The Whisper Campaign Murder: Two Days of Torture, a Canal Dump, and the Ex-Husband's Calculated Revenge

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.Produced by:https://www.podcaistudio.com/