The terrorist was caught by chance, and then the investigator remembered the mysterious unsolved murder: 'There is a match here'
For three and a half years, the murder case of the Kaduri couple in Armon HaNatziv remained a mystery. But then, a completely different murder of a foreign worker changed everything: the full story of the dramatic turn, the investigator who connected the dots, and the tiny drop of blood found in a storage room that led to a cruel ISIS terrorist who had been under the state's nose all along. The prosecutors speak, a series of articles.
The murder of the couple Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri in April 2022 was not solved in a straight line. Two investigation teams worked in parallel, different directions were checked and ruled out, and investigators even searched for the origin of a bag and a shoe seen in videos. Suspects were arrested, including family members, and released. Only three years later, following a completely different murder, the connection was made that brought the investigators back to the old scene. It then became clear to them that the murderer had actually been under their nose the whole time: Waseem Asa'id, who was arrested two days after the murder by the Shin Bet, but not because of the murder, but based on his affiliation with the ISIS organization. He was in administrative detention for about three years, and just a week after he was released, he committed another murder.
But even then, the investigators needed a golden piece of evidence. Searches were conducted in Asa'id's mother's house time after time, but only later did the mother tell about a storage room behind the building that he used. There, according to Adv. Amir Kasantini from the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office and Adv. Shira Kani-Tal, the Deputy District Attorney, a black and green bag and a pair of shoes were found, among other things. A tiny stain was identified on one of the shoes. An initial check revealed that it was human blood, and it was sent to the Institute of Forensic Medicine.
"We really remember the phone call from Nurit Bublil (Director of the Laboratory Division at the Institute of Forensic Medicine)," says Kasantini. According to him, that was when the news arrived: the blood belongs to Yehuda Kaduri. "I am connecting you to three and a half years after the murder incident. We have here what is called a golden piece of evidence, and we understand that there is an amazing closing of the circle here."
