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away. and we hung out for a couple of hours. she went home, and i told her when she got home to text me and let me know she made at home okay >> just past 11 pm, now heading home gelareh bagherzadeh round through the streets of houston's galleria neighborhood. as she drove she chatted on the phone, with her friends robeen bandar. >> she got closer to home, around the forward. >> as she pulled in the town house where she lived their parents for a moment she stop talking. >> when i asked are you there, she said hold on. she hugs and she said they're not moving. and then the phone dropped. and i heard a very loud scream, it was a scream like it was from the bottom of her lungs. like she shouted so loud. >> he dialed 9-1-1 another line as he sped to her house. >> i was with my friend, she was on the other, line i think she got a car accident. i said something she's not

responding back but the phone is still on. robeen arrived at the front door gelareh and her parents. everything look normal. >> her parents as the door with a smile. i asked if gelareh was home. they said no. i said, i was on the phone with her, i was still on the phone with her when i actually knock on the door. >> the call was still alive but there was nothing coming from her end of the line. robeen drove off to look for her. and called 9-1-1 again. what if something really terrible happened to her. i can't find out where she is though. >> just north of town gelareh boyfriend cory waited for her to text him. that she was home safe. >> we kind of had this thing cause i would get so absorbed studying, that i would check my phone sometimes so she would be like you need to call me and don't disappear. this night i texted, her hair you okay, let me know you made it home.

and i'm thinking maybe she's doing that to me now, that she's like i'm gonna show him how it feels. >> giving you a taste of your medicine. >> yeah. i just went to bed. >> he wasn't that concerned but over at her complex, neighbors had been calling 9-1-1. >> i just heard what sounded like three gunshots. right behind my unit and a car leaving suddenly and i'm afraid to go out there and see what's happening. >> did you see the car leave? suddenly >> i can't see, my garage is behind my time. house i heard three gunshots and then, screeching tires. >> did you see the vehicle it came from? >> no identity. it just the screeching tires pulling out, you could hear. >> it all happened in the garages of the same complex where gelareh in her parents lived. soon a patrol unit for the houston police department pulled up to the rear driveway. this reporter for an nbc affiliate, casey r.i.p..

>> the first responder for the officer knew something was wrong. a car crash in the garage, door engine, on wheels spinning. >> he looks, around reaches in number one to shut that engine off so the tire stop. >> the front passenger window was shattered. inside, a woman, in the driver seat. slumped to her right. >> and he looks over and realizes there's nothing he can do to help her. and realizes he's got a call for investigators. >> the woman had been shot through the head. it was gelareh. within units the homicide squad arrived at the rear of the town house complex. >> i went back to gelareh house in police were over there. in yellow ribbons. you know >> the crime scene tape. >> yes exactly. >> her friend robeen said he hadn't heard the gunshots on the phone, he was still are searching for an accident scene, and wondered if that lay behind the tape.

>> where did you think it happened? >> i don't know. i could not connect the dots. >> it would take a long time to connect those dots. because this was a mystery almost too surreal to believe. and solving it would take not just years, but also at least one more murder. coming up. you look at that tape of gelareh at the gas station. anybody? with or >> no. >> does she seem anyway upset or worried? >> no sir. >> for cellphone, purse. all that stuff was still there. >> all. they're no. robbery >> what's going on? here >> we really don't. no >> someone does know something >> she said, i have a lot to tell, you if you listen to me. >> when dateline continues. dateline continues dad, it's a buick. i love that new alexa smell. it's a buick.

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goodnight to his girlfriend, gelareh bagherzadeh, that summer evening in january, he had no idea he would never see her again. the couple had only been dating a little while. but the young romance was moving quickly. >> were you in love with her? >> i think that we were head over heels for one another. we were together 24/7 for two months. >> they met in school at andy anderson. gelareh bagherzadeh, moved here from iran in 2007. she was studying molecular genetics. after graduation she hoped to become a csi. one afternoon cory was waiting for his sister in law, who happen to walk out with her class me. >> and i told her, yes, she's pretty cute. so sure enough, she went and told her. she had a party and then we started dating a couple days after that. >> gelareh bagherzadeh and cory beavers, fell fast and hard. >> we know you like, or she was cute, but what else? >> she seemed really genuine,

she said you didn't have to change anything about yourself. so i was just really comfortable being with her. >> as young couples often, do they spent every spare minute together. driving to school, movies, dinners, or just hanging out at home. and during much of that time, they had company. >> so you guys, all four, hang the room together? >> pretty much, yes. >> the other couple in this nesreen irsan, and coty beavers, , cory's identity. when >> we were the one driving to school all the time together, so they got a lot closer. >> because to close friends are now dating to twin brothers. >> right, right. >> i'm thinking you're really not unhappy to sear with your son. >> i could tell he was happy. >> surely the twins mom thought that her boys had both than. well cody, with nesreen irsan an cory with gelareh bagherzadeh. as a mom, that's what you want. and she seemed like a very good person.

i thought nesreen irsan was a very good person. >> she loved the energy that gelareh bagherzadeh brought to the household. >> that's the time in your life, where the kids move out, and you buy two palmer indians. >> well i preferred it that way. it was nice. they were all happy. >> gelareh bagherzadeh had just spent christmas with the family. cory and cody's brother, remembered how thrilled she was. >> she had gotten a number of christmas presents for cory and for other people and was so excited to get them out. >> -- you're being selfish. >> i can open it. >> just this bottle of energy bouncing around, so happy, she wanted other people to be happy. >> that ball of energy is what friends like kathy soltani loved. >> she was full of life, she was funny, crazy, full of energy. everything packaged in a tiny body altogether.

>> but very loud? >> super loud. yes. very animated. she couldn't hide her feelings. >> about anything? about iran? about the traffic? -- >> anything. >> she loved church, playing piano, dancing, and most of all, her friends and family. >> gelareh bagherzadeh the center of attention in the best of ways. >> she was screaming all the time, running, jumping, even hugging people. it wasn't a normal hug. she's kind of hanging on your neck because she was so petite and so full of life. she was very sweet. >> and so that morning after gelareh bagherzadeh was murdered. kathy soltani could hardly believed it when she received a call. >> that was so surreal. one of our friends from our group, he called me and said, have you heard the news about

gelareh bagherzadeh? >> kathy thought she was about to hear good news. >> i was so excited, i asked is she going to be engaged? >> he said no, obviously you haven't heard the news this morning or last night. and i said no, why the news? and then he told me -- i'm sorry. i couldn't speak after that. my voice just left my body. it was very said. anyway, i tried to talk but i couldn't get my voice -- i couldn't hear my own voice. finally i was yelling but this really faint voice was coming out >> gelareh bagherzadeh friend, founded just a speechless.

