Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a 30-year-old Iranian-American ... to become a Christian and marry Coty Beavers, an American. The murder was carried out by Ali’s son, Nasim Irsan, who shot Bagherzadeh ...

Ali Irsan was accused of killing Gelareh Bagherzadeh and Coty Beavers months apart as part of his extremist religious views.

Find out more about the murders of Gelareh Bagherzadeh and Coty Beavers, as detailed in Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler.

Gelareh Bagherzadeh, an Iranian-American activist and medical student who was 30 years old, was brutally murdered on January 15, 2012, in Houston, Texas. Her murder was later determined to be a ...

The probe of Gelareh Bagherzadeh's murder uncovered a history of unsettling behavior from Ali Irsan. He was previously implicated in the suspicious death of his son-in-law Amjad Alidam in 1999.