"look at me. "look me in the eyes." and i'm like...dude... i can't do that! an incredible person. incredibly intelligent. caring. kind, empathetic, smart. everything you would want from a person in a friend. he'll allow it. both of them with complete, unjustified confidence - in their skills.

laughter. eden was tiny in stature | and large in personality. just beautiful, l strong features. and just, like, an absolute l little firecracker of a person. eden grew up between two worlds — saudi arabia and the us. in 2022, she was studying computer science in america on a scholarship funded by the saudi government. coming out as trans, like, turned her life completely upside down. you can't be trans in saudi arabia. being transgender in saudi arabia is not tolerated, either by society or the government, and can lead to arrest. knowing herfamily would never accept her, eden made the difficult decision to cut ties with them.

a lot of her life in saudi was just kind of monitored. her father was a very influential person. her mother was very strict. they kept a very close eye on her to keep her from stepping out of line with who they wanted her to be. in the summer of 2022, she decided to apply for asylum in the us. eden's final message is the only public account of her last months. but her friends have shared their private messages with me. and i was able to recover posts from her old twitter account, now known as x. together, i'm hoping these could provide vital clues about what happened to her.

roxie was one of eden's closest online friends. they spoke almost every day.

hayden. we helped her dye her hair. this isn'tjust a house that you're staying at, she was getting a lot of followers, a lot of likes. it was — it's the very, very nice picture of her,

was michael pocalyko. company. "i know your father. "i've seen these photos that you're posting on twitter."

over the course of the next, like, four, five months, hi, michael. i'm a journalist from the bbc.

0h, 0k. he hung up on me. michael wouldn't speak to us but eden's final message i'm trying to imagine how eden would have felt, the train in dc.

we translated our search into arabic. harvard—educated. dc, and found only one bader n alomair.

she was going to stay with hayden again and try "i can pick you up."

i asked her friends if they have more information of her view from the apartment where she was staying.

college. and this is the car park. the picture appears to have been taken from a building from the apartment. was living here. one person agreed to talk to me but didn't want to be identified.

and make—up. back to saudi.

is she said that her lawyer told her that she couldn't but i didn't question her on it because i assumed the lawyer knew more than me.

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seeking bader�*s assistance. listed as fugitives and reached out to

i remember in some cases, suspects would be there

on december 12th, 2022, eden flew back to saudi arabia you can hear a relative shouting at her.

as her �*final message'.