How to Query a Working Theory that Eliminates Doubt about What Happened in the Alps: The Al-Hilli Murders

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🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 131 minutes

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On September 5, 2012, a British family of five on holiday in the French Alps near Lake Annecy decided to go for a scenic drive into the wilderness in search of a nice place to take a walk. Yet, before they could reach their destination, something caused them to pull over into a lay-by on the side of the road, at which point a gunman appeared and opened fire. In the end, four people were dead, including a local cyclist, and another was severely wounded. Unfortunately, the killer escaped without a trace, and the case remains unsolved to this day. So, who would want to murder this family? And why? Or, was the cyclist the intended target, and the family simply got in the way? Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological exploration of the crime scene and beyond in an effort to learn the truth.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus
0:10.2	here to lead you down the rabbit hole once again as we head to Europe for the purpose
0:14.8	of examining an infamous crime scene in the French Alps.
0:18.5	Known equally well as the Al-Hilly family murders, the Alps murders, or the Anisee shootings, this
0:24.7	grisly heartless attack remains imprinted upon the memories of many in the region
0:30.0	and has earned recognition throughout other parts of the world as a mesmerizing, perplexing case
0:36.1	worthy of public scrutiny. On September 5, 2012, a British couple from Surrey in Southeast England, 50-year-old Saad Al-Hilly and his 47-year-old wife
0:48.1	Iqbal, were on holiday with their two daughters, 4-year-old Xena and seven-year-old Zainab, along with Iqbal's mother,
0:57.1	Suhyla, age 74.
1:00.0	The family was visiting the Lake Anisee area and had been pulling a trailer behind their
1:04.8	Burgundy BMW X-5 that they parked at a campground near the town of Sheveline.
1:11.2	When the afternoon rolled around, Sodd got bored of hanging out at the campground and asked if the family wanted to either go shopping or take a walk on a hiking trail nearby, according to his daughter.
1:23.4	They elected to get some exercise and piled everyone in the vehicle, heading toward a specific
1:28.8	destination which is still unknown to us today.
1:32.7	The trailer remained at the campground
1:35.1	as they would return soon after.
1:37.8	But they never did.
1:39.3	While driving along a rural but well-traveled mountain road a short time later.
1:44.0	Something caused Saad to pull the BMW into a lay-by and stop.
1:49.0	Within a couple of minutes, a hail of gunfire left all three adults in the car dead, one of the children
1:56.8	badly wounded, and the police scratching their heads as to why.
2:02.0	On top of that, a local cyclist, 45-year-old Sylvan Malay was not only shot repeatedly
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