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00:00Who is the mastermind?
00:02Nayiri's the mastermind.
00:03Look at these two other ones.
00:04They look stupid.
00:05They could never come up with such a thing.
00:07It's Nayiri who's the mastermind.
00:09That's a huge fucking lie.
00:17I did investigate, keep tabs on Michael for several months
00:21at the request and payment of my friend,
00:24my ex-business partner.
00:27But kidnapping or planning off?
00:31I had zero clue about that.
00:33Period.
00:57I'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.
01:14Hossein 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.
01:22It's fun.
01:23It's another place I gotta go get him.
01:25But Iran?
01:26Like I don't even know if that's ever been done before.
01:28Somebody getting somebody from Iran.
01:30There's no way in hell I'm gonna get him in Iran.
01:44I immediately feel defeated.
01:46Then I just went all in and trying to figure out like, okay,
01:50maybe we can get Courtney on the witness bus
01:52or maybe Courtney can be my partner and we can figure this out.
01:57You can't really sleep on investigations
01:59because they will go cold really fast.
02:02And it's hard to heat up a cold case.
02:05That day we did not gather any evidence that links her directly to the kidnapping.
02:12Courtney Shigerian on paper is a student.
02:17She's going to law school and she's got a ton of money.
02:20And her record's clean.
02:21Her record's super clean.
02:23Her dad is this multimillionaire, maybe billionaire up north
02:27that's got this propriety recycling center and he's funding her.
02:32And I just remember like it kind of dawned on me like,
02:35hey, man, I should call her dad.
02:37And so I have this idea to call the dad and I run it by Heather.
02:42I knew because her last name's Shigerian that she's Armenian
02:45and I'm actually part Armenian.
02:48And so I understand the Armenian culture.
02:50And I guarantee you this, you know, wealthy Armenian man has no idea
02:56that his, you know, Armenian princess is bringing his hard earned money
03:01to this guy who chopped a guy's penis off.
03:09I had to Google it.
03:10I find a generic number to his company
03:13and I kind of like give the secretary that answers the phone
03:17a 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.
03:25We're investigating her involving a violent crime
03:27and I need to talk to her dad right now.
03:30And I give her the number to my desk and I hang up the phone.
03:33And within minutes, I get a call from John Shigerian.
03:37It's John Shigerian.
03:39And he lays out real quickly that he's on this private plane
03:42and if the phone cuts out, it's because he's flying
03:45and it's not that he's hung up on me, but just giving me an FYI.
03:48And I'm like, all right.
03:50You 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,
03:55hey, bud, do you know who I am and who you're talking to?
03:58I actually went into the whole father thing.
04:00I'm a dad. You're a dad.
04:02Listen, I'm investigating a violent kidnapping
04:05and it involves Hossein Nairi and Kyle Hanley.
04:08And these are maniacal, evil, violent guys.
04:12Do you know who they are?
04:14When Ryan Peters mentioned Hossein Nairi, the dad's response was,
04:18she still talks to that guy.
04:20And Ryan had to break it to him that she's actually married to him.
04:24He didn't even know who his daughter was.
04:26I almost felt bad for him.
04:28And I give him this information and say,
04:30basically, she's tied into it and she can be culpable,
04:33but we need her to talk.
04:34We need her to be cooperative.
04:36And she is uncooperative, does not want to talk to me.
04:39But I also believe, like, as a father,
04:41you're going to want to involve yourself and support her.
04:45Mr. Segarian, I need your help to solve this crime.
04:49I understand.
04:51How have you been?
05:05How have you been?
05:07I don't know.
05:09I...
05:11Have you been taking your pills and stuff?
05:15Yeah, I've been taking my medication.
05:19Good.
05:20Good.
05:21Is there anything that you feel like you need?
05:25No.
05:26No, okay.
05:28I want you to be happy, babe.
05:31I don't want you to be upset,
05:33and I don't want you to be depressed.
05:35No, I'm happy.
05:38I mean, speaking with you right now, I don't want anything.
05:40I love you.
05:45Within that day, within hours,
05:47we're going to hear a call from Lou Rosenblum,
05:50who is going to represent her,
05:52and he's setting up a proffer for the following week,
05:55which is a huge win.
05:57A proffer is basically a contract between her and the DA,
06:01setting up a proffer for the following week,
06:04which is a huge win.
