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25:30These are direct quotes. I have nothing to lose. I'm going to talk and you will listen. Rowan tells Sherry's dad everything. And at the end, he tells him, I'm not going to do this anymore. I don't want to be with Sherry anymore. And then there's just silence. And then on the other end, Sherry's dad tells Rowan, if you abandon my daughter, it will cost three human lives. What does that even mean to this? Rowan just responds, then I would rather die by a bullet from you, then die a little every day with your daughter. Who are the three lies, did he say? It's gonna work out in a weird way. He never said.

26:04Now, maybe Sherry is so done with her life, she decides she doesn't want to live it anymore. Maybe she can take someone else's life, like all of those thriller books, find someone that looks like her, that's living a better life than her, and then get rid of them and resume their identity. That's the plot of thriller books. But that's not what Sherry wants to do. Sherry has a completely different plan. Instead of taking someone else's fate, she wants someone to take her fate. She wants someone to die for her. And that is how Khadijah, a woman who knows nothing about Sherry, who has nothing to do with Sherry, the only connection between the two of them is that Sherry thinks that they look alike.

26:41I will say Khadijah is much more beautiful. But that's why Khadijah is found with her face bashed in with brass knuckles, stabbed in the face, neck, and chest, dead in the back of Sherry's Mercedes. Within days, Sherry is brought in and she's treated as the prime suspect of what the police originally thought was her murder. So she goes from being the presumed victim to the potential suspect. And by this point, a few things have occurred. When a body was found in the back of Sherry's car with dark brown hair, just like Sherry, her face is disfigured from stab wounds. But she's about the same height, the same weight.

27:16Everybody assumed it was Sherry. Sherry's parents went onto Facebook to post about her death, her murder, begging locals to help identify who they think that did this to their daughter, even though they think it's Rowan. Sherry's parents are telling the police that if they had to put their money on anybody, it would be Rowan. The whole town is ready to form a mob and go burn down Rowan, the ex-husband's house. Meanwhile, the authorities are quietly doing a DNA test because while they still, I mean, they still have to make sure that this is Sherry. And there's something curious. The body in the car has a small tattoo on their arm and Sherry's parents are adamant that she does not have any tattoos.

27:48So either Sherry lied about getting a tattoo or something weird is happening. And people keep calling into the police dispatch trying to frantically explain that they saw a dead woman. There's a guy who's like, I saw a dead woman at a pizzeria, I swear. So the police decide to bring her, the town ghost in, the victim, the suspect, we don't know, okay? All we know is that Sherry is not that hard to find. She's not deep in hiding. She's just like there all the time. And she tells the police, it's the Albanians. And the police are like, what? The Albanians are after me. The Albanian mafia want to kill me.

28:25What? Okay, so the first person that Sherry points them to is a man named Shakir. He's the one that did this. He's after Sherry. So the police go after him and they also arrest Shakir. The investigators, they start putting the pieces together. They quickly arrest Sherry and Shakir, but they still need to figure out who the body in the car is. They cross-reference with missing persons alerts in the neighboring areas. not just this town, but all the surrounding towns, and they identify the body to belong to Khadija. And I'm only saying first names because German privacy laws identify each person as just their first name and last name's first initial.

29:00So it's like Sherbin K. Once authorities figure out that the woman in the car is Khadija, they can actually start getting somewhere. They go through Khadija's phone, they go through Sherry's phone, and they find a series of odd DMs on Instagram. The first one reads, Hey love, would you like to take part in a music video? You have very good charisma and you will be paid very well. You don't have to do much I would be happy if you would get in touch best wishes And it's like a random account that has no followers that account belongs to sharebin k sherry I mean just reaching out to khadijah for a job to be part of a music video Khadijah is like hey, i'd be up for it But I guess it depends on the genre of music and where it is It's a well-known artist and you probably know them, too Okay, what's their name?

29:43Maybe I know her and where would the shoot be located? the shoot would be in offenberg you definitely know her but this would all have to be kept secret until the song is released they tell khadijah the name of the singer and it's a pretty big artist named loon so loon has over a million fans on spotify almost 400 000 followers on tiktok and khadijah thinks i mean it's a secret project so i can't tweet about it but like i could dm loon and ask loon directly and the police find all of this on khadijah's phone and she's like i hope you can give me an answer because i'm very very unsure a woman messaged me saying i'm filming a video music video supposedly for you and now i don't know i'm sure you know i don't know i'm not sure if it's fake or not i don't want to go there and then something happens loon responds to her fake sister don't go wow and she responds oh okay thank you so khadija ignores the video music video request dm but then another one comes in from another account the cm means hey good evening we're looking for girls to test our new lasers would you like to collaborate?

