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when thriving Tech engineer zor sedi
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turned to the world of podcasting she
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found success in helping others break
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into the tech industry but little did
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she know that her presence online would
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attract a morbidly unhealthy individual
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and after meeting her at a meet and
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greet his Fascination turned into
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obsessive stalking her sense of security
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was shattered after this and zor sought
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help from the authorities and her
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husband for protection against this
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terrifying individual sad L his
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persistence would not stop there as the
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months passed by her stalker would find
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her phone number her address and would
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even make himself known with gifts
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outside of the property and despite
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their best efforts to rid themselves of
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this nightmare it would end in the most
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tragic way
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possible welcome or welcome back to
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Coffee House crime folks my name is
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Adrien and today we're looking at one of
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the most disturbing stalker cases that
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I've ever come across zor sedi and her
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husb husbands were thrust into a
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terrifying situation when they could not
1:03
rid themselves of a online stalker and
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tragically this would end in the most
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brutal of ways if you're new here I like
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to caffeinate while I investigate Darkly
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ready for the Deep dive this is the case
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of zor
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sadegi
Seattle
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good morning good afternoon or good
1:33
evening folks this story takes me back
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to my birthplace and first home Seattle
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Washington with just over 4 million
1:40
residents within its metropolitan area
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Seattle is a bustling port city that has
1:45
grown exponentially in the last decade
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the city is known for its rather rainy
1:49
weather with almost half of the days in
1:52
the year experiencing some sort of
1:54
downfall covering the basics here
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Seattle is also well known for its
1:58
Aerospace industry Boeing
2:00
and of course Starbucks saying that if
2:03
you'd like something a little more
2:04
specialized then there is no shortage of
2:06
artisanal cafes and independent roters
2:09
to choose from in fact Seattle is known
2:12
as one of the world's best cities when
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it comes to coffee right next to London
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and Melbourne yep I guess I really am
2:19
just that predictable coffee aside
2:22
Seattle is an Eclectic City with an Ever
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growing diverse population and this is
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one of the many reasons why 33-year-old
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Iranian American National zor sadig
Zohreh Sadeghi
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decided to settle in this city and more
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specifically in the suburb of Redmond
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zor and her 35-year-old husband named
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Muhammad mad naseri were financially
2:42
well-off individuals they lived in an
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upmarket home they had purchased
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together for a cool sum of $1.6 million
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us now of course this is a lot of money
2:53
but at the same time it is somewhat
2:55
unsurprising considering zor and
2:57
Muhammad were both software engineers is
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an extremely well-paid title in the
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everwing technical industry sector that
3:05
is taking Seattle by storm Muhammad was
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previously employed by Google before
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leaving that job for a higher salary at
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Amazon and zor on the other hand she was
3:15
more of a self-made techie after
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graduating from the University of
3:19
Washington to Coma she took on
3:21
contracted engineering jobs and built a
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portfolio before becoming a consultant
3:26
and of course originally being from Iran
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she was fluent in both English and
3:30
Persian the pair were highly hardworking
3:33
and downto Earth individuals and were
3:36
very thoughtful of others in the year
3:38
2020 and when the pandemic sent the
3:40
country into lockdown both zor and
3:42
Muhammad would help vulnerable neighbors
3:44
by delivering supplies to answer to that
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the couple would even prepare homemade
3:49
soups for those around them the pair
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married in 2011 and moving forward into
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the year 2021 they'd saved up enough
3:56
money to buy the home of their dreams
3:58
and Redmond friends say that that the
3:59
couple never had any turbulence in their
4:02
relationship and they were ready to
4:03
begin the next chapter of their life
4:05
before settling down and having children
4:07
in the same way that coffee house crime
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was born zor found herself with free
4:11
time during the lockdown and so she
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channeled this free time and energy into
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starting a podcast she was a little more
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predictable than I was though as someone
4:20
who was already in the tech industry she
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used a podcast to help others break into
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Zohreh's Podcast
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she often hosted her episodes on an app
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launched in March of 2020 and featured
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interactive rooms where people with
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similar interests and professions could
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meet and Converse with each other and
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here at Clubhouse zor found a community
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ready to form around her spoken in her
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native language of fary zor reached out
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to fellow Iranian Americans struggling
6:35
to find work in the tech industry over
6:38
the months her talks would consistently
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grow an audience she would often advise
6:42
on how to secure a job and her aim was
6:45
to help those who joined her for her
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speeches and one of those who joined her
6:49
and her podcast in late 2021 was
6:52
28-year-old Ramin kakar razai Ramin
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joined s's podcast to get advice from a
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father iy speaker being a truck driver
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he felt financially unstable and wasn't
7:04
quite leading the lifestyle as he wanted
7:06
and so with that in mind he considered
7:08
following the money by moving into the
7:10
tech industry inspired by his
7:13
determination to break into this sector
7:15
zor and Rin started chatting in chat
7:17
rooms found on the Clubhouse app these
7:20
conversations were mostly found in
7:22
online group chats as opposed to private
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ones as time progressed he began to
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message her for advice more fre
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frequently attending as many of her
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talks and podcasts as a schedule would
7:33
allow in short whenever zor was online
7:37
Rin would be
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too moving forward to the summer of 2022
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zor's talks had become so popular that
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she arranged for a group meeting to be
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conducted in person with this consisting
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of several people she had made friends
7:52
with over the months including rmen now
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you can probably tell where this story
7:57
is going up until now zor had kept all
8:00
of her client relationships strictly in
8:02
consultancy and professional advice
An Obsessive Stalker...
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however after this meet and greet it
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would seem that she had attracted a
8:09
follower who unknown to her at the time
8:12
had become increasingly obsessive and
8:15
after meeting zor Ran's fascination with
8:18
this podcaster would only become more
8:20
intense and after the group Meetup which
8:23
occurred in summer of 2022 the latter
8:26
half of the year unfolded in a
8:28
progressively unsettled manner for both
8:30
Sor and her husband Muhammad now at
8:33
first Ramen began to message s more and
8:35
more via the Clubhouse app however once
8:38
he found her private telegram account he
8:40
would message her privately without her
8:42
permission by November of the same year
8:44
his frequency had escalated to
8:46
unbearable levels even asking zor if he
8:49
could call her if they could meet and
8:51
even if he could visit her at home and
8:53
although zor initially tried to deal
8:55
with this problem all on her own it soon
8:57
became evident that she needed a husband
8:59
hb's support as a result they both
9:01
contacted Ramen at the very same time
9:03
demanding that he stop all communication
9:05
with s further more they blocked every
9:08
account they knew he owned but
9:10
unfortunately Ramen did not get the
9:12
picture and his obsession heightened
9:14
after this with him buying countless new
9:16
SIM cards to message her with a new
9:18
number things became even more worrying
9:20
on November the 21st when he messaged s
9:23
to say that he was waiting for her in a
9:25
nearby hotel and she knew it was nearby
9:28
because he mentioned the name of her
9:32
street by December Rin was messaging her
9:35
every few days to tell her that he was
9:37
waiting for her in her neighborhood and
9:39
although he didn't know which house she
9:41
lived in he was getting closer and
9:44
closer the situation was becoming dire
9:47
for zor and Muhammad to add to the
9:49
problem zor was currently unwell and was
9:52
awaiting minor surgery meanwhile
9:54
Muhammad was due to fly out to Australia
9:56
for business within the coming days of
9:58
course of course this would mean that
10:00
zor would be left at home all alone and
10:02
in the meantime rammen continued to
10:05
bombard her with telegram messages
10:07
telling her that he was waiting for her
10:09
in the area rightfully so she was
10:11
terrified and although he hadn't yet
10:14
expressed any form of violence towards
10:16
her he quite clearly was unhinged
10:19
luckily zor had a supportive network of
10:21
neighbors and family around her all of
10:24
whom were on call whenever she needed
10:26
their help this in combination with a
10:28
top of the arange home security system
10:30
did help put her mind at ease she had
10:33
also informed the local police
10:35
department about her situation providing
10:37
them with raman's full name and any
10:39
information she could remember in
10:42
addition to this they asked Z to be
10:44
vigilant and to call them if anything
10:46
new were to happen and so on December
10:48
the 20th and with all of these
10:50
precautions in mind Muhammad left for
10:52
Australia and that is when it became
10:55
obvious that Rin had narrowed down where
10:57
she lived horrifyingly just minutes
11:00
after Muhammad left for his trip there
11:02
was a knock at the front door and on the
11:04
other side was Ramin with a bouquet of
11:06
flowers in hand not wanting to stop her
11:09
husband's trip she called the police
11:10
immediately instead but by the time they
11:13
arrived Ramen was nowhere to be found
11:16
calls and messages continued over the
11:18
next few weeks but otherwise Muhammad
11:20
returned later that month without any
11:22
other incident that would be until the
11:24
following month of January 2023 when all
11:27
of a sudden gifted jewelry started
11:29
showing up on the front
11:31
porch although Rin was initially hard to
11:34
track down the authorities were
11:36
eventually able to locate him and serve
11:39
their first warning as a result he was
11:41
instructed to stop contacting both Thor
11:44
and her husband with immediate effect
11:47
this was in perfect timing because by
11:49
now Ramin had started verbally
11:51
threatening the both of them promising
11:53
that he would end their marriage so he
11:55
could rightfully claim her but the final
11:58
nail in the coffin would occur on
11:59
February the 21st
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2023 when yet another gift was left
12:04
outside of the front door this time zor
12:07
and her husband were not taking any
12:09
chances after calling the authorities
12:12
officers opened the box to find a gifted
12:14
silk scarf and no doubt this came from
12:18
her Twisted stalker as a result they
12:21
decided that it was finally time to file
12:23
for a restraining order quite simply the
12:26
gifting threatening stalking and
12:28
harassment had become absolutely
12:30
unbearable and the couple now felt
12:32
entirely unsafe in the four walls of
12:35
their very own home the report was
12:37
finalized on March the 3rd 2023 with
12:40
both Sor and Muhammad's names on the
12:42
paperwork to help protect the both of
12:44
them however due to the rather nomadic
12:47
nature of verin's Lifestyle it was quite
12:49
hard to pin him down and serve the
12:51
warrant and with the persistence and
12:54
heaviness of his behavior and his
12:56
actions it is no surprise to learn that
12:58
zor asked for the longest possible term
13:01
on a restraining
13:03
order so to highlight how persistent
Restraining Order
13:06
Ramen had become he was messaging zor up
13:08
to 100 times a day including voicemails
13:11
and phone calls and whenever she refused
13:14
to talk to him or simply block his
13:16
number he would fall into a hold of Fury
13:19
he would even go as far to message her
13:20
husband and demand she pick up the phone
13:23
he had even become aggressive delusional
13:25
and violent often threatening to burn
13:27
himself alive or burn her and her
13:29
neighborhood to the ground to add to
13:31
this he had now also Tracked Down the
13:33
phone numbers of her friends and her
13:35
family meaning that she feared not just
13:37
for her own safety but for theirs too
13:40
this man had totally violated her
13:41
privacy with all of this in mind zor
13:44
requested a 99-year restraining order to
13:47
keep rmen away but even still this
13:50
lifelong order was not enough to help
13:53
her feel safe and that's because of one
13:55
particular message that she received
13:57
only a few weeks PRI RI paraphrased the
14:00
message read the only two things that
14:02
will make me stop is if I end my own
14:05
life or if I die devastatingly little
14:08
did she know how true this statement
14:10
would eventually become but the most
14:12
tragic part of all of this is that even
14:15
worse his death wouldn't happen solely
14:18
or
14:20
quietly March the 10th 2023 this was the
March 10th 2023
14:24
day that a harrowing phone call was made
14:27
to the emergency services the voice on
14:29
the other end of the line was zor's
14:31
mother who at the time had been staying
14:34
with the couple in their property for
14:36
the previous month and you can probably
14:38
guess why she had been keeping them
14:40
company neighbors noted that in the
14:43
previous weeks she had been extremely
14:45
Vigilant and protective often peering
14:47
out of the window to see if anyone was
14:49
out there no surprise but the neighbors
14:51
had a good guess as to why she was doing
14:54
this in fact the call made to the
14:56
emergency services would even come from
14:59
one of their homes through screams and
15:01
tears zor's mother told the operator
15:04
that someone had broken into her
15:06
daughter's property and even worse
15:09
gunshots had been fired responders
15:11
hastily made their way to zor's home but
15:14
sadly it was already too late upon
15:18
arrival officers opened the front door
15:20
to find Muhammad barely alive on the
15:22
floor he had been fatally shot and
15:25
considering the trail of blood he had
15:27
crawled his way downstairs First
15:29
Responders administered first aid but
15:31
sadly all of their efforts were in vain
15:34
shortly after he was pronounced dead at
15:36
the scene meanwhile armed officers
15:38
pressed on through the rest of the
15:40
property and after making their way
15:42
upstairs they were met with another
15:44
distressing scene they also found
15:46
ramin's lifeless body next to her and
15:49
quite evidently he had shot himself in
15:51
the chest allowing him to die slowly
15:54
next to his victim the tragic end to
15:56
this story painted a picture of the
15:58
worst possible outcome in any case of
16:01
extreme stalking and Obsession and to
16:03
help piece this terrible scene together
16:06
there was one distraught witness of
16:09
course that being zor's mother her
16:11
account of events goes something like
16:14
this at approximately 1:45 a.m. zor's
Recalling Events
16:18
mother awoke to strange noises from an
16:20
adjacent bedroom unknown to her Ramin
16:23
had broken into the home through the
16:25
bedroom's window and after exploring
16:27
where the noise came from zor's mother
16:30
came face to face with the man she had
16:32
heard so much about a terrifying
16:35
individual well-known by her for his
16:37
disturbing Tendencies had now broken all
16:40
legal and physical barriers and was now
16:43
staring at her from within the comfort
16:45
of her daughter's home reman launched
16:47
himself at the woman pushing her out of
16:49
his way from his momentum she was able
16:52
to break free and Escape the Room and
16:55
eventually the house that is when she
16:57
ran to a neighbor's house home before
16:59
dialing 911 tragically during this time
17:02
frame Ramin found enough time to shoot s
17:05
Muhammad and then finally himself
17:08
Muhammad who was only barely alive
17:11
managed to crawl downstairs to the front
17:13
door before collapsing in a pool of his
17:15
blood that is where the authorities
17:17
would find him only several minutes
17:19
later after months of harassment raman's
17:22
spiraling mental health led him to the
17:25
Twisted conclusion that if he couldn't
17:27
be with Zoro then nobody could and sadly
17:30
he was given the opportunity to act out
17:33
on these terrible thoughts this morning
17:35
due to tells about a murder involving a
17:37
podcast host and her husband found dead
17:40
in their Washington State Home Police
17:42
say the suspect who was a Long Haul
17:44
truck driver drove all the way from
17:46
Texas to Washington State and his next
17:48
stop the victim's house according to
17:51
police he shot and killed podcaster Zuri
17:53
sedi and her husband before appearing to
17:56
take his own life a neighbor says their
17:59
security camera caught the commotion
18:00
overnight there was blood curdling to
18:02
hear um I'm not sure i' should have gone
18:05
back and listen to her not zor's mother
18:08
was inside the house but somehow managed
18:10
to escape and call 911 this is the
18:13
absolute worst outcome um you know for a
18:16
stalking case although zor had notified
18:20
the authorities of his appalling
18:21
Behavior not enough was done to stop him
18:24
sadly stalking cases are rarely a top
18:27
priority for the police
18:28
as many of them are often deemed to be
18:30
matters of personal relationships but
18:33
this was not the case for rin a man who
18:36
had developed a parasocial relationship
18:38
with a flourishing Tech podcaster and
18:41
one strong enough where he believed that
18:43
he knew her enough to be in love and had
18:45
the police acted fast enough and made
18:47
more of an effort to track him down then
18:49
maybe zor and Muhammad would still be
18:52
alive today the missed opportunity here
18:54
is that Rin had sat outside of the
18:56
residence or nearby in a bright red
18:59
truck for several months and although it
19:01
is rare for a stalking case to escalate
19:03
this far this story experienced the
19:05
worst case scenario ending in two
19:07
innocent lives being lost when this
19:10
didn't need to happen now of course this
19:12
is where I usually cover the legal
19:14
proceedings of a case but with Ramen
19:16
dead there is obviously no prosecution
19:18
to be made following this double
19:20
homicide ramen's ex-wife came forward to
19:23
describe and speak about her ex partner
19:25
apparently they were together for 7
19:27
years had a daughter her and have now
19:29
been divorced for 5 years she noted that
19:31
in the summer of 2022 and after meeting
19:34
zor his demeanor changed quite
19:36
drastically apparently she was all he
19:38
would speak about and he acted as if
19:40
they were together however she never
19:42
thought he was capable of not just
19:44
tracking down but then stalking an
19:46
innocent woman this Behavior was miles
19:48
apart from the man that she used to know
Remembering Zohreh and Mohammed
19:52
zor and Muhammad were successful and
19:54
caring and had the rest of their lives
19:56
ahead of them but sadly all of all of
19:58
this was taken away from them by a
20:00
deranged stalker zor had made her
20:03
podcast to help other people break into
20:05
the industry that she loved so much but
20:08
within this kindness she found a living
20:10
nightmare that refused to leave her
20:12
alone Ramin was an obsessive and
20:15
sadistic stalker who felt entitled to
20:17
her love and time and ultimately this
20:20
obsession with zor LED to his end
20:24
too while not necessarily a violent
20:27
crime stalking is still a very severe
20:29
form of harassment and although most of
20:31
these cases still end up being resolved
20:33
without any violence whatsoever the
20:35
emotional impact on the victim can be
20:37
enormous statistically speaking one and
20:40
every three women report being the
20:41
subject of stalking at least once in
20:43
their life time which is an alarming
20:45
figure when you think about it sometimes
20:48
it's not just about the violence being
20:50
physically stalked or even stalked
20:52
online can massively impact a person's
20:54
sense of happiness and security and so
20:56
no matter how minor the problem if
20:58
you're feeling uncomfortable from
20:59
someone's persistence it is definitely
21:01
worth seeking help from your friends
21:03
family and the authorities and I've said
21:05
this before already but parasocial
21:07
relationships can be absolutely
21:09
terrifying this story reminds me of the
21:11
case of Christina grimy which had very
21:13
similar consequences anyway folks I'm
21:16
going to wrap this case up here today
21:17
thank you so much for watching before
21:19
you go though let me know what you think
21:21
about this case for one how do we as a
21:23
society deal with stalkers like this and
21:26
do you think the police did enough to
21:28
try and stop raming thank you again to
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description below definitely losing my
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voice towards the end of this video so
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I'm going to wrap this one up here today
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folks thank you again so much for
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watching today and as always I'll see
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you again very soon for another one
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until that moment arrives though moment
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to look after yourself look after each
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other and of course stay safe thank you
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and
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goodbye