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00:00Who is the mastermind? Nayiri is the mastermind. Look at these two other ones. They look stupid.
00:05They could never come up with such a thing. It's Nayiri who's the mastermind. That's a huge
00:11fucking lie.
00:17I did investigate keep tabs on Michael for several months at the request and payment of my friend,
00:24my ex-business partner, but kidnapping or planning off, I had zero clue about that. Period.
00:54I'm sitting down at my desk, and I remember getting a text from one of my buddies with the FBI,
01:11and he goes, hey, I got some bad news. Hossein has flown to Iran, and he's in Iran.
01:17If you told me he went to Canada or Mexico, it's almost like game on. Cool. It's fun. It's another
01:23place I got to go get him. But Iran? Like, I don't even know if that's ever been done before. Somebody
01:29getting somebody from Iran.
01:41There's no way in hell I'm going to get him in Iran. I immediately feel defeated. Then I just went all
01:48in and trying to figure out, like, OK, maybe we can get Courtney on the witness bus, or maybe Courtney
01:53can be my partner, and we can figure this out. You can't really sleep on investigations, because they
01:59will go cold really fast, and it's hard to heat up a cold case.
02:07That day, we did not gather any evidence that links her directly to the kidnapping.
02:12Courtney Shigerian, on paper, is a student. She's going to law school, and she's got a ton of money,
02:20and her record's clean. Her record's super clean. Her dad is this multimillionaire, maybe billionaire,
02:26up north that's got this propriety recycling center, and he's funding her. And I just remember,
02:33like, it kind of dawned on me, like, hey, man, I should call her dad. And so I have this idea to call
02:41the dad, and I run it by Heather. I knew, because her last name's Shigerian, that she's Armenian, and I'm
02:47actually part Armenian, and so I understand the Armenian culture. And I guarantee you this, you
02:52know, wealthy Armenian man has no idea that his, you know, Armenian princess is bringing his hard-earned
03:00money to this guy who chopped a guy's penis off.
03:08I had to Google it. I find a generic number to his company, and I kind of, like,
03:15give the secretary that answers the phone a little too much information.
03:18John Shigerian's office.
03:20This is Ryan Peters, Newport Beach Police Department.
03:22Okay.
03:23Courtney Shigerian's in trouble. We're investigating her involving a violent crime,
03:27and I need to talk to her dad right now. And I give her the number to my desk, and I hang up the
03:32phone. And within minutes, I get a call from John Shigerian.
03:36It's, uh, John Shigerian.
03:39And he lays out real quickly that he's on this private plane, and if the phone cuts out,
03:44it's because he's flying, and it's not that he's hung up on me, but just giving me an FYI. And I'm
03:48like, all right. You know, I wasn't sure if he was just, like, giving me that information,
03:53or he was giving me that information, kind of threatening me, like, hey, bud, do you know who I
03:56am and who you're talking to? I actually went into the whole father thing. I'm a dad. You're a dad.
04:02Listen, I'm investigating a violent kidnapping, and it involves Hossein Nairi and Kyle Hanley.
04:07And these are maniacal, evil, violent guys. Do you know who they are?
04:14When Ryan Peters mentioned Hossein Nairi, the dad's response was, she still talks to that guy?
04:20And Ryan had to break it to him that she's actually married to him.
04:25He didn't even know who his daughter was. I almost felt bad for him. And I give him this information
04:30and say, basically, she's tied into it, and she can be culpable, but we need her to talk. We need
04:35her to be cooperative. And she is uncooperative, does not want to talk to me. But I also believe,
04:40like, as a father, you're going to want to involve yourself and support her.
04:44Mr. Sigurian, I need your help to solve this crime. I understand.
05:00Of course.
05:06How have you been?
05:09I don't know.
05:13Have you been taking your pills and stuff?
05:16Yeah, I'm taking my menstruation.
05:20Good.
05:21Good.
05:24Is there anything that you feel like you need?
05:27No?
05:28No? Okay.
05:30I want you to be happy, babe.
05:32I don't want you to be upset, and I don't want you to be depressed.
05:36No, I'm happy.
05:38I mean, speaking with you right now, I don't want anything.
05:44I love you.
05:53Within that day, within hours, we're getting a call from Lou Rosenblum,
05:58who is going to represent her.
06:00And he's setting up a proffer for the following week, which is a huge win.
