Written in Blood

Published: July 13, 2023, 7:01 a.m.

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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 \\u2014 Sultana Rafay, her husband Tariq, and their autistic daughter, Basma \\u2014 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 \\u201cThe Great Despisers,\\u201d whose plot paralleled the 1994 murders. 48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

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