Crime Night

Sayed began his career as a lawyer but quickly abandoned the ethics of his profession, turning instead to forgery and fraud to win cases. His schemes caught up with him, and he was eventually disbarred and imprisoned. When the January Revolution broke out, Sayed managed to escape custody. He reinvented himself under a new identity, calling himself “Saeed”, and crafted the image of a respectable la...

Wahid, an unemployed man desperate for money, devised a scheme to rob his elderly aunt, Fakiha, a beggar who had secretly amassed more than three million Egyptian pounds in the bank. With the help of his partners, Mostafa and Mai, he forged documents and recruited an unsuspecting woman named Haga Faiza, who happened to resemble Fakiha, convincing her that she was doing routine bank errands. For a...

In 2014, Alexandria was shaken by the disappearance of a young boy named Ahmed, who vanished in front of his mother’s eyes. A massive police investigation was launched, with officers tracking suspicious vehicles and questioning relatives in search of answers. For over four months, Ahmed was shuttled between different governorates, kept in harsh conditions, while his abductors demanded ransom and e...

The case of the “Asyut Assassins” shocked Egypt with its brutality and cold planning. At the center were Latifa and her two daughters, Shaymaa and Mona—a wealthy family whose crime seemed to have no justification other than greed and fear of exposure. Their victim was Khamis, a traveling salesman who had lent Latifa money. When he pressed her for repayment of 11,000 pounds and threatened to report...

Mostafa, a hardworking young man from Abu Rawash in Giza, who married Noura despite the tense objections and pressure from her family. Soon after the marriage, Mostafa discovered that Noura was far from the devoted wife she appeared to be. In secret, she was carrying on a relationship with another man, Amr, even going so far as to move into a separate room so that Amr could sneak in through the wi...

Amr, a young man raised in a sheltered and protective home. His life takes a sharp turn when he falls in love with Aya, a woman his mother never approved of. Drawn in by love and inexperience, Amr becomes deeply involved not just with Aya but also with her manipulative family, who exploit his trust and drain him financially. Over time, he begins to uncover the web of lies and illicit dealings surr...

The story follows Ahmed Mahrous, a schoolteacher from Upper Egypt who abandoned his modest life to reinvent himself as a feared sorcerer. Over time, he built a reputation for practicing black magic, drawing in desperate clients and exploiting their fears. As his wealth and influence grew, so did the darkness of his schemes. His path reached its most horrific point with the murder of Amal, a wealth...

The story recounts the murder of Mohamed El-Samman, a wealthy but extremely frugal elderly man. When he was found brutally killed in his apartment, suspicions initially pointed to his estranged wives and children, who were thought to be after his inheritance. However, the investigation eventually led to the son of a respected neighbor, a young man burdened by debt and hiding a criminal past. Foren...

The story revolves around Misbah, a well-liked security guard whose body was discovered in a canal. At first, it looked like a simple drowning, but forensic experts noticed something strange — the water in his lungs didn’t match the canal water. That detail turned the case into a full-blown murder investigation. Digging deeper, investigators uncovered a dark secret: Samar, Misbah’s wife, was havin...

This case tells the grim downfall of Haniya al-Shanbari and her husband, Khader, parents of six. Dissatisfied with her marriage and facing financial strain, Haniya sought a way out. Online she met Mohamed Ibrahim Ramadan, a registered offender in Egypt, and spun a story about moving there for a better life. She persuaded Khader to join her, unaware he was walking into a trap. Together, Haniya and...

This story follows Sabry, a wealthy contractor who remarries after his first wife’s death, choosing Asila, a woman who seemed pious but was only after his fortune. When Sabry began questioning her suspicious outings, Asila conspired with her young lover, Mohamed, to kill him. Their plot unraveled when Mohamed betrayed her, forcing Asila to confess. In the end, both she and Mohamed were executed, t...

The tragic case of Imaan, a mother of three who mysteriously disappeared on her way to work. At first, suspicion fell on her husband, Mohamed, after surveillance footage exposed gaps in his story. But investigators soon turned to his brother, Hussein, whose behavior and contradictions revealed the truth. Hussein ultimately confessed to killing Imaan for her money and gold, leaving Mohamed shattere...