06:04A proffer is basically a contract between her and the DA saying, like,
06:10she has to be completely truthful and give us everything.
06:13And there are certain aspects to that information that she gives us
06:16that we're not going to use against her.
06:23Take us through kind of an overview.
06:25What happens next?
06:26So my dad finds out on April 12th.
06:31Following Tuesday, I started therapy.
06:35And I pretty much was in therapy every day.
06:39And then I got a lawyer, Lou Rosenblum.
06:44Started reconnecting with my family again.
06:46And so long being in a particular mental state.
06:51It was like a fog that took time to lift.
06:55And I sat down with police on, I think it was May 7th.
07:00And that was for the proffer.
07:02Yes.
07:10Did he ask you to do anything in relation to Michael?
07:14Yes.
07:14You tell me one time that you drove Hossein to pick up a camera and replace the SIM card.
07:20You're culpable for this whole crime.
07:21And I wanted her to be aware of that.
07:23And she dives into the story.
07:26Hossein, Nayiri, and I are married.
07:28My family doesn't know that we're married.
07:30We've lived together forever.
07:31We live off our trust.
07:33And she jumps into their relationship.
07:35And how old were you when you met Nayiri?
07:3816.
07:39Okay.
07:40Where did you meet him?
07:41At the Mini's Cafe in Fresno.
07:44I was with my cousin who left my phone number for him because she thought he was cute.
07:49When I find out, they have a history of domestic violence that's on record.
07:53There's a domestic violence charge against him.
07:56He's violent.
07:57He's bipolar.
07:59All of his needs were met by her.
08:01Financial needs, his medical needs, all met by her.
08:04She talks about who Kyle Hanley is to them and how Kyle Hanley, like, moved in with them at some point.
08:11Kyle Hanley and Hossein are really good friends.
08:13They went to high school together.
08:15They came up with this plan together.
08:17And she's laying out this story of it's the Hossein and Kyle show.
08:20And then I see it.
08:24This little girl, this, like, lost little girl.
08:28And I'm like, okay, I'm going to draw everything out from her.
08:30I'm going to be able to get her to open up.
08:32I'm going to get her to trust me.
08:33I'm going to get her to, like, really convey exactly her participation and what she knows.
08:39And she admitted.
08:40She's like, yeah, I drove him all the time.
08:42Like, I drove him down to replace the SIM cards.
08:44She bought phones, bought laptops for him.
08:48She knew that they were investigating or surveilling Michael.
08:52She was cleaning up the house one day, and Hossein's watching the tracker.
08:57And he says to her, like, hey, he's driving around this, like, desert area.
09:02And if you look at it, it's like an abandoned gold mine.
09:05He says, like, I wonder if he's burying his money out there.
09:08And Courtney nonchalantly goes, yeah, probably.
09:16I truly don't get it.
09:17To this day, knowing everything I know, like, I have no idea why he just, like, drove to that spot, pulled him out, cut off his penis, poured some bleach on him, and left.
09:26Like, you didn't get out there and even, like, try to look.
09:30Did it dawn on Hossein halfway out there?
09:32Like, maybe Michael's telling the truth?
09:36Well, guess what?
09:38I went out there.
09:41I took videos for Kyle.
09:45Endless holes, endless little roads, endless piles of identical rocks.
09:51A thousand people could be hiding shit, and not one of them could find the other one shit.
09:56Michael owed Kyle Hanley $224,000, straight up.
10:08The entire problem came down to one transaction, 100 pounds.
10:14Michael would not answer phone calls, give him the runaround, the usual buzzergy thing.
10:20As a friend, he reached out to me, and he was like, man, he was just hashing it out.
10:26Like, man, this guy's got to, he's sitting in all of my money, da-da-da-da, he's not paying.
10:32Keep an eye out for him.
10:33This guy takes off, I'm screwed.
10:34There are stages of post-traumatic stress, and I was in shock for a long time after.
11:01I tend to forget certain facts, and they just kind of drop into a hole, and they're just not there anymore.
11:11At the same time, I don't regret for one minute that I was there, because in a strange way, I feel like I was called on to be a hero.
11:22And because of me, someone is alive who might not have been.
11:28When I was in the hospital, Michael's mom came up to me.
11:38She came down the hall.
11:41She just gave me this big, huge, wonderful hug.
11:47While she was hugging me so hard, she said, thank you for saving my son.