>> hard to talk about her? >> sometimes it is. >> cory was among the last to find out. he was looking forward to seeing gelareh bagherzadeh later that day but he hadn't turned on the news before he drove over to her place >> there was a bunch of news crew in the alleyway. this reporter comes up to me and she taps on the glass. >> you don't know anything about the 30-year-old girl who lives in that apartment right there? >> yes, that's where my girlfriend lives. >> what are you thinking at that point? >> i don't know. just 1 million thought started racing through my head. she just told me, you need to go talk to the family. and so, i just jumped out of my car and then knocked on the door and heard that answer. i was like, what happened to her? and he told me gelareh bagherzadeh is dead. and it's like, it sounds weird, but, i was thinking maybe she was just in a car accident or something.

not that she was just gone. >> what happens next? >> i go into their house and her mom is just direct. >> gelareh bagherzadeh parents, ebrahim bagherzadeh and monireh zangeneh. >> you're remembering? >> what are you thinking about? >> i couldn't believe -- >> what did you think that happened? >> we didn't know. she does not have any enemies. >> grief and questions were fighting for space in everyone's heads. and not one single answer would come easily. >> coming up -- >> detectives focus on gelareh

bagherzadeh friend robeen bandar who turned out, was also her ex. >> they grabbed me and put me in the back of the patrol car. i remember calling a friend and telling them, if you don't hear from me by tomorrow, you know, look for me. because i sense something's wrong >> and that you're going to be blamed for it? >> possibly. >> when dateline continues. n dateline continues can't keep up. this is going to get tens and tens of views. ♪ ♪ ( car crashing ) ♪ ♪ but if you don't have the right auto insurance coverage, you could be left to pay for this... yourself. call a local agent or 1-888-allstate for a quote today. (christine) when you hear the words oral cancer, call a local agent or 1-888-allstate think about more than just your mouth. this surgery can really leave a mark on your shoulder. not to mention what it can do to your face. (announcer) you can quit. for free help, >> so many in houston knew and call 1-800-quit-now.

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>> that chapel is, it seats 700 people. and it was fully packed, there were people standing, people were outside. >> there was a big picture of her, and it was a sad day. her friends were there. her professors were there. in the few number of years that she lived in houston, she knew so many people. >> and all of them in a state of shock. >> everybody. >> our life has changed. really changed. >> for her family, even that outpouring of sympathy could not blunt their pain. >> you know when i laugh, my laughing has changed. it's not like before. >> it's not like before. >> no. >> her murder also hit the beavers family hard, not just

cory, the rest of the for some da. >> he was just losing it over gallery. and i could hear mystery in the background screaming and crying. i had all of them falling to pieces at the same time. >> while the family dealt with the shock, investigators puzzled over who was responsible for her murder houston pd detective, now retired, ran lead on the case. he remembers the crime scene that night. a jumble of shattered glass. or rubber, and blunt. >> you could smell burning tire. you could see evidence on the ground. where the car was just sitting there spinning for a while. >> investigators begin with the contents of her car. which explain exactly what kind of crime, this was not.

>> first of all, her cellphone, her purse, her wallet. all of that stuff is still there. >> it's all there. >> no. robbery >> obviously no sexual sought. >> no sexual sought. >> so what's going on here? >> at that point time we really don't know. >> the forensic team went to work gelareh we shot from outside the passenger window. that bullet passing streak through her head and fragmenting on the ground. another grazed her arm and lodged in the driver side door. >> we will kind of gun kilter? >> according to her firearms, they said it was a coat 38 caliber >> pretty common. >> yes sir. >> outside the car detectives noticed one side of the lights over the garage was out. making the dim driveway even dimmer. was that a killer? work >> somebody might reached up there in unscrew the light bulb. >> they could be standing there. hiding >> csi swab the lay for dna dusted for prints.

and then beautiful work up on galleries car. they found a latent print. and sent that off to, on the ground near her car. a cigarette but. evidence perhaps than someone had been waiting for her. and past the time smoking. report, ryan course guard. >> they didn't know where it came from or who it might've came from, at that point they gather that dna evidence thinking there might be something on, there to get that processed. >> investigators canvas the town house complex, door to door, neighbor to neighbor. it turns out, one neighbor had heard something. and then peeked out his window. >> he heard the gunshots, and then moments later, he saw either a light blue or silver honda accord or to go my camera fleeing the scene. >> it was it much to go on. it was a start. now the detective wondered among the millions in the greater houston metro area, how did the killer selects gallery. they need to trace her steps in the minutes before her murder. >> in the car there was a receipt, that night, at a gas

station. >> the station had security cameras. >> you look at that tape of at gelareh the gas station. anybody? with or >> no. >> did she seem in any way upset or worried? >> she's not looking over her shoulder? >> no sir. >> she purchases a pack a cigarettes and she leaves. the videotape does not show any other cars pull in behind her follow her anything like that. >> which brought the cops back to robeen bandar, who arrived at the murder scene just minutes after the. shooting >> the cops came to me and i was trying to go to see what is going on. and they said who are you. i said, i'm looking for my friend, and i was on the phone with her they grabbed me and put me in the back of the patrol car. >> to keep you from learning anything else. >> exactly. >> of course, they asked him about the nature of his relationship with gelareh. >> we learned that in the past that he and gelareh had dated each other. >> we had a lot of similarities

personality wise and all of, that we had strong feelings, but we classed so much, so we decided to stay friends. >> you made the transition from boyfriend girlfriend to pell's. >> exactly. >> and that worked out -- . yes that worked. out >> she was dating somebody. outs i was dealing somebody else to. >> you are okay with the? >> yes we were both okay. >> police asked you about all of this up. sure >> about whether or not there is any lingering anger that things have not worked out. >> that was the main concern us. >> so his presence at the scene, right after the murder, remained at the very least, provocative to detectives. >> we just don't know at this time we don't really.

no >> i remember calling a friend and telling, them i don't know i happened, but if you don't hear anything from me, by tomorrow noon, look for me. because i said something is wrong >> and that you're going to be lame? for >> possibly. >> he was not the only person detectives had their eyes, on gelareh had a number of friends. and popularity can sure complicate a murder investigation. coming up, it turns out, she recently had an unfriendly encounter, online. >> he had threatened, terry said you'll be sorry the next time i see you. and she just kind of left about. it >> when dateline continues. en dateline continues. but then something amazing happened. hello? carvana worked with my shift manager and got everything sorted out so i didn't miss out on the car. super helpful. i was over the moon, even though i was underground.

