A podcaster and her husband were found shot to death in their suburban Seattle home, along with a man suspected of stalking the podcast host for months, in a case police tried to serve a protection order. What was described as his “worst”. Bad Experience.”
Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe said police were trying to place a protection order on 38-year-old Ramin Khodkarmarzai before Friday’s killings, but they were having difficulty locating the truck driver from Texas. Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, and her husband, Mohammad Milad Naseri, 35, received the court order only a week ago.
Sadegi’s mother called the police around 1:45 a.m. Friday after she ran away from home and went to a neighbor’s house.
Officers found Naseri lying on the floor near the door of the house and pulled him out and saw that he had suffered a gunshot wound. He did CPR, but he died on the spot. Inside the home, officers found Sadeghi and the suspect dead.
“This is the worst possible outcome for a stalking case. This is every victim, every detective, every police chief’s worst nightmare,” Lowe said at a Friday afternoon media briefing.
Khodakaramrezai befriended Sadeghi online in a chat room for Farsi speakers looking for jobs in the tech industry in late 2021 after listening to the woman’s podcast. Lowe said the two met in person last summer before the liaison escalated into harassing phone calls and threats of falling out.
Sadeghi wrote in his application for a protection order that Khodkarmarzai threatened to show up at his house and set it on fire and left voicemails declaring that he would not stop until “he killed himself”. Takes or dies.”
Sadegi tried to cut off contact with Khodkarmarzai but the harassment continued so she contacted the police in December and again in January after the crackdown intensified.
Lowe said at one point the suspect contacted Sadeghi more than 100 times in a single day. He stressed that a restraining order only allows the police to take action if someone breaches the order, but it cannot protect that person if “someone intends to harm them.”
Simplicity was a software engineer who previously worked at Promontory MortgagePath and studied at the University of Washington’s graduate programs, according to her LinkedIn profile. Nasiri had been working at Amazon since January 2022 and said in his blog that when he was growing up in Iran, he was ranked as the second best singer in Tehran in 2007, before he went to Sharif University of Technology went to study. The couple won a U.S. married in 2011 after being
Several posts on Nasiri’s blog detail his attempts to land a job at Google, which he finally succeeded in 2017. He worked there for five years before taking a job at Amazon.
While most of Nasiri’s posts were about work or technology, she wrote to condemn the death of a 16-year-old girl last October amid protests in Iran against the treatment of women following the death of a 22-year-old woman. Detained by the country’s morality police.