06:05A proffer is basically a contract between her and the DA,
06:09saying, like, she has to be completely truthful
06:12and give us everything,
06:13and there are certain aspects to that information
06:15that she gives us that we're not going to use against her.
06:24Take us through kind of an overview.
06:25What happens next?
06:27So my dad finds out on April 12th.
06:31The following 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.
06:48So 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.
07:03Did he ask you to do anything in relation to Michael?
07:14Yes.
07:15You tell me one time that you drove Hossein to pick up a camera
07:18and replace the SIM card?
07:20You're culpable for this whole crime,
07:22and I wanted her to be aware of that.
07:24And 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?
07:38Sixteen.
07:39Okay.
07:40Where did you meet him?
07:41At the Mimi's Cafe in Fresno.
07:43I was with my cousin,
07:45who left my phone number for him
07:47because she thought he was cute.
07:49And I find out they have a history of domestic violence
07:52that's on record.
07:53There's a domestic violence charge
07:55against him.
07:56He's violent.
07:57He's bipolar.
07:58All of his needs were met by her.
08:01Financial needs, his medical needs,
08:03all met by her.
08:04She talks about who Kyle Hanley is to them
08:08and how Kyle Hanley, like, moved in with them
08:10at 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,
08:18it's the Hossein and Kyle show.
08:20And then I see it.
08:21This little girl, this, like, lost little girl.
08:27And I'm like, okay, I'm gonna draw everything out from her.
08:30I'm gonna be able to get her to open up.
08:31I'm gonna get her to trust me.
08:33I'm gonna get her to, like,
08:34really convey exactly her participation
08:37and what she knows.
08:39And she admitted.
08:40She's like, yeah, I drove them all the time.
08:41Like, I drove them down to replace the SIM cards.
08:44She bought phones, bought laptops for him.
08:47She knew that they were investigating
08:50or surveilling Michael.
08:53She was cleaning up the house one day
08:55and Hossein's watching the tracker.
08:57And he says to her, like, hey,
08:59he'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.
09:09And Courtney nonchalantly goes,
09:11Yeah, probably.
09:16I truly don't get it to this day,
09:17knowing everything I know.
09:18Like, I have no idea why he just, like,
09:20drove to that spot, pulled him out,
09:23cut off his penis, poured some bleach on him and left.
09:26Like, you didn't get out there and even, like, try to look.
09:29Did it dawn on Hossein halfway out there?
09:32Like, maybe Michael's telling the truth?
09:35Well, guess what?
09:36I went out there.
09:40I took videos for Kyle.
09:43Endless holes, endless little roads,
09:47endless piles of identical rocks.
09:51A thousand people could be hiding shit in there,
09:53and not one of them could find the other one's shit.
09:55Michael owed Kyle Hanley $224,000.
10:06Straight up.
10:08The entire problem came down to one transaction.
10:12100 pounds.
10:14Michael would not answer phone calls,
10:16give him the runaround,
10:18the usual buzzergy thing.
10:20As a friend, he reached out to me and he was like,
10:23man, he was just, just hashing it out.
10:25Like, man, this guy's gotta,
10:27he's sitting all over my money, da-da-da-da,
10:30he's not paying.
10:31Keep an eye out for him.
10:32This guy takes off, I'm screwed.
10:34I'm screwed.
10:35There are stages of post-traumatic stress,
10:36and I was in shock for a long time after.
10:52I tend to forget certain facts,
11:06and they just kind of drop into a hole,
11:09and they're just not there anymore.
11:12At the same time, I don't regret for one minute
11:16that I was there because, in a strange way,
11:19I feel like I was called on to be a hero.
11:23And because of me, someone is alive
11:27who might not have been.
11:34When I was in the hospital,
11:35Michael's mom came up to me.
11:38She came down the hall.
11:40She just gave me this big, huge, wonderful hug
11:46while she was hugging me so hard.
11:49She said, thank you for saving my son.
11:59After recovering at my parents' house
12:01and starting to get back out there,
12:02one of the first things I did,
12:04I wanted to get back into the shop.
12:06I had a lot of support there.
12:08Everybody was really cool,
12:09which made me feel better.
12:11I'm glad to see the police.
12:15Kyle 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
12:21is 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
12:30or why they did this.
12:32I was paranoid the entire time.