11:52After recovering at my parents' house and starting to get back out there, one of the first things I did, I wanted to get back into the shop.
12:07I had a lot of support there.
12:08Everybody was really cool, which made me feel better.
12:12I'm glad to see the places.
12:13Kyle got busted.
12:16He got put in jail.
12:18The cops aren't really giving me any information.
12:20Really, all they're trying to do is extract more information for their investigation.
12:24So I don't really know anything.
12:28Because I don't know who did this to me or why they did this.
12:32I was paranoid the entire time.
12:33These people could still be out there and, you know, maybe they're just waiting for me to leave my house, to kidnap me again, kill me.
12:42I don't know.
12:46Do I know this person?
12:48Is this person still around me?
12:51Are they going to try and do it again?
12:52Where's the money?
12:53At one point, I was like, was this my partner that did this to me for some reason?
12:58What the fuck?
12:59What the fuck?
12:59I literally was clueless on who would have wanted this to happen to me.
13:05Please stop.
13:20Me and Courtney had even decided how many kids we were going to have.
13:26Yes.
13:27Two.
13:28One boy, one girl.
13:31That's it.
13:33Courtney is definitely an ambitious person.
13:36I like having somebody who goes toe-to-toe with me.
13:41If I have a plan, she doesn't stifle it.
13:45She encourages it.
13:47Perfect slave master.
13:49Like, she'll make sure you get to work.
13:52On time.
13:52On time.
13:52On time.
13:52On time.
13:58We do another proffer with Courtney.
14:01She's breaking down the timeline.
14:03And she's giving us information we didn't have.
14:06But we're, like, still not really getting anywhere.
14:08Is that all?
14:10Yes.
14:10And then all of a sudden, I visited him once in Turkey and twice in Dubai.
14:19Wait, you're still seeing him?
14:22She's still seeing him.
14:24Like, she still has access to him.
14:25Is that where you say, what the fuck?
14:39What the fuck?
14:41She went to Turkey and visited him in Turkey because he's still using her.
14:47He still needs money.
14:48He still needs his meds.
14:49He still wants her.
14:50They're still in love.
14:52He has manipulated her so much and destroyed her as a person that she's not truly who she
15:00was, you know, five years ago, ten years ago.
15:04I honestly, at some point, felt bad for her.
15:08And still do.
15:09Like, she was a victim, in a sense.
15:12And she got used and manipulated and abused.
15:16You know, it's one of those things.
15:19That kind of a person, when she's on your side, is great.
15:21When she goes against you, you're fucked.
15:24It's the kind of sword that cuts for you, and it cuts you up, too.
15:28You know?
15:28Which is depending on which way it's pointed.
15:33Rolling, rolling.
15:36Take two.
15:38I always laugh when we talk about Courtney Shigarian because she is seen as this perfect victim.
15:46I don't think that's necessarily true.
15:52Because of some of the participation that she involved herself in, aspects of this kidnapping
15:58crime, her knowledge, her failure to report certain things, I think she believed she was
16:04in jeopardy.
16:05She was going to do whatever she had to do to get herself out of trouble.
16:09You know, she had a whole lot to lose.
16:16Lou, her attorney, calls Matt and goes, hey, would you be willing to allow Courtney to
16:27reintroduce herself to Hossein?
16:29She was able to meet him in Turkey.
16:30He's obviously willing to leave Iran.
16:33It's been a long time since the crime.
16:35How can we create a scenario where we ruse him out of Iran and arrest him?
16:40What Newport Beach police asked me to do was to get, basically, Hossein out of Iran, to
16:47lure him to a country where he could be extradited.
16:51I was asked to record all of my conversations with Hossein.
17:00Hi.
17:02How are you?
17:03At home.
17:05I don't know.
17:07I've just been busy.
17:08I've been stressed.
17:09I've been, you know.
17:11But I was planning on calling you when I was done with the chest.
17:14Did your sister tell you?
17:16No.
17:17Well, I've been talking to her and checking in with her.
17:21She started talking to his sister again and just, like, slowly but surely gained his trust.
17:28For months, she integrated herself back into his family.
17:32And she finally convinces him that she misses him.
17:35He misses her.
17:37And so she was able to convince him to go to Spain.
17:40She was going to bring him a new iPhone and kind of, you know, hey, babe, this will be so fun.
17:45We'll go to Spain and party like rock stars.
