I'm Dan Pierce and this is Pressure Cooker.

I said I will never wear the E-Job or give up my many skirts.

Never.

It's the outrageous story of two misfits living on the fringes

and how they became the central players in a sprawling terror investigation.

We just hung out and played video games and smoked weed and did what we do, you know.

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The following episode contains difficult subject matter,

including references to suicide.

Please take care.

In late April of 2020, just outside of Uppsala, a city in Sweden,

a young man cycles down a gravel path leading to the Ferris River.

It's a path he takes off in.

As he looks down along the river bank,

he notices something half in, half out of the water.

First he thinks it's a rock.

When he gets closer, he sees a dark hoodie

and then he realizes it's a body.

It was Sajjet Hussein, the 39-year-old

Pakistani-born journalist, having missing for nearly two months.

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