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more than an hour, before officers finally breached. nearly 40 million americans are expected to travel this holiday weekend, despite a surge of coronavirus cases, higher air fares and gas prices soaring to a national average of $4.60. now, back to dateline. verage of $4.60.reassemble-ing s life is a process that moves slowly. even though those doing it desperately want just the opposite and so houston police focused on the hours before galareh's life ended. and that landed them on the doorstep of her new boyfriend, cory beavers. >> we learned that she was at cory's house that evening. they watched movies and then left, i think before midnight. >> detectives were eager to talk with cory. and core said he was eager as well

he even left his number with the reporter at the crime scene. hoping, he says, that cops will reach out to him. >> so i gave her my phone number. i knew that the detectives would want to talk to me because i'm the boyfriend. so if you can, just pass on my information to them when they get here. >> cory came into top the evening after galareh summer. straight from the book, investigators asked him, where he was when gallery was shot. at home, corey said. except for a quick run out for soda. >> after she left i went to a gas station and i told them about this >> after a long conversation cory was free to go for the time being >> houston pd had other leads to run now. like a friend of her beans who galareh was friends with, just a couple of days before she was. murder >> they had gotten to be

friends on facebook, just that for our day. he said, you'll be sorry next time that i see you. and she kind of just left about it, and said he's just being a silly boy. >> so investigators run a facebook check on that front. >> we got quarters for his cell phone, you know, he's at a bar. so we were able to rule this person out. >> then another possibility. galareh's father had been embroiled in a lawsuit with his former employer. a lot of money was at stake. along with some people's reputation. >> i know it was quite a bit of money. and so, i told them, maybe they were out for some kind of revenge or something, against her dad. >> galareh, lived with their parents. so police wondered if her murder could somehow be tied to that.

galareh's friend, kathy soltani, acted as the surrogate. >> the police told you that they were investigating the lawsuit that the father was within a former -- >> yes these are rocks that they did go. but they weren't giving us every little detail unless it was something that they thought they should come and check with the family and get more information. >> and the list went on. investigators looked at another ex-boyfriend and came by his place for a top. and he had a solid alibi. detectives also checked out a report of a man who bragged about killing women in the area where galareh was shot. he turned out to be disturbed but not homicidal. and they spent some time tracking down a carjacking crew that was working galareh's neighborhood. >> we had the task force over there. maybe this was the same group trying to steal another. car >> and it didn't work, out and they shot her? >> and it didn't work on the shot or.

>> but they're whipping of choice didn't match. >> we said, we had a shotgun. we rob people with a shotgun. >> then there was something about galleries mom's lawsuit. after a closer look, that fizzled out too. >> they went down one after, one after another trial, and never got anywhere. >> after looking through each new person of interest, investigators turned back to one of their first, corey. >> they called me in, and wanted to polygraph. me which i thought was weird. because this with three or four months later. i was, like why didn't you polygraph me the first week if you are trying to track down who did this? >> and your answer might be so distraught, that it would've made a difference. >> i just remember that they were asking me these questions like, what color your shirt was? and that was the baseline question and then they would ask me, did you shoot that girl? and then i remember i would get really upset because they were just calling her, that girl. >> but courage wasn't just upset about how they were questioning, they were upset that they weren't going harder on him. >> you were upset because you

weren't under enough suspicion? >> right, because in my mind, if you weren't looking at me, what are you going to do with the guy who actually did it? do you think he's actually gonna tell you that they did? >> so you felt like they weren't working very hard? >> yes exactly. >> okay, maybe they got an honest uninvolved bylaw here? >> right. >> and even though cory thought he should've faced more scrutiny, he passed the polygraph. and this records backed up his alibi. >> cory was nowhere around the area by the time of her death. >> this time, the boyfriend didn't do it. so where did that lead detectives? maybe a whole other theory would provide the answers. coming up -- >> investigators learn gallery had protested against the regime of her native country. >> there was one theory that the iranian government could've been involved. >> she was very outspoken person. >> so she took this pretty seriously? >> she did, she did. >> when dateline continues. are really worried.

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theories of gelareh murder. one simply came from the fact that she sought the spotlight for a cause. she dreams of regime change in her native iran. in this country gelareh, demonstrated, organized pro tides groups, did anything to make her case. >> the way i matter is my mom noticed her because she was chanting so loudly, my mom tapped her on her shoulder and said, young girl, don't do,

that it's not good for your throat and your voice. they won't hear you at iran. and she said i'm so frustrated, that's why i'm doing it so, loud that's the day we might. . >> loud seems to be the default setting for gelareh. >> definitely. i don't know how that voice fit in that tiny body. >> protesting the regime is how she met her friend robeen bandar. >> she was a very outspoken person. in a way feminist i can say that. >> she took this pretty seriously >> she did. she did. and she was pretty involved. >> did you ever worry she was too outspoken? that i would get her in trouble? >> yes. >> did you talk to her about that? >> did you ever worry she was too outspoken? that i would get her in trouble?

>> yes. >> did you talk to her about that? >> yes. >> and what would she say? >> she said i'm not worried. i have to. i have to say the truth. we >> now with her murder in the headlines, there was quite a lot of speculation. >> there was one theory out there that the iranian governments could've been involved. that's because she was very involved in these pro human rights campaigns and iran. she was very outspoken about, it would even go to rallies. it was a thought, it was a belief, but really added to the end street of this case. >> were you concerned that that part of her personality might have gone or killed? >> we were. we reached out to the fbi, we even met with an fbi agent. who is probably an expert in middle east, to determine if this could be something politically done. >> while the feds looked into, it police re-visited someone they met, at the crime scene. >> i believe that i was the main suspect, because i was on

the phone with her. i've been back and forth to the station downtown. >> what were they asking? you >> just about everything. >> for one thing, detectives noticed robeen had a photo of guns on his facebook page. >> we went back and met with them again over that. >> did you see would made you meet with him? >> if he has guns let's see if he still has them. maybe he has a 38. and we could compare. >> that definitely got police attention. >> it got police attention. they had access to everything i can imagine, in all of my life, on my facebook. >> could you feel a way, could you feel the way? >> i definitely did. yes. >> that was not the last time they would talk with robeen. >> they asked me to take a polygraph test. >> you did? >> i did willingly. >> eaton hire an attorney? >> now. >> he told us he thought he was the main suspect. was he right? >> at one point in time he was. but everybody was.