17:47Does that sound good?
17:49Go see you, Mark.
17:55So Courtney, at the direction of the Newport Beach Police Department and the DA's office,
18:02and keep in mind, Courtney's trying to save her own ass at this point,
18:05goes down to some shady place in Santa Ana and gets a fake visa for Nairi.
18:15Now comes the ruse.
18:18And we set all the pieces up.
18:20All I needed him to do was get on a plane.
18:24But Hossein was very meticulous.
18:27He's escaped from a motor cop in Newport Beach.
18:33And jumped into the water.
18:35He fled previously when he had been arrested for, you know, killing his buddy in the DUI.
18:42He's an escape artist.
18:43I was in Tehran International Airport, the very last words I've had with my ex-wife, Courtney.
18:55I was running a little late, and she pretended to be extremely excited.
19:01I love you, baby.
19:02I can't wait till I see your face and kiss your face all over.
19:05I love my husband.
19:07I love my husband so much.
19:10I said, yeah, baby, I'll be right there.
19:20We 100% need to apprehend him at the airport.
19:24Like, we can't miss him.
19:25We can't fail.
19:26We needed the marshals, the FBI.
19:30We needed the Czech Republic police.
19:31Like, it was multiple layers.
19:34We land, and I was in the front seat, so I was the very first person to get off the plane.
19:42On cue, two cameras went off.
19:45I said, I just need to make a phone call to my wife.
20:01She's probably worried sick.
20:03A man answered the phone.
20:10He said, Courtney is not here, and don't ever call here again.
20:20It took, like, a split second, like, for this to register.
20:25What?
20:26A man answered the phone.
20:28Courtney is not here, and don't ever call here again.
20:31Did you call the right number?
20:32It isn't.
20:34It felt like this humongous wrecking ball just went through my entire soul, body, and entire being, like...
20:45And at the same time, the person that I trusted with everything, all these little red flags, the red light bulbs went off.
20:56I've just been busy.
20:57I've been stressed.
21:00Did your sister tell you?
21:02Well, I've been talking to her, and judging you with her.
21:06I love you.
21:09Oh, my God.
21:11And I don't remember what happened after that.
21:15I was just blank.
21:20I was trying to digest.
21:25How do you digest?
21:25I think I was numb for days.
21:33They grabbed it.
21:36The magnitude of betrayal.
21:40Once they got Nairi, it made me feel so much better.
21:53It was just a huge relief.
21:55Detective Peters was able to tell me a lot about the case and everything that happened at that point.
22:00And I was able to feel comfortable, like, okay, they know what happened.
22:04They know all the players.
22:06I don't have to wonder if the guy standing next to me is the guy that kidnapped me anymore.
22:13And it sounds like, from what Detective Peters is saying, they're going to go to jail for the rest of their lives, and I'm never going to have to see these people again.
22:24After he's booked in Newport and he's transported to Orange County Jail, like, it's done.
22:30That was the last piece.
22:32And all I'm doing is crossing T's and dotting I's on this case to present to a jury.
22:36And then we were just kind of gearing up for trial.
22:39Nairi is expected to be back in court next week.
22:41He is being held without bail.
22:44In Santa Ana, Eileen Frey, our ABC7 Eyewitness News.
22:47Don't worry.
22:48I always got to ease up my sleep.
22:50I'm not having that breathing.
22:52Trust me.
22:54All or nothing.
22:55That's my style.
22:58And it felt great.
23:00Until it didn't.
23:30I went from 11 months of being in a, literally in a box by myself, to now this behemoth of a building,
23:43completely different from anything I've ever seen, imagined.
23:48It was overwhelming.
23:50So it was just, it felt like I stepped into a zoo.
23:53There was no specific time I can recall that I decided I want to escape.
24:13This is more like a general sense and feeling within me from second one that I was apprehended in fog.
24:24This, this aversion, this, this, the idea of being in prison.
24:32It just, I couldn't stand it.
24:36There is no real plan B.
24:46This is not the movies.
24:49Are you at the mercy of, I mean, of what happened?
24:53My passport, paid for.
25:10Airline ticket, purchased.
25:15Carry on in hand.
25:16L-A-X.
25:20Adios.
25:24It's time to go for various reasons.
25:32And where was the ticket going to take you?
25:36Istanbul, Turkey.
