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Devil in the Desert

Catching Nayeri

Devil in the Desert

ABC News

True Crime, News

4.6625 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Hossein Nayeri and two other fugitives are on the run. Would Nayeri ever face justice? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

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0:07.4

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0:13.2

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0:16.1

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0:28.6

to Monday.com. January 25th, 2016, three days since the escape from the Orange County Jail,

0:36.3

and three men on the run.

0:39.2

Dangerous men.

0:41.9

Hundreds of officials from Orange County Sheriff's deputies to the FBI had been searching

0:47.3

for the fugitives and had found nothing.

0:51.8

For Southern California residents, nerves were beginning to fray.

0:57.0

Deputy District Attorney Heather Brown, who had been working the Nayeri case, was worried too.

1:03.0

For public safety, but also her own safety. When Nayari had escaped, he had left a printed picture of her and fellow DA Matt Murphy on his bunk.

1:13.6

It seemed like a clear message.

1:15.6

I'm coming for you.

1:18.6

And now, it could be anywhere.

1:21.6

And Matt Murphy came to me and said, Heather, they're out of leads.

1:26.6

And we need, at this point, the

1:28.5

sheriff's asked us to alarm the public. And you're just the girl to do it. So, Heather Brown called

1:35.7

a reporter from the Orange County Register. He asked her about Nayari's escape from jail.

1:41.3

Was she calling for sheriff's investigation to find out how that had happened?

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