>> months went by with no answers in her murder. >> one of the policing? >> not much. everybody was in this bubble of confusion, and frustration. and so many leads and so many calls. >> through crime stoppers, gelareh family offered $200,000 for information. >> how many tips came in for the giant reward? >> i'd say 10 to 15. >> 10 to 15, real legitimate steps. that you would spending man hours looking into. didn't even go anywhere? >> no. took us to a couple of people who i would say mentally unstable, trying to collect $200,000. >> forensics results from the crime scene were not very telling the light that was suspiciously dimmed, csi's could not pull a printer any dna from it. the lay imprints off the hood of her car, it belonged to a

mechanic who had worked on it recently, and he had a solid alibi. and the cigarette but they found? lead nowhere. >> we processed it, it did not get us anything. we don't get any dna off of it. >> as for the theory that the iranian government was behind her murder. those close to her at always regarded it, as preposterous. >> we were not important, they would not waste their energy and time to come and do something like this. >> gallery was not a big enough. fish >> know none of us was. >> eventually investigators became convinced as well. this speculation amounted to nothing. >> we looked, but there was nothing that suggested that the iranian government had anything to do with this. >> if her friend his friend seemed to be clearing himself. results for the polygraph showed nothing suspicious, as

for his cell records, when he's on the phone with, galleria showed on the cell side tire on the phone. putting him exactly where he said he was all along. >> that said, detectives still were not done with him. they thought he might have buried memories, of that awful night. >> they hypnotized me, maybe my unconscious mind will tell them something. >> did that help? >> i don't think so. that was it. >> in june, six months after gelareh murder, her friends and family gathered to mark her birthday. >> they should not have happened. >> it was memorialized in this video. her boyfriend, cory beavers was there to. and clearly struggling. >> there's no getting over something like that is? there >> it's always, there you learn to live with it, but i don't, it doesn't go away, no. a >> summer crop into fall, and so did the investigation.

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revolved around a woman named galareh. the next, she was gone. murdered in cold blood. >> i didn't want to believe she was just gone. >> for months it seems the ache and anguish would never end. then, just does the heaviness lifted enough for cory to refocus on school, and a series of upcoming exams -- >> they were like high stakes tests, if you filled them, you are out of the program. >> -- life delivered another serving of the worst news possible. it was november 12th 2012. and cory woke up feeling dreadful >> i was just like, i was out of it, my brain was just fogged up when people talk about that twin to twin connection. that that happened that day. >> the twin connection. cody and cory. that in a sense that one twin has when something is up with the other.

>> cory didn't know what's that something was at the time. his mom, surely, was the first to hear the devastating news. >> around midnight, i got a knock on the door, that no parents wants to get. >> police. >> right. >> what did they say? >> they asked me if i was cody's mother. >> so i asked them, yes i am, is he okay? and they said no. >> she immediately headed to the home of coty identical twin brother, cory beavers. >> it was 1:30 in the morning, i woke up, and i saw through my text messages that she said, i'm at your front door, come and open the door. >> what did your mother say? >> she just said, somebody killed coty. >> and then i don't really remember a whole lot. >> just ten months of do the murder of his girlfriend, cory beavers, was confronted with the death of his twin brother.

somebody who had been as constant as his own shadow for 28 years. >> we were really good growing up kind of like he was my best friend, he always had my back, but then we kind of started to drift as we got older. but we were always close. >> now, two members of that happy for some, had died violently. >> you know, most people never know anyone that's been murdered. >> yes, usually. >> it's one thing that two people are murdered at one point, but there's another thing that one person is murdered, then two months later, somebody else's murder. >> it began as a hot november day slowly gave way to a balmy houston night. a call came into 9-1-1. >> 9-1-1? hello >> stop screaming i can't understand you. >> the woman on the line was desperate, her voice piercing.

>> oh man, my husband has been shot. i just came home and he -- >> your husband as the? shot where is the gun? >> i don't know. man >> did he shoot himself or that somebody else should? him >> no ma'am, somebody shot him, somebody shot him, i promise my body -- >> the operator needed some basic information. >> what's your name? >> my name is nesreen irsan, >> what? >> nesreen. >> and as a nancy, he is an edward, this is incentive -- >> nesreen, coty beavers's wife >> i love him please. >> lay him flat on his back. >> i can't, he's stiff. >> he's stiff? >> he stiff. i hate my life. >> there was no point to cpr. >> coty was that. >> why god why did god do this to me? >> god was in the one who did this

>> coty beavers had been shot to death in his own apartment. >> -- was among the first on the scene to cody's murder. >> can you tell what kind of weapon killed coty? >> i cannot. i cannot tell you what kind of weapon that was. it was later determined to be a small caliber. >> creatures where the? saying >> it was not. >> one thing was clear, coty beavers never had a chance. >> somebody put seven bullet holes in him before he could rub the assault rifle leaning against the wall. >> you know, he died with his hand very close to that weapon. >> and it seemed the killer, or killers of coty beavers wanted his death to deliver a message. >> his wedding ring was actually found on his middle finger. that's not where he wore. >> he wore it on the same finger everybody else does. >> that's correct. >> you know, could it be a signal, could it be a message.

it's very possible. >> exactly what the message said was another question. was there a third person involved in some triangle with coty beavers and nesreen irsan. if so, was that a man or woman? or was there someone else who had an issue with their marriage. the detective believed those questions would be key to solving this murder. to answer them, he'd have to reconstruct every moment of the gruesome day. it was about 4:30 in the afternoon when coty beavers's wife nesreen irsan, had stepped into the apartment to find the tv on. and the copper scent of blood in the air. >> she found him unresponsive on the floor of the apartment. she immediately began crying and shouting and a neighbor heard that activity and when he came over, he actually helped her to don and, one to reported. >> that is when she made that 9-1-1 call. >> i can't believe this happened, it feels like a

nightmare. i can't believe it. i really want to die. i really want to die. >> oh, she was obviously extremely upset, crying, just what you would expect from someone who just lost someone they love. >> at 24 nesreen, had only been married for a little bit more than a year. and now she was a widow. >> i'm sure, you feel at this point, tremendous sympathy for her. >> yes. >> but it would be a mistake to only look at that and let nesreen off the hook. are >> correct. >> one of the worst things here is to develop tunnel vision. yes, it was still wide open at that point. >> so the homicide detective took the wife's statement. according to nesreen the last time she had seen her husband

was at about 5:30 t that morning. >> she had left for work at that time, he would walk or to her car -- >> it's still dark at that hour? >> yes sir. it's still dark. >> the newlyweds had only been in their new apartment for a month or so. nesreen explained she had the only key to the front door. he would leave it unlocked because she had a key. she had the. >> so somebody is maybe observing the routine. goes into the apartment knowing it's unlocked while they're walking to their car. >> very possible. >> the detective was all yours, listening to anything that didn't ring true. particularly of interest, how nesreen would explain the contents of her handbag. >> the thought that you came into contact, she did have a gun, she was carrying a gun. >> yes. >> as the sky darkened, the detective put the new window in its car. he had more questions, but it turned out nesreen had answers for things he never imagined

