there is a female victim that was shot in the car, slumped over. i can t believe she s gone. melvin found with apparent gunshot wounds inside an apartment stop, screaming i can t understand you. my husband man shot. most people never know anybody that s been murdered. but to know too, and be stuck right in the middle of the. it was like a hunting party, stalking your family. i had a lot of fears for peoples safety. this guy marshall this whole family is part of this criminal enterprise. there s a moment where he stares at you and goes like this? like he s ringing your neck. yes, he didn t like me. he s an evil man. worse than charles manchin. sometimes it looks as if houston texas goes on forever, sprawling all the way to the horizon. this was also the setting of a sprawling crime. when they began on a quiet sunday night, with the young woman, named gelareh bagherzadeh. january 15th 2012, she had stopped by her boyfriend cory s house. for a surprise visi
be married to her daughter. to his oldest daughter. that s right, in 1999, ali irsan shot and killed a man who married nesreen s oldest sister. it help and at the irsan s home, in montgomery, texas. did that ended up getting prosecuted? it did. not why? because he claimed it was self defense, and it was treated as such. that it was self-defense. then detective of the montgomery county sheriff s office reinvestigate it that 1999 killing for the pass days in the task force. he said it started when the eldest daughter wanted to marry a man he disapproved of. in response, she says, irsan locked her in her room and beat her daily. and asked her frequently during the beatings, do you still love him? but the couple was persistent. and eventually married.
ali irsan testimony was not recorded. he told jurors what he claimed all along. that the allegations against him from abuse, to stalking, to murder, were downright false. all concocted by police and family members who were out to get him. that is what irsan told me when we spoke in a texas lock-up. according to him, there were only two reasons why he was being accused of murder. religious bigotry and family betrayal. and law enforcement and the government of the united states. they believe blackmail and intimidate every person that has put me. here you think everybody who testified against you did this because they were intimidated. three of them. that s the main thing. so your wife, your nephew, and your daughter who all testified against, you you think that only happened because they were intimidated.