30:43we offer permanent hair removal with the world's fastest and most effective laser 100 % pain free if you're interested in permanent hair removal you can contact me at any time we work with a state of the art medical grade laser that costs$2 ,500 per session so they're saying if you come to the salon and you get this laser treatment done and you just post about it it's a free laser treatment the only problem is Khadija lives 100 miles away from the salon because they give her the address to the salon is it their home salon or it's rowan's barbershop and it's a three-hour trip so the salon manager is like well you know i can pick you up from your house and then drop you off at the salon do the salon laser for you and then drop you back off at your house all the dms lead straight back to sherry august 17th 2022 sherry and shakir get into the car together they drive and they pick up khadijah and on the way to the salon it's getting dark.

31:38The sun is setting. In between Khadija's house and the salon, there's like this very long stretch of woods. It's like a forest. Sherry pulls over pretending to be lost and she asks Khadija to get out of the car to read the road sign. And that's when Sherry and Shakir both jump out. Shakir jumps on top of Khadija and starts stabbing her. They put Khadija back into the backseat of the car, drive all the way back into town, park Sherry's car on a residential road between Sherry's parents' house and her ex-husband Rowan's house, and then they leave. Sherry and Shakir leave, but they don't flee. They don't skip town.

32:12They just kind of linger around until they're both arrested. Why don't they leave town? What's their plan? Who the hell is Shakir? And what the hell does he have to do with any of this? And why does he partake in this murder? Weeks before Khadija is killed, Sherry is going around being what one can only assume is the world's most insufferable pick-me. She's going to the bars in town, getting drunk, leaning in close to all the guys that she's friends with, acquaintances with, random dudes. Would you kill for me? She keeps asking them. Some of the guys think it's a great way to try and impress her and not go home alone.

32:46So they're like, of course I would. I would do anything for you. But they don't mean it. She knows they don't mean it. Other guys are put off. Some of them are straight up looking at Cherry and going, why would someone die for you? She says things like, I can be free forever and stay with you all the time. For most people, most normal sane people, Sherry's reasoning that she can be free, stay with them all the time, intimate relationship. It's not worth killing someone for. Except apparently Shakir. That's what the prosecutors are arguing. Arguing what? Shakir meets Sherry a few weeks before the murder.

33:20And she's like, would you kill for me? And we can be together. And he just does it. So that's what they're saying. That's his motive. Yes. he killed for her yeah that's fucking insane but none of these even make sense nobody even has an answer for why sherry and shakir kill khadijah none of it makes sense and sherry and shakir they're not going to give honest answers so naturally people have to come up with their own theories even the prosecutors with what they believe happened the very first theory to come about is the doppelganger theory sherry doesn't like her life she cannot escape her religious parents and instead of walking away and starting over or just standing up to them she decides she needs to fake her own death to get away from them.

34:01But she can't just disappear because they will never stop looking for her. The only way to get everyone to stop looking for her is if they know for certain she's not coming back. There needs to be a body and that person needs to look like Sherry, which is why weeks leading up to Khadija's murder, prosecutors find in Sherry's phone, she's got multiple Instagram accounts. She's DMing everyone that looks similar, even remotely similar to her, asking if they want a free laser treatment as long as they post an exchange on Instagram. Khadija agrees. Sherry picks her up, has her killed, and places Khadija's body in her own car on a street that her parents are likely going to go down looking for her.

34:38They're going to find her body. They're going to think it's Sherry because Khadija's face was so violently disfigured and everyone's just going to assume it's Sherry because like, who else would it be? And then Sherry would move on. What does Shakir get out of it? Probably intimate relations, love, who knows? The prosecutors are a little constantly wishy-washy about what Shakir gets out of it, but more on that later. The problem with the doppelganger theory though, and there's a lot, the first one being Sherry has four criminal defense attorneys. Two of them are court appointed, the other two her parents are paying for, and her attorneys argue that everyone is being racist by stating that they too look alike and that Sherry sought out a doppelganger just by the fact that all of them have dark hair and are of Iraqi descent does not make them doppelgangers.