12:34These people could still be out there,
12:38and, you know,
12:39maybe they're just waiting for me to leave my house
12:41to kidnap me and kill me.
12:42I don't know.
12:46Do I know this person?
12:48Is this person still around me?
12:51Are they gonna try and do it again?
12:52Where's the morning?
12:53At one point,
12:54I was like, was this my partner
12:57that did this to me for some reason?
12:59I literally was clueless
13:02on who would've wanted this to happen to me.
13:05Please go!
13:07Me and Courtney had even decided
13:22how many kids we were gonna have.
13:26Yes.
13:27Two.
13:28One boy, one girl.
13:31That's it.
13:32Courtney is definitely an ambitious person.
13:36I like having somebody
13:38who goes toe-to-toe with me.
13:41If I have a plan,
13:43she doesn't stifon it.
13:45She encourages it.
13:47Perfect slave master.
13:48Like, she'll make sure you get to work.
13:51On time.
13:52On time.
13:59We do another proffer with Courtney.
14:01She's breaking down the timeline
14:03and she's giving us information we didn't have,
14:05but we're, like, still not really getting anywhere.
14:07Is that all?
14:09Yes.
14:10Yes.
14:13And then all of a sudden...
14:15I visited him once in Turkey
14:17and twice in Dubai.
14:19Wait.
14:20You're still seeing him?
14:22She's still seeing him.
14:23Like, she still has access to him.
14:25Is that what you say?
14:37What the fuck?
14:38What the fuck?
14:39She went to Turkey and visited him in Turkey
14:44because 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
14:55and destroyed her as a person
14:58that she's not truly who she was, you know,
15:01five years ago, ten years ago.
15:04I honestly at some point felt bad for her
15:07and still did.
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.
15:23It's the kind of sword that cuts for you
15:26and cuts you up too, you know,
15:28depending on which way it's pointed.
15:34Rolling, rolling.
15:35Take two.
15:38I always laugh when we talk about Courtney Shigarian
15:42because she is seen as this perfect victim.
15:50I don't think that's necessarily true.
15:52Because of some of the participation
15:54that she involved herself in,
15:56aspects of this kidnapping crime,
15:58her knowledge, her failure to report certain things,
16:01I think she believed she was in jeopardy.
16:05She was gonna do whatever she had to do
16:07to get herself out of trouble.
16:09You know, she had a whole lot to lose.
16:11Lou, her attorney, calls Matt and goes,
16:23Hey, would you be willing to allow Courtney
16:26to reintroduce herself to Hossein?
16:28She was able to meet him in Turkey.
16:30He's obviously willing to leave Iran.
16:32It's been a long time since the crime.
16:35How can we create a scenario
16:37where we ruse him out of Iran and arrest him?
16:40What Newport Beach police asked me to do
16:42was to get basically Hossein out of Iran,
16:46to lure him to a country where he could be extradited.
16:50I was asked to record all of my conversations with Hossein.
16:59Hello?
17:00Hi.
17:01Where are you?
17:02How are you?
17:03At home?
17:05How are you?
17:06How are you?
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
17:12when I was done with the chest.
17:14Did your sister tell you?
17:16Yes.
17:17I will.
17:18I've been talking to her and checking in with her.
17:21She started talking to his sister again
17:24and just, like, slowly but surely
17:27gained his trust for months.
17:29She integrated herself back into his family
17:32and she finally convinces him
17:34that she misses him.
17:36He misses her.
17:37And so she was able to convince him
17:39to go to Spain.
17:40She was going to bring him a new iPhone
17:42and kind of, you know,
17:43hey, babe, this will be so fun.
17:45We'll go to Spain and party like rock stars.
17:47Does that sound good?
17:49I'll see you, Mark.
17:55So Courtney, at the direction
17:58of the Newport Beach Police Department
18:01and the DA's office,
18:02and keep in mind,
18:03Courtney's trying to save her own ass at this point,
18:05goes down to some shady place in Santa Ana
18:09and gets a fake visa for Nayiri.
18:15Now comes the ruse.
18:17And we set all the pieces up.
18:20All I needed him to do was get on a plane.
18:23But Hossein was very meticulous.
18:26He's escaped from a motor cop in Newport Beach.
18:29And jumped into the water.
18:34He fled previously when he had been arrested for,
18:40you know, killing his buddy in the DUI.
18:42He's an escape artist.