Recounts the tragic murder of Donia in El Khanka, Egypt, at the hands of her fifth husband, Ali. After years of failed marriages, infertility struggles, and saving for IVF, Donia continued to support Ali despite his abuse and unemployment. Driven by greed, Ali stole her savings and murdered her with shocking brutality—stabbing her, severing her tendons, and burning her body with chemicals. Arreste...

Recounts a 2021 murder case in Qalyubia, Egypt, involving Ayman, a career criminal, and his wife, Zeinab Al-Arga. When Ayman’s body was found, police traced the crime back to Zeinab and her son-in-law, Mohamed, who confessed to plotting the murder to escape Ayman’s control and constant abuse. They drugged, dismembered, and disposed of him, leading to their arrest and eventual death sentences. You...

Explains forensic entomology, the science of using insects to investigate crimes. It focuses on how certain insects involved in decomposition can reveal the time of death more accurately than a medical examiner and even show if a body was moved after death. The transcript outlines the four main insect groups linked to corpses and traces the field back to 13th-century China, where flies helped iden...

Dr. Mohamed Ahmed El-Ghareeb was a well-known endocrinology professor whose life took a dark turn in 2010. After losing a large sum of money in a scam by a dealer named Mohamed Mokhtar, he hatched a revenge plan with his longtime assistant, Mohamed Abdel Latif. They lured Mokhtar to an abandoned clinic, shot him, then dismembered and burned the body, using the professor’s medical expertise to try...

Muhammad Abdullah was once a thriving young businessman, but after a long courtship with Nehad he became convinced her family was using sorcery to control and ruin him. He broke off the relationship, then returned to it, feeling ever more manipulated and blaming Nehad’s mother, who was rumored to practise black magic and whose own mother had been killed years earlier over similar suspicions. Convi...

Sabreen’s husband, Sameer, had spent years working abroad to build a better life and returned to Egypt to open a chicken farm. He soon learned that Sabreen had secretly kept much of the money he sent home. After a violent dispute in which Sameer injured her mother, Sabreen decided to take revenge. She recruited Sayed, a cash-strapped neighbor, promising him 5,000 EGP to kill her husband. Sabreen d...

Sahar was a married mother of four who appeared to be living a stable life with her husband, Rafat, but she longed for her old flame, Mahmoud. Rekindling their affair, she plotted with him to free herself from her family by secretly lacing juice with dog poison. The plan killed three of her children and left Rafat fighting for his life. Investigators eventually uncovered the lovers’ scheme, and bo...

Mustafa was a prosperous businessman whose life was turned upside down by betrayal. After seven years of marriage to Fairouz, he began to sense something was wrong—especially after she persuaded him to hire Walid as his personal assistant while he traveled for work. Growing suspicious, Mustafa secretly installed cameras in their home and uncovered a devastating truth: Fairouz and Walid were having...

A heartbreaking case centers on two children, Nada and Abdullah, whose lives unraveled after their parents’ divorce and new marriages. Their father, Ismail, remarried a woman named Sahar, who began abusing the children while he turned a blind eye. The abuse escalated until Abdullah was strangled with an electrical wire, at first passed off as an accident involving his sister. Three weeks later, Na...

A 1987 case tells of a 60-year-old man, Maher, who was stabbed sixty-one times and left in his car. Forensic evidence — blood patterns and fingerprints — led investigators to two young men, Alaa and Ezzat, but the real mastermind was Maher’s third wife, Nawal. She orchestrated the killing to seize his money and assets despite already having his general power of attorney. Even after all three were...

In 2004, a gruesome case in Egypt began when a man was seen dumping a sack into an open sewer. Inside was only the lower half of a corpse, and with no witnesses or clear leads, it initially seemed unsolvable. Investigators determined the victim was an elderly woman who had been strangled and began searching for the missing upper half to confirm her identity. The real break came from an unexpected...

A badly decomposed body was discovered inside a Cairo apartment, triggering a complicated investigation to determine both the victim’s identity and the killer. Police at first believed the tenant, who rented the flat under the name “Kamal Lotfy, the journalist,” might be a witness — but soon uncovered that this identity was fake. As detectives dug deeper, they matched a wedding ring from the corps...

Kawsar and Saadiya were two infamous sisters from Monufia, Egypt, known across the region in the early 2000s for practicing sorcery and running elaborate scams. In 2003, both women were found brutally slaughtered and dismembered inside their home, the crime scene marked by precision cuts suggesting the killer was someone skilled with a knife. Police eventually arrested Shaaban al-Gazzar, a local b...