This case actually happened and its events took place in Cairo in the year 2001, and it was a case stranger than fiction. Here’s what happened:
The incident was published under the title “Half a Million Citizens Searching for a Missing Woman Called Waheda.” The article detailed the disappearance of a deaf and mute girl under mysterious circumstances, leaving her family in despair. Her father and the people of her neighborhood in Cairo’s Al Salam City searched for her in vain. The editor appealed for any information to help find her.
As fate would have it, Colonel Abdulrahman, the director of security in Cairo, came across this article, sympathized with the situation, and formed a search team composed of officers from the department to find her. Each member of the team was assigned to search in different directions: police departments, cemeteries, hospitals, and reported incidents. After extensive effort, one member of the search team discovered an unidentified body in the Qanater Al Khayreya district. She had drowned in the Nile, and due to lack of identification, she was buried in a charity cemetery. Her clothes and belongings were kept at the police station. Her father was quickly contacted and brought to the Qanater station by a full team from the security directorate. When shown the personal belongings of the unidentified body, he recognized them, broke down in tears, and knelt down. The girl’s father was also deaf and mute, but human emotions don’t need a language to express themselves. His eyes welled up with tears. Colonel Abdulrahman picked up on this and asked the station officer about the body. The officer explained that the body was recovered from the Nile after drowning, and a health inspector confirmed her cause of death as drowning. As her identity was unknown, she was buried in a charity cemetery, and the officer directed the Colonel to the graveyard where she was buried. Colonel Abdulrahman then asked about the date of the body’s discovery, to which the officer replied, “About a month ago.” The Colonel pondered deeply and decided to consult the chief forensic doctor in Cairo. He sent a letter, and the reply stated that forensic tools and methods could determine the cause of death even if it’s been over a month since the death occurred.
Colonel Abdulrahman submitted another letter containing full investigations from the police about the incident and requested permission from the Deputy Attorney General to exhume the body for examination and to deposit a comprehensive report revealing the cause of death. The Deputy Attorney General granted permission, and indeed, the body was exhumed and sent to the forensic department in Cairo for examination.
Not long after, the chief forensic doctor completed the examination and submitted a report stating that the body belonged to a young woman in her twenties. It was found in an advanced stage of decomposition with maggots and larvae scattered throughout her body. Upon removing what remained of the facial skin, stab wounds were found, starting from the mouth, passing through the neck, and leaving marks on the jaw and neck bones. Upon examining the uterus, it was found to be decomposed due to the passage of time. Upon examining the back skin, traces of twelve stab wounds were found, leaving marks on the spine.
The conclusion:
The cause of death was due to a stab wound to the neck with a sharp object, leading to death.
Best regards,
[Important Note: The names mentioned in the story are not real.]
Stay tuned for Part Two coming soon…