25:37I'm at home, laying in bed, and I get this late night phone call from my best friend, Josh Compte, who's a sergeant at Newport Beach Police Department.
25:52It's three weeks before trial, and it was like midnight.
25:57And he goes, hey, Orange County sheriffs are looking for you.
26:00And I'm like, why are they looking for me?
26:03Dreadful long pause.
26:04Like, what happened?
26:08And he goes, Hossein broke out of jail.
26:11I was in shock.
26:13How could you do this?
26:15The amount of man hours, and the amount of work, and the amount of emotion that was put into, like, getting him.
26:20I just spent a year hunting him down and getting him from Iran.
26:25And you're going to, you're going to let him get out?
26:27And they were gone at least 16 hours before anybody noticed they were even gone.
26:34When I pulled up to Orange County Jail, they had this massive operation going.
26:41I'm talking to a local investigator, and he says, we do know somebody that knows a little bit about how they escaped.
26:48And he's like, are you willing to interview her?
26:50And I was like, well, who's her?
26:52And they're like, it's an ESL instructor.
26:54It's a teacher within the jail system that helps give English lessons to inmates, which was a little weird, because he speaks English.
27:03And the entire time, I'm just frustrated, because you're not going to give me real-time information.
27:07This is something, like, you didn't, you weren't here when he escaped.
27:10So I'm just frustrated, you know, I'm still kind of bitter.
27:13We located in his jail cell a list, basically, of all of the frailties, the human frailties of the English as a second language teacher.
27:23I would love to see those notes.
27:27And he had a master plan on how to exploit those vulnerabilities.
27:30This is something that is truly premeditated, sophisticated, and calculated.
27:40There was a map to the jail and the surrounding areas.
27:44She provided one single rooftop map.
27:50I remember her saying, yeah, I was helping him prepare for court, and I printed out information on the DAs and the investigator.
27:58And that's what, like, then I woke up.
28:05It went from, like, wait, is he on the run, or is he hunting down everybody?
28:12My first instinct was, like, oh, my God, he's going to go try and kill Courtney.
28:16So I called LAPD and actually asked them if they would send a unit to Courtney's house.
28:21I mean, I was literally, like, what the f***? Are you f***ing kidding me right now?
28:28The Orange County Sheriff's Department repeatedly asked the public for help Monday.
28:33Three dangerous inmates escaped from the Orange County men's jail.
28:37The men cut through half-inch steel bars, they cooled through the prison's plumbing system, and they repelled themselves down from the roof, then anchored their ropes to the wall right there and repelled down the building.
28:47Apparently, it's pretty easy to escape from the Orange County jail.
28:51All three escapees are awaiting trial for violent crimes.
28:54You can have all the dreams in the world, but without the right people and the right tools, you will not accomplish it.
29:01They repelled down on a makeshift rope made out of, could be towels, could be clothes.
29:0537-year-old Hussein Nairi is accused of kidnapping and torture.
29:10He also poured bleach all over him, and in the end, he cut his penis off.
29:14As soon as we hit the ground, we were supposed to be out of there.
29:19My guy never showed up, so I have no choice but to go along.
29:24LAX did not happen.
29:27What was your first thought when you learned that he escaped?
29:30I thought, oh my God, they let Hannibal Lecter out?
29:33And then I said, please don't call me on that.
29:35Orange County prosecutor Heather Brown quoted as saying, they let Hannibal Lecter out.
29:40Apparently, in the media, you're supposed to say, don't quote me on that before you say something.
29:44Like, I'm not saying that he was, like, eating body parts or anything.
29:47Reporter, zero integrity, and he's dead to me for the record.
29:51And you can put that in your documentary.
29:53Police believe these three men are still in Southern California.
29:56You can be assured investigators are continuing to work tirelessly around the clock.
30:00We weren't laying low the very next day we went to lunch.
30:03There's all four of us.
30:05There's a TV on the wall behind me.
30:08Big old TV, three faces, one of them belongs to me.
30:14Eat your food, man.
30:15Jonathan Tu, Bak Duong, and Hussein Nyeri are still on the run.
30:20It's been about 24 hours now.
30:22It is time to be out of Orange County.
30:24A $50,000 reward is now being offered for the capture of the three inmates.
30:29Mastermind of an elaborate Orange County jail escape.
30:31Hussein Nyeri, using a contraband cell phone, he documents how he did it.
30:36This video is bizarre.
