Summary
This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 9/25/2004, tells the story of two boys who write a screenplay involving murder, but is it fiction or a confession? The 1994 murders of the Rafay family — Sultana Rafay, her husband Tariq, and their autistic daughter, Basma — focused on the pursuit and arrest of the two primary suspects: Atif Rafay, the only surviving family member, and his friend Sebastian Burns, who took refuge in Canada and had written the script for a film called “The Great Despisers,” whose plot paralleled the 1994 murders. 48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
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| 1:02.0 | You don't know exactly what you're going to be finding up there. And so just driving up there and itself you're kind of walking into the unknown. |
| 1:18.0 | I believe I was a little nervous. I would describe as me absolutely savage. |
| 1:33.0 | This was someone who used to baseball bat to kill the family. |
| 1:39.0 | What I see is an attack that is not only calculated and carried out with precision. |
| 1:48.0 | There was blood all over the room on the ceiling on the floor. |
| 1:52.0 | I also see a crime scene that smacks of the murder or having a very, very personal vendetta. |
| 2:02.0 | Somebody just went off the deep end and once they started killing they either enjoyed it or they couldn't stop themselves. |
| 2:11.0 | An upper middle class neighborhood of an upper middle class community. |
| 2:21.0 | Three unsuspecting and undeserving human beings were savagely beaten to death. |
| 2:30.0 | This bridge is, they're not breathing. I don't think it's safe here. |
| 2:34.0 | By somebody who they knew. |
| 3:20.0 | It was a plan. A well rehearsed, well thought out plan. |
| 3:29.0 | What happened in this house on a hot summer night in 1994 brought tragedy and mystery to this quiet neighborhood in Bellevue, Washington. |
| 3:38.0 | Just after two in the morning on July 13th police were called to a crime that would take them 10 years to bring to justice. |
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