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Devil in the Desert

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Devil in the Desert

ABC News

True Crime, News

4.6625 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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How did a former high school wrestling star from Fresno become the main suspect in a brutal crime? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:36.2

Back in the 1990s, Brad Zimmer was a gym teacher at Clovis West High School in Fresno, California.

0:43.3

I think organized sports is a great way for kids to learn a lot of life lessons.

0:50.3

Brad has spent three decades teaching hundreds, thousands of kids that sports is about more than just throwing a ball.

0:58.7

But there's only one student that he still asked so many questions about.

1:04.3

Hussein Nayeri.

1:07.5

In 1994, Brad was the wrestling coach at Clovis West, and Hussein was a new kid in his freshman class.

1:16.0

Hussein had emigrated from Iran a couple of years earlier, and he was a quiet student, still coming to grips with speaking English instead of Farsi.

1:25.8

Brad noticed how this new student seemed different around the other wrestlers.

1:30.3

The wrestlers are very tight-knit group. They were always together.

1:34.3

They were always doing something silly and

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