30:38They document every move of their escape.
30:41I don't think that there's ever been real live video of an actual escape while it was being done.
30:48It is unbelievable.
30:49What would you advise him?
30:50Well, I think I would have to advise him to come in.
30:55It was a complete surprise, and it's amazing.
30:59But you think this is stupid?
31:02You know, um...
31:03The reward for information leading to their capture has been upped from $50,000 to $200,000.
31:14Bak Duong was going to be the first man in history of this country to collect reward money on himself.
31:2443-year-old Bak Duong now back in custody.
31:28Yeah, he lacked what we call in America as, perhaps, balls.
31:34Leaving 20-year-old Jonathan with 37-year-old Hussein Nyeri...
31:38Media is telling everybody they may have moved, flat out saying we're in Northern California.
31:43I was getting tips from some of the Orange County sheriffs, and they were letting us know that he's working his way north.
31:49They were on his tail.
31:49They were getting closer and closer, so it felt good.
31:51A taxi cab driver was claiming that he was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to drive them up to Northern California.
31:58But we had shots of them drinking together arm-in-arm on the beach in Pismo Beach, laughing, smiling.
32:04This is our casa right now for the moment.
32:07Friday night in San Francisco.
32:11Special Friday night in San Francisco.
32:13I could have left that night and gone.
32:17Instead, I sit tight with the kid inside of that van, spend the last night.
32:23We smoking weed in bananas.
32:27It's kind of bananas.
32:28Hoping the next morning I'm going to wake up, I'm going to make a breakthrough, we're going to find a spot, and we're going.
32:35I woke up, walked across the street to a McDonald's, get a coffee, start the day early, 6, 7 in the morning.
32:44Walked through McDonald's, ordered just a simple big coffee for both of us, and don't notice anything unusual.
32:52I was going to this McDonald's to warm up in the morning.
32:55You know, I was pretty loaded that day on some good medical marijuana, and out pops Mr. Neri.
33:01Whoa, it was like mind-boggling that now this guy's standing in front of me.
33:07Once I figured out who's in front of me, what am I supposed to do, just go smoke a joint?
33:13Oh, there they are, man.
33:15Don't mess with them, man.
33:17They'll cut your dick off.
33:20You know, cut that out.
33:23Whoops, no pun.
33:25San Francisco PD, police car rolled by.
33:28I noticed there's cop activity.
33:30I don't think of it much.
33:31It has nothing to do with me.
33:32I look at the officers, and I point my cane.
33:35I use my cane in my hand.
33:36I go, you know, body language.
33:38I say, that's the guy.
33:39And I see somebody pointing at me.
33:42That's the guy.
33:44And the cop's attention, all of a sudden, is on me.
33:50And he bolts across the street, drops his coffee, and runs right past me.
33:56All right, still running.
33:56He's going back over the hill.
33:59Back from Waller.
34:00You know those rodeos?
34:01You turn and dodge the bull?
34:03Still running.
34:04He found footage at him.
34:06I dodged one.
34:07I dodged the other one.
34:08Go, Waller.
34:09Go, Waller.
34:09We got him down.
34:15Breaking news.
34:16The two remaining fugitives from a California jail break last week are now back behind bars
34:21in San Francisco.
34:22I can say this morning that the entire state can breathe a sigh of relief because we have
34:29the other two dangerous individuals back in custody where they should be.
34:35I don't know.
35:01Kyle's already been convicted.
35:10This case has been very successful at this point.
35:15But at the end of the day, you never know.
35:17It is Hossein.
35:18It just wouldn't have been, like, the first time that he fled justice.
35:22We're going to make sure the wheels of justice finally recognize my innocence.
35:26How does that sound?
35:31I want, I personally want, Hossein Nayeri to go to jail forever.
35:38There's nothing that I could say right now that could prepare you adequately for the things that you're going to see and hear about.
35:46Throughout the trial, you never knew really how it was going to go.
35:50You agree with me that the marijuana business is filled with violent criminals?
35:54Not at all.
35:55This is a very laid-back business overall.
35:58Oh, okay.
35:59Was it laid-back when Michael got his penis cut off?
36:03From day one, it was his decision that he was going to testify in his trial.
36:09And there was never a doubt in his mind that that's what he was going to do.
36:13And that, of course, is always a criminal defendant's right.
36:16And we had a very competent, savvy prosecutor on the other side of this case.
