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Morbidology

48: Banaz Mahmod

Morbidology

Morbidology

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In some religions and communities, great weight is placed on the family and its so-called collective honor. To some within these religions and communities, family name and reputation dominates everything else. Sometimes when perceived shame has been brought upon said family, the victim has to pay the ultimate price. In 2006, a Kurdish woman named Banaz Mahmod vanished from her home in London.

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Again, that's Better Help, H-E-L-P.com slash Morbirology. Oh, Welcome to Morbitology, the podcast. I'm your host Emily G Thompson, author of Unsolved Child Murders, Cults Uncovered, and co-author of Unsolved Murders, True Crime Cases Uncovered. uncovered. In some religions and communities great weight is placed on the family and its so-called collective honor.

2:17.0

To some within these religions and communities family name and reputation dominates everything else.

2:24.0

Sometimes when perceived shame has been brought upon said family,

2:28.0

the victim has to pay the ultimate price.

2:30.0

In 2006, a Kurdish woman named Banaz Mamod vanished a 20-year-old woman of Kurdish origin. She lived in Wimbledon, London. The Mamod family had

2:56.8

escaped from Iraq to Iran during Saddam Hussein's regime before arriving in Britain when

3:02.3

Banaz was 10 years old. She had a brother and four

3:05.8

sisters and the family were granted asylum and settled down in Mitcham, South London.

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Very little is known about Banaz's upbringing, but according to her

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