18:44I was in Tehran International Airport.
18:50The very last words I've had with my ex-wife Courtney.
18:55I was running a little late
18:57and she tended 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,
19:11yeah, maybe 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.
19:27We needed the marshals, the FBI.
19:29We needed the Czech Republic police.
19:31Like, it was multiple layers.
19:33We landed and I was in the front seat,
19:38so I was the very first person to get off the plane.
19:41On cue, two cameras went off.
19:58I said that I just need to make a phone call to my wife.
20:01She's probably worried sick.
20:08A man answered the phone.
20:10He said,
20:12Courtney is not here
20:14and don't ever call here again.
20:18Did you call the right number?
20:19It is.
20:20It felt like this humongous wrecking ball just went through my entire soul, body and entire being, like...
20:27And at the same time, the person that I trusted with everything, all these little red flags, the red light bulbs went off.
20:40I've just been busy, I've been stressed.
20:41Did your sister tell you?
20:42While I've been talking there and checking in with her.
20:43I love you.
20:45I love you.
20:46And at the same time, the person that I trusted with everything, all these little red flags, the red light bulbs went off.
20:55I've just been busy. I've been stressed.
21:00Did your sister tell you while I've been talking to her and checking in with her?
21:06I love you.
21:09Oh, my God.
21:13And I don't remember what happened after that.
21:17Just blank.
21:21Just trying to digest.
21:28How do you digest?
21:31I think I was numb for days.
21:35Did they grab it?
21:37The magnitude of betrayal?
21:41Once they got Nayeri, 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.
22:02Like, okay, they know what happened.
22:04They know all the players.
22:06Like, I was...
22:08I 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.
22:22After he's booked in Newport and he's transported to Orange County Jail, like, it's done.
22:30That was the last piece.
22:31And 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.
22:38Yeri is expected to be back in court next week.
22:41He is being held without bail.
22:43In Santa Ana, Eileen Freire, ABC7 Eyewitness News.
22:47Don't worry.
22:48I always got an ace up my sleeve.
22:50And I'm talking and breathing.
22:52Trust me.
22:53All or nothing.
22:55That's my style.
22:58And it felt great.
23:00Until it didn't.
23:08I went from 11 months of being in a literally in a box by myself.
23:37to now this behemoth of a building completely 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.
23:54There 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 imprisoned.
24:32It just, uh, I couldn't stand it.
24:43There is no real plan B.
24:46This is not the movies.
24:49Are you at the mercy of, I mean, of what happened?
24:53Uh, my passport.
25:09Paid for.
25:11Airline ticket.
25:12Purchased.
25:13Carry on in hand.
25:17LAX.
25:20Adios.
25:24It's time to go for various reasons.
25:27And where was the ticket going to take you?
25:36Istanbul, Turkey.
25:44I'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.
25:51It's three weeks before trial.
25:54And it was like midnight.
25:57And he goes, hey, uh, Orange County sheriffs are looking for you.
26:00And I'm like, why are they looking for me?
26:03Dreadful long pause.
26:06Like, what happened?
26:08And he goes, Hossein broke out of jail.
26:11I was in shock.
26:13How could you do this?
26:14The amount of man hours, and the amount of work, and the amount of emotion that was put in to, like, get out of jail.
26:19I just spent a year hunting him down and getting him from Iran.
26:25And you're gonna, you're gonna let him get out?
26:28And they were gone at least 16 hours before anybody noticed they were even gone.
26:36When I pulled up to Orange County Jail, they had this massive operation going.
26:40I'm talking to a local investigator, and he says, we do know somebody that knows a little bit about how they escaped.
26:49And he's like, are you willing to interview her?
26:51And I was like, well, who's her?
26:53And they're like, it's an ESL instructor.
26:54It's a teacher within the jail system that helps give English lessons to inmates.
27:00Which was a little weird, because he speaks English.
27:03And the entire time, I'm just frustrated, because you're not gonna give me real-time information.
27:07This is something, like, you didn't, you weren't here when he escaped, so I'm just frustrated.
27:11You know, I'm still kind of bitter.
27:12We located in his jail cell a list, basically of all of the frailties, the human frailties of the English as a second language teacher.
27:24I would love to see those notes.
27:27And he had a master plan on how to exploit those vulnerabilities.
27:32This is something that is truly premeditated, sophisticated, and calculated.