35:25so they're saying if they're not doppelgangers then this whole prosecutor theory of the doppelganger murder falls apart if they're not doppelgangers and so like this becomes a whole thing during the trial where everyone's like are they doppelgangers or not and the judges are like it doesn't matter if they're not doppelgangers because everyone in the room can tell that Khadija is exponentially more beautiful than Sherry will ever be which also depicts a level of self-awareness in Sherry herself right but they're saying it doesn't matter if they're doppelgangers as long as sherry believed that they could be yeah exactly the attorneys are arguing but that means if they're not doppelgangers sherry is not faking her own death with khadijah's body that's what an argument the prosecutors though still have to prove that sherry has motive for this theory that she desperately needs to get away from her family and she thinks that like she's crazy enough that she thinks this will work Sherry is evaluated by a psychiatrist and she spends four days with the psychiatrist.

36:27She comes out with no strong diagnosis, no sign of a disorder, not that that would absolve any guilt. However, she's mentally there. She's fit to stand trial. The psychiatrist testifies in court that she does have a tendency towards conflict. She's extremely impulsive, manipulative. She believes manipulation is the best way to get what she wants. And most importantly, a part that the defense latches on to, right? The defense is like, the prosecutors say this is a doppelganger murder. Let me tell you why it's not. During Sherry's psychiatric evaluation, it is confirmed that her IQ stands at around 86, which they describe as, quote, just shy of a learning disability in Germany.

37:06Anything below 85 is indicative of a learning disability in Germany. So the defense are like, she's too dumb. To be doing a doppelganger murder? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So by this point, okay, just to fill you in. Khadija is found in Sherry's car. Very quickly, Sherry and Shakir are arrested. And everyone in the news becomes obsessed with this case. Everyone in Germany becomes obsessed with this case. It goes to trial and it's actually one of the longest criminal trials in recent German history, especially in this area because there's over 100 witnesses brought in. And the confusing part is it seems like the prosecutors kind of drift between theories of what they think happened.

37:48and everyone's just trying to figure out what the hell happened. And the two defendants, Sherry and Shakir, Sherry's always lying. Anytime she opens her mouth, you can assume she's lying. She does testify, but nobody believes her. Shakir, dead silent. Won't say a single word. So everyone's like, why would you guys do this to a random girl that you don't even know? And the only connection is you were looking for people who looked like you and you think that she looked like you. That's really the only connection. Right. Other than all the physical evidence. Right. There's no clear motive. Exactly.

38:23Why are they committing the crime? And so every motive that the prosecutors bring about the defense are just trying to poke holes of like, well, she's too dumb. She's too dumb to carry something like this out. So the defense are like, she barely has a brain. OK, that's what the defense is arguing, which the prosecutors, they start arguing back. We never said she was smart. If she was very, very smart, perhaps she would have realized how horrendous this plan is. but nevertheless the prosecutors argue the motive is there forget intelligence for a second sherry has motive her life is falling apart she wants to get away so she wants someone to take her place for her death she wants to be dead to her family the prosecutors bring in about 100 witnesses that testify about sherry and shakir and one of the most important witnesses on that list he went into hiding before the trial because he was terrified of sitting up on the stand he thought someone was going to kill him to keep him quiet is the ex-husband rowan who is he scared of to kill him because remember sherry's dad was like three people are gonna oh the dad that's right so he comes in he sits on the stand and he starts testifying about his relationship his marriage with sherry and it's not looking good multiple witnesses by this point have already testified that sherry is known as a gas station groupie it's like a thing when you live in the suburbs in a lot of places, including Germany, we have nowhere to hang out.

39:43People just like loiter in gas stations, in the parking lots. They come in, rev their engine, they pump gas, and then they park near the gas station. They get a Slurpee and a beer, and then they sit in their driver's seat, rev their engines some more, and then hang out. So she likes to talk to guys at the gas station. You can't even pay me to stay in a gas station for two seconds longer than I actually have to. Yeah. All the guys with their loud cars, they like to sit there and Sherry will show up in her Mercedes and one German reporter describes them like this. And I don't know what this means.

40:19They live in the suburbs, but they like to feel as if they're living in New York City in the Bronx. Oh, okay. Like they think they're cool. Right, right, right. Like, okay, yeah. I can see the visual. Okay. Okay, it's almost as if this Mercedes also changed Sherry. Rowan is testifying like she has an obsession with this car. She loved this lifestyle, beautiful cars, fast driving, easy money. That's a quote. She's, you know, helping move drugs. And it's very important for her, quote, to drive up and down the famous roads in Munich, listening to loud music and attracting attention. It's like the people that drive circles on Rodeo Drive.

