WA - Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, podcast host, and her husband Mohammed Naseri, murdered by a stalker in their home - Redmond, WA March 2023

[Jinkasaurus]

A woman named Zohreh Sadeghi who was known to host a podcast had recently filed a restraining order against a man who had been a listener of her podcast. He broke a window at 2am to enter her home, then shot her and her husband, killing them both, then killed himself. The stalker's name is Ramin Khodakaramrezaei.

Initial article about the event: Podcaster Murdered by Crazed Fan Who Stalked Her Across the Country

This has more information about the stalker, and documents regarding the restraining order. Its clear this was an obsessed individual, and so sad this happened to these innocent people. Her mother who also lived in the home managed to escape.

Stalker kills woman and her husband after climbing through window

Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, a self-styled 'techie', was shot and killed by trucker Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38, last night in her home in Redmond, Washington.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Jinkasaurus]

Somehow this got posted twice - can a mod delete one?

 

[Snoopster]

A woman named Zohreh Sadeghi who was known to host a podcast had recently filed a restraining order against a man who had been a listener of her podcast. He broke a window at 2am to enter her home, then shot her and her husband, killing them both, then killed himself. The stalker's name is Ramin Khodakaramrezaei.

Initial article about the event: Podcaster Murdered by Crazed Fan Who Stalked Her Across the Country

This has more information about the stalker, and documents regarding the restraining order. Its clear this was an obsessed individual, and so sad this happened to these innocent people. Her mother who also lived in the home managed to escape.

Stalker kills woman and her husband after climbing through window

Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, a self-styled 'techie', was shot and killed by trucker Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38, last night in her home in Redmond, Washington.

www.dailymail.co.uk

This case is horrific. It just shows us that restraining orders are pretty much useless. (As if we didn't already know that.)

The only saving grace in this case is that the mother was left alive.

 

[Marysmith]

This case is horrific. It just shows us that restraining orders are pretty much useless. (As if we didn't already know that.)

The only saving grace in this case is that the mother was left alive.

He also violated it multiple, multiple times - why wasn’t he arrested?!

 

[Snoopster]

Classic stalking...and in the end there was nothing that this woman and her husband could do to save their lives.
From the above Daily Mail link:

And from this link:
‘Vulgar, angry’ stalker had left 20 messages a day for podcaster, husband before murder-suicide

Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38, called podcaster Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, more than 10 times a day and left more than 20 daily messages for her husband, Mohammed Naseri, 35, according to an order of protection that was obtained by KOMO News.

 

[Marysmith]

Classic stalking...and in the end there was nothing that this woman and her husband could do to save their lives.

From the above Daily Mail link:

And from this link:
‘Vulgar, angry’ stalker had left 20 messages a day for podcaster, husband before murder-suicide

I know… this man was totally unhinged.

 

[Lilibet]

He also violated it multiple, multiple times - why wasn’t he arrested?!

The protection order hadn’t been served because LE hadn’t been able to contact him.

Podcaster Murdered by Crazed Fan Who Stalked Her Across the Country

Ramin Khodakaramrezaei gunned down Zohreh Sadeghi and her husband inside their home in Redmond, Washington, police said.

www.thedailybeast.com

“Our detectives had warrants to get information from his phone and were trying to serve the no contact order to the suspect [but] had not done so yet. Being that he is a trucker, he’s hard to pin down,” Green said.

Lowe said it was not until March that a judge issued a temporary protection order, which the King County District Court says can be obtained by people who “are in immediate danger.”

That protection order, which would have forbidden Khodakaramrezaei from contacting Sadeghi but not provided any material protection, had not yet been served at the time of the murder.

 

[Lilibet]

Gavin de Becker in his book “The Gift of Fear” has made the point that protection orders are useless and sometimes make the situation worse. I wish this couple could have read this book and realized that they needed to leave their home and stay elsewhere for an extended period of time and/or hire security round the clock, or both. What a tragedy.

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Podcaster Murdered by Crazed Fan Who Stalked Her Across the Country

Ramin Khodakaramrezaei gunned down Zohreh Sadeghi and her husband inside their home in Redmond, Washington, police said.

www.thedailybeast.com

“I think the key piece here is that a protection order is simply a piece of paper that does not prevent a person from causing harm to another person,” Lowe said. “It just puts them on notice and gives law enforcement the ability to arrest a person should they violate said protective order.”

 

[acutename]

1. the restraining order was not served yet as per the article above (Stalker kills woman and her husband after climbing through window)
and
2. as per the Buzzfeed article (Podcaster Murdered by Crazed Fan Who Stalked Her Across the Country), he went through an open window, though I guess he might have just shot it out if it had been secured and he was so motivated

as much as she reported him to the police, they did not seem to see him as an immediate death threat. he had been sending her gifts, though it says that she opened the last one with the police present.

 

[Snoopster]

1. the restraining order was not served yet as per the article above (Stalker kills woman and her husband after climbing through window)
and
2. as per the Buzzfeed article (Podcaster Murdered by Crazed Fan Who Stalked Her Across the Country), he went through an open window, though I guess he might have just shot it out if it had been secured and he was so motivated

as much as she reported him to the police, they did not seem to see him as an immediate death threat. he had been sending her gifts, though it says that she opened the last one with the police present.

She seemed pretty concerned to me, based on what I read, and even based on this Buzzfeed article alone.

Lowe said he was first made aware of “harassing behavior” by the suspect in December. Khodakaramrezaei would repeatedly contact Sadeghi by text and over the phone, once calling her over 100 times in a single day, he added.

