Case 324: Khalil Rayyan
Casefile True Crime
Casefile Presents
4.7 • 41.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
*** Content warnings: Terrorism, gun violence ***
In late 2015, a young pizza delivery man named Khalil Abu Rayyan from Dearborn Heights, Michigan, met and fell in love with a woman he met online. Jannah Bride had approached Khalil via the social media platform Twitter, and the two soon became close.
Over the course of several months, Khalil would start admitting disturbing things to Jannah – fantasies he had about harming others. But nothing in the relationship was as it seemed…
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| 1:43.6 | One day in December 2015, a 21-year-old man from Michigan admitted something very disturbing |
| 1:51.0 | to his girlfriend. |
| 1:53.6 | Khalil Ryan had met 19-year-old Jana Bride just a couple of months earlier via the social media |
| 2:00.2 | platform Twitter. The two had bonded |
| 2:03.4 | over shared interests and commonalities. Both were from strict Muslim families and lived in the |
| 2:09.7 | city of Detroit. As they were unable to date openly the way other young people in the United |
| 2:16.5 | States typically would, |
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