40:55And you're like, well, I've seen you 20 times. And he says the beginning of their marriage started out pretty normal. Eventually, Rowan starts noticing this very obvious pattern. Quote, she was always looking for arguments with me just so she could storm out in anger. She'd be like, fine, I'm done with you. I'm not doing this anymore. Run out the house and be gone for three days. And she would block his number. I mean, he can't even ask where she is, who she's with. And he can see right through it. It's not like a real fight. Like she's doing this so that she can go be a gas station groupie. And she'll go out with a bunch of guys each time.

41:31They're reportedly all in like a criminal world. If he tries to talk to her about it, it's just another way for her to start another fight that lasts three days so she can go out and loiter at gas stations. And that's how she ends up pregnant with some other man's child at 20. And she ends up terminating the pregnancy. Rowan tells her he's fed up with her and he tells her, you know, I'm going to talk to your parents. I've already called your dad. She turns around and this is in their apartment. She hits him on the back of the head. She starts throwing things out of the cabinets. She grabs a bar of soap and is like whacking him with a bar of soap.

42:06He flees to the bathroom and quote, she slams my head onto the mirror. Everything goes black. I start feeling dizzy. So then when he wakes up, he's like, I can't do this anymore. I got to pack my bags. I'm going to go stay with my brother. He gets into the car and he starts having an epileptic seizure. The police get called out. There's footage of this. The police getting called out, him having a seizure in the car. and he says that because of this marriage because of Sherry's violence he had his jaw dislocated he lost 30 % of his vision in the right eye I mean these are all documented violent altercations February 2018 she's convicted of aggravated assault for tasing her brother-in-law in the neck Rowan's brother October 2021 she tried to run her husband over with her car November 2021 she assaulted her husband with a bar of soap and smashed his face into a mirror there's a protection order prohibiting her from even approaching her ex-husband But at this point, a few weeks leading up to Khadija's murder, Rowan says the families have facilitated at least three peace meetings.

43:04So in Yazidi religion, marital disputes are resolved through community mediation. I imagine like this is when the marital disputes become irreconcilable. But, okay, side note, divorce and separation are a huge thing in Yazidi culture. Yazidism is a closed religion. So you can only be born Yazidi and you must marry another Yazidi. where else if you marry someone that's not Yezidi, you get excommunicated. Some communities have loosened up the rules a little bit to say that you're no longer excommunicated by your loved ones, but it really depends. And from my research, it seems as if divorce is not unheard of.

43:39It's not encouraged, but more people are open to divorce. However, if after divorce you marry someone that is not Yezidi, that could lead to excommunication. So these peace meetings, it's like when you're about to have a divorce, all the male elders from both families will have meetings and try to talk to the couple to figure out how they can resolve their marital dispute.

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46:17They have three mediation sessions. The first two, Rowan's like, I'm not going to do this. Okay, your daughter is like practically certified insane. And they just keep telling him how much she loves him, how much he means to her and all this nonsense. And Rowan is still trying to save Sherry's face, but he wants a divorce. And finally, at the third mediation, he's like, I know what I need to say. I just need to tell the truth. He says, if a husband says, your daughter has been cheating on me, then typically the father of the wife will tell the husband okay like you decide what you want to do now and he's like I want a divorce and that's the last time he saw Sherry she moved out moved back in with her parents and that was a huge problem for Sherry a lot of Sherry's friends were called in to testify by the prosecutors because the prosecutors are like the doppelganger theory remember she needs to get away from her parents her friends are sitting on the stand and a lot of German reporters are like this is the most insane trial that we've ever covered in our lives these little gas station groupies are cursing at the defense attorneys are cursing at the prosecutors oh you mean all her friends are also gas station groupies yeah and all of them are sitting like some german reporter was like i've never seen someone sit with their legs as wide open you know like guys like to pretend like their ding dong is so massive that they can't even oh you're saying that some of the guys are sitting with their legs are like reaching as far as they Yeah, in a court setting is just inappropriate.

47:44But also, I think it's like... Interesting. At that point, they're like doing splits. So these people are out here supporting Sherry? No, they're just being called in to testify. And they just like snap at everyone. Interesting. All right. So Sherry is complaining to her friends. Her friends are testifying like, yeah, I saw her after the divorce. And she's complaining that her dad would only let her leave the house for 20 minutes every single day. so she goes from living with rowan being able to go out for three days at a time be a gas station groupie and what's rowan gonna do about it nothing but now that she's back with her very strict religious parents after a divorce yeah they're in full control they're not letting her out of the house they're not letting her be a gas station groupie they're controlling everything that she does and she's sick of it one witness said i saw her in the middle of the road she was like parked on the side of the road.