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Lowe said after his first contact with Sadeghi, she reached out again in mid-January, at which point the case was assigned to an investigator who began to follow up on it,

<snip>

Lowe said it was not until March that a judge issued a temporary protection order, which the King County District Court says can be obtained by people who “are in immediate danger.”

Sounds like they thought they were in immediate danger and the judge agreed. I'm not sure what else they could have done. And I might have missed the point you made about the window being open. (The article became blocked when I went back to look for that point.) But I find it unlikely that the window was open in the winter in Seattle. Can someone provide a quote? I likely just missed it.

 

[Snoopster]

On February 22, just weeks before the killing, records show Khodakaramrezaei sent Naseri 82 texts on Telegram.

Jamie Lynn Burns, a woman who was set to move into the house across the street from Sadeghi and Naseri, was stunned by the murders.

She said she'd visited the house just a week and a half ago and saw Sadeghi's mother watching 'diligently' out a window.

Seattle podcaster and her ex-Google engineer husband killed

 

[asmi106082]

1. the restraining order was not served yet as per the article above (Stalker kills woman and her husband after climbing through window)
and
2. as per the Buzzfeed article (Podcaster Murdered by Crazed Fan Who Stalked Her Across the Country), he went through an open window, though I guess he might have just shot it out if it had been secured and he was so motivated

as much as she reported him to the police, they did not seem to see him as an immediate death threat. he had been sending her gifts, though it says that she opened the last one with the police present.

I think I read he came through a second floor window?? MOO
We have ADT but they usually don’t set the alarm triggers for the second floor windows. They have a guard at the front and back door on the first floor and the first floor window that is big enough to fit a person through.
So even if these people had a security system, it might not have been triggered. I thought of that and was sad. Again MOO

 

[dotr]

Podcaster and husband shot dead in US home

www.9news.com.au

Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, and her husband Mohammed Naseri, 35, were found dead inside their home. (Supplied)

Police: Stalker kills woman, husband in Seattle-area home

A longhaul truck driver from Texas who became obsessed with a software engineer in Washington state after meeting her through a social media chatroom app killed her, her husband and himself after stalking them for months, police said.

www.cp24.com

''This undated photo released by the Redmond Police Department shows the stalking suspect, Texas trucker Ramin Khodakaramrezaei 38. A podcaster and her husband were found shot to death in their suburban Seattle home, along with Khodakaramrezaei, who had been suspected of stalking the podcast host for months, in a case that police who had tried to serve a protection order described as their "worst nightmare." Police had been trying to serve a protection order on Khodakaramrezaei before Friday, March 10, 2023, killings. (Redmond Police Departemnet via AP)''


''Sadeghi's Twitter feed featured content related to progressive politics and human rights, especially women's rights in Iran. She and Nasiri also identified themselves as science fiction fans.

Nasiri had been working at Amazon since January 2022, and he 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 on to study at the Sharif University of Technology. The couple married in 2011 after moving to the U.S.

A number of the posts on Nasiri's blog detail his efforts to land a job at Google, which he ultimately succeeded at in 2017. He worked there for five years before going to Amazon.

While most of Nasiri's posts were about work or technology, he wrote last October to condemn the death of a 16-year-old girl amid the protests in Iran about the treatment of women after the death of a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the country's morality police.'''

 

[BeginnerSleuther]

I think I read he came through a second floor window?? MOO
We have ADT but they usually don’t set the alarm triggers for the second floor windows. They have a guard at the front and back door on the first floor and the first floor window that is big enough to fit a person through.
So even if these people had a security system, it might not have been triggered. I thought of that and was sad. Again MOO

Why wouldn't second floor windows be protected with an alarm?

 

[asmi106082]

Why wouldn't second floor windows be protected with an alarm?

Because burglars don’t typically show up with a ladder. This guy seemed so determined that he climbed up to the second floor somehow. MOO

 

[BeginnerSleuther]

Because burglars don’t typically show up with a ladder. This guy seemed so determined that he climbed up to the second floor somehow. MOO

In my experience, they do break in through 2nd story windows. Maybe not as frequently, but they do. At least where I live. MOO.

 

[asmi106082]

In my experience, they do break in through 2nd story windows. Maybe not as frequently, but they do. At least where I live. MOO.

Yeah I am thinking about calling ADT tomorrow about putting sensors on our second story. This story makes me think about it. Poor mother who was in the home when this all went down. So glad she wasn’t killed too. MOO

 

[MajorHoople]

In my experience, they do break in through 2nd story windows. Maybe not as frequently, but they do. At least where I live. MOO.

Yes indeed. There's even a term for it - "second story man" or "cat burglar".

 

[MAHBOOBOO]

I have yet to be able to find out what podcast she was on. If anyone finds that out would you please share that info here?

I've only ever seen three houses in the Washington/Oregon area and two of them were built into hillsides, as it seems our victim's house. What was the second story melds into another first story because of the slope of the land. That's what I think they mean when they say he entered through a second story window... no ladder would have been needed in this case IMO.

 

[dotr]

I have yet to be able to find out what podcast she was on. If anyone finds that out would you please share that info here?

I've only ever seen three houses in the Washington/Oregon area and two of them were built into hillsides, as it seems our victim's house. What was the second story melds into another first story because of the slope of the land. That's what I think they mean when they say he entered through a second story window... no ladder would have been needed in this case IMO.

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Maybe a podcast could be found on a Farsi language link?

Podcaster and husband shot dead in US home

www.9news.com.au

''Khodakaramrezaei 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 podcasts. Lowe said the two met up in person last summer before the contacts escalated into harassing phone calls and threats in the fall.''