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left behind struggle to make sense of the senseless. when someone loses a twin, they agony can be even more profound. a mirror image, vanished. after codi beaver's murder came a haunting question, was it possible that his identical twin brother cory, was the real targets?

was this all a case of mistaken identity? >> in the beginning i thought would if it was they were after cory, would if gelareh and cory were in this something. >> and cody gets killed by mistake >> yes by mistake. >> not according to cody beaver's wife, who said his murder was no mistake. >> she had put a lot out there. her story kept growing. >> the story nesreen told the detective, began three years earlier. in the fall of 2009. she enrolled in a local community college, there she met cory beavers. who set her up with his twin brother cody. nesreen and cody were instantly a couple. she did stir job, start wearing makeup, and has her relationship with cody grew more serious, she even converted to christianity. her father, was an immigrant from jordan, and when he found out, he was not pleased. >> he had his beliefs, and he forbid her from seeing cody. he wouldn't let her day any

boy. without his approval. >> nesreen said her father was trying to control her, and confine her to the family home. >> she was being held at the house, by her mother and some siblings >> she's howled at this point? >> at that point she was 23 at this point. >> and she's being essentially kidnapped? not allowed to leave. yes >> it was the summer of 2011 and she said she wanted to escape when her father left her in the custody of her stepmother and sister, so he could travel back to jordan, she saw her chance. >> she said she climbed out a window, and went to a neighbor's house, and asked them to give her a ride. the neighbor did, and that's when she went to the house where cody was.

>> cody korte's mother surely remember when she shot only showed up on the doorstep. >> she comes to live, with yosemite close >> now she on the other clothes on her back. literally. >> two weeks later, misery named cody were married by a justice of the peace. >> when you saw them together stars in their eyes. >> they were in love. >> they both. we're very much. >> there were some however who did not wish the newlyweds happily ever after. according to nesreen, her father was way past anger at her decision to run off and mary cody. he became she says, dangerously hundred hinged. obsessed.

to the point of stalking her. and her new husband. and his family. >> many of her neighbors told her, that a person matching our fathers description approached them and offered money for where she including reliving. >> you eventually confirm? this >> yes we. did >> so she was telling the truth about. this >> yes. >> the stalking continued after nesreen and cody were married and living in their own place. in fact, one neighbor reported that a few days before cody was murdered, a stranger had come to her door, asking where cody lived >> she talked to the person through the door. and she only looked through the people, at the individual. >> so you get the sketches somebody that looked like through the people? >> correct. >> the man in this sketch did not look like nesreen dad. but she said it did resemble one of her relatives. she told the detectives that gun she'd been carrying in her pocketbook at the crime scene, had been one of many she and her husband had recently

acquired, to protect themselves from her family >> you examine? the >> same caliber as a weapon that killed her husband? >> no. >> did she insisted? attorney >> never. >> edged took a polygraph and passed? >> yes. >> anything prove to be false that she said? >> no. >> so you're growing more confident she's giving you the straight story. >> it's leaning that way at that point. >> after the murder, nesreen had no place to go. she couldn't go back to the apartment she shared with cody, that was a crime scene. so she called her mother in, shirley mccormack. >> how was nesreen? >> she was devastated. >> both surely and nesreen had a bad feeling. with cody's killer or killers still on the loose, they didn't feel safe anywhere familiar. >> we can go back to my house to spend the night. because. >> it's not safe.

>> we want to spend the night with some friends. nesreen sleep with me that night. and just cried. all night. and called out for cody. >> for nesreen, haunted by family secrets. there would be many more sleepless nights. coming up. investigators learned gelareh may have had her own run in with nesreen father. >> she said hello. and he said is this that iranian bitch? >> when dateline continues. where i compared home insurance rates. we don't need to print the internet. some are beyond help. i will give you $100 if you can tell me what this is. -scotch egg. -it's a meatball.

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of an interview room. but nesreen unspooled the tangle facts of her life. what's she had seen, what's she heard, what's she thought. all of it was interesting. one nugget was a truce showstopper >> she told me about her close

friend who had been killed earlier that year. she expressed that she had concerns that her father was involved in the murder of her friend galareh if. >> that might have been surprising to sergeant do say. but it had already occurred to some people close. galareh had known all about nesreen's family trouble. she even had a couple of run-ins with her dad over the phone. >> at one point, he had called galareh, and she just told him all, she said like, let her live her life, she's old enough to do her own thing at this point. you are not in charge of her anymore. >> you are present for that call? >> she told me about this call. >> cory beavers said that about a month later, her son contacted galareh. >> she said hello, and then he said, is that that iranian bitch and that is when she went off on. him >> the ukrainian woman let ali hear exactly what she

thought of him. >> then she started yelling at him in farsi. in my understanding, it was that he was cursing her. out >> a few days later galareh was murdered. >> i told cory several times, that we would talk about galareh so i think it might have been ali it was probably ali. >> you don't think that's jumping to conclusions, she was a voice on the phone. tim and he's going to killer? >> i don't know, i just felt like he had something to do with it. >> richard bolton working the gallery case said that, ali had been on his radar. >> in between galareh and cory beavers. who were your prime suspects? >> i'm not gonna say suspects, i'm going to say person of interest. it was cory beavers, you know, ali, right off the bat -- >> really?