48:35All of her car doors were open. The trunk was open. So I was like, is she looking for something? I thought maybe her car broke down. So I pulled over and I'm like, do you need help Sherry? Like did something happen to your car? And she dramatically pulled something out and there's a little tracker in her fingers. And she just tells me my father, that son of a bitch. I guess she found a tracker in her car and her dad is tracking her. So the prosecutors are like, look, look, she has every reason to want to get away from her family and she can't. Then the prosecutors bring in Rowan's brother yeah where you know the the bizarre incident where she uses a taser to get him in the neck the brother-in-law testifies she showed up to my house I didn't even know her really at the time I didn't even know who she was she introduced herself to me as a friend of my brother she was completely distraught she was crying claimed that Rowan was stealing and using drugs and then she suddenly tased me in the back of the neck with a taser that's their first time meeting yeah what in the world and then she ran down the stairs then she comes back up the stairs he doesn't even chase after her because he's like on the ground tased she comes back up the stairs and said i don't know why i did that i'm so sorry please don't tell anybody and starts profusely apologizing and he called the he said i naturally went to the hospital and filed a police report and he says and then they got married and then i met her uncles the entire family is weird they're weird they also hated me the brother they just hated me you know one of the sherry's uncles said about rowan's brother we have a plan for him whatever that means yeah they just keep saying weird things and sherry blames the brother-in-law stating he made my life a living hell for rowan and me he was the one who persuaded my husband to force me to terminate my pregnancy so sherry is claiming that she was pregnant with Rowan's baby and Rowan was like that was definitely not my baby trust me and Sherry is like well your brother was the one that convinced you to convince me to terminate the pregnancy I mean both Rowan and his brother are like that's definitely not true okay now Rowan's brother testifies and then they bring in the prosecutors then bring in another guy his name is Vulcan he gets up on the stand and he tells the judges I'm the guy that Sherry paid to kill her brother-in-law, Rowan's brother.

50:53And I was like, what the hell is happening? He's like, that wasn't the original money-making plan, first of all. Okay. So when I met Sherry, originally we were going to go into business together to open up a COVID testing center. Because like, remember back then you used to have to go to a testing center. They shove, they shove like a three foot long Q-tip up your brain, like you're getting lobotomized. And then they wanted to do that. But instead, Sherry starts talking about perhaps before they do that maybe you could kill someone first and Vulcan is like I should start going along with it and the prosecutors are like why are you going along with it and they said I don't know she just seemed kind of dumb and she had money so so he's like I was going along with them.

51:33Sherry offers him ten thousand dollars kill Rowan's brother I'll give you five thousand euros in advance. Sherry thinks that her brother-in-law is the reason that Rowan even wants to get a divorce right now so you know once he's gone Rowan's gonna be obsessed with her again he's the one that supports this separation so it must be his problem the two of them Vulcan and Sherry they put together their approximately seven brain cells they come up with this masterful plan the plan is he's gonna kidnap Rowan's brother administer date rape pills to him change him into swim trunks throw him into Lake Starnberg so that his death would appear to be a drowning she tells Vulcan all I need is photos to prove that you did murder him and you'll get 10 ,000 euros 5 000 euros in advance right now and if successful quote this day will be more beautiful than any other day on earth she also sends him an 18 minute voice message where she's enthusiastically screaming no mercy no mercy make sure you shove the pills deep in his throat they they played all that yeah in the trial obviously the testimony from vulcan and the corresponding evidence is damning to say the least, but her attorney tries to spin it.

52:45Her attorney says, according to my client's own statement, this specific allegation of wrongdoing presents itself in a completely different light. The claim is that a man proactively approached her, not the other way around, and allegedly offered to kill her brother-in-law. That raises a distinct set of questions, entirely independent of whether she genuinely desired the act or took the offer seriously or whether she might have subsequently withdrawn from the plan. They said a whole lot of nothing, but they're basically trying to be like, maybe she was testing him to see if he would do it. She did give him the 5 ,000 euros.

