events unfold with the discovery of the slaughtered family and...

In 2014, the United Arab Emirates witnessed one of its most mysterious and high-profile criminal cases, known as “The Ghost of Reem.” The story began with the murder of an expatriate teacher inside a women’s restroom at a major mall in Abu Dhabi. The crime baffled authorities, as there were no witnesses or clear evidence pointing to the identity of the killer, who fled the scene disguised in a ful...

The story centers on the murder of Dr. Aida, a 73-year-old retired medical analyst living alone in Cairo. After neighbors reported her disappearance and a foul smell, police found her dead in her bathroom with signs of head trauma, confirming it was a robbery-homicide. Investigators tracked stolen items and bank transactions, which led to Hoda, her house cleaner, caught on camera using the doctor’...

The case recounts the 2024 murder of Major General Hassan Galal Al-Obeidi, a retired Yemeni officer found bound and killed in his Egyptian apartment. What first appeared to be a robbery was traced to four culprits: Ramadan, Abdo, Suhair, and Israa. Israa’s troubled past and ties to sex work led her into a scheme with Ramadan to lure victims for robbery. Their plan against Al-Obeidi ended in his de...

The story highlights a disturbing case of a second woman named Amira, a doctor, who—like the energy healer before her—fell into the world of tarot, palmistry, and spiritualism. Her curiosity soon turned into hallucinations, believing she spoke with prophets and received divine orders, even imagining she had a special spiritual role. Despite her education, she was drawn deep into delusion until she...

The story of Amira Ben Ahmed is both mesmerizing and deeply unsettling—a trajectory that began with glamour and ended in tragedy. According to the transcript, Amira’s early life reflected ambition and curiosity. She pursued a career as a flight attendant in the Emirates, a role that exposed her to diverse cultures and ideas. Somewhere along that journey, she became captivated by energy healing, ta...

The case of Sheikh Ahmed Amer and his wife Mona Saeed Abdel Latif is a devastating reminder of how trust and faith can be exploited in the most horrifying ways. In 2011, the Sheikh—beloved in his Giza community for his generosity, religious knowledge, and habit of welcoming students into his home—was brutally betrayed by one of those very students. That student was Sheikh Mohamed Fathallah Al-Huss...

Aya’s story is one of the most heartbreaking tales of cruelty and neglect. Born in 1995, she never knew the safety or warmth a child deserves. Her parents divorced early, and instead of finding stability, Aya was passed around like a burden. Eventually, she ended up in the home of her father, Eid, and his second wife, Azza, where her life became a daily nightmare. The pair, later referred to as th...

The account of Kareem Selim, infamously nicknamed the “Taggamoah Killer” or “The Serial Killer,” is a chilling portrait of a man who lived behind multiple masks. On the surface, Kareem appeared to embody success: born in Alexandria, raised partly in the U.S., educated at the American University in Cairo, and holding a doctorate in psychology. Yet beneath this respectable image lay darker layers of...

The story of Layla is one of swift betrayal and tragic consequences. Layla married Basem, a kind but naïve man who overlooked everything about her except her beauty. What he didn’t realize was that Layla had never let go of her lover, Hossam, a poor young man who happened to live just one floor above them. She even insisted on renting that particular apartment so their affair could continue in sec...