>> seems to me, he wasn't at the top of your list. and i'm thinking that the proof of that is, you didn't arrest him. >> well we have no evidence to arrest him. she's making allegations but there's nothing to substantiate that. >> while it might seem farfetched that a couple of telephone conversations between strangers could lead to a murder, the investigator says, he took it seriously. he brought ali in for an interview and asked him, if he knew anything about galareh. >> talking to him about galareh, he said i don't know, i don't know anything, i don't know what you're talking about. >> -- it's like he's putting a nail by a two by four. >> they kept an eye on ali, even kept an eye on his phone. calls >> so we aren't able to tell whether he was there or not you know.

>> so mr. ali had something to do with it and -- >> the cellphones indicate something. >> -- he needed to talk to ali irsan. and he says the man who showed up at his interrogation room didn't act at all like the monster nesreen had described. >> he came across as a poor helpful father that his daughter had ran away from home and he was merely trying to find her and bring her home. >> just help me get her back. >> yes. >> i explained to him that i was there due to the murder of coty beavers. and that is what i was investigating. he said, he didn't know the guy. he's sorry that that happened to him. but he doesn't know anything about him. >> while the investigator interviewed ali irsan, the police searched his home. we turned up some guns and ammo. but nothing that could be

definitively matched to either crime scene. however, two vehicles were parked in the yard with curious contents one held some knives. wigs, knit caps, and gloves. in the glove box in one of the cars investigators found this, an envelope with scrambles on both sides. >> it had several license plate numbers written down on it. and there was an address, at least one address on that envelope >> sure, altogether it seemed suspicious but that wasn't enough to make an arrest. it wasn't enough for a conference call. we had, of course, we had the county sheriff's office, the office of inspector general at the fbi and homeland security. >> that's a lot of old alter lurie against one guy. >> yes. >> by the time they had marked the first anniversary of gelareh bagherzadeh death, the sergeant had assembled a task

force. and ali irsan was in his crosshairs. >> coming up -- >> investigators make a discovery at the ali irsan home. a gps unit, with a story to tell when dateline continues. when dateline continues.

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if ali irsan was a murder. he was a good one. there had been no figure prince, no dna, no shell casings left behind at either crime scene. there had been no witnesses, no murder weapons. cory beavers and coty beavers said the family was not shy about asking investigators questions. >> what are you going to do to solve this murder? are you going to hold the people accountable? they listened, but they were given a very limited response. we were given very generic answers >> what were investigators doing? they had ali irsan under constant surveillance. and with the help of the feds, they were digging through every part of ali irsan's life. he had arrived to the u.s., and married nesreen's mother. an american woman who was blind. she mentioned years of sexual

abuse at the hands of ali irsan. no charges were ever filed. his second wife, a jordanian woman was only in her teens when they married. by 2014 ali irsan was the father of 12. how did he support the family? well it wasn't from a 9 to 5 gig. >> some of the allegations that nesreen had brought forward was that her father was involved in multiple fraud. >> fbi agent was a member of the task force. he said the search of the compound backed up nesreen's claims. it revealed a paper trail. >> from local frauds, to federal frauds, to benefits fraud. especially to the fed, some of the rip off schemes were ingenious as they were brazen. in order to boost his government benefits, ali irsan filed fraudulent claims in the name of his children.

and then, put multiple mailboxes at the end of his driveway to receive the checks. >> how much money did ali irsan get from the federal government meant that he wasn't entitled to? >> several of thousands of dollars over a period of time. >> in may 2014, a year and a half after the coty beavers murder. and more than two years after the murder of gelareh bagherzadeh. the full weight of the task force landed on ali irsan's door stuff while helicopters circled head, the fbi executed the surged while the swat team served arrest warrants. and by the end of the day, ali irsan his wife and another guard were all in federal custody on fraud charges. >> indian, was it easier to prove social security fraud against ali irsan than any murder charge? >> yes.

we removed boxes and boxes of documents out of the house. that attic was full. i think we stayed out there for two or three days. police called you and said, ali irsan are rested -- >> yes, they told us that they had picked them up for the fraud. >> but they were going to try to turn that into a homicide prosecution. >> right, correct. >> right now investigators thought that they had their hands on his possible motive for murder. it was clear that he disapproved of the marriage and murder was one way to ended. as for galareh she never even met ali irsan. it seemed her crime was speaking her mind over the phone to a man who resented any defiance from women. >> she didn't care who she offended. >> no. she talked before she. thought >> investigators found out that one of ali irsan's car was near the galareh crime scene. so that got ali irsan indicted for the crime, in addition to the fraud charges. they still didn't have quite

enough evidence to add on to the murder of coty beavers. so surveillance at the ali irsan home continued. that is would eventually produced a critical piece of evidence. >> one of our surveillance teams contacted me and they informed me that they had observed to have all these son accepting an area of the roof line of the halls which they believed was a hidden compartment . >> investigators recovered to gps units that had been hidden in a space behind the gutters. though neither unit was operable, over a period of months, forensics to access the computer lab managed to coax one of them back to life. >> they were able to recover data which put the unit not only to the exact location but within the same date time period of the coty beavers murder. >> --

on the day of the murder. >> on the day of the murder, it records from the day of the residents all the way to the apartment murder. >> -- three years after coty beavers was killed. ali irsan was charged with capital murder in both cases. >> we just kind of wanted justice and i don't know, it was just a long time to wait for. >> the weight wasn't close to over and neither was the trail of bodies. >> coming up -- ali her son goes on trial and it's unlike anything prosecutors have experienced

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call today. quote, told story that open. but sometimes it seems appropriate, here,. he said famously that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. few could've imagined a family as unhappy or as an seamlessly dysfunctional as the one headed by ali irsan. a father of 12. now charged with murdering his daughter's husband. and her best friend. and prosecutors said, he had help from his wife and his eldest son. >> we realize it was really a family operation. he, his wife, son involved in this really trying to take everyone out of his daughter's orbit. >> in this alleged crime family

its patriarch was the first to stand trial, in june 2018. the victims family and friends waited six years. >> when you're in the courtroom, you see ali irsan for the first time in person. >> pretty hard to conceal your hatred for someone like that? >> right. i didn't really hate him. i didn't really pay that much attention for him. i paid attention to the jury because they were the one that would decide. >> special prosecutors and then emma's, marie print, and john stevenson prosecuted the people versus ali irsan. their first hurdle, explaining what they saw as the motive. that ali irsan was enraged his daughter and married outside the family's fate. he killed coty beavers the christian husband. and galareh, the friend who talked back to him.