53:22She did. And Vulcan argues in court that he just did it to get some easy money. You know, she has money and she's also a bit stupid. That's a direct quote. He testifies that at the trial. But the interesting thing is like the prosecutor is like, thank you so much for testifying um so you're actually arrested for fraud because regardless you took money and did not deliver a service you took money and you didn't kill someone that's a fraud yes so they arrest him for fraud you're kidding me they also charge him with tax evasion which is a very apparently a very german thing like they take tax evasion more seriously than the americans that's crazy that's considered a fraud yeah i maybe he tried to get a lower deal eventually but he was yeah i can't believe this he got sentenced to he had his own separate trial the fake hitman had his own little separate trial and he was found guilty and imprisoned for a year because how is that i don't understand wow it's probably something in their code like their legislation okay you think it will happen in america too i cannot imagine this being fraud though we have very specific laws for conspiracy to commit murder maybe they don't have like specific laws so this is the one that fits the best but what i'm saying is let's say he never intended to kill and he still took the money he's like i'm just here to scam someone that's that's fraud yeah i think that's why they maybe they charged him with fraud because he's not like trying to kill so he's just a con man okay this is weird okay yeah it's all very strange but they get him for fraud and tax evasion because he didn't pay taxes on the 5 000 euros he got in cash and as if this case can't get even more confusing the main prosecutor theory is that this is a doppelganger murder and that's actually what it's known for just when it goes viral on a global scale but that also kind of has this plot holes because it's an escape where nobody flees if she got someone to be a doppelganger killed them so that she could flee right right she doesn't flee sherry is literally arrested driving around leisurely through town that's how the arresting officer describes her demeanor.

55:28If she killed Khadija to take her place as a dead body, would she not skip town and start a new life? She doesn't do that. So then some people argue it's because she was waiting for Rowan to get arrested. She's not trying to die and disappear and start a new life. She wanted the police to arrest Rowan for her murder and then she would leave. She was gone girling him. But that also necessarily doesn't make sense because there's no indication that she was tracking Rowan, tracking the investigation. She was genuinely just hanging out by the way she also went back to her gas station groupies after she was dead and they're like aren't you supposed to be dead and she's like i'm in some shit some people are after me they're trying to frame me anyway yeah this is wow it just doesn't make any sense which then leads to a black magic theory and this was a theory that was heavily debated in court eventually the court denies it.

56:23A lot of the black magic theory comes from humans doing what they do best and kind of just being idiots. So in Sherry's car, when police search it, they find two things. Two small pieces of paper folded together, one into a triangle and then another one into a square and then taped together with scotch tape and then wrapped in foil. When they're unfolded, people discover writing on them that nobody can decipher. And one of them has a picture of Sherry and her ex-husband Rowan taped to the back, but the words, no one can decipher the words. So this theory comes about that Sherry killed Khadija as a human sacrifice so that Rowan would come back to her.

56:59That's why she doesn't flee or escape town. She stays. When they ask about this paper, Sherry's like, I've never seen that before ever in my life, which is refuted by the fact that her fingerprints are found inside. Like after you unfold the scotch tape and the foil, it's like inside. Then there There were news reports that Sherry had been online searching specifically for a magician. So all of this is coming together until they're able to find out who wrote this undecipherable words on the paper. It's a religious leader in the Yazidi faith. They're called sheikhs. She's looking online for a religious leader.

57:32But the way that they translate it is like she's looking online for a magician. Because the word they use to describe their religious leaders in Yazidi sounds like magician. So they're like she was looking for a magician. Dark magic. so then she finds one and the prosecutors find him they bring him to court they're like tell us about this black magic that you're doing and they're just basically talismans so you know in religion when you want to be blessed or you are looking for specific things in your life religious leaders in certain religions will write talismans for you you know on pieces of paper but the whole questioning gets weird because he's illiterate so he wrote it but he can't tell anyone what it means there's no meaning it's just a bunch of scribbles yeah and like the prosecutors don't believe that so they're like no it's black magic just tell us it's black magic and then he's like no actually i'm genuinely illiterate and they're like no we don't believe you and then they make him try to read it it was just like a whole thing and then he was like it was revealed to me in my dream so that's why i wrote it what is going on the judges ultimately rejected the theory of human sacrifice which means why the hell did Sherry and Shakir kill Khadija?

58:42Maybe instead of focusing on Sherry, the answer lies with Shakir because nobody can figure out what he has to do with any of this. Most people believe he is the one that physically carried out the killing and stabbed Khadija. Medical examiners say that it could have been a man, it could have been a woman based off of the stab wounds, but it's really important. So in Germany, for murder, you get a life sentence, but you're eligible for parole after 15 years unless, unless there's special circumstances. And stabbing someone 56 times is a special circumstance, which means that you would be eligible for parole after 25 years.