27:39There was a map to the jail and the surrounding areas.
27:45She 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.
27:59And that's what, like, then I woke up.
28:01It 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 gonna go try and kill Courtney.
28:17So 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?
28:29The Orange County Sheriff's Department repeatedly asked the public for help Monday.
28:34Three dangerous inmates escaped from the Orange County men's jail.
28:38The men cut through half-inch steel bars, they cooled through the prison's plumbing system, and they repelled themselves down from the roof.
28:44Then 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.
29:02They repelled down on a makeshift rope made out of, could be towels, could be clothes.
29:0637-year-old Hussein Nayiri 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.
29:21So, 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 quote me on that.
29:35Orange County Prosecutor Heather Brown quoted as saying, they let Hannibal Lecter out.
29:39Apparently, 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. And you can put that in your documentary.
29:52Police 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, 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.
30:11He talks to me.
30:14Eat your food, man.
30:16Jonathan Tu, Bak Duong, and Hussein Nyeri are still on the run.
30:20It's been about 24 hours now. It is time to be out of Orange County.
30:25A $50,000 reward is now being offered for the capture of the three inmates.
30:30Mastermind of an elaborate Orange County jail escape.
30:32Hussein Nyeri, using a contraband cell phone, he documents how he did it.
30:35This video is bizarre. They document every move of their escape.
30:41I don't think that this ever been real live video of an actual escape while it was being done.
30:48It is unbelievable.
30:50What would you advise him?
30:51Well, I think I would have to advise him to come in.
30:56It was a complete surprise, and it's amazing.
31:00What do you think this is stupid?
31:03You know, um...
31:06The reward for information leading to their capture has been upped from $50,000 to $200,000.
31:15Bak Duong was going to be the first man in history of this country to collect reward money on himself.
31:2543-year-old Bak Duong now back in custody.
31:29He lacked what we call in America as, perhaps, balls.
31:33Leaving 20-year-old Jonathan with 37-year-old Hussein Nyeri.
31:38The media 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.
31:47They were on his tail. They were getting closer and closer, so it felt good.
31:52A taxi cab driver was claiming that he was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to drive them up to Northern California.
31:57But 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. Special Friday night in San Francisco.
32:12I could have left that night. I'm gone. Instead, I sit tight with the kid, inside of that van, spend the last night.
32:23We smoking weed in bananas. It'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.
32:36I 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.
32:56You know, I was pretty loaded that day on some good medical marijuana, and out pops Mr. Neri.
33:02Whoa! It was like mind-boggling that now this guy's standing in front of me.
33:08Once 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. Don't mess with them, man. They'll cut your dick off.
33:18You know, you cut that out. Whoops, no pun. San Francisco PD, police car rolled by.
33:28I noticed there's cop activity. I don't think of it much. It has nothing to do with me.
33:33I look at the officers and I point my cane. I use my cane in my hand, I go, you know, body language.
33:38I say, that's the guy. And I see somebody pointing at me. That's the guy.
33:43And the cop's attention, all of a sudden, is on me.
33:49And he bolts across the street, drops his coffee, and runs right past me.
33:55All right, still running.
33:57Go back over the hill, back toward Waller.
34:00You know those rodeos you turn and dodge the bull?
34:03Still running, eight miles per second.
34:05I dodge one. I dodge the other one.
34:08He's going forward, he's going forward, we got him down.
34:15Breaking news, the two remaining fugitives from a California jail break last week are now back behind bars in San Francisco.
34:22I can say this morning that the entire state can breathe a sigh of relief because we have the other two dangerous individuals back in custody where they should be.
34:35Be in.
34:36And for 18 minutes, we can go ahead and move right to the city.
34:38Like, we're starting to create a new storage house.
34:40So you can get a new workout in our city.
34:42Okay.
34:44Let's see.
34:45And now we're waiting.
34:47We're waiting.
34:48Okay.
34:50Let's see.
34:52We're waiting.
34:53We're waiting.
34:55We're waiting.
34:57We're waiting.
34:58We're waiting.
35:01We're waiting.
35:03We're waiting.
35:04Kyle's already been convicted.
35:09This 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,
35:20the first time that he fled justice.
35:22We're going to make sure the wheels of justice
35:24finally recognize my innocence.
35:26How does that sound?
35:34I want, I personally want,
35:35Hossein Nayeri to go to jail forever.