and may have encouraged nesreen's relationship. >> he wanted to kill all of those bringing shame and dishonor to his family. prosecutors said that this was irsan's on twisted version of an already twisted motion known as honor killing. his belief that a woman can be murdered for bringing shame to the family and her religion. >> this is one man and one families extremist views that were taken to the extreme. it led to the deaths of two innocent people. gelareh bagherzadeh and coty beavers. >> one of things that you talked about in the opening arguments was that this isn't represented as -- and that you're not putting a muslim religion on trial. this isn't the way that they interpreted religious. >> right just one man's crazy beliefs in how he use those to stop and murder innocent people. >> the tricky relationship between fathers and daughters

always comes with its own supply of baggage. that doesn't usually include murder. this time nesreen said it did. she took the stand, and describe the lifetime of abuse and control >> it was a very emotional thing for nesreen to get up on the stand just being in the room with her father who she knows killed her friend and her husband. >> and she's looking right at. or >> staring daggers right out. her >> the prosecutors said that they linked irsan's to both crimes >> the gps pulled from the unit, and remember that envelope found in the glove box? turns out the addressed traced back to the former home of galareh's parents. and as for those license plate numbers -- >> what were those plate numbers? it came back to galareh's vehicle and one of those came back to a

vehicle that coty beavers had rented. >> and a key piece of evidence came from coming through the files of the texas highway patrol. >> we did a search of all irsan's vehicles. and found that the vehicle had been stopped on the day of galareh's murder. >> he was stopped for speeding, and the vehicle had a dash cam. >> here is or saw and getting out of the vehicle. he tells the officer that he isn't feeling. while >> i'm diabetic, and i felt my sugared going downhill. >> and can be seen sinking to his knees. >> how long after she was shot was ali irsan and his family stopped. >> i would say something about 45 minutes -- >> and that's about hollowing it would take to drive from galareh's parents house to the moment when he was stopped. >> that is correct. >> there was also this video that told videos that ali irsan

wasn't alone. his wife was with him. as was a young man seated in the backseat. prosecutors say that that was ali irsan sun in the scene. >> proving all that would be a lesson in the not so happy family dynamic. enough you told the jury that he had her sons son talk about the shootings. and then there was a irsan's wife after years in jail, she flipped and agreed to testify about both murders in exchange for her release. >> she's kind of the lynched pinned on all of this, isn't she? she sort of giving you everything >> for the guilt side. >> first, galareh's. >> the wife admitted that she was there waiting in the car wall galareh was killed. >> ali irsan supposedly got out of the vehicle to approach her car. he was trying to coax her out of the vehicle.

she would not rolled the windows down, she would not get out of the vehicle. >> she testified that it was the sun on the scene, with the direction of the father, he pulled the trigger. >> the wife also testified that she was there when coty beavers was killed, again, waiting in the car. this time she said that ali irsan did the shooting himself. >> she was able to provide us with enough information of things that had happen at both scenes that we could cooperate with the things that have happened or maybe something that ali irsan had said to her. like, she had never been into coty beavers apartment. but she described to her and stated that, they had a. things that she wouldn't have known had he not tell. or >> throughout the trial ali irsan was a menacing presence in the courtroom. >> i kind of had to restrain myself a couple of times. i had to take a couple of deep

breaths but it was of sadness, and then it immediately turned to anger. because the guy is sitting right there. >> there is a moment in court where ali irsan stares at you and goals like this. >> i didn't see it. but other people side. >> like he's ringing your neck. >> yes. he didn't like me. >> a man who was threatening even in custody. that led prosecutors to ask, who knew what ali irsan would do if he were to walk free. >> i had a lot of fears for peoples safety because i figured he would be very focused on the people that spoke out against him so all these people were going to be his new hitless, if you will. i have never tried a case where we really thought that these peoples lives were in danger. >> coming up -- ali or son sits down with us and makes a stunning allegation against his own daughter. >> she left messages, that she

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listened as prosecutors painted a criminal portrait of ali irsan. moronic father, master manipulator, vengeful killer. >> he is an evil man. >> so he is worse than you expected? >> i am being serious when i say that he is worse than charles hansen. he is incredibly evil and calculating and very deliberate with what he was doing. but he was trying to -- intimidate people in the gallery. >> even while he's on trial for murder? >> even while he's on trial for murder. >> but of clothes, the defense team said that they saw a different man. >> he was a loving father, he loved his children. >> defense counsel, allen tanner, and his co-counsel, rudy, argued that the case against arson was just a character attack.

and more importantly weak and circumstantial. >> i believe that at the end of the day, when you heard everything, you will not have any true idea of what happened on either murder scene. i really believe. that >> our position was, there was nothing to lead him to either of the crime scenes, the one with galareh or the one with coty beavers. there was no fingerprints, there was no dna, there was nothing there except the testimony of his wife and his daughter's. >> okay, but that's not nothing. that's his own family turning against. him >> right, they had motives. to his wife was dealing with a tremendous benefit by testifying against him, his daughter hated him -- >> according to him, nesreen lied to the jury about matters great and small. >> at one point, he was telling the jurors that none of the children in the house were ever allowed to have birthday parties. if they had a birthday party ali irsan would beat them all

severely and then i had a photo album with a bunch of family photographs, and i started passing them found, she was able to see that we had qatar an ally. >> it was a loving household for the most part. it was different, but, there was a lot of love. they all said that life was good in there. they weren't afraid of him. not at all. >> the way that they related to the family, irsan's love for them, was different than what nesreen depicted and testified in trial. >> what about the gps? doesn't that show stalking, doesn't that show ali irsan going from his house to the scene of the murder? >> well it shows someone going there, on that particular day. it shows someone, but not necessarily him. we don't know who it was, who was in the vehicle. >> to be clear ali irsan never argued that coty beavers and galareh were on a killing. his defense with that he simply wasn't there, and wasn't involved

his attorneys claimed that irsan was just misunderstood. a father misunderstood about his daughter's well-being. >> ali irsan deeply loved all of his children, especially nesreen, who was probably his favorite child. >> unlike many defendants, ali irsan was not satisfied with being just a spectator at his own trial >> he testified? >> yes sir. >> that was his choice? >> yes sir. >> would you prefer that he didn't? >> we just leave that up to the client. >> ali actually did really well when he testified. >> 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. >> yes. they were forced. if you will do it, we will get. you >> and you think this is as le mans trial, not you? >> yes, it is islam. because my daughter claim that because if she marries a christian, i will come after. her >> nesreen wanted you to leave her alone, but if you had left alone, you probably wouldn't be in here. >> if the police -- i would not be. here >> in the case of, this

nesreen was the one who threatened to kill anyone who got underway. >> she left the messages for us, that she was going to kill every one of us. >> so nesreen is the real villain here? >> yes she is. yes she is. nesreen is the villain. yes sir. i did not kill the girl, i have nothing to do with her, and i did not kill the guy, i have nothing to do with him, i am not sorry that he died, he could go straight to hell but i did not kill him. >> why should he go straight to hell? >> because he destructed my family >> you're just the guy trying to protect her family? >> yes, that's what i. and >> the fact that your daughter made the sky and you saw that as a personal offense against you and your family, that's all a coincidence? >> i did not kill the guy. i did not have anything -- i never something to face. never saw him in pictures. >> according to the prosecution, ali irsan could not abide a woman's defines.

