Pottawattamie County sheriff's deputies had said Dehghanpour died elsewhere and that she was not "sexually attacked."
âEverything about this young woman was grand,â a friend of Firozeh Dehghanpour said. âShe was destined for wonderful things in her life. She was the best.â
Omaha police detectives at the time suspected that Dehghanpour had been killed by someone she knew because her personal belongings and papers were with her body.
"If she'd been grabbed off the street," Officer Gregory Thompson said at the time, "you'd think she would have dropped all that stuff."
Investigators tested blood and hair found on the bridge railing and crime scene. They determined that some of the blood wasn't Dehghanpour's, but the hair was hers.Â