59:17So Sherry and Shakir's attorneys are like, no, she's the one that stabbed her. And then they're like, no, he's the one that stabbed her. And everyone's just trying to figure out. And it's just, I don't really think it matters. Throw both of them in for it. Khadijah's dad says, in court, I faced my daughter's killers. I was only 10 feet apart from them. What do you want to say to Shakir? I want to eat him alive. I want to devour him whole. There are text messages between Shakir and Sherry and the day before Khadijah is killed, Sherry is messaging Shakir things like, tomorrow is going to be wild.

59:50There's going to be a lot to do tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. This is the night before the murder. After killing Khadijah, they both head back to Shakir's place. there's no evidence that either of them are romantically involved afterwards but they part ways and both of them are kind of on the run kind of not on the run they both stop by the gas station Shakir goes to the gas station too to hang out with his friends he's got scratch wounds on his arms and he even tells a friend I killed an innocent girl for this whore they're like who's the whore who's the girl you killed you killed somebody he doesn't clarify the brass knuckles are found in Shakir's apartment.

1:00:33His DNA is found on Khadija. The prosecutors, they just keep back and forth. They just keep going back and forth on what Shakir's motive to help Sherry was. I mean, this is a girl that he's only known for a few weeks. Why would he kill Khadija for her? So sometimes the prosecutors think that it's sex. Sometimes it's money. There's no evidence that money was transferred, but maybe it could be the promise of money. Shakir is silent the entire trial. He does not testify. He never gives a defense. He never tells them, no, this is what happened. Sherry, on the other hand, she gets up on the stand and she says, let me tell you the day of the murder.

1:01:04My original plan was to just meet with Shakir, but he requests that I bring a can of gasoline with me. So she does. She meets up with him. He takes her phone and then he guides her to a strange address. She's the one driving. He tells her to park the car. She does. And then a girl walks up to the car, approaches the car and just based off the energy, it seems like the girl and Shakir know each other. Girl gets into the seat. Shakir moves to the back and Sherry's in the driving seat. And Shakir is telling Sherry where to drive. They start driving into the forest, but out of nowhere, Shakir's like, pull over.

1:01:36I need a smoke. She pulls over in the forest. He goes, takes a pee. Everybody gets out so they can smoke a cigarette. Once Sherry's done, she walks back to the car to get in. But then she hears a scream. Hey! She whips around and she sees Shakir just pummeling the girl Khadija in the face with brass knuckles. He had brass knuckles in his hand and was hitting her on the head, right on the right side. I think it was against her eyes and forehead. When I saw that, I was shocked. I fell to my knees. I screamed. I was paralyzed for a moment. I couldn't breathe. I saw him continue hitting her head. So I ran over to them and with all my strength, I pushed him away from her and I yelled at him to stop.

1:02:18She was gasping and whimpering. He grabbed my arm, dragged me to the side, and when I looked up at him, I saw his face, his anger, and the way he yelled at me, and I got scared. I thought, now it's my turn. He's going to come after me. I took a few steps backward, turned around, covered my ears. He grabbed my arm, pulled me towards the car, and threw me inside, and then I turned around, and she's in the driver's side now. She turns around, and Khadijah is in the back somehow, lying there. He dragged her into the car. Shakir gets into the passenger seat and Sherry says he threatened to kill my family if I didn't stay in the car.

1:02:53He wanted me to keep driving but because my legs were shaking so bad he had to hold my knee steady as I pressed on the accelerator. He's screaming at me drive drive now. Then they get to the road and at some point he tells her to pull over on a supermarket like parking lot. He tells her to get out of the car. She gets out the car and then she hears screaming inside the car and he's just stabbing Khadija in the back seat which the police are like actually the evidence shows that Khadija was stabbed in the forest but anyway she says I was frozen I fell I lay on the floor I covered my ears I didn't dare look and then I looked toward the car and I could see the two of them it was like they were fighting she was screaming inside the car eventually everything was covered in blood he walked around the car threw the knife across the street he put on a fresh t-shirt pushed me back into the car took Rowan's jacket out of my trunk covered Khadijah with it he gets in orders me to keep driving he had in his hand a different a new knife I steered the car back onto the road he pressed down on my leg again because I didn't have the strength and then at the end of all of this she looks at Khadijah's dad in court I can't get the images of what he did out of my head that's crazy yeah she spoke with confidence?