but one after another, women in his life, nesreen, galareh even his wife had done exactly that. his wrath about it was pretty clear. in fact, it threatened to melt the glass that separated us. >> however, the devil is not dead >> he's talking about women. women in his own family. >> women is more powerful than a devil. when the angels wings break, but when a women's wings break, she can still fly on a broom. >> a woman can? >> if she intends to, she can make a good, if she intends, to she can make it back. >> my conversation with him, mirrored his testimony, angry, and oozing with pride and denial. you heard his attorneys say that they were pleased. but to the prosecution, ali irsan's testimony only help

their case they said, his menace was on full display. and now after all those years. it wasn't up to police and prosecutors anymore. now, jurors would decide. was ali irsan a homicidal mastermind. or was he just a father looking out for his family? the jury definitely answered those questions and it turns out they were easier to answer than this question. >> i want to talk about your son in law who was killed. not coty beavers, the other one. >> coming up. a chilling story from deep in the irsan family pass. >> nesreen told me that his father had shot and killed him because he did not want him to be married to his oldest daughter. >> when dateline continues. when dateline continues

it took the jury just 35 minutes to come to a verdict in irsan's trial. guilty, of two counts of capital murder. next, in the penalty phase. and that was when jurors heard something as unexpected as it was disturbing. the prosecution claim, ali irsan was serious of a son-in-law killer >> nesreen told me that his father had shot and killed that mail at their home. because he did not want him to 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. just three weeks later, that your husband was dead in the irsan home and this scene look like self-defense. the son-in-law had a gun in his hands. and ali irsan said he shot him to protect himself and his family. >> prior to the murder itself, ali irsan had filed reports with the sheriff's department

that the victim was harassing the family, threatening the family. >> it looked like self-defense. he was holding the gun, a gun which had been fired. >> correct it had been. >> nearly two decades later, a different story emerged. one that suggested that it wasn't self-defense at all. but premeditated murder. nesreen remember that night long ago. now she told investigators how everything felt staged. how there was no struggle. and no exchange of gunfire. >> she heard the big room first, and then later, by nine or ten minutes, heard the two pumps of the small gun. understanding that he was dead before those second shots were fired. >> how old was she? then >> nesreen was 11 years old. >> -- now told effective wells, that they had made up the charges about his son-in-law harassing him. >> they also said that the scene was staged to look as though there had been a struggle. and that irsan placed a gun in

his dead son in law's hands. >> when i spoke with him ali irsan denied faking the crime scene. he said that the original investigation got it right. the killing was an act of self-defense. >> okay. did you set that meant up to be killed? >> no sir, i did not. no i did not. >> he says his wife and daughter who told investigators this story were simply lying. >> they've made up this story. >> so everybody is lying except for you? >> -- yes sir they threw me under the bus. >> if that 1999 case had been prosecuted differently, approached differently, a lot of people might still be alive. >> yes, we might not be here today. >> he got very lucky. >> it was almost like a perfect storm for him. i think it was maybe first murder

>> and the homicide detective was brand-new. she hadn't investigated cases on her own. yet this was one of her first. >> had montgomery taken that investigation and worked it the way that they should have, we galareh and coty beavers would still be alive. >> there was no end to the one ifs cory beavers was haunted by the law that even after the death of his girlfriend, galareh, houston police might have done more. if they had taken the 1999 killing into account when looking at ali irsan he thought, his twin brother coty beavers, might still be alive. seems like, as time went on if he was the one that was responsible than police would have figured it out after we had already given them his name. >> and there was no arrest made, so, maybe you were wrong. >> right. so shirley i thought, they did their job, and they looked into

him. and if he was responsible they would've found in by now, but, that wasn't the case. >> after hearing about the first son in law, jurors decided that ali irsan should pay for taking the lives of galareh an coty beavers, with his own. >> describe that moment -- >> i don't know, just a huge relief. none of it brings back coty but the very least that you want is justice. and this person who stopped all of us, so yes, we were very happy. we don't have to deal with that anymore. >> it was amazing. it's so strange though. you think, now that the verdict is in -- and then, nothing changes. really >> ali irsan, sun at the scene, the man who shot galareh,

later pleading to her murder and then sentenced to 40 years in prison. as for those federal charges, ali irsan and his daughter nadia to deals. his son pleaded guilty to conspiracy to destroy the u.s.. the wife and the daughter, were convicted of providing false statements. that daughter, nadia, is now charged with engaging criminal activity. essentially conspiring with her father in the murders. her trial still lies ahead. now all that's left for those who love coty beavers and gelareh bagherzadeh are the memories of who they were and perhaps visions of who they might have become. >> what has life been like since he's been gone? all that's left is who they were in the visions of who they might have become. >> what has life been like since he's been gone? >> there is a lot of times that

i see something that i just think of that i wish i could tell him about that. or just think how excited he might be to hear this and he is not there. >> cory beavers lost his twin brother and the woman he loved. >> she was intensely passionate about everything. if you needed help, she was going to help you, whether you wanted her to or not. >> i'm guessing that the reason she wanted to help so many people is because the two of you taught her that that is the right thing to do. >> yes. >> it came from the two of you. that's who she was. >> yeah. >> and i was angry. she told me i'm like you. really. >> as she was. >> a person who is so helpful,

so full of energy and so positive. imagine all the things she could have done for so many other people in her life. other people in her life when i found out my mom was missing, i thought to the nail. i searched that entire summer, day and night. i even got hypnotized once to try and communicate with my mom to find out where she was. i did everything i could possibly do. >> rachel anderson had one great passion. >> she would've had a child every year she could have. she just loved being a mom so much. >> with kids at home, it was extra scary wh