35:38There's nothing that I could say right now
35:41that could prepare you adequately
35:43for the things that you're going to see
35:45and hear about.
35:46Throughout the trial,
35:47you never knew really how it was going to go.
35:50You agree with me that the marijuana business
35:52is filled with violent criminals?
35:54Not at all.
35:55This is a very laid-back business overall.
35:58Okay.
35:59Was it laid-back when Michael got his penis cut off?
36:02From day one,
36:05it was his decision
36:07that he was going to testify in his trial.
36:10And there was never a doubt in his mind
36:12that that's what he was going to do.
36:13And that, of course,
36:14is always a criminal defendant's right.
36:20And we had a very competent,
36:24savvy prosecutor
36:25on the other side of this case.
36:27That's correct.
36:28Okay.
36:28The van was down across the street from...
36:33Matt Murphy was living for the day
36:35to get Nayeri on the stand,
36:36to 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,
36:47I think the case was either his to make or break.
36:50See 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,
37:04it became a contest of heavyweights
37:07throwing blows against each other.
37:09How long will you be married to her for?
37:10Just put two and two together, shall we?
37:12I'm asking the questions.
37:14You're answering the questions.
37:15You don't even deserve an answer with that.
37:16It seems 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.
37:34Based on a bunch of bull.
37:36Sir?
37:37And the prosecutor did exactly
37:39what the prosecutor wanted to do with him,
37:41which was show the jury
37:42that he was an explosive, dangerous person.
37:45You're out in the desert.
37:48You cut off this penis.
37:50Why couldn't you just leave it there
37:52in the hopes that it can be reattached?
37:58You're done.
38:01You 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. Lanier?
38:09I felt sad.
38:13I felt sad for him.
38:15He really was up there fighting for his life.
38:17And just one question, he just lost it all.
38:20That's the way this works.
38:21You seem to cut me off where I'm about to stop.
38:24Excuse me, sir.
38:26Do we need to have that discussion again, sir?
38:29Your Honor is shoving down information down my throat.
38:31I need you to please leave the courtroom.
38:44Courtney was a key witness in both trials.
38:47She testified in Kyle Hanley's case,
38:50and she also testified against Hossein Nairi.
38:53And I would say the best way to describe it
38:56when she testified, it was nerve-wracking.
38:58I think anyone in that courtroom could feel the tension
39:01because she knew, like, this is that moment.
39:06He, right up until the last minute,
39:08had high hopes that Courtney was going to come around
39:12and assist him in some way,
39:14and it didn't happen for him.
39:16On the scale of a 10,
39:18being greatest, most healthy relationship ever,
39:21and totally dysfunctional as like a 1,
39:23what would you rate your relationship with Mr. Nairi?
39:25Um, a negative 100, I would say.
39:33Um, two days I watched her up there
39:36as if the 10 years that we genuinely were happy together
39:47meant absolutely fucking nothing.
39:56Lie right through her teeth.
40:00I didn't deserve to be betrayed this way.
40:04I wasn't...
40:07betrayed me.
40:11Good.
40:11I think they would still be together
40:18if it were not for this case.
40:20Look at how much she did for him.
40:22What she did behind her family's back,
40:25with 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 Nairi.
40:35I'm sure that there's maniacal people
40:38who possibly feel love for people,
40:40but love is not having your wife
40:43cover for horrible crimes.
40:45Love is not putting your wife
40:47or your girlfriend
40:48or 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,
40:56I looked at Nairi 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,
41:08when my partner Martina asked him,
41:12do you still love her now?
41:14He broke down and he was crying.
41:16And I have no doubt that was real.
41:23Hoo-hoo-hoo.
41:24Sorry, I'm not buying it.
41:27I'm not buying it.
41:28I'm a news junkie from childhood,
41:36and I take it to the limit, you know.
41:42Breaking news now.
41:43A verdict has been reached
41:45in the trial of Hossein Nairi.
41:47Hossein Nairi, the Newport Beach man
41:49convicted of kidnapping and torturing
41:51a marijuana dispensary owner,
41:53has now been sentenced to life in prison
41:55without parole.
42:00You better leave it like a little section
42:02at the end of your project
42:04that says to be continued.
42:06Mark my fucking words.
42:08I said it.
42:11I said it.
42:12I said it.
42:38I said it.
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