The Sister Who Dissolved Two Husbands: Egypt's Most Calculated True Crime Case (2017)
There are murders that shock you with their violence. And then there are murders that disturb you with something quieter — the patience behind them. This is one of the second kind. In 2017, in a rural district in Daqahliya, Egypt, a woman was arrested for the murder of her brother-in-law. But as investigators dug deeper, they uncovered something far worse: she had done it before. Five years earlier. To her own husband. And she had gotten away with it completely. The Blueprint Mayar — not her real name — was not acting on impulse. By the time she dissolved her second victim in a bathtub using industrial chemicals, she had already built and tested a method. Buy chemicals from multiple stores. Engineer a reason for the man to seem like he would disappear. File the missing persons report yourself. Wait. Her first husband, Hossam, vanished without a trace. No body. No crime scene. No evidence. The case was filed as abandonment. A year later, Mayar filed for divorce. Six months after t...