1:04:08yeah A lot of people said it was terrifying because she was just emotionless the whole time in a very creepy way. And a lot of people testify about Shakir and they say that he's actually a harmless guy, which I mean, I don't know what people's perception of someone can even hold up in court. His ex-girlfriends testify like he's never had any rage or anger towards women. I don't know what any of that means, but something is definitely odd with Shakir. An inmate says that he was given a list of 13 people from Shakir And he was told that he will get paid per witness that is killed Who's paying who?

1:04:44Shakir is like, here's a list And he gives it to his cellmate He's like, for each person that is killed before the trial I'll give you money That's what the inmate claims So he wants this inmate to pull some strings To kill some witnesses outside Yes, now Shakir's attorney is like That's not true at all The prison guards, they search the cell And they find a list of witnesses and their addresses with plus or minus signs next to them. It doesn't necessarily mean it's a hit list, but it is there. What does plus or minus mean? No one knows whether it could be they're going to say something positive or negative about me or I want them dead or I want them alive.

1:05:20Nobody knows. And just when everyone thinks that this trial is going to wrap up, most people can't even make sense of the theory. I mean, maybe the doppelganger theory is the most relevant and then they're just kind of dumb that they don't flee. I don't know. that's like the one that most people are going with. Everyone just thinks Sherry is dumb, but this is the theory that she thought. This is the motive that she originally had. Then they bring in right as they're about to rap, a man walks in to testify and his name is Furkan. Some people call him Furfur. He's a local rapper. He says that he has a connection to all of them.

1:05:54He's like, I'm connected to Shakir and to Sherry and to the victim, Khadija. He knows Shakir through a mutual friend and he claims that he was dating Khadija and he went back to Sherry's hotel with her. Let me explain. Furkan is an interesting character. Okay, so he mainly stakes a claim at the local club. He's not a gas station groupie. He's a club groupie and he is described by people who know him as quote, Furkan is trying to break into the rap scene. He's a big flashy guy with a 10 foot long cloud of perfume trailing behind him. That's pretty much what he's like. He's like, I'm here now. Look at me.

1:06:24So everyone, I got to be the center of attention. Well, recently Sherry asked Furkan to go back to her hotel with her. And there was this whole incident. This is what Furkan is testifying. He went back to the hotel with Sherry. She had a hotel room. And she's just like trying to unbuckle his pants, just trying to kiss upon him. And he flat out rejects her. He's like, she was trying to pull down my boxer shorts and I pushed her away and I said, piss off, you slut. Okay? Whether this is true or not, it's up for you to believe. He thinks that maybe she was upset that he was in love with Khadija. What?

1:06:58Yeah. So some people are like, either Sherry was rejected and was upset that he liked Khadijah, so she killed Khadijah. Or some people are like, well, maybe he told her to get rid of Khadijah and then they could be together. And that's why she killed Khadijah. Regardless, the day that the investigators went to go talk to Furkan, he had gotten rid of his phone, which is very suspicious. But they state there is no evidence to link Furkan to this crime. There's no investigation into him being part of anything. But it just leads people to wonder if there's a bigger reason to why Sherry specifically went after Khadijah.

1:07:31Was it because Khadijah was one of the only 26 people that responded and was willing to meet up? And is this a doppelganger murder? Or is this a murder out of jealousy? Like, what is it? And I think that's why this case goes so viral. I mean, I think obviously the whole doppelganger classification of this murder and what it's most commonly called, it has all the points that make people wonder what the real motive is but also it's just everything about sherry's demeanor and trial for germans was so odd she'll come in covering her face every time with like a packet of folders and papers and then every break that they get her mom is just like supplying her with snacks every day she's laughing and giggling with her family a lot of german reporters believe that she was actually acting quite flirtatious with her four attorneys as well.

1:08:22She kept twirling her hair, but ultimately both of them are found guilty, which again for Sherry, that means 25 years before she's eligible for parole. And for Shakir, it's 15 years. Khadijah's dad is very upset with Shakir only getting 15 years. He was really distraught. He says in the courtroom, I saw things I never expected to see things that cannot be understood with the mind. But did I see the truth? No. Some netizens have taken to point out that Sherry was delusional, thinking Khadija was a doppelganger because it's so obvious that they look nothing alike and that they don't even compare.

1:08:59But with that, that is the doppelganger murder. What are your thoughts on this case? Let me know in the comments and I will see you in the next one. Bye.

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