36:28That's correct.
36:28Okay.
36:29The van was down across the street from...
36:33Matt Murphy was living for the day to get Nayeri on the stand, to go head-to-head with him.
36:40Nayeri was living for that day as well.
36:43I really believe that at that point in time, I think the case was either his to make or break.
36:51See the look in her eye?
36:53See it in the photo?
36:54You're serious?
36:56I would caution him all the time.
36:58You don't want to get into that battle.
37:00He can control the narrative and you can't.
37:02But as it was, it became a contest of heavyweights throwing blows against each other.
37:09How long will you be married to her for?
37:10Just put two and two together, shall we?
37:13I'm asking the questions.
37:14You're answering the questions.
37:15You don't even deserve an answer with that.
37:17Seems like a pretty big deal.
37:18You're asking not to go to state prison, right?
37:22And within five minutes of his testimony, it was over.
37:27He had exploded on the witness stand.
37:29Falsely, yes, it was annulled.
37:31Okay.
37:32Based on false information, yes, it was annulled.
37:35Based on a bunch of bulls.
37:36And the prosecutor did exactly what the prosecutor wanted to do with him, which was show the jury that he was an explosive, dangerous person.
37:46You're out in the desert.
37:48You cut off this penis.
37:50Why couldn't you just leave it there in the hopes that it can be reattached?
37:58You're done.
37:58You want to give us an answer for that?
38:03I want to give you an answer for that, personally.
38:08What does that mean, Mr. Miller?
38:12I felt sad.
38:14I felt sad for him.
38:15He really was up there fighting for his life.
38:17And just one question, he just lost it all.
38:21That's the way this works.
38:21You seem to cut me off for him, but...
38:23So, excuse me, sir.
38:26Do we need to have that discussion again, sir?
38:29Your Honor is shoving down her formation down my throat.
38:31Ladies and gentlemen, I need you to please leave the courtroom.
38:33Courtney was a key witness in both trials.
38:47She testified in Kyle Hanley's case, and she also testified against Hossein Nairi.
38:53And I would say the best way to describe it, when she testified, it was nerve-wracking.
38:58I think anyone in that courtroom could feel the tension, because she knew, like, this
39:03is that moment.
39:06He, right up until the last minute, had high hopes that Courtney was going to come around
39:12and assist him in some way, and it didn't happen for him.
39:16On the scale of a 10, being greatest, most healthy relationship ever, and totally dysfunctional,
39:22as like a 1, what would you rate your relationship with Mr. Mayuri?
39:25Um, a negative 100, I would say.
39:33Um, two days, I watched her up there.
39:39As if the 10 years that we genuinely were happy together meant absolutely fucking nothing.
39:55I think they would still be together if it were not for this case.
40:03I think they would still be together if it were not for this case.
40:20Look at how much she did for him.
40:22What she did behind her family's back.
40:24She stuck with him.
40:26She stuck by him.
40:28And she could have had anybody else.
40:29She was beautiful and smart.
40:31I'm sure she still is.
40:33But she chose Nayiri.
40:35I'm sure that there's maniacal people who possibly feel love for people, but love is not having
40:42your wife cover for horrible crimes.
40:45Love is not putting your wife or your girlfriend or the person you love in harm's way.
40:50To me, that's not love.
40:52That's manipulation.
40:54At one point when she was testifying, I looked at Nayiri and I said,
40:57you're still in love with her, aren't you?
41:00And he just put his head down.
41:02You could tell that he was still in love with her.
41:05And I think that part in the trial, when my partner Martina asked him,
41:11do you still love her now?
41:14He broke down and he was crying.
41:17And I have no doubt that was real.
41:23Hoo hoo hoo.
41:24Sorry, I'm not buying it.
41:27I'm not buying it.
41:34I'm a news junkie from childhood.
41:36And I take it to the limit, you know.
41:38Breaking news now.
41:43A verdict has been reached in the trial of Hossein Nayiri.
41:47Hossein Nayiri, the Newport Beach man convicted of kidnapping and torturing a marijuana dispensary
41:52owner, has now been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
42:00You better leave it like a little section at the end of your project that says to be continued.
42:06Mark my fucking words.
42:08I said it.
42:09Wait.
42:09I said it.
42:10What's the matter?
42:10I said it.
42:12Oh, oh, oh, oh.
